Waking up was an...experience.

By experience, Leo elbowed Jason in the face.

It wasn't his fault really. Leo didn't usually wake up to someone breathing on his neck, with their arms around him. Leo's eyes widened, and he had thought that oh my god was i actually kidnapped. So his instincts kicked in, and he thrust his elbow back, causing Jason to wake up and fall off the bed.

Leo peered over the bed, not sure whether or not to help Jason. It was an accident. Leo would never hurt the blond. Unless Jason was a rapist who kidnapped adorable Latinos. Then Leo would let all hell loose. But Jason wasn't that was he? Dios Mio, Leo remembered that one time Leo took Piper's phone and Jason had said Leo was cute. Oh god, Jason was probably a pedophile in disguise. That makes sense, why else would he be snuggling up to Leo?

Jason's cursing pulled Leo out of his thoughts.

"What the hell-?"Jason touched under his nose, and pulled his fingers back to stare at blood.

Shit.Leo thought as Jason looked up to stare at Leo.

"Uh, Leo, care to tell me why I have a bloody nose?" Jason asked, wiping blood from his upper lip.

Leo choose to ignore Jason's question to dig into his book bag. How do you tell your friend you thought he was a rapist, an went all kung fu on him?

"Ah, here we go!" Leo said pulling something out of his bag. "Here, Jason, I'll make it all better."

Jason blinked as Leo placed a Disney Princess band-aid over the bridge of Jason's nose and gave Jason a big hug. If Jason looked cross-eyed, he was able to see Sleeping Beauty dancing around regally.

"You'll be okay Jay." Leo said, hugging the blond tightly.

"Leo."

"Shush Jason, you'll ruin the moment an your nose." Leo mumbled.

"Leo."

"Jesus Christ, Jason, what is so important where you have to interrupt such a beautiful moment? Are you dying? No, I think not." Leo said, pulling away and shaking his head. "Gosh, Jason if you're such a moment destroyer then just say it."

Jason stared at Leo, who was astonished by what a moment breaker Jason was. Not only was Jason a closet rapist but he was also a dream crusher. Jason gave Leo a look as he choose his next words slowly.

"Leo,"Jason said slowly, trying not to get blood in his mouth. "This is not how you fix a bloody nose. Putting a band-aid on the top of it, does not fix it. At all."

Leo narrowed his eyes at Jason. "I dunno, it looks fine to me."

Jason sighed and got up, to go to the bathroom to actually fix his bleeding nose. Leo watched as Jason left, and changed his shirt. Ew, Jason got his blood on Leo's shirt, talk about unsanitary. It was a shame, Leo did like his Superman shirt.

Leo threw on a pair of clean sweatpants and slid down the banister for breakfast. It was Tuesday which meant school was a thing Leo had to go to. Downstairs, Piper was dressed, ready for school, and Nico was dressed for work,pouring coffee. Percy had his face in his cereal, still snoring away. Leo wasn't surprised, his dad could sleep for years and still feel tired.

"Morning Pipes." Leo said, pouring cereal into a bowl.

Piper winced at the color an sugar invasion inside of Leo's bowl. "Good morning. How'd you and Jason sleep?"

Leo nearly choked on his cereal."Oh you know. I slept nice. Jason probably slept nice too."

Piper nodded and peeled away at an orange. Leo didn't even know they had oranges in their house.

Jason came down right before Leo slipped his bowl into the sink. He had toilet paper stuffed in his nose, making Leo snort before rushing out the room. No need hearing Jason's confusing explanation while Leo knew exactly what happened.


The week flew by in a matter of minutes. Leo hardly registered the week. All he could remember on Friday night was to avoid Octavian with chili cheese fries. Leo's chili smelling shirt hanging in his laundry basket gave him a clue what happened.

Leo flopped on his bed. He was home alone, due to Papa staying at work late, and Dad visiting a friend. The friend was Ms. Chase, who Leo didn't mind too much. Ms. Chase came by during the holidays and sometimes invited Leo's family over. She was Percy's best friend and somehow ex (Leo wasn't really told much about his parents childhoods), and liked to play with Leo's building blocks when he was little.

