My snowboarding season was over so I decided to come home to New York so I could maybe see Jana. I pulled my hand through my dark, almost black hair that was up and my ice blue eyes were looking at the airport I just came to from Alaska. I hailed a cab and told him the address and he took me there, but it did take an hour and it was night by the time I got there and was greeted by a blonde girl who kissed me on first sight. I was surprised and a little joyful since she was hot, but then remembered Jana.
"What are you doing?" I pulled away. She studied me and waved her hand as if to guide me in, I followed her. Inside I saw a tired and weak looking Katie Gardner, a strong Xander who smiled at me and raised a beer. I also saw Will Solace who looked like hell and a girl standing next to Katie who was Hispanic- no wait, she was Jana, my Jana.
"Jana?" I asked with a huge smile and hugged her and spun her around before I kissed her. She was frozen against my lips and I pulled away when someone tapped my shoulder. I turned from Jana and to Will who gave me a furious look before he punched me in the face, knocking me out cold.
"Why did you turn into Jana?" someone asked, I think it was a guys voice, but my head had hit the brick wall hard.
"I don't know who that is!" a girls voice explained. I managed a groan.
"Will, why would you punch him in the face?" another person asked, I think it was Katie, which I wanted to smile about.
"He kissed Nyssa! Was I supposed to just let him kiss my girlfriend!" he protested. I finally got to open my eyes and I saw people arguing over me, literally over me. I rubbed my head with no one noticing and sat up. I saw everyone sitting around me and I smiled at them and looked at Will.
"Don't blame him, if it was my girl I would have done the same and then some" I laughed and Will gave me a small smile before helping up. Since apparently Will, Katie, Hazel, and the two new guys Nico and Thalia were too weak, the girl who changed into Jana, Nyssa, showed me around while everyone else went and did whatever it is they do now.
"Sorry for kissing you back there" I told her as we walked to an empty room on the ground floor. She smiled weakly.
"Sorry for turning into your girlfriend" she responded. I was quick to action.
"She's not my girlfriend, I mean, I like her and all but we aren't dating" I rushed. She nodded and opened the door to my room, it was pretty blank so it was nice. She left me to unpack and stuff.
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I've spent pretty much all my time since Piper disappeared trying to find her. I knew I was a dick before and wanted to make it up to her, I loved her. I had searched long and hard and I just wanted Piper back. I was currently sitting in the living room when Katie came rushing in.
"I think I know where Piper is, I somehow contacted her through a dream last night, we need to get Travis back here right now, can you go get him?" Katie asked me. I nodded enthusiastically and ran out and up to the roof where I had a running start as I jumped off the roof and started flying at a great speed. It took me only minutes to get to the amazon where Travis thought they might be. I found him within the hour and saw him with Reyna, who had a purple and gold dress on.
"Woah, how'd he get you?" I hugged her. She laughed.
"He's good" she responded. I looked at Travis.
"We think we know where Pipes and Jana are, teleport us back to the apartment now!" I ordered him and he took our hands and we were back. Katie was pacing around the room and when she turned and saw Travis she almost fell backwards before jumping on him and giving him a hug, tearing us from his grasp. I smiled at my friends happiness.
"Come on guys, we have to get them!" I told the couple. Katie pulled away from the hug and kissed Travis on the lips. I sighed and called for everyone that was able, we had Percy, Xander, Nyssa, Miranda, Travis (After some convincing and approval from Katie), Leo, Connor, Jake, Thalia, and Nico while everyone else would stay back.
I was a man on a mission and I flew around the house ready to kill any guy I saw touching my Piper. There weren't any guys so far and so I led everyone upstairs to where we heard noises from one room and I made them wait before going in. I saw Jana and Piper naked being abused by some guy. Wait, I knew that face, that was Kronos, he was head of the Quillia trade. I flew forwards and punched the guy square in the jaw while yelling for them to grab something to cover themselves.
"Guys!" I yelled once they had sheets around them, I could see they had blood all over themselves, most of it their own, at least I thought, but there was a dead girl in the corner, so I couldn't tell for sure. Soon Miranda took out a knife and stabbed Kronos in the stomach and with a face full of anger, she pulled up and split open Kronos's body open and she and everyone else was splattered with blood. Nyssa and Thalia helped Piper and Jana properly get something to cover themselves with while the rest of us checked around for anything else. Once we had the all clear we teleported back.
