Jason Grace walked from the arena. He was supposed to go to the rock climbing wall for his next class. When he reached the climbing wall, guess who was on the other side?

Drew. She was trying to seduce another Apollo guy. Again. When would that girl ever stop?

He ignored her and started getting ready. He prayed to the gods that whoever she was trying to seduce would snap out of her charmspeak. If you ask him it would have been better if they had left her in Greece.

The climbing wall started to rumble. He looked up and started climbing. He was half way through when one of the Hermes guys, who was operating the climbing wall told everyone that the controls were malfunctioning. Yeah, right. Probably just another prank. Nobody could get down because the lava had made a pool at the end of the climbing wall.

A little girl from Demeter cabin, who was nearby rushed to the Hephaestus and Athena cabin to get someone to fix the problem.

His arms were getting tired but he stayed still so he wouldn't fall off. He looked up to his right and he could of sworn that his heart skipped a beat. There was Piper McLean. She was yelling at Drew, who was somehow still trying to seduce that Apollo guy.

Down by the controls Leo was arguing with the Hermes guy. Something about bubble gum in the controls. At the very top of the climbing wall four people were hanging on for their lives.

Hades looked up from where he was watching Leo yell at the Hermes guy. He looked to his right at a kid that wasn't very attractive but not completely ugly, either.

"My, my Hephaestus." Hades said. "Your son has quite the language."

Hephaestus shrugged. "The first time I saw met him he chewed me out. Probably would of cursed if I wasn't a god."

Poseidon snorted. "Forget Hephaestus's son. Aphrodite's daughter has more of a language towards Drew."

Zeus nodded. "I've never heard such skilled cursing in my life." Then added as an after thought. "And that's a long time."

Piper had finally gotten Drew to stop seducing the Apollo guy. Drew had gotten bored doing it anyways. She had gotten a satyr to get her off of the climbing wall while Leo and the Hermes guy duked it out.

Jason took his chance. He climbed up to where Drew used to be and turned to Piper. "That was a good thing you did. Helping that Apollo guy out."

Piper blushed a bit and shrugged. "It's not a big deal, Drew's always trying to seduce some guy in this camp. She probably got bored of the Apollo guy and went to find some other guy to seduce."

Jason smiled and looked back where Drew had just been. Some how, being up there with Piper, he forgot that he could fly off the climbing wall. Thinking back on it, he didn't mind that he forgot.

Piper's hand had gotten tired from holding onto the rocks and she knew that she might fall sooner or later. "Um... Jason." Right after she said that she had momentarily lost her grip on the wall. Jason turned around just in time to catch her. He hauled her up and she grabbed the rocks to support herself.

"You okay?" Jason asked. Piper looked down to make sure she had a tight grip on the wall. "Yeah...thanks."

She looked up and for the first time, Jason noticed how close they were to each other. Piper knew she shouldn't trust herself on this but she could've sworn that they both had been leaning forward. They were one inch apart and both had their eyes closed.

Several people on the climbing wall who had seen what was going on were trying to hold back their smiles and supress their snickers. They were half a centimeter away. They could feel each other's breath on their faces when all of a sudden the climbing wall came back to life and they had to seperate to avoid falling. Leo, it seems, had stopped fighting the Hermes guy long enough to fix the wall.

They were sure that their faces were flushed. He wanted to say something to her, almost anything, but she smiled sadly at him and climbed up the wall.

Zeus smiled wryly at the top of the climbing wall. He, his brothers, and Hephaestus had seen the entire ordeal. Jason had been so close to getting Piper as his girlfriend.

Poseidon read Piper's thoughts and was heartbroken. She was so sad and hopeful that it was hard not to feel bad for her. He could've made her day.

Hephaestus went down the ladder on the opposite side of the climbing wall to inspect Leo's work and make sure that everything was in working condition.

Hades stood by and smiled sadly. He remembered the first time he met Maria. It was very similar to this.

Okay. It wasn't similar to this at all but he could sympathize with Piper. Maybe next time she got close to Jason he could scare her into Jason's arms with an army of skeletons.

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