Ms. Chase was actually the reason why Leo lived where he does. Ms. Chase works at Leo's old orphanage, and the day they met she promised Leo that he would find a loving family. And he did.

Leo sighed, and flicked open his Dad's laptop. Leo's own laptop was downstairs, and he was just too lazy to get it, so he walked down the hall to his parents room to get this one.

Shit, password. Leo rolled his eyes and typed in the first thing that came into mind.

'UnderTheSea' Password Invalid.

'underthesea' Password Invalid.

Well, Leo was officially stuck. Stupid Percy, with his stupid not-obvious-passwords. Leo tapped the 'n' key lightly, making sure not to actually press it. Hmm, maybe it was a birthday?

'August18' Password Invalid.

Was that his father's birthday? Crap, did that make Leo a bad son?

'August19' Password Invalid.

'August20' Password Invalid.

'August21' Password Invalid.

Leo huffed out and his hair flew up from in front of his face. His eyes trailed off the screen and fell on a picture frame of Leo and his adoptive parents on his desk. It was taken at a carnival, a few days after Leo's tenth birthday.

'NicoandLeo' Password Accepted.

Leo grinned, and pulled up an Internet browser. He logged into his chatting account and sent a message to Jason.

HotStuffRepairs: yo jay whats up

Jason wasn't online, but Piper was apparently. The minute Leo sent the message, Piper shot one at Leo.

BeautyQueen: Leo.

HotStuffRepairs: sup

BeautyQueen: Care to come over?

HotStuffRepairs: jeez i just managed to log into this

HotStuffRepairs: ugh let me shut this down and go mobile

BeautyQueen: Great.

BeautyQueen: Still have leftover cake?

BeautyQueen: Bring some.

BeautyQueen: We have an emergency.

BeautyQueen: We have a code pink.

BeautyQueen: I repeat. We have a code pink.

BeautyQueen: Are you walking, or bike?

BeautyQueen: I don't wanna open the garage.

BeautyQueen: I'm really nice and comfy here on my bed.

HotStuffRepairs: okay i get it, stop spamming you bum

BeautyQueen: Nah.

HotStuffRepairs: im walking right now

HotStuffRepairs: im too lazy to ride my bike

HotStuffRepairs: you live like a block away why would i even ride my bike

HotStuffRepairs: still need to get my daily dose of exercise in you know

BeautyQueen: Remember Code Pink!

HotStuffRepairs: wait which one is that

HotStuffRepairs: is that the one where somethings broken and you want me to fix it

HotStuffRepairs: or is it the one where you want me to go to the store

BeautyQueen: Neither. It's worse.

BeautyQueen: Fashion Emergency.

HotStuffRepairs: oh no

HotStuffRepairs: raise the alarms

HotStuffRepairs: someone call the government

HotStuffRepairs: we need the president here stat

BeautyQueen: Shut Up.

BeautyQueen: By fashion emergency, I mean Drew's in my closet, and we can't find a swim suit.

BeautyQueen: For tomorrow.

HotStuffRepairs: wait is drew the hot sister

BeautyQueen: Leo.

HotStuffRepairs: nah

HotStuffRepairs: all your sisters are pretty hot

BeautyQueen: Half-Sisters Leo.

HotStuffRepairs: you got two sisters and a brother

HotStuffRepairs: thats more than i got

BeautyQueen: Half-siblings.

BeautyQueen: I, myself, am an only child.

HotStuffRepairs: yeah i remember their names now

HotStuffRepairs: hot-asian-bitchy drew

HotStuffRepairs: hot-eldest-sister silena

HotStuffRepairs: hot-braces-twin lacey

HotStuffRepairs: hot-male-twin mitchell

HotStuffRepairs: that last one is not gay i can just acknowledge my fellow hot bro

HotStuffRepairs: we hot bros stick together

BeautyQueen: Leo, you're just digging your "not gay" grave deeper and deeper.

BeautyQueen: How's it down there in denial hell

HotStuffRepairs: pretty sweet i can see my papa here in hell

BeautyQueen: Leo, you do realize that Lacey and Mitchell are 13

HotStuffRepairs: theyre still hot

BeautyQueen: That's wrong Leo.

