Alright a couple things:

1. Alec may or may not be a satyr, your call ;)

2. Does the Leo/Sarah thing feel like it's happening too quickly or is being forced? I wanna make sure Leo isn't super out of character or anything idk let me know what you think.

3. KittyKofficial, I'll try my best to let them have some time but I do need to get this story rolling again bc some major stuff is going to happen in this chapter

4. Also kinda KittyKofficial but everyone should read since it's an insight to the story kinda. When Frank got back he went straight down to sick bay to fix up Hazel. Leo was still in the engine room and he heard and walked in and everyone asked what happened. Frank explained and basically blamed Sarah for everything that happened to Hazel. Leo then asked where Sarah was and Frank explained that they had to leave her behind and Leo got pissed. He started yelling in Spanish about how dumb it was to leave her and that he couldn't believe he had done that and he basically just started cursing and screaming at Frank in Spanish. The others had to calm him down and once he was relaxed he said he was going out to find her. They stopped him from going right away and said to wait for about 2 hours and if she didn't get back they would go out and look. Leo couldn't sit still for those 2 hours. He paced around the deck and made about 20 different machines while waiting. Finally when it was almost exactly 2 hours he told them all he was leaving to go look for her. They offered to go with him but he shook them off and said it would be easier without them.

5. This Authors Note is hella long I'm so sorry

6. This chapter is gunna be hella long bc it's gunna have a lot of talking, backstory, and just figuring each other out and learning about characters, bare with me. It may get a little angsty.

7. **WARNING** Mentions of Child Abuse and Death

8. Songs: Nothing Left To Say, Monster, and Demons by Imagine Dragons.

9. Okay I think that's it let me know what you think of this chapter in the comments


Leo and I took the long way back to the ship. Neither of us seemed to really want to go back yet so we walked around the streets and did some quick sight seeing. It wasn't that long because we knew that we had to go back to the ship before the others got concerned about our whereabouts. I showed him where I 'lived' and explained my relationship with Alec and how he was alway there to help me. Leo seemed happy enough that I had opened up to him and told him more about my life. I hoped he would eventually do the same one day.

"So, you've been living on the street since you were eight?" He asked me and I nodded. "But how exactly did you get to Greece?" He asked me curiously.

I sighed. "It's a long story," I said simply. I didn't really want to tell him about my whole family situation right now, I had already told him a lot. Leo simply nodded understanding that I didn't really want to talk about it.

"We should really start heading back, we've been out for a while, they're probably starting to worry about us," Leo said.

I wanted to correct him and point out that they were probably only worried about him but I let it go. "Okay," I said and we started walking back to the ship. It took us about twenty minutes to walk back and we casually talked the entire time about different things. I had to admit, I really enjoyed talking to Leo and learning different things about him. I felt the same feeling I had gotten on my first day on the ship when I was down in the engine room with him. I did my best to shove it as far down as possible again but it didn't seem to work as well this time.

We finally reached the ship and I took a long nervous breath trying to calm my stomach that was doing somersaults. I was nervous to see Hazel in a bad condition and I was admittedly, a little afraid to see Frank because I knew that he blamed me for what happened to Hazel. We climbed up on deck, Leo in front of me. We were immediately greeted by Jason who was watching the ship. "Leo!" He shouted happily walking up to him and giving him a hug. "I was starting to get worried about you, bro."

"Don't worry about me, Superman, I'm fine," Leo said hugging him back.

"And you found Sarah!" Jason said sounding more-or-less genuinely happy to see me but I barely knew him so I wasn't sure just how happy he could be.

I smiled and waved at him politely. "Yeah, I'm fine, just a long walk back," I said giving Leo a small look. I prayed that he wouldn't tell them about me wanting to walk away from them all.

Leo caught my look and rolled with it. "Yeah, it was super far from the ship," he told Jason reassuringly.

Jason looked at us a little suspiciously but shrugged it off. "Well, glad you're back. Everyone is down stairs," He said pointing to the stairs and walking back to his post to keep watch.

"Thanks, Blondie," Leo smiled and walked to the stairs.

"Thank you," I whispered quietly in Leo's ear for not saying about me wanting to ditch them.

Leo smiled at me. "No problem, Sarita," he said and we walked down the stairs to the mess hall where everyone except for Jason and Hazel was.

