Hello person who is reading this story! I decided to start a new story, so sorry to people who want me to update my other story, and if you haven't read my other story, READ IT!

Note that the disclaimer is on my profile. This story is all in Jason Grace's POV. Just to tell you, this chapter is more of a background information chapter.

Just a feeling

Ten years. Hard to believe it's been that long since the war. Everyone who survived has gotten back to normal lives since the monsters pretty much disappeared off the face of the planet.

I became a bartender actually. Not some air-related job I bet all of you thought I would have. I didn't become a pilot or an airplane industry owner or a blimp rider.

Can you imagine me controlling a blimp?

Anyway, the bar I worked at was called The Argo. I swear that that was just a complete coincidence. I did not have anything to do with this place being called that. And if I did have those kinds of connections, I would call it something more awesome.

Like, "The Fortitude" or "The Puzzle". Yeah, "The Puzzle" the puzzle is why it's called puzzle. I'll tell Leo that awesome name later.

Anyway, it was around eleven o'clock and the place was empty, not counting a few booths occupied by some late night lurkers. I was trying to look busy by cleaning some shot glasses with a rag.

The door opened and a fifteen-year-old came through the door. "Wassup my brother!" the fifteen-year-old said. I recognized the electric blue eyes.

"Hey Thalia," I said smiling. "Why are you talking like that?"

"I wanted to see how it would be to talk like a quirky teenager."

"And?" She could not pull that off.

"Not my style. So how's the whole living-with-Piper-thing? And get me an appletini," Thalia said sitting on a stool.

"Piper's place is cool. It's pretty big, a two story studio apartment. And no, you're not of age." Silly Thalia.

"This driver's license says my birthday is on December 22, 1988. Which means I am legally of age, so snap to it," Thalia waved her i.d. in front of me and placed her feet on a neighboring stool.

"What are you doing here, Thalia? Aren't you supposed to be leading the hunt?" I asked giving her her appletini.

"I am, but that doesn't mean I can't see my brother every now and then," she took a sip of her drink. "I don't care if this is supposed to be a girly drink, it's awesome!"

"You seem to check up on me more often than usual. Do you not trust me or something?"

Thalia sipped the last of her drink and said, "Nope. Gotta make sure you don't knock Piper up or something."

"What?" I asked dropping and successfully catching the glass I was cleaning.

"Well, you two are twenty six, living in the same apartment, and you have yet to make a move. Makes perfect sense to me."

"Hey, me and Piper aren't even a thing so-"

"That's another thing I want to talk about. Why aren't you two a thing?"

I paused. "Because she has a kid."

"Oh please, she's not even hers. Madelyn is her niece, try again," Thalia said firmly.

It was true. Madelyn's mom was Piper's half sister and she and the dad died in the war so Piper took in Madelyn after college.

"We don't have time to have a relationship," I reasoned. That wasn't completely true. We saw each other for a good five hours each day.

"You two see each other all the time."

"How do you know?"

"I call Madelyn every night."

I should call child services and tell them about my stalker sister. "Why?"

"Because she needs a cool fun aunt!"

"Hazel is a cool fun aunt!" Hazel isn't my sister but she acts like it. I'm older and she acts like my big sister.

"Okay," Thalia said sarcastically. "Let her teach Madelyn about the history of diseases and how to cure foot fungus."

"I told you, Hazel does not do that just because she's a doctor!" Although she does talk a lot.

"Whatever. Then you got George Lopez-"

"Leo works in a car manufacturing company, there is a difference."

"Nico pops in every now and then-"

"He can be pretty weird around Madelyn but Nico has always been awkward around kids-"

"The first time he came to your apartment he treated Madelyn like she was some kind of contagious disease!"

Your face is a contagious disease. "Madelyn was trying to talk to him, but Nico wouldn't get close to her."

"And what did she do Jason?"

"..." I wonder if Piper gets these questions too...

"Jason," Thalia said stretching my name.

"...she sneak hugged him."

"She jumped into his lap and gave him a hug!" Thalia looks like she just won the lottery.

"Well-"

"Those three people are the only other adult figures in her life! She needs me!"

"You mean the traveling fifteen year old that hunts down monsters?"

"Glad you see it my way," Thalia said getting up. "I'll be back in a few days. Make sure you don't do anything crazy." With that she left.

...

Is it safe to think again?

Okay good. I hate it when she's right. Leave it to my sister to explain my current lifestyle in one conversation.

It's not like I didn't like Piper. It was just with the current living situation we're in, it doesn't seem like such a good idea. Piper is a sales rep and designer for Ralph Lauren and I'm... well a bartender if you couldn't figure that out. We make it work though. I just payed every other month until I found a more high paying job. Piper didn't mind.

But let's scale the pros and cons of this relationship...

By the time I went through a bunch of trivial things about Piper and how that could affect us, it was already midnight. My shift was over and the graveyard shift bartender was getting ready. I got my stuff from the back and walked back to me and Piper's apartment.

It was only two blocks away.

I know what you're thinking. Walking in New York City at the dead of night? Well I am a six foot muscular man. Emphasis on man. And I have lightning powers. Which brings me back to the man part. Yeah, I'd like to see someone take me on. Well, not really because I want to go home now.

Anyway, the balance scale decided not to have a relationship with Piper. And there were a lot of cons. It just wasn't logical. Gosh I sound like an Athena kid.

I made it to the apartment and opened the door. I found Piper and Madelyn on the couch with a blanket around them. I think they were watching the old movie Shrek.

Without me! How could they? And falling asleep to Shrek! Of all the-

Never mind.

I lifted the blanket off of them and lifted Madelyn to her bed upstairs. I placed her under the covers and gave her a kiss on the forehead. I went back down and picked up Piper.

I was careful not to drop her. The last time i dropped Piper, she forced me to wear these spotless white orthopedic shoes. No idea where she got that idea from.

I got her upstairs into the room across from Madelyn's. It was pretty clever actually. That way she could just run across if anything bad happened to Madelyn. I placed her in her bed and covered her in the comforter. I was about to go downstairs and go to bed too, but something grabbed on to my wrist.

I spun around instantly. i saw this in a zombie movie once. This was the part when the zombie comes out of the covers all bloody and gross and I cut off it's hand to run.

Hopefully Piper wouldn't want to eat me.

Piper's eyes were half open and she had a smile on her face.

"Good night," she said softly. Then her grip slackened. She kept the same smile on her face though.

Remember all that logical stuff I said before? Forget about that, I found a reason to be with Piper.

I walked over to my bedroom downstairs, and went to bed not bothering to change.

I jumped on my bed and laid my face in my pillow and took a deep breath... and he died from suicidal suffocation. I turned on my back and went to sleep.

I have a feeling this is gonna be a good year.

But it's just a feeling. I think.

AN: There's chapter one! I gave Jason the vain kind of nature in him. It makes the story funnier. At least to me. Would you want an extremely shy Jason?

Let's just assume none of the main characters I'm putting in didn't die or nothing.

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