Leo Valdez Fluff And One-Shots

I Don't Wanna Fight

Leo Valdez x Reader
"I Don't Wanna Fight No More" -Westlife

          Y/N POV

   Clenching a fist as tears poured out of your squinting eyes, you cried, "Leo! You don't understand!"
   Leo stood up from the seat before the blazing fire he made. In a monotone voice, he said, "I need to continue building the Argo II."
   He turned to leave, but you grabbed his arm, standing. "Leo! You'll kill yourself if you keep going on like this! Please, Leo... I don't want to see anything... I don't want to see anything that... that isn't that perfection of yours!"
   Leo shook your hand off, his brown eyes filled with nothing but fury. "You don't understand anything. You don't know me."
   He marched ahead, his body and shadow avoiding you. You stared at him, another trickle of tears escaping your eyes. "Leo... Leo... Oh, Leo..."
   Alone in the riverside, you looked t the river, tears creating ripples. "Should our love be like this?" you cried, letting the tears stream down faster. Curfew or not, how could you sleep thinking about such heartache from a broken love?

I can't sleep
Everything I knew
Is a lie
Without you
I can't breathe
When my heart is broke in two
There's no beat

   There was someone tugging your blanket. Fighting over it for a while, you gave up and groggily opened your eyes, to see the brown-haired Piper, her eyes filled with worry. "Quick... (Y/N)... Come with me!"
   "H-huh? W-what?" you muttered, the scene of an argument with Leo reeled itself to play in your head.
   Piper pulled the blanket off you, revealing your horizontally blue-striped pyjamas. "Get up, sleepy-head! I don't know whether this is the cabin of Hebe or of Hypnos anymore!"
   "Unggh," you moaned, "alright, I'm coming."
   Piper watched you as you took a fresh shirt from your small chest and rushed into the bathroom. Dressed in an orange long sleeved shirt and skinny jeans, you sauntered over to Piper. "What now?"
   "Follow me!" the daughter of Aphrodite cried as she energetically skipped out the door. Sighing, you trudged outside as well, wondering about Piper's weird expressions.
   "So, (Y/N), are you OK? You look kinda broken," Piper said.
   "Oh, do I?" you snapped. Piper just smiled, and you hate her sometimes because she can make you feel guilty by what you just did by a simple smile. Sighing, you said, "Maybe a little..."
   "I'm a councillor, specifically of the Aphrodite cabin, if you have any problems, come, let's sit down for a while as we discuss," Piper suggested.
   That knot of anger tightened. "Y-yeah, w-we should."
   Leading you to the strawberry fields, the two of you sat on a nearby gazebo the Dionysus cabin placed weeks ago. Plucking a strawberry for herself, Piper nodded towards me, "So, what's this problem you have? It's not personal, is it?"
   You sniffed a bit, hot tears stinging at the back of your eyes. "No, it's not, but..."
   "Painful?"
   "Y-yes," you admitted.
   "Heartache?"
   You didn't know whether to nod or shake your head. "Leo and I fought yesterday."
   "W-what?"
   Piper looked at you, her brown eyes wide in shock. "An argument? How? I mean, you and Leo are practically like BFFs! In fact, lovers! (Y/N)! Tell me, please, if it's not all that personal. I just..."
   Whispering now, Piper continued to say, "It hurts to see friends apart."
   You wanted to wail yourself, but, then, that wouldn't seem right.

Without you
You're not gone, but you're not here
Instead that's the way it seems tonight
If we could try to end these wars
I know that we can make it right
Cause baby

   "Leo's been building the Argo II nearly non-stop everyday," you started. "He has been taking less breaks, consuming less food and water, and, I know he's somewhat immune to fire, but..."
   "Hmph," Piper snorted, smiling, "seems like something the child of Hebe would have noticed."
   You blushed. After all, you vow to live a long youthful life, as your mother was Hebe, goddess of youth. That applies of your vow to help your friends. Especially your lover and the one you love- Leo.
   "(Y/N), but still, what caused this fight?" Piper inquired.
   You casted your sad eyes downwards, to gaze at the wooden platform of the gazebo. "Yesterday, I finally convinced him to stay a while after the camp sing-alongs, and when he finally appeared into the campfire area... I was sitting there, isolated. he was late, he even forgotten time because of this project." You paused to sigh. "I know all of our lives are hanging on a thread because of this prophesy, and Leo wanted to best outcome, but what will happen if he isn't in his best?"
   Piper sniffed. "You have a point there. Leo's stubborn, so I guess it's only right to be concerned."
   "Ultra-concerned," you noted. "Leo invited me over to the riverside, where he just... We didn't even gaze into each others' eyes, we just... sat there, spoke to each other as if we were mourning.
   "He finally decided to talk about Argo II, about how he needed to polish the metals, fix the gears. 'It'll be an amazing ship, you'll see,' he told me. What's worse is that he refused to make a joke that night. It's like he has been turned into some robot who's programmed to assemble flying ships."
   Piper sighed. "That sounds terrible... I've never seen Leo like that, and I hope I won't."
   "I know, so I simply assumed he has taken his work just too seriously. I tried talking to him to accept more help, I mean, if you observe, the other Hephaestus kids are pretty light-hearted. They joke around, they fool around. Leo's too wrapped up, it's like he's spending his entire life on that one ship.
   "I was concerned. Why can't he ask for help? Why can't he ask for consultation? There's so many things he could have done, but didn't! I asked him to consider to lighten his load, ask for help, and even talk to me and take a rest more often. He just snapped at me, it's like he doesn't even care about himself anymore!"
   You buried your head onto your cupped hands, tears forming at the corner of your eyes. "He doesn't, he might not," you said, crying, "but I do, I do..."
   Piper moved closer to you and tried to comfort you. When you finally raised your head, you gazed into Piper's eyes. "I don't wanna fight anymore..." Leo.