Hey, I actually updated on time! Sorry if these last two chapters have been a little short, I'm going to start working on a prequel story to this called Finding Thalia Grace, I feel like it's a good idea and it'll explain why I sorta' delve a little more into Thalico than the other pairings beside Jasiper, so please give that a chance when it's published. Let me know how you like this chapter, I'm going to try to post another chapter soon, and I think I might continue to where Piper and Jason end up traveling the world together. I think that would be adorable. I will be extending this past their senior year, I'm not sure if I'll focus on their senior year but I'll definitely be going into their lives after their senior year of high school. So let me know what you think of everything, and Piper and Jason are together...they weren't in previous chapters but they are now. I'll be tapering off of the Thalico now and focusing on Jasiper for the rest of the story so sorry about all the Thalico action. Please enjoy and review, I thank you for the reviews I've received this far, and I'll continue to thank for any future reviews, they help me out a lot! :D~ Bolts and Trees

The next morning Jason decided to go out to get breakfast for Thalia and Piper since they had fallen asleep on the couch before he got home. He pulled into the parking lot of Dunkin' Donuts and got a dozen donuts, two large cookie dough iced coffees with cream and sugar, and a regular black coffee for himself. He then decided to go pick up something from McDonald's not knowing how hungry the girls might be.

When he got back and found Thalia and Piper sitting in the living room watching The Avengers because Thalia was in love with Loki, for some reason Loki made Thalia feel better. Jason was positive it was because of her crush on the actor who played him, she watched the Pirate Fairy just because he was the voice of Captain Hook.

"You girls hungry, I got donuts, coffee, and McDonald's?" Jason asked walking in and putting the food on the coffee table. That's when their mother walked in drinking her own coffee.

"Thalia have you moved since I left?" she asked snatching a jelly filled donut from the box.

"Nope, I don't have anything to do, so why move?" Thalia shrugged and took a sip of her coffee, "I've been watching movies with Piper."

"You haven't been the same since the charity ball, I've noticed Jason's done all the cooking." her mother said before biting into the donut.

"I've been to distracted to properly cook." Thalia shrugged.

She smiled and kissed both Jason and Piper on the cheek before going back out to her car, "I've got to jet, I'm needed in Paris for something, a designer friend of mine needs a muse. Plus it gives Chance and I some alone time."

Thalia rolled her eyes as the door closed, "Has she considered that Chance practically raised us because she was unfit to handle children? Chance actually likes us."

"Eat your donut." Jason muttered and hit her with one of the pillows on the couch. He took a seat next to Piper who was nibbling on a blueberry cobbler donut.

Thalia rolled her eyes and grabbed the McDonald's bag taking out whatever Jason had decided to order, "I can't believe that he'd have the audacity to bring Drew to my family's event."

Piper hugged Thalia, "You know what, maybe you should talk to him. I think talking would be good for you two."

Thalia looked at Piper, "You really think I should talk to that jackass?"

Piper nodded, "I think it'll help both of you."

Thalia shrugged and took a bite of the sandwich she had grabbed, "I don't want to talk to him right now."

"What about at the Festival?" Piper asked.

"I guess if he walked over and talked to me then I would talk to him but I'm not talking to him first, he's the one who ended it." Thalia shook her head.

Jason looked at her, "Wait he ended it?"

Thalia nodded, "I knew he was cheating and he broke up with me the same way Luke did. There's someone else, Thals, clearly you'll be ok..."

"That was a scary good impression of Nico." Jason said.

"Thank you I'm working on it for when I need to imitate him." Thalia smirked.

"I was under the impression that you broke it off." Jason said.

"Nope it was him." Thalia shook her head before taking a sip of her coffee.

"Well, the Festival start tomorrow night, we should all go together." Piper smiled.

"Sounds like a good plan, I volunteered to help set it up." Thalia shrugged, "I actually have to head there soon."

"We can help out. Are you meeting Annabeth and Percy?" Piper asked.

Thalia nodded, "Rachel and her new boyfriend are going to be there as well."

"Will's a pretty cool guy for a college dude." Jason said, "He was at guy's night."

"I'm glad he's fitting in." Piper smiled.


The group walked into the town square and was instantly given jobs to fill. Jason ended up helping Percy hang banners and Thalia, Annabeth, and Piper got to decorate. That's when Nico decided to join them.

"Hey, am I going to get to work with her?" Nico asked once Jason and Percy climbed down the ladders they were standing on.

"We weren't aware that you broke up with her the same way Luke did." Percy glared at Nico, "I'm really doubting that you want her back as much as you claim you want her back."

Nico rolled his eyes, "So I screwed up, I want her back."

