Author's Note: So, I wrote the very first Artemis/Leo pairing the other day, and people seem to like it...so I decided to write some more about them. If I'm gonna create a ship I might as well go all out, right? Anyway, this is going to just be a bunch of vignettes which will not necessarily be in chronological order, and will take a peek into this new relationship.

Warnings: It's a crack-pairing, so...yeah. Also might be some swear words here and there.

Disclaimer: My name is Rick, but I'm not that Rick.

In Which Jason and Piper Eavesdrop

"Piper...what are you doing?"

Piper McLean glanced down to see her boyfriend, Jason Grace, looking up at her with a confused expression on his face. Which was understandable, seeing as how she was half-concealed in the branches of a juniper tree with binoculars hanging from her neck.

"Shhh!" she whispered, gesturing for him to get into the tree as well. With a shrug, Jason scrambled up to sit on a sturdy enough limb across from Piper.

"Can you tell me why we're hiding in a tree now?" His answer was Piper handing him the field glasses and pointing in the direction of Bunker Nine. When he held them up to his eyes, Jason could just make out his best friend Leo's curly head as he sat on a large boulder near the entrance to his workshop. Incredulous, and a bit amused, Jason turned to Piper and asked, "Are you stalking Leo?"

"What? No!" Piper denied vehemently, smacking Jason in the arm. "Look closer."

Shrugging again, Jason peered through the binoculars once more, and after a few seconds of studying Leo, he realized what Piper meant. While Leo was normally already as active as a hummingbird on a caffeine buzz, today he seemed even more twitchy and excitable, and even his hair had flames dancing through the curls; that only happened when he was either getting geared up for an epic battle or when he was nervous, scared, really happy...okay, so it happened more than Jason would like it to, but it usually meant that something big was happening with his friend.

"Haven't you noticed that Leo's been acting weird lately?" Piper asked, and Jason gave her a disbelieving look. "Okay," she amended, "Weirder than what's normal for him. Nyssa and Harley came over to Cabin 10 wondering if any of my campers gave him a love potion or something."

"Did they?" Jason felt he needed to ask.

"No, of course not!" Piper gave him a scolding glare. "But after they mentioned it, I realized that Leo has been acting like he might have, y'know, found his love interest?" Jason's eyebrows shot up. "I mean, I don't have any concrete evidence or anything, but that's what I'm doing here. I'm sure he's waiting for her-"

"-or him," Jason offered, and it was Piper's turn to be incredulous. "What? I mean, he does call himself Flaming Valdez sometimes...you gotta wonder."

"Hm," Piper hm'ed pensively. "I hadn't thought of that before. It might be why he's keeping so secretive about it." She took the binoculars and back from Jason and gave Leo another look. "Hey, something's happening!" And indeed, Leo had jumped to his feet, a face-splitting grin lighting up his elfin features. "This is it," Piper hissed in anticipation.

As she looked on, a girl stepped out of the forest behind Leo, who apparently hadn't noticed her, and pulled out a slim dagger from her belt to hold it against Leo's neck. Jason looked ready to jump out of the tree and charge forward to help his friend, but Piper stopped him when she saw Leo's smile grow (if possible) even wider.

"Holy crap, she's gorgeous!" Piper gasped as the girl stepped around Leo and into the open. She passed Jason the binoculars so he could see, and he let out a low whistle.

"That's the understatement of the year," he replied, then hastily back-tracked. "I mean, obviously, she's not as pretty as you, Pipes-"

"Shut up," Piper replied, smiling nevertheless as she rolled her eyes and took back the field glasses. "Actually, she looks fami...oh my gods!" When she put the pieces together, the binoculars actually fell from her hands.

"What?" Jason asked, startled, as he caught them. The shock in Piper's eyes were evident as she stared disbelieving at Jason.

"Leo's dating Artemis!"

It took several moments for the words to sink in, but when they did, Jason almost fell out of the tree. He snatched the binoculars and pressed them to his eyes so hard it hurt, but there it was, plain as day: Artemis, immortal goddess of the hunt and the moon, was wrapped in Leo's arms-Leo, the guy who fell head-over-heels for every pretty face he came across (including Jason's sister), the same Leo who was so awkward it was painful to onlookers-and now they were kissing!

Jason lowered the binoculars, feeling oddly like a Peeping Tom, and turned to Piper, who was still staring at them, gaping like an idiot. "So, I think my dad's going to kill Leo..." he began.

"If your sister and the rest of the Hunt don't get to him first," Piper replied, shaking her head. "I mean, how does that even happen?"

Jason didn't have an answer to that, but now that it had been asked, he suddenly realized that he desperately wanted to know. So, with a thought and a bit of demigod power, he manipulated the air around the odd couple and created a sort of funnel so that their words were carried to where he and Piper were hiding. He normally didn't like to do this, but he felt justified in that there had to be some crazy story behind those two.

"-still can't believe you chose me, you know," Leo was saying. They had sat themselves on the boulder, and Artemis was leaning into Leo's embrace like they'd been together for years.

"Sometimes, neither can I," Artemis replied in an amused tone. "But other times, I'm certain I managed to snag the best of the bunch."

Leo chuckled warmly. "Well, at least I'm not an eavesdropper like Jason." Jason glanced at Piper in surprise. "He swears I don't notice when the air pressure changes." At that point, Leo outright stared right at them, a shit-eating grin on his face as he continued, "And I'm greatly offended that my friends decided to spy on me instead of outright asking, too."

Artemis laughed. "Busted!"