"Oh good, you guys are back," Piper said with a smile seeing us in the doorway. She gave Leo a hug before disappearing downstairs to Sick Bay to check on Hazel. Percy and Annabeth smiled happily at us while Frank shot me a glare. I was kind of hoping that he felt guilty for leaving me behind in the dust and to walk back to the ship but he was still obviously bitter about what had happened with Hazel.

"Hey guys, what's new?" Leo asked happily sitting down at the table.

"Nothing, we were just waiting for you guys to come back," Percy said to Leo. I slowly took a seat next to Leo, worried that anything I do might upset Frank or anybody. I wasn't sure how everyone else felt about the whole situation.

"Did you guys find the statue?" Leo asked Percy and Annabeth.

They shook their heads sadly. "No such luck," Annabeth said sounding disappointed. "It was basically a dead end but I'm thinking that it has to be in some kind of cave. There has to be a reason it lead us to a cave," Annabeth said thoughtfully.

"Well, there are some small caves all around Greece," I spoke up.

Annabeth looked at me surprised. "There are?"

"Yeah, I've never really been in any, I'm not much of a cave person, but I've seen them around everywhere," I explained.

Annabeth looked at me with a hunger in her eyes. "Do you think you could take us there?" She asked me anxiously.

I looked at her uneasily. "Like I said, I'm really not much of a cave person, so I'd rather not. Plus, if you're looking for a specific cave I can't help you because I don't really know a whole lot about them," I admitted giving Annabeth an apologetic look. She seemed rather upset but nodded.

Frank glared at us. "Don't expect her to help you out, she's only looking out for herself," Frank muttered so quietly that I could barely hear him. I looked down at my hands, fearing that he might be speaking the truth. Next to me Leo shot Frank a glare and Frank simply shrugged in response.

"Alright, well, me and Percy are going to head out tomorrow and start looking in different caves for anything we can find," Annabeth said looking at Percy who was only paying attention to his pizza. "Right, Percy?" Annabeth asked nudging him with her elbow.

Percy looked at her startled. "Huh? Oh, yeah," Percy said nodding but I wasn't sure he knew what he was agreeing to. Someone outta tell him what he's doing before tomorrow.

"Did you guys find your way back alright? You didn't run into any monsters, did you?" Annabeth asked looking at me and Leo.

"Oh, yeah, no problem, just a really long walk," I said trying to put on my best smile. Leo succeeded in putting on a smile much better than me. Annabeth looked at us slightly suspiciously. She knew it didn't take that long to walk from where we were back to the ship. "Um, how's Hazel doing?" I ventured. I really wanted to know if she was okay, I still cared about her wellbeing.

"Why don't you go down and find out?" Frank muttered angrily at me.

Annabeth shot him a small glare before speaking. "She's doing better. Piper just went to check on her but last I saw she was resting, I think it's best not to wake her up," Annabeth told me with a small smile. I nodded and looked back down at my hands, unsure of what to do next.

"She would be completely fine if you would have just kept her back like I told you to," Frank said much louder this time. It was meant to be heard. I shrunk down in my seat. I already felt terrible about the whole situation and Frank being so aggressive really wasn't making me feel any better. I guess I couldn't complain though, I deserved the guilt that was rushing through my body. The only thing I could do was sit there and take the heat.

Leo, on the other hand, wasn't as prepared to sit there and let Frank be mad as much as I was. He quickly stood up causing his chair to squeak abruptly making everyone look to him. "Hey, lay off her, will you?" Leo said angrily.

"No, I'm not going to 'lay off her,'" Frank said making finger quotes. "This is her fault. She's the reason Hazel is hurt." Frank basically spat the sentences at me.

"Hey, you where there too. You're at as much blame as her," Leo said starting to make his way towards Frank.

I quickly grabbed Leo's sleeve and tugged at him, begging for him to sit back down. I really didn't want an altercation to start because of me. "Leo, please, he's right, just sit back down," I pleaded quietly.

"No, he's not right," Leo exclaimed still making his way to Frank, ignoring the begging in my voice. At this point Percy had forgotten all about his pizza and him and Annabeth were watching the scene in front of them unfold, ready to jump in if needed. "It's not fair that you put all the blame on her," Leo said returning back to Frank.

I stood up quickly, causing my chair to fall back onto the ground. "Leo, please," I practically begged.

