AN: I feel terrible for not updating sooner. I've decided to update when I saw two reviews yesterday. fangirl3152001, I'm sorry to say I can't update everyday. I sadly have to go to school and learn stuff I will never use in my life. I wish I could spend all day writing fan fiction, but there are these things called laws. I don't plan on going to prison anytime soon so here I am. Thanks for reviewing you guys and I hope to have the next chapter up soon.

After finding out about the pain curse, Jason decided to go check on Percy. His room was across from Percy's, which could always be a good thing or a bad thing. As much as Jason tolerated the guy, he had loud snores. Jason had gotten use to it by now, but now all he hears is nothing. It all happened after Percy and Annabeth had returned from Tartarus.

Jason walked across the hall, and knocked on Percy's door. When he didn't get an answer he knocked again. After about doing this about ten times the door finally opened, and the sight was not pretty.

Percy had a violet shadow under his eyes showing how much sleep he had missed. When He looked into Percy's eyes they seemed distant. His hair was messier than usual, and it seemed to be caked to his face. If Jason had to guess, he'd say that Percy had been in the middle of some kind of nightmare.

"Jason, what do you want?" Percy asked in a very un-Percy like fashion. His tone almost sounded angry as he leaned on the door frame.

"We need to take a pit stop in Lecce for supplies. Annabeth went on and on about something called the Basilica di Santa Croce. Whatever that is." Jason mutter.

"It's some church Annabeth has always wanted to look at. It's apparently breath-taking or something like that." Percy mumbled. "Why do we have to stop anyway? Don't need to get to the real Mount Olympus as soon as we can?"

"Leo needs to get to fix this ship. He said something about keeping busy. Do you think Leo's ok? He's been acting weird ever since we found him." Jason rambled. "I know he's hiding something from us, but I just can't put my finger on it."

"Ok Jason, can you please go calling out theories to someone else, I'm kind of tired." Percy said with a yawn.

Jason could tell Percy wasn't trying to be rude or anything, but it still stung a little. "It's all good man!" Jason said as he waved and left.

Jason walked onto the deck. He walked over to Piper was standing by Festus. She was wearing a pink shirt that said 'Yea, I fight like a girl, and I still beat you.' She followed that with skinny jeans and a pair of pink sneakers. She looked outstanding, and she even looked ready to fight. Her sword hung from her belt on her left side.

"Have you noticed anything weird lately?" Jason asked his girlfriend.

"Besides the fact that Leo tries to stay away from us all the time, and Percy and Annabeth are a mess. No not really." She sighed. "I just want to know what's going on in their heads."

"Yea, I just had a very short talk with Percy. I kind of ended with me being asked to go away." Jason paused. "It must have been rough for them down there. It looks like Percy hasn't gotten any sleep at all. You should have seen him this morning. He looked half dead." He stopped himself from saying more. To Jason's surprise Piper took this well. Ever since they had gotten Percy and Annabeth back from death's clutches she had been kind of fragile. She was worried about them all the time, and every time they were mentioned she would get this sad look on her face.

"They've been through a lot, you can't really blame them for wanting to be alone." Her face scrunched into a smile. "Besides, I think we have worse things to worry about than their social health at the moment."

He laughed. "Yea, I'm sure that the world ending is more important than our friends social activities. The problem is how do we stop it. Half of our crew is kind of isolating themselves from us." He explained staring at his shoes.

Piper seemed to notice his new need to stare at the ground. "Half? Who are we counting here?" She seemed to think for a minute. She seemed to have forgotten the way their captain had been acting lately for a moment. "Oh Leo!"

Jason nodded sadly. "Ever since we found him at that café he has acted weird. He's been acting like he's tip toeing around us. He's trying to avoid certain conversation when he does talk. It's nothing like Leo."

She kissed him. "Jason you need to stop worrying. You don't have to lead alone. You've got us to help you carry the weight."

"I know. I'm just think about how much has changed since we left New Rome. Everyone has change including me. Haven't you noticed?" Jason asked her.

"How could I have not noticed that Frank is two inches taller?" She laughed. "I mean we all have in many different ways. You can't go on some life threatening quest and not be. Think about it Jason. What are the chances?"

Jason didn't know what to say. He had to agree with Piper. Everyone would probably change, but he hadn't expected it to be this fast. He thought that it would only be some small changes not drastic changes.

"So what do you think happened to Leo when he was gone?" Jason asked trying to change the subject. He really didn't want to discuss how much he had changed over the trip. He didn't feel as if he did.

"I'm not sure, but whatever it was broke his heart." she paused for a minute. she turned. "Do you think Gaea had him? I mean he hasn't told us anything, so he must have been through something terrible." She turned to face him again. "I just hope we haven't lost him again."