Leo/ Calypso one-shot

Calypso watched as Leo was taken by the waves by the magic raft. Now she understood. This was love.

Calypso never was in love before or perhaps not truly, deeply in love. Every other man that had ever come onto her island had already had someone waiting for them, and she was merely an obstacle to jump over.

Percy, Odysseus, Sir Francis Drake. They all had never truly loved her. It had been a one way street. Now she understood what it was like. And the heartbreak it brought with it.

Why did the gods have to be so cruel?

Leo, she thought. He was always different from the others.

She continued to watch the waves until the sight of his raft was gone, a dot along the horizon.

A thought hit her, his forge was still set up a mile away, if she could get to the Archimedes sphere…

Then she remembered. He had taken it with him, her only way of seeing the outside world. She found herself walking to his workspace anyway. The celestial bronze and supplies lined up in piles not to be used. She started digging around and found one of his screwdrivers that he had waved at her angrily when they first met. She found the table he had destroyed when he had crashed down on her island. Apparently he had started to fix it.

Everywhere she turned she saw another memory, another moment in the past.

Calypso turned to walk out of the shed when she tripped over something in the sand. Curious she started to pick it up. It hadn't been there before.

It was a large package. On the side it said.

Hermes Express: Handle with care.

Using Leo's screwdriver she pried it open. Hermes sometimes sent gifts, more out of pity than anything. Inside was a picture frame, a still shot of her and Leo kissing on the beach. She was a bit peeved at the thought of the god's hiding Hephaestus TV cameras around her home but she hugged the picture close.

Thank you Hermes, She thought.

There was one other thing under the picture frame, she noticed it. A golden drachma.

She ran off into the surf and threw it into the water. "Oh Iris accept my offering. Show me Leo Valdez."

To her astonishment it worked. She tried to call out to him but he didn't hear her. He was gazing back, a sad expression on his face. He raised his hands to his mouth. "I will come back Calypso; I swear it on the river Styx."

Tears threatened to fall, and Calypso fell onto the beach thanking the gods that she could see him one last time.