So, I read a fic about Piper being the one dangling from the abyss, and Jason NOT falling for her, so I decided to write one of my own, in which Leo is the one falling to Tartarus.

Leo bent down to pick up some of the pieces of the floor.

Who knew? He would build something, and you just can't waste good working material.

As he did so, he picked the large piece, and touched it.

Ouch. Why did his feet hurt so much?
Maybe from all the standing of piloting the ship.

He sighed, and let the piece fall…

…to the abyss of darkness.

"Woah!" Leo said, getting away from that place.

Annabeth laugh half-heartedly "Yeah. Tartarus. Don't want anyone close to that"

Percy kissed her cheek as she talked, and Leo couldn't but feel a pang of envy in his heart. He wanted to have a girlfriend, to rely on someone as much as Percy and Annabeth did on each other.

"Did you know Annabeth and I almost got sucked by Tartarus when we were twelve?" Percy said, and Annabeth smiled "All because of one stupid shoe"

Leo couldn't connect the dots, but he decided not to ask. The couple needed to talk some stuff out. He went back to the ship, but, before he could, a voice called to him.

"Leo" he turned around, but there was no one there. Strange, it had seemed like…

"Leo, my baby,"

"Mom!" shouted Leo, making way, checking everywhere.

Jason stared at him "Leo, you okay? There's nobody here"

Piper came down of the ship and put her hand on his arm, "Hey, Repair Boy–"

"Leo, help me!"

"It's her, Piper!" he yelled struggling out of her grasp, "It's my mother!"

He ran, and then he could see her, clear as day, standing in front of him, smiling, her arms open. He didn't even stop to think of how could she possibly be there. Happiness was all around him. He needed to get to her.

"Leo!" shouted Hazel, in alarm, like her heart was being torn out of her chest.

It was a sound of such agony, such alarm, that Leo stopped.

But not quickly enough.

Before he knew it, he was on the edge of the abyss to Tartarus, and it was sucking him in.

"HELP!" he yelled, and fell.

And fell.

And fell.

Wait. A rock.

He grabbed it as quickly as he could, breathing fast "Hazel, help!"

His mother was gone now, he confirmed as he looked around, a trick of Gaea's.

"Leo?" came the voice of Hazel "Are you alive?"

She sounded close to tears.

"YES!" Leo bellowed "I AM HERE! BUT THE PIT IS… IT'S MAKING ME GO DOWN!"

"Leo!" he heard Jason yell "How the hades did he fall?"

"Gaea" Piper whispered, and Leo noticed her voice sounded very far away "She tricked him into believing his mom was there"

He heard Annabeth crying out loud "Leooooo! Try to climb up! We can't risk getting any closer!"

"Wait. Leo's in there?" Frank's alarmed voice came.

He didn't hear anything, but someone must have nodded or something.

He heard everyone yelling at him, except Percy, he thought bitterly, he only cares about Annabeth.

He tried to climb, but he couldn't.

"I CAN'T CLIMB!" he yelled.

Instead of an answer, he heard "What are you doing, Percy? Are you completely mad?"

Leo was confused.

What was Fish Boy doing now? Eating a blue burger? He wouldn't be surprised.

And then, suddenly, a current of water grabbed him.

For a moment Leo panicked and held his breath, but in the end he just couldn't and had to suck some air in.

He was surprised when he could actually breathe.

The water started pulling him up, taking him back to his friends.

Leo sighed with relief. HE thought he was actually going to Tartarus.

Then his hand slipped.

The current held him for a second, and in that second he saw his friend's faces, Percy, concentrated on the water, Annabeth holding him so he wouldn't fall, Piper crying, Jason walking around, searching for a plan, Hazel screaming that Leo was falling, Frank comforting her.

And nobody except Hazel and Percy saw him slip.

He realized he was going to die, and it hit him hard.

In a split second he regretted not enjoying life, running away from foster homes instead of trying, not caring when Hazel's brother was in trouble, thinking bad of Percy, firing the ballistae on New Rome, killing his mom all those years ago.

All of it made sense now.

He was going to die, and those were just mistakes.

I have to die like a hero¸he realized, I have to tell them to go on, to not mourn me.

He bit back tears as the water began to dissipate "GOODBYE, CONTINUE THE MISSION WITHOUT ME!"

He saw Nico di Angelo waking up, groggy, and watched his eyes widen as he caught sight of Leo.

Leo closed his eyes.

The water disappeared. He heard Percy cry out to Jason one last time.

He prepared himself to die.

But he didn't. He was just the same as five seconds ago.

"What?" he opened his eyes to see Percy, holding his toolbelt, tears in his eyes, and Jason, holding Percy, and Hazel sobbing with relief.

