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So. We're here. Can someone explain how it seemed to take so long and yet go by so quickly?
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100. Light
The light from the sun through the window is what first makes Leo appreciate the scene.
He and Reyna don't have much of an apartment, but it's theirs and they make it home. It's tiny. The kitchen and living room are practically one and the same, the bedroom closet doesn't fit all of their clothes, they have to inch around the bed and the bathroom...
Did he mention it was tiny? And that he absolutely loves this place?
Their first apartment together, he'd been a little nervous moving in, making the jump from Camp Half-Blood to New Rome. But here they are, five years after Reyna gave up being praetor, going to college, getting degrees, preparing to settle down together.
(Well... if the ring sitting in his pocket for the past week was any indication.)
And they were still stuck in this crappy apartment.
Neither of them mind.
Because for Leo he gets to crawl out of bed to find views like this waiting for him. Reyna in pajama pants, a white tank and a gray woolen shawl shitting on their window seat, staring out over the town with a steaming cup of coffee cupped in her hands, light glowing around her from the dawn.
And Leo stops cold because this woman is everything to him, and when did that happen? How did he go from having no one and nothing to share his life with to her, to Reyna who he would die for and live for and wants to be with forever?
He honestly doesn't know how it happened. And yet he treasures every moment and memory he has of her, so he could probably tell you second for second how their relationship progressed.
("It all started with her loving me, of course-" "Leo." "Okay so I asked her out and she turned me down...")
And now they're here, together, past all of the battles and immortal conspiracies. They're in love, they stay together, Hades, hopefully they're about to get married.
Speaking of which...
"Will you marry me?"
She turns around in surprise. "What did you say?"
He's shocked at himself, not able to move for a second, until he somehow practically falls to one knee and fumbles the ring out of his pocket. "Rey, I'm so in love with you." His voice is thicker than usual. "And I can't picture a day where I don't feel that way anymore. Please, will you marry me?"
They're in their pajamas. It's the morning. Coffee is waiting for him in the kitchen but right now the only thing that matters is the look in her eyes and smile widening her lips.
"Of course." She falls to her knees in front of him, cupping his face. "Leo Valdez, of course I'll marry you."
The ring tumbles to the ground forgotten as she kisses him senseless, only later being picked up and placed carefully on her left hand's finger.