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Once we got back I had first go on the shower because I killed the guy, so I got the nice one upstairs while everyone else was in the other halls. I undressed and got two towels out, because I knew who was coming and I got in the shower, keeping the door unlocked for him. I washed my blonde hair and soon enough the whole bathroom was steamed up and I was thinking he wouldn't come, just when I had thought this I felt someone's hands graze my sides and I turned around and saw the blood covered Xander I had wanted to see.
"I thought you weren't going to come" I told him in between kisses. He smiled at me and I snaked my way up his body so I had my legs around him and they were just below his waist.
"I know you think of me better than that" he joked. "Besides, why wouldn't I? You're beautiful" he told me. I don't know why but I just stopped. I let go of him and slid to the floor. I just pulled my legs up to my chin and wrapped my arms around my legs. Xander didn't complain but sat down next to me. He didn't talk but he wrapped an arm around me and pulled me to his chest.
"I'm sorry" I whispered. He didn't say anything for a while but just let me sit there and held me.
"You haven't done anything" he startled me with his voice, it was so loving, like I could do no wrong.
"I've been messing with your feelings, I have been screwing you up, no one can just be friends with benefits! It always turns into a relationship and I- I don't know the first thing about one and I don't even think you want one with me-" I rambled. Xander grabbed my head fiercely and made me look him in the eyes.
"I do want a relationship with you, I've wanting one with you since I properly meet you, I always thought you hated relationships because you have to make out with everyone who comes through that door" he told me. I smiled sadly.
"I don't want to have to feel like I'm cheating on you every time I do my job" I said. Xander pulled my face forward and my lips were his lips, his breathes were mine, we became a mold and nothing could tear us apart.
"You won't, because we will be a somewhat normal couple and we will do those stupid couple things if you want to, agreed?" he asked me. I smiled.
"No stupid couple things, we make up our own, agreed" I told him, he smiled and we rolled over on the floor.
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"After all these years, I am just now figuring out what sex with you is like" I joked to Travis. He smiled down at me and kissed my lips another time.
"God, I missed you while you were away" he smiled. I smiled back. I took his hand and slipped mine into his. I took his other hand and put them above his head and I could see his strong muscles working and I laughed as he swung his arms around my upper back and pulled me down to his face.
"How was he in bed?" he asked me. I glanced at his lips and back at his eyes.
"He was good" I didn't lie to him. He sighed and slipped out from underneath my body and left me alone in the warm bed. I turned on my side and saw him pacing the room.
"Better than me?" he asked. They were both excellent, but in all honesty Travis was better.
"No, you are better than him, you don't have to worry about that" I told him honestly. He grinned at me and I got out of the bed and walked to his back. I hugged him from behind and he wriggled around so I had his chest.
"Do you ever wonder if this is the end? That we stop here?" I asked him. He kissed the top of my head and hugged me tighter.
"We are the most powerful people on earth, it would be to boring to stop" he whispered to me. I smiled and let his warm chest heat me up in this cold weather.
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"Will?" I came through his doorway and closed the door behind me. I saw him asleep on his bed and smiled. I looked at his army uniform folded up on the table by his bed. I walked besides him and to his tan camo uniform. I lightly touched it and felt a cool tear slide down my cheek.
I looked back at Will sleeping, he looked so peaceful and happy. Would he go back? Would he leave me here, alone, without him to protect me if my brother finds me?
I was scared. Scared of being alone again like I was for all those months, cold, lonely, eating leaves and berries I recognized because I could never steal from people so I was always in the woods, legs bloody, hair tangled, when it was longer and bruises all over my body, sleeping under a smelly blanket I had until it was lost right before I got here.
When I was alone now, I would think back to when I was running. I had always lived in the fear of my brother and mother. I met Will and remember the feeling when he looked at me when I was myself, like he was going to protect me, like he was the nicest man I had ever met. I wanted him to protect me and never leave me. I wanted to not live in that fear.
I finally got that and I really liked Will, but I never really get to talk and spend time with him, he's always so busy, so most of the time I do double takes, make sure I know all of my surroundings, and that I can get away easily if possible.
