I will be on holiday! Don't worry, I'll still post monday and friday, but I won't be able to respond to messages. Have fun!

It seemed like just a regular Christmas morning. The lights were shimmering, their was a thin, fresh layer of snow on the grass, every year-round camper was sitting in the dinner pavilion, anxiously waiting for Chiron (who would always give every year-round kid a small present) and Dionysus was miserably hanging around his room wondering why something like this had to be planned on his birthday. The full on magical atmosphere.

Luckily, the campers didn't need to wait for long. Chiron walked into the dinner pavilion, with a basket filled to the brim with presents. He heard cheers from all around the pavilion and smiled; even the older kids couldn't contain their excitement. He looked around the pavilion. 'Merry Christmas! How is breakfast today?'

'It's great, Chiron!' Piper answered (Her father had to attend a dinner party that Piper went to once and swore to never go again, so she and the very understanding Jason had decided to stay in camp during the holiday season). Chiron raised his eyebrows. He noticed that Piper was sitting next to Jason, at the Zeus table, smiling at her boyfriend with glee in her eyes. Chiron wondered whether she had always been forced to celebrate Christmas without her father. She seemed estatic.

'Well, without further ado, let's begin on the presents!' A wave of delighted whispering erupted from the campers. Chiron chuckled. He Always got happy from seeing his campers so bubbly. 'As per usual, the youngest goes first. Jeremy?' Jeremy's eyes got big. He tugged on his sibling Rivers' sleeve. River smiled at Jeremy, grabbed his hand and walked to the front with him.

Chiron handed Jeremy his present. It was way too big for the six year old too carry, so River held it for him. Chiron immediately put their present on top of Jeremy's, so that they could just focus on helping Jeremy with unwrapping his present without having to walk to the front as well. Together, they walked back to the Athena table. Malcolm and the other girl sitting there made some room for them (Which isn't really necessary, considering they were with four at a table where twentyish people could sit). As soon as he was put back on the chair, Jeremy started to tear the paper of his present. He cheered when he saw exactly what he wanted; a weaving set.

The next person to receive his present was Harley, who skipped up to the front all on his own. He got a smaller box, which he handled so carefully that everyone at the Hephaestus table could be sure of one thing: he knew what was in there, probably because he nagged Chiron about it for half a year. So definitely the three hundred purpose tool his dad invented.

Chiron went on with calling people to the front and handing them presents. When he reached 'Jason Grace,' he grinned. Pipers' eyes were glinstering. She had picked out the present for Jason. Chiron grinned at Piper when he gave him the box. 'Here, Jason...'

'Chiron! So great to see you!' Chiron froze on the spot when he randomly heard THE voice. His grip on the box strengthened. He and the campers turned around to see a man with long brown hair and a white toga standing by the entrance of the pavilion.

Chiron blinked and shook his head. He swallowed before responding. 'Oh, eh... Well, hello, Jesus. Eh... happy birthday!' Jesus, because apparently it was him, smiled.

'Thanks, Chiron!'

Jason realised that his mouth hung open. Even though he knew that there were multiple pantheons of gods, he had always sort of assumed that Jesus didn't exist. Yet, well, no time like the present to be proven wrong. Chiron walked over to Jesus, with Jasons' present still in his hands. 'What, eh... what are you doing here?'

Piper sighed deeply and walked to Jason's side. 'Man, Why didn't he...'

'It doesn't matter, Piper. It probably was just a t-shirt with Pikachu on it anyway, knowing Chiron.' Pipers' lips quivered a little. She swiftly shook her head.

'I picked it out for you. It is...'

'And who are all these children? Oh, wait, of course, you're relatives'. What were you all doing?' Jesus cheerfully contiued.

'We were... celebrating Christmas. The small children like the excitement and the lights, and the presents of course, we might have a tree set up somewhere...'

'I Always thought the tree was more Odin's influence,' Jesus said. He sounded very jolly. 'I am not sure anymore. I went to his hotel. There was a brawl going on. Not a single tree in sight. When I stepped into Odin's office, he immediately kicked me out. I believe I saw santaclaus in there too. Yet, I couldn't stay, I guess...'

'So... you thought you'd come here?'

'Yeah! Nice, right?' Chiron slowly nodded with a weird smile the campers hadn't seen yet. Maybe, just maybe, Chiron didn't find it as nice to have a god from another religion right there.

'...Yeah. You can sit at the head table, I suppose.' Jesus smiled widely and skipped to the head table. Piper covered her grin with a hand. 'Alright then,' she whispered to Jason, who was still staring at Chiron (and the box he was holding).

Chiron tried to put on his happy face again, but he was clearly distracted by Jesus sitting at the head table. Most of the campers (Except for the really young ones) also seemed to be a little uncomfortable.

