A/N Hey guys. So I know most of you are about to riot with pitchforks and stuff because I haven't post anything in a long time but I have good reasons. One I was on vacation for two weeks with no wi-fi. Second my laptop went on strike for a week or so because it was being a meany head. Third I am taking an AP class next year and I really need to finish my summer work load so I can't really update a lot. But here is a Leyna chapter that I have worked really hard on so you better like!

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Leyna

I am going to kill him. I promise you I will have my dogs kill him and rip him into pieces so small that you couldn't even find him if you used a microscope. That's how mad I am. Normally I don't get mad. But now I am and I will kill Leo. And I don't go back on my threats. Why you may ask? Because he did the worst thing I think a person could ever do. Now if you don't know in my kitchen I have a drawer filled with sugary stuff that is extremely unhealthy. From jelly beans to even sugar itself. And I had warned Leo to never touch it unless I ask him to. So today when I went to get more jelly beans for my office I open it to see I had almost nothing left in it. Just some sugar that I keep coffee and a thing of lemon cookies. I have been on sugar craves before but I normally have something left.

I was going to be smart about killing Leo. I would find out what happened at all my food and then I would set the dogs loose on him. I waited patently in my villa for him to come over like he did everyday. Around noon I heard him walk in. I pretended not to notice him until he wrapped his arms around me for behind.

" Hello Roman." Leo said. I got him to let go of him.

" Hey can I ask you a question?" I asked.

" It wasn't me. Whatever happened I didn't do it." Leo said. I rolled my eyes.

" Really? Because the last time I opened this cabinet." I opened my sugar cabinet. " It was full with everything sweet. Now I only have a bag of sugar and coffee. Care to explain why?" I asked.

" Reyna the last time I tried to take a small cookie from there you threatened to have your dogs rip me limb from limb and then shred me into a million pieces so small you couldn't even identify me," Leo said.

" I already made that treat?" He nodded. " I'll have to come up with a new one. But that still doesn't explain why all my cabinet is empty."

Leo shrugged and opened it. " At least you still have the coffee I bought. Unopened."

I glared at him. " I don't drink coffee. That was for when you ask for it and get upset when I tell you I don't own any."

" Reyna you can always buy more candy."

I glared at him. " Yes I know but I had a bag of jelly beans from the U.K. that were unopened for a special occasion that is missing and it cost me at least twenty dollars."

Leo broke out laughing. " You spent twenty dollars on a bag of jelly beans?" He asked.

" Duh. What else would I buy? Oil? Any ways I can't replace them since the build closed a couple of years ago. So if you didn't eat all my sweets than tell me who did?" I asked.

Before he could respond I heard the dogs start coughing on something. I went over to the back room where I had there beds and saw that they were leaking all over. I quickly tried to get to them but slipped in all the oil and stuff. Around their beds were all my sweets ripped open.

Eventually we got over to them. I grabbed a blanket and tried to put it on Aurum but he just barked at me.

" Leo what's wrong with them?" I asked.

I kneeled down next to Arguementum. " I think all the stick food got caught in their systems. So they're coughing so much to get it out. Can you shut them down or something? I can't fix them if they won't stop coughing."

I picked up a front paw and pressed a small button. Once they were shut down Leo helped me clean up the room.

" I'm sorry for blaming you on eating all them." I said once the mess was cleaned. " When can you fix the dogs?"

" As soon as I can but we should wait till we're sure they won't have another oil fit. Come on. I have a surprise for you." Leo grabbed my hand and dragged me outside. I tried to protest but the day was almost up so I thought it couldn't kill to get my mind off the dogs for a bit.

I had no clue where he was taking me. At first I thought it was to a coffee shop but he took a wrong turn. Than I thought to the river but he took another wrong turn.

" Leo where are we going?" I asked. We had been walking for about half an hour and I was getting a bit irritable.

" Reyna it's not the destination but the journey that is more exciting." Leo said. " Than again I should always be your destination." He smirked. I hit his shoulder.

" Just tell me where I'm going." I said.

" No."

" You don't know where you're going do you?"

" Nope not a clue." Leo said. We were near the river bank so I just stopped walking.

" Let's just sit here for a bit. I mean you don't have a clue where you're going so yeah." I said.

Leo sat down and took his shoes off. He put his feet in the water and motioned me to join him. I sat next to him but I didn't put my feet in.

" Are you okay?" Leo asked. " You've seemed a bit off lately."

" It's the dogs. I'm worried about them."

He rolled his eyes. " Reyna do you realize who is going to fix them? Trust me they will be as good as new when I'm done with them. With a few twists here and there."

" Like what?" I narrowed my eyes at him.

He shrugged. " Have the breathe fire grow wings. Oh if I can figure it out I could make them speak words and stuff so you could know when they're hungry or even better I could have them grow ten times their size and have them be frikin' godzilla on everyone. Now that would be awesome!"

I shoved him. " Leo! I will not allow you to do that. And if you do I swear on my life I will have you listen to Octavian lecture about Greeks for a good hour."

" That's a new threat." Leo said.

