MailMyselfToYou:I decided it's gonna be an all Leyna fanfiction!

18. Love Sucks

Leo was pretty sure that drinking wouldn't solve his problem. Or problems. But damn it, it was the only thing he could think of doing. It was three months after their battle with Giants. Leo fulfilled his promise to Calypso. He even went on an expedition with Festus to find Ogygia. And yes, he found Ogygia. But it didn't help matters much did it?

His throat burned as he downed the cheap drink. Fuck life. He thought.

Leo remembered well that how fucking Calypso hugged and kissed him as he visited her in Ogygia. He pastured Jackson to ask Zeus about his promise and he was pretty sure Calypso would be happy to see him. Yeah, she was, for a few weeks.

Before Percy fucking Jackson came and messed it all up. It wasn't exactly his fault at least that's what Jackson continues to tell him but it so was he's fucking fault. He just had to interrupt Leo and Calypso. No, it never was Leo and Calypso. It was Calypso and her fucking boy toy

Damn, he thought as he looked at the empty bottle. He snatched up a bottle from the Camp Jupiter bar. Thank the gods that Romans blow their steam occasionally.

Somewhere along the second bottle he started to forget fucking Calypso and Jackson and almost everything. It felt fucking good. No responsibilities, no thought about his mother or no fucking Calypso or being the seventh wheel.

Seventh wheel, Calypso's fucking boy toy. The thoughts pass over him and it hurts like fuck. Before he knows he's gulping all the contents of the bottle. It feels good to be intoxicated.

Fuck.

Reyna thought as she watched Jason and Piper be all cuddly. She was seating behind the lines as usual. Everyone was fucking paired off and riding into sunsets together while she was alone. Damn it, she thought as she took a swig from her bottle. Thank the gods everyone else was as intoxicated as she was or she'll have to act as a fucking leader.

Alone, always alone, She takes another swig of her bottle.

Never welcomed.

Feared.

Jason.

Piper.

She downs every misery in her life by taking a swig of whiskey. It feels fucking amazing to drink and forget everything. Maybe that's how it feels to be responsible free. She giggles as she watches Jason, her Jason kiss the bitch.

Life couldn't be fucking better. She thought as she watched them walking away hand in hand. She lets out a throaty chuckle as she drank. They all go away leaving her all alone.

Suddenly there was company beside her. "Never thought the Praetor of New Rome drank." Valdez hiccups.

She just looks at him. "Never thought I'd see Leo fucking Valdez, one of The Seven drinking," She says with equal verve before breaking into a verge of giggles.

Leo looks at her. Was she always this fucking beautiful or was it just today. "What happened to you?" He asks her in a monotone. "Why drinking?"

"Everyone is so fucking happy." Reyna says before taking Leo's bottle from his hand and taking a small swig. "It's like," She takes her right hand out. "'I'm Jason fucking Grace, Praetor of Rome, I forgot everything let's go out.'" Then she takes out her left hand. "'Hi, I'm Piper, Aphrodite Spawn, let's go out. Oh and I can charm speak too.'" She intertwines both her hand as Leo laughs.

"Yeah, they are so fucking annoying." Leo says.

"Why are you drinking?" She asks.

"Life, in general." Leo says. "Calypso and fucking Jackson and the Seventh Wheel and loneliness. Fuck." He finishes.

Reyna holds her bottle out. "To us." She says. "Two equally fucked up people."

"And to loneliness." Leo chuckles darkly.

Reyna nods her head and they both take a swig. They both sit quietly inching closely towards each other.

"Love sucks." Reyna whispers to Leo. She can smell motor oil on him. She doesn't mind. Instead she gets closer.

"Fuck Love," Leo agrees with Reyna before kissing her. Leo's mind slowly gets upturned by her chocolate and whiskey.

Just for the night they are taking each other's spaces of empty hearts. Leo forgets all about his Calypso for one night and Reyna forgets all about her Jason for the night. After all, they weren't really theirs and all they had is each other.

Love sucks.