#Percy Jackson and the lighting thief

[alexwritingspot]

Leo Valdez x reader

request from @beeeezmelmel for a Leo Valdez x reader

prompt 10: “I can’t sleep”

words count: 1.4k

pairing: Leo Valdez x g!n reader

A night time walk to bunker 9 leads you and your best friend, Leo Valdez, to a confession of your true feelings. Could this friendship become something more?

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A/n: hi darling and thank you for requesting! I honestly had so much fun writing this one cause Leo is one of my comfort character! And I find it a really realistic thing that (I wrote the thing with the reader saying the prompt’s sentence) you would definitely find Leo awake at every hour of the night. I wrote this as an eventual friends to lovers, enjoy! 🧡 Also, I’m slowly catching up on all my requests, school is going to start soon and I have lot of test and such for the end of the period, so hope no one is disappointed if I don’t answer their requests really fast, sorry again!

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Loud thunders echoing through the night had woken you up before your nightmare could. Not like your rest had been the easiest, but surely things were getting better after the war with Gaea.

You jolted up straight in the bed, catching your breath while your eyes adjusted to the dime light coming from outside. It was dark and nothing other than the moon was there to lighten up your vision. Luckily enough you hadn’t woken up any of your siblings, you already knew they would have asked too many questions about how you were feeling.

So you decided that maybe taking a breather outside would have been a good solution to calm down your mind from the recurring nightmare that plagued your sleeps. You tiptoed out of bed, almost tripping in the blankets. Careful to not make any noise you slipped on a pair of sneakers, without tying up the laces, of course, and you made your way outside of the g/p cabin.

Chilly air hit your skin as you exited from the door. Gods, now you were even shivering from the cold. You let out a soft sigh before starting to walk, making sure to go unnoticed by the harpies that flew in the sky at night, you surely didn’t want to face Mr. D’s punishments.

You didn’t really know where to go. Well, you did knew who would have been able to cheer you up, but you weren’t sure if he was still awake, or if he would have cared about your stupid nightmares. You decided nonetheless to give it a try, and as you hugged yourself tighter to shield yourself from the cold, one step after the other you started to make your way to bunker 9.

Why bunker 9? Because you were confident that if he was still up, which you suspected, then he would have been surely working on some project of his in the old bunker.

Between the wind blowing the leaves on trees, and the far sound of the thunderstorm outside of camp’s borders, you quietly made your way to the hidden building in the middle of the night.

As you arrived you silently entered through the main entrance, finding yourself in a lot more hot environment, that immediately warmed you up.

Just a little bit further there was him. Sitting at one of the many tables there was Leo, who was working on some gadget of his. Beside him there was Festus, who was laying comfortably on the ground. He was the first to spot you.

You honestly would have just stayed there at the entrance, just enjoying the scene playing in front of your eyes, but the mechanical dragon had other plans.

“Come on, why won’t you work??” Leo asked to the thing he was working on, and Festus tried to get his attention by gently blowing some air onto the boy. “Not now buddy, I’m busy, can’t you see?” Answered Leo, clearly trying to find out a solution.

So this time Festus actually nudged him to get his attention. When the child of Hephaestus still ignored him, the mechanical dragon insisted slightly more, getting Leo to finally pay him attention. “What is it, huh?” He asked as he patted the dragon’s head.

Festus brushed him off, and pointed in your direction.

You could have sworn you froze in place in that moment, completely caught off guard on what to do. “Hey…” You meekly said, the room didn’t seem as hot as before.

Leo’s eyes widened when he saw you “Y/n? Are you okay? Something happened?” He gently asked as he got up and approached you. “Y-yeah, I’m good, I just… I happened to pass by… yep…” Why did you have to say the first thing that crossed your mind?? You were pretty sure that you were a blushing mess by now.

If Leo noticed he didn’t point it out. “Passing by? In the middle of the night? Let me tell you, that would be strange even for me.” He joked, trying to lighten up the mood at least a bit. “Holy Hephaestus, y/n you’re shivering!” He then noticed, and before you could find another good enough excuse he pulled you by the wrist and made you sit on the only couch of the bunker.

“You want to see what I was working on?” He then asked you with his signature smirk as he lighted up some candles that he had laying around. You doubted those would have kept you warm, but you appreciated the gesture.

“Sure thing.” You nodded. This was the thing with Leo. He understood when you didn’t want to talk about something, and he didn’t pressure it. He’d just let you be, and if you wanted you could talk about it.

He moved to the table and picked up the thing he was working on “This buddy over here won’t let me adjust him” he said frowning as he tried once again to adjust it. You chuckled, Leo was able to ease your worries in an instant.

He plopped himself besides you and showed you the small gadget. You passed a hand over it. “What is this supposed to do?” You asked him with curiosity and he started explaining. “Well you see, I projected him because I thought it was a good idea for…” as he talked you totally zoned out, simply staring at him as he talked.

You blamed it on your ADHD, but in reality you had the biggest crush on the guy since he had arrived at camp.

“And so, even if I figured out what doesn’t work I can’t seem to adjust it” he concluded and snapped back to reality. Shit, you had missed the whole explanation.

