AN: I spent my whole day with my family. Another well spent weekend. But the sad thing tomorrow school :( :'( But hey, i have my best friends right? :D :D sad thing is they have no fanfiction account, then i could've introduced you to them. But i have a drabble to write :D

11. Late Night Chats

Leo didn't expect to talk with Queenie, in 3 in the morning. But well, miracle happens. And that truly was a miracle. Leo discovered there was a lake beside the Praetor villa which, Zhang and Reyna was sharing. And for some reasons Zhang invited them - the seven - together. And now Leo discovered he couldn't sleep in the night. All those nightmares.

That's why he had decided to take a walk round the lake. And there she was. Sitting cross legged throwing rocks in the river. Maybe Leo should go talk to her. Or maybe he shouldn't. He wouldn't like getting killed by her, and she always wants to kill him. But later he decided that he should. And that turned out to be the greatest decision of his life.

Reyna was just sitting there. Leo just went and sat beside her. She noticed, but didn't say anything. After a while Leo decided to melt the ice. "Reyna? What are you doing here in this ungodly hour?" He asked, throwing a pebble in the river.

"Ungodly hour, Valdez? I think Diana's gonna get pretty angry." Reyna said and pointed to the moon. It was shining like it ever does. It took a moment for Leo to get it that Diana is Artemis. The Virgin Goddess.

"Oh, yeah," Leo grinned a bit. "So, never told me, Reina, what are you doing here?"

"Couldn't sleep, I guess. By the way, I never knew you guys made so noise. If Zhang took a day off, he should've helped me with the paperwork beforehand. It took me three hours to finish those." Reyna muttered. Leo found himself engrossing in every single word. And that didn't surprise Leo at all. Recently he found himself falling for Reyna. Yeah, he had many crushes. Including Thalia, Khione. But this thing with Reyna, it felt real. For Leo, it's like wanting to help her and not flirt with her. He found her intimidating, and that made matters worse. He stuttered when he talked with her.

"Oh yeah." Leo chuckled nervously. "We decided to have one of those private parties. In the end, when I put up the rule 'no kissing' they all started to make noise, shout, sing, and even decided to play truth or dare." He was probably rambling. Why wasn't he dead? He asked himself. And found to his weird surprise, Reyna was trying to suppress a smile. He actually smiled at that.

"Well, you seem to be the odd one out. It's gross, I tell you. They all act like all lovey-dovey, even Hazel and Frank. They're supposed to be Romans." Reyna added the last part as an after thought.

"It's gross, all right." Leo muttered. They fell into another one of those silences.

This time Reyna broke the ice. "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

Leo thought for a few minutes. Maybe he should tell her. "I had nightmares."

"Demigod nightmares?" Reyna nodded like she understood. "You can tell me if you want. I'm told to be a good listener."

Leo found himself telling her. "It was

"You listened to me. Now I listen to you, it's fair." Leo suggested, after a few minutes. Deciding he doesn't like the silence.

"Fair. Not very Roman of you. But I guess you aren't Roman." Reyna looked at the water. "It is nightmare. One of those, horrifying past revisiting. Like yours." Reyna told him about Circe and Hylla. And those nights in Blackbeard's ship.

By the end of her tale, Leo was rubbing her back. It turned out, he was good at comforting. "It feels good to tell someone something, doesn't it mi Reina?" Leo asked. Reyna never asked about his weird nicknames. She had a few of her own. Camp Bomber for starters.

"It does," Reyna said shortly. Reyna wanted to talk, but she ran out of topics and she was sleepy. "It's 3 am, Valdez, I need my sleep, you know." She got up and went a few paces. Leo was grinning dazedly. And then she again walked backwards and looked at him in the face. "Look, if you ever tell anyone what I told you tonight and right now, I'll kill you. You are a true friend, Valdez." With that she walked away.

Leo grinned stupidly. First step: Done. Second: Make her fall. Third: Kiss her. That was about it.

AN: :D :D I'm on a sugar rush. let's go burn something :P :P