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In Between Our Lies

52. (Thalia) Put Away Forever

She finally got over Jason.

He was gone.

Him coming back was more than she could

Hope for.

Betrayal, that's the first thing I feel when my mother comes back alone. Jason is gone. Where is he? Bathroom, maybe? Or did he run off somewhere, playing hide-and-go-seek like he always did? (How could I hope so naively?)

I know the answer before she even utters a damn thing about Hera.

Jason is gone.

. . .

I have buried him under grief – under the cruelties of our mother, the absence of our godly father. I have not spoken of him in many years, too many years to count. (Not that I want to – this sting is better than the hole that I will conjure up if I do share my grief.)

None of my friends – my best, best friends, whom I consider my family – know of him. Jason Grace: the boy who my mother gave away (or Hera stole). How ashamed would I be, if I'd told them? Too ashamed – they would think me, and my mother, a disgrace. I could not live if I had no more family anymore.

. . .

Confusion, that is the first thing I feel when this random stranger appears and tells me he's my brother. Jason, my brother that has been gone too long for me to count. If he is wrong, and this is a prank, that boy better damn well like being a pile of ash.

But then I take a good look at him . . . The scars, the hair, and the eyes – they are all his. I have no more doubt in my mind that this boy is Jason Grace. He is probably the one boy I will genuinely love while I am a Hunter – and I am sure Artemis will allow this, locked up as she is.

I would give up my vow for my brother (and for Luke, too, but he's dead now) and if Artemis does not like that, then she better find herself another damn lieutenant.


Okay, for those complaining about the Piper fic being a Reyna/Jason and the Reyna fic being a Piper/Jason, stop! I have used both pairings, okay?

Merry Christmas, even though Christmas was yesterday over here! I know this has nothing to do with Christmas, but oh well.

Be warned, I'm probably going to do Leo next - ah, a nice little love triangle.