82. Candy
Leo makes sure that Reyna always has a bowl of jellybeans on her table in the praetor's room. A full bowl of jellybeans.
It's her guilty pleasure, which he knows. When she's nervous or anxious, she pops a jellybean or two, or four, and it calms her. The candy works better on her than medication.
(Not that he's tested that.)
But he knows she's always busy, or finding things to make her busy, and he knows she forgets. So he does it for her, sometimes, just checks in when he walks by the praetor's house, makes sure the bowl is full, and then keeps going.
She never says anything and neither does he, but they both know the other is perfectly aware that they both know.
He likes doing it for her, and other little things. He's not sure when it started, shortly after he moved to Camp Jupiter, maybe even before it was official, but he does it.
And somehow he's like, unofficially moved into her sleeping quarters? Half his stuff is there and he sleeps there and spends most of his free time there when he's not building or fixing or training or something else that helps towards the eternal fight against monsters.
When did that happen?
But he knows for a fact that a Reyna without her jellybeans isn't a completely happy Reyna. So he does the best he can, and when she flops down on the bed beside him after a long day, only to kiss him, he knows what it's for.
It's for the little things. Because things like jellybeans and making sure he doesn't take over Reyna's space in this room of hers, matter. It all matters.
It's her way of saying thank you.
Kissing her back is his way of saying you're welcome.