Okay this came to me randomly. So I decided to do it. I own nothing but my OC.

3rd Person POV (but has Leo's thoughts)

Leo was watching everyone celebrate. He was having fun but at the same time he was lonely. He considered talking to Festus a few times but decided against it. He walked past Percy and Annabeth kissing, Nico was with his girlfriend Tiana hanging out with Hazel and Frank, Jason and Piper kissing as well. He didn't want to talk to them. He considered going to Coach Hedge but then remembered that he closed the doors on the Tartarus side. He Leo Valdez had nobody. He decided to go talk to Festus. If anybody needed him, which was unlikely, they would guess where he was.

"Hey Festus," Leo said once he got on board.

Festus whirred and creaked.

Leo smiled at the figurehead. Then randomly he hears Nemesis' words to him playing through his head. You will never find a place within your brethren. You will always be the seventh wheel. He wanted to tell it to shut up but he knew it was true. Everyone had someone, even the creepy death kid Nico. He didn't know tears were falling before it was too late. He went in the far corner of the room and sat down. He barely managed to get a hold of himself when he heard footsteps on the deck.

"Leo?" Hazel called.

He was going to answer but decided against it.

"Leo are you in here?" Jason called.

They walked straight past the engine room without seeing him.

Might as well be invisible, He thought bitterly.

"I don't see him in his cabin," Percy stated.

"If I was Leo where would I be?" Annabeth asked.

Leo was now fiddling with his hands. It became an airplane. He held it up for inspection. It was okay, not the best thing he built.

"The engine room," Piper said.

"With Festus," Frank agreed.

"Maybe he doesn't want to be found," Nico suggested.

You got that right, Leo thought.

"Well we still need him," Percy countered.

Leo was slowly moving towards where the stables are quietly. He slipped inside an empty stall and sat down. He couldn't hear the conversation anymore and he didn't want to. Festus whirred and creaked and he heard the others leave. He got up and went out into the engine room. He heard someone walk in.

"Guy's I found him!" the person called.

He turned around and saw Hazel. He heard the others run this way.

"Come on Leo," Percy said."
"Where are we going?" Leo asked putting down the little airplane.

"Nico, Tiana, and the rest of the crew are going against Camp Jupiter in the war games," Annabeth explained.

"Umm, okay I guess."
"That means we need you," Hazel said.

He grudgingly followed them. The seven, Nico, and Tiana barely managed to win the game. Afterwards Leo managed to slip away again.

*Time skip to 5 weeks later*

Leo felt a bit lonely. He didn't know what to do about it. The rest of the crew shunned him out a bit. Piper and Jason didn't really spend time with him anymore, Hazel and Frank went back to Camp Jupiter but when they do come they kinda stay away from him, Tiana and Nico are always moving from place to place and don't really stay with him a lot, Percy and Annabeth are still recovering from Tartarus so they don't spend time with funny Leo anymore. He kept up his humor but it barely masked the pain anymore. He decided to resort to Plan B; run. He packed his bag after everyone went to sleep. He left a few things behind; he kept his tool belt though. He really liked it.

He ran into the woods. He stopped at Zeus' Fist to say one last good-bye to camp.

"What are you doing Leo?" a voice behind him asked.

He turned around and saw the seven behind him. Everyone that was on the Argo II with him was there; Hazel, Frank, Jason, Piper, Percy, Annabeth, even Tiana and Nico.

"I asked you a question," Jason said.

He shouldered his bag.

"What does it look like?" He questioned.

"It looks like you are running away," Jason sighed.
"I am."

The others looked at each other.

"I guess what Nemesis said really got to your head then," Hazel concluded.

Leo nodded not looking at any of them.

"Wait Nemesis what are you talking about?" Percy asked.

The others looked in between Leo and Hazel.

"In Salt Lake City we ran into Nemesis and she said something's to Leo that I guess got to his head," Hazel explained.

"Stay there," Jason ordered Leo who was trying to slip away.

"Things such as," Frank asked.

"Why don't you ask Leo since it is not for me to say," Hazel said.

"Leo," Piper asked kindly," What did Nemesis say to you?"

Leo took a deep breath but didn't say anything. He wanted just to run but knew that they would be able to catch him.

"Leo please tell us," Piper practically begged.

"Fine, she said you will always be the outsider, the seventh wheel. You will not find a place among your brethren," Leo shouted.

They were all stunned, well everyone but Hazel. Leo looked down he wasn't aware that he was crying until he felt someone wipe away a tear. He felt someone hug him but he didn't hug back. Someone took away his bag and put it on the ground next to us.

"Leo that's not true," Jason said once they all stopped hugging, "you're my best friend."

Leo shook his head.

"Besides," Percy said, "you can't run away. First of all Mr. D will catch you, I speak from experience. Second we will send out a search party to find you."

"Wait you ran away once?" Jason asked.

"Well not really I just left camp to find Annabeth and Mr. D caught me but he let me go hoping that I would die."

Jason shook his head clearly mystified. He tried to steer Leo back to camp but Leo shook his head.

"I'm not going back," he whispered barely loud enough for the others to hear.

"Leo you have nowhere else to go," Annabeth said.

"So this isn't the first time I have run."

"This will be your seventh time! You will go to jail if you get caught," Piper practically shouted.

"So be it I don't care!"

Leo had tears streaming down his face but he didn't care. Piper looked shocked. Leo grabbed his bag and ran. He didn't know where he was going but he didn't care. He heard the others running after him but he didn't turn around.

When he stopped he was lost. He was never scared when he ran but he was now. He knew of the monster world now, it made everything scarier. Leo wanted to go back but knew he would be scolded by his friend and he didn't want that. Behind him he heard a twig snap and out of it came his friends.

"Leo please don't run we just want to talk," Jason said.

He nodded slightly to tired to waist his breath.

"Leo don't listen to Nemesis listen to us, Percy and Annabeth wouldn't be here right now if not for you, heck most of us wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for you," Jason told him.

"Percy and Annabeth wouldn't have ended up there if not for me!" Leo shouted.

"Stop blaming yourself for that!" Percy shouted, "We are here now and that's all that matters."

Leo flinched when Percy yelled. Annabeth had to put a hand on Percy's shoulder to calm him down. Tiana walked up to Leo and hugged him.

"Do you still have the photo?" Tiana asked.

Leo took out to photo's one was of him with Piper, Jason, Butch, Tiana, and Annabeth on the Grand Canyon sky walk. Tiana made that when she was eight. It was actually a pretty good picture with a lot of detail. The other was all his friends after the war. They were all battle hardened but happy. She made that one a few days after the war. The others looked over Leo's shoulder at the pictures.

"Whoa who made those?" Jason asked.

"Tiana," leo said, "This one," he pointed to the Grand Canyon picture, "Tiana made when she was eight. The other one she made a few days after the war."

This time Leo let them take him back to the cabin. He fell asleep feeling better than he had in days.

Okay thank you for reading. Please review, it will be awesome!

-candyland7