I know that my update schedule is still pretty messed up, but I have a lot of things going on right now, so I'm trying my best. I hope that you enjoy this, and thanks as always to those who have faved or followed.

Hi : I don't know where I've written that, but I don't remember doing so. I know Leo's mother was killed by Gaia, are you perhaps thinking of where I've written about an adoptive mother?

Calefe : I do so because I am evil, truly evil ;) And I'm glad that you think it's amazing despite my wicked cliffhangers.

DestinyWish10 : Here you go

Melancholy's Sunshine : Oh, you have so many great ideas, I hope you don't mind if I pinch a few! But yes, the battle for Leo will truly be an awesome one. Ballads will be sung, stories will be written and rich witches will be vanquished!

Leohotstuff : Thank you, I hope that you think the wait was worth it!

Neon Wish Likes Pine Trees : Thanks, and I seriously just imagined Jason and Piper (chibified) hugging Leo and batting away the rich witch with a broom while shouting "nopesies".

FuzzyElf24 : Thank you, I'm glad that you like it.

Connwaer Heap : Hehe, she's certainly going to try and get him. And whenever the rich witch adopted a new kid, she'd spend weeks dragging them all around different balls and galas to try and show what a good person she is for taking in so many children. So poor Leo has more experience than he'd like with these sorts of things.

MusicalGurl : I hope that it will be the rich witch you're stabbing, not me And I'm happy that you don't mind waiting, I'm so lucky that all of you reviewers are so patient!

Cheorkee rememberer gamer98 : Ah, the mist is truly useful! And that mental image of the demigods was quite terrifying.

Sidda : Do what ;) And I'm kind of scared to start Hetalia now, though I will eventually (when I have a bit more time). Most Leo fans would probably have to learn very quickly to fight off Piper and Calypso for kissing Leo under the mistletoe! I think that I would save Bianca or Zoe, but that's a really tough decision! I was going to say Leo's mum, but (and I know this is kind of cruel) Leo wouldn't be Leo if his past hadn't been the way it was. So, Zoe or Bianca probably.

MakaylaCO : She can do that (or at the very least she can try to). And here is the next update so you can see what happens next.

Lady Aoi-chan : I was very tempted to use that other word as part of her nickname, but I don't really like swearing so I refrained. Plus, you reviewers should never worry about being late, it means so much to me that you are here at all! I'm the one who's always late. And thank you so much for your consideration, I'm really lucky to have reviewers who are as lovely as you are!

PercabethOTP996 : Please don't die, the update's here, and I really don't want to be a murderer! Your pun made me laugh by the way, I don't know if I've ever really thought of amazhang.

A23 : Ah, I should be thanking you for reviewing, not the other way around. Thank you for taking the time to review (and for saying such nice things!). I'm never going to stop writing, especially when I have people like you cheering me on

Skyfir3S4kur4 : Teehee, cliffhangers are a great way to avoid being murdered as people want to find out what happens next. Fangirling is always acceptable by the way, I do it often enough (I go all out with the hand flapping and everything). And please never feel the need to apologise for being late, I'm really grateful that you take the time to review at all, and I should be the one apologising for lateness anyway. I'm glad that you liked it so much, and I hope that this chapter makes you just as happy.

Guest : That would be a fun solution! But you'll just have to see what actually happens…

Zoethezany III : I'm sorry, I do it because I am evil and I can't help it. But you get to find out what happens in this chapter.

That-Flying-Breadstick-Wizard : Heehee, don't worry, there is going to be a battle for Leo up ahead. And I will definitely be doing a chapter for Mrs Sparrow, but I don't know if it will be next. There are a few characters that have been requested so I'll see what I can do.

Guest : Thank you, and here is the update.

Guest : Aww, thank you! I'm honoured that my fics are your favourites, and I hope that you enjoy this chapter.

CrazyBlueOwl : Thank you for both of your reviews, and I'm happy that you like Jadon. I have a soft spot for him as well. And I appreciate the follow as well

OtakuNewWorldOrder : It's not often that I do pure cuteness so I'm glad that you liked it. And of course I can give you a brief summary, the rich witch is a young socialite (named Lucretia) who is very rich and decides to flaunt this richness by adopting orphans from around the world to try and look kind and charitable. In reality, she's incredibly shallow and only really cares about her status. Anwen is one of her adopted children and she helped Leo pose as a girl to run away.

Somethingbad123: But now I really want to ask! And thank you, though I don't think I'm quite on either of their levels yet, I really appreciate how much you seem to like my stories. And I'm sorry for taking so long to update this, I hope you enjoy it despite the wait.

