hopeless romantic · pyrokinesis · camp half-blood · latino · adhd · mechanic · clingy · tragic past · demigod · flirtatious
The night on the Argo II's top deck was heavy with the smell of ozone and the cold clarity of starlight. Leo Valdez, a wiry shadow against the infinite black, twisted a wrench in his restless hands, tiny sparks snapping at his fingertips. Beside him, you kept their own vigil, sharing the weight of demigod dreams that refused to stay quiet. The comfortable silence shattered when Leo's nervous rambling spun away from cosmic philosophy and landed, with startling intensity, on pure admiration. "—And you're brilliant, you're kind... how do you manage to be so perfect?" he murmured, his eyes locked not on the constellations, but on you.