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Silly Love Songs – Paul McCartney

HAZEL

Hazel was eating a peaceful dinner when somebody suddenly yelled her name.

"Get Levesque now!"

It was Octavian's shrill voice, and a second later, Dakota had gripped her shoulder and led her right to the gates to the camp.

It was one of the most bizarre scenes Hazel had ever seen. Campers, ghosts and fauns were standing and staring at something at the other side of the river. Octavian's eyes narrowed when he spotted her.

"Explain why there's a Greek demigod standing at the other side of our river, asking for you?!"

Hazel shrugged Dakota's hand off her shoulder and made her way through the crowd of people, to the river bank. She gasped when she saw who was standing on the other side of the river.

"Leo?!" She shouted. "What are you doing here?!"

Leo was holding a bouquet of red roses and a brown bag. He had a bleeding cut over his left eye, his shirt was tattered and smoking and his jeans was ripped at the knees. But Leo was grinning like a madman, obviously not aware of how strange he looked. The two demigods who had been on guarding duty stood behind him, looking really confused.

"Happy Valentine's Day!" He yelled happily and raised the bouquet. "Now, how do I get over to the other side?"

Octavian was looking back and forth between Hazel and Leo. His face was red.

"You're not going to come to our side!" He shouted at Leo. "This is a camp for Roman demigods, not Greeks like you."

Reyna looked at Hazel.

"I thought I scheduled all the meetings between the demigods with Chiron when you came back from the quest?"

Hazel shifted on her feet. That was true. Since they flew to Greece with the Argo II and closed the Doors of Death, the demigods of the both camps got to meet a week every month. They called it "visit-weeks", and it wasn't one right now. The children of Vulcan and Hephaestus had together constructed some kind of transporter that could transport the demigods between the camps, so they wouldn't need to travel over the whole country to visit each other. The transporter was effective, and it only took seconds to reach the other camp, but they were closed when it wasn't visit-week.

Then, suddenly, Hazel heard a voice behind her:

"Hey, what's happening here?"

Jason pushed himself through the crowd, to Hazel's side. He looked confused, but his face lit up when he saw Leo. He grinned and waved.

"Leo! Man, what are you doing here? I thought visit-week was two weeks ago?"

Leo grinned and waved back.

"It's Valentine's Day, and I wanted to give these to Hazel!"

Some of the girls behind Hazel sighed wistfully and "Awww"ed, but Hazel just felt confused and worried.

Octavian looked even more agitated. He squinted to see Leo more clearly, and realization dawned on his face.

"That's the Valdez boy that fired the ballistae and set our camp on fire!" He yelled and pointed at Leo. "We're not letting him in to the camp!"

Jason rolled his eyes.

"How many times do we have to tell you, Octavian, that it wasn't Leo? It was the Eidolons."

"How do we know you speak the truth?" Octavian asked and narrowed his eyes.

Hazel stepped closer to the river, cupped her mouth and screamed:

"Leo, how did you even get here?!"

Leo seemed to be shrugging.

"Took the train. It took very long time, but here I am!" He said happily. "Had to fight some monsters, but I'm still alive. Can I get over now?"

Hazel shook her head, but a smile played on her lips. He had come all this way for her, to give her some flowers. She always had thought Valentine's Day was a joke, but this was really cute.

She turned to Reyna.

"He's not a threat." Hazel said. "Can't you please let him in?"

Reyna looked a little conflicted, but before she could say anything, Octavian started to protest loudly.

"We don't know if we can trust him! He can be a spy from Camp Half-Blood. Besides, we can't get him over the river anyway!"

"Octavian has a point." Reyna admitted. "He could be a spy. And we can't get him over."

Hazel opened her mouth to protest, but Jason cut her off.

"I can fly you over there. So you can talk to him alone. That way, we don't need to let him in to the camp either." He added and looked at Reyna.

Reyna smiled a little.

"Sounds good to me. Everybody, go back to your activities!"

Octavian opened his mouth to protest, but Reyna shot him a dangerously dark look. He left, looking very angry.

Jason placed an arm around Hazel's waist, smiled to her and then ordered the winds to lift them up in the air. Hazel closed her eyes. She didn't like flying that much.

A moment later, she was on the other side of the river. Jason told the demigods that should guard the camp to go back to their duty, and then turned to Leo with a huge grin.

"Hey, man! You should have Iris Messaged us and said that you were coming."

