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Leo.

Leo did not understand girls. No way, no how. Piper was sooo confusing. She was always finding something surprising to do, something to make his head spin. Like her beauty and charisma wasn't hard enough to ignore. First she let Jason go, which gave Leo guilty hope, then she almost let on that her memories had returned, that actually made him so happy, he didn't care if the hope was making him feel guilty, but they sadly hadn't. The next morning,she had turned into some sort of machine, for no apparent reason. She had demanded they prepare more, train more. Not having Percy and Annabeth was making them all upset, but it seemed to affect Piper a lot more than it should've. She wasn't the Piper he knew, she was moody, never smiling and even more bossy than usual. Jason and Calypso seemed to be closer than before, Piper didn't even give them a second glance, which made Leo wonder even more. As a matter of fact she didn't even talk to Leo,Leo felt like that was a slap in a face. He went from being hopeful to tearful and she went from beautiful to beautiful and spiteful! She devoted her time to helping Nico recover better, training, spending time with Hazel and Frank, training, planning and did he mention training? It was getting on his nerves. He didn't understand her sudden change in personality, Jason and the others didn't seem to mind, but he did.

Earlier that day he'd talked to Jason and asked him if he knew anything about why Piper was acting so strange. Jason looked guilty and Leo knew it must've had something to do with the whole Calypso thing. He'd left Jason in peace after that at this moment he was deciding whether he should go talk to Piper or not, after a long time of considering the best way to stay alive, he walked over to her where she was practicing different strikes with her knife against a dummy, the poor dummy didn't have a chance.

"Hey, Piper!" Leo said waving at her.

"What do you want Valdez?" She said spinning around and putting her knife to his throat, so he was backed up against one of the ship's masts.

"Er- I just came to talk." Leo said defensively.

"I don't have time for talking." She said turning around and started hacking at the dummy again.

"Piper," He said with more courage and less fear that she'll cut his head off."If you don't want to talk now, meet me in the stables tonight at ten."

"But-" She tried to protest.

"No, there's no need to dress up." He said, She was gaping at him, not believing a word he said.

"See ya later Beauty Queen!" He said leaving a fuming Piper behind him.

Oh shit Valdez she's going to kill you.

Ten pm that night.

Leo was pacing back and forth, back and forth in the stables. He constantly checked his watch. It was 10 past 10 when she came into the stables, Leo was at a loss for words for a few seconds, he hadn't exactly thought this through. No turning back now, Valdez. An annoying part of his brain stated. Oh well.

"Ok, I'm here what now?" Piper said putting her hands on her hips.

"We need to talk." He said.

"Yes, I know that's what you said this afternoon, before dragging me down here." She said looking at him like he'd gone loopy.

"Whats with this sudden change of personality?" He said looking her straight in the eyes.

"What change?" She said looking away from him.

"Aw, come on Piper. You've been ignoring me, you've been training like mad and you refuse to do anything fun anymore!" Leo said exasperated.

"So, what's wrong with that?" She said giving him the royal stink-eye.

"I'm your friend Beauty Queen. I want to help you and Jason doesn't seem to be doing anything, but stare whistfully at Calypso."She winced at the Calypso part."If you're my friend, then why did you walk away that night?" She wasn't looking at him now. She had sat down and was looking through the glass doors in the floor.

"I saw no reason to stay. You don't have all the memories I have, so I decided not to cause myself any more pain."

"But you never asked me if I did have my memories back, did you?"

"No." He said feeling stupid.

"Then why didn't you?"

"I don't know." it was the truth he had no idea why he hadn't asked her. He felt like an complete idiot. He could have been done with a lot of problems. But no, he was bad with organic life forms and never realised they don't exactly like code breaking. Thanks dad.

"Well I do. I do have them back, I've been trying non stop to forget about how I feel about you, but you make it nearly impossible!." She said, still not looking at him, he couldn't believe his ears she remembered and she felt something for him too. He was dumb-struck. He actually had a chance.

"Leo?" She asked uncertainly, because he was staring at her with an open mouth. He blushed and didn't say anything. He just leaned down and kissed her and that was of course the exact moment a confused Frank decided to come in, gaping at the scene with an expression like "Oh no not again." Though Leo barely noticed him.

Whoops! Slight cliffy there! I hope I'll be able to update tomorrow, or else you'll have to wait 'till next week! Thanks for the reviewers! And don't be shy to review again :D Thanks!