"I'm hungry, who wants to go get burgers?" Jason asked.

"Burgers actually sound pretty good right now." Annabeth smiled as the girls walked over.

"Cool, let's head over to the diner." Jason smiled slinging his arm around Piper's shoulders. Percy wrapped his arm around Annabeth's waist and Thalia walked at least a foot and a half away from Nico.

The diner wasn't busy so they got their favorite table in the back.

"So, the Festival is going to be a blast." Percy said as he sipped on his Blue Moon milkshake.

"Yeah it is. Have you seen Rachel's mural?" Piper asked, "She got to paint one in the park."

"No I haven't, isn't Hazel helping her with it?" Percy asked.

"We stopped by and they're doing an amazing job." Thalia smiled.

Jason grabbed one of the fried pickles from the basket in the middle of the table and then decided to some conversation going, "So, what are we all going to do tomorrow?"

"Well we'll meet up at the Festival and we can just see where it'll go from there." Percy shrugged.

"There's going to be rides and music, isn't the local music festival going on this weekend?" Piper asked.

Nico nodded, "My band's competing."

"We'll have to go watch you guys." Jason nodded, monitoring Thalia with the corner of her eyes.

"Yeah, we can use all the support we can get." Nico smiled.

"When do you guys go on?" Annabeth asked grabbing a pickle for herself.

"We go on at nine tomorrow night and we play until eleven in the park." Nico said before taking a sip of his Rootbeer Float.

"We'll be there." Percy said.

"Good, I'll reserve a front row for you guys." Nico smiled.

"Isn't your band a cover band?" Jason asked.

"Yeah, we're in the running for best cover band in the junior division, there's five others competing with us." Nico shrugged.


The next night Jason picked Piper up for the Festival. She was wearing a vintage looking powder blue dress and a pair of simple white flats, it reminded him of Allie from the Notebook, and yes for the record he had seen the Notebook, he just didn't want Percy to know. Her nose ring glinted in the sunlight, and she wore some eyeliner, not a ton of eyeliner.

"I bought you a whole wardrobe, where did it go?" he joked as she climbed into the cab of his truck.

She stuck her tongue out, "It's in my closet."

He decided to drop the subject, "So everything's in place for Nico to win Thalia back."

"Good, this needs to be settled. We both know that they need to get back together." Piper smiled.

They found a place to park which conveniently happened to be behind Percy's Prius and near the park. Jason could hear Nico's band warming up.

"Thalia's supposed to be here with Percy and Annabeth." Jason said as they walked towards the pavilion where the band was taking the stage. There was ten minutes until they went on.

Piper laced her fingers with Jason's and smiled, "Well hopefully this will be easier than we're hoping it to be."

"I'm here for good music. Nico's band is pretty good." Jason smiled.

"Yeah they are, I've heard them a few times at some parties and don't they play out at the restaurant by the beach?" Piper asked.

Jason nodded and they found their friends who were all sitting in the front row, even Thalia was there. She wore a black lace dress and a pair of her favorite black Converse, the completely black hi-tops that she doodled on with silver Sharpie.

Finally Nico walked up to the mic, "Hey guys, we're Four Dorks and a Band and we're with you for two hours tonight!"

The majority of the crowd was local teenagers who were familiar with the band and the judges who happened to be Piper's dad, the mayor, and Percy's mom. The band broke into the intro to American Idiot by Green Day and Jason had a feeling that Nico had picked the show to appeal to one person in particular, his sister.

Thalia smiled slightly and started to bob her head. Piper was singing along, Jason didn't even know that she knew the words. Everyone was dancing and singing and having a lot of fun. Finally they got to their last song, a slower song that Jason knew for a fact was Nico and Thalia's song. The band went into the opening of Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.

Couples in the crowd began to dance including Jason and Piper. He looked over at his sister and sighed because she was beginning to walk away. Nico noticed that too and decided to jump off the stage in the middle of the song allowing his rhythm guitarist to take the guitar solo. He ran after Thalia causing the crowd to aww in reaction, Jason had to admit that it was a cute gesture.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the love of my life Thalia Grace!" Nico announced before pulling her into a kiss. The solo ended and then the crowd picked up on the vocals allowing Nico and his sister to finish their kiss. Jason had to admit he was impressed, this wasn't how they had planned to get the two back together.

Piper was grinning madly, "That was the cutest thing I've ever seen!"

"Too bad I'm not in a band huh?" Jason joked.

Piper giggled before throwing her arms around Jason's neck and kissing him. Jason knew his lips were probably smeared with Piper's scarlet lipstick but he didn't care, he was kissing Piper McLean, the love of his life. Piper started to sing along with the crowd and Jason joined in with them. It was a nice ending to an amazing show.

