A/N: Hey so I know I said to pretend Heroes of Olympus never happened... I lied. So Leo, Jason and Piper are best friends with Percy, Annabeth, Hazel and Frank (The Romans and Greeks are friends and the 2nd war never happened) Leo has never met his dad before.

Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson and co. I only own Em.

3: Leo

'Fix a screw, solder a wire, weld some metal.' I thought.

When working on machines my body just goes into autopilot.

"Can't rush perfection." I muttered, "clean hands, dirty equipment."

When I said that I was reminded of my mum. The smile I always had vanished. Then there was a knock on the door, I quickly put on my trademark crocodile was Piper.

"Leo, it's almost time for dinner." A conch shell blew. "Scrap that. Leo, it's time for dinner."

"Awww. Just 5 minutes." I pleaded.

"NO! I know what you're like you say 5 minutes but it ends up being 50!"

True that.

"Fine." I huffed, but secretly I was glad someone had come to find me.

When we got to the pavilion Piper snuck in quietly. I paused for a second then ran into the middle of the pavilion.

"NEVER FEAR, LEO VALDEZ IS HERE!" I shouted as loud as I could. Then realised that 1: everyone was deadly silent, 2: Percy and Em weren't there and 3: the GODS WERE HERE!?

Oops.

"Um... Hi, I'll just sit down over here..."

Great first impression Leo, now they think you're an idiot.

I sat down at the Hephaestus table then noticed that a man was sitting there. Dad. 15 years and now you show up. But then in the corner of my eye I saw the poseidon table and at it sat a man by himself. That must be poseidon. I know that Percy knows his dad so that must mean that Em got upset and ran off.

Don't be angry Leo, he wants to see you. Remember what all the campers said about the Titan war. Calm down, it isn't worth it. I shoved my hand in my pocket before anyone could see that it had caught alight. No one, not even my best friend Jason or any one else in The Seven (as we like to call ourselves), knows about that yet.

"Soooo..." I said dragging out the o,

"Hi, any new plans for catching the dragon?"

Everyone looked awkward at this.

Damn it Leo any topic but that!

See that's a sensitive topic for our cabin, because of Jake Mason. He's in a full body cast after trying to talk to it.

"Ummmm... Never mind it's time to relax, not work. Meh, works for losers when your having dinner with friends and family," I think you can guess that I ramble when I'm nervous or uncomfortable. "I mean, we have to relax and have fun and relax and talk and relax and play pranks and relax." I finished with a huge smile on my face.

"Um... Leo, I hate to break it to you but you said relax four times in that sentence" my sister Nysa said.

"Pfft."

Okay Leo you can stop talking now.

"Hello Leo, you have grown." The man, Hephaestus, said.

"Hi... Dad." I said. It was obvious that this awkward conversation had happened with all of them before as the others kindly pretended not to notice Leo or Hephaestus.

"So, have you thought of any good inventions recently Leo?" My dad asked.

Oh man don't get me started on that!

"Yes! I've built a voice recognition stereo system and tons of tiny little people with vehicles like helicopters and cars and boat and then we remote control them to have battles and stuff they're so cool!" I then rambled on about any invention I had made in the last 2 months.

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At the campfire everyone was a lot more rowdy than usual, well who wouldn't be excited for their parent visiting, and for some of us, for the first time. As I was walking to my seat I heard little bits of conversation.

"-made all the new cabins-"

"-got a new sword-"

"-awesome prank for tomorrow-"

I made a mental note not to go near the Stolls tomorrow.

Percy and Em were back as well huddling under the poseidon banner talking with their dad. Just then Zeus clapped his hands to get everyone's attention.

"I think all of the campers present are wondering why all the gods are here today and I would like to explain why."

Zeus caught my eye then and I could see that he thought I was utterly mad. He continued anyway.

"We were at the summer solstice meeting and we-"

Aphrodite gave a little cough.

"Fine."Zeus said "Aphrodite had an idea that It would be good to come to camp half blood to teach our children for this summer" Zeus sat down. Wow Aphrodite had a good idea for once in 3000 years! I got up and stretched well this will be an interesting summer I thought as I mentally went throughout list of all the pranks I wanted to play on the gods. I went over to conner,

"Meeting with you, travis and maybe Hermes tomorrow first thing." I said. Yep, a very interesting summer.

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