Okay, I'm refraining from writing about Percy right now. You'll find out what happens to him in a chapter or two… Or five. For now, we need to see how Jason and Leo are doing! Gotta love them! I know I do. No comments about the horrible Spanish! I do not know much!

New Characters going to come in this chapter are- Thalia, Reyna, and Octavian

Fun Fact- My favorite line I have read from a Percico (or Nicercy in this instance) is "Brownies and no-baby-making tea for Donny." I laughed for five minutes when I read that, I really am not exaggerating. Thank you Takara Phoenix, for making my day.

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Jason's POV

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"Jason!" Leo called, sprinting up to me and wrapping me up in a hug. Here's the thing you have to know about Leo. He'd shot up about two feet, gotten several pounds of muscle, and he looked vaguely like a charging grizzly bear when he ran at you head on. But just because he'd grown didn't mean he wasn't still my adorable little fire bug. "It's good to see you again," he said softly, trailing kisses down my neck. I twisted away and grinned at him, watching as he stuck his lip out to pout.

"It's good you see you too, mi amor," I whispered, slipping into Leo's native tongue. "Te amo." Leo wrapped me up tight and nipped at my earlobe.

"You know I love it when you talk in my native tongue," he hissed huskily. "Te amo, mi tormenta oscura," he drawled. I wrinkled my nose at him and jabbed him in the stomach. He grinned at me and straightened, tickling my sides. I twisted away from him again and hovered just out of his reach.

"I wish you wouldn't call me 'My Dark Storm!'" I called down to him as he leapt up and tried to wrap his hands around my ankles. I hovered higher and watched as he gazed up at me, lower lip jutting out and pouting up at me. "Te amo!" I called down to soften him up a bit.

"Te amo!" he called back. "Por favor, come down from there before you hurt yourself." Chuckling lowly, I landed softly beside him and his arms snaked around my waist. "Don't scare me like that again," he scolded. "You haven't done that since you were sixteen. You aren't a boy anymore. You're a handsome man and not as light in the air as you once were."

"Don't remind me," I groaned, burying my face in his shirt. He was finally taller than I was, which still came as a shock. "You know," I said quietly. Leo looked at me with concern on his cute face. "We aren't little anymore. I think it's time we thought about settling down together. I want to go to college, you want to go to work. The only thing is I don't know where we'd both be happy with that." Leo looked into the horizon thoughtfully. He looked down at me and I cuddled up against him, giving him puppy eyes. "Can we at least talk about it?" I pleaded. "I think we're getting slightly too old for camp. We're among the oldest here."

"We can talk about it all you want, mi tormenta oscura," I cooed to me, cupping my chin in his calloused hands. "If that's what you want, we'll figure something out. Frankly, I agree. Camp is fun when you're young. But now that we're older, it's time we start thinking about our future together. Maybe we can even raise a gaggle of little baby demigods." I smiled up at my fire bug and wrapped my arms around his neck, placing a chaste kiss on his lips.

"Thanks mi amor," I replied, slipping into the Spanish again. "I bet I know someone who could help us," I added thoughtfully. "Come on." I grabbed his hand in mine and pulled him along. I gazed around, and when no one was looking, I slipped into Percy's cabin. "Don't say anything!" I hissed as my fire bug opened his mouth to say something. "I know this is Percy's cabin. I just want to borrow is fountain." I fished a drachma out of my pocket and tossed it into the spray. "Oh Iris, accept my offering. Show me Thalia Grace." The drachma disappeared and a watery image of my sister took its place. "Thalia!" I called, waving. "Hey sis!"

"Jason!" she exclaimed. "Hey little bro." She moved so her body was mostly blocking the screen. The Hunters may like me more than the average boy, but that didn't mean they wouldn't tear me a new one for stealing their leader's attention for a few minutes. "Hey Leo," she said. Leo waved at her from over my shoulder and wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me to him. Thalia grinned at us. "You guys are so cute together!" she gushed. "I can't believe how big you're getting Jason. You too Leo. You guys must be about nineteen now." I nodded.

