𝕱𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖑𝖞 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊 - a Leo Valdez slowburn

Chapter one

Chapter one.

[Leah is badass with a girl who likes Hello Kitty]

"Everyday we live like it's the last,

but when are we finally going to realize

that last days are worthless?"

"We're leaving in a few minutes, Lee. You ready?"

Thalia Grace was the best thing that could have ever happened to Leah Bella Kovach. Thalia was known as the daughter of Zeus, the daughter that disgraced the king of the gods, then as the tree that symbolized the safety in Camp Half-Blood, and as so many more things, but never really for her personality. Leah related to that. Thalia had so many titles, but no one ever called her by her name, it was like she wasn't even her own person. The huntress was afraid of something that her father was basically the god of!

Sadly Thalia had already been turned into a tree when Leah arrived at camp, but the girl did feel a weird energy coming for the pine tree, an energy that was most definitely not a plant's. Seeing as Leah basically knew that there still was some form of human spirit inside of the pine, she wasn't as shocked as the other campers when Thalia became a teenager once more. The short time that that Thalia spent at camp was filled with the two girls creating a bond, a friendship, a bond so close it even ventured into the 'sibling zone'. It was the only friendship that lasted for Leah from her time at Camp half-blood and, everywhere, really.

The girls were both insecure about their powers, or for Leah, the tugs that she felt whenever she was close to the forest and the little flowers that would shrivel up all around her whenever she was in a bad mood. Their nights together were spent cussing out their godly parents (still unknown to the younger of the duo) and Thalia teaching Leah how to use throwing knives. Leah spent many nights sleeping over at the Zeus cabin, partly because cabin 11 was way too crowded, partly because Thalia couldn't sleep in her cabin alone, having Zeus's eyes on her.

All in all, Thalia was indeed the best thing, and person, that could've ever happened to Leah.

"Yeah, I'm coming, T!"

Thalia had invited Leah to come with the Hunters of Artemis when Percy went missing to help look for him. Of course, the girls knew that what she meant was that she could come to learn to control her powers. Leah had, when Demeter claimed her, gone through a rough patch, simply because she was so different from her siblings. Children of Demeter were calm, they were pacifists and were always seen on the strawberry fields. That wasn't Leah. She was closed off and rude and jumpy and... different. And she also sometimes accidentally trapped people in cement. 

No one told her what she should do with her powers: "gifts", demigods would call them -  not even Chiron. So naturally, she accepted Thalia's offer immediately and packed her bags, not that she had a lot she needed to take with her.

Leah had gained a lot of her current belongings during her time with the Hunters of Artemis. A few examples were another handgun (she had got it at a firearms store, the owner didn't find it suspicious at all) and a collection of dried flowers and leaves, including a lot of poppies and a particularly pretty wilted rose.

She had packed whatever had wormed its way out of her bag the night before, leaving her with nothing to do. She got up, heaving her bag over her shoulder, before walking over to her companions.

"Hey, I'm ready to go. Where's Fleur?"

Fleur Allard was an eleven-year-old looking Huntress that Leah had become friends with over the many months that they had been looking for Percy. After all, the girl couldn't stay awkward and antisocial for five whole months. The Huntress was a French girl who had moved to America a few years ago. She was a daughter of Aphrodite, and seeing as she didn't have a major monster aura and she lived in Virginia, nowhere near New York, Artemis took the girl under her wing and after around two months asked her if she wanted to become a Huntress. Fleur, of course, said yes.