Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or White Horse.

"White Horse"

Say you're sorry
That face of an angel
Comes out just when you need it to

Reyna was the happiest she had been in a long time. Of course, she hid it under the stoic face of the commander. But inside, she was leaping, grinning, and being the kind of happy-go-lucky girl that she regularly looked down on.

Because he was coming. Jason, her fellow praetor, the Killer of Krios. The little boy, the weakling who had appeared to greet her when she had arrived at camp. Reyna had never dreamed that she'd feel like this about him then. Of course, a few years after that, the Second War had started and he'd got handsome and heroic and all.

Of course, she wasn't so shallow as to like him only because of his brand new position. No, the feelings had developed slowly and surely, first planning campaigns against Saturn and his army, then working as praetors together.

She had fallen in love. And now Jason was coming back home. It was all Reyna could do to not call a giant eagle to pick her up and land her on the ship and pummel Jason for making her so worried. Of course after that she would probably spew her feelings for him out.

Glancing at Percy, she saw the anticipation and wild happiness on his face. With a jolt, Reyna realized that his girlfriend was on that ship too. She wondered idly what kind of girl Percy would date, and then dismissed the thought. This moment was for Jason.

The first out of the ship was a lithe, blond haired girl with grey eyes, obviously a daughter of Minerva. Then Percy was running to meet her and with a swoop of surprise, she realized that this was his girlfriend. Huh, who knew?

She watched them hug with an unfamiliar warm feeling in her chest, and then the girl leaned back and punched him. She kissed him again after that.

Soon after, her mind went blank because Jason came out. A huge roar rose from the legionnaires as their eyes fell upon the son of Jupiter. A rusty, unused grin unfurled on Reyna's face as she stepped forward to greet him.

He smiled, a slow, slightly confused smile.

"R-Reyna?" he stuttered.

With a bouncing in her heart, she answered coolly, "Jason. Welcome back."

She was surprised at how composed her words were. She certainly wasn't feeling composed now. But then, being commander had to have paid off somehow.

Then, Percy came forward. She saw shock form in Jason's eyes as he saw Percy's praetor cape. Reyna felt a small spasm of worry.

"Hey, you're Jason, right? The old praetor?" Percy was grinning. "You don't need to worry about me stealing your job, because you can have it back. Way too stressful for a dude like me."

Well, that's one problem solved, Reyna thought wryly as she watched Percy and Jason shake hands.

After all the ceremonies and greeting each other, Reyna found herself back in her praetor's house. She was reclining on her sofa, lazily cleaning her dagger as she reflected on this perfect day.

A knock sounded on the door. Instantly alert, Reyna yelled, "Who is this?"

"Jason," a quiet voice replied.

Eyes widening, Reyna leapt off the couch, as if she had been shocked, and wrenched the door open.

"So," she said evenly, standing aside. "Come in."

As he awkwardly entered the room, he kept swallowing as if to say something major.

"So you're Reyna, right?" he said nervously. At her decisive nod, he continued, "Well, see I don't really remember you, with Juno erasing my memory and all, so I was just wondering what you are to me. Like, are you just a friend?"

Reyna willed her frozen lips to move. "We are friends. Just friends."

"Okay, good. Thank you. I need to go now. Sorry," he said, a bit sheepishly, as he edged toward the door and rushed away.

As I paced back and forth all this time
Cause I honestly believed in you

She paced the room, cursing Juno to the Underworld and back. What had she expected? Him declaring his love in front of the whole legion?

She felt broken, ruined. Why, why did Juno have to pick Jason? It wasn't fair. Percy had gotten his love, why couldn't she get hers? Why?

Getting out her gladius, she started to hack and slash at a dummy which stood in her bedroom. Thrust in the stomach, back step, lunge toward the heart, and follow it up the chest…

When the dummy lay on the floor, mangled beyond recognition, she threw her sword across the room and savagely ripped the photo of Jason that she always kept on her bedstead to pieces and crushed the picture frame, a lone tear running down her cheek.

Holding on
The days drag on
Stupid girl,
I should have known, I should have known

Day followed day, and Reyna kept up the guise of the stoic warrior. Her poker face was absolutely flawless. He would never guess.

Each day was utterly tasteless and dreary. There nothing to look forward to, not a trace of happiness in the blankness of her miserable life.

