I could barely breathe.

The air around me was so hot.

There was almost no more air anymore, only heat.

Ceiling joists and wooden beams were burning in the golden flames, and falling all around me.

I tried to open my eyes, but the smoke stung like a thousand bees, and it made my eyes overflow with tears.

Suddenly, a pair of lean but strong arms wrap around my waist, hoisting me up over someone's shoulder.

With all the blood rushing to my head from being upside down, I can't make out who's holding me.

I can vaguely hear someone calling out my name.

"(Y/n)! (Y/n)!!"

I am set onto cool grass, and I take several deep breaths of cool, fresh oxygen.

I open my streaming eyes, and I can vaguely see a figure above me.

"(Y/n), are you okay?"

The voice is obviously a man's.

"Leo?" I ask, my voice raspy from the smoke.

"Yeah. Are you okay baby? You don't look so good."

"Gee thanks," I say sarcastically. I groggily sit up, dabbing my eyes with a damp cloth a child of Apollo gave me.

Percy put out the burning building with his Poseidon given powers.

"Thanks for saving me, Commander Toolbelt," I said.

Leo rolled his chocolate brown eyes. "You're welcome. I love you, (n/n)."

"I love you too, Leo."

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