BeautyQueen: Should I even let you in my house? You'll just touch my pure siblings.

HotStuffRepairs: actually jason is a rapist

HotStuffRepairs: not me

HotStuffRepairs: hey is your hot mom home

BeautyQueen: Leo I will personally burn you.

BeautyQueen: Do you hear that? I think Silena's cooking over the stove. It would be a shame if we had Leo soup instead of whatever she's making.

HotStuffRepairs: itll be the best damn soup youll ever eat thats what itll be

BeautyQueen: She's not here Leo. Only me and my siblings.

HotStuffRepairs: oh sweet maybe i can make a move on your hot sisters

BeautyQueen: Maybe you want to get slapped in the face by Drew.

BeautyQueen: The only one who you can date is Mitchell, and that's because both of you like guys.

BeautyQueen: Besides, you know he has this really creepy obsession with you.

HotStuffRepairs: stop saying that im super straight

HotStuffRepairs: like a ruler do you hear me beauty queen

HotStuffRepairs: and im not surprised he has an obsession i would too if i saw someone this hot

HotStuffRepairs: ...i always try to avoid him whenever im over

HotStuffRepairs: its like he always finds me

HotStuffRepairs: kid has good taste but hes practically my stalker when im there

BeautyQueen: Uh, try to avoid both of the twins actually. They're both in a moody funk.

BeautyQueen: You know how it is, when one is pissed, so is the other one.

HotStuffRepairs: okay so only talk to you drew and silena got it

HotStuffRepairs: oh hey im outside your front door


Leo looked up from his phone to see Lacey open the door. Great, one of the only few people to avoid he came face-to-face with.

"Hi." Lacey opened the door widely, and Leo slid in. Lacey slammed the door shut.

"Hey, where's Piper-"

"Upstairs." Lacey crossed her arms, and pulled her headphones on over her head. The thirteen year old, stomped up the stairs with Leo trailing behind her.

"We do not stomp in this house!" A voice chided from downstairs, and Leo assumed it was Silena cooking.

"Leave me alone, you're not mom!" Lacey screamed, purposely opening her bedroom door and slamming it close behind her. From within the shared room with Mitchell, Leo heard the sound of heavy punk and extremely loud drumming. Ah, yes, Leo can see what Piper meant by the two being in a funk.

Leo started down the long hallway. He never really understood why the two twins needed to share a room, when there were enough guest rooms for the entire nation. Piper had mention something about the two needing to develop separate identities, but they preferred being together.

Piper and Leo both lived in the tiny community known as West River Valley. No one really knew why it was called that as there were no rivers, and they weren't to the west of anything really, but it simply was named that. West River Valley was a little area that was surrounded by a low brick fence and a iron gate.

Where Leo lived, there were huge expensive houses, each about two to four stories high. Leo lived in a more modest two stories if you didn't include the basement or the attic. However, if you were to go more inward, you would hit the mother load of rich people in mansions and limousines. Which was where Piper lived. Piper and her siblings didn't live there just on their mother's newly employed teaching job as a French high school teacher.

Standing in front of Piper's door, was like getting ready for war. If what Piper said was true, then it'll be a war zone, with the feisty Drew as an opponent.

"Piper... I'm coming in now." Leo stepped inside, and his guess was right.

There was clothes everywhere. Leo tried to ignore the bra on the lampshade, and focused on a frazzled looking Piper. Piper was sitting on her bed, watching as her half-sister shuffled through clothing.

"Hmm, you don't even look good in leopard or cheetah!" Drew muttered, tossing clothes behind her. "I can't stand your dumpster clothes, Piper. Everything in here goes in the inferno. Make your pyromaniac friend burn it for you."

"I'm right here, you know." Leo called, and Piper swung her head.

"Oh thank god Leo, get this girl out my room." Piper pleaded, picking up some of her clothing.

Leo wasn't looking to get slapped today, but he knew he needed to save his friend.

"Hey Drew." Leo wiggled his eyebrows as Drew spun around. His arms opened up, ready to hug, and Drew's palm smacked into Leo's cheek.

