Me: I'm back! I promise this will get optimistic…eventually.
Leo: Great…
Me: It will get worse before it gets optimistic though.
Leo: Oh man. *Get's close to banging head on dashboard*
Me: No! *Grabs Leo's head and throws him on couch*
Jason: Umm…okay.
Me: Jason do the disclaimer…NOW!
Jason: Touchy, candyland7 owns nothing but her OC's
Ambrosia: This includes Tiana and I.
3rd Person POV
Leo gently got picked up by Jason. He was still crying, but didn't try to get away from the others. Frank kept the door open while Jason crawled in with Leo. Annabeth silently handed Jason a red marker, which he gave to Leo. Leo clutched the red marker, but didn't do anything. Jason positioned Leo's head so that it was resting on his leg.
Percy climbed back into the front seat and started the car. Tiana looked like she wanted to slap Leo…again, but she didn't do anything. Ambrosia was up front talking with Annabeth; they were talking in whispers though. Frank crawled in after Jason and Leo got situated.
"Drive Percy," Jason said.
"Oh yeah, order around the only kid here with a drivers license," Percy grumbled.
Piper turned around and glared at Percy, who decided to start driving.
*Know it is going to be with Leo's thoughts*
Leo never knew that they cared that much. He gripped the red pen tighter. Leo wanted to use it, but he wasn't going to do it in front of his friends. Every now and then someone said something to start a conversation, it never worked. He hadn't realized he drifted off until someone shook him awake.
"Leo wake up," Jason said.
Leo slowly opened his eyes. He sat up and they all crawled out of the van. Leo immediately went to Bunker 9. Leo opened the door and slipped inside. He uncapped the marker and started drawing lines on his forearms. Hearing light footsteps, he capped the marker and pulled down his sleeves.
"Leo?" a soft voice called.
He didn't respond, he was still embarrassed from breaking down earlier.
"Leo, I know you're in here. Please talk to me," the voice says.
Leo takes a deep breath, "I'm in here."
The person walks over to the door. Upon opening it, Leo sees ambrosia colored hair and blue sparkling eyes.
"Ambrosia, I see you have found Bunker 9," Leo mumbles.
"Actually, I'm not alone. I was just sent in alone," Ambrosia confesses.
"I knew it."
"Leo, we are all worried about you…I might be new, but I consider you guys my friends."
She digs her toe into the ground. Not looking up to meet Leo's gaze. Leo went over to Ambrosia and gave her a small hug.
"I'm pretty sure that the others think of you as friend to," Leo comforted.
Ambrosia smiled at him, "I'll leave now…Tiana might come in though. She said…well not actually said…something about your mom."
Leo tried to choke back tears. His mom, he knew that tomorrow was the anniversary of her death.
"Sorry," she whispers and walks out of the room, her ambrosia colored was the last thing he saw.
Leo went to a different room and sat down, holding back tears. He heard someone walking around. The person never talked so Leo guessed it was Tiana. She opened the door and Leo didn't look up. She placed a tan hand on his shoulder. Tiana didn't say anything, but the gesture was clear, 'We're here for you, no matter what'.
"Thanks Ti," Leo mumbles.
She gave him a hug and he hears the others coming in.
"Leo?" Where are you?" Jason asks.
Tiana knocked on the door, showing them where they are. He heard footsteps coming towards the room. The door opened and the blonde haired superman walked in, followed closely by everyone else.
"Jason," Leo groaned.
"Is something going on here?" Jason asked smirking.
"No, it's just…my mom's anniversary of her death is…"
"Tomorrow," Piper finished putting her hands on her mouth, "I'm so sorry Leo, I forgot."
"It's fine Piper."
"No it's not Leo, I forgot about it…I'm a terrible friend!"
Piper burst into tears, Leo was shocked. He didn't know Piper care that much about him.
"Piper, it's fine…" Leo trailed off.
How could he tell Piper it's fine. Pretty much he's lying to both Piper and himself.
"I know it's not fine Leo, don't spare my feelings," Piper promised.
"It's not your fault though," Leo mumbled.
"And it's not yours either," Jason said.
