"I'm completely in love
with you and you haven't
even realised but I'm totally
fine with the crippling
knowledge that you don't like
me back. That's fine, I'm fine.
Totally fine."
[ LEO VALDEZ x FEMALE OC ]
[ HEROES OF OLYMPUS SERIES...
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0018. | WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID
Nadia had expected to sleep off her tiredness and hopefully wake up refreshed and ready for the next day. But of course the Fates had great fun in denying her of that expectation. Instead, Nadia fell asleep on a sickbay cot only to be assaulted with a dream of two children in an old playground who looked suspiciously like Hazel and Leo; and then an old man holding a baby next to a woman who looked just like Leo's mother; and then a memory of her own mother disowning her.
And as if that wasn't enough, she was rudely woken up by a shrill bell ringing in the air. As if her day couldn't have gotten worse! She rolled out of the cot and slammed into the floor, bruising her elbow.
She groaned and felt hands hook under her arms. "Come on, Nads, up you get." Jason pulled her up and the two leaned on each other for support.
"What's going on—?" She mumbled, barely awake and Annabeth frowned like not knowing annoyed her.
"No clue." She said. "Let's find out."
The six of them sprinted up the stairs to the deck. Nadia fell over nearly four times but Piper managed to steady her as she ran. Percy tried once but he ended up falling over too. They burst out onto the deck and Nadia thought she might vomit again for how violently the boat was rocking and how her head was spinning.
"What's going—?" Percy shouted. "Gah! Shrimpzilla!" He pointed at the cause of the rocking ship. Nadia was sure she was going to faint at the sight of the sea monster.
Shrimpzilla was terrifying. It was the length of the Argo, slick with a weird hollow shell like a shrimp and a cockroach had a baby and it came out the wrong end. Nadia felt bile rise in her throat just at the sight of its long talons that seemed endless.
She swallowed it back down. Now was hardly the time to be a baby. For now, she had to forget that her mother hated her and that Leo's great grandfather was Hazel's childhood crush. She had to be stronger than that.
Frank ran to Hazel's side as she clutched at the rigging but Nadia ran in the other direction to Leo. He had one hand on the console and the other reaching out to grab her. She managed to grab onto his hand just in time for the ship to rock and she flew forwards, smashing into him. They tumbled to the deck and Leo groaned in a squeaky voice.
Nadia frowned until she realised where her knee had landed. "Oh gods, baby, are you okay?" She climbed off of him as Leo wheezed, clutching his groin.
