Disclaimer: I do not own the Percy Jackson characters at all.

"Why are you late?"

Piper rolls her eyes and snaps, "It wasn't anything. And besides, I wasn't that late."

"Just sit down," Jane replies, annoyed.

Piper sits down reluctantly. This has been her life for a month. Go out six am, return before 12 am. It's damn annoying, and Piper feels like throwing her chair straight across Jane's forehead. Who was she to tell her when to come home, huh? And boss her around like that? Not fair. But Piper knows she has to deal with it. If it helps her father, then she'll do anything.

"Have you gotten anything?"

Piper sighs before reaching in her pocket and pulling out something gold. It was Jason's coin he told her he had got from Greece, and he literally carries it around everywhere he goes. Weird. He calls it 'Ilvis' apparently.

"This is it?"

Piper puts her hand up in surrender. "Hey, I'm sorta tired today, alright? It would possibly help a little if you maybe gave me longer sleeping hours."

Even though Piper doesn't like to admit it, Jane does sort of control her. And what's even sadder is that Piper's letting her. But of course, if it wasn't for her situation at the moment, she wouldn't need to. Jane looks at her in a look of disgust. "You're going to have to do better, is all I'm saying."

Piper studies her for a moment. "What do you plan on doing with the money, anyways? The cops could catch you eventually."

"Well, we'll have to make sure they don't, now do we?" Jane glares at her, daring to suggest otherwise.

Piper only nods.

"It has to be you! You were the only one there when we went inside. You saw us take the money!" Jason says annoyed. They were in that weird room that Piper's only seen in TVs and movies and such. The Investigation room.

"How do you know it was me, huh? Who knows it could have been your 'girlfriend' over there!" Franks says desperately. Piper almost felt bad for him. He really didn't do anything to deserve this. None of them do, honestly. If Piper could count the times Jane had blackmailed her into something she could't get out of on her hands, she'd have no more fingers to count on.

Jason looks at her for a while, and Piper feels a wave of panic. But it quickly goes away when Jason turns back to Frank with an indignant expression. "Don't you dare accuse people who you don't even know for something as serious as this!" Frank looks at Piper with an annoyed expression and she's pretty sure they're both thinking the same thing even if Frank doesn't know about her, Oh the irony...

"Look, whatever. Even if I did do it, you don't even have any proof! I mean really, the only possibilities it could be me, would be the same as you or Piper over there."

Jason considers this for a while before glaring at him again. "Come on, Piper, let's go," he says without looking at her. She hadn't seen him this serious since... well ever, really. Even when they were in Central Park, Jason wasn't like this. It brought an unsettling feeling in Piper's stomach. "I'm still watching you... we all are... just because your in jail doesn't mean you're safe."

And with that Jason closed the door, and Jason and her start to walk towards her house.

"Jason, I think he's right. It really might not be him... maybe you have a spy," Piper knew she shouldn't be doing this because things were working out perfectly now that Frank was in jail instead of her, but Piper couldn't get rid of that annoying guilt that was settling in her stomach. Since when was she like this? Normally she wouldn't care if she'd done this to anybody else... but something feels weird. And Piper doesn't like it.

Jason's silent for a while before looking at her. He raises his eyebrows in confusion before asking, "Are you talking to me?"

Piper rolls her eyes and points out, "Who else would I be talking to? No one else is here." Jason isn't paying attention to her again. "Jason what's wrong? Is something bothering you?" She asks even though she knows exactly what. It's the letters again. And it makes Piper annoyed that Jason doesn't trust her enough to tell her about them even though she knows he only knew her for more than a week. If Jane's idiotic plan is going to work, this needs to go faster. Jason isn't opening up, and Piper doesn't like that very much.

Jason looks at her again and shakes his head, smiling. "Nothing's wrong. Trust me. You were saying?"

"I was saying you might have a spy. I mean think about it, this person knows a lot about you. How could you not even consider this?"

"Of course I have. It's just... I don't know. I actually did bump up security a little bit, but it didn't do me any good. Because the next morning I got another-" Jason stops.