She soon met Percy's girlfriend, a tall, slim girl with sarcastic wit and an arrogant attitude. Reyna liked her though; it was obvious she would fight to the very end for those the girl, Annabeth, loved.

She met Jason's graecus friends. Leo Valdez, a mischievous looking guy with a joke for everything. He irritated her, with his jokes and optimistic attitude.

Then there was her. Piper McLean. The reason for Jason's look of happiness and rush to get away after their fatal conversation was explained. Piper was pretty, sensitive, a daughter of Venus, and Jason's girlfriend.

Yet it was hard to dislike her. Piper was so honest and completely innocent, with a certain charm about her. It was impossible to hate someone like that.

[Chorus:]
I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale,
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet,
Lead her up the stairwell
This ain't Hollywood, this is a small town,
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down,
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to come around

She thought about a movie she'd once watched long ago; back when she and Hylla were on the run. They had sneaked into a movie theatre, filled with starry eyed girls watching a romance movie.

Reyna had long forgotten the name, but the scenes were impossible to forget. A man had fallen in love with a girl and promised her that he would marry her after he had made his fortune in the world. In spite of herself, Reyna had been touched by the movie.

Obviously, her happy ending would never come.

Baby I was naive,
Got lost in your eyes
and never really had a chance

Come to think of it, Reyna had never had actual proof that Jason had once loved her. Those moments when she had felt a connection, maybe they had never existed.

Staring into those sapphire irises, burning with a kind of sadness had always made her heart flutter. She had gotten lost in them so many times.

Reyna had always prided herself on her practicality, but now she knew that she had been naïve. Such an idiot as her had never existed. How had she ever hoped to win Jason's heart?

My mistake, I didn't know to be in love
you had to fight to have the upper hand

Reyna had never been in a relationship before. Never. There had been no men on Circe's island, and then her sister had joined the Amazons, warriors who spurned the company of men. Back then, Reyna had completely agreed with their doctrines.

It was an honest mistake, a first love gone awry. She had truly loved Jason, but he was gone. He would never be hers.

I had so many dreams
About you and me
Happy endings

Now I know

Reyna had built so many castles in her imagination, only to have them all tumble down with one conversation.

She had watched the veterans in the city, the love the married couples had for each other. She had dreamed that perhaps one day she and Jason would retire together and get married. It seemed like the perfect ending.

Endings weren't the only things she had dreamed of. In the dead of the night, she had been blissfully entertained with guilty dreams of Jason galloping by on a white horse, dressed like a knight in shining armor and snatching her from the jaws of almost certain death.

Now she knew it would never happen. Those castles were ashes now.

[Chorus:]
And there you are on your knees,
Begging for forgiveness, begging for me
Just like I always wanted but I'm so sorry

Savagely she dreamed of him coming and begging for her, silenced by withering words of rejection.

Oh, for him to feel the pain he had caused her! What wouldn't she do?

Cause I'm not your princess, this ain't a fairytale,
I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well
This is a big world, that was a small town
There in my rear view mirror disappearing now
And it's too late for you and your white horse
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to catch me now

The Seven had finally come back from their quest, victorious, after long months of torturous waiting.

To Reyna's big surprise, she only felt a slight twang of jealousy as she watched the way he looked a Piper. She didn't care as much.

Of course, Reyna still loved Jason, but all the fire was gone now, there was no passion in the way she felt about him anymore, just the cool affection of a sister.

But, now someone else had caught her eye, Jason's friend, Leo Valdez. His jokes now seemed endearing rather than just plain irritating. He could make her laugh all the time, something Jason had only managed once or twice.

Reyna was over Jason, she was finally allowing her feelings to expand beyond him now. The cage of heartbreak was finally broken and she was slowly starting to fall in love once again.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa
Try and catch me now
Oh, it's too late
To catch me now

It was a glorious sunset on the top of the hill, the sky splashed with a rainbow of colors. Leo turned to her and muttered words that she had longed for so long. He finally told her he loved her.

Okay, this was really hard to write. I didn't really know much about Reyna. We only saw her in the beginning and end of the Son of Neptune, so she might be a little OOC. Sorry about that.

So I really don't like Reyna and Leo, but I wanted her to get a happy ending.