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Piper reflects again about what had happened three weeks ago, back at her house. It had gone a lot more smoother than Piper thought it would have went. In fact, it might have been a little too smooth. So maybe he had sort of been expecting it? She didn't know. She felt clueless again; he just handcuffed her without peeping a word. Was he too shocked to say anything? Was he still confused with her revelation? She didn't know that either. She didn't seem to be knowing a lot of things lately.

Like why the police guards kept opening a small door to let her meager amount of food in. Why did they even bother? She felt enough guilt in her to kill her. She didn't need the food to give her hope that she might live. She didn't want it. Especially when she knew she wouldn't live.

It has only been four months and three weeks since she started working publicly for Jane, she reasoned, but she did enough crimes to last a lifetime. So really, there was no point in hoping to live.

Until she comes to one thought. It has been three weeks since she was arrested and nobody bothered to take her in for questioning. Why was that? They were probably talking to Jane, trying to get something out of her. They are fools for thinking that they actually can. The only person that would now be willing to spill out any of Jane's deeds, is Piper. But why try telling them that if they won't listen?

Because of Jason, of course; they all trust him. And back when Piper was getting along fine with Jason, they treated her like family. In fact, Jason's best friend, Leo, has become one of her personal friends as well. At least, for a while. Ever since they had arrived at the jail, everything had changed. Leo and a couple of the other policemen (a sarcastic man named Percy, his friend Grover, and his brother Tyson) were a little confused why exactly Piper was there so late at night with the tight handcuffs attached to her wrists. But Jason didn't say a word and walked right past them towards the jail cell where Frank Zhang used to occupy.

It was two days later that Piper saw Leo and the rest walking by her jail cell with a cold look in their eyes. And that multiplied Piper's guilt. In fact, for the past couple of days, since she had nothing to do, she was making a mental list of all the people she was guilty at. Frank, Leo, Percy, Tyson, Grover, Annabeth (who she had gotten along with perfectly fine, considering she was Percy's girlfriend), Jason, Dad...

The list could go on forever. Her brain hurt just thinking about it. But she didn't care.

The guard had placed her food again for the day, but she didn't bother to reach over for it. She was done with it.

About two hours later of some more self-loathing, the jail cell door opened. "Someone would like to see you," the guard said, giving her a blank stare. About time, she thought bitterly, but got up anyways. She recognized the guy, Dakota was his name. He was also close to Jason, but Piper didn't really talk to him much.

"Who will be questioning me?" She asked as soon they got out of the door. He walked behind her, being the guard, and she didn't really want to see another cold face directed at her so she didn't bother to look behind her to talk to him.

"You will find out when we get there," he said momentarily with absolutely no emotion. She suddenly felt jumpy. She knew that they would eventually come for her for answers once they found out they wouldn't get anywhere with Jane, so why was she feeling like this now? She was actually feeling nervous. And this feeling only happened once: when she was at Central Park and was waiting for Jason to appear. And now, it was happening again. She just decided to ignore her sweaty palms and let the guard give her directions to the room.

Once they got there and the guard backed out of the door, Piper was a little surprised and, okay, relieved that it wasn't Jason waiting for her in the room. It wasn't even a man (and she's not being sexist or anything, but it seemed that Jason's only 'friends' were all males with the exception of her. Now, she realizes that she was wrong once again). The woman was tall, she looked about Piper's age, and seemed almost... regal. Like she was just waiting for someone to just slap on her crown and make her the queen. Okay, maybe not like that. But she did seem authoritative. And she made Piper feel like going outside, digging a hole, and burying herself alive with the looks that she was shooting her.

But Piper pretended to not feel intimidated by the woman's appearance and sat down in the chair in front of her. The woman continued to glare at her before speaking. "I've heard of you, Piper. A lot. You're all he ever talks about. Or used to. He's told me all good things about you. So much, that I practically thought you were pure gold and innocent and nothing could change the way he feels about you. Maybe even now: who knows, really? But who are humans to actually be pure gold and innocent? It's just not natural, do you think not?"

Piper kept quiet. Okay... this has taken a weird start. But she couldn't pretend that she didn't know what she was talking about. And what was she supposed to say to something like this?

The woman continued, "So I just want to know one simple thing: why? Why would you try to ruin something like that? Were you trying to hurt him like you did?" And when Piper looked up from the desk and into the woman's black eyes, she saw what this was really about. This was no questioning. No one had really wanted to talk with her about the case; they obviously still wanted to talk with Jane. This was about something totally different. This was about Jason.

This woman, Piper is guessing, was a woman from his past. She didn't know what was between the two, but judging from the hurt and anger in her eyes, she knows she had (or still has) a thing for Jason. And that makes her look down again. She thought that she was the only one who had a rough past and Jason didn't know about it. Clearly, there was stuff about Jason that she didn't know about either.

Like for this woman for example.

Piper couldn't think of anything to say because she was feeling to guilty to say anything. But about five minutes later (she could tell because there was a clock in the back of the room), her mouth finally figured out how to work. "I didn't know... I didn't mean to hurt him, " Piper said quietly.

The woman snorted. "That's what they all say, isn't it?"

"No... really. When this whole thing started out, I wasn't really planning for this to happen. It just sort of did. And maybe... in the beginning I didn't really care about hurting him, but..." she trailed off as a whole bunch of emotions were pouring into her.

She really only thought of Jason as a friend. Okay, maybe a little more than that. But whatever she felt for the guy, she knew it in her that she didn't want him to get hurt. Of course, in the beginning, she didn't really care what he thought of her, but... now she doesn't know. And either way, this isn't really the time to figure out her feelings for him. And even if she did and the results were highly positive, she knew that it wouldn't matter because he would never look at her the same again.

She almost forgot that she had company until the woman began to speak again.

"It doesn't matter now. What happened, happened. There's no going back on it. But you should still know that what you did, was a terrible mistake. From the past three weeks since he found out, things have changed. A lot. He won't look at me-or anyone- in the eye anymore. And his job, which he has excelled in a lot, lacks his uttermost optimism. All because he's simply confused. But no. I promise you, once he gets over this, and he will, he will get right back on track. And he is, slowly, day by day.

In fact, he's arrested eighteen highly known criminals just in the past two days. Everyone is happy for his new record on arresting criminals, but we also know that he's not. Why? Because even though you're finally in jail, he's been beaten in a way that can't be fully healed. And you'll be sorry, Piper McLean. Just because you're in jail does not mean you are safe from getting into even more trouble. It never does. It's about time you learn it."

Chapter 10: Check! Yaaayyy. Yes, I know this was a pointless chapter but I needed a way to add Reyna (if you haven't noticed that was her) into the story. And I just needed a chapter to fill in the blanks before it was Jason's POV in the next chapter. So yeah.

Okay. Serious time. Since exams are starting in like a week and me and my family is visiting my relatives next week, I won't be updating every week like I normally do. The latest will probably be in like two weeks until the end of our school year (which is like the end of next month). Sorry for that and I wrote this on my profile just in case if you forget!

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Till next time,

Penguin