User blog:LemonFairy/3/21/10 -- Oneword. Prompt: swell. Category: PJO, OCs

For Oneword. Written at 11:22 PM CST (GMT -6:00) so word may be for either the 21st or 22nd.

Prompt: swell

Characters: Leonard Presswood [main], Liana Ramos, Kiran Sharma, Erin Mitchell, Noah Rowe, and Morgan Davis. (Mentions.) Possible spoilers for TDD.

The wound was beginning to swell, the bruise darkening a shade rapidly with each second. He moaned in pain, but got no sympathy; the most he elicited was a series of pained grimaces from Erin and Morgan, but even Noah was looking at him with disgust in his young eyes.

"Get up." It was Kiran's voice, a quiet yet firm command. Leo wanted to reject, to tell the older boy that he was the right one, not Kiran, but then Liana appeared next to the Indian boy.

"Don't say a word," she hissed in a warning that made his blood run cold. "You're lucky to be alive. Let it go."