"As if, punk." Drew narrowed her eyes, and turned at the heel, closing the door behind her.

Leo winced as he touched his reddening cheek. "Ouch, I think one of her nails scratched me."

Piper threw a band-aid at Leo. "Sorry bro. Now help me find a bathing suit."


Leo called his parents to say he was staying the night at Piper's. His parents agreed, but if only there was a responsible adult nearby. Leo wasn't to sure if Silena counted as responsible, but technically she was a legal adult at 22, so Leo hastily replied with 'yes of course Papa.'

It had come to the point in which Piper had two bathing suits on her bed, and Leo was busy picking up a few of the rest of the clothes.

"How about," Leo huffed, plopping down on the floor. "You wear no clothes?"

Piper threw a pillow at Leo, and nailed him in the face.

"Hmm, which one would you wear, Leo?" Piper hummed, and gestured to the bathing suits.

"Definitely the Americanized one. Shows off my hot bod, and my patriotizism."

"That's not even a word."

"It is now."

Piper rolled her eyes, and threw the bikini at him. "Alright, you wear that one and I'll wear this one."

Leo blinked, and shoved it back. "Ugh, I'm not a girl! And how come you get the one piece?!"

Piper shrugged. "Don't you want to show off that hot body you claim to have? Now you can do it stylishly. Look, it even comes with a little American flag skirt."

Leo crossed his arms. "No thank you. I'll stick to my trunks."

Piper looked like she wanted to say something, but she was interrupted by a yell from downstairs.

"Dinner's cooked!"

Leo took one look at Piper, before dashing down the stairs. He loved eating dinner at Piper's house.

Being one of the only boys, Leo was surrounded by lots of lovely single ladies. And Mitchell... but he was always surrounded by Mitchell whenever he was over.

Leo took the seat at next to the head of the table. Lacey was already sitting across from him, and Mitchell was sitting next to her. It seemed like both of them weren't as moody as before, because they were giggling and passing a game system between each other.

Lacey and Mitchell were opposites in a way that complimented each other perfectly. When they were little, Leo remembered how they would always dress the same way, and played together constantly. As a 13 year old, Piper was sometimes forced into a pseudo babysitting role to babysit the two 9 year olds. Now that they were 13, the two were able to take care of themselves.

Lacey had taken a more girl-like way shortly after starting puberty, but she still liked video games and sports. Currently, Mitchell was going through a punk phase, that made Silena constantly mother hen over his mental health. Especially after that day when he said he wanted her permission for a tattoo. Leo had never seen someone faint before, but he could tell that Silena fainting was like watching the Queen of England dying. Terrifying.

Piper slid into the seat next to Leo, as Silena dished out food. "Hmm, Leo, can you move over a bit? We have a guest coming over."

Piper looked up. "Mom?"

Silena shook her head as she poured drinks. "No, sorry. Someone else."

Mitchell stuck out his tongue. "It's her boyfriend."

Silena shook her head and hummed lightly. "Not really."

Drew came in from the kitchen, glaring at Silena, who sat at the head of the table. As Drew sat down, the doorbell rang, causing her to groan and get back up.

She returned a bit later with a young man, who waved in a greeting and sat next to Silena and Leo.

"Thank you, Charlie." Silena pecked him on the lips and smiled.

Charlie, was in fact Charles Beckendorf. Leo knew who he was through connections at the auto body shop. Apparently Charles had worked there earlier, but left in an effort to finish high school. Everyone at the body shop said he was an extremely nice person, and was a fantastic worker. Leo had only met him a handful of times, but the two talked for hours and hours about building and tinkering.

The group of seven ate peacefully, and chatted excitedly. Leo had to stop Silena and Drew from going on and on about the newest boutique opening up, and Piper had to stop Leo and Charles from talking on and on about this new car, and how much they wanted to take it apart and reassemble it again.

They settled on talking to the twins about their school day, when Silena tapped on her cup.

"Me and Charlie have something to say." Charles hands went on top of Silena's and Drew rolled her eyes in disgust.

"We're engaged."

Piper squealed, and Leo had to cover his ears. Honestly, he was happy about his best friend's sister's new arrangement, but he wasn't happy about being deaf.