Ninjacook123: And I am so glad that you chose to leave a review, my good sir. It makes me so happy to hear that you like my stories and that you think they're well written. And I love Leo-centric stories as well, that's why I'm writing so many of them! And I also appreciate your concern about how college is going, it's much better now (though I still have so little time to write:()

Disclaimer : I think by now that you've got the hint, I don't own HOH. Nor do I own the Avengers.


The car ride back to Piper's house (or should he say mansion?) was significantly more awkward than the car ride there had been. Leo was sort of in a daze, of all the horrific outcomes that he had predicted could happen today, this had funnily enough never occurred to him. That was probably why it had happened, because it was one of the only things he truly hadn't considered going wrong.

After Mr McLean had made his announcement, there had been a few moments of stunned silence before the cacophony of protests had begun. Leo himself had just sat, wordlessly trying to process what Mr McLean had just said.

Even now, after saying hasty goodbyes to the rich witch tribe and being hastily bundled into the limo, Leo still hadn't quite wrapped his head around the concept that the rich witch was actually trying to pull this stunt.

He knew that she was a selfish, self-absorbed overgrown brat that made Drew look like a soup kitchen volunteer, but of all the stupid publicity stunts she had pulled in the past, this really took the cake. This took the whole dam banquet for Hades' sake. Not that the rich would eat a banquet. Too many carbs. Too fattening. And Leo was rambling in his head about stupid expressions, he really needed to stop.

Jason and Piper were furiously discussing the legitimacy of the rich witch's claim with the movie star, but Leo was useless with legal stuff so he just decided to stay quiet.

"She can't really take Leo back, can she dad?" Piper sounded distraught, and her face twisted further into a frown as her father shifted somewhat uncomfortably.

"I don't know." The superstar finally admitted, agitatedly running a hand through his hair. Then he turned, eyes fixing upon Leo's own.

"But we will sort this out Leo. Don't worry, she won't take you away from camp if I can help it." His voice was so honest and filled with authority that Leo couldn't help but believe him.

"Thanks." He mumbled as his friends also flashed him reassuring grins.

They pulled up outside of the McLean's house, where they would all be staying for two nights before returning back to camp. Or they would hopefully be returning back to camp, if the rich witch claiming that she wanted to take Leo back in was just a silly whim she had to try and impress Tristan McLean.

Leo wouldn't deny the spiteful glee that he felt at the fact that Piper's dad clearly despised the simpering witch. After all she had put him through, Leo felt vindictively justified that her little crush on the actor would get nowhere.

They decided that they would forget about it for tonight, and that tomorrow Mr McLean would look into it and see if Lucretia had been serious.

After lounging around, gorging themselves on pizza and snacks whilst watching movies (Piper had almost taken his eye out with popcorn when he suggested Prince of Sparta, her dad had cackled at her expression before putting the Avengers on), they had all finally gone to bed at around midnight.

There were enough spare rooms to house most of the demigods from both camps, but Leo and Jason decided to share one of the rooms that had two beds anyway. They would have used sleeping bags to stay in Piper's room, but Mr McLean had drawn the line there.

He said that he trusted them all, but that was his one rule and there was no point trying to change his mind about it.

Leo spent the next hour telling Jason how he'd be able to make a real working Iron Man suit, one that the son of Zeus would be able to power up with awesome lightning abilities. Jason had sadly declined, but Leo was still tempted to have a go at creating the suit when he got back to the bunker.

Eventually they had fallen asleep, and Leo had some sweet dreams of flying around and fighting crime whilst shooting flames from an iron man suit.

Sadly, what he woke up to was not as fun as that dream.

Jason was shaking him awake, face deeply troubled.

"It seems like the press have caught wind of what's going on." Leo was going to make a wind related joke – hey, son of Jupiter in front of him – but then Jason's words hit him.

"Crap!" He yelped, rolling out of bed and racing over to the window. The bedroom they were staying in faced the front of the house, so you could see most of the entranceway by looking out of it.

Leo peeled the curtain back slightly, and peeked out from behind it. He could see up to the gates, and he could definitely see all of the press vans parked outside.

Jason was fully dressed, indicating that he had been up for a while, but Leo took no heed of this and ran out of the room to barrel down the corridor in just his red pyjama bottoms.

Mr McLean and Piper were in the living room when he burst through the door in all his bed hair glory. The movie star on his phone, and he didn't sound happy as he snapped to whoever was on the other end of the line that the press should not be at his home right now trying to get to a kid.

