Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or HoO.
Warning: This is rated T for murder. The murders will not be described in detail but I'm still rating it T.
Summary: Bodies have been showing up around New Rome, Its up to Percy, Jason, Reyna, Annabeth, Piper, Leo, Hazel and Frank to find out what's happening.
Silence filled the Senate House as Reyna rose from her chair and walked quietly to the center of the room where Molly Wilbert's body laid. Reyna carefully bent down and put her ear to Molly's neck to check if she had a pulse, one last time. As she got up she looked around the room. Molly's relatives looked hopeful, it truly did pain Reyna to tell them the news.
"I'm afraid Molly has passed away." Reyna said looking up. The room remained quiet. Molly's daughter, Agricola, broke the silence by breaking down in tears. Soon after many others began sobbing. This wasn't very Roman of them but it was difficult to think that someone would want to kill Molly. Molly had been a daughter of Ceres who very much liked helping everyone. She was also terribly naïve and tried to never judge a person. She was much like many of the others that had been killed that week. It seemed whoever was killing off these citizens of New Rome didn't have any particular reason to do so.
Reyna left the Senate Building to let Molly's family and friends grieve over their dead family member and friend in peace. It had been especially painful to pronounce Molly dead without a fellow praetor there to support her. Ever since Percy had stepped down and let Jason take praetorship, lightly putting it Jason had been uninterested in performing his praetorian duties. Instead of attending funerals Jason ran off with his girlfriend Piper and when it was time to sign paperwork Jason threw the paperwork into Reyna's hair in the form of paper airplanes. This really irked Reyna. The Greeks had caused Jason's personality to have a major change. He was no longer the goodie-two-shoes' nice to everyone Jason. He was now too cool for Dakota, Gwen and Reyna. This really cut down Reyna's friend list to mostly Dakota, Gwen, Bobby, Annabeth, Percy, Hazel, Frank, Leo and Thalia.
It wasn't as if the others didn't notice Jason's personality change either. In fact, that was the main reason Reyna had befriended Thalia and Leo. Jason had started ignoring Leo and now liked hanging out with Hank, Bobby and Piper. Jason had basically turned into the 'bad boy' in New Rome.
"Hey Reyna. Nice dress you're wearing." Someone sneered whilst some others snickered. Reyna rotated 180 degrees to find she was staring at Jason and his friends sneering at her.
"You really think so? Its really old." Reyna said smiling sickly sweetly as she waved down at her old black velvet dress.
"No. It's either really ugly or you're really ugly. But I think its you." Jason said smirking at Reyna as his friends laughed. So quick she couldn't have second thoughts about it Reyna pinned Jason to a tree with his gladius behind his neck and Reyna's dagger pointing at his throat.
"Don't. Ever. Say. Another. Word. About. Me. To. Anyone." Reyna hissed as she pressed her dagger and Jason's gladius into Jason's neck just enough to draw blood but not to severely injure him (although that would have felt nice). She then threw Jason's gladius deep into the trunk of the tree and wiped her dagger of on the grass and proceeded walking toward Bombilo's coffee shop where Hazel, Frank, Leo, Annabeth and Percy had agreed to meet her.
Hazel sat in the coffee shop sipping on her latte feeling rather out of the conversation as she looked out of the window. She hated the tensions that crowded the streets of New Rome. People had been devastated when they saw the dead bodies just lying on the streets. It was rather strange that these particular citizens had never ever been anything but good to the others. Hazel was just worried about what was going to happen next. It was never safe when there was a serial killer on the loose. Ok, maybe it was safe around her friends seeing they were some of the most powerful demigods in history. As she thought about it all Frank took her hand and squeezed it.
"You okay?" He asked searching Hazel's eyes for worries.
"I'm fine," Hazel said managing a weak smile "Just thinking about this killer." She continued. The subject of the killer brought an awkward silence to the table only to be broken by Reyna arriving.
"Hi guys, and girls." Reyna said flashing them a cheery smile. Annabeth's eyes narrowed.
"What did you do?" She questioned.
"I may have threatened Jason…a bit." Reyna said chewing on her bottom lip. Percy and Leo high-fived. Annabeth glared at them.
"You are completely forgetting that Jason is still the other praetor and that he can still make things rather difficult for us." Annabeth huffed.
"Maybe we should try to overthrow Jason?" Frank suggested.
"Yeah! You could turn into an ant and get some dirt on him that will force him to retire." Leo contributed, rather liking this idea.
"Would you rather have Octavian as the other praetor?" Frank asked.
"By the way Jason's acting now it might actually be better if Octavian were praetor." Reyna said, thinking of the pros and cons of each of them being praetor. Jason was a bit more accepting but it was difficult to pull his weight whilst Octavian was very prejudice but her would pull his own weight (and some of hers).
Little did any of them know that Jason was listening to them at the very moment. Thinking about how he would avoid the groups ways to overthrow him Jason felt a small swirl in him stomach, theses had been his friends, now they would prefer Octavian to him as a leader. He wasn't that bad was he? Jason was a good leader he knew he was he just needed a break. It was obviously time for the break he had been on to end because things were getting very deadly serious.
A/N: Okay, so please tell me what you think about it!