So this is chapter two and I want to thank everybody that reviewed. That is all.

Disclaimer: I don't own it

Leo was sitting in the engine room, thinking. Everybody had gone back to ignoring him the second they knew that he forgave them. It's not like he wasn't used to it but it still hurt. There was a knock on the door and Lso turned his head so that he could see it before replying.

"Come in." Annabeth peeked in through the crack in the door, and Leo frowned.

"Is there something you need me to fix or is Buford singing the national anthem again?" (Long story)

"There's someone on the ship."

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Percy greeted them as they approached the stairs.

"There's this lady with scales-" He began but was cut off by Annabeth.

"Scales? Does she have brown hair?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, do you know who she is?"

Annabeth glanced at Leo and then back at Percy.

"I have an idea."

Well, then. Leo walked up the stairs as Percy and Annabeth trailed behind him. On the deck, a woman with wavy brown hair in a long white robe smiled at him. Her dark brown eyes sparkled with kindness and her bronze scales shined in the full moonlight.

"I am Dike, the goddess of moral justice and I am here to help you. To improve your relationship with the others, I am going to show them some of your memories. I thought I might warn you." She looked at the rest of them."You all have neglected this boy and I won't have it." Dike silenced cries of denial with her hand. She glanced at each of them and then snapped her fingers as they were all engulfed in light.

The seven appeared in the sitting room of Leo's Aunt Rosa's house. Leo recognized the place at once and growled, causing the others to glance questioningly at him. He waved them off and gestured to the heated argument going on.

"I'm telling you , Anza, you must get rid of it at once!" Rosa said to a pregnant Esperanza.

"You are out of your mind, hermana, if you think that I will take the life of an unborn child!"

"If you wish to remain part of this family, you will not bring dishonour to our name!"

"Then I am no longer part of your family."

"Surely, you would not choose this bastard child over your own people!"

"I would and I am."

"He will grow up to be a whore, just like his mother!"

Esperanza had had enough. She slapped her sister right across the face.

"I am no whore. You earned that title long ago." She spat before storming away, leaving a stunned Rosa clutching her cheek.

The scene faded and then they all reappeared in a kindergarten was speaking with a teacher as Leo colored on a sheet of paper.

" , this boy has exceptional talent. He has learned the piano and violin very quickly as well as being able to sing-"

"I will not put him I any special music program or school."

"Would you then consider an advanced woodshop program"

"I want him to have a normal childhood while he still can."

Just then, Leo tugged on his mother's sleeve.

"Look at what I drew, mama!" He held up a detailed crayon drawing of a disfigured man making a sword. Esperanza gasped when she saw it. It was Heaphestus.

"Leo, that's wonderful! Why don't you go put it in your bag?" Leo nodded and smiled, revealing two gaps where his frno teeth had fallen out.

The scene shifted again, onto the next memory.

Sorry if this chapter sucks, but I had to rewrite the whole thing. Anyway, I have made a one-shot called Wandering,aimlessly about Nico. Read and review!

-R