LEO.
He wasn't his usual, bubbly, annoying and funny self.
Piper found him sitting right outside Bunker 9, crying.
He was crying.
He just found out that Reyna, Praetor of the 12th Legion and a good friend of his, passed in just this morning.
Piper approached him. "It wasn't your fault." She wasn't used to seeing him like this, and it broke her heart.
"Beauty Queen?" A hoarse voice called out.
LEO.
When he turned to look at her, Piper saw his eyes.
Resembling a broken glass. Shattered to pieces. Unfixable.
"I couldn't help her. I'm just a lowly mechanic." He sobbed.
"No, Leo." Piper said, holding her tears back.
He held his arms out to her, and Piper didn't hesitate to crash into his body.
Piper expected to be engulfed in Leo's warm embrace, just like the old days. Wilderness school days.
Instead, he was shaking.
LEO VALDEZ is broken.
The mechanic who can fix everything is broken.
And he's broken beyond repair.