I didn't want any of that. I wanted to feel, I don't know… I can't find the right word. I looked down at my dark red jeans and tight white t-shirt with a pocket on the left side of my chest. I was barefoot, I saw my big, Hispanic feet and my muscly legs. My curves were showing and my strong arms were tan and scarred from the plants and godly beatings my mom had taken to doing to me.
I never got how Will found me pretty after his girlfriend, Lynn, who was one of the prettiest girls I had ever seen. A petite girl with pretty long blonde hair and bright blue eyes, the perfect white girl. I pulled my shirt up a little to my right hip where I found my Quillium mark, an arrow that pointed up when I looked like myself and to the right if I was a boy, to the left if I was a girl, and down if I was both, which had only happened once before.
Right now it pointed up towards my face indicating I looked like myself. I pulled the shirt back down and looked at Will, who was now awake and standing in front of me. I jumped back and crossed my arms over my chest.
"Don't do that, please" I told him. He laughed and took my hand gently.
"Nyssa, what were you thinking about?" he asked me. I shook my head.
"It was nothing" I told him. I flashed into Will himself and back to me.
"That's how I can tell you're lying, come on I don't judge, you know that" he told me kindly. I nodded.
"I was thinking how you could be attracted to me after you had a girl as pretty as Lynn for your girlfriend" I admitted. He took both my hands now and gently pulled me on his lap in his bed.
"You two are very different, she was louder, brighter, and daring, but you, you're quiet, soft, and unspoken, you are beautiful, I mean, stunning, without knowing it, you turn heads and it's hard to believe not every guy here wanted you when they first saw you" he whispered in my ear and I felt more tears come down my cheek, I couldn't define if they were sadness or happiness or neither.
"When we go separate ways at night, I always look back at you one more time just to make sure you're okay, I care about you, more than I care about myself, actually. I want to protect you and protecting people is my job but protecting you isn't my job, I want to" he told me. I felt his arms wrap around my stomach.
"I feel different with you… safe" I felt his chin land on my head and I cried while he held me.
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"Jake?" I knocked on his door and opened it to see his ice blue eyes sending shivers down my body as I walked closer to him. His dark hair was up how guys wore it these days. I threw my arms around him and hugged him while he hugged me back.
"Jana" he breathed out. It made me feel great to hear him say my name like that. I craned my neck so I could lay my head on his shoulder and hear his heart beat.
"I met a little girl, Anya, who could change the color of any object and she changed a painting completely and it was you, it was your face" I blurted.
"Why'd you see my face?" he asked. I shook my head and removed myself from his grasp.
"I don't know, it just appeared and you looked like ice, that's when I realized I should be here not there" I told him. He smiled at me in his own cocky way and I wrapped my arms around the back of his neck and kissed him. He replied quickly and we were soon in motion, our bodies moving against each other.
Somehow we ended up on the huge window in his room and my body was pushed against it and I was grabbing fistfuls of hair just to make sure he stayed with me. I barley felt his arms squeezing my body against his.
I could feel the coldness he always carried and it felt great. I could grab his cold biceps and instantly felt like we were alone in some cool cave. I smiled against him and I could feel his lips curl up also.
"Jake, I had to sleep with that man, so many times" I stopped kissing him and just let him hold me up against the window while I felt my weight dropping beneath me.
"So did Piper, don't beat yourself up, you did perfectly" he told me. I stared at his eyes.
"So much blood and bruising, he beat us then made us give us our all" My vision started to blur and I felt tears rising in my eyes.
"It was my face, right?" he whispered. I nodded.
"Your face" I whispered.
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I held Annabeth's hand in mine. She was sleeping, while we were away she woke up and asked for me. This time I wasn't going to be gone. I was going to be with her when she woke up.
Her skin was tan and soft, Will had healed the sunburn and everything but I was waiting to see those grey eyes. I moved to the other side of her bed and sat next to her. I used my tears I had shed and threw them around the room with my mind, making different things until I felt Annabeth move besides me.
"Where were you?" she coughed. I smiled warmly at her and hugged her. I laughed joyfully as I held her tightly and we were off in our own little world, forever.
So that is the end, Happy, Happy, Happy. I hope you guys will like my new story, it's about a political marriage. Also it's going to star Percy and Annabeth, I know Tratie is my thing, one of my friends who reads these told me the most ridiculous thing, I'm the queen of Tratie, we were laughing so hard.
But I do hope you loved this story and you love the rest I continue to make and have made.