My Atlantis (Leo Valdez)

Chapter Three

Lake, Camp Half Blood, Long Island, New York

Sitting down on the docks, the Tyche girl crosses her legs as her new acquaintances caught up to her and Eren.

"I want to show you my canoe my dad gifted me!" Eren says, pulling the Aphrodite girl towards the canoe stand, Jason following after the overly esthusiastic Eros boy and Piper.

Leo, looking rather nervous, goes towards Elena, sitting down on the edge of the dock. "...so...uhm... I'm sorry for offending you...please don't be mad-"

"I'm not mad." She answered, cutting him off from furthering the apology.

"Then why do you look like you want to rip my throat out?"

She shrugs "resting bitch face?"

"Oh."

Leo, slightly less scared than before, catches his eyes on one of the pins attached to her satchel, it was a black with a bunch of white lines.

"What is that,on the pin?"

Elena looks down at his line of sight, before pressing her thumb and index finger together, pushing against the pin like you would do to zoom in on a phone.

Which is does, to reveal a few words. "He's going to sting me! Nobody move."

Leo squints at it for a few moments before blinking a few times. "Is...is that the bee movie script? How did it zoom in like that?"

Elena rolls her eyes slightly. "Enchanted pin, gag gift from the Stoll Brothers last year."

He laughs abit. "That's funny, did you get an actual gift, though?"

She nods, pulling a deck of cards from her satchel, showing it to him. The card cover, instead of a standard sleeve, was made into  a painting of a redwood forest, very nicely done, and, despite also being a year old, isn't chipped in any way.

Watching him take it from her hands, she explains it.

"They made a new sleeve for my cards, uh...any sleeve thats put on it is immediately immune to wear and tear."

He attempts to take the cards from the sleeve, only getting a glimpse of a fancy written "50%" before she quickly takes it back. "Don't open it." She murmurs as she puts the cards back in the sleeve, neatly putting it back.

He holds his hands up in defense. "Sorry."

She nods, watching the person she considers a brother attempt to push his canoe into the water, having a hard time with his wings out, in which Jason pushes it for him.

"So, are you and the Eros kid, like, y'know-?"

"Eren? No, he's my best friend, I've known him since I came here, he's like a brother to me."

"How'd you two start talking?"

She looks over at Leo. "This sounds like a one sided icebreaker."

"Well, if you tell me how you met Eren, I'll tell you how I met Piper and Jason."

She rolls her eyes. "Fine."

It was a cold day in New York, one of those gross days with slush everywhere after the snow the night before.

A little girl, only around 10 or so, was walking through the busy streets, only dawning a threadbare long sleeved shirt, loose threads around the sleeves, ripped leggings, a sachel in surprisingly good condition, and ratty high tops.

A boy, at the stage where he says he's "almost 11" despite just turning 10 a couple months ago, was walking with his father when he sees the little girl, not liking the aura around her.

He's never seen so dark a blue.

So, he does what any tiny tot would do in his position, he scrambled over and pulled her into a hug.

The little girl flinched at the sudden touch, but looked at the little red haired boy and started to sob, finally crumbling under the warmth of something she hasn't felt in months.

Eren's father ran over, looking back and forth between the crying girl and his son, and decided then and there that he would help the girl.

She had told them that she was being hunted, and every police officer she had met had tried to send her back, so she was running.

Mitch knew of the dangers of the godly world, he's been tied to it ever since Eros gave him his son. He could feel the power radiating off the black haired girl, and he had a feeling he knew why she was being hunted.

So, he did what he had to.

Its not often he asks Eren to use his charmspeak, he never wants to use his child for greed. But something Eren got from his husband was his stubbornness, and he wanted to give Elena a home, so thats exactly what he did.

He said her name was Elena Keiko, a name meaning "Lucky Light," he could see through her aura to see that her soul was a brilliant yellow, so he named her after what she really is. He both metaphorical and physically took the younger girl under his wing, much to the admiration of Mitch and Logan.

But, after a long, hard legal battle, they now had Elena Keiko-Paramore as their daughter.

"Well, if Elena isn't your birth name, then what is it?"

"That's for me to know and you to definitely not find out."

He pouts.

"Your turn." She laughs behind her hand at his antics.

"Well..."

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So, if you can't tell, the title is under construction, aka im indecisive and don't know what direction im heading with this fanfiction, so I need help.

Plz comment on which one you would like

Don't give up on me- probably more on the fluffier side ("I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up, giving up, no not yet, even when im down on my last breath, even when I know there's nothing left, so don't give up on me.")

My Atlantis- angst, angst, and even more angst. ("It's all become too much, maybe im not built for love...")

Habits- more angst, but this one got more relationship angst, everyone loves on and off relationships, i mean, Lucas and Max got it ("Spend my days, locked in a haze, tryna forget ya babe, I fall back down.")

Have a good day/night, and try not to get sick. Im sick, and its absolute hell.

-Bow <3