'So, eh, Jason!' Jason got up again. He felt that he was blushing a little. Chiron pushed the box with blue wrapping paper into Jasons' hands. Jason thanked him before walking back to the table were Piper was sitting, while Chiron called the next name. He saw that she had gotten all of her spark back as soon as he had received the box. 'Look what it is, look what it is!' She whispered to him.

Jason laughed. 'Yeah, Yeah.' he begun tearing open the wrapping paper... Well, tearing, it was more neatly peeling it off (Because yes, Jason was one of those people who always wanted to safe the wrapping paper). Piper was getting more and more excited by the second.

'Jason...'

'Piper, the wrapping is so pretty! Look at it! It is blue and glittery...'

'The present is nicer!'

'Probably, but I love the paper too...' Piper sighed. She made a mental note to wrap the next present she bought him in an old newspaper.

Jason was just about to pull the present out of the wrapper when Dionysus randomly decided to show up, with which I mean that he teleported straight into the middle of the pavilion. 'What's he doing here?' He asked, while pointing at Jesus. He sounded like he just woke up, and his bedhead reflected that.

'Hey Dio! Happy birthday! I just thought I'd come by!'

'Why?'

'It is my birthday too! Why not?'

Dionysus didn't answer. Instead, he just walked towards the head table and sat down next to him, while looking at Jesus like he expected him to explode into Christmas glitter.

At this point, Piper was almost exploding into Christmas glitter herself. 'Jason, just open the Box!' She whispered, just a little too loud. Chiron was too focused on the list of the presents and the two divinities behind him to actually listen, but said divinities did hear him.

Dionysus turned towards them. 'Miss Mclean, is there something you want to tell us?' Piper gave him a look that is really not smart to give to a god, because they might smite you. 'No. But Jason just needs to open the box. Right now.' She turned back to Jason, who decided that he had to pull out the present right then and there, because otherwise Piper might explode.

Yet, then Jesus stood up. 'Patience, girl. Come on, take a deep breath.' Piper blinked. Jason thought that she would really explode now, but surely enough, she breathed along with Jesus. Jason Raised his eyebrows. He looked at Chiron.

'It is his aura. Don't worry about it,' Chiron mouthed. Jason blinked and looked at Piper, who looked like she was fully calmed down. Jesus patted her on the shoulder, before walking back to the head table. Dionysus rolled his eyes. 'Show-off,' Jason thought he heard him whisper. Jesus just grinned at him.

Chiron swallowed and muttered another name. 'Olivia Julius.' Jason still sat there, with the box in his hands. After Olivia, Chiron swallowed. 'Piper Mclean.'

Piper very calmly stood up, and just as calmly walked to the front. Jason looked at the head table. He saw that Dionysus was one hundred percent done at this point, but he was still sitting there. Jesus looked like he had finally found a teenager who understood it.

Piper got the bag with her present out of Chiron's hands. 'Thanks, Chiron.'

'... You're Welcome, Piper.' Piper smiled and walked back to Jason's table. She put the bag on the table. Jason softly put his hand under her chin and looked in her eyes. He took a relieved breath. She still had a very excited twinkle in her eyes.

Suddenly, Jesus stood up. 'Well, It's time to go! I have to go say merry Christmas to Amos in Brooklyn!' He snapped his fingers and disappeared.

Dionysus stood up and walked to Chiron. 'I am going back to the Big House,' He said. Chiron gave him a look that was difficult to place. He gave a quick nod, before Dionysus disappeared and he went on. 'Alright, please don't take notice of that. You all known the gods can be… excentric. Ehm, Pietro...'

Piper blinked. She looked at the box in Jason's' hands. 'You still haven't...' Jason grabbed her wrist and pulled her up. 'Let's leave the pavilion. Maybe Dionysus and Jesus will come back.'

He lead her towards the Lake. He pulled the present out of the box. He laughed. 'Oh Piper, it is great.' Piper clapped in her hands.

'I know, right?'

Jason stared at the sweater in his hands. It was black, with a pocket on the place where the heart would be. There was a small, cute Rotom coming out of it. 'It isn't Pikachu...' He happily muttered. Piper put her head on his shoulder. 'I know.'

'Now open your present!' Jason said. Piper laughed.

'You picked my present, didn't you?' Jason nodded.

Piper was a lot less slow with ripping the paper off and pulling her present out of the bag. She started laughing when she saw it.

Jason had also bought a sweater for her. It was in his size (Pipers' inner Aphrodite shined whenever she stole her boyfriends' sweaters. She liked drowning in the fabric) and had a reindeer on it. 'Why a reindeer?'

'Because you feel really christmassy, apparently. I, eh, talked with your mother. It changes images while your mood changes.' Piper hugged the sweater to her chest. After a few seconds, she pulled Jason and his sweater into the hug as well.

'I love you, Jason.'

'Love you too, Pipes.'