"Hey Piper! How's it going?" Jason said catching up to Piper. They were heading towards the dinning pavilion for breakfast. "Eh, I'm doing fine I guess. It's just been boring." Piper sigh, "You know, after then prophecy of seven I think things have died down now...what else is there to fight except for the occasional monster?" "I don't know...there are still the immortals who supported Gaea..." Jason explained. "We still need to track down them..." They reached the dinning pavilion and parted ways to sit at their respected tables.
Jason
"Hey little bro! How's life?" Thalia said as she slid into the seat next to him. "I haven't told Piper yet." I put my head in my hands. "EH? YOU HAVEN'T TOLD HER YET?! What. In. The. Name. Of. Hades. Is. Wrong. With. You. !" My sister nearly shouted to the whole pavilion. "I know my dad doesn't like it when people swear on him, Thalia." Nico decided to join our table. "Yeah, whatever." Thalia frowned. "But this isn't about me, it's about this idiot." She pointed to me. "Ugh." What was I suppose to do? How was I suppose to tell Piper? "Gods Thals. Way to keep it a secret." I face palmed again. "You need to tell her..." Nico agreed. I knew Nico had a thing for my sister, but like seriously, I thought he'd agree with me on this. "Gods Nico. How am I suppose to tell her that I'm moving away forever?" I pouted. "What's with the long faces?" Gods. Why couldn't I be left alone today? I'd rather spend the next few days with just Piper. It was Percy. The last person I wanted to see today. "Hey Perce." I sighed. "Well, Jason, what's wrong? Seems like something is going on between you and Piper. You seemed a little distant this whole week." I flashed back to the whole week. I saw my self dodging Piper during free periods, excusing myself from talking with her, and nearly completely missing the entire conversation we were having when I was ready and prepared to talk to her. Gods. I feel so bad. "Hey! Jason! You awake?" It was Thalia yelling in my ear. I crinkled my nose and said, "yeah." I completely blotted out Thalia, Nico, and Percy and began to think about how to tell Piper. Maybe I shouldn't tell her...
Piper
Is Jason avoiding me? Why has he been so...distant these days. It's like right after the prophecy ended, he doesn't have any drive anymore. What's wrong with him? Does he hate me? Why won't he talk to me?! "Pipes!" "Leo! Don't scream in my ear!" I clutched my ear. "Why can't I?" "Because I said so." I went back to frowning. "Why're you frowning? You okay?" Leo ask, suddenly concerned. "I'm fine." I blew my bangs out of my face. I forgot to braid them this morning. "Well...now I know for a fact that you're not fine." "Hades, Leo. I'm just not in the mood right now." I frowned even more. "Come on, no one is never not into this." He pointed to himself and made a 'seductive' face. I broke a smile. "There we go! Pipes is back up and running!" He cheered. I just chuckled and continued smiling, glad for a distraction form thinking about Jason. "So...Pipes...what's on your mind that's bothering you so much?" Leo asked me slowly, giving me room to back out of this topic. "Jason." A one word answer, and probably the hardest one. "What did he do?" He looked at me with his puppy-dog face, waiting for a reply. "I don't know...he's just been so..." I racked my brain for the right word. "Distant." "Oh...well if that's all then, let the Leo help you out." He smiled and my brain went into overdrive thinking about what he meant by help.
End of the breakfast and the campers went to their daily activities.
Jason headed toward the swords Arena and Piper went to arts and crafts.
Jason
Gods. Why couldn't I get anything straight in my life? Even my swordsmanship is worsening...I need to go back soon, be praetor again. "Hey Jason." It was Leo. "What is it Leo?" I asked, annoyed with my life. "Geez, couldn't be a little nicer?" "No." "Fine...fine, just don't go all lightning on me. Okay?" "Yeah okay." "What's going on between you and Piper? She seemed really frustrated this morning when I talked to her." Was there anyone who didn't know something was happening between me and Piper? "Eh...I need to tell you something." I dragged him into the swords arena and took out my sword. I quickly dispersed a dummy into shreads, making me feel better. "I'm going back...next week." "What?! Seriously? Why?! Don't you love it here?!" He made a face. "I do it's just that...I'm needed as praetor and well...that's not all of it." I sighed. "I haven't told Piper yet." "Hades man...why haven't you told her?" "I don't know how to." "You better tell her soon, I saw some Apollo kids checking her out yesterday and she seems really worried. Tell her. You need to. I'm not even joking with this. She thinks you hate her or something. You have to tell her. For Zeus sake, if you don't tell her by tomorrow then I will. She deserves to know." "Why are you lecturing me?! I don't need one right now! I should be giving you the lecture. Always getting into trouble, always butting in when you're not need. It's odd how you're even my friend." I yelled at him. My temper was running so hard, I hadn't noticed how hurt Leo felt when I said that. "Well, as anyone can see, you've turned into a jerk. Just go back Jason. I don't care anymore." Leo ran out and I finally realized what I said to him. "Gods. Leo I'm sorry." He was already gone. Gods. Gods. Gods. What am I going to do now?! I just lost my best friend over something so trivial. I'm the worst.
