Calypso and Leo arrived at Camp Jupiter after dropping Percy back at Camp Halfblood with an angry girlfriend to deal with.
"Wow..." Calypso exclaimed when she saw the roman camp for the first time. The temples towered over New Rome like guard posts. The demigods were efficiently going about their business. And New Rome itself was a dream come true to a girl who had spent a few millenia alone on an island.
The second they landed a small dark girl and a tall aisan boy greeted Leo.
"Piper told us you were alive," the girl said. Then the boy added "I'm disappointed that you didn't come to see us sooner Leo"
"I'm sorry guys, but seeing Calypso again," he gestured to her when he said her name, "was my top priority. Closely followed by letting Piper and Jason know that I was okay. And then Percy decided to take us on a detour into Manhattan."
"So, what your saying is that we should blame Percy," the girl replied to Leo's explanation for his lateness"
"Yeah"
Leo and the two new demigods, whose names she learned were Frank and Hazel, led her around the Roman Camp, labeling points of interest such as the senate building and the armoury. Calypso was facinated. She had always wondered how another empire was able to concur the power of Ancient Greece, and now, seeing the power of Rome, she knew.
She met Praetor Rayna and Learned that Frank shared that position with her. She felt a grudging respect for Reyna when she learned the daughter of Bellona's story and expressed her sympathy for the girls loss of a home and a family. Reyna Alvira Ramirez-Arellano had gone frome being nothing to praetor of New Rome.
She also learned the story of Octavian and was glad she didn't have to meet the augur in person. But the best part of New Rome was when Hazel and Frank had to leave for war games and she and Leo shared a coffee in the city.
"So, I want to open Leo's and Calypso's here in New Rome," Leo was saying as they sat outside the café.
Calypso couldn't agree more, she loved the a of the two of them opening up a machine shop and loved it even more if they could do it in this city.
"So we'll have to get planning permission from Reyna and Frank and we need to find the perfect..." Calypso lost intrest in his words as they slured together and she focused on the beauty of his lips, moving to the steady, gentle rythem of his voice. She had a sudden urge to kiss him as passionately as she had when he arrived on her island on the back of a dragon.
After three days in New Rome with Leo, Calypso was sat outside the senate building, hoping against hope that she and Leo would get permission to bulid their machine shop. Leo walked out of the building followed by Frank and Reyna with a dejected look on his face. And that look pushed away all the hopes she had for Leo's and Calypso's.
He reached the bottom of the steps and she hugged him. She felt she needed to comfort him, tell him that they could build Leo's and Calypso's elsewhere, but she didn't have to because the next five words that he said lifted her spirits; "We get to build it."
"What?" Calypso couldn't believe it. They were going to do it. Build Leo's and Calypso's, the machine shop the two of them dreamed of.
"Reyna and Frank gave us a small space in the centre of New Rome," Leo explained as they walked to the spot that would soon play host to their dream.
The two of them set to work immediately, designing and building their own business. A few weeks later it was done. The two of them settled into a small home in the second floor and after weeks of Leo begging, Calypso agreed to marry him.
Calypso called on Hazel, her closest female friend to help buy a dress and be her maid of honour, the young girl eagerly consented and dragged Calypso out shopping to buy a dress. A few hours later, the dress had been brought along with the accessories to go with it. Percy agreed to be the one to give Calypso away when she asked him and, under great pressuer from Frank, Reyna got a licence to read the marriage vows.
After a few weeks, the date finally came. Calypso stood at the start of the aisle with Percy and forced herself to hold back from running headlong to where Leo waited for her with Jason stood behind him as the best man. When the wedding march came on, Calypso sighed with relief that she could start walking towards Leo. The tempo of the music was painfully slow, bit the aisle was mercifully short, and before she knew it, Percy was placing her hand in Leo's in a gesture older than Ancient Greece.
Reyna read out the marriage vows, she alnd Leo shared their first kiss as husband and wife and the ceremony was over.