Lipstick - A LeoxReyna Fic

'Why don't you ever wear lipstick?' Leo's words rang through her ears as she continued to throw away most of the letters she received – and most of them were about a teddy bear murderer's rants about why a graecus such as Percy Jackson should not be praetor and why a power-hungry augur such as him should replace the son of Poseidon. Slowly, Reyna looked up at the repair boy, who was smiling like crazy.
   'That's none of your business, Valdez,' Reyna muttered loud enough for Leo to hear. She went back to reading the letters she received, and this time it was about a guy from the First Cohort who wanted to ask her out. She snapped her fingers, and Aurum instantly appeared at her side. She gave the piece of paper to the dog, who happily chewed it into bits like it was a dog bone. Reyna smiled and muttered, 'Good dog,' and gave him a pat on the head.
   Leo, meanwhile, was still awaiting her answer on why she doesn't ever wear lipstick. Reyna noticed this, and sighed rather loudly. 'Honestly, Leo. Why do you have to ask that?' And she noticed something else. 'And how come you're in my office? I could've sworn I locked the door when I ...'
   She glared at him, and he was fiddling with a small key in his hands. 'I'm a special boy,' he half-whispered, almost to himself.
   Reyna sighed again, and she knew that there was no use in telling Aurum and Argentum to attack him. The metallic dogs loved him too much! The son of Hephaestus had the nerve to forge them metallic dog bones and a collar with a smiley face! Little did she know that he only did that so they won't kill them when he'd ever try to make a move on Reyna.
   Leo was still fiddling with the key in his hands. 'Well, I just figured that, uh, well maybe you'd look even hotter with make-up on,' he raised his hands defensively, like Please don't kill me. 'Uh, not that you aren't hot, it's just well maybe you can be even hotter with make-up on. No pun intended.'
   'I appreciate your concerns, Leo Valdez, but I don't need to wear make-up. Make-up is for Venus spawns!' Reyna snorted, and she was starting to find the repair boy annoying, and he better not do anything stupid, or his death would be even more painful that Gorgon's blood. 'Now, would you please go away now before I skewer you with my dagger?'
   'Okay, okay,' Leo started to open the door. He left the room, but he stuck his head in the room again. 'But honestly, you're working too hard! Everyone needs a laugh these days!'
   'If that is your attempt to convince me that you are a riot, then you may leave,' Reyna threw the last of the mail away to the floor, and Argentum picked it up and tore the mail to pieces with his paws happily. 'Valdez, please get out.'
   'Okay, okay,' Leo held his hands up in surrender again, and Reyna noticed that he actually looked cute. She shook the idea out of her head. 'So …'
   'So what, Valdez?' Reyna looked around her warily.
   'So I invited the a bunch of Aphrodite girls from Camp Half-Blood to give you a make-over!'  Leo grinned, and at that moment, five Aphrodite girls flocked in her office, and pushed Reyna back to her praetor's chair.
   Reyna groaned and stood up from her praetor's chair. Even in times of embarrassment, she can remember to keep her posture. 'Leo Valdez!' she shouted at him across the room. 'What is the meaning of this?'
   'Well, I figured that you're working too hard, so I asked Lacy here to help you get a make-over! Although,' he picked up the nearest make-up bag and started to look around. He picked up a bunch of lipsticks from the bag, and frowned at each of them. 'Pink is totally not your color!'
   'Honestly, Leo,' Reyna sighed. As an Aphrodite girl began to push her back into the chair, she shouted 'Look, all of you! Stop!' Her voice echoed in the room, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at her slowly.
   'Children of Venus –' Reyna began, but someone cut her off.
   'Aphrodite,' Lacy reminded her kindly with a smile on her face.
   'Children of Aphrodite,' Reyna grunted. 'I really don't need a make-over. I appreciate the fact that you are willing to spend your time to scatter make-up all over my face –' Unknown to most, she already knew how, because she spent most of her childhood in Circe's spa. '– but I despise make-up!'
   The children of Aphrodite were starting to realize this, and they pointed to Leo, who held his hands up in surrender a third time. 'It was Leo's idea!' they all said in unison.
   'I know,' our praetor said, and she picked up the nearest thing she can find, which was a stick of lipstick. 'And Valdez, you are so gonna pay for this!'
   Leo took that as a warning to run, and he ran out of Reyna's office. Reyna chased him out of the office with a stick of lipstick in her hand and a dagger at her belt. That wasn't exactly the weirdest thing you'd find at Camp Half-Blood.
   On his way to Reyna's office to protest that a graecus shouldn't be praetor, Octavian stared at the two of them, chasing each other. And was Reyna carrying lipstick? He shook his head, and made his way to the mess hall. 'Must be the Mist messing with me again …'