Saving Time - A Caleo Story

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Calypso didn't understand anything about technology, that was a fact.

Therefore, she didn't hide her ignorance about the topic when Leo began to analyze the hairs. According to a brief explanation that both Annabeth and Reyna gave- with a minimum input from Piper, who would knew she was knowledgable about this area in particular! -, the hair contains the long sequence of nutrients the body ingested, even when the blood was cleansed.

"Analyzing their hair would give us the how long they've been sick." Piper had summarized.

She wasn't surprised when Leo's white face looked away from the screen. Actually, none of them were surprised, not even Annabeth who was trying to find any clue of what had happened to her mother.

"How far gone are they?" Perseus was the first one talking.

"According to this... since the beginning..." Leo announced, turning the atmosphere even more tense. No one was happy about this turn of events. "I have lots of names I can't pronounce- Will, give me a hand here!" He asked, making William to stand next to him, reading. The further William would read, the darker his look became.

"I- I can't even begin to describe..."

"Your face said it all, Will." Piper pointed out, looking devastated. Everyone looked defeated and upset.

"So, that's it?" Calypso found herself speaking up. "We're gonna give up?"

"Do we have another choice?" Jason raised an eyebrow, curious.

"I gave up on them." Reyna answered him, frowning. But Calypso doubted she was angry at him. "I didn't give up on their ideals."

"In one of Calypso's theories, she assumed we were this Council..." Rachel remembered, looking serious. "Sure, we aren't the original, which I believe is better, but that idea doesn't seem so crazy right now..." She glanced around and her eyes set on Reyna, who had been the one with the outburst before. She simply shrugged her shoulders in response.

"Which opens a more important question..." Lang stepped forward. "How do we switch from them to us?"

"Trickery would only work so far..." Nico spoke after a moment of thinking in silence. "We need something a little more permanent, something that allow us make the decisions and no one else to question us on why we're in charge..."

"How do you beat the competition?" Ian mused outloud, a smile coming to his face. Calypso thought he looked like crazy smiling in a serious moment, and she wasn't the only one. "Think about it in terms of products- when a new product is competing with you, you put out new advertisement to attract more buyers, or..." Rachel seemed to follow his train of thought cause she soon was smiling too.

"...or you buy them to be part of you."

"A subsidiary?" Leo's words were understood by half the group. "It's- never mind, how are you gonna convince them to sell you the company?"

"Oh, not to me!" Ian added, pointed at Piper, who frowned. "She's the one with the silver tongue..."

"I think I heard a compliment there..." Piper teased him, looking serious.

"We all heard it, Pipes..." Jason agreed with her, smirking. "Ian is right, you're the one who can handle herself around words- the oral word, not written." He glanced at Dylan who shrugged in reply.

"We have more than enough money to buy them but you think they will sell?" Hazel questioned, looking around.

"No, they won't." Perseus shut down that idea, serious. "However, in their susceptible state, threatening or even blackmailing them should be more easy..." Calypso noticed that the guys looked kind of feral when those words were spoken. "All I'm willing to compromise is a 'no killing' policy." He finished when he caught the eyes of Annabeth.

"Should be enough for them to surrender..." Lang was in his world, calculating. He looked so concentrated that Calypso didn't dare to speak up in case she interrupted him. "A back-up plan should be consider, just in case, leaving violence as a defense in the last resource."

"All in favor of Lang's no-bloodshed-plan-that-pales-in-comparison-to-what-the-girls-did-before?" Leo raised his hand, earning a round of blushes and laughs on the name of the plan. Thankfully, all were in agreement. All hands were raised without a second of doubt. "Great! Now we should have something to eat and a good night sleep... Executing plans can wait until the morning..."

"I saw some food in the back of the room..." Hazel guided Lang and Dylan to an inner room inside the room while Jason, Nico and Will moved the 'prisoners' to a corner, so they wouldn't be in the way. Calypso could have swore she heard Will mutter something of 'them having a good night sleep', but was distracted when a smirking Leo was standing in front of her.

"I got to pick a bone with you..." Calypso frowned, looking around for said bone. His chuckle while she was searching was enough evidence that it was a metaphoric bone but she couldn't understand what he meant. "We need to talk, Sunshine..."

"Oh." She gasped, understanding his words now. "Well, you should have said something about it..."

"I just did! I-" He stopped when he saw her own smirk and waved a finger at her. "Good, Sunshine... Good..."

"So, what you wanna talk about...?" The intense look on Leo clued Calypso on what he wanted to talk. "Oh. That talk..."

"We can pretend nothing happened until we solve this, I mean..." He rubbed the back of his head, nervous. "It's not like we planned the situation we're on it and I can understand if you wanna focus yourself on this matter more than us, but-" Calypso couldn't help but look at him while he rambled. It made him look so insecure and approachable, so she did the only thing she thought it was right at the moment.

She interrupted him and kissed him.

It was short and enough to shut Leo up but she smiled at him gently.

"You ramble about nonsense too much..." She told him. Leo smirked and responded back.

This was a result she could live with.

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Good morning/afternoon/evening, guys...

I know, I know it's Monday. And I know is late Monday (at least, in my time zone is still Monday... I apologize to those this come on a Tuesday)... I have no excuses except, A) last two work weeks had been slightly brutal, B) muse had vanished for a while, I'm sad to say, C) procrastination. Yeah, it's sad but it's the truth... However, I managed to do write something late last night (Sunday) and I wanted to share it with you guys! So...

Saving Time - A Caleo Story: 2 chapters! I feel like I'm close to the end of this story, I'm not sure... Any comment, advise or even idea you want to supply for my use would be well receive!

I do hope next weekend I update Between Two Worlds - A Solangelo Story... At least two chapters!
xoxo, SilverHuntresses