Chapter Four (Leo's PoV)

I walk a few feet behind Percy. When we reach a clearing, he turns.

"How is she here?" His voice is cold. He turns, and his eyes are just as frigid as his voice. I've only ever seen his eyes this cold once: after he and Annabeth struggled through the Doors of Death from Tartarus eleven months ago. And even then, his eyes were only cold for a millisecond; they filled with tears before shutting tight.

"She can't leave Ogygia. It is her prison." Percy stares at me.

"Well you would know, wouldn't you," I retort, "you're the one who left her there. And I did return to Ogygia. When you were at Camp Jupiter last month. I went, but no one was there. Calypso wasn't there. Most likely, Chiron rescued her."

"I promised to get her free! That's more than Odysseus or Drake did! And if Chiron got her, why wasn't she revealed until now?"

"Chiron probably had to work hard to find and then leave Ogygia. Technically you can't unless Calypso loves you. But you would know that too, wouldn't you? And you promised, huh? Still working on that promise? Didn't you get a wish granted by the gods after the Second Titan war? I believe you spent it on, hmm, having the gods claim their children right away?"

"You don't understand," he says. "Several of Kronos' warriors were unclaimed demigods. I was preventing another war! If it weren't for my wish, you could be sitting in the Hermes cabin right now, depressed, wondering who your godly parent is because they never claimed you."

"You broke Calypso's heart," I shout, "I know Odysseus and Drake probably did so too, but I've seen how much you hurt her, Percy. You drove her to cursing Annabeth."

He sneers. "I'm sure you're the perfect hero, then. Did she fall for you right away, like she did with me, or did she think you were some curse from the gods?"

"Percy, I know you forgot about her," I say. "You can't deny it."

"But she didn't have to go off at me for it! Face it Leo, you can't protect her from everything. She needs to feel what Annabeth did."

I roll my eyes. "Duh, Percy. Why do you think she cursed Annabeth? Calypso wanted Annabeth to feel what she felt every second of every day after you left."

Percy turns. "Whatever, Leo. Some day you'll see her for what she really is."

"You can't run away from all your problems just because they don't involve a monster!" I shout at his retreating back.

I turn around and stomp back to the dining pavilion. I sit down and look at my pizza, which is now really cold. As if I could eat it anyway.

I look up at the head table to where Calypso is sitting. She laughs at something a nymph next to her says. Calypso turns, and looks at me. Her expression goes from happy and content to worried. I smile weakly and give the slightest of nods. She blinks and tries to smooth her expression. I jerk my head towards the lake and mouth after dinner.

She nods.

When the tables are cleared, Calypso pushes back her chair and gracefully rises. She walks towards the lake and I follow.

As we stand by the water, the sun begins to set. The golden light makes her face glow. Calypso looks so beautiful. I kiss her cheek, and she hugs me gently before saying "Leo, you can't make me forget. I'm worried about you."

I look into her almond eyes, and Percy's words float through my head, haunting me. I can't tell her; I just can't. If she cries, it will be my fault, and I'll hurl myself off a cliff before making her cry on purpose.

"Leo," she says again, "I can handle it; just tell me slowly." Her voice is soft.

In that moment, I decide that I can't tell her. I can't hurt her.

"It was nothing, Calypso. Percy and I were just talking about battle strategies for tomorrow's Capture the Flag. It was nothing."

(Calypso's PoV)

I know it's not 'nothing'. If it was nothing, he would be smiling now, like he usually is. And he would not have tried to distract me. I know I won't get any more out of him now, so I tell him ok.

For a second, I believe that there is no way I can find out what happened. Some may say that I'm a person that doesn't respect others' privacy because I find it so important to know what happened. But I know that Leo is hurting over what happened. And I know it involved Percy.

But then I remember. Since I'm a sorceress, I can use magic to see what I want. And as I told Leo when he was on Ogygia: "Seeing the past is simple magic. Seeing the present or the future-that is not."

Leo and I sit on the beach until the lights out call sounds. Leo gives me a hug and a kiss before departing for the Hephaestus cabin. I walk toward the Big House to talk with Chiron.

Chiron puts me into the guest room for now. As he canters away, he says over his shoulder, "Maybe this is the beginning of the Atlas cabin." I remember that he is also a child of Atlas. This makes him my half-brother. I believe so. The Olympian gods/Titan/giant family tree is quite confusing.

As soon as the door shuts, I look around the room. The walls are pale blue, and the bed is small, with a light gray bedspread. A small wooden desk with an office chair sits against the wall across from the door. The nightstand beside the bed matches the desk, and has a lamp on it. When I open the drawer, I find a Celestial bronze knife and a notepad with nothing on it. A dresser that matches the desk and the nightstand stands next to the door. A digital clock sits on top of it, reading 10:07 pm. The bookshelf next to the desk has a few things on it: a Greek mythology book, a pamphlet that teaches you how to make your own weapons, a book on how to carve a marble bust, a monster-fighting technique book, and for some reason, a recipe book for some type of cooking called Tex-Mex.

I must ask Leo what Tex-Mex cooking is.

I sit down on the bed and extend my hands. Concentrating hard, I focus on Leo's absence from the Hephaestus table, and his coming back looking shaken.

Come on, Calypso, I tell myself. Concentrate.

An image glimmers into sight. A boy, Leo, walks through a heavily wooded area. He stares straight ahead.

Leo walks into a clearing. Percy is waiting for him. "How is she here?" His voice echoes throughout the clearing. "She can't leave Ogygia. It is her prison," Percy continues.

"Well you would know, wouldn't you? You're the one who left her there. And I did return to Ogygia. When you were at Camp Jupiter last month. I went, but no one was there. Calypso wasn't there. Most likely, Chiron rescued her a few weeks before." Leo's voice is even.

"I promised to get her free! That's more than Odysseus or Drake did," Percy says. "And if Chiron got her, why wasn't she revealed until now?"

Leo goes on, talking about how Chiron probably worked hard to leave Ogygia, and the trouble he must have had finding it in the first place. It's true; Chiron worked very hard to get me free. He consulted with the gods for hours each day, reasoning with Zeus, trying to make them see why it was no longer important to keep me imprisoned on Ogygia. Not to mention finding and leaving the island in the first place. Leo says, Didn't Percy get a wish granted by the gods after the Second Titan War? That I didn't know. I did not know that Percy could have gotten me free.

My heart contracts. Percy promised to free me. He had a chance; and he chose to spend his wish on something else.

Percy explains why his wish was so important, then proceeds to insult Leo on how I fell for Percy himself instantly (not true-I just had a crush on him first!), and how I probably hated Leo at first. The Leo thing is very true.

Leo defends me, countering Percy's insults and demands that I feel what Annabeth felt because of the curse.

Of course I felt what Annabeth felt. I cursed her in one of my darkest days. A day where every second without Percy felt like a knife grating across my skin. I was lower than I'd ever been; lower than the days after Odysseus and Drake left.

But that's a memory I don't want to rehash.

Percy claims that one day, Leo will see me for what I really am. Though what I am, he doesn't say. He just turns and walks away. Leo tells Percy that he can't just run away from his problems just because they don't involve a monster.

Leo turns and stomps back to the dining pavilion. I wave my hand through the image, and it disappears.

It was nothing, Leo said. It was nothing.

A/N TIME! Hey there, Little Defiance here. Here is another chapter of Stay With Me Now. I hope all you demigods like it. Time for the chapterly stuff!

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~Next update: Tuesday, July 29th.

~I got back from Madison today! This week was great, and full of new experiences. I mean, who gets to insert a bioluminescent gene into E. coli bacteria cells on a daily basis?

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