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vii. stage
All the world's a stage.
Leo was pretty sure that Shakespeare had said that. Or was it Macbeth... no, wait that was a play by Shakespeare. Maybe. Anyway, it didn't matter, but what did matter was that whoever said that was more right than anyone could be if that made any sense.
It felt like everyone always had their eyes on him, just waiting for him to make a mistake. At least they hadn't known about the Bunker almost blowing up - now that would have a disaster. And at least they hadn't asked anything about how they happened to come across the Maenads.
Leo almost shivered, remembering them. They were like fangirls to a much, much, much higher and more lethal extent. Even he didn't want to have those kinds of girls around him. He sighed, wondering if he'd ever actually get a girl. Maybe one day. And he was too damn busy to even chat to those girls in Aphrodite cabin - and some of them were smoking.
He tried to resist hitting someone upside the head when he was called to check something else about the ship that had gone wrong. Damn Gaea. Damn the gods. Damn all of this.
"How are things going?" Piper's voice asked, behind him but he didn't bother to turn around, pretending that he was adding things as he usually was when someone entered the Bunker.
"Good," he replied, shortly, leaning over a part he was near, as if working on it.
"No run away tables? Or crazy girls that will kill everyone that isn't Dionysus?" Leo would swear on anything that Piper was smiling.
"Nope. Nothing that exciting. Just me working on a ship that could potentially be destroyed by the Romans." He frowned at the bitterness in his voice. He wasn't supposed to act like this - he was supposed to cheer everyone up.
The problem was, whenever someone was in the Bunker apart from him, it just made it feel as if there was a whole crowd of people waiting for him to make a mistake, even if there was only one person.
Shakespeare really knew what he was saying, Leo mused, If it was him any way. But I wished he hadn't been so right...
He only preferred to be centre stage when he couldn't potentially screw things up for the entire world.
I think I made a mistake in the last one with the number... /thinks.
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