Piper raises her eyebrow, pretending to not know what he was going to say and asks, "Got another what?"

Jason shakes his head again and says, "It's nothing important, really." Then he still notices her questioning expression because he says to change the subject, "So we still on for tonight?"

It takes Piper a while to decipher what he was saying. Tonight? What was going on tonight again? Jason notices this because he says with a frown, "Tonight? You know... our... date?" He says the last part slowly as if questioning it, and Piper finally remembers.

"Oh. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I just- I guess I kinda... forgot... I've- sorry." Piper finishes and pretends to be apologetic when really, she doesn't care at all. Until she sees Jason look down with a barely noticeable frown.

"Yeah. I understand."

That awkward silence again. Piper almost lets out a breath of relief when they see her house in view. "Well... see you," she says awkwardly to Jason.

Jason looks at her and waves before saying, "See you tonight."

Then he's out of her sight when she shuts her door.

Piper's freaking out. She got a call from Jane (who's obviously not in the house), and she is so confused. Like, what the hell is going on? She's gotten so many missions from Jane. She's done robberies, illegal dealings (though she never takes drugs; she's only done trading), and so many other crimes, she can't even name them. But murder? Never.

Why does Jane even want this anyway? What good is this going to come from her, huh? She really wants to call Jason and tell him to get his ass over to her house just so he can arrest Jane. But that would be a major giveaway, wouldn't it? All of the things she's done wrong... if Jason found out... boy, she wouldn't even want to think about it. She'd be dead no doubt!

Why was she following Jane around like a dog? Oh yeah... her dad. God, her dad. Piper hates herself for doing such a stupid thing that night. She should have known it was a set up. How could she have been so stupid? Damn that selfish Jane. Ever since that night, Piper swore she would get her father back one way or another. Maybe she could even deceive Jane like she did to her on the way there. Because if Jane could cover up her tracks so quickly, why couldn't she? She'd always loved the idea of thieves and their 'identity'. It amused her very much. But now... she wasn't so sure.

Before, she would go around teasing people of their clueless brains of theirs. She would just walk around, knowing that she didn't have to worry about a thing because she was playing two people: an experienced thief and a careless girl. Both completely stupid, now that she realizes it. Now, she's put so many people in danger for her sins... not that she cares. She's put Frank in an awkward position. Really, this should have nothing to do with him. It's not fair that he has to be in jail while Piper can't help but be amazing at wearing masks. And she put Jason in a confusing position too. She made him like her, although that hadn't been what she was really going for. If Jason found about Piper, he would not only have to arrest her, but he would probably be having a broken heart as well.

Oh well. Boo-hoo for him, and Piper rolls her eyes. Typical of boys to get distracted so easily.

Piper tries to shrug off the rest of her thoughts and gets ready for her 'date'. Since Piper didn't really care that much about this, she got ready pretty fast and was sitting on her couch watching TV. About half an hour later, she got a phone call from Jason telling her to meet her outside. Piper reluctantly got up from her soft couch and headed towards the door, but was stopped by Jane.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Piper shrugs, "I got a date."

"A date? This is not the time for dating." Jane says with a scowl.

Piper smirks; she knows what Jane's expression will be when she tells her she's got a date with Jason. The one who happens to be a cop with tons of information. And also happens to have money. "The guy's Jason."

Jane's eyebrow shoots up comically, and Piper bites down a laugh. "Think about what I said earlier," she says. It takes Piper to realize what she's talking about. Oh. Oh the murder. Piper sighs and shakes her head. She didn't like what Jane was trying to tell her at all. But her smirk came back again. If only Jane knew what was heading towards her.

"Be back before twelve," is all Jane says before she walks away.

Sort of short, but it'll do. So next chapter... the date. Whoop! Just letting you know, I don't like writing this kinda stuff without any action in it... at least not in the middle of the story. But I still hope it's enough JASPER even if it is sort of one-sided right now.

Tell me what you think and review please!

Till next time,

Penguin