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━━ chapter thirty-one front line ( leo )
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━━Leo supposed he could now put flying a helicopter on his 'I Never Thought Even I Would Have Been Crazy Enough To Do This' list━a list he never constructed until he realised he was a demigod ... and after everything they've been through on this quest so far, he was pretty sure he'll need another mental notebook to write everything down.
The sun was going down as they few North over the Richmond Bridge and Leo couldn't believe the day had gone so quickly. (Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly!). Piloting the chipper, he went back and forth between confidence and utter panic. If he didn't think about it, he found himself automatically flipping the right switches, checking the altimeter, easing ack on the stick and flying straight. If he allowed himself to consider what he was doing, he started to freak out. He imagined his Aunt Rosa yelling at him in Spanish, telling him he was a delinquent lunatic who was going to crash and burn. Part of him suspected she was right━but it might not just be the helicopter he would crash and burn.
"You okay?" the voice from beside him immediately seemed to push away his Aunt Rosa's displeasure, and he risked a glance away from the view in front of them to see Savreen arch a gentle brow at him in the copilot's seat.
He knew that if he lied, she could tell. She could read him and understand him sometimes better than he could understand himself (or he should say━always could), and that was scary sometimes. But sometimes, it also hurt. Leo didn't believe in much━he barely believed in himself, let alone things that were meant to be and things that were not: God's destiny or the Gods' or whatever. But to have found Savreen after years ... for the connection they had since little kids to still be so strong━that despite how many times he had ran away, had kept on moving, somehow, he had ran all the way back to her.
It didn't matter what their parents thought of each other━their battles and their disputes; the things Hephaestus did and the way Harmonia and her children were cursed for it ... at least, it didn't matter to him. Because despite it, here they were. And while Leo felt the need to run away from everything and anyone, he never felt the need to run away from her, because when two people were wanted by no one in the world, they knew they at least had each other.
But it hurt, because Savreen was beautiful. And she smiled so sweetly. And she made his heart go wild and his cheeks burn so much he had to make sure his nose wouldn't be set alight. She was kind, and she was caring, and she understood him━she was his best friend, and she was also more than that ... but to her, he never was━and he was sure he never will be.
And that was why, even if he knew she could tell he lied, he forced the smile on his face and said, "Yeah, 'course I am. Captain Leo is all aces." She frowned, and she went to say she didn't believe him, and so he cut her off and said: "Are you okay?"
