Leo Valdez x Reader

Iris Messaging the Master

It was only about five AM, and a little bit of light hadn't how's through the endless clouds of cold when you contacted Chiron from an abandoned car wash in the middle of almost nowhere. Between the five of you, you explained everything to Chiron (minus the iPod; that was a little secret project Leo didn't want to reveal yet) before the sun had become a full circle in the brightly pink sky.
"Oh, dear. This had been worse than I feared," Chiron admitted, "I had hoped that I had been wrong..." He began to play with his beard and give the same distant thinking look that Annabeth had given on Festus.
"What is it, Chiron?" Leo asked desperately, clutching onto one of your shaking hands with one of his own.
"You see, lad, there was a reason the Mist was created in the first place," Chiron explained, his voice being the same ton that a grandfather would use while telling a story to his grandkids to put them to bed. "Long ago, the mortals believed that they should either all have some power from the gods, or they should take over since they had no special abilities, so they believed that they were more worthy of royal power. Zeus tried for years to reason with them before an uproar overcame the power hungry mortals, leaving them to march on Olympus. It didn't work, of course, but most of the mortals were lost. Some of those mortals, however, had been parents to some of the gods' children. So, naturally, Zeus came up with the Mist to allow the mortals to believe that they had all the power in the world. Now, here's where the problem comes in. That one last mortal that survived had been believed to have gone mad, so the other mortals averted them."
"So what does this have to do with her?" Leo asked impatiently. I could understand why, though. The water looked like it was about to run out any time now.
"That mortal did not die because she was bearing a child, and that child was the first child to b able to see through the Mist just as the mother had. Everyone down that line-demigod or non-demigod- can see through the Nist just as well as you and I. It was Zeus's greatest flaw." And with that, the water trickled to a stop.