I smiled. " Yeah I might have to use it more often. In fact I should ask Octavian if he's free tomorrow because I have a feeling I will have to use it very soon."

Leo laughed and kissed my cheek. " Alright now what's really wrong?"

I smiled sadly. " Did you ever think about where we would end up ten years from now?"

" Oh yeah. I can't say you're in the picture though."

" I'm going to shove you in the river and have Hannibal trample you under foot." I said through fits of laughter.

" Hey another new one. More violent but new! That means I need about four more new puns. Hey what did one lion say to another?"

I sighed. " What?"

" I would agree but that would mean I was lion!

I snickered. " That has to be the worst pun I've ever heard. But seriously. Where do you see yourself five or ten years from now?"

" That was good! It only took me ten seconds to think of. Alright being serious. I guess I see myself alive." Leo said.

" Alive? That's it? No dream job. No family. No me?"

" Reyna for course you're in it. But I don't try to plan that far ahead."

" Why?"

" Because when you plan that far well, shit tends to hit the fan. Nothing goes right and then there you are in some crappy apartment with no family alone regretting ever making all those plans when you could have just waited and see where the wind takes you. Speaking of wind what did a tree to say to the wind one day?" Leo said.

I moved closer to him. " But if you don't plan than how are you going to know where the wind will blow you?"

" The tree said baby you blew me away! Get it? Wind? Blew me away?"

" Leo!" I groaned.

He smirked. " What? It was a good pun!"

I groaned again. " Focus please. I'm trying to be serious!"

" Alright I'll out my serious face on." He looked at me with a straight face and right when I was about to talk his lip started to twitch slightly. I sighed and got up to leave. " Reyna come on. I'm just messing around."

Leo tried to grab my arm but I just shook him off. I turned sharply on my heels and stared at him.

" Leo I don't care if you're just messing around. I'm trying to be serious. Because after this month your camp goes back to New York and I stay here. I mean I want to know if you think maybe we'll still be together or if you want to stay here or if I should come back with you to New York. I need to know some things!" I said exasperated.

" Reyna calm down a bit. Really are you that worried?" Leo asked.

I nodded. " Yes. I am. It's literally my job everyday to worry about things."

He laughed. " Than take a break and stop worrying. Reyna you've been worried about every thing since you got here. Are you sure this isn't about something else?"

I took a shaky breath. " I am going crazy. Yesterday when I was braiding my hair I found gray! I had gray hair. I'm only 17! I shouldn't have grays! That should happen when I'm seventy! And I just don't know how much longer I can take all this stress!"

He laughed slightly and pulled me into a hug. I didn't really try to hug him back since I was a bit upset still.

" You know if you're under so much stress than maybe you should stop being praetor for a bit."

I let go of him and gave a 'Really?' look. " Quit being praetor? Leo that is like asking you to not build anything or fix anything for the rest of your life."

" Yeah that's true but at least I don't go gray. And it doesn't affect my hotness. Now does it?"

" Hey I still look good. I cut the grays out. But have you ever even thought about what would happen to use? I mean we can't keep doing this every other month. It will get too expensive and too hard."

" How many friends do you have here? I mean friends you would die for." Leo asked.

I thought for a bit, Merci- no she actually tried to kill me once. Kyle maybe. No he tried to get me fired. Dakota? Nah I don't think the world would end for me if her died.

"See? You can't think of any! So it would make sense if you came with me back to New York." Leo said.

" Yes but- I just don't know. I've never really been though an actual winter. Isn't total hell than?" I asked.

" Yeah but remember who you'll be with. This guy!" He pointed his thumbs at himself.

" But what about the dogs? I don't think very many places except metal dogs."

" Just say their statues some crazy aunt gave us and that we just can't find a person to buy them off us! Simple as that! And if we need to walk them than we can just say we are trying out the robot dog we built! Simple as that. Any more reasons?" Leo asked.

I bit my lip. " Alright but I need to make sure they get a good praetor here before I go live in New York. Until then. Than I will come live with you but you need to help me move." I said.

" YES!" He picked me up and slung me over his shoulder and ran towards the lake.

" IF YOU GET A DROP OF WATER ON ME I WILL HAVE OCTAVIAN LECTURE YOU AND TELL FRANK YOU WERE HITTING ON HAZEL AND HAVE HIM AND HANNIBAL TRAMPLE YOU UNDER FOOT! AM I UNDERSTOOD?"

He stopped short of the river and set me down. I gave him a quick kiss. " Thank you. But I said you couldn't get me wet. I never said I couldn't. I shoved him in river. He grabbed my hand last second and dragged me in with him. I quickly got out of lake and start cursing at him in three languages. Latin, English, and Spanish.

" You puta de hijo! Sis tali culus ( You are such an asshole!)! Go die in a hole somewhere!"I screamed.

" You are so hot when you're cursing at me in three languages."

" Oh really? Tell me how hot I am when I run through you with my knife." I hissed. He quickly threw his shoes on and started running away from me. I chased after him and managed to tackle him to ground. He started laughing and I just had to join him. By the time we had gotten back to the villa I had already scripted my resignation in my head and who would replace me.