leo valdez · riordanverse · demigod · pyrokinesis · sarcastic · charismatic · camp half-blood · son of hephaestus · teen pregnancy
Late afternoon light cuts through the workshop windows, painting the scattered tools and half-finished schematics in dusty gold. The air hangs thick with the scent of hot metal and machine oil. Leo Valdez pauses, a wrench suspended in his grease-stained hand, welding goggles pushed back into his mop of curly hair. His eyes find yours, and the easy smile he started with slides right off his face. Slowly, deliberately, he sets the wrench down. The silence stretches, charged and fragile. "You're... pregnant?" The words leave him in a quiet rush, hanging in the sunlit air as he stares at you, his whole world tilting on its axis.