Leo
What the Hades was that Jason? Blowing up like that?! What happened to you? Where did you go..."ah. Sorry." I bumped into someone in front of me. It was Nico. "It's fine. Besides, what's wrong with you?" He asked me. "Nothing." I said and flashed a fake smile. "I know when something's up Leo. Tell what's on your mind." We walked over and sat behind the Hades cabin, close to where I ran into him. "It's... Nothing really." I flashed another smile. Form his face I knew he didn't believe me. "Then why did you come with me?" Nico asked, suddenly aware that we were behind his cabin. "Well, you got me there. But..." I sighed, " I don't know. Me and Jason just had a fight...I guess." "A fight between two best friends, why?" "It was about Piper." "Oh..." Nico said, suddenly understanding. "It doesn't take an Aphrodite girl to figure out that you like her." "I do not! It was about Jason not telling Piper he's leaving." "Well. Then. We can't do anything about that. He'll just have to decide on that on his own." He had his neutral face on. "Give it some time, make up with him, and then convince him to tell Piper. Problem solved." Nico left me thinking behind the cabin. "You're right." I said outloud to no one in particular.
Thalia
I dragged Percy, Annabeth, And Nico into my cabin. "So, what are we going to do about my idiotic brother?" "Well, just to put some information out there, Leo knows too." Nico said. "Well...that's fine. But how?" "Jason told him. It seemed like to me, Jason is ouch ins everyone away, including his friends. Maybe it's guilt?" "For what?" Percy asked. "For leaving probably." Annabeth stated. "I guess so." I said, a little worried about my baby bro. "But what are we going to do?" "Leave it be, not interfere?" Nico said, questioning. "No. I cannot allow this to happen!" I said. "We should..." I scrunched my face up thinking, "Annabeth!" I suddenly said. "What do you think?" "What do I think?" She rubbed Percy's hand. "I don't know." Annabeth blushed. Annabeth doesn't know?! "Oh my gods." I said. "Annie doesn't know!" "Hey! Thals, I agree with Nico on this one thou. I think we should just back off." Hades, Annabeth could you make up your mind? "Whatever! I'm not giving up on this one!" I said, energy trailing my voice. "Meeting adjourned, see ya all later." I smiled and left the room, leaving the door open for everyone to walk through.
Nico
Did Thals just become an over protective sister? I walked out and squinted in the noon-sunlight. Sighing, I went into the woods. I walked up and sat on what use to be Zeus' fist. The shadows were darker here. "Might as well head to visit my dear sister at Camp Jupiter." I said out loud. I was just about to shadow travel, when I saw someone out of the corner of my eye. I shadow traveled to where I saw the movement. "Ah! Gods." It was the stolls. "What are you two up to?" "Oh nothing, just preparing another prank." "Whatever." I headed back to camp when I for sure heard Katie yelling out "Travis".
Piper
I just laid down for a nap earlier. Maybe an hour ago or so. "Ah" I yawned and stretch myself. I frowned. It was noon...I spent like two hours sleeping. I hadn't known I was so tired. Lately, I think I've been getting demigod dreams. These dreams are so weird, their like my memories but I don't know. I don't know if their my memories or fake. Like there's one of my first kiss with Jason, but instead of it being here at camp, it was back at the Wilderness camp. Are those even my memories?
Jason
Hades. My head hurts a lot...maybe I should stop with the sword fighting for awhile...I walked out and headed toward my cabin. I was nearly there when I changed direction to the climbing wall. I walked over there, and was nearly there when...I noticed the world was spinning a little. Then everything was black.