Caleo - Finding Calypso

12 / Too Many Books

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"What did you say." I whispered, hardly daring to believe my ears.

"Calypso." Annabeth said again, a smile slowly spreading across her face, "Calypso!"

"Yes yes yes!" I yelled spinning her round and round and round until we were both dizzy.

Impulsively, I through my arms round her shoulders and hugging her.

"I remember!" she breathed when we broke apart, "I remember! I'm so sorry Leo!"

"Don't worry about it." I said, grinning from ear to ear.

I tap the bronze string and it melts away at my command.

Annabeth rubbed her wrist.

"Now what do we do?" She asked.

"We?" I noticed.

"Of course 'we', I'm not letting you do it all by yourself."

I hesitated, I wanted to find Cslypso, me, by myself. But was that even possible? Surely it would be stupid to turn down Annabeth's help.

I didn't reply, just stopped and picked up the tiny slip of paper that had dropped from the cookie.

With trembling fingered, I unrolled it.

Waterrock Public Library, reservation for N. Sterling

I blinked and read it again.

Annabeth read it over my shoulder.

"Waterrock Public Library? Where's that?" she asked.

"Don't know." I shrugged, "Suppose it's in the city somewhere."

"Come on then, let's go. We can ask about it at one of the other shops." Annabeth said taking charge.

I nodded and lead the way to the door.

I reached out to turn the door handle and the pain came back.

I let out a stifled yell and clutched at me chest.

The pain seemed to pour into me. So sudden, and so unexpected.

I'd almost forgotten about it. It hadn't come back for so long, and it was never this intense before.

Burning pain, and then it stopped as suddenly as it had started.

I gasped for breath and leant against the door out onto the street, breathing hard.

"Leo?" Annabeth asked quietly.

I couldn't reply. I could hardly breath.

"Leo, are you, are you OK?" she was watching me carefully, worry etched into her face.

I managed to nod, air was entering my lungs slightly more easily now.

"What happened?"

"I, I'm-" I had to stop for a second, breathing hard. Annabeth took my arm and helped me slip to the ground and sat on front of me, worried and slightly, scared? She looked scared, but I'm so used to seeing her being the leader, even when everything was going wrong, during the war, she'd always looked so calm and in control...

"It, it happens," I paused again, she watched me intently. "Pain, in my chest. Out of no-where. Don't know why. Started after I left camp."

I decided to leave out the bit about Khione.