ALL CHARACTER RIGHTS BELONG TO RICK RIORDAN
Leo's POV
My fingers flew over the controls on my Archimedes sphere. Somehow, over the few months of it being battered and almost destroyed the circuits were still running. I slid my hand into my pocket and pulled out the crystal that I found in Calypso's cave, memories rushed back, the invisible servants whisking dishes away, her moon garden and the moment she kissed me. My heart jumped as I realized that I could see her again, to be able to achieve the impossible; countless days I spent carving the precious stone to fit Odysseus's orb. I rigged Archimedes sphere to act as a compass, in my tool belt was a WiFi router, laptop and pens and papers. I grinned to myself as the crystal fit in perfectly with the orb, I exhaled deeply before twisting the knob, there was a flash and I was flung away from my bunk, from the Argo II and from my friends and Festus.
"Thanks Odysseus." I thought as I blacked out.
Calypso's POV
I blew a strand of hair out of my face as I brought a shovel into the earth, I carefully shifted a moon lace flower into the hole I created . I stood up and dusted my hands on my pants. Pants. I grimaced, remembering the heated arguments Leo and I had when he crash landed on my dining table.
"Oh i'm sorry! I just fell out of the sky. I constructed a helicopter in mid-air, burst into flames halfway down, crash landed and barely survived. But, by all means- let's talk about your dining table!"
"You're that lady, the one named after Caribbean music... Reggae...Merengue..Hold on i'll get it. Calypso!"
"Fine, I'll leave you alone. I'll build something myself and get off this stupid island without your help."
The corners of my mouth tugged up as I remembered him trying desperately to survive without the help of my servants or me. He slept on his own clothes and kept warm by burning my table that he crash landed in. I almost felt sorry for him at that time... ALMOST. Sometimes while I chatted with the birds and animals I would see him wandering around the island, probably looking for something to use to build a boat or some sort of transport out of my cursed island. Eventually after seeing him starve for a few days, I pitied him and let my servants send him food, I mean... I didn't want see him get MORE scrawny. His old clothes were starting to tear away, revealing a bony rib cage and I for one was not going to see him strut around MY island with a bare chest. Him with clothes was annoying enough already. But over time I started to accept his presence, then he wrecked it with that annoying hammer of his. All day, you could hear his hammer ringing, scaring away all the animals. Eventually I couldn't take it anymore and snapped at him to be more quiet with that tool of his. At the time he had grinned sheepishly as if he thought I was the one with the screw loose in my head. I realized though, all this resentment was fear. Fear that he would reject me like all the others Odysseus, Drake... Percy. He certainly didn't look that bad, he was just a little on the skinny side. It wasn't until I had spent more time with him that I realized I actually started to like him and my stupid raft just floated in as if to say.
Wassup guys? I know you two are starting to really like each other, but I wanna crush your feelings and make sure you never love again. So yeah, I'm taking him away now.
He surprised me by saying he promised to find me again.. I knew... No... Know that it's not possible. Plus he was insufferable while he was stuttering . But another part of me wished that he could have stayed longer. I gulped hard, my breaths ragged with tears threatening to spill onto my cheeks. I straightened and walked back to my cave, I sunk into a chair, slipping my head onto my hands. Winds whisked dishes onto my dining room table, I half heartedly stabbed at my beef stew, not really feeling like eating. I heard something whistle outside, like a gale... Only 10 times stronger. I sighed, pushing back my chair.
'Probably another hero just dying to leave my island.' I thought gloomily. I stepped out of my cave just as a brilliant flash erupted near the shoreline. I squinted.
"Wow, dramatic entrance much?" I irritably stated to no one in particular.
"What in the frickin' hell of Hephaestus's forge?!" I heard a familiar voice call out , tinged with panic. My eyes widened, and my legs dragged the rest of me toward the shore. In the smoke, I saw a figure work frantically to escape something roaming in the water. I charged to the water and saw an unruly shock of black hair. A dorsal fin sliced through the water and he... LEO furiously tried to summon fire from his hands, it sparked then died, eventually he gave up and just waded furiously toward shore.
In the thickness of the smoke and the fact that he almost got eaten by a hammerhead he hadn't seen me yet.
"Insufferable... Poseidon fishes.." He grumbled, patting his tool belt then turning around. His irritated expression melted away and in it's place was a mixture of emotions. Shock. Happiness. Finally his expression settled on a smirk I had come to know... And well to tolerate.
"Told ya I'd be back. Miss me?" He shoved his hands in his pockets.
Leo's POV
Calypso's mouth opened, then closed... Then opened again. I rolled my eyes.
"A simple 'yes' would have been good." I muttered, walking past her. This seemed to bring her back to her senses. When I looked back she was scowling.
"I see you're still annoying." She growled. Crossing her arms across her white blouse. I smirked, dusting my trousers. Awesome teleportation orb. Check. Archimedes sphere. Check. Belt. Check.
"Stop raging woman. And just be glad that Team Leo is back." I snorted.
Calypso cocked her head to the side, confusion clear in her eyes.
