Leo had this habit of speaking Spanish whenever he got irritated.

He would mutter to himself in Spanish whenever a piece of the Argo II he wasn't turning out the way he wanted. Sometimes he'd whack a piece of machinery with a hammer and yell at it in the foreign language (probably calling it all sorts of mean names). Leo would often speak in Spanglish if he was trying to explain to me how some mechanical thingamajig worked—though to be fair, his technobabble was just as coherent to me as Spanish was.

And I won't lie… it was kinda hot.

Don't judge me.

"Seriously dude," I said one day. "What are you saying that needs to be censored from me?"

At first he looked confused. Then it seemed to dawn on him that he was mumbling in Spanish.

"Oh, that?" he said. "I just slip into Spanish sometimes. My mom…" a shadow fell across his face. "She used to do the same thing."

I knew what happened to Leo's mom. Well, half of the story. He told me that she died when a building collapsed, but I got the feeling that that wasn't the full story. I wasn't going to press him for details.

"That's cool," I said. "That you know another language, I mean. Everyone at camp can speak Ancient Greek, so I don't think that counts. And all I know is a little bit of German."

Leo raised an eyebrow. "Really? Like what?"

"Uh, cuss words."

He just looked at me. "You went through the trouble of learning German just so you can swear?"

I raised my hands defensively. "I needed to. Have you ever had your mouth washed out with soap?"

Leo shivered. "Understood. So if you say something to me in German, I should always be offended?"

I smirked. "Only if I call you an Arschloch."

"A what now?"

"An asshat."

"Oh," Leo said. "Of course. But why would you want to swear in German?"

"My dad's parents are German."

Leo frowned. "I thought Poseidon was your dad. Unless Greek myths get a whole lot weirder than I thought."

"Well, Poseidon is my father, but my dad is also my father. I have two fathers, somehow. It's complicated."

"How do you have—"

"I try not to think about it too much, it still gives me a headache. So you gonna teach me any Spanish cuss words or what?"

"What?"

I laughed. "C'mon, it'll be fun! I can tell you how to swear in German, and you can tell me what puta means."

Leo face palmed himself. "I'm going to forget about this conversation and just get back to work."

"Seriously!" I whined. "What does it mean?"

A/N: Geez, how many times did I write the word Spanish in this?

It's the return of asshat! Is that even a running joke? I think I only used it twice so far. Well, now's a good time as any to run it into the ground.

P.S. I'm surprised that Kai really doesn't know what puta means. She's a fourteen year old girl who swears more than she should—I have to water her language down a lot XD—you'd think she'd know by now.

EDIT: Thanks, ANONSTAR, for letting me know that this chapter was messed up.