Hey guys sorry I didn't update last week I've been slammed with school and cleaning the house. Hope you enjoy this chapter, I should be back to regular uploads now!

Jason's POV

When I woke up, Reyna was still passed out. From the bags under her eyes I figured she would stay that way for a while so as carefully as I could I moved her into her bedroom, I changed her clothes that were definitely a couple days old and put her into a pair of PJs. I tucked her in, kissed her forehead, and went into her bathroom and rummaged through the cabinets to find something to patch up her bleeding knuckles. I called the Lemures to come and clean up the living room while I attended to Reyna. As I was cleaning up her bruised knuckles I couldn't help but remember the last time I had to do this…

I sat Reyna down on the edge of her bed and ran off to the bathroom, hunting for a med kit. When I came back Reyna was in the exact place I left her in but this time she was facing the window. I sat down on my knees and started to clean the cuts on her hand.

"Wanna talk about it?" I asked, looking up at her hoping to start a conversation, to lift the heavy silence that was hanging in the air.

"No," She grumbled. I had to chuckle a bit, she was always cute when she was acting like a child. Thankfully I knew Reyna well enough that if I waited for a maximum of 5 minutes she would cave and tell me. "Look, Octavian and his little geek squad started it okay! I was just holding my ground!" I didn't say anything, I just nodded in agreement, still focused on cleaning the dried blood from her knuckles. "It was once he started to go after Dakota and you that I lost it."

"Rey, You're a praetor you can't lose it." I gave her the same lecture she gave me countless times when Octavian got to me.

"I know I know, and I never lose it but the way he talked about Dakota, Katie, Jamie, and all the others. Ya know. You weren't here before he got chosen, he was one of us. I was in the same cohort as him, I trained alongside him. Then as soon as he gets chosen, it's like he totally forgot about us!" SHe sighed and pulled her hand away from me to put her head in her hands, wincing ever so slightly hoping that I wouldn't notice, but I knew her better than that now. I took each of her hands and kissed each one gently, finally getting her to look me in the eye. I stroked her cheek using my thumb as she leaned into my touch.

"I know, I'm sorry Rey." I said, starting to bandage her hand.

Once I was done she sighed and said, "It just sucks having to punch the shit out of a guy you used to call a friend, a brother." I went to return the first aid kit to the bathroom and when I came back I saw Reyna climbing into her side of the bed. I got the memo and slid into place right next to her. I kissed the back of her neck before I wrapped my hands around her waist and pulled her close. She turned over and nuzzled her head into the crook of my neck. I kissed the top of her head and whispered,

"Night Rey, love you forever."

Once I was finished I returned everything, I just took a second to admire her. It had been forever since I got to look at her in person. She was just as amazing as I -now- remember, there was nothing angelic about the way that Reyna slept, that just made her even more adorable. Even though I had just fixed her knuckles and tucked her in she had already thrown off the covers and was spread out like a starfish on the bed, she was snoring loudly and drool was starting to drip down her chin. I don't know if I've ever been more in love. I went out in the living room and found that the Lemures had already cleaned everything up, putting everything back to normal. I made a cup of tea, seeing how Reyna wasn't waking up anytime soon. Which unfortunately gave me time to think, think about all the things I have to do. I needed to find my friends and let them know that I'm okay. And Piper, of gods Piper, I mean we split on good terms and all and she seemed happy. But still she saw me die. Now when she finds out that I'm alive and that I'm dating Reyna. REYNA! I was so focused on trying to take care of her that I didn't think about how she was going to react! After everything that's happened, I mean we were here for two weeks prepping the Argo 2 before we left, which meant that she had to see me everyday for two weeks with another girl and having no recollection of her or our past. It must have been torture. I know that if it was the other way around that there would be nothing, and I mean NOTHING that would stop me from running up and kissing her as soon as I saw her. Then I thought about Thalia and how she probably thought that I was dead and since she was off with the hunt she would be even harder to find! Then there was Dakota, we used to be best friends up until I disappeared. I mean we were never as close as he and Reyna were but he was always a close friend. Which now that I think of it is strange how he hasn't stopped in to check on Reyna and how she's doing. These thoughts and more lulled me to sleep until I heard Reyna screaming.

I rushed into her room to find her thrashing around sobbing and screaming. She was having a nightmare. I've seen her have nightmares but they were never this bad, I mean there was this one time… It was a month after the war. I was staying the night at Reyna's. Things had been different after the war, we hadn't slept in the same bed, for whatever reason Reyna didn't want to so I respected her wishes. Although without her I had been having a hard time falling asleep by myself. But one night we had both forgotten and I fell asleep at her place. I was finally getting a good night's sleep that was until I woke up to Reyna screaming. At first I didn't know what was happening one moment everything was fine and then the next I woke up to Reyna next to me drenched in sweat, whimpering and calling out. Then she started to thrash and scream. Sadly I knew exactly what to do, I've been in this sorta position before, PTSD is common in demigods. Back before I was a praetor when I was in the fifth cohort at least once a week we would get woken up by someone having a nightmare, we would all take shifts to help calm the person down. No one ever talked about it, it just wasn't something you would talk about. We're roman, we're supposed to deal with these things on our own. But then again we were still human. I jumped out of bed and ran to her side. It wasn't easy, with her twisting and turning but I managed to place my hand on her cheek and turn her sleeping face towards me. Her eyes were still squeezed shut, tears were running down her cheeks. Her face was contorted in pain, I couldn't take it anymore.

