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Chapter 13:

In Which Leo is a Body Guard.

It was official; Leo could never be a spy. Spies were meant to stay hidden and not lose their cool. Leo failed on both counts. He had been following the trio through the city toward the arch, despite knowing exactly where they were headed he managed to lose them, three times! Each time he had a mini panic attack, he was also pretty sure that Grover noticed him following. Annabeth probably would have noticed, but she was too busy trying to reach the arch.

Leo made a mental note to look less suspicious. The trio, with Leo following them made their way to the base of the arch. Now Leo wasn't a son of Athena, but he could still appreciate good architecture, and the arch was defiantly an example of that. He and the past future Annabeth had talked about architecture when they were both on guard on the Argo 2. Well Annabeth was on guard; Leo just couldn't sleep, and was at the helm. Most of his time on the Argo two was spent either at the helm or in his workshop. The bedroom he had built for himself was generally not used, or rented to Nico.

The trio was now having a conversation, and Leo broke out of his thoughts to eavesdrop. It seemed like he was doing that a lot lately. He edged slightly closer.

"...Yeah, our friend way downstairs. Doesn't he have a hat like Annabeth's?"

Leo mentally snorted, yeah Perce, why don't you tell him that, I'm sure he'd be thrilled at you comparing his helm of awesomeness to Annabeth's invisibility hat. He'd probably do you the favour of blasting you into Tartarus for you trouble. Oh man, he had missed some of the conversation. Now Percy was speaking again.

"...So how do we know he's not watching us right now?"

"We don't."

Way to make a guy feel confident Grover, now Percy's going to be all freaked out.

..."Got any blue jellybeans left?"

Leo again mentally snorted; it was so like Percy to want blue food to calm him down. In the past future Annabeth had joked that he loved blue food more than her. Percy's sarcastic, yet deadpan reply of "Obviously" had sent the entire crew into hysterics.

The elevators doors opened and Percy, Annabeth and Grover got on with a lady that gave Leo the shivers. He looked closely and he could've sworn she had a forked tongue. A forked tongue! Leo was on tenterhooks waiting for the elevator to return. He didn't want anything to happen before he got up there. Though if the woman was who he thought, then Zeus still believed Percy to be the thief. He wouldn't have sent Echidna after him for any other reason.

So Hades thought Leo was the thief, Zeus thought Percy was, Poseidon knew it wasn't Percy, so probably though it was Leo too... Leo was stuffed until they realised it was Luke not he, who had stolen the bolt. He couldn't wait for that day... He was wishing he could see Chiron's face when he realised that Leo was innocent, and that he had mistrusted him and turned his friends against him, and near hunted him, in the last moments of his life. Or what Chiron would think had been his last moments. Leo guessed he did have a vindictive streak.

The whole coming back in time, then pretending to be dead thing was really messing with Leo brain. He was in the process of figuring out whether he should hold Octavian responsible for the things he did in the future on not. He hadn't done them, but he would if not stopped, and... The elevator returned as Leo was still trying to figure it out. He gladly dropped his chain of thought and made his way on board.

Leo was standing in the elevator with a family of three, a mom, a dad, and a little kid. Leo looked enviously at the kid. He didn't know how lucky he was to have both parents. He shook his head, and resumed his looking out over the city. It was cool that the elevator went up in an arch, but he figured that if the designers had changed the suspension cables route across the glass, the ride would go a lot smoother... It would wreck the design a bit though, to have thick metal cables across the glass panes, instead of hidden out of sight... Wow, thought Leo, son of Hephaestus moment over.

The mother of the family of three looked over at him. "No parents?"

Leo sighed, thinking about what his parents were probably doing. His dad was probably in one of his many workshops, and his mom... Well he hoped she was having a good time in Elysium. He realised he hadn't responded. "Nah, dad's to busy, and mom... she's not around anymore." The sad smile on his face answered the unspoken question, and the elevator was silent until it reached the viewing platform.

When they reached the top, Leo couldn't help but gasp at the view. It was awesome. He stepped out of the elevator and toward the rail. After looking out over the city for at least a minute, he realised he should in fact be watching to see what Percy Annabeth and Grover were doing.

Annabeth was doing pretty much the exact same as him, until she began evaluating the design, and she would have done it different there, and there. Grover and Percy seemed to be huddling in the middle of the sky deck, as far away as possible from the edge. They already looked ready to go. He was about to look away again when he heard Annabeth make a point about the elevators that he simply couldn't ignore. He checked his disguise and made his way over.

Was it a stupid thing to do? Yes. Did it jeopardise his entire mission? Yep. Did he care? Not one iota. He interrupted Annabeth's monologue.

"I don't mean to be rude, but if you were going to alter the paths of the cables in the elevator that much, while it would make the overall effect better, it would make the elevator ride so uncomfortable no one would want to come on."

"Not if I had changed the balance of the elevator."

"If you were to do that, you would have to alter the entire shape of the arch. You might as well just rip it down and start again."

The debate between himself and Annabeth was broken by the guard calling out that the observation deck was about to close, and could people please make their way toward the elevator to start the decent. Two adults got on, along with Annabeth and Grover, before the later two realised that Percy couldn't get on, so started to get off. Percy stopped them, and said he would meet them at the bottom.

The next thing Leo registered was the lady with the forked tongue's dog, turning giant. He immediately made his way to help Percy, till he heard the mortals screaming. Percy made eye contact with him, and though not recognising him as Leo, which would have been awkward, seemed to register him as a demi-god who knew what was happening.

"Protect the mortals!" It was an order. And when Percy gave an order Leo obeyed. It wasn't the Percy he had followed into battle. But it was a Percy he would trust with his life. Leo ran to the family, and jumped in front, spread eagled, as the now fire breathing ex- Chihuahua hurled a fire ball right at them.

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