Suddenly

By: AndiKaneUnderwood

AU: Alpha/Beta/Omega, Alpha(1)

Nicole "Nico" di Angelo: Daughter of Hades, Alpha (ice manipulation), Bonded to Leo

Piper McLean: Daughter of Aphrodite, Alpha (charmspeak), Bonded to Jason

Percy Jackson: Son of Poseidon, Alpha (no quirk), Bonded to Annabeth

Frank Zhang: Son of Mars, Beta, dating Hazel

Hazel Levesque: Daughter of Pluto, Beta, dating Frank

Annabeth Chase: Daughter of Athena, Omega (no quirk), Bonded to Percy

Jason Grace: Son of Jupiter, Omega (no quirk), Bonded to Piper

Leo Valdez: Son of Hephaestus, Omega (fire manipulation), Bonded to Nico

Leo Valdez was someone Nicole di Angelo respected.

And Nico's respect didn't come easily.

It took a lot to earn Nico's respect.

Because Nico had been through Hell and back for a lot of her life, being the child of one of the Big Three.

Being a child of Hades wasn't easy when bullies in school thought it meant you could kill them with a look.

So, Nico played into that, played it up. Made sure people left her alone and when they didn't take the hint, she frosted over their hands or flash froze their backpacks to their clothes.

Nico was alone for much of her elementary school years.

Until she met others who where like her.

HoO~HoO~HoO

Piper McLean (Alpha) was a child of Aphrodite, meaning she was unnaturally good with fashion and makeup and all, but the best part of her power was her charmspeak.

Charmspeak meant she could use her voice to convince people to do what she wanted.

In the earlier days, when she didn't understand what it was, she was labeled a kleptomaniac and carted off to chail a few times for petty theft.

HoO~HoO

Jason Grace (Omega) was a child of Zeus, which gave him power of lighting and winds.

When he was younger, Jason would wake up with his room in a mess like a tornado had blown through it and his mood nearly always reflected the days weather.

HoO~HoH

Percy Jackson (Alpha) was another child of the Big Three, a child of Poseidon and he was just as powerful as Nico.

Percy had the ability to control the water, this also granted him the ability to breath underwater and communicate with marine life.

HoO~HoO

Annabeth Chase (Omega) was a daughter of Athena, incredibly intelligent and great with strategy.

Her intelligence was sometimes a curse as well when she got migraines or encountered the spiders all Athena children were afraid of.

HoO~HoO

Hazel Levesque (Beta) was Nico's younger sister, a child of Hades as well.

She was not gifted with raising the dead, but rather with underground navigation, something like sorcerer, and precious gems.

HoO~HoO

Frank Zhang (Beta) was the son of Ares, with some kind of Poseidon lineage mixed in somewhere.

As he grew and learned how to use his power, Frank often shifted into things like bears and snakes, but his favorite was a bulldog.

HoO~HoO

Will Solace (Beta) was a son of Apollo, gifted with the powers of healing, accuracy, and music.

He'd wondered why he sensed when people where sick, but he knew he could use it to help. He used to heal who he could and make those he couldn't comfortable.

HoO~HoO

Leo Valdez (Omega) was the son of Hephaestus, good with his hands and an excellent with tools.

Leo was also born with the power his father rarely used, the power of fire.

Leo had once been cornered by a woman in black when his mother was locked inside the warehouse she worked at. When Leo had gotten scared, his pyromancer abilities acted up and lashed out, sending the whole building up in flames. Killing both his mother and the woman in black.

Leo wasn't blamed for it because he was only eight years old at the time, but people talked about how in the world a eight year old could set fire to a building.

Leo wasn't ever really the same, but his father was thankfully able to help his work through enough of it to realize it wasn't his fault that his mother had died.

HoO~HoO~HoO

Nico hadn't really thought about finding people like her in school, until she found those people and all was right with the word.

Not immediately of course, Piper and Jason where annoying in how they hovered, Percy only ever had eyes for Annabeth and Nico didn't get over her crush on Percy in middle school for a good two years, and Will was always pestering Nico about proper health and all.

But other than that they were cool.

Nico was happy. She had friends. She had found her SoulMate.

Everything was great.

Then another Alpha named Gaea (literally the mother of all Alphas) came and screwed up everything.

Suddenly, seven high school kids had to go and fight her in accordance with the words of the prophetic Alpha, Rachel Dare, and guess who those kids where.

Yeah; Piper, Jason, Percy, Annabeth, Frank, Hazel, and Leo.

HoO~HoO~HoO

Then they had her in their sights. They could take her out. She'd be gone.

Suddenly, Leo was up in the air on the back of the dragon he'd built to fly the Seven around the world to help them.

Suddenly, Leo was on fire and burning like he technically shouldn't be able to.

Suddenly, there was a buzzing in Nico's skull and an agonizing pain in her chest and all she could think was, "He's gone."

She screamed.

Will had come rushing over, thinking she was hurt.

Nico was, but this wasn't the kind of hurt you fix with stitches and a bandaid.

Leo's entire life flashed before her eyes, as death was apt to do to her.

Nico saw Leo's crazy babysitter, Tia Cadilla. Nico saw Leo's fight with the woman in black. She saw how screwed up Leo's life became when his mother died. She saw how reluctant he was to use his gifts, even when his pyrokinesis threatened to burn him from the inside out. She saw how hopeless and lonely Leo had felt until middle school when he met Piper and Jason and the rest as he grew. She watched as Leo grew and came out of his hopelessness. She watched him spend hours working on courting gifts for Nico. Nico saw everything.

But, what hurt the most was when she saw Leo climbing higher and higher on Festus the dragon. She watched as Leo burst into flames. She cried as she heard Leo whisper out loud. "I'm sorry, Nico. It was the only way." She sobbed as she felt the way Leo cried as he was killed.

Suddenly, Hazel was there and whispering about Leo being okay and coming back to them. That he'd been given a serum created by another of Apollo's kids that would save Leo and bring him back to them.

Suddenly, all Nico could hear was Leo's voice in her head telling her not to worry, he'd be back soon.

Suddenly, all Nico could smell was Leo's wonderful scent of campfires, s'mores, and woodwork.

Suddenly, all that matter was staying strong until Leo came back.

Suddenly, all Nico wanted was to sleep.

Suddenly, Nico knew she was in her cabin.

Suddenly, Nico woke up and settled under her arm was a scrawny, brown-eyed Latino boy.

Suddenly, everything was okay and Nico went back to sleep holding her Mate closer.

HoO~HoO~HoO

Suddenly, Nico woke up and was confused for a solid two minutes before she remembered.

Leo had been dead for two weeks and Nico wanted him back more than anything else in the world.

Leo had been dead for two weeks.

Nico's eyes filled with tears.

Suddenly, Nico was left alone.

Suddenly, nothing made sense.

Suddenly, all that Nico knew was loneliness and pain.

Nico closed her eyes, head falling to rest in her pale hands, and cried.

Took us all by surprise, no, we never saw it coming.
Always where, always will be our hero.
With no warning signs, one day, they came and
They took you away.
~Earlyrise "Memories"

(1) So, Alpha is a television series that ran on Syfy. I'd suggest watching clips of it. In all reality, I'm just taking the good parts out of the show and combining them with Greek mythology. There's no Red Flag and people are more understanding than they are irl.