Chapter 1:

The Chance Meeting

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO no matter how many stars I wish on. (How dare you lie to me Disney)

Sally Jackson sighed as she looked at her son, who was trying to catch a bird. He was so young, only four years old. Guilt surged through Sally, she couldn't afford their current apartment, and would have to get an even smaller one, not to mention her plan to keep Percy close by staying with that pig Gabe was starting to go downhill too. Her world was slowly crashing down, all she wanted was for her son Percy to at least have a good childhood, but now it seemed she couldn't even do that.

"Mommy?" Percy asked looking up at his mom.

"Yes Percy?" Sally asked smiling. She hadn't even notice him come.

Percy sat on the bench next to his mom. "When can we go to the aquar-aquar-aquari…" Percy struggled to pronounce the word and finally gave up, "The zoo for fishies?" He had been dying to go there since he saw the billboard for it last month. Percy didn't know why but he loved fishes, and the water.

Another pang of guilt hit Sally. That was all he wanted, was to go there but like most things sally couldn't afford the admission, and if she did find the money for it, he would still want something from the gift shop. "As soon as I can." Sally finally said avoiding his big sea green eyes that looked just like his fathers.

Percy looked down sadly, not understanding why she couldn't just take him. She hardly ever took him any were but Central Park, where they were now. She had once told him it was because of money, and he would have to be patient. He had tried to be patient but it was hard. He didn't complain though, he saw how sad it made his mommy feel. So instead smiled at his mom and rested his head on her lap.

Tears threatened to poor out of Sally's eyes at her son's kindness, but before they could, she ushered him to go play in the playground and make some friends. She watched as he quickly ran off without a second thought.

"What do you mean she quit?" Sally heard a strangely familiar voice say angrily. "Well now who's going to watch my daughter? It not like some one's going to just walk over here and volunteer to be my daughter's nanny." He paused

Sally figured he was on the phone and decided it was rude be listening in, no matter how loud he was talking. She turned her attention back to Percy, who appeared to have made a new friend. She was about Percy's age with nice expensive looking clothes, long straight brown hair, and an eye color Sally couldn't quite make out. It seemed they were playing tag, and Percy was it. That or Sally would soon hear a complaint from the girls' parents that Percy was chasing their daughter around…no wait now she's chasing him.

"No, that won't do!" The man said rather loudly, "I need a nanny now. Who's going to take care of her while I'm on set?"

That's where she knew the man's voice from! He sounded just like Tristan McLean the famous movie star. His daughter's nanny must have quit and now he needs a replacement. But why would he be in central park…

"Mommy!"

Sally looked up to see Percy and his new friend walk over to her. The girl appeared to be crying though. Uh oh Sally thought what did Percy do this time?

"Mommy this is my fwiend Piper." Percy said "She fell down when we playing and huwt herself."

Sally looked over at the little girl who sniffed in response. "Hi Piper. I'm Sally, where did you get hurt at?" She asked smiling.

Piper sniffed again and lifted her elbow. It didn't look that bad just a little scraped. Sally opened her purse and took out a band aid from it, she always made sure to keep some with her because Percy could be very clumsy and accident prone at times. She put the band aid on Pipers cut and smiled at the little girl.

"All better?" Sally asked smiling

The girl nodded "All better" she said grinning

"Excuse me"

Sally turned to see a man standing behind them. He had on dark sunglasses, a hat and a grey sweater.

"Who are you?" he asked

"May I ask why you want to know?" she said calmly

"I just wanted to thank you for helping my daughter" he said simply

"You're welcome" she extended her hand out for him to shake "I'm Sally Jackson"

The man shook it "Nice to meet you Ms. Jackson"

Just then Piper got an idea "Daddy! Maybe she can be my new nanny!" she said with a big smile.

Sally was caught off guard by this but she tried not to show it.

Percy did really understand any of this then again he didn't care too…ooooo look at the butterfly…

The man was actually considering this though. The woman seemed nice and prepared. Plus she had her own child so that made it less likely she would harm Piper. Not to mention he needed a nanny badly, and he could probably get her to start immediately. He looked over at Sally "Well actually we do need a nanny, Pipers old one just quit. It would be high paying."

Sally was almost certain every job was higher paying than hers.

"Before I say yes to any job, I still don't know who you are." She said after a while of thinking

"Oh yeah, how rude of me, I'm Tristan McLean."

Sally's mouth opened in awe. A famous movie star was standing in front of her offering a well-paying job. This must be a dream; things like this don't just happen. Yes. That's it. It's just a dream, and any second now she'll wake up to go to work and the neighbor will come to take care of Percy just like every day goes.

Tristan took out a gum wrapper he had in pocket and his lucky pen and started writing his number on it. After he was done he handed it to Sally "it's my number, you have a phone right?"

Sally nodded and got the paper he was holding out. She told him her house number and they went their separate ways.

The next morning the phone rang around eight in the morning. Both Sally and Percy were awake. Sally was in the kitchen and Percy was in the living room playing with his action figures.

Percy went over to the coffee table that had the phone on it and answered. "Jackson wesidents" he said over the phone. He moved the phone from his ear "Mommy! It's for you!" he yelled to the kitchen.

Sally came out and walked to her son as she patted her flour covered hands on her apron. She got the phone from his hands and patted his head directing him back to his toys.

"Hello?" She said

"Ms. Jackson?" a woman's voice said from the other line

"How may I help you?"

"Hello I'm Jane, Mr. McLean's assistant." She said "I'm calling to ask if you're still interested in the nanny job."

So this wasn't a joke? They were serious? Sally didn't know how to respond to this, it was all so sudden. Though, on the other hand Sally knew she needed the money, plus this way she would have more time to write.

"Hello?" Jane said

"Yes, I'm still interested. Will there be an interview? When do I start?" Sally said trying to sound professional.

"No need, we checked your back ground information. Can you start immediately?" Jane said knowingly.

They checked my back ground information just from my name and number? Sally thought "Yes, when exactly do I go in?" she said hiding her shock.

"Today at noon, Mr. McLean wants you to start as soon as possible" Jane answered "oh, also you will be living there in the house. Is that alright?"

Sally paused for a moment to think it through and then answered "That's fine with me."

Well that was fun! To be honest I'm a major PercyxAnnabeth fan but I decided that I should get to know Piper better, and what better way than to pair her with my favorite PJO character! I hope you like it sorry if things were kind of emotional but it will get more fun and happy in the next chapter and the rest. Oh and I figured it was ok to put Piper in expesive clothes and with non-choppy hair because shes still young. For now, Baiiiiiiiiii!