"Rey, rey, it's okay I'm here,' After that didn't work I started to shake her gently, " You need to wake up! Okay Rey, listen to me you're having a nightmare!" Her eyes finally shot open. I thought that I would never forget the look of terror in her eyes. Once she fully realized what had happened she sat up just as quickly as she opened her eyes. She was a bit disoriented at first but when her eyes met mine she broke down. She started sobbing into her knees that she had brought to her chest. I quickly got to my senses and pulled her into my lap, sitting against the headboard, I held onto as tight as I could without suffocating her. I stroked her hair as she sobbed into my chest, "You're safe, okay? I got you." I tried to soothe while holding in my own tears. It tore my heart out seeing her in pain and knowing that there was nothing I could do to stop it. I held onto her like that until her sobs turned to sniffles.

"I-i-i'm sor-ry" She choked out. She tried to crawl away from me but I wouldn't let her go.

"Is this why you didn't want to sleep in the same bed? Were you trying to hide this from me?" At my last words she turned her head so she was facing away from me, "Reyna?" I pushed a strand of hair out of her face and tucked it behind her head. I put my head on her shoulder. "Rey, you don't have to hide anything from me. I mean it." She turned back around to face me. Her cheeks were stained with tears that were once racing down her pristine features.

"We're Roman, it's what we're supposed to do." She said,

"No, no it's not. Yes we are Roman but that doesn't mean that we're supposed to keep all of our pain bottled up inside. If we are then I don't want to be Roman. You know that I get nightmares too, we all do. But you know what helps me, sleeping with you. You are always there when I have a bad dream. Let me be there for you Rey, tell me, talk to me. I'm supposed to be the person you lean on, I can't do that if you don't talk to me."

She nodded, "All I can think about is the blood seeing my friends, dead. Wondering if you were too. Then I think about Natalie." She gasped and started to cry again, "I held her hand as she died Jason. AS SHE DIED! I I held one of my best friends' hands as she died, as she took her last breath in this world, I was the one who she said her last words to, I was the one who closed her eyes when she died! I will NEVER get the image out of my head as her hand went limp in mine and her eyes clouded over, the fire that used to burn in her eyes finally went out. I remember as Dakota finally found me as I stumbled out of the tent where Natalie layed dead and he hugged the life out of me. I couldn't hug him back, heck I could barely speak. I remember the look on his face as I told him our best friend was dead. How he told me that I was wrong that the love of his life couldn't possibly be dead. How he rushed passed me and sank to his knees sobbing, yelling at her to open her eyes. Trying to shake her awake, how I had to physically restrain him till he calmed down. How we botched cried into each other, how neither of us believed it. How I thought that in a couple hours that could be one of us at the other's bed side. How I had to leave my grieving friend at the bedside of the dead love of his life who also used to be one of my friends. To go help you kill a fucking Titan not knowing if either of us would live to see tomorrow. But all I knew was that as soon as this was over nothing would be the same. Then it shifts to something that feels less like a dream but more like a memory but I don't remember it. It's just five seconds but you're standing with this other girl and it's like you forgot all about me, and I wanna cry and scream but for some reason I don't it's like I knew this was going to happen all along." I mentally punched myself. How could I be be so stupid as to forget that Reyna lost her best friend in the war. I hugged her even tighter.

"I am, so, so, so, sorry I totally forgot. I-i I can't believe you're going through this all on your own. How's Dakota?"

"I visit him at least once a day to shove food down his throat. He's still grieving, doesn't believe that she's really gone, that she'll walk through the door at any moment with her same sarcastic smirk intact. He won't leave the house, he doesn't eat unless I'm there to make him. Same with sleeping. It's horrible."

"How are you doing?"

It was like no one had ever asked her that before, like she never truly considered it. "I don't know."

"Rey, it's okay to be sad. She was your friend and Dakota's girlfriend. You have every right to grieve."

"I know but I need to be strong for Dakota, he needs me."

"Have you ever considered that right now he needs to know that there's someone out there that's going through the same thing he is. And I need you to Rey, I need you to take care of yourself, everyone does. You hold this place together. Okay?"

"Okay." She agreed. She moved out of my lap and got up.

"Hey where are you going? I'm tired and I need cuddles!"

She just laughed, "I'm going to take your advice, I'm going to grab some ice cream, head over to Dakota's and if all goes well we'll stay up all night reminiscing about Natalie. Then if this works, tomorrow, you'll definitely be staying the night, but there won't be that much sleeping involved."

"Alright, I like the sound of that." I grabbed her wrist and twirled her around into me and kissed her passionately. "I'm proud of you ka know that right? Also as for the other stuff, there is absolutely no way that I could ever forget the love of my life.I promise"

"I know, and I couldn't either, but I'm also proud of myself too!" She responded, sounding happy for the first time in a while before skipping to the kitchen. The last thing I remembered thinking as I fell back into bed was that I had finally gotten my Reyna back.

I did everything the same as that night, hoping and praying that she could hear me. She finally calmed down and just as before I pulled her onto my lap and stroked her hair while I waited for her breathing to become more even. Once it did I heard her groan and shift. I looked down and her gorgeous onyx eyes looked back at me, the eyes that I fell in love with, the eyes that belonged to the woman that I love, of the woman who I hurt and betrayed. All I could say was, "Hey".