Jason POV

Me and Percy stayed as long as we could in the waiting room before we had to leave for school. Percy was freaking out and I had to do my best to calm him.

"Perce, calm down. Leo's a surviver, he'll pull through."

Percy was pacing the floor, "I know. We thought he was going to be fine last time, nope."

I ran my hand through my hair, "Leo's going to be okay."

"Yeah you keep telling yourself that, maybe one day you'll believe it," Percy mumbled and checked the time on his phone. "Come on, we're going to be late for school."

We got in Percy's car(he switched from a truck to a '67 Chevy Impala) and we drove to school. The late bell rang right as we stepped in Paul's class. John Luke stopped us at the back of the classroom.

"Hey, where's Leo?"

I sighed through my nose, "John, he cut himself up real bad last night, we had to take him to the hospital."

He slumped up against the back counter, "I did this didn't I? I caused this."

"No, John he's had a rough life. His Mom died in a fire he caused and he was dead for a while. It's not your fault."

John Luke scratched the back of his neck, "I still feel like it's my fault."

"It's not, don't beat yourself up about it." Percy patted him on the back before joining Annabeth at their table.

John Luke grabbed a hold of my shoulder, "can I see him?"

"Calypso's in there right now and we're going to camp after school. I have no idea," I walked away from him and sat down by Piper with a sigh.

Piper rubbed my shoulder, "he's going to be fine."

"Calypso is going to need a new bathroom door," I grumbled and opened my book. I hate Greek, it's so confusing.

Piper was reading that book like it was english and she wasn't deslexic, "yeah. Did you know I could've charmspoke Leo to open the door right?"

"He knows you have charmspeek and he's aware of that, you have to be aware of it to not be controlled by it. It wouldn't of worked anyway."

Piper hissed, "man. Who am I going to charmspeek to do my chores at camp now?"

"Why don't they have books in Latin? That would be so much easier!"

Piper laughed and leaned over to kiss me, "because it's a old Greek story."

"Well we should read some Roman stories because that would be easier," I spat .

Piper rubbed her hand through my hair, "we should go see Leo before camp."

I bit my lip and nodded, "yeah. He's going to want to see us anyway."

Then the bell rang and we headed off to PE, I changed very quickly to avoid John Luke. But he stopped me anyway on the way out the door.

"Wait, in the video they said Gleeson Hedge was the chaperone on the quest so that means Coach Hedge is..."

I kept my eyes forward and I continued to walk, "yeah, how did you not notice before."

John blushed and looked at his feet as Lillian came strutting over, "help me," he whispered as she dragged him off without a word.

I sighed and walked over to Piper who was talking to Annabeth, I wrapped my arms around her from behind and she jumped a little. "Jason! You scared the crap out of me!"

I leaned down and kissed her hair softly, "sorry Pipes."

She laughed softly as we begin warm ups, after we're done it's still basketball so we were seperated again. After PE we went to weather, then lunch.

"Guys, I'm not joking. I'm really worried about Leo," Percy bit into a blue cookie.

Annabeth rubbed his shoulders, "we all are Percy."

I rested my chin on my hand and my elbow on the table. "I can't believe I had to kick the door down though, it's like he couldn't even hear us."

"Well the doctor did say he had an anxiety black out," Percy shrugged.

I sighed through my nose, it seems like that's all I do now, "he's just not the same Leo we used to know."

Piper leaned over and kissed my temple, "nobody who goes through that like of hell- no offense will ever return the same."

Annabeth and Percy shrugged, "none taken."

I picked up my lunch and threw it in the garbage, "so, camp after school? Are we taking John?"

We glanced over at their table, "we kind of have too. He hasn't been claimed yet and he doesn't have a weapon."

Percy cursed and slammed his fist on the table, "why does he have to be a demigod?" He yelled quietly as possible.

Annabeth squeazed his hand, "shh Percy. Did you want to be a demigod?"

He bit his lip, "no."

"Then don't yell at him for it!"

Percy hung his head down, "seriously you guys, Leo."

The table was silent for a minute, "did we do somthing wrong?" Hazel asked and pushed her hair out of her face.

I shook my head, "Leo has had a lot of trouble in his life that he didn't deal with."

Franks squeazes her hand, "forgive and forget is what I always say."

Hazel turned to look up at him, "you don't say that."

"But I should say that," Frank shrugged and laughed.

Piper wrapped her long fingers into the bottom of my shirt, "Hey Jase, this is going to get better. I can feel it."

I leaned into her, "I hope so Pipes, I really hope so."

line break of Christmas

When we walked into his hosptial room, Calypso was asleep on his chest and Leo was watching TV.

"Hey Buddy," I ran my hands through his black curly hair.

Leo looked up at me, his eyes were red. "Hey," he said simpily.

Calypso woke up and she had been crying, she took us out into the hall. "Leo has major depression."

Piper yelped and covered her hand with her mouth, "how do you know?"

"Because the Doctor came in after a while and explained it to me," Calypso wiped her eyes.

Piper pulled both of us in for a hug, "you guys. He's going to be okay."

Calypso started to sob, her shoulders shaking, "b-but he's cut up all over-"

"Cal, calm down." Piper charmspoke and stroked her hair.

I felt myself relaxing and Calypso as well, but then she began to cry again. After she was done we pulled away and told her we had to go to camp.

Piper began to cry in the car, I had to pull over because it got so bad. I wrapped my arms around her and held her while she sobbed. She got tears all over my clean shirt. She had what little makeup she wore running down her face and that too mixed into my shirt. Her hair that was once curled was in a big not on the back of her head. Other to say, she looked beautiful.

"Pipes, Pipes calm down. Calm down..." I wiped her tears off with my thumbs.

She sniffed a little before slumping down in her chair, "I am calm."

"Pipes, I want to cry right now but I know it's not the time, Pipes listen to me!"

Piper turned around and glared at me, it was so frightening I actually winced. "What?'

"We can't cry over this now, we have to be strong for Leo. We're all he has," I leaned over and kissed her softly and quickly.

Piper frowned and wiped right underneath her eyes, "if you cry it makes me cry harder."

I slid over back to my seat, "come on. Let's get to camp."

We drove in silence until we got there, we gathered up the seven and everybody else and told them what was going on.

Hazel began to cry and Frank had to take her away, suprizingly Percy began to cry into his hands and Annabeth led him away.

Piper began to sob so we went into my cabin, we sat on my bed and Piper cried into my arms. "I lost Lisa, I don't want to loose Leo either!"

I stroked her hair, tears welling up in my eyes. "You're not going to loose him Pipes, he's staying with us and we're not letting him go."

Hey! Sorry I haven't updated lately because of the holidays and stuff! I didn't write a thing yesterday because I was at my cousins house watching Harry Potter! So question of the day.

Q: What is the best Christmas present you have EVER got?

A: A new ipod haha