After the song ended Nico drug Thalia up onto the stage with him and the winner of the cover bands were announced. The mayor walked up holding the envelope with the winner enclosed inside.

"Well, it's time we announced the winner of the cover band contest, the winner will receive a five hundred dollar grand prize and a trophy. So without any further ado, we invite the Founder's Princess and Prince up here to announce the winners. Silena and Charles if you would please?" the mayor smiled.

Silena Beauregard and Charles Beckendorf walked up to the stage arm in arm. They took the envelopes from the mayor and took their place at the mic, the other bands were now on stage. Nico had his arms around Thalia who was finally smiling again. Jason looked over at Piper who had her fingers crossed.

"Our third place winner, who will receive the one hundred dollar prize and a trophy is..." Silena announced opening the first envelope, "Defiance!"

The all girl group smiled and accepted their prize and said a few words. They were composed of a few girls Jason recognized from school, one of them being Lou Ellen McCall, she was basically the scene version of Drew.

"The winner who takes home the second place prize of two hundred and fifty dollars and their own trophy is..." Beckendorf announced, "Mayhem Children!"

The Stoll Brothers and Chris Rodriguez walked up and accepted their award and said a few words.

"The winner of the grand prize and first place is..." they announced it together, "Four Dorks and a Band!"

Nico's band members started high fiving and they accepted their prize, "Well thanks guys, we expect to see all of you at our future gigs out by the beach or well in my garage!"

The bands cleared the stage and Thalia gave Nico a congratulatory kiss before they made their way down to their friends. Piper and Annabeth hugged Nico and Jason and Percy brohugged him.

"Hey, I don't know about you guys but I'm starving." Nico said.

"How about pizza?" Percy asked.

Everyone agreed and headed out to their favorite pizza parlor. Piper and Jason enjoyed the rest of the evening and when he went to drop Piper off something happened. It started raining, Piper grinned, "Care to dance?"

"With no music?" Jason teased.

Piper stood on her tip toes and kissed Jason softly, "We'll make our own."

She pulled Jason out into the yard and they danced like that first night in the rain and at the ball. If this was something they were going to do often, Jason had to admit he liked watching Piper dancing around looking all innocent. She rested her head on his shoulder and they danced, they danced until they couldn't dance anymore. Piper kissed him so passionately that Jason had to lean against a tree for support. She wrapped her legs around his middle and kissed him even more passionately.

Soon the kissing came to an end and Jason had to admit, it was a scene straight out of the Notebook. He walked Piper back up to the porch where he bid her goodnight, "Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow?"

She shook her head, "Stay."

Jason smiled and kissed her softly, "Would your dad approve of that?"

She shrugged, "I'm not sure, I don't think he'll care though as long as we're not having sex."

She unlocked the door and pulled Jason in with her. She kissed him, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer to her. He cemented his hands to her waist and kissed her for another moment before pulling away, "I don't have dry clothes."

Piper giggled, "I'm sure there's something we can find for you while your clothes dry. Besides you're wearing jeans and a t-shirt, all you need to sleep is your boxers unless you're a tighty whitey man."

Jason rolled his eyes, "I wear boxers Piper."

She laughed and kissed him before pulling him up the stairs to find him something to wear. Before long he was outfitted in Piper's polk-a-dotted robe that was much too short for him and sort of tight but it wasn't going to take long for his clothes to dry in the drier.

Piper giggled and changed into her pajamas, Jason looked away as she slipped into a dry sports bra and new underwear, but took a quick peek as she pulled her tank top on. She was already wearing a pair of plaid shorts.

The signal on the drier went off and Piper went to go grab Jason's clothes. She tossed them in to him and waited outside while he changed out of her robe. He pulled on his boxer briefs, the tighter version of boxers, and then pulled his blue v-neck t-shirt on. He decided the jeans wouldn't be very comfortable to sleep in.

"Are you decent?" Piper teased.

Jason opened the door and allowed Piper to walk in. She walked over to her bed and Jason closed the door behind her and joined her. He pulled her onto his lap and buried his head in the crook of her neck, "Are you sleepy?"

She nodded before yawning. Jason carefully leaned back until they were laying down, Piper cuddled up to him and slipped the blanket around them. Jason had never been this close to Piper except for that night that she was completely drunk and laying on top of him. She intertwined her legs with his and they just laid there.

Jason ran his fingers through Piper's hair and smiled, "Goodnight Pipes."

"Night Jas." she whispered before her breathing evened out and she fell asleep with a smile on her face. Jason fell asleep smiling as well, they were on their way to finding Piper McLean and Jason was on his way to finding himself as well.