Yet Another leo valdez Memories Fan Fic

giving in, and giving up.

(A/N, so people, I know your reading this, please tell me what you think it's driving me up the wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk just read and have fun, and to those of you who read these a/ns thx so much I appreciate it, and sorry if I'm a downer.)

Annabeth fights back tears as she watches her younger sister die in Leo's arms. now she understands why he never mentioned her, he couldn't bare the memory of her dying in his arms.

Hazel covers her mouth with both hands at the sight of the little girl's life slipping away.

Leo on the other hand maintains a look of indifference, like he doesn't still miss her. like he doesn't daydream of the little girl's laugh, her look of tranquility on her face as she makes blueprints most adults would find to complicated to understand.

Nico watches Leo with a look of surprise, he knew that Leo lost people, he wreaks of death- but not the extent of such. and from the looks of it, no one knew about Maya, someone Leo clearly still hold dear.

Leo again sits in his room, moonlight shining through his window, the numb expression on his face conveying more then any words ever could. his once bruised and swollen knuckles now healed, but he now has a black eye and bloody nose, his arms wrapped gingerly around his ribs.

it's around ten p.m. and the door to his bedroom opens, a rather drunk Mr. Mathews stands in the doorway, he begins shouting about Leo being a burden, and that he's the reason Maya died and then throws the still half full bottle of beer at him, Leo doesn't duck, or even flinch.

the bottle unfortunately misses him by just an inch, shattering against the wall beside him. then Mr. Mathews stumbles into the room, grabbing Leo's ankle and pulling to the edge of the bed and then grabs him by the throat, beginning to beat him.

Leo doesn't show any reaction to this, only staring Mr. Mathews in the eye. he doesn't even bat an eye when he's thrown into the wall and the back of his head is bashed into the wall repeatedly. after awhile he's left crumbled on the floor. having yet to react to the abuse.

after a few hours he tries to get up, but the world starts spinning making his stomach do flips. his blinks repeatedly trying to clear his swimming vision. breathing raggedly he stumbles and falls onto the bed, not helping the pounding headache he received from his earlier beating. he just wishes that Mr. Mathews would just man up and kill him already.

Piper doesn't hide the tears as they make their way down her cheeks, just how bad of a friend was she to have not known about this? how did she miss the signs when they were right there in front of her? how little does she truly know about her best friend? she told him everything yet he's told her nothing.

it wasn't till watching his memories that she knew about the abuse, starvation, and abandonment or half of the other horrible things that's happened to him. how could she have missed this? her friend has been in ten kinds of pain and she never noticed.

she asks "why didn't you fight back? you proved you could take him." Leo just turns and looks at her with dull eyes. and Percy answers for him "he gave up, he cares about her, she's a reason to keep living and she was taken away, and with her went his reason to live." Piper doesn't ask anything else, she doesn't think her heart can take much more of this.