Water In My Eyes, Fire In My Heart (Percy Jackson Fanfic)

chapter 20

Leo pov-

Percy fell asleep in my arms.

Her head is placed on the pillow next to me and her body is pressed against me as though we fit together perfectly. My one arm is placed under her waist, her light body resting on top of it. My other arm is on top of her ribcage, my hand resting on her back.

Her hands are tucked into her body, squished between the both of us.

Her legs are bent with her knees touching my lower thighs.

She is eye level with me, making it obvious that if her legs were straight, her feet would not be lined with mine. They would be up a little further, around the middle of my shins.

I fall into unconciousness thinking about the beautiful girl I have wrapped up in my arms.

Dream

I am at a repair garage. I recognize it instantly as the one my mother owned before she died.

My mother is sitting at a workbench fixing what looks like a cell phone.

My mom looks the same as I remember her.

A little boy runs over to her and hands her a toy car with a remote control.

"Mami. Mami, I fixed. I fixed it all by myself" The boy exclaimed

He has elfish features, curly brown hair, and bright brown eyes

The boy is me.

My mom turns to me and picks me up in her arms.

"That's my little mijo" she exclaimed "fixing his broken toys just like his mami and papi"

She starts to sing to me in Spanish, a song I don't recognize.

"Mami, what happened to papi" little me asks "Did he not love us"

"Oh mijo" mom says sadly "papi loves us more than anything. His family didn't want him around us though, so he has to stay away. He really does love us, but ge has to love us from far away"

"But-"

"No buts mijo" she tells little me "Now go get changed into your pyjamas. I will be up in a minute to tuck you in" she then proceeds to tap out 'I love you' in Morse code.

Little me ran upstairs and Mami continued working on the phone she was fixing.

Quickly she looked up at the sky and whispered to someone who could only be my father.

"OH Hephaestus, my dear, please gift me with the strength to keep going." She says exasperated. "I love our son to death, but it is hard to be a single mother. I wish you were here"

She then went in the same direction as I did and disappeared from my vision

A few seconds later my father appeared in the workshop

"I wish I could help you, Esperanza. I really do but I cannot see my son. Zeus forbids me from doing so. At the very least I can do this"

He reaches out his hand and uses megic to fix the broken phone she was fixing, along with every other broken object she had to fix.

He then wrote a note out and disappeared

When Mami comes back into the shop she sees the fixed things and smiles. She reads the note and sets it down silently crying to herself.

I step forward and read hehe note

'My dearest Esperanza,

I know it is hard for you, but I want you to know that I will always watch out for him. Our little Leo has great potential for his future and gods great power. I love you and him and wish I could be there to be with him while he grows up, but thanks to my father and his stupid laws I cannot. I am forced to only watch him grow from far away. My boy will have to grow up without a father and I can only blame my father for that. I wish couldnt there for you guys but the best I can do is sit by the sidelines and offer a hand here and there.

Love, Phestus'

End of dream

I jolt awake and realize that I woke up Percy

She was in my arms and I abruptly sat up, which, I'm guessing, woke her up too.

"Are you okay Leo?" She asks me

"Yeah" I start "yeah, I just had a demigod dream"

"Was it a bad dream?"

"No" I tell her, laying back down and relaxing. "It was a perfect dream"

He puts her head on my chest and wraps her arms around my torso "Tell me about it?"

"Okay" I lunched into a whole explanation about my dream. By the end she had fallen back to sleep and I was ready to go back to sleep as well.