"Ok we clearly need to teach you a lot of stuff. Come now cricket and learn to become a butterfly." Calypso furrowed her arched eyebrows together.
"What?" She asked clearly puzzled.
"See, this is what I'm talking about. Come on." I rolled my eyes and strolled to her cave. As usual the invisible servants whisked plates, cups and bottles around and made room for one more person. I pulled back a chair and sunk into it, realizing how tired I actually was.
"So... Odysseus.." I trailed off, not sure what else to say.
"He was the person that stayed the longest." Calypso's voice was barely a whisper." Around 20 years I guess. But I'll never know... I thought he left, without giving me a thought... But now..." She quickly took in a breath and hastily swiped away a treacherous tear that had rolled down her cheek.
"Hey... Hey..." I tried to comfort her but soon the events of the day caught up to me and I fell forward, slumping to the floor. I desperately tried to blink, to stay awake, through my slitted eyelids I saw Calypso doing the three-fingered gesture of warding off evil. Then I blinked out.
Calypso's POV
I puffed heavily, trying to move Leo's scrawny. Yet heavy body. Finally I just gave up and let the wind spirits shift him onto the bed. I sat beside him, thoughts running as quickly as the spirits were doing chores.
Gaia, she won't stop... Is there a reason she keeps coming here?
My thoughts were interrupted by a groan. I turned around to see Leo, sitting up and wincing, pressing his palm against his forehead, where he had hit it.
"Holy Hephaestus." He muttered. He saw me and the daze that was hovering around him dissipated.
"Wait, what?" He stuttered, running a hand through his hair. I rolled my eyes, saying nothing though.
"Oh geez, Gaia." He rubbed his eyes , then scratching the back of his head awkwardly.
"Sorry 'bout that she's been doing that since the war, trying to make my life as hard as possible, nothing critical, just energy draining." He explained.
"Oh." my expression must have relaxed because he kept talking.
"Yeah, once she got me on the Argo and I just collapsed according to Per...cy." He trailed away.
I looked down at my hands with a sinking feeling. After all this time, I still can't get over him.
"I have an idea!" Leo patted his hands around his belt, eventually finding what he wanted, he pulled out a large rectangular object and a small plastic thing that glowed. Leo switched on the rectangular thing and it hummed with power.
"This," He gestured to the rectangle,"Is a laptop. It's used to work on and to play on." He grinned as the screen lit up. I looked at the laptop.
Leo tapped a few buttons on the laptop and the screen changed. He took out the small plastic object and set it beside the laptop. He flicked a switch beside it and it buzzed to life. It glowed blue and Leo was muttering words to it as if it was alive.
"C'mon..." He murmured reassuringly at the object. Finally a grin broke out on his face.
I leaned it closer.
"Oh wow.." I mumbled.
***Learning about memes and youtube later***
Leo's POV
I smiled, satisfied as Calypso scrolled through page after page of memes. But when Calypso looked at me, her eyes were watery and red. I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Err Calypso this is supposed to make you happy..." I looked at her as she looked at her hands.
"I just.." She began taking in a deep breath." What's the point of all this if I can't go back to the real world, do I just stay here looking a videos of another world.." She straightened, then looked at me with a look of fury and sorrow.
"Just go Leo.. You just made things worse." With that she sprinted away. I sighed and got up after a minute or two.
"You should know better." I gave a crooked smile,"I love annoying you." I ran off after her.
I found Calypso, kneeling over a dull white flower, her tears running freely now. I knelt beside her and cautiously put an arm over her shoulders. She didn't object so I pulled her into a hug. As she sobbed into my shoulder, a column of fire erupted next to us. A figure appeared, with a scepter and winged sandals. After him, came a bulky guy, his chin blanketed by a black beard, mini wildfires erupted within. Finally a tall, muscular figure stepped through the fiery portal, equipped with a huge, flickering lightning bolt. I looked at each of them in turn, confused.
"Sorry to intrude this... Moment." Hermes stated decidedly, although amusement flickered in his eyes. I looked at my dad, Hephaestus, he winked at me, before turning to Calypso.
"It seems, due to a majority vote in the council, you are freed of your sentence." Zeus grumbled the last part.
"I think you also owe her an apology." I blurted out before I could stop myself.
"Don't push your luck boy." Zeus growled before striding back into the portal. Hermes shot Calypso and I an apologetic grin and followed Zeus. Hephaestus smiled and waved at both of us before the portal collapsed behind him.
"Well, you're free." I stated. Which was kind of obvious.
Calypso raised an eyebrow
"You don't say." She said sarcastically.
"Good thing is.. You're stuck with me." I smirked. She rolled her eyes.
"Just shut up." She said as she leaned towards me.
My eyes widened as she put her lips on mine.
You finally got her Leo, nice job! Says positive Leo.
Oh yeah, you're kinda forgetting she's 3000 years old ANNND way out of your league. Negative Leo remarked.
Oh shut up. I thought. And they finally obliged.
A/N SO HERE IS A CALEO FANFICTION I'M SO HAPPY THAT LEO FOUND A GIRL HE LOVES!
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