HEROES OF OLYMPUS SPOILERS!

A/N: Thanks so much for the epic reviews! Shout-out to jazie101 for her ideas! This is Piper's chapter, set in (wince) Leo's POV. I just had to put him in there. They probably met a little later than twelve years old, but I don't want to make another OC, and Tristan McLean or Jane's POV would be just weird.

I met Piper outside of her dorm like every morning. "Hey, Piper."

She came out of the door, heavily laden with textbooks. She looked kind of irritated. "Hey, Leo-"

"Ooh, you and Valdez gonna get smoochy-smoochy, half-blood?" sneered a voice from behind me. Amy, the bleach-blonde spoiled brat from Coach Olchen's class.

"We aren't-" I started, annoyed, just as Piper growled,

"Amy, just try and say that again, and I will-"

"You can't touch me, you little half-blood!"

I stumbled backward as Piper threw her books at me and lept at Amy. Struggling to carry the weight of all of Piper's stuff along with my own, I watched in surprise at the brawl on the floor.

It wasn't much of a brawl, actually. While Amy screeched and tried to dig her nails into Piper and slap her face, Piper was on top and easily bending all of Amy's arms and legs backward. She twisted one arm and dislocated the shoulder of the other, then tugged at Amy's blonde hair as she avoided the other girl's teeth.

"Go Piper!" I cheered. Other people gathered around to see what was going on. I saw money exchange hands. One guy even tried to stop the fight, but he got knocked unconscious with only one fingernail in between the girls.

Some of Amy's clique attempted to gang up on Piper from behind. Just as I stepped forward with all of the textbooks, Piper kicked one of them in the stomach and shoved her into the rest of them. They went down in a heap.

With Amy and her fan club incapacitated, Piper straightened up and accepted her things from my now painfully red arms. "Come on, Leo." Her voice was shaky.

I frowned. "Piper, you OK?"

She let out a breath of air, then repeated a little more severely, "Come on, Leo."

The crowd (who had formed a wide circle around Piper and Amy) backed slowly away as we made our way to a relatively secluded corner. Piper and I set down our stuff. She made sure everyone was distracted with Amy's injuries, then turned to me, her eyes glistening.

"Oh, no," I shook my head in distress, while fat tears slipped out of her eyes. I sighed and gave her a hug.

"Leo," she hiccuped. "Leo, I-"

I freaked out. "Piper, sorry, but, um, I don't like you like that-" She shoved me away.

"Excuse me?"

My face was completely red. "I-I mean, I only like you as a friend, not-"

"Leo, I wasn't going to tell you that!" Piper's voice was incredulous.

"Oh."

"I-" she lowered her voice to a whisper. "I'm having my period."

"...what?"

Let's just say Amy wasn't the only one unconscious in the infirmary that day.

A/N: Hope you liked it!