CHAPTER 4
Jason found Reyna laying on the ground, surrounded by demigods.
"What happened?" Jason yelled. "Why didn't any of you protect her?"
"She sliced off the monsters head." A boy from the first legion replied solemnly. "As the head fell, it's mouth was open, and a fang scraped her leg. She got really dizzy and then collapsed."
"Why isn't anyone doing anything?" Jason yelled. "Scipio!"
Scipio, Reyna's pegasus, appeared in less than a minute. Jason mounted the horse and carried Reyna the whole way back to Camp Jupiter. There, she was taken to the hospital located in the camp and cared for by the medical staff. For four days, Reyna was asleep. And for the whole duration of those four days, Jason never left her side. Five days after the battle, Reyna finally woke up. "Jason?" she whispered. "Why are you here?"
"I should've gone with you to fight that monster. I was so stupid to make you fight alone. If anything ever happened to you, I don't know what I would've done with myself. I'm so sorry, Reyna. I can't beli-"
"Jason!" she weakly laughed. "Think about what you are saying. If you would have fought the monster with me, who would have defeated Krios?"
Jason thought to himself. "Well, I guess you're right. But I still shouldn't have left you like that. We could've defeated Krios together! We make a great te-"
"I forgive you Jason." Reyna smiled. "And I thank you, on behalf of all of Camp Jupiter. Jason, you're a hero to us all."
Jason smiled. "Well, I'm just doing my job."
They paused for a moment.
"You know, Reyna," Jason began. "when I was battling Krios, he disarmed me. He was about to kill me, and it was almost as if my whole life flashed before my eyes. And you know what made me keep going and not quit?"
"What?"
"The thought of you. I thought of your long, brown, silky hair, and your dark chocolate eyes, and how beautiful you look when you smile. And then I realized, you don't smile very often. Then I thought to myself that, before I die, I wanted to see you smile one more time and if I could, I would make you smile all the time."
Reyna stared at him in shock for a moment.
"Oh no." Jason said. "Did I say something wrong?"
Reyna smiled the biggest, brightest smile that had crossed her face in a long time.
"No," she began. "You said just what I wanted to hear."
And then he kissed her, and she kissed him back. And for a moment, it felt as if they were the only two people on the earth. There were no monsters, no battles, no risk of not living to see the next day.
And this time, the moment lasted for a long, long, time.
