Style: One-shot chapters; Small plot

Pairing: Percy/Leo

Chapters Total: 50

Summary: Percy has recently broken up with Annabeth on mutual feelings. The daughter of Athena was more or less in love with a certain Praetor of Rome already. Finally, she and Reyna were in love, after many weeks of dreaming. But what about Percy? He had finally built the courage to tell Nico about his feelings (Nico's confession never happened), but he had only been rejected. Apparently, Jason and Nico were already dating, unknown to everybody. He had spent the whole night not crying, but just being sad. And a son of Hephaestus was feeling the same way. He hadn't known Jason was cheating on him until Percy told him. And that fact just made his life harder. Somehow, though, Percy has found a way to cope with the depression. And what might that be? Well, he spends his time wooing Leo Valdez.

Cabin Nine was particularly busy today. Campers were coming in and out, with either new weapons or shields to be fixed. Leo's hands were covered in grease, and he himself was sweating like crazy. Nevertheless, he finished working on some adjustments and handed the sword to Nyssa, who had just finished something and was about to go out anyways.

These days had always been stressful. Not only was working hard, but also was his love life. He'd had confused feelings with Jason previously, only to assure that those feelings were quite fond. What else could explain why Leo had cried so much after Percy had told him? Oh yes. Percy Jackson.

After the fact that Nico and Jason were a thing that had settled in, the Sea Prince had quite often come to comfort him. It didn't seem to only help Leo, it seemed spending time with the tinkerer also seemed to have slowly healed him. And Leo's feelings were only getting stronger for the son of Poseidon. But he didn't want to risk it. He didn't want to re-injure the scars. So he put on a friendly façade – nothing more. But inside, that wasn't how he felt. And he was pretty sure that everybody knew he was kind of broken. People can read eyes like that.

He heard the door shut loudly. It was quite windy at some points of the day, and that might explain why he had not heard the door open. He shrugged and returned to work, until he felt a tap on his shoulder.

"What is it?" He asked, looking down. Harley was standing there with an oil smear on his face. How do you get an oil smear when you're working on a sword?

The little boy shrugged. "Somebody has something for you to do." He answered plainly. Leo groaned. "Fine, I'll go see what it is."

The feeling of exhaustion soon turned to joy when he saw who was at the door. "Oh, hey Percy. What do you need?" The green-eyed boy sighed while holding up Anaklusmos. "I have no idea when this happened. This morning, Chiron pointed it out to me. So I told him I would come to you later on in the afternoon. Think you can fix it?"

Leo was handed the sword. He turned it around and slowly ran his finger over the flat surface. There were about 3 cracks in it, never going longer than one third of an inch. "Yeah. Yeah, I can fix this." He said.

Percy grinned. "Awesome, thanks. It's fine if I get it tomorrow. I know you have lots of stuff to do."

Leo was happier just at the sound of a nice statement. He shook his head. "Nah, its fine. I'll work on it now and get it back to you by dinner." If even possible, the Sea Prince's grin grew bigger. "Thanks Leo, you're the best. I'll send you some blue cookies soon. Deal?

The blue cookies Sally made were absolutely delicious. "Deal!" Leo exclaimed. They said their goodbyes, and Leo went back in to work on the sword.

After the dinner went by, there was some time before the campfire. Leo and Percy were just hanging around in Cabin Three, playing Tic Tac Toe and gossiping. Well, not gossiping. Maybe manly talking.

"You know, I heard that Jason was found with Will in the strawberry fields." Percy gossiped. "What do you think about that?"

"Wait. Will, like in Will Solace?" Percy nodded. "Ugghh…"Leo huffed. "Well, I'm pretty much over him. And, what a player! Even if he's on my hate list, Nico does deserve someone better. Like you!" And at you he pointed his pen at Percy.

Percy slightly frowned. "Well, Jason is just a douche. Will is too innocent for this kind of trickery. This is war!" By the end he was already pretending to use his pen as a sword.

Leo remembered. "Oh right, your sword! I have to give it to you." He reached in his pocket, only to find that it wasn't there.

Percy laughed. "I already have it. It's a good thing you finished it within minutes, because it always renders itself back in my pocket." And then, Percy waved the pen he was holding around. "You know, Annabeth taught me how to use Riptide as an ordinary pen. Its ink is incredible. But I didn't get to evaluate the sword properly."

Leo rolled his eyes. "Wow Percy, that was a big word." Said person sighed. "Don't make fun of me. Anyways, let's see." And at that, he placed the cap on the tip and reopened it. Anaklusmos sprung out, beautiful and gleaming. "Whoa, nice job Valdez!" Percy was smiling broadly. Leo saw the way he ran his fingers over where the cracks had been.

"Well, don't you look professional, doing the little hand thing with the sword. Why don't you try to fix a sword once?" Leo said. It had been meant to be sarcastic but turned out genuine at the end.

Percy turned his head and grinned like the Cheshire Cat before turning his standing up, turning his heel and heading towards the door. Yes, right, Campfire.

As his hand reached the doorknob, he answered. "The only thing I want to fix is your heart, Valdez."

And he left the door open, leaving a tomato-red Leo inside.