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It wasn't like she had been waiting around for him to Iris-message her or anything.

Really. She had been keeping busy. Washing, sewing, tinkering with bits of metal he'd left on Ogygia, daydreaming, cooking and swimming, hiking, cloud watching and doing other activities had kept her occupied.

At least a little bit.

She had definitely not looked up into the air every few seconds the first day after Leo Valdez had left, just to make sure no one was watching her through an Iris-message. She had not picked up her one drachma and turned it over numerous times in her fingers, debating on whether or not it would be too soon to speak to him.

She hadn't.

Okay... maybe she had.

And now when it was almost an entire week later (a blink of an eye to her usually, but now time seemed to drag on forever) she was starting to lose hope. He had promised to free her and set things right, but heroes always made promises they didn't keep. Maybe he had just been saying anything he could to make himself feel better about leaving her.

Leaving just like everybody else had.

Faces flashed quickly through her brain, just like they always did when her spirits were at their lowest. Odysseus, Sir Francis Drake, Percy Jackson... and now Leo Valdez.

She had fallen surprisingly hard for Percy, fallen more deeply in love with him than anybody before him. He had been sweet and kind and unsure and yet brave and courageous. Calypso had been taken with him from the start and then, when he had to leave, she had been so miserable that she had cursed the girl he had mentioned in his sleep, Annabeth Chase.

She had never cursed any of her previous visitors love interests, but Percy's had been the final straw. She had loved him so deeply and had offered him everything he could have wanted- except this girl, Annabeth.

She had cried for weeks after he had left.

But that had been before Leo.

Leo was everything and nothing that Calypso had thought she needed. He was funny and awkward and skinny. He wasn't as powerful and charismatic as Percy had been, nor as lost and confused, in need of nurturing as Odysseus. The first time she saw him she felt nothing but annoyance. Another hero, so soon, yet he was nothing like the others. Maybe he was a prank, from one of the gods?

No.

He had been the deal breaker. The one.

She couldn't remember a hero who had made her blood boil and course through her like he had, or made her heart pound so loud she heard it in her own ears. Never before had one of them made her shy and unsure of herself and yet feel like she was the most beautiful woman in the world.

His lips had been soft and sweet and Calypso could still feel tingles from their kiss.

When he promised to come back and rescue her she believed him.

But now it had been a week and her hope was fading.

So yes, maybe she was waiting for him like a damsel in distress or a love-struck little girl, but what else was she to do? Garden? She was already doing that, tilling the earth once more to plant her sacred flower- moonlace, which only brought back memories of Percy, but suddenly they weren't so painful as they had been before- and other food.

Until she heard him.

"Hello? Is this working? Calypso?"

She looked up so fast she felt her neck crack but she didn't care- she saw his face and her own broke into a smile.

"Leo?" She breathed in astonishment, wiping her hands on her chiton, staring at him ravenously, taking in any detail she could. He looked good, healthy and happy, but there was a sad look in his eyes that made her yearn to wrap him in a hug.

"It worked." He said, seeming surprised. "I wasn't sure it would..."

They stared at each other for a few seconds, both of them as surprised as the other, until he broke the silence. "So... how've you been?"

She grinned, happiness fluttering in her stomach alongside butterflies. "The same as always. What about you? Did you rejoin your friends?"

His smile faltered slightly. "Yes. Things... aren't so good over here."

He told her about his quest, rescuing Annabeth and Percy out of Tartarus (he had conveniently forgot to mention Percy had been in Tartarus when he was here in person to talk to her) and Calypso felt like her heart would stop until Leo told her they had rescued the pair of them. Now he was heading to Greece for the final battle between Gaea and the giants.

"You are right," Calypso nodded. "Things are much worse over there."

Surprisingly Leo grinned, as if what she had said was funny. "Yeah. But when all of it's over I know how to get you free. I'm coming back as soon as I can and we can celebrate."

Her heart tightened. "Leo, I told you, no hero has ever refound his way here..."

"Don't worry," he winked at her. "I had some... godly advice, you could say. I'm pretty sure that when we win this war I'll have a guaranteed way of getting you off of that island."

"Repair Boy!"

Calypso frowned at the sound of a girls voice. "Who is that?"

"Oh, that's just Piper," Leo looked distractedly to the side before looking at her once more. "She's a friend of mine, sort of like a sister but don't tell her I said that!" He smiled. "I think I have to go fix something. Or a monster's attacking. Don't worry, nothing out of the ordinary." He hesitated, smile faltering. "I have to go."

"Oh." She tried to hide her disappointment. "Of course, you must go. I will... finish my gardening."

He bit his lip. "I'm sorry I can't talk longer."

She looked away. "I understand."

He paused again. "Can I message you again sometime?"

Calypso hesitated before shaking her head. "No. We will just have to see each other when you come to help me." Or try to, she added silently in her head.

The truth was she didn't want to have short, restricted time talking to him, only for him to have to leave to go and save the world while she just sat afterwards and replayed their conversation in her head over and over again.

"Oh. Alright. I... guess I should go now, then."

"Leo?" She asked, biting her tongue afterwards, seconds too late.

"Yeah?" He asked hopefully, making her smile sadly.

"I miss you."

He blushed at her words. "I miss you too." He said honestly. "But not for long," he said with determination. "I'll be there soon. I promise."

Calypso smiled. "And I believe you."

With one last smile, and a wink, Leo ended the Iris-message.

And Calypso continued to garden.

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There, a two-shot! Hope you liked it, this story is now complete.

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