"It's her fault. She did this," Frank said challenging Leo.

Leo ignored me. "I said, lay off her," Leo said, a new intensity in his voice.

"Stop it, please," I begged again stepping in between Leo and Frank.

"No, this is all your fault," Frank said turning to me. "Hazel would be just fine if you would have just kept her back like I told you to!" Frank was yelling now and I was starting to get a little scared. I carefully took a step back. "This is your fault. This is on you."

I kept walking backwards as Frank kept advancing on me. "Frank, please, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean for Hazel to get hurt-"

"But it still happened!" Frank interrupted. "It doesn't matter that that's not what you meant to happen because it still did! She's still hurt and in pain!" Frank yelled. I stepped back more frantically and tripped on my chair that had fallen earlier when I had stood up. I fell back and landed on my butt. Frank continued advancing on me, he seemed to barely notice that I had fallen. Next to me Leo was staring at Frank with balled up fists and his hair was smoking. Percy and Annabeth where watching with opened mouths. They clearly had never seen Frank this angry before.

I scrambled backwards on the floor as fast as I could. "I- I'm really sorry, I didn't mean-"

"Sorry isn't going to fix Hazel! Sorry isn't going to make her better, so stop saying you're sorry! Your apology means nothing!" He yelled angrily. I scurried backwards until my back was against the wall and there was no where else to go. I looked up at Frank who didn't seem to be Frank anymore, at least not in my mind. In my mind, the man who was standing in front of me was not Frank, but my second step father and he was extremely angry. His face was twisted up in anger the same way it always would when I did something wrong.

"I- I'm sorry. I won't do it again, I promise," I pleaded helplessly with the scary image of my angry step father.

"What good is a promise going to do?" Frank yelled angrily except to me it sounded like my step dad, not Frank. Around me my vision clouded and my hearing swirled making everything except for my angry step father seem like it was under water. "This is your fault. She's hurt because of you! And I will never forgive you for hurting her and letting her run in like that! I asked you to do just one thing and you failed! You're a waste of space and time!" He yelled. I wasn't sure if Frank had actually said it or if it was just my mind reminding me of things my step dad used to say to me. I watched in pure horror as my second step father raised his hand up. I'm not sure if Frank had raised his hand up at all but if he had it was probably just to broadly motion to something, not to hit. Unfortunately, in my mind he was no longer Frank and in my mind it was my step dad raising his hand and readying to bring it down upon me like he had done so many years ago.

I yelled and raised my arms up over my head to protect me from his harmful hand. "Please, no, I'm sorry!" I yelled helplessly, the same way I would when I was younger.

In front of me Frank yelped and held his hands up to his eyes. I looked up to see Leo had jumped in ready to take Frank down but had stopped due to Frank stumbling around holding his eyes helplessly. "What the hell?" Frank yelled blinking his eyes furiously. He seemed to be momentarily... blind. I looked over at Percy and Annabeth who were staring at me with opened mouths and an astonished looks in their eyes that seemed to be mixed with slight fear. I looked down at myself frantically trying to figure out why they were staring at me. I looked at my hands which seemed to be glowing. It was like they were encased in a ray of light.

I quickly stood up, slightly afraid of myself now. Had I been the one to momentarily blind Frank? How had I done it? Frank was still stumbling around frantically and Leo was trying to jump out of the way and make sure he didn't get flattened. I looked over at the door to see that Jason was standing there looking around trying to figure out what was happening. He must have run in to make sure everything was okay when he heard all of the commotion. I quickly slid along the wall looking between my hands and Frank in fear. Percy and Annabeth finally seemed to reagin themselves. They ran over to help steady Frank and make sure he was okay. I made my way along the wall to the door. Leo looked up at me and saw that I was trying to leave the room. "Sarah, wait," he said holding a hand out to me and making his way towards me but I tore past a confused looking Jason and quickly ran out the door and up the stairs onto the deck.

When I reached the deck I looked around helplessly trying to find anywhere I could go and relax. My heart was still racing and my mind was going haywire between the image of my step dad and the light that had been radiating off of my hands. I needed somewhere I could cool down and figure out what was happening. Somewhere I could sit in the sun and no one would bother me or see me and preferably, somewhere on the ship. I looked around trying to find a place when it clicked. The same place Leo had taken me when telling me about Camp Half-Blood, the Crow's Nest.

