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Jason: I'm hunnnngggryyyyy.

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Jason: Fine. You can do the disclaimer yourself.

Lucky: Whatever. I don't own PJO. And I'm really sorry, to everyone who'd been folloewing my updates. I haven't been very reliable lately, have I? Well, anyway, I hope you enjoy this new chapter. I can't post the previous chapters, as that would be copyright. Sorry, again!

"Andromeda?" Reyna asked. "Do you go by Andy?"

Andromeda punched Jason in the eye, which, despite her size, hurt considerably.

"Yes. Let. Me. Go."

Jason groaned and brought his free hand to his eye. Reyna ignored his complaining and took Andromeda's hand gently.

"Sweetheart, we're friends of your dads. He asked us to come and find you."

The blond girl froze. She slowly slipped her hand out of Jason's weakening fist and gripped Reyna's fingers.

"Dad?" She asked quietly. "Dad sent someone to look for me?"

"Well, not you so much as your- OW!"

Jason fell back to the ground as Reyna's shoe met his gut. Moaning, he lay on the ground, now clutching both his stomach and his eye, and let Reyna continue.

"Of course."

She stroked Andy's hair and gently disarmed the girl. "My name's Reyna. That's Jason."

She pointed to the squirming blonde on the ground.

"Are you taking me home?" Andy asked.

"No," Jason muttered sarcastically. "We traveled hundreds of miles to take your shoes."

Apparently, he didn't mutter it quietly enough because a hand collided with his head.

"He's kidding, baby," Reyna assured her. "We'll take you home."

Sirens whooped somewhere off to their right. Jason stood up and peered around the corner. Firetrucks, police cars and ambulances whirred past cars.

"Can we get moving?" He asked. "I don't want to be here any longer that necissary."

Reyna smiled at Andy, who stared back at her with big gray eyes. After a moment, she looked up and nodded at him.

"Yeah. Let's beat it."

Three hours later, the trio had set up a camp at a toddler's park. Andy was snuggled in Jason's jacket in a tunnel slide. Reyna sat on gaurd at the top of the slide. Jason, tired but unable to sleep, perched on a swing.

The sun would disappear any second. Thoughts circled through his mind, from the quest to Andromeda to Apollo (don't ask). He felt weak- not a usual emotion for a child of Jupiter. He hadn't been able to calm down a little girl, and he was expected to lead a quest to kill a legendary beast.

"Jason."

Reyna was motioning him over quietly. Reluctantly, he left his swing and took a seat next to her.

"You okay?" She asked.

"Yeah."

She studied him for a moment. "You're not. I know you better than that, Jason. I won't ask, but just keep in mind that you're not fooling me with your 'tough guy' cover."

"Maybe that's 'cuz my stomach is in pain. I think I have a bruise, you know."

"Sorry about that," She smiled. "But you kind of asked for it."

He laughed lightly. Reyna's head found his shoulder, and in a moment, she was gone. He hesitantly draped an arm around her shoulder.

"Almost there." She murmered against his shirt.

With that, she was officially asleep.