"Oooh! So many arrangements to do, so many things!" Piper drifted off into her personal wonderland of marriage, and the twins shot questions off at the newly engaged couple.

Drew sipped her soda bitterly, muttering something which Leo thought was stupid. Couldn't she be happy for her sister? Leo figured something happened between the two siblings.

"I'm so happy for you!" Leo said, grinning, and the couple kissed.


"Go to sleep Leo." Piper mumbled, turning in her bed.

"I can't." Leo admitted, from his spot on the floor. Originally Leo was going to sleep in one of the guest rooms, but after being surprised by Mitchell (what kind of 13 year old waited until Leo was laying in bed, and slithered in the sheets with him!?), Leo didn't think he should have taken any chances, and crawled into Piper's room, to lay on her floor.

"Think of sheep. Count sheep or something." Piper yawned, and turned to face the wall.

Leo rolled his eyes and searched for his phone.

"Yes?" Jason sniffed into the phone, and Leo wondered what time it was.

"Sorry, man. Couldn't sleep."

Jason snorted. "Nah, I couldn't either. I've been watching movies until I could."

"Has it worked?"

"What do you think?"

"Oh."

"Yeah."

Leo was quite and was sure he Jason hung up, until he heard Jason's slow breaths.

"Hey, Jay? Your still going with us to the water park, right?"

"Of course, bro. Why wouldn't I?"

Leo rolled over, to face away from Piper's slumbering form. "I dunno. Piper wants me to wear a bikini."

Jason didn't say anything for a moment, before hesitating. "Are you?"

Leo rolled his eyes. "I'm not a girl you know."

"I know."

"Good."

"Good."

It was silent again, and Leo found himself getting sleepier. "Actually, I should totally wear it. As a joke, you know."

On Jason's side of the phone there was a rustle, and Leo imagined it was Jason getting ready to go to bed. "Yeah, do it as a joke then. Unless it's pink. Don't do it at all then."

"I'm not injuring my masculinity that much." Leo snorted, and rolled on his back. Piper had a nice ceiling, just the perfect shade of blue.

"Alright. What does it look like then? Give me an image so I could picture it in my head, and know exactly how much masculinity is at stake here." Jason said, and Leo hears more rustling and movement again.

"Red and blue mostly."

The rustling stops. "Like Superman?"

Leo laughs softly, trying not to wake Piper. "No. Like the American Flag. It comes with a little skirt, and it unhooks in the front. Which is stupid, why would you ever unclasp your bikini in the front? Girls are weird."

"I know. Huh. So the American flag- oh gross I think my sister has that. I'm picturing my sister now ew." Jason groans and Leo laughs.

"Heh. What are you doing anyway? I hear lots of movement." Leo questions.

"Oh, that's Thalia. She's moving some of her papers from my room to hers. And I'm snuggling up in the sheets too, so that's happening." Jason whispered, and all the noise stops on both sides.

"Oh."

"Yeah."

It was quite except for the sound of each others breathing.

"I'm getting tired, but I'm too lazy to turn the phone off. At least it's plugged in right now." Leo admitted, yawning.

"It's 2:30." Jason yawns too, but doesn't hang up the phone.

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Well, good night Leo." Jason finally said after listening to Leo breaths, but Leo had already drifted off to sleep.


Translation:

/I'm not even sure if there are, and I'm not checking\

A/N: Why does it fell like so long since I updated? I update every week...

AH! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S BEEN 20000 WORDS ALREADY? TO CELEBRATE I HAVE A BUNCH OF VALGRACE DRABBLES TO PUBLISH AS AN EXTRA CHAPTER HERE! ...because you know, this is going to end up being valgrace anyway...

-I'll publish it at around in the next hour or so, I just need my friend to reread it because I'm lazy. Shout Outs to that special friend, you know who you are.

Anyway, Happy Early Thanksgiving to you Americans I guess. I dunno, I have American friends who don't celebrate so *shrugs*

ohohohohohohon leo's totally going to wear a bikini hehehehehehehehe

Edit [January 2016]: Hahaha no, about that chapter mentioned above, hahaha i put it as a new story as of today.