“That sounds interesting” You simply commented as he put down the small thing and scooped closer to you. “Yeah, until you don’t have to work on it” he said with a smile.

You stayed like that for a bit, embraced by the comfortable silence until you spoke up. “How come you are still awake?” You asked him, tilting your head to be able to look him in the eyes. “I can’t sleep” he answered you truthfully. “What about you?” He the quickly added “If you want to tell me of course”

You let out a sigh “I just… I have this nightmare that has been plaguing my sleep since the war with Gaea and I needed some comfort. I didn’t want to wake my siblings up and… I assumed you would have been awake, and I came here” you concluded, looking down at your hands, unsure of what he would say next.

Instead of the negative reaction you had expected on his face appeared the biggest smirk “So you thought of me to feel safe?~” he was so smudgy about it. You just chuckled “Yeah… you could put it like that.” He smiled “Well then, I’m glad” He wrapped an arm around you “I’m here for you if you need me, that is what… friends… are for, right?” If you hadn’t been so busy feeling defeated after he had defined the two of you ‘just friends’ you would have noticed the doubt in his voice.

“Yeah… friends, you’re right” you looked away, the until now comfortable silence had quickly evolved in an uncomfortable one.

“Actually…” he moved your face gently with his hand, making sure you were looking at him “You know what y/n? I just cannot keep going on like this… I’m not really good with words, but I… I uh… I appreciate your presence and just… I found you really pretty and funny but I don’t wanna be your friend anymore” You just sat there, completely shocked. So, he didn’t care after all.

He saw your hurt look and started talking again “Wait! That didn’t come out right! I didn’t mean to say that we aren’t friends! For Hephaestus’s sake, I’m such a mess with words” He shook his head chuckling, and at that point you were terribly confused. What did he mean then?

“I just… I like you y/n. And not like- I don’t just like you. I like like you, as in more than friends and I know that you probably don’t reciprocate and this will ruin our friendship but I couldn’t just hide this anymore and-“ he was talking a bit too much for your likings.

You crushed your lips on his and expressed with that gesture all the emotions that neither of you knew how to express…

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a/n: GODS, I panicked so bad, I had accidentally pressed “publish” while writing! Anyway, happy New year to all my followers, and thanks for reading! 🧡

[aceoffangirls]

Grover: I know who stole the master bolt Me who has read the books: WHO?

[iamdracula-bleh-bleh-bleh]

Something that Percy learns early on, and i mean really early on, is that you can't save people who don't want and/or ask to be saved. The only thing you can do for them is give them the tools to help themselves and your support. And every time he starts to question this, every time he gets frustrated with someone not helping themselves or he thinks that he could do it so much faster, could fix this problem in a heartbeat, he remembers how relieved his mom felt when gabe was finally gone.

She had that in her the whole time, and now she'll never have to question if she can get out of situations like that again. Because she's done it. And she can do it again if she needs to, even if Percy isn’t around to save her. She can save herself.

He can't in good conscience take that away from anyone. If they always think he's going to be around to save them, when he isn’t they'll be stuck.

And if they don't want to be saved? If someone doesn’t want to be saved and he does it anyway, like with the Briareus, he's either putting them in a worse situation, or they'll resent him, or they just go back. They don't have the knowledge that they did this, they don't have the confidence that they can help themselves.

[lixzey]

The Lightning Thief

one: the kid who beat the minotaur

two: welcome to camp

three: they’re in love, don’t worry

four: exploding toilets, drenched Ares kids, and Annabeth the stalker

five: capture the flag

six: Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon

seven: a quest and flying shoes

eight: bad dreams

nine: i like shiny things but i'd marry you with paper rings

ten: camp wars and iris messages

eleven: not even the gods above, could separate the two of us

twelve: the last night

thirteen: the prophecy comes true

fourteen: somewhere in the haze got a sense I’ve been betrayed

taglist:

@mischiefmoons @lilmaymayy @iliketopgun @pleasingregulus

[magnolia-breeze]

sorry to be a percy jackson movie defender but theres a conversation between poseidon and percy at the end of the movie that i cannot stop thinking about. poseidon said that "the reason why none of the gods are allowed to talk to their kids was because of me". he loved percy and sally so much that it was turning him HUMAN and made him neglect his godly duties and so zeus banned ALL olympians from talking to their kids.

THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS

1) poseidon is JUST like percy, a god who is willing to give up the world and immortality for someone he loves. that he LOVES percy and sally, and was trying to be a good dad.

2) that percy's birth is RESPONSIBLE for Luke's hatred for the gods. because the olympians were banned from talking to their kids, hermes never spoke to luke.

3) which is why percy and luke' fates are so intricately tied together.

4) it also explains why despite being pissed off at poseidon and sympathizing with luke, percy stood by the side of the gods in the end, because his father was a god

5) that the gods, despite their immortality and omnipotence, are bound to humanity

chris columbus had an aged-up script and a dream and he delivered. no notes.