"And ruined the surprise? Never." Leo snorted. "But it was a long way here. I'm so tired."

Hazel walked to Leo and hugged him.

"I'm going to leave you two alone." Jason said, a little uncomfortably. "I'll come in fifteen minutes. Okay?"

Leo made thumbs up, and Jason flew back over the river to shoo away a few demigods that was standing by the river bank and looking at them.

"What are you doing here, dork?" Hazel said with a smile.

He grinned and sat down on the ground, gesturing for Hazel to do the same.

"I wanted to surprise my girlfriend on Valentine's Day, of course." He leaned in and kissed Hazel, soft and sweet. When Leo pulled away, he gave her the bouquet.

"Thank you." Hazel said and buried her nose in the roses. "They smell wonderful."

Leo shrugged.

"Apparently that's what people give their partners on Valentine's Day. I asked Piper without revealing that I was coming here, so she gave me some tips."

Hazel laughed.

"And," Leo said and showed her the brown bag, "I have some gifts for you!"

He pulled out a red, heart-shaped box and a smaller box with a logo on it. He grinned goofily as he handed them to Hazel.

"The first one is chocolate." Leo explained as Hazel opened the heart-shaped box. "Piper's idea. And the other one is… Well, look."

Hazel opened the box to see some kind of food. It was golden browned, crispy pieces of something she never had seen before. But Leo grinned widely.

"It's chicken nuggets!" He said happily. "Do you remember on the Argo II? When you asked me what a chicken nugget was? We weren't dating back then. Someone interrupted me so I never got to tell you what a chicken nugget was, so here you are."

Hazel stared at the chicken nuggets, worrying Leo. He cleared his throat and added:

"I know it's not something you usually give your girlfriend on Valentine's Day, but I just thought…"

"I love it." Hazel interrupted and turned to Leo with a smile. "It's so cute that you remembered that."

Leo's cheeks turned bright red, and Hazel wondered worryingly if he was going to catch fire.

"Thank you." She whispered and kissed him.

When they pulled away, they heard a shriek from the other side of the river. A few girls were standing there, pointing and squealing over Leo and Hazel's kiss.

"Should I shoot a column of fire at them?" Leo wondered.

Hazel nudged him, but laughed.

"Just ignore them."

They sat together and just talked for a while, shared a few more kisses and ate the chocolate and chicken nuggets. Hazel found the new food surprisingly tasty, but it didn't go too well with the chocolate.

Hazel leaned her head on Leo's shoulder.

"I've missed you." She said quietly as Leo stroke her head.

"I know. Everybody miss Leo Valdez." Leo joked.

"Leo."

Suddenly, there was a swisch! and Jason was standing in front of them.

"Are you done yet, lovebirds?" He asked with a crooked grin.

Leo rolled his eyes.

"I don't ask you that when you and Piper are making out."

Jason blushed a little.

"How is she, by the way?" He asked. "I feel bad for not sending her any Valentine's Day-gift."

"She's doing fine, but she won't stop talking about you. It's worse than you actually being there." Leo said and grinned. "And you really should send her something, she seemed a little gloomy. I can take it with me when I leave."

"Great." Jason said and smiled. "Reyna talked to Chiron. He knows that you're here now, and they have turned the transporters on so you don't need to travel across the country again."

Leo groaned.

"Piper is going to kill me."

Hazel smiled a little.

"And Chiron?" She asked teasingly.

"No." Leo said and shook his head. "Piper will try to kill me, and then Nyssa will join her. And then Chiron's gonna tell my corpse that I did wrong and that I'm not allowed to eat dessert for a month or something."

"Hey." Jason said warningly. "That's my girlfriend you're talking about. Piper won't kill you."

Leo rolled his eyes.

"You don't know how she is when you're not around."

Hazel cut the boys off.

"It doesn't matter." She said. "Jason, will you fly both of us over to the other side at the same time…?"

"No, it's too heavy. I'll take Leo first, and then come back and take you."

Hazel quickly pecked Leo's lips.

"Thanks for the gifts." She said.

"No problem." Leo grinned. "I mean, they weren't expensive at all. And not so hard to find either; I bought the chicken nuggets on McDonalds and I paid some Aphrodite-kids to give me flowers and chocolate."

Jason and Hazel rolled their eyes.

"You're so romantic." Hazel said ironically.

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