"Look, Leo is staying at a very prestigious camp that my own daughter attends- yes I know that he needs official documentation, if I can be given some time to contact the camp then I can get all of that sorted. Yes, I know that he disappeared from the Wilderness School along with my daughter and Jason Grace, but I'm sure that that was all cleared up." The actor was clearly frustrated, knuckles clenched tightly around his sleek smartphone.

"Yes, yes, you do that. And while you're at it, why don't you try and get some of those stupid paps away from my damn door!" Leo was a massive fan of new technology, but he was sure that if Mr McLean operated off of an old fashioned flip phone then that hang up would have been much more dramatic.

As it was, Mr McLean chucked the phone onto the sofa and buried his face in his hands.

It was then that Piper noticed him and Jason awkwardly hovering in the doorway.

"Leo!" The daughter of Aphrodite bounded up to him and quickly wrapped him into a protective hug.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that my dad can sort this out." The actor had walked over and placed his hand on Leo's head in a very fatherly manner, even ruffling his hair.

"I'm going to go and call your camp and see if they can help me get this all cleared up." The phone was retrieved from the sofa before the actor swept out of the room.

Leo glanced up at Jason who was still acting as a doorstop, so he noticed the slight widening of his eyes.

He still wasn't prepared to hear Nyssa's voice blaring out from behind him.

"Leo, what in the name of Hades is going on? Have you even seen the news?" Nyssa's form was encased in the flickering rainbow formed from an iris message. Surrounding her were Leo's other siblings. Harley's big eyes were watering as he clutched Jake's knees.

"Are you not coming home Leo?" That question honestly broke the fire-wielders heart when paired with the misery and confusion encasing the faces of all of his siblings.

"No, but I can guess what it's showing. I honestly don't know what's going to happen though." His older sister's face creased even further into concern and anger. A smudge of oil graced her left cheekbone, and when she scrunched up her face it crinkled amusingly. Leo was too exhausted to point it out. For one moment, he wished that he had never found a way to shield tech from monsters, if he hadn't then his siblings wouldn't have had a telly to find this out from.

"What do you need us to do?" Leo hadn't been expecting that, he knew they'd be worried about hi, but he didn't think that they would be able to do anything to help.

"There isn't anything you can do, is there?" A wicked grin formed on all of his sibling's faces, even little Harley's. Leo remembered that when he had first been introduced to his cabin mates, to his siblings, he had thought that no one would ever realise that they were all related. With that devious smirk (one that he was quite intimate with, seeing it on his own face daily), it would be difficult to deny that they were all related in some way.

"Oh, we can do plenty. None of it might be legal, but we can certainly do a lot. After all, we are all master craftsmen. We could cook up a little something to warn this harpy to stay away from our favourite little pyromaniac."

"Aw shucks, I bet you say that to all of your pyromaniac friends." Nyssa forged on despite his interjection.

"Plus, pretty much every cabin will do whatever we want if we offer to make them things. Travis and Connor alone could dig up enough blackmail to have that stupid witch leave you alone forever if we made them some lightsabers. It could be a competition, which ever cabin gets rid of her the fastest gets whatever tech they want." The unholy gleam in his big sister's eyes really made him doubt whether or not his siblings were actually planning to sell their crafting services in exchange for deposing of Lucretia.

"That probably wouldn't end well… there would be a huge press scandal, it would be a nightmare to deal with." Nyssa exchanged a serious look with Jake, and Leo felt his heart sink.

"It kind of already is a press scandal Leo. We already told you that it's on the news. The bimbo's appealing to everyone, and the media is lapping it up." Leo groaned, and suddenly the message started fading.

"Ah, we have to go! But if you need us Leo, for anything, you know how to contact us. We'll be keeping an eye on the news for you." The trio waved as the Hephaestus cabin shimmered out of view.

Leo groaned and face planted onto the sofa.

"Well this is going to be fun." He mumbled into the sofa cushions.

He heard the door open and twisted around to face Mr McLean as he walked back into the room.

"Your camp director has offered to send a representative to talk this through with us. I don't know when they'll be arriving though, so I'm going to listen out for when they call me back to tell me that this representative has arrived. I need to head out so I'm leaving you to entertain yourselves. I assume that you guys can make yourself dinner, ordering in probably wouldn't go so well at the moment." They all nodded their affirmative, and Mr McLean flashed them a smile, pulling his daughter in for a quick hug before heading off to whatever appointment he had to attend.

"So what do you guys want to do?" Jason inquired. Before Piper could even open her mouth, Leo hauled himself up off of the plush sofa.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm going back to bed. I've had enough of psycho ladies messing with my life, so I'm just going to go and chill in dream land for a bit." He shuffled to the door, but Piper halted him with a cool hand on his wrist.

