Chapter 3

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The birds were missing.

That troubled Calypso as she stirred her broth moodily. It had been a year since she had had any visitors. A year since she had seen Leo Valdez, and now the birds had decided she wasn't worth their company either.

She put the untouched bowl back on her small counter, and went out to attack the crabgrass trying to overshadow her moon lace.

But there, glinting off the white shore was a strange boat, with the head of a dragon.

Calypso turned, frantically searching for somewhere to hide. The gods couldn't make her fall in love with somebody she'd never meet...right?

Unfortunately, just about the time her eyes had secured a location, the boat crashed into the shore beside her, and she could hear the scraping of shoes against the opposite side of the boat.

The words of retort about to fly out of her mouth, Calypso whirled around angrily, and paused. There in front of her. Leo Valdez.

"Calypso," he breathed in relief before spinning her into his arms and kissing her soundly. This kiss wasn't like before. Leo's kiss was longer, slow and lazy, yet firm and full of love for the girl trapped in his newly muscled arms.

The kiss ended, but their foreheads still touched, as Calypso peeked up at him from her eyelashes, scarcely daring to breathe. To hope.

"Leo?" A timid query. Leo kissed her again harder, a tingling kiss. And then he pulled away and laughed, "That one happened Sunshine!"

Finally certain that this beautiful, marvelous boy was no longer a hallucination, Calypso tackled him into a hug, as he spun her in a circle, with so much joy that her feet came above the sand.

"I can't believe you actually came back!" she exclaimed. Leo opened his mouth to explain until a cough from above alerted Calypso to the idea that Leo had not come alone.

A handsome blonde boy standing next to a tan, choppy haired girl grinned down at them. "Well," asked the girl, "are you going to introduce us, and get her out of here, or continue to suck her face forever?"

Leo grinned back, and yelled, "BOTH!" causing Calypso to blush.

He turned back to her, "Are you ready to go?"

Calypso eyed the boat uncertainly, "I can really leave?"

Leo smiled, "Well the gods owe us big time, so I think it's a million times yes."

Calypso hurriedly kissed his cheek, then replied, "I'll get my bags."