AN: That wraps up the story! I feel like doing another story like this. Tell me what you think.
Every one of the seven had someone to come back to. Well, everyone except Leo. Piper, Percy, and Annabeth had their mortal parents waiting for them. Hazel had Nico, even if he was only her half-brother, and they seemed to enjoy each other's company. Frank had his grandmother, who'd turned into a bird and flown away from the fire, or at least that's how she explained it. Jason had Thalia, his sister, to go back too. Leo just had no one. Still, Leo wished that someone would show up to see that he was ok; he'd even take his aunt Rosa right now. Someone to run up and hug him, and tell him how worried he'd made them, but that wasn't going to happen.
Percy ran up to his mom, who gave him the biggest hug anyone had ever seen. She turned to look at him. "Percy, I missed you so much!"
"I know mom, I missed you too." Percy exclaimed.
Sally let go of Percy and noticed a boy in the corner standing, looking down at his feet. He was just standing there, all alone, fiddling with a rubber-band. He didn't have a worried family surrounding him.
"Who's that" Sally asked her son, pointing over in Leo's direction.
"Oh, that's Leo. His mom died in an accident when he was little. The rest of his family disowned him, he told everyone he would be heading back to his cabin in a little bit, and collect his things. He's a really cool guy." Percy explained. "It's messed up what Gaea did to him."
"How did she die?" Sally asked, curious to why such a thing could happen.
Percy stiffened. "Gaea came after Leo when he was seven. He has power over fire, which he hates more than anything" Percy started.
"Why?" Sally asked.
"It's complicated. His mom needed to go to her workshop late one night. She told Leo to stay out there, and that she'd be right back. Once she had left, Gaea showed up. She told him she wasn't allowed to hurt him, but that she could break his spirit." Sally seemed to know what was coming. "Leo got scared and set himself on fire. Gaea locked the door, so his mother was trapped. He tried to stop it, but he couldn't." Percy breathed. "You can't tell him you know, that would mean I broke his trust, and it's already a very hard thing to get."
Sally sighed. "I'm going to see how he is."
Percy rolled his eyes. "Ok then."
Leo looked up to see a woman, looking kind of like Percy, walking toward him. First he was worried, he didn't know this person. Then he was happy, someone might just be coming to tell him he that everything was ok. He hadn't had someone do that in a while.
"Hello, I'm Sally Jackson-Blofis. You must be Leo. I've heard so much about you; you sound like an amazing kid." Sally said shaking the boy's hand.
Leo never thought he would hear that, sure he and Percy were friends, if you could call it that, but he never really talked about him outside of the quest. "Glad to meet you Mrs. Jackson-Blofis."
"Please, just call me Sally."
Leo looked up at Sally, she seemed like a kind person, yet someone who'd lost so much. She looked like someone who would stay up late at night because of worry about her child. Someone who'd spent their life helping others, and not themselves. She looked like someone who sacrificed so much, to get nothing in return. Leo completely understands her. He feels her pain every day.
"Sally, you're Percy's mother right?" Leo asked stupidly.
"Yep, is it that obvious?" Sally asked laughing. Leo didn't get what was so funny, so he just nodded his head at her, hoping she wouldn't notice his weird expression.
He wished his mom was here to pick him up, so she could tell him how amazing he was. She would grab them ice cream, and maybe rent a movie to watch, maybe even buy some popcorn to go with it. But unless she came back from the dead, that wasn't going to happen anytime soon, or at all.
"So, who's taking you home?" Sally asked. "I know you can't go back to Camp Half-Blood, not in the shape it's in."
"I don't have a family." Leo mumbled.
"Is there a foster home you live in?" Sally asked.
"The last foster home I was in, I ran away for the sixth time. I don't think I'll ever go back there." Leo muttered angrily.
"Oh I see, sorry I didn't realize. My parents died in an airplane crash, I had to live with my uncle. I understand. Would you like to stay with us for a while?" She asked.
Percy and Leo looked up fast. Percy was wondering why all of a sudden his mom wanted to add a new roommate. Leo was curious why anyone would want him to stay with them.
"Sure, I'll stay. I have nowhere else to go anyway."
The car ride to the house was awkward. Sally kept asking Leo questions, and Leo would respond so quiet that you'd think he didn't. Percy just sat there, questioning his mother idea. He didn't understand why she brought Valdez home. He had nothing against the guy, it's just, why? She never seemed to care before?
"Percy, can you go get Paul for me. He needs to know we need some extra food, so our new guest can eat." Sally said with a smile.
"Ok mom, be careful!" Percy waved and headed in.
Leo helped Percy's mom carry in everything. His bags from camp and the bags from their food shopping trip were now set in the back of Sally's car. There weren't that many bags, so they were done in two trips.
When Leo came in with, he saw a man, no older then Sally. Leo figured this must be Paul, Sally's new husband, and Percy's second step-dad.
The man walked over to Leo. "Hello, you must be our new house guest Leo. I'm Percy's step-dad, but you can call me Paul." The man said doing the same as Sally did when she met him.
"Hello, Percy talked about you guys while we were on the trip. You guys sounded awesome. Percy told me how Paul fought in the titan war; you sounded so cool when you stabbed that monster." Leo laughed. "It reminded me of when I learned how to use a sword for the first time."
The conversation kept rolling, until everyone was too tired to speak. They all headed up to bed. Leo got settled in on the couch, where he would be staying, and place his head on his pillow. He wished he could stay at camp, but it was still being rebuilt.
He welcomed sleep with open arms, but knew that it wouldn't last forever. He went spiraling into the past at top speed, even though he wanted it to slow down. Then he saw his mother.
Leo was a six-year-old at the time. He was with his mom in the workshop, she was showing him how to use hammer. Leo, only being six years old, thought you were suppose to use it to hit people with. He was kind of using it like Ares kid might, to cause panic and disorder. Only, well, he was six. He didn't know what panic and disorder was.
Leo's mom took his hand, and placed it on the handle, showing him the right place to put it. Then she showed him the up and down motion, and how to use the tool. Leo was laughing happily, as if this was the best thing in the world to do at that moment.
She continued showing him how to work tools, such as screw driver, a screw, and wrench. By the time she was done, it had been over two hours. Little Leo was getting tired, or you could describe it as him basically sleeping in his arms. It had been a long day for the both of them.
The setting changed to a small park, the place Leo would go with his mom all the time. Leo would stay on the swing for hours if he could. He would rock back and forth several times.
Leo also liked the slide. He loved the rush he earned when he slid down, it felt amazing. It made him feel alive for some reason. His mother would just sit on the bench and laugh. She would smile the whole time they stayed there.
Once, a few years before this memory, Leo refused to come down off the climbing wall, so his mother had to climb all the way to the top just to get him back down. They would laugh over it later, but at that moment, Leo really did need hid mommy to come up and get him down.
Now he could see his mother at home making her famous tacos. Sure, no one else knew they were famous, but the important thing was that Leo loved them, which he told his mother every time he got a chance. He would take a bite, and moan in delight. He thought that these were the best tacos ever.
They would talk about her projects over dinner, which was weird since he was only seven years old. He enjoyed asking her about the jobs she selected to take. Repairing things was what she loved to do, though she did make and create things as well. She just had a passion for fixing things. It's just what she loved to do.
Leo would ask what was wrong with the object she was fixing, and she would tell him the whole complicated truth about them, which he could completely understand.
Leo woke up to a concerned face, Mrs., Jackson. She was staring down at his tear streaked face, probably wondering what was wrong with him.
He looked up at her, and burst into tears. "I miss my mom."
"I know" She said, and then she gave him a much-needed hug.