"That isn't exactly a healthy way to cope with this situation, Leo."

"Yeah, well it's better than me just running away and never coming back, isn't it?" His best friends looked stricken, and Leo let out a long sigh.

"I'm not going to run. Who would maintain Festus without me? Who would lovingly place mechanical spiders in the Athena cabin? I just want to sleep. I really can't deal with this right now. Piper hesitated for a moment, before releasing his wrist.

"Go have your nap then, Repair boy." He mock saluted the couple before exiting the room.

As soon as he reached the bed that was his whilst he and Jason were sleeping over, Leo collapsed into it. He felt exhausted, and hoped that he'd drop off to sleep easily.

The Fates were apparently on his side for once, as his vision began going dark pretty much as soon as his head hit the pillow.

They did have the last laugh though, as Leo found himself face to face with the overwhelming vision of ugly awkwardness that was his father.

"Holy…" Leo leapt backwards as his father observed him.

"As a God, I suppose I could be considered holy…" Leo felt his mouth hang open.

"Did you just make a joke?" He spluttered as Hephaestus began fiddling with a small animatronic figure that looked suspiciously like a monster version of Lucretia. Not that there was much difference between the monster figure and the real Lucretia. He thought that the long nails were an especially nice touch.

As Hephaestus was choosing to ignore Leo's question about the sudden appearance of a sense of humour in his father, Leo elected to take another line of questioning.

"Why are you using this to talk to me again? The God sighed, running a hand over his disfigured face.

"The Gods are aware of the legal troubles that you are currently encountering. They have, um, decided to send aid." Now Leo was pretty certain that he would never be able to lift his jaw off of the floor. He'd never be able to eat again, forever known as 'jawless Leo', the demigod whose jaw was permanently attached to the floor of Hephaestus' workshop due to the Gods actually deciding to be helpful for once, especially in a matter such as this which they would usually deem to be too trivial.

"What?" Was the only thing that he managed to choke out.

"As a hero of Olympus, it is best if you are able to stay at camp as much as possible. That wouldn't be possible if you were staying with that pathetic mortal wench." As much as Leo wanted to focus on the fact that Hephaestus had literally just called someone a wench, something still didn't add up.

"The others don't all stay in camp all of the time, and you aren't all intervening over that." Hephaestus scratched his face anxiously, and Leo realised with a start that Hephaestus was probably the one who had got the Gods to agree to help out. His father could be pretty cunning when he wanted to be.

"That doesn't matter right now. The aid that is coming to you will be…" Suddenly, just like the first time that his father had contacted him, the image was replaced with some sort of Godly gameshow. There seemed to be some sort of tally being made about how many mortals the Gods had messed with this week. The board was bigger than Piper's mansion, and Aphrodite was unsurprisingly the Goddess with the most names, though Cupid came close second.

The image flickered back to the workshop and his frowning father.

"Now Zeus is just being petty." He mumbled before noticing Leo again.

"Good luck, boy. And I'll see you when you wake up." Leo was about to ask what exactly the God meant by that, when he found himself being frantically shaken awake by his friends.

"Wassup?" He slurred sleepily, and Jason yanked him out of bed.

"Get ready, quick. The representatives from camp have arrived." The son of Jupiter ordered before he and Piper left him alone to presumably carry out this order.

Leo yawned and got ready as quickly as he could manage whilst still recovering from that rare interaction with his socially awkward father. Piper and Jason were waiting outside of the room for him, and they virtually dragged him to the sitting room.

When he saw who had been sent, Leo almost had an unfortunate repeat of his humiliating gaping from before.

There, perched on Mr McLean's fancy couch (with the star himself standing to the side looking confused) were his father and Hermes, both in smart suits. Hephaestus looked as if he wanted to sink into the sofa and quite possibly never return from it. Hermes appeared confident and calm, radiating assurance in a way that only a God could manage.

The messenger God winked at him.

"Hello Leo. My name is Angel and I'll be your lawyer for this case." A hand was extended in his direction, but Leo ignored it in favour of pointing at Hephaestus.

"What are you doing here?" He croaked out, as Hermes pouted whilst rescinding his hand.

"Well, if possible, I'm here to take custody of you as your father, or at least help you out." That was when Leo decided that he must still be dreaming, and chose to pinch himself to wake up from whatever this bizarre dream was.

Sadly, the red mark on his arm had the opposite effect. He wondered if alternate reality was actually an option.


As I said, I'm really sorry about the delay on all of my stories. This year is really important for college work and I need to do well to get into my uni choice. Thank you all for being patient, and I'll see you next time.