Disclaimer (which will apply for the rest of this story even if I don't write it at the top of every chapter): I do not own any PJO awesomeness because I am not a man who lives in Texas called rick riordan.

Even before he got zapped by piper's mum, Leo was having a bad day. The engine had decided to malfunction and give Leo five seconds to fix it before everything went ka-BOOM and blew him and the rest of the seven sky-high over the Atlantic. Luckily he'd repaired it just in time to stop that happening but still, when Aphrodite had appeared in the mess hall after lunch, Leo had notbeen in the mood for a visit from a giggly love goddess and apparently the others hadn't either.

"Hello mum." Piper had said in a less than enthusiastic voice, clearly not happy to see her.

"Hello darlings! Ohh, you all look like you could use a good make-over!" Aphrodite cooed.

"no offence lady Aphrodite, but why are you here? Olympians don't just visit because they can, if you know what I mean." Percy was completely poker-faced as he said that but Leo caught the anger in his voice that meant Percy wasn't pleased to see Aphrodite either.

"Well, I could say that I was here to congratulate you on the victory against Gaia but I'm not going to because actually I just came to see some cute coupley stuff." At that point Leo's anger snapped "is that all you think about?! Your stupid, precious couples!" Leo's friends looked at him in shock – Leo didn't get angry easily-, Aphrodite in outrage. "I have a good mind to teach you a lesson..." the goddess threatened but Leo was on a roll now "go on then! Do your worst. A make-over perhaps?!" bad thing to say.

Instantly Leo got engulfed in a bright pink, perfume smelling cloud. As soon as it dispersed Leo looked down to find he didn't exactly look like Leo anymore. He didn't even look much like a he any more. To start with, Leo now had some serious curves and was wearing a dress. The good news: the dress was red, Leo's favourite colour. The bad news: everything else. Brilliant (note the sarcasm).

"Umm, Leo?" piper held up a mirror. Leo looked into it, afraid of what he was going to see, and felt like his – no, her - jaw was nailed to the blinked and the pretty Latino girl with perfect make-up blinked back.

"I'm a girl. And I'm wearing a dress and make-up."Leo wasn't sure which she was more alarmed by. The dress was red, like she'd said earlier, almost fire coloured and sleeve/strapless. The top of it was quite fitted, especially around the waist, possibly to show off her newly-acquired figure and the skirt was floor length. There was probably some fashion word for how it hung but all Leo knew was it looked nice. Her hair was loose and hung past her shoulders, just as curly as it'd ever been only now her bangs were pinned out of her eyes. Speaking of her face, her make-up had been done even better than piper could ever do it, barely there but tasteful. Her lips were red to match the dress and black mascara and faint eyeliner brought out her brown eyes. There was probably foundation as well but it matched her normal skin tone so well Leo couldn't be sure. The outfit was completed by silver sandals with a two inch heel that she was sure she'd never be able to walk in and a necklace with a delicate silver chain strung with a pendant made to look like fire.

That's when Leo noticed her friend's reactions. Frank and Jason were trying not to laugh, like all of this was hilarious, hazel was looking –was that enviously? – At her dress, shoes and make-up, annabeth and piper were still in shock. And Percy... Percy was looking at her in a way she couldn't even describe. Was she getting checked out? Huh.

Leo turned back to Aphrodite, who now she was over her anger looked genuinely apologetic. "How long will this last?" Leo demanded

"The clothes you can change out of when ever and the hair and make-up will last a few days." Aphrodite replied, carefully skirting around what Leo really meant.

"That's not what I meant." Leo corrected, "I meant how long will I be a girl for?"

Aphrodite seemed suddenly very interested in her shoes "about that," she said "I might of, you know in my anger, accidently made it permanent?"

"What?!" Leo exclaimed.

"Yeah... looking on the bright side, though, it might end up solving some people's problems." Aphrodite looked at annabeth "not that I'm encouraging anybody to go join artimis's hunters." she smiled secretively then disappeared in a shower of rose petals.

Okay then.

Authors note: hi! I'm on half term at the moment (that's a week's holiday from school for those of you who don't live in England) so I thought I would start a fanfic that publicised my favourite pairing of ALL TIME in the pjo fandom: perleo. Please review with Leo on top!