A/N: I thought I might as well give this story a little makeover. So I deleted the other one and decided to add it to this collection instead. Enjoy!

Leo didn't feel like going into camp.

Everyone was celebrating, dancing. There were fireworks, food and drinks. It was the perfect save-the-world-from-destruction-and-come-back-safe-party. But he couldn't do it.

For months he had seen nothing but Annabeth and Percy, and Jason and Piper, and Frank and Hazel. He could always feel that the moment he was alone with any of the couples he should jump off the side of the Argo II. Even Nico arrived at camp and found Will. And no doubt about it, he was feeling on cloud nine for all his friends were happy and safe and they all had someone who was happy and safe with them. But all he had was a flying table and a squeaking dragon.

Piper had written Mr McShizzle Wiggle on his arm with a Sharpie as they were approaching Camp Half Blood and he was still staring at it. Of course he had thought about Piper just as much as anyone else. And why wouldn't he. Their memories with Jason were implanted, whereas their own memories were real. He and Piper had actually attended that horrible school together. They were friends before Mr. Thor came along. They could have, might have, maybe, some day, been something. Even thinking about it was a lost cause now. She and Jason were visible from where he was sitting, on top of the climbing wall. He could see them sitting in the beach looking at the fireworks, holding hands.

Frank and Hazel could be seen over at the water's edge, walking in the wet sand together. Grover and Juniper were here as well. Even at this distance Leo knew the look in Grover's eyes as he looked at his girlfriend, while chewing on what seemed to be a can of Diet Coke.

Percy and Annabeth were not at the celebration but he could still see them sitting at the camp fire. Percy had his head in Annabeth's lap as they talked. They had been through so much together; Leo couldn't even begin to imagine what it must have been like. He had nightmares of the journey, where the smallest wrong turn could lead to his friends deaths. They had been through Tartarus.

But seeing that small smile on Annabeth's face as she looked down at the jungle of hair on her lap, Leo couldn't help but give a small smile himself. Seeing his friends happy was more than he could ever ask for…