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Chapter 12 – Accusing and losing

HAZEL

Hazel was in shock.

After what happened to Leo, everything had happened really fast. Jason summoned lightning and blasted two of the dragons; Frank changed to human-shape and shot so many arrows that one of the dragons dissolved, and Coach Hedge's and Piper's combed screaming voices (Piper's were almost electric with charmspeak) scared the last dragon so much that it flew away.

Hazel ran to Leo just as the last dragon disappeared. His skin was white and his eyes glassy. Not to mention all the huge wounds all over his body. He was almost drenched in blood.

Hazel wouldn't have touched anyone who was that bloody, but this was Leo. She gripped his shoulders and shook him.

"Leo, wake up." She said, surprisingly calm. "Come on, Leo, you can do this. You're not dead. Wake up!"

She was so scared, so sad and so desperate that when she tried to feel if he was dead, she couldn't – good thing Nico was there.

"He's almost dead." He said grimly. "We need ambrosia and nectar. Fast."

Frank ran down to the sickbay.

Coach Hedge came over. For once, he was serious.

"I don't know if he can be healed. It is a pretty big damage." He said, which made Hazel feel even worse.

Hazel wanted to scream to the gods that this wasn't fair. First, they make her fall in love with a guy who is just like Sammy, and then they kill him off. And why did he die? Because Frank, her own boyfriend, hesitated when he was supposed to save Leo.

Piper was sitting by Hazel's side, but she looked calm. Jason stood behind her with a hand on her shoulder, looking shocked and angry.

Frank came running with ambrosia and nectar. Hazel snatched it out of his hands and slowly started to feed Leo. Everyone was quiet.

"We can't let him just lie here." Nico said at last. "We need to take him down to the sickbay."

The other agreed, but Hazel just sat there and stared at Leo's face. She couldn't believe it. How could the gods be so cruel?

Jason, Frank and the coach lifted Leo up. The spot where he had been lying was now a puddle of blood.

The ship was still on fire, at least parts of it. Hazel didn't care. She followed the boys and the satyr down to the sickbay, Nico and Piper behind her.

Even if they had fed Leo ambrosia and nectar, it looked like nothing had changed. He was cold, and his face got paler for every second.

"He's losing it." Nico mumbled behind her. Hazel wanted to yell at him to shut up.

They put him down on a bed. Coach Hedge started to do some nature healing on him, but it didn't seem to work. Piper muttered over and over again: "Wake up. Wake up." Jason and Frank tried to stop the bleeding. Hazel fed him with ambrosia and nectar.

After an hour, Leo's worst wounds were wrapped in bandage, and some of his color was coming back. The other left, but Hazel and Piper still sat there, feeding him.

Piper looked tired. She had been trying to wake Leo up with charmspeak (apparently she had done the same thing with Jason), but it didn't seem to work. Hazel was quiet and just kept feeding him the godly food.

"Is he going to wake up?" Piper asked her after a moment. "Do you know?"

Hazel tried to sense how dead he was, but it just didn't work.

"I-I'm too unfocused. It's hard to say."

Piper nodded, and they fell back into silence.

"Are you okay, Hazel? You've been a little distant." Piper said. She looked genuinely worried.

Hazel shrugged. She really started to hate that question.

"I-I have some issues. But I'm fine."

A knock on the door almost made Hazel jump. Frank came in, looking nervous.

"Can I talk to you, Hazel? In private?" He asked and glanced at Piper.

Piper rose from her seat.

"Of course. I have to go check on Jason anyway."

She gave Hazel a quizzical look and left.

The silence was awkward. Frank shifted on his feet.

"Hazel, I-I'm so sorry." He said at last.

"For what?" She asked him sternly.

"For not saving Leo." He said. "I didn't-"

"Why didn't you do it then?!" Hazel turned and looked Frank in the eyes. "Why couldn't you just dropped me and saved him?! Then this would never have happened!" She pointed angrily at Leo's unconscious body.

"I-I didn't mean t-to hesitate." Frank stammered. "I-"

"I don't care."

"Hazel, I di-"

"You almost killed him."

"Listen to me-"

"No." Hazel said. "Please just go."

Frank looked like he had been stabbed. He blinked a few times, but then left her.

Did I just accuse Frank for something two dragons did? Hazel asked herself. She seriously had done that?! Now she maybe had lost both Leo and Frank, just like Gaea said in her dream.

"I'm stupid, stupid, stupid." She muttered.

She looked at Leo's pale face, and every intense moment she ever had with him flashed by. On the boulder when they were looking for Celestial Bronze, the flashback, at the underwater camp, when they copied the Archimedes scrolls, when he asked her about the other enemy and they almost had kissed, the time he woke her up and she kissed him on the cheek, when she told him about Sammy and started to cry and when he spoke with her about her latest 'flashback' and got interrupted by the dragon-attack…

"Please wake up." Hazel whispered to Leo. "Please. I-We need you."

She held his hand tightly, but he didn't wake up.

"Maybe I can help." A new voice said behind her.

Hope you liked this chapter! Next one comes later! X)