I quickly made my way to the it and climbed up the mast into the Crow's Nest. I sat down in the tiny area and brought my knees up to my chest trying to catch my breath and calm down. I wiped my eyes and found that I was crying, I wasn't sure when that had happened. I sat in a ball trying to reagin my senses. I had barely realized the steps next to me when I heard a voice. "Sarah? Are you okay?" I looked up to see Leo staring down at me worriedly. I looked at him for a couple seconds trying to figure out what to say. I could lie and say that I was perfectly fine but we both knew that wasn't true. I decided to go for the truth and slowly shook my head at Leo. Leo gave me a sad look and sat down next to me. "I'm sorry that whole thing happened with Frank. He was way out of line," he apologized.

I buried my head back down into my knees and shook it sadly. "No, it's not his fault," I said choking back sobs.

Leo looked at me astonished. "Yes it is, it's completely his fault! He got super defensive and wouldn't leave you alone about it," Leo said angrily.

I looked up at Leo sadly. "No, you don't understand. It's not really his fault," I said trying my best to explain. Leo looked at me confused. "When he started walking towards me and I fell, I started to freak out a little and my mind started to make me imagine things. In my head, Frank wasn't Frank anymore, he was my second step dad and I used to be terrified of him. I just blacked out and started freaking out from seeing him and then I accidentally did something to Frank, I don't know what I did," I continued looking down at my hands.

Leo looked at me sadly. "Why did you think of your step dad? What did he do to you?" Leo asked worriedly. I shook my head sadly and the tears started to flow. Leo scooted closer to me and put his arm around my shoulders. "Hey, it's okay. It was just a panic attack, your step dad isn't really here. He can't hurt you," Leo said soothingly.

I nodded. "I know but I can't get the image out of my mind," I said helplessly. I leaned into Leo's shoulder and just let the tears flow. Leo simply held me, he didn't seem to mind my breakdown all that much and I was thankful that he was comforting me. We sat there for a while, Leo holding me around the shoulders tightly. Once I had calmed down and didn't seemed to have any tears left I looked up at Leo and gave him a weak smile. "Thank you," I said in a croak.

"No problem," he said giving me a smile. "Now, do you wanna tell me about your step dad?"

I nodded and took a shaky breath trying to steady myself. "It's a long story, I'll have to start from the beginning," I said looking at Leo who nodded for me to go on. I took another deep breath in and readied myself. I hadn't told anyone about my family in so long, this was a huge step for me. "When I was six my mother died just a couple days after my birthday. She worked part time at a bank for extra cash and one day this robber came in, held everyone up at gunpoint. He was pointing to a little girl and her mom and just before he pulled the trigger my mom stepped in the way. She saved their life but her's was taken instead. I remember going to the funeral and seeing them there and I felt so bitter and angry towards them. I know it was wrong to feel like that but I felt like my mom was gone because of them, even though that wasn't the case. Still, I slightly despised them for still being here and their family being whole while mine was falling apart at the seams," I stopped to calm down a little. It had been so long ago but her death was still fresh in my mind, the anger was still there like it was yesterday. Leo gave me an encouraging smile and I continued. "Up until that point I thought my first step dad was my real dad. When my mom passed away he came clean and told that he had met my mom when she was pregnant with me and had gotten married when I was too young to remember. I asked him who my real dad was but he told me that he never met him and didn't know much about him because my mom never told him much. In a week my whole life had flipped upside down. My mom was dead, I was missing a dad and the guy I called my dad wasn't even my real dad. I remember feeling so confused for so long, I felt like I couldn't trust anyone, that everything was just a lie," I explained. It felt weird telling this to somebody and actually saying it out loud but I continued.