"Listen Thals," I said and she looked right at me. "Leo and I have been talking about leaving camp and starting up our lives together. Is there any place on earth safe enough for demigods to call home? Where we won't have to be worried about being attacked around every corner."

"There is a place," Thalia began slowly. "Every now and then the Hunters and I run across it. It's at another camp for demigods called Camp Jupiter. But inside the borders is a little town. I'm not sure what it's called but I've seen people there as young as one to as old as seventy. It looks like the place where seasoned demigods go to retire to peaceful lives." I closed my eyes and imaged such a place. It sounded like bliss. "You'd have to find Camp Jupiter," she warned me. "Lucky for you, I'm in the area. If you and Leo are serious about this, meet me out in California."

"Okay," I said softly, slashing through the spray without much else. Right now, I couldn't get that picture out of my head. A real place where Leo and I would be protected from monsters as we melded our futures together. Raising little demigod children, who would race through the streets of the town without fear. "Leo, we have to go," I pleaded, turning and throwing myself at him. "That has to be the best thing I've heard of as far as our futures go. We can't just…"

"Mi tormenta oscura, calm down," Leo chided. "If you want to go check it out, we'll check it out. It can't hurt. It sounds like paradise. The only thing I'm dreading is telling Chiron about this."

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As it turned out, Chiron was all for the idea of Leo and I beginning our lives after camp. He admitted he'd foreseen most of the seasoned demigods branching out and beginning different lives together. Piper and Annabeth, for instance, were away at college in the city. They would always remain close to Camp Half-Blood. But me, well, I loved my friends, but a change of scenery was long overdue. Before I knew it, we were on a train headed west, as far as Denver. After that, well, Leo and I were on our own for the rest of it.

"I can't believe we're really doing this," Leo exclaimed, bouncing in his seat. I giggled. Three years later and Leo still had all the enthusiasm of his sixteen year old self. He patted his suitcase affectionately and grinned at me, cupping my chin in his hands and placing a tender kiss on me. "I must say, mi tormenta oscura, this has to be one of your best ideas yet."

"As if I don't always have good ideas!" I scoffed, feigning woundedness. "But I must say, I am greatly looking forward to having down time after years of quests. I don't know where Percy is, but I bet that's what he's doing." We both paused and thought about our friend. He'd slowly healed after Nico left, even becoming involved with a son of Hermes for a brief period of time, but I could tell his heart wasn't in it. His heart was and would always belong with Nico, his Prince of Shadows. I rested my head on Leo's shoulder, and his hand captured mine. His quick and nimble fingers began tracing patters along the back and on the palm, and it was soothing. "Night, mi amor," I whispered, closing my eyes.

"Jason sweetie," Leo whispered what felt like minutes later. "Time to get up, mi tormenta oscura. We're in Denver now." I sat up groggily as Leo lifted me out of my seat. "There's a good Jason," Leo cooed softly as he carried both me and our luggage off the train. "Now we have to figure out how we're going to get to California from here. No flying, por favor. Planes give me stomachaches."

"I know mi amor I know," I replied, wiggling out of his grasp and swaying tiredly on my own two feet. "We could call pegusi to come get us for the rest of the trip. I bet they could hear us from here." I let out the best New York style whistle I could do, and suddenly storm clouds appeared overhead. "Even better," I muttered, a smile tugging at my lips. "Here comes Tempest." I said that just as my old friend came galloping out of the sky. "Hey buddy."

"Ah, hello, crazy demon steam horse," Leo said to my beautiful storm horse. Tempest regarded him coolly and looked at me.

"Yes, we're taking him too. Come on Tempest. He's my mate. You're going to have to get used to him because he's going to be around a long time." I hopped onto Tempest, hauling Leo up behind me. Leo held onto the luggage with one hand while the other looped around my waist and held tight. "We're ready," I said to my horse. Tempest rocketed into the air, and Leo whooped. Over the years he'd gotten used to riding on Tempest, and now he was addicted to the rush like I was. "Good horse!" I cried over Leo's excited cries. Tempest threw his head back and whinnied with affection. Already I could see the bay area was coming into view. That meant Tempest was going really fast.

