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Who: Leo and Dany
What: Showing just how little they know about relationships.
Where: Cabin 9
When: Backdated to a day or two after the Red Room incident.
Why: Because brother/sister bonding over being totally confused.

There were some days where Leo loved what he did, and other days that he was really frustrated by it.

But it wasn't the machines' fault. Not at all! The resentment was more directed at his father, Hephaestus. Sure, the guy was a genius when it came to machines. Leo liked to think he'd inherited that trait, in addition to the lame "blessing" of fire. It balanced out well enough, right? Well, tack on the social ineptitude and the scales tipped a little.

Not that he was always bad with people. Leo liked being around everyone, and he was friendly. He liked making them all laugh. But when it came down to the important stuff, like feelings and thinking and stuff, he didn't have the slightest clue what was going on. Sometimes, he didn't want to know what was going on. It was all too complicated; losing yourself in a machine, with math and logic to explain how it worked, was so much easier.

So after dinner that night, while he was lying on his back on top of the bunk's pile of blankets playing with Caelum, he asked Dany hesitantly, "Did you ever talk to Enjolras?" It seemed to come out of the blue, but they never did really talk about that after the dance, and he's got some questions about his own situation, too. That was the best way he could think of to approach it.

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"Well, we, um... sort of... did?" He wasn't sure if it counted. "I kissed her," he said lamely. And it wasn't as if they were on bad terms or anything. He just didn't know where they stood anymore. Friends, or... something else?

"I think you very well know that is not what I mean, Leo."

She gives her brother a stern look, straightening up a little. If they didn't discuss what they were to do about these feelings, well, it just wouldn't be beneficial for either of them. They're both counselors, and their worries may cloud their judgement.

"You need to have a discussion with her, a proper and calm one. I can even mediate it, if you'd like."

Dany is not one to interfere in the romantic affairs of others - she would make a horrible child of Aphrodite. But if they bring someone who she is close to difficulty or pain, she can't help but act out.

He made a face, going back to his drawing. Dany knew how hard it was for him to talk about that stuff. The thought made him want to hit the button to retreat to the private room under his bed and never come out again.

In a mumble, he admitted, "How do you even start a conversation like that?"

Oh, she absolutely knows that, but she'd be more upset with Leo if he went to the secret room than if he never was honest with Natalie about his feelings towards her at all.

(Really, she should work on a secret room like that for the dragons. Keeping them chained away in the Arena still unnerves her, even though Chiron said that would be for the best , but some of the trainers of old kept their dragons in special dragonpits under their houses...)

She sighs a little, taking Leo's free hand.

"Start at the beginning. Calm yourself, be polite, apologize when warranted, but explain to her why you made the choices you did and when your feelings for her began."

"That's the thing, though," Leo said. "I don't know when things changed. And I'm pretty sure she knows they're there."

They just haven't discussed what that means. Did they really have to, though, or would that confuse them about an already complicated situation?