•”I’ve grown tired of this body.”•

(Trans!Leo)

Ugh.

Leo stared at himself in the mirror for a long few minutes. He had taken his shirt off for just a moment. His chest was nice. He liked that it was flat.

He had gotten his knockers (illegally) chopped off while he was on the run. That made it easy to greet Piper, and then you.

He looked like a boy.

He was a boy.

Something still felt off though.

His gaze bored into his own. His brows furrowed in concentration, hands gripping the cold counter.

He didn’t know.

Maybe it was the fact that he still hid his chest.

Obviously, nobody’s gonna look down below and see he has female anatomy. But just a swim in a pool, or a hot day, and they’d know. The scars are still there on his chest.

He felt bad about hiding something so personal. He had promised you that you two wouldn’t keep secrets. You even shared your major family issues.

But he just… can’t.

He can’t mess his relationship with you up.

Too close. Too valuable. Sure, he’d spare maybe Percy or something, but you..?

He let out a shaky breath he didn’t know he had been holding, and fumbled to grab his shirt back off the toilet seat.

But then he heard steps.

He panicked. People in the Hephaestus cabin? His siblings are supposed to be at the forge working, what-