AN: This takes place a couple of weeks after TLH. The quote in the summery is from Hook, a really amazing movie. I own nothing.
Jason woke from a particularly nasty nightmare. He couldn't remember it completely, something about a sea of fire and huge giants. He knew it was about his quest and saving the world, but something was off, like he was missing a big piece of the puzzle.
Jason looked out to the orange red sky. The sun was just starting to rise and some satyrs could be seen playing volleyball. Jason stood from Thaila's little spot he had been sleeping in and stretched.
How long had he'd been here? A couple of week's maybe? Jason wasn't really paying attention to the time all he knew was that the longer he was here the worst the nightmares were getting.
He had tried to explain them to Piper, but she didn't really understand. She tried to tell him that he was just nervous about leading the quest and everything was going to be alright. Anytime she said this Jason couldn't help but believe her, but then night would come and the nightmares would be ten times worst. So Jason went to the next person he could get good advice from, Annabeth.
Annabeth wasn't much help since she was too busy making plans to rescue Percy. When Jason told her about his nightmares she said that since they were demigod's they would always have nightmares, which didn't really help keep them away.
So Jason decided just to endure the bad dreams and hope maybe when they rescued Percy he'd have some insight on them.
Jason got dressed and walked out of his cabin, avoiding his dad's stare, and walked down to the beach hoping that the memory of his latest nightmare would disappear.
When he got to the beach, Jason noticed a girl lying in the sand. She appeared to be about a year younger then Jason with hair as yellow as the sun and her skin was the same color as the sand she lied on. She was also fast asleep.
Jason was about to turn around to avoid talking to the girl. As far as he knew he had never seen her before and something about her unsettled him. But before he could take on step back she spoke in a soft sleepy kind of voice, "I don't mind if you are here as well."
Jason didn't know how to reply so she kept talking, "You're Jason aren't you? The boy from the Roman camp?"
"How did you know that?" Jason asked. The girl just continued to lie in the sand. Finally she spoke in a voice no louder than a whisper, "I see many things in dreams."
Then she sat up and Jason noticed something else about her. Her eyes were a beautiful blue. The exact shade as the ocean, bright and knowing but soft and tired looking. When you looked into her eyes you couldn't help but feel sleepy too.
"You're one of Hypnos' kids aren't you?" Jason asked her. She nodded her head then lied back down to the sand, falling asleep once more.
Once the girl fell asleep, Jason turned around and ran as quickly as he could from the beach, putting enough distance as possible from him and that girl. Something about her was creepy and comforting at the same time.
While he was running, Jason didn't relize he ran right passed Piper when she ran in front of him, make him trip and fall on top of her.
"Oh I'm so sorry." He breathed, almost all the air in his lungs was gone from the sudden stop.
"Ha, it's ok it's my fault." Piper laughed from underneath him. Jason tried to get up but Piper had wrapped her arms around his shoulders to prevent him from moving.
"Um Piper I got to get up."
"Hmm…no you don't." She smiled beautifully and kissed him on the lips. It was a soft gently kiss but Jason could feel hunger and passion on her side of it. Usually he took advantage of that hunger but after meeting that girl, he felt like he was in a different world than everyone else.
"Is there something wrong?" Piper looked worried and a little annoyed at Jason for breaking the kiss.
"It's just the nightmares." Jason replied which wasn't totally false.
Piper was defiantly annoyed now. "Gods, when will they stop?" She pushed Jason off her and stood up.
"Oh I don't know Piper, let me just tell my brain to stop having bad dreams!" Jason yelled at her.
She winced like he had just poked her with a metal rod. "Look I'm sorry for yelling but I hate these nightmares as much as you do, but there's nothing I can do about them. Every time I sleep I have them."
Her eyes light up like the whole world just made sense, "That's it; we just have to go to a sleep expert!"
"You want me to go to a doctor? I'm sure they'll find something different in my nightmares as from normal people's nightmares."
"No stupid, we need to go to cabin fifteen."