"Thanks Tempest," Leo said when we touched down, sliding off his back. He ran his fingers down the horse's stormy mane. Tempest nudged him affectionately, turned and butted his head into my shoulder, then shot back up into the sky. "Nice horse you got there babe," Leo said, using my English pet name. He whistled softly, The Golden Gate Bridge glinted in the background and were we currently standing on a rolling green hill. A highway was beneath us, and barely any cars were on it at this time of day (it was early).

"There you guys are," Thalia said, approaching us with Phoebe. She gave me a hug, then gave Leo one too. "Look how tall you've gotten Leo!" she gushed, very un-Hunterlike indeed. Leo blushed under his tan and retreated behind me, kind of hiding behind me. "That worked better when Jason was taller," Thalia observed. "Come with me. Phoebe, please have the other Hunters set up camp. I'm going to escort my brother and his boyfriend into camp. Reyna won't harm them too much with me around."

"What?" Leo asked as Thalia led us down to a sort of sewer tunnel. Or at least, that's what it started out as. The farther we went the fancier it got. When we finally emerged on the other side, I paused to catch my breath. Snaking its way across the valley in front of us was a river. Behind the river was a camp that looked like old fashioned Roman barracks. And beyond that was the town Thalia was talking about. Leo tugged on my shirtsleeve anxiously. "Look Jason!" he hissed. "It's that town! That could be our future home!"

"Oh I wonder about that," a girl said as she made her way down the path toward us. I guess she was a pretty in a girly warrior sort of way, but since I swung for the same team I couldn't necessarily say she was overly pretty or stunning. "Thalia, what brings you back here?" she asked my sister.

"Hello Reyna," Thalia said softly. "Look, this is my brother, Jason, and his boyfriend, Leo. They're looking for a place to call home after faithful years of duty at Camp Half-Blood." Reyna regarded us like we were an interesting science experiments or pigs ready to be dissected. "Look Reyna, I know that other campers aren't really allowed in city limits, but do you think you could make an exception? Jason and Leo wouldn't do any harm to anybody. The only things they're interested in are their futures and the futures of their kids they're going to have."

"You don't say," Reyna said quietly. "Octavian!" she called over her shoulder. "What do you think?" A scrawny scarecrow kid came wandering down the path, a dagger in one hand and a stuffed penguin in the other. His eyes traveled down my body and I felt oddly naked in front of him.

"Who is this handsome piece of man candy?" he asked, saddling up to me. I couldn't tell if he was going to hand me the penguin or run me through with the dagger. "Come here often handsome?" Leo's arm went protectively around my shoulders and pulled me to him. I huddled against him, actually afraid of Octavian. "Oh well. If you want a real man, I stay in cohort one," he said, wiggling his eyebrows and stabbing the penguin with the dagger. He glanced down at it. "The stuffing approves. Jason and his little pet may come and live in our city." I practically wanted to jump for joy. "Welcome to New Rome," Octavian said, wandering off and muttering to the gutted penguin.

"Well, it looks like you're welcome to go join our lovely town," Reyna said, and I got the feeling she still didn't like us much. "We'll assign you a double bedroom apartment to start off. College is free of charge, course, so if you're plan lie that way you're welcome to sign up for our fall semester."

"Here that, mi tormenta oscura," Leo whispered to me. "College, just like you wanted." He turned to Reyna. "Got any jobs for a son of Hephaestus?" he asked her.

"We're always in need of mechanics," she said. "We're lacking a mechanics shop right now. Would you like to open one?" Leo turned to me with a glint in his eyes that I hadn't seen before. "Okay, I take that as a yes. Let's go." She led Leo and I down into the city, and for the first time it really hit me.

This would be where Leo and I would start our new lives together. This was our safe home.

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Well, I hope that was satisfactory. It was certainly fun to write.