As promised, a new story but this one is darker and for a more mature audience. It takes place years after the war against Gaea, most of the demigods are in their mid-twenties. Because of that you should expect things such as sexual content, drinking, swearing but it won't clog the plot (they're not all druggies and drunkers). They're obviously older now and some have to deal with more mature situations. I will put a warning for sexual content in the beginning of the chapter if it's need it, just in case you feel uncomfortable about reading it. I'll be rating it M for now until it actually gets more graphical.
Do not ask me about the pairings, you will have the chance to get your share of everything from Percabeth to Jasper to Leyna to Peo to Preyna to Jeyna -takes deep breath- You know what? Just think Glee haha. Obviously the story has nothing to do with Glee but there will be a lot of breaking up and making up.
I'm pretty excited about this story, haven't felt like this in a long time and plan to update faster than most of my current fics. The idea kind of got me addicted, it's more mature than anything I've written before (not that I have a problem writing mature content but I never actually had the patience to do it) so that obviously gets me motivated.
I don't own PJO and HoO, the great RR does, however.
Leo lay in bed with an arm comfortably tucked under his head, brown orbs fixing themselves on the ceiling of his room. Well…their room now, ever since Reyna moved in with him a few months ago. He stared at his girlfriend who was sleeping peacefully beside him. It always kind of amused him that she fell asleep right after sex. Didn't girls usually stay awake with that dreamy look on their faces and watch their loved ones drift into the world of dreams? Then again since when was Reyna a normal girl? He guessed she really tried her best to leave behind that life of a demigod and focus on the role of your average mid-twenties woman but it didn't always work.
Reyna was pragmatic, organized, goal oriented in other words everything that Leo wasn't. His place used to be a mess where you couldn't get to the bathroom until you walked through the maze of dirty laundry, blue prints and tools. The only thing he had in his fridge were cans of beer, leftovers from gods know when and a pair of frozen boxers (do not ask him how they got there or why he never bothered to take them out). Everything changed when Reyna started living here. The apartment was always clean, there was food in the fridge (even fresh vegetables!), his clothes had a peachy smell because of the detergent she used but Leo didn't mind it. He wasn't like most guys who would complain about his personal space and keeping things as he liked them. Who the hell wanted to live in a complete mess anyway? It wasn't a style a living that he enjoyed but more the kind of environment that he never bothered to change. Therefore, if anything, he should feel grateful to Reyna for reminding him what his clean floor looked like.
He should be grateful to Reyna for many things actually. When he first met her he immediately got a crush on her. After the quest to defeat Gaea she started to return his feelings and before he knew it he had the honor of calling her his girlfriend. They've been dating ever since and Leo had to admit that if it wasn't for the brunette girl, that seemed to be a constant in his life, he would have lost his mind after all the horrors he had seen during the war. Days with Reyna were peaceful and joyful, uneventful most of the time but he guessed that he had his share of action as a demigod, enough to last him a lifetime. She made him laugh when she would stick the tip of her tongue out in order to concentrate better. She made him smile when she drew smiley faces with ketchup on his food. She made him smirk when she put on that red lipstick that turned her into the sexiest little thing he had ever seen.
Reyna loved him, madly, deeply and truly, and he used to feel that way about her too. Used to was the problem now. What exactly happened to that flame that she ignited inside of him years ago? Leo still cared for her, she still made him happy, but there was someone else on his mind as of recently. A certain Aphrodite girl with ever changing eye colors, whose smile could lit up a whole room and make every dark cloud disappear from the sky. Leo knew, he knew too well, that he was a disgusting little man who slept in a bed whit a woman that loved him but he fueled a crush for a girl that he'll never have. He had accepted that his feelings for Reyna were not the same as in the beginning the problem was what he could do to change that. What in the world could he do in order to stop feeling this way for Piper who was going to marry Jason soon?
It was ironic that such news, who shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, still managed to get such interesting reactions from a small group of demigods gathered in an Italian restaurant. Piper announced it happily, Jason looked uncomfortable, Leo put his best (fake) smile on, Percy gave Annabeth a certain look, Annabeth shifted in her chair, Reyna congratulated them in an awkward way and it seemed that only Frank and Hazel were genuinely happy for the two.
Usually such announcements made the other couples wonder about their own relationships. Will we ever get married? Will we ever move into a big house in the suburbs? Will we ever have kids? Well except if you were Frank and Hazel whose relationship seemed to be taken out straight from a Disney movie.
Reyna shifted in her sleep and mumbled something while nuzzling further in Leo's chest. The young man heaved a sigh and kissed the top of her head softly. 'Please remember', his conscious pleaded him, 'Please remember why you loved her and don't do anything stupid to ruin this'. The best thing he had in his life ever since the death of his mother and he was walking on thin ice ready to fall into cold water. What a great awakening from such a devastating nightmare in which he played the infidel.
"What's wrong, baby? What's bothering you?"
Nothing was bothering her because she believed she was sleeping in the arms of a man who'll always be by her side. He prays to all the gods that things will stay like this forever but he knows just how fickle Aphrodite is. He was walking further and further away from her and she had no idea. She woke up each morning to make him breakfast, she greeted him with that sweet smile, she kissed his lips and silently promised to love him forever. He, the devil, who was nurturing feelings for Piper. Piper who was getting married, Piper who loved Jason and not him. He knew, he accepted it, then why couldn't he change anything? He wanted to take that heart out from his chest and examine it, just to make sure there was nothing wrong with the damn thing.
There was a small voice in his head, tempting him to do the worse. 'Go for Piper and forget Reyna. You won't be happy until you are with the one you truly love.' How could that little voice know who he truly loved? He thought he truly loved Reyna until recently…or did he? No, no, stop thinking like that! He loved Reyna but he wasn't so sure if he could still love her in the not so distant future. When the little voice turned louder, became more annoying, he would imagine the way Reyna would react if he left her and that seemed to cool him down. She would be devastated, losing yet another boy she loved to Piper.
No, he couldn't do this to Reyna. No, he shouldn't do this to Reyna. He had to be stronger than this. He had to crush that stupid little voice and put everything on nothing more than stress and this damn announcement of his two best friends getting married. He was, unfortunately, smarter than this and lying to himself no matter how many times would not save him. He was walking on a dangerous path and he was terrified of the outcome.
Tell me what you think of the first chapter, please! These were mostly Leo's thoughts who will ignite a major plot branch of the story. Next chapter will be Reyna and we'll find out that Jason and Piper have problems in paradise but then again so do Percy and Annabeth. Review my sweets and you'll find out why! In the mean time, thank you for reading!