Leo didn't answer, he felt as though it was his fault. He was the one that started the fire, he was the one that fell into Gaea's trap, and he was the one that let his mom die.
"Leo, if you blame yourself I will have Tiana slap you," Piper warned.
"But," Leo started.
Piper gave Tiana a look and she slapped him, hard.
"OWW!" Leo exclaimed.
Tiana shrugged and slapped him again, on the other cheek. What was with her and slapping people. Leo shrunk away from Tiana who had smiled at him.
"Tiana, stop slapping me!" Leo exclaimed.
She shrugged and turned to Piper, who gave her a thumb up. Tiana got up and pulled Leo to his feet.
"Come on," Piper said, "It's almost time for curfew."
"But, I usually sleep in Bunker 9," Leo explained.
"Not anymore."
Before Leo could protest, Frank and Hazel grabbed his arms. They pulled him out the door. They had a really tight grip on his arms. Before long, Leo couldn't feel his arms. He pulled his arms out of their grip.
"Okay, my arms are falling asleep," Leo said.
He rubbed his arms, trying to get feeling back into them. Hazel and Frank sent him an apologetic glance. Leo didn't respond.
"Sorry," Hazel said.
"Its fine," Leo mumbled.
They guided him back to the Hephaestus cabin. Leo went to his bed and just sat there. Thinking about the events. He knew his friends cared about him, they were trying to help him stop cutting. Leo turned over the red marker in his hands. He was tempted to uncap it, Annabeth was right. It really did help.
"Leo, time to go to bed," Nyssa said.
Leo looked up as his sister walked into the room, her red bandana was still around her hair, but she was wearing PJ's.
"Leo you're not even dressed for bed, what's wrong?" Nyssa asked, sitting down next to her brother.
"It's nothing Nyssa," Leo brushed of her concern.
"No it's not Leo. Tell me what's wrong."
"Nyssa, it's nothing."
"Leo, tell me."
"I'll tell you," a new voice said.
Nyssa and Leo looked up to see Hera. Leo immediately felt a surge of hatred towards the queen of the gods. The dark haired women seemed to notice this she didn't say anything.
"Tomorrow is the anniversary of Leo's mom's death," Hera explained, "He blames himself."
Nyssa turned to Leo, "Why do you blame yourself?"
Leo looked down and didn't answer for a long time, "My mom died in a fire…that I started trying to stop Gaea from killing her."
"Then it's not your fault. You were trying to stop her from dying!"
Leo hadn't realized that Hera had left until he looked up. At first he was really confused, but then he accepted and was happy about it.
"I know, but I started the fire," Leo mumbled.
"You should put ice on that," Nyssa said touching the bruises on Leo's cheeks.
"Why?"
"Because you might want it to heal, before I get Tiana to slap you again."
"You scare me sometimes."
Nyssa shrugged and got up. She came back with two ice packs.
"Here," She said handing them to him.
Leo put them on his cheeks. Nyssa watched him; Leo was trying to hold back tears. He didn't want to break down in front of his sister like he did in front of his friends. Nyssa sighed.
"Leo I know what happened," she finally said.
"What?" Leo asked almost dropped his ice packs.
"They told me, everything that happened this week, how you tried to run away to breaking down after you guys left."
"Everything," Leo repeated unconsciously rubbing his forearms.
Nyssa nodded, and looked at Leo.
"Why are you rubbing your forearms?" Nyssa asked.
"No reason, I accidently hit myself on the door of the van," Leo lied.
Apparently they hadn't told Nyssa everything.
"Good night Leo," Nyssa said.
She gave Leo a hug and walked over to her bed. He watched as Nyssa's bed retracted to her room below. Leo followed her example and went to his room below.
Me: Brother/Sister moment with Leo and Nyssa.
Leo: At least this chapter wasn't too bad.
Percy: Dude you shouldn't have said that.
Me: Don't worry Leo, the next chapter is going to be sad.
Leo: *Bangs head on dashboard before anyone could do anything*
*French women*
*Dance music*
*Applause*
*Cheering*
*Fart Noises *
Me: JASON!
Jason: What?
Me: Get Leo.
*Drags Leo out of the room*
Me: Thank you!
Percy: Please review!
