Safe and Sound
Just close your eyes, the sun is going down
You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now
Come morning light, you and i'll be
Safe and sound
-Taylor Swift
It's over.
It's all over.
Leo fell to his knees at the realization. Gaea was defeated. Her armies vanquished.
And it was all over.
Everything they had been fighting so hard for, all of those nightmares he had endured, all of his suffering… had paid off. He turned to Frank, who happened to be standing next to him when Percy delivered the final blow, and the two exchanged disbelieving grins. Finally they could-
"JASON!"
The grin was gone faster than it appeared. Leo's head whipped around and he caught sight of Piper- beautiful, wonderful Piper who managed to look great covered in dust and blood and tear tracks running down her face- running towards the limp body of her boyfriend- his best friend.
Leo didn't remember getting to his feet. But the next thing he knew he was running, sprinting as fast as his tired legs could carry him. No no no no no please no…
The boy dropped to his knees again, this time skidding the last half a foot to Piper, who held Jason's head in her lap as she tried to wake him up.
"Please wake up Jason! Please!"
"C'mon man! Don't do this to us!"
They shouted over each other frantically. His chest wasn't moving… Damn it his chest wasn't moving! Leo shoved his calloused hands into his tool-belt, hoping to find something, anything, he didn't know what. He just knew that his best friend was dying and he was desperate. He grasped what felt like some sort of flask and yanked it out.
"Piper! Piper move!" He commanded as gently as he could to the sobbing girl. Leo tilted Jason's head up and poured the contents of the flask- which he knew had to be nectar- into his friend's mouth. Then it was the longest five seconds he had ever experienced until Jason began coughing.
Leo let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding. To his left Piper give a sob of relief. Jason's eyes cracked open and focused on the two kneeling beside him. "…So… did we win?" His voice was small and fragile but it was Jason's voice and Jason was speaking and Jason wasn't dead.
Leo laughed louder than was necessary. "Yes, we did." Piper answered with a shaky smile. Jason leaned up on his shoulders and winced, but his eyes were wide and there was a huge smile on his face.
"Dude, what kind of question is that? Of course we won! You got me on your side, remember?" Leo threw his hands up in the air. "We just saved the whole flipping emworld/em!" And with that he threw one arm around Piper's shoulders and the other around Jason's, then proceeded to pull the two into a very awkward but still very joyous group hug.
Gaea was defeated, the world was saved and the two most important people in Leo's life were safe and sound. Just as it should be.
"Ow! Not so tight man! Recovering from some fatal wounds, here."
Yes, everything was just as it should be.
A/N: I wrote this little drabble almost a year ago on tumblr, i just never got around to uploading it here lol. So yeah it's canon-divergent, considering BOO wasn't out yet. I got a prompt for the song Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift with the character Leo Valdez, and this is what I pooped out. Short and sweet, figured I would share it anyway. Ta Da!
