A/N

Set five years after HoO. No ToA.

Enjoy!

"What the hell is going on in there?"

Frank Zhang stood outside the Via Praetoria, a puzzled look on his face, as Leo Valdez laughed uncontrollably at the shouting from the audibly feminine voice in Spanish emanating from the main house.

There was another weak reply that was still heard through the hollow walls of the estate, only for it to be cut off by another round of rebukes from the woman, and Valdez doubled over, eyes tearing up from laughter.

"I don't know," Annabeth commented, raising an eyebrow, "But apparently it's funny enough for Valdez to crack up like this."

Calypso rolled her eyes. "Leo'll laugh at anything. His sense of humour is... peculiar. It reminds me of my idiot cousin, Lelantos."

Leo blinked and cocked his head before shaking his head. "I keep forgetting you're thousands of years old, Sunshine-"

"Don't call me that, Valdez!"

"-but it doesn't matter. What matters now is that... oh shit!"

"What, Leo?"

The Son of Hephaestus's eyes widened comically and a shit-eating grin found its way onto his face.

"He's in trouble now, oh ho ho."

Suddenly, the volume of the argument raised by decibels as the woman shouted louder and the formerly meek voice of the man raised with it, to the group's surprise.

Piper frowned. "What are they even saying?"

Jason shrugged. "Beats me. This is exactly like when Reyna would cuss me out in Spanish sometimes. I didn't know what she was saying, but it was pretty obvious she wanted to kill me."

Frank and Hazel murmured in agreement. They'd been on the receiving end of that once, when they'd rushed to Reyna's praetoria in the middle of the night for some advice from the former leader of the Legion. Judging from her appearance, the two Romans deduced that they may have interrupted on... something.

"You know, why do they even have this place?" Annabeth inquired. "They're not praetors anymore, and this is quite literally the Via Praetoria."

Hazel shrugged. "Heroes of Olympus get special treatment. The Senate unanimously agreed for the first time in years that the two should retain their old house, and just built a new one for Frank and me. At least they're living together, now, or it would have cost a lot more money to do so."

Leo suddenly burst into a bout of laughter, now on all fours, shaking uncontrollably while pounding his fist on the floor.

"Leo!"

All he did was keep laughing, every attempt to stop interrupted by an even larger bout of laughter from the Supreme Commander of the Argo II.

Finally, managing to keep his laughter down, Leo sighed in relief. "Gods, those two are idiots! They were arguing about a Telenovela!"

Just as the group were about to question him, the two in question stepped out of the door, looking a little ruffled, but otherwise as calm as ever. Percy's arm was coiled around Reyna's waist, who leaned into his embrace. It seemed they'd made up over their argument.

"Percy! My man!"

The Son of Poseidon froze up, unable to move, before replying with a weak smile. "Hey, Leo..."

Reyna, on the other hand, just sighed. "You heard, didn't you?"

Leo beamed and nodded. "Yup! And I have to say, Corazon is a good telenovela."

Percy groaned and Reyna scrunched up her nose, not pleased by the revelation that Leo knew of one of her guilty pleasures.

"What's a telenovela?" Came the voice of Piper McLean, whose head was cocked in curiosity. Reyna's eyes widened and she shook her head vigorously, but Leo explained with a big, shit-eating grin on his face, apparently deciding his life was worth embarrasing Reyna for.

"Nothing. It's just a television show, really." Reyna cocked an eyebrow. Maybe Leo could really be decent guy sometimes, "But of course, Corazon means heart, so maybe Reyna's isn't that normal-"

Before he could finish, Percy kicked Leo straight in the nuts. "He deserved that."

Reyna could only nod in agreement.

Surprisingly, the Son of Hephaestus managed to get out a final blow. "Alejandro and Camila forever!"

Percy grinned widely, turning to Reyna, before seeing the fire in her eyes that had been there just moments earlier, which he'd only finally extinguished with a well-timed and well placed kissed.

"Shit."

"How dare you! Camila doesn't deserve a shit-eating dickhead like Alejandro! Carlos is so much better-"

"Reina. Usted está hablando Español."

The Daughter of Bellona blinked in surprise, before blushing madly. She would normally revert to Spanish – sometimes with a mix of Latin – when she got really, really mad. In addition, her boyfriend just had to say her name with that lilt of his tonuge; reina. Queen.

Reyna huffed and Percy smiled.

"So, what was this talk about heart?"

"Agh!"

Fin.