𝕱𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖞 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊 - a Leo Valdez slowburn

Chapter three

Chapter three.

[Leah gets attacked at the airport]

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Leah, after a lot of banter and blackmailing, got her uncle to lend her his apartment for the week. She didn't quite know how she did it herself. But, she set aside her questions and focused on packing. Considering that she was going to be gone for quite some time (as she would have to stay in Europe for several months) she packed quite a good deal of clothes, food, and other supplies, like her guns and throwing knives. She knew Chiron's money wouldn't supply her for long. Maybe she could get a part time job?

Once she had packed everything she thought she needed in a backpack she had found lying around, it was about two AM and Leah desperately needed sleep. But, as she didn't sleep, at all, she decided to think over her plan. Of course, she would go to the airport tomorrow morning with Argus. The teenager would have multiple hours on the plane for herself; twelve of them, in fact. 

Once she had landed, she had to count on jet lag and that she had never met her uncle before that she would die a young death. She would have to trust Matthew completely to find her. Leah's flight was to Edinburgh, as apparently her uncle had moved there from London. "Better workspace," he had said to her on the call. She didn't really believe him, but oh well. Whatever, she had thought before turning onto her stomach and pressing her face into the pillow.

One thing that mad Leah different from her siblings was that she didn't like the constant noise of growth. The roots that spread under the cabin, the flowers that kept blooming, the branches that just kept growing... It was annoying and constant and Leah could wish for nothing more than to go to New York because at least there isn't that much nature there, even if it was a concrete jungle and the air was musty and disgusting. This feeling had actually progressed since she was with the Hunters, and Leah thought it maybe had to do with her coming in contact with Porphyrion and Gaea.

Leah's siblings seemed to, in contrast to her, love the constant growth around them. Leah would catch Katie inhaling the scent of the flowers, or talking to the little strawberry bushes off in the field. She was disturbed, to say the least. Leah actually made good acquaintances (friends?) with the Stoll brothers because of this, pranking the Demeter cabin with this, as she was a spy on the inside.

To put it simply, Katie would never understand how Travis knew her daily routine.

Leah sighed. Her cabin definitely annoyed her, but the kids inside were quite nice and so were the other demigods, the nymphs and the satyrs. She would, Leah thought, miss Camp Half-Blood. She hated the nights in which she couldn't sleep (which was most of them) and she despised the curriculum of archery and unnecessary knowledge. But she liked the people: Camp Half-Blood was not a place, it was a people. 

At least, that's what a tired philosophizing Leah would say. 

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It was five AM and Leah wanted to die.

Argus had already gotten her to the airport, although she had no idea why, as the sun wouldn't rise for another hour or so. Maybe he wanted to be on time for her flight? Leah didn't really care about her flight at the moment, although it was a nice gesture, she guessed. She had already gotten two coffees this morning, one which Chiron had brought her, and one she had bought at the airport Starbucks. She had been awake for one hour and she honestly was still incredibly tired.