Short Summary: What happens when interfering gods and goddesses, broken down teenagers and a ship are added together? Bonding sessions of course! And what comes with bonding sessions? Unravelled secrets! Join our Argo II members (minus one plus another) as the facades of the said demigods are unravelled, slowly but surely./ Rated T for: suicide, abuse, self-harm, etc

Extended Summary: When an interfering spirit personification, who goes by the name of Philotes, and the Queen of the Gods, Hera, work together to attempt to make the Seven, Nico and Thalia more bonded, it starts off with a little bit of Aphrodite-induced-fluff and de-aging via Hebe before plunging past the facades of all of the demigods, revealing their innermost thoughts and feelings, Apollo style. Of course, the demigods strongly disapprove of this idea, but who says no to a spirit/minor goddess and an Olympian goddess, the Queen of Gods no less? The ones with less internal demons can only watch as their other friends are torn down by bottled emotions, bit by bit.

Main Characters: Perseus Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leonidas Valdez, Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace

Side Characters (so far): Hera, Philotes, Hypnos, Aphrodite, Apollo

Mentioned Characters (so far): Eris, Oizys, Grover, Artemis, Hera, Zeus, Gabe Ugliano, Medusa, Hades/Pluto, Hebe, Geras

Pairings: low-key Frank/Hazel

Warnings (in general I think, basically stuff to look forward to): Out of Character, Angst, Stealing, Mentions of Drinking, Runaways, Graphic Suicide Attempt, Minor Character Death, Fire, Abuse, Graphic Self-Harm

Personal Warnings: Romance, Friendship and Family fluff aren't really my kind of things to write.


Suddenly, on the ground stood an eight year old Leo and a nine year old Percy, the older ones, sixteen and seventeen, gone.

Well, basic deduction all but says that they turned into younger versions of themselves. That's an almost definite with Hebe, Greek Goddess of Youth, there for a moment then gone.

Everyone stares at each other.

"Who are you?" Leo asked shakily.

"What do you want with us?" Percy added nervously, grabbing Leo's hand and clutching it tight.

The fire user squeezed Percy's hand in return.

Thalia took note of this and the rest of the group looked between each other before having a silent unanimous decision to let Piper go up to talk to them.

"Hey-" Piper started offering a hand before noticing Percy's suspicious glare at her and Leo bursting into tears.

"No!" Leo screamed, thrashing and kicking. "Stay away!"

Percy flinched, but stayed there, sitting down, letting Leo lean on him and stroking the Latino's hair, running his fingers through it. Leo screamed again and cried out desperately, tears streaking down his face.

"If you let us, we could help him," Hazel tried to convince Percy.

"No," came the firm and stubborn reply.

Percy simply sat there, keeping up the glare while soothing Leo down. Let's just say, even as a kid, Percy's glare was pretty scary, scary enough for everyone to want to take a step back. One could almost read his message through his eyes, "See what you did?"

Fingers running through the messy curls, the little Son of Poseidon whispered things into the little Son of Hephaestus's ears. Surprisingly, for the other demigods, Leo was responding positively. His tears slowed, though not disappearing, his screams diminished, though he still whimpered, and his thrashing and kicking stopped, allowing Percy to loosen his tenseness.

"Thanks Percy," Leo whispered.

"Its Perseus, Leonidas," Percy replied.

"But Perseus and Leonidas are too long!" Leo whined. "Percy and Leo. That's that."

"I know, you said so before," Percy retorted. "Be more careful now, with your flashbacks."

"Like you don't have any."

"True."

They seemed to have forgotten that there were others present.

"I wanna die," Leo muttered.

"If you do, I'll join you. Our deal, remember?" Percy coaxed. "Don't leave each other alone as much as we can. Believe me, I want to too."

The grown-up teenage demigods were shocked into a lack of voice. Both Leo and Percy were suicidal?! That seemed so unlike them. Unlike the cheerful jokester Son of Hephaestus, unlike the sarcastic and ever-optimistic Son of Poseidon. Then again, most of them were hiding behind facades.

"Yeah, but you have Aunt Sally to live for."

"And so do you, you're my cousin, remember?"

What? Cousins? They were cousins? How little did they know about the duo?

"What?" Thalia gasped out, but that was enough.

Leo and Percy shut up instantly, bracing into similar raw and unpracticed defensive stances.

"Who are you?" Leo.

"What do you want?" Percy.

"Introductions. Right. The girl with blue highlights is Thalia, the emo-looking boy is Nico, the blonde guy with blue eyes is Jason, the girl with feathers in her hair is Piper, the Asian looking guy is Frank, the girl with golden eyes is Hazel and I'm Annabeth."

"Annabeth is lo-ong," Leo whined. "Bethy is not."

Annabeth's eye lid twitched. "Annabeth. That's it."

"No-" Leo started, only to be cut off by Percy.

"I'm Perseus and this is Leonidas," he introduced.

"No, Percy and Leo," Leo cut in.

"Whatever."

"So-o... We just want to get to know you," Jason smiled softly.

"Mamá said not to talk to strangers," Leo said nervously.

"And we've talked to different strangers on at least 21 different situations," Percy convinced.


"What do you want to know?" Percy asked, straight to the point.

"What's life like for you?" Hazel questioned softly.

Leo stiffened. Percy did not. Instead, his eyes glazed over and he started whimpering and sobbing.

When Leo calmed down sufficiently, he relaxed and whispered, "Enough to think of running away multiple times and going through with the idea itself."

Then, he coaxed Percy to lying down on his lap, running fingers through the Son of Poseidon's messy locks, whispering things that no one else could hear. Percy stopped his sobs and whimpers, wiping away any remaining tears.

"Sorry," he whispered.

"Nothing to say sorry for," Leo answered. "Hypo-whateverthing."

"Hypocrite," Nico corrected while Frank placed a hand on little Leo's shoulder.

Leo flinched into Percy's embrace and the latter started to run his fingers through the former's hair.

It was at that moment Geras, Greek God of Old Age, decided to flash in and return the duo back to their original age and mindsets.

Leo and Percy found themselves in an awkward position with everyone staring at them, Percy's fingers halfway through Leo's hair. They took one look at each other, hurried up, and ran into Leo's room.


Word Count: 816 words (Or somewhere around there)


(A/N: Short chapters. Maybe I shouldn't set such expectations of myself next time...

Read this chapter however you want to. Speculate, theorise... I think it'll come out in like ten chapters time. Maybe more, maybe less. Somewhere around there... Enjoy the chapter!

Side note, I'll have you know that the title of this chapter has absolutely no relations to the prophecy of the Seven. Its just Leo=Fire and Percy=Storm.

Peace out!
Summer)