"You're not going to die on us, Leo" Percy said, smiling.

Leo was proud to have friends like these, and he loved their friendship and depended on them more than he could imagine.

"Thanks, now could you bring me back up? I'm not exactly on the most comfortable place" he joked.

Jason suddenly winced "Hey, Percy! I can't hold on"

Leo groaned, then sighed.

"Two people is too much, and your shoe is not enough for another person to help me hold it!"

Ananbeth came out behind him, but she cried out in pain as soon as she stood up.

Worry flashed in Percy's eyes.

Leo was amazed. He still was the protective boyfriend, dangling over the abyss of Tartarus?

Hazel tried to help Jason, pulling up with all her might, but they couldn't.

They shook their head.

Frank tried in and failed, and Nico couldn't even stand up, like Annabeth.

Percy groaned too, "Why do these things happen to us?"

Leo didn't laugh.

A voice came from the dark, bottomless pit.

"No female? Well, that can be fixed, can't it Leo? Call the daughter of Pluto, save yourself."

Leo shook his head "Hazel! GET AWAY FROM US! GAEA WANTS A FEMALE!"

Fear flashed in Hazel Levesque's eyes, but she didn't back down, and neither did Piper, that was now holding Percy's shoe.

"Percy" Leo said, determined to be the only one to perish "Save yourself. Annabeth needs you, and that shoe isn't going to hold on much longer."

Pain was written in Percy Jackson's featured. Suddenly, his shoe slipped a whole inch, showing his ankle.

He looked at peace "ANNABETH!" he yelled "I love you! See you soon!"

Then, to Leo, he smiled wickedly "I guess without us the world isn't going to fall to storm or fire"

And then he kicked his feet and the shoe fell off.

Annabeth felt completely and utterly horrible.

While she had moaned on the floor, her boyfriend had fell to the abyss of Tartarus.

She was crying, with Hazel comforting her. It must be horrible for Hazel, Annabeth thought, liking Leo so much.

Then Percy's 'I love you' made her feel no pity for nobody but herself.

"Stupid Shoe" Jason growled, and Hedge didn't say anything.

"Are they O-K-A-Y, Nico, are they fine?" Piper was practically threatening the poor kid.

Nico di Angelo stood up, and Annabeth sobbed. Was this how Percy was going to look when he came back? Bloody adn without a happy memory of the sun?

"I don't know," the son of Hades said calmly, "I just know they're alive"

Piper removed her tears with her fingers, and sobbed into Jason's chest, while the son of Jupiter looked empty, like he couldn't believe Leo was missing.

Annabeth felt the need to say the obvious "You know we can't get to the House of Hades if Leo doesn't pilot the ship, right?"

Piper broke down.

The fall seemed endless, and Leo screamed all the way.

Percy tried not to listen, but Leo's crying and calling for his mother were right there, and he couldn't help but hear them all.

The son of Hephaestus was falling face-first, while Percy held him by his belt and feet. They had time to argue if it was comfortable or not.

And they fell and fell, without a stop.

For what seemed like forever.

Leo stopped crying after a half hour, and yelled "Percy, you moron! Why did you fall with me?"

He suddenly had a flashback.

Annabeth, her face pale, her smile beginning to form, like she was finally trusting him "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain, anymore stupid questions?"

The thought of Annabeth made him want to throw up. He wanted Jason to fall with Leo, he wanted Hazel to fall with Leo, heck, even Frank or Piper would do, he only wished he could have stayed with Annabeth up there.

But letting Leo alone in Tartarus? Clearly none of the Seven had loyalty as their fatal flaw, and none of them had thought of falling with Leo to the abyss.

"I did it because you can't last five seconds without a moi, the greatest demigod"

Leo sighed "I guess we're still falling"

"No shit, Sherlock" Percy rolled his eyes as the fall knocked the air out of him.

"You know how long this will be?"

"No idea"

Leo just yelled.

"Shut up!" Percy said, feeling stupid "Monsters" he said, his voice filled with fear.

"Oh" Leo sounded very small "You'll help me kill them right?"

Perseus, Gaea called to him again, you will be devoured by my army.

He gritted his teeth "Not going to happen" he whispered, then, to Leo, he yelled "'Course, Fire Boy! Let's kick some monster ass so Hazel and Annabeth realize we're way better than Nico di Angelo!"

Did you like it? I hope you did. I made Leo humorless at the end because he just would be terrified, while Percy has faced Kronos and Annabeth's wrath. He came prepared.

It might turn into multichap if you liked this enough, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, please check out my story Iris Messaging to see Camp receive the news of Annabeth and Percy's fall.

Review,

-ChocolateIsMyDoom