[darkcrowprincess]

(Don't like don't read. Post hate and I'll block you)

My late night rambling:

You know technically Percy Jackson and the lighting thief is both Percy and Luke's story. Luke's the lighting thief. He's the hidden character in the narrative. Once you find out it's him, every interaction in the story is different. And every book after that it's stays like that. It's both Percy and Luke's story. They really are soulmates and two sides of the same coin. A perfect tragic Greek myth. Luke ends up the hero and Percy is the one that hands him the knife. It's all so twisted and I love it.

[sotogalmo]

4:57

"Cops and Robbers" by The Hoosiers feels like a Jason song???? Percy,,, Annabeth. Just. Uh. Almost all of the pjo characters

"Saint Bernard" by Lincoln is a Luke song. Yeah. Also with "Your Father's Son" by Shayfer James. It fits with the part of "gambling with a giant"

[samandhislostshoe]

Will: why are you here?

Percy: Annabeth told me that Grover got hurt. So I brought cans.

Will: why?

Percy: Grover loves cans *gives grover the cans*

Grover: * chew on a piece of can whilst crying *

[alaskas-clover]

Losing my mind at how meta it is for Percy Jackson to have only read the graphic novel of the Odyssey AKA an adaptation of the original poem/book on a tv show that is an adaptation of a book. Idk just something about Percy reading an adaptation that has been condensed to fit a new medium while the show itself is doing the exact same thing has me going.



[superanimepirate]

PJO TV SHOW REACTION PART 2

But first, I need more cookies

I love Annabeth

Walker Scobell is doing great, the delivery is just perfect

Dionysus! I love his actor so much.

Persassy is starting off strong I see

Dionysus stop fucking with him. I was not expecting that oh gods

Chiron!!!

Camp Half Blood looks amazing!!!

Forgot to mention last episode, but I like Percy keeping Riptide after Dodds, makes sense, loved to see him use it against the minotaur

Really like the Hermes Cabin, looks cozy

Oh is that Luke? Looks younger than I expected, he's supposed to be 17 right? Eh, I think that makes it more tragic tbh

Dryads! Is that Grover's mom? Oh that's so cool.

The council looks creepy but also really cool I love it

Oh good, someone is pointing out that Sally evaporated instead of like dying. OK, I'm starting to like this Grover more, he's sweet. And I wanna punch Mr. D. Good acting all around lol

Ok, so Luke is talking about Glory. Interesting

Clarisse!!!

Oh I like the touch of the flaming arrow for the stuffed hydra

More Wheelchair rep! Is that Kayla or an unnamed camper?

And... Percy's being a public menace with a bow.

Beckendorf? Or another Hephastus kid? Beckendorf is supposed to be black isn't he? Did he get a casting announcement?

"They like the smell of begging" oh we aren't pulling any punches I see go off

Percy is praying to his mom my poor heart I'm going to cry

All Hail the Supreme Lord of the Bathroom Perseus Jackson!!!

Where is Annabeth?

Oh there she is

Oh she just admits to stalking. Time to rewatch the ep to see if she's in the background. Then again she's probably invisible so....

Thalia mention! And backstory! Huh, wonder why he didn't mention the tree

Annabeth calling Percy "Sunshine" is new. More shit posts about Will and Percy in the live action are going to spur from this, huh? "Not my type" yeah right lol

Annabeth ain't explaining shit as usual

PERCY WHY ARE YOU FLOSSING

Oh he's going to get his ass jumped

OOH he broke Clarisse's spear!

Oh Annabeth figured it out and Percy get's claimed!

The Poseidon Cabin looks so cool!!! I love the skeletons of sea creatures

Oh we are actually explaining shit to Percy now yay! Well, I mean, kind of.

Go off Percy! Son of Sally Jackson!

Well that's one way to get him to accept lol, go off Grover

Oh that's funny

"I won't accept! Fuck Poseidon, I"m Sally's son!"

"Hades has Sally. You can save her."

"Let's fucking go what are you waiting for c'mon"

[jazzy---j]

Markus Kazakov ~ Son of Ares

"Ah, my friend looks like he's about to kill you, you should probably leave”

Masterlist

[cbartonscoffee]

I miss the scorpion not gonna lie. Rip king. You would've rock those ten seconds of screen time.

[aceoffangirls]

I have been thinking recently about like the people that knew Percy pre-lighting thief.

Like just image your like Nancy Bobofit or any other of his childhood bullies, that knew Percy as this mammas boy who befriends losers, has ADHD and dyslexia, as well as getting into weird situations to then see the news one day and find out he is a fugitive. To find out that, that the weird kid in your class got kidnapped and had a gun fight on the beach.

[aphroditelovesu]

I'm rereading The Lightning Thief and having so much fun again! One of the best thing about the books is Percy's thoughts, in my opinion. Something that you can't see in the series, but I'm glad they kept his sarcasm the same :)

The 12 year old Percy asking Ares, the fucking god of war, if he was scared!! Iconic 😌🤌🏻

[communitypoolswimlessons]

"Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield came out in 2004.

The Lightning Thief came out, and we can assume is set in, 2005

can you see where I'm going with this???

[justonemorechapternicercy]

Percy looks like a Disney villain, who is ready to subjogate Olympus, and I'm not mad about it

(It's me, studying for my final exam with fever. It sure does look like a presentation about sustainability, doesn't it?)