"I lived alone with my step dad for a couple months but we were in desperate need for money so he quickly got married to another lady who had two sons a couple of years older than me. She had money and with her now in the family we had enough to keep our house and live comfortably. Unfortunately, I didn't live that comfortably. My dad was the only one who really payed attention to me but he was constantly out of town for work so it got to the point where I barely saw him. My new step mom barely even noticed that I was there half the time. She usually neglected me, to her I was simply a burden and her two sons never stopped teasing me. They would take advantage of me being younger and smaller than them. They would grab me and lock me in the closet of push me around constantly. I remember once they stuck me in a suitcase and I was in there for only a couple of minutes but to me it felt like hours. Because of them I got very claustrophobic and afraid of the dark places. It was dumb but I was young and easily scared. And then after a couple months my dad died. I had just turned seven and my dad was in some car accident while driving to work. They say it was an accident but I always felt it wasn't. Or maybe it was and I was just being paranoid, I don't know. Anyways, I was left in custody of my step mom since she had married my step dad. In just a year my two parental figures had died and I was being passed around to whoever could take care of me. My step mom then started dating some jerk of a guy. He was real mean and tall. He hated me. Unlike my step mom he acknowledged my existence but in the worse way possible. He'd order me to work around the house and if I did one thing wrong he would bring his wrath down on me. At first I tried to run and hide from him but there was no escaping him and soon enough I was covered in bruises and scars. I lived like this for about a year until one day my step mom came up to us and said we should all take a trip to Greece. I remember being skeptical about the whole thing because we rarely ever went anywhere but I had no choice but to follow along. So, we went to Greece and at the very end of the trip we stopped somewhere to use the restroom and when I came out none of them were anywhere in sight. I ran around frantically for a while but it was hard for me to find anyone who could help. I guess they filed a missing child report but they didn't look very hard. They left back to the U.S. and at that point I realized that I could easily go to the Police and report myself as here and go back but if I did that then I would have to go back to them and I didn't really want to go back to that hell hole of a home. So, I made my own on the street. Once in the beginning they caught me and placed me in a foster home, I guess they never connected me to the missing child report but I soon enough found that the foster care I was in was just as bad as my old home. The parents were alcoholics, threw bottles at me, the whole nine yards. So, I ran, lived on the streets, eventually found Alec and yeah, you know the rest," I said finishing my explanation. At some point in the story some stray tears had managed to find their way down my cheeks and I furiously wiped them away.

I looked over to see Leo looking at me with sad eyes. He leaned over and gave me a tight hug to which I responded happily back with an equally tight hug. "I'm so sorry, Sarita," he whispered in my ear. His sorry didn't change anything but it was at least nice to hear that he cared I guess.

"Thanks," I said awkwardly getting out of the hug and smiling. I leaned back against the post and looked at him. "So what about you? What's your story?" I asked him.

Leo sighed. "It's pretty long so I'll give you the condensed version," Leo said and he explained to me how Gaea appeared one night in his moms workshop and he set her on fire in fear, killing his mom. He quickly scanned over his time in foster homes and living on the streets and I realized that our lives really weren't that different. In a sense we had both been through the same things just in different ways. He explained it up until he reached Camp Half-Blood with Jason and Piper. I looked at Leo with wide eyes and I felt so bad for him. The fact that he carried all of this around on his shoulders 24/7 and still made jokes was amazing. I wasn't sure how he managed to keep a smile on his face. I wondered just how many people he had ever actually told about his past and if I was one of the first ones.

I gave him a sad smile when he finished. "At least you found your way to a new home," I pointed out trying to make him feel a little better at his situation.

"Yeah, it's a start," He smiled at me. "Soon enough you'll be there and have your own new home too," He said to me with a huge grin.

I smiled back and leaned my head on his shoulder. "I sure hope so," I said quietly. We sat there for a little in complete silence. I wasn't sure what everyone else was doing or if they had gone out to look for me too or just stayed in the mess hall. I sat leaning against Leo feeling the sun on my face. I looked up at the sky and calmed myself down and I think Leo did the same. We had just had some major sharing and it had shooken both of us up pretty bad. I moved my head so that I was looking at Leo but still resting on his shoulder. "Geez, our lives really do suck, don't they?" I asked with a small smile.

Leo laughed a little and looked at me. "Yeah, but it's just slightly less sucky with you here," He said softly. Before I knew what was happening my head had raised off of Leo's shoulder and was leaning closer to Leo. Our faces where inches away from each others. My mind was racing a mile a minute trying to figure out what to do. I tried to keep calm but my breath was caught. Our faces were centimeters away, ready to make contact when the hole ship shook, sending us backwards from each other.

"What the hell?" I asked looking around. Leo cursed under his breathe in Spanish and we both shot up to look over the side of the Crow's Nest and find out what exactly was happening.