LEO
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All of Leo's friends were gone.
Hazel and Frank went back to Camp Jupiter. They kind of had to, since Frank was a praetor now and Hazel was always by his side, and they were planning some awesome things with Reyna to make New Rome better and make the legion a little safer for demigods. Leo wasn't mad at them.
Percy went back into the city to be with his mom and stepdad. He was overjoyed to be seeing them again. Leo wished he could've gone home to his mom. Leo wasn't mad at Percy.
Annabeth had some sort of family emergency in Boston- hunting down a cousin, or something. Leo wished his family in Texas cared about him. Leo wasn't mad at Annabeth.
Piper and Jason had gone to California, since Piper's dad was there and Jason was being enrolled in some nice all-boys school. While there, he planned to work on making more shrines for the gods, just as he promised. Leo wasn't mad at them.
Aruna was dead.
Leo was very mad at her.
He tried to keep his mind occupied with other things. He tried to convince himself it wasn't all bad. Six of his friends were gone and one was dead? Well... Nyssa was here. Harley was here. Jake was here. But those were half-siblings that Leo never really felt strongly connected to. He cared about them, but there was no way he could talk to them about what he was feeling.
Nico was here, right? Well... yes. Sometimes. His presence was intermittent, but not as much as before. Still, it was hard for Leo to be around Nico without feeling like he wanted to sob. Especially because Nico spent a lot of his free time reading and analyzing poetry on the steps of cabin 21. An empty cabin. Nobody knew if it would ever be filled again. But they never bothered to knock it down.
Other than that, Leo had no idea who else he had. What people he had, actually. He talked to Festus all the time. That poor dragon mourned Aruna, too. She'd been there for the same length of time as Leo, and Aruna forced Piper to charmspeak him into obeying her orders. Otherwise, Festus never would have done it. Leo knew that. So did Aruna. That's why she had to make Piper charmspeak him.
Leo was very mad at her.
The days drifted by in an endless blur of demigod bodies and time ticking slowly by. Leo made it to maybe two out of every ten meals. If he ate, it was usually because someone brought him food and he was so lethargic and ill he forced himself to eat. He didn't even understand why eating was such a struggle. Your girlfriend dies, so you go on a hunger strike? What sense did that make?
"Leo."
Leo picked his head up from his bed, turning it over his shoulder to look at Nico.
"Sorry," the son of Hades mumbled. "Were you asleep?"
Leo put his head back on the pillow. He didn't close his eyes. "Not really." Leo never slept anymore, but he was unconscious all the time. Sleeping wasn't the same as whatever Leo did to pass the time.
"Everyone else is asleep," Nico said.
"Awesome."
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Colapso || Leo Valdez x OC
Fanfiction── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ── "Hoy creí que ella volvió Que todo iba ya mejor Pero fue un sueño nada más Y yo ya pido una señal Dios, dame fuerza, que ya me voy a rendir Dios, dame fuerza, que siento que yo ya perdí Y no, no, no, no No sé pa dónde voy Sigo varado esp...
