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"Anyone sitting here?" Leo looked up to see a short but muscular boy standing nervously with his hands in his pockets. Leo studied the boy he had shaggy black hair and big dark brown eyes that where almost black.
Leo grinned "sure buddy!"
The boy smiled gratefully and quickly sat down. The nameless boy smiled and extended his hand "Carlos Joel De Dios Ruiz." He smirked at the look Leo gave him "but you can call me pancho"
Leo shook his hand "Leo Valdez just call me Supreme commander awesomeness or just Valdez whatever floats you're boat."
The boy threw back his head and laughed "you're funny man! Where you from?"
Leo shrugged nervously "um New York mostly."
Pancho mock glared "gross I bet you're a Yankees fan"
Leo smiled "nope I'm Mexican futbol all the way!"
"I'm Puerto Rican so it baseball for me!"
"Whatever bouriqua, why are you in this godforsaken bus?"
Pancho started tapping on his knees nervously "um family issues"
Leo nodded sadly and looked out the window "yea I know how that feels..." he suddenly brighten "on the bright side where gonna get the shit kicked out of us at basic!"
"How is that a good thing?"
"If they kick us hard enough we'll forget all about it!"
Pancho shook his head "You're insane Valdez"
Leo just grinned
Leo stood at the receiving barracks of the United States Marine Corps in Paris Island. It was pouring rain and he was shaking from fear and excitement, Leo realized that he stood on the same yellow foot prints that thousands of marines before him had stood on and he could feel his chest swelling with pride. Even if there was a Drill instructor yelling at everyone. Leo started to pay closer attention his ADHD tended to make his mind wander off. The marine drill instructor stood at 6'4 with a neck as thick as tree trunk and his arms looked like he could take Leo and snap him in half, no small feat either as Leo had grown to 5'11 and all his time at the forges had made him strong.
"My Name is staff sergeant Rodriguez and I am your senior Drill Instructor! As far as you shitheads are concerned I am Satan and for these next twelve weeks your souls belong to me! Is that understood?"
"Yes Sir!" Leo screamed along with the other recruits.
"From now till the day you graduates you have no rights! You will move when I say move, halt when I say halt, stand where I tell you to stand and you will learn to love it! You are not Marines, you are recruits which means that a lump of crap is worth more than you at this point! I will turn you useless lumps into Marines or kill you trying! Take a look around you boys! The man standing next to, in front of and behind you is now part of your ugly-ass family! You will eat, breathe, sleep and shit together! I will not tolerate any disloyalty to your platoon in this corps! Is that understood!
"Yes sir!"
The DI smiled "time for a little haircut boys!" he said as he opened a set of metal doors with the Marine Corps logo inscribed on them.
Leo stood nervously in front of a phone. He hadn't counted on being forced to call camp half-blood but according to the DI "Every snot nosed recruit had to let their mommy and daddy know that they were okay for now." Leo rolled his eyes God what an asshole. It didn't matter all he had to do was read of a card and then he never had to contact them again. Leo took a deep breath, picked up the phone and dialed.
"Hello?" a girl answered and it sounded like she had been crying.
"This is recruit Leo Valdez" he said in a monotone voice.
"Leo? It's Hazel where the Hades are you? Piper has been-"
Leo interrupted her feeling like the worst person on earth "I have arrived safely at Parris Island.
Please do not send any food or bulky items.
I will contact you in 3 to 5 days via postcard with my new mailing address.
Thank you for your support.
Goodbye for now."
He quickly hung up with shaking hands that was definitely not something he had planned for.
By the time Leo had gotten all of his hair shaven of and had been issued his bondockers, uniform, web belt, and his camelback he was ready to drop dead on his rack. But of course the day didn't end there, he was taught how to drill, how to make a bed marine style and even worse how to do everything "by the numbers" including going to the head. Line up
March to shower head
Pull the ring and wet your head
Soap your head and face thoroughly
Rinse
Soap your left arm. Etc.
As soon as Leo climbed into his rack he fell asleep, and for the first time in years he slept with deeply and dreamlessly.
Bondockers-Boots
Head-Bathroom/shower
Barracks- Home/dorm
Camelback- look up on google image
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