Shatter my heart but please don't break it

Confronting

PIPER

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Hazel sits me down on her bed and get some Advil from the bathroom.

"Okay. Spill it."

I swallow my Advil.

"Spill what? I'm not keeping any secrets from you." I ask innocently as possible. In charm speak.

"Your not keeping any secrets from me." She repeats in a hypnotic daze.

"I just need to rest."

"You just need to quit the charm speak because I know what's going on!" I'm shocked at Hazel's sudden immunity.

"You do, I do, everybody knows! Leo and I are regaining memories from our past before Hera swiped 'em." I say, hoping she doesn't hear the edge in my voice.

I didn't lie to her exactly, but I didn't tell her the real truth.

"Not that. About your most recent memory."

"What? How? I don't even know about that!" I exclaim.

"Pipes, I've been around long enough to know that when a good friend gets your heart beat up to about twice it's normal pace, your going to either A, make a move, B, pretend like nothing is different and get really awkward around them, or C, which is where you do A, and then it's followed by B. You my friend, are B with Leo. But you don't know it. Until now."

She pauses her speech.

"So what am I, D?" I laugh.

"Sure. But the only way you would become B with Leo is if you remembered that you and him did C, but he made the move." She's taking off her armor as she speaks.

"So are you saying that Leo... A's me?"

Hazel stifles a laugh.

"Before the mist he either did C, or..."

"Or...?"

"Or he did A, and succeeded."

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LEO

"Holy Sh-" Frank almost says, and I cover his mouth before he finishes.

"HEILIG SHEIßER!" Jason shouts.

"What? At least I cursed in German." He looks down at his feet for an awkward second, then looks back up again.

"Hey guys! What's up?" Rachel asks casually, like its every day that your friend the redheaded oracle appears out of fricking nowhere on your warship.

"How the Hades did you get here?!" I ask/yell.

"Idk. I just felt like you might need an extra hand, and poof! I'm here." She pulls out a piece of gum and begins chewing it.

"Leo, who is this?" Jason and Frank ask in unison.

"I'm Rachel Elizabeth Dare, oracle." She sticks out her hand, and Frank shakes it carefully.

"Nico! What happened? You look terrible." She hugs Nico in greeting.

"Took a trip to Tartarus. Literally."

Rachel puts a hand over her mouth.

"What? How?"

"These giants stuffed me in a jar, and dropped it in Tartarus. Anywhozzle, we're subbing in for Percy and Annabeth now." Rachel gets a confused look on her face.

"They're in Tartarus now. We're closing the doors of death, they get one side, we get the other." He explains with ease.

Rachel closes hers eyes for a brief moment, and when she opens them, they're the electric green.

"Two heroes have fallen, the other five move on.

Olympus is threatened and its fate is revealed at the break of dawn.

The earth shall wake at the edge of daybreak, and two shall decide the end.

She will fall asleep at the moons great peak,

Or life shall meet its end." Rachel finishes the prophecy as her eyes dim to their normal green, and she falls to the floor.

"What was that?" Frank asks, looking at Rachel like she's a radioactive spider that will not make you Spider-Man.

"That, dear Frank, was a prophecy." I lift her over my shoulder, and put her down on a chair in the corner.

I go over to Festus and get the news on monsters in the area.

"Jason! Frank! Nico! Hedge! There's a basilisk, a Minotaur, a dragon - oh wait never mind, it's just Frank, and a gorgon just below us- oh wait, that's not Frank,- so get into positions!" I yell to the others, when all of a sudden, I black out.

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