The Undoing of My Reality [UNDOING I]

Road Trip 2.0!

==> Be Oliver.
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Am I in control for a bit? Cool, cool. I need to explain myself.

I wasn't trying to keep Leo and Luna apart. That really wasn't what I wanted to do. I just didn't want them to rush into a codependent friendship. I knew that it was likely to happen, because I knew the two of them pretty well. Both of them were lonely and touched starved, desperate for someone who understood. And I realized that they understood each other.

I had that realization when I found Luna in Bunker nine, after the fight we had. She hung out there a lot, I could tell because of how comfortable she was. I realized it when they came out of the fields of punishment together, her as white as a ghost and him freshly burned up. or even before that when Leo grabbed her hand, and she didn't pull away. Had someone else done that, anyone at all, Luna would freeze up and shut down.

I'd seen Leo at his worst. I'd never seen Luna at her worst, but I knew her potential. I knew that the two would enable each other's angst and rage and past trauma. I knew that if Leo ever came face to face with Gaea, Luna wouldn't stop him from doing something irrational. I knew that if Luna ran into her real dad, Leo wouldn't stop her from letting her anger out on him.

Or at least I thought I knew.

I woke up the next morning when the sun was coming through the window next to me. Will left a note on the wheel saying she went to get breakfast from the gas station. I turned around to see if Leo and Luna had gone too, but instead I found them huddled together in the back seat, tangled in each other's arms.

It was in that moment that I realized that no, it wouldn't be a codependency. They wouldn't enable each other's trauma, they would work through it. I instantly felt a pang of regret, as I tried to stop something so natural. I needed to accept it- that as close as I used to be to Luna, I didn't get her. I was absent for three years, and a lot happened in those years that changed her. She wasn't who she used to be. She used to be outspoken about a lot of things, she always shared her opinion and had impulsive anger issues. Now, it was all internalized. She still had all those opinions and anger, but she didnt let it out. She bottled it up. So did Leo; they needed each other to let things out.

Will came back into the car, and the L kids in the back woke up. I watched as they slowly realized their position, and scrambled back with red faces. I couldn't help but snicker.
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==> Back to Luna, Please. Oliver talks too much.

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I woke up when Will shut her drivers side door, and tossed some doughnuts in the back. I opened my eyes, and it took me a second to figure out that not only was Leo awake, but we were also cuddling. We seemed to have a mutual reaction of slamming ourselves into the nearest wall, away from each other. I could feel my face turn red as Oliver snickered.

"I-it isn't like that! Shut up!" I whined in my own defense, hogging all the Boston creame doughnuts for myself. I didn't look at Leo, I was too embarassed. I don't think he was looking at me either.

Will just kinda watched the chaos unfold as we got on the road again.

"We're heading west." She explained. "The priest told me about a guy named Isaiah, who's supposed to drink demigod blood from a special chalice, become immortal, destroy all the gods except himself and rule the world how he wants to. Thing is, he can't do that when the chalice is broken. And apparently, it is. It's got a ruby missing. Said ruby is in the lotus casino/hotel as a decoration. Oh, it's also currently the only solid gem in the world that burns at 3000 degrees. It glows. We have to get it before Isaiah does. Any questions?"