Forever indeed doesn't exist, and Leo Valdez learned that the hard way.
Years have passed since he returned to Ogygia and left with his love, Calypso. He can never forget her face as he again crashed at the phantom island's shore, managing to break another yet identical dining table just like the previous one. She was carrying her supposed dinner and was about to put it on the brand new and in one piece wooden table, but instead saw a flaming demigod on the middle of the debris of the semi-burned furniture. A sense of déjà vu filled her broken heart together with the flames that glued its broken pieces back in one piece, instead of burning it. A fire bearing demigod of Hephaestus rarely appeared in a millennia, and any son of his born with the said ability was also meant to do remarkable things - both good and evil. And in this historical millennium of the Greek and Roman Pantheon, she only knew one son of Vulcan or Hephaestus who was granted with that fascinating ability- Leo Valdez. The last demigod who will be ever lost and will need her assistance in that haven-like prison.
"Leo..." She whispered his name in a tone that both contain love and pain. She was so glad to see him, but she was also scared. What if, this was just another product of her wild imaginations? Another mindless dreaming that she seemed to do since her hero left?
"Hello Sunshine... I told you I'll be back." He smiled his mischievous smile. That trademark upward curving of the lips that only he can muster. A smile that portrays confidence for breaking an unbreakable rule, a smile filled with affection meant only for her. When she saw him, - the real him and not the one made by her craving mind - her heart swelled with happiness and felt that everything will be fine from then on.
"Oh Leo..." Her eyes had gotten watery; she cannot stop her tears from falling. The gods be damned, they were finally getting their well deserved happy ending.
But they were mistaken. Fate was not done with them. They weren't free from its playing hands. They were still pawns and a part of its unending game. With this, they realized, even the beautiful things in the world was meant to meet its end. Even things that were meant to be unending were destined to meet the finish line. And their story was one of those.