Chapter 6
Jason's POV
I just couldn't get her out of my mind, it didn't help that she was asleep on the airplane with her head on my shoulder. I stared down at her, taking in her kaleidoscope eyes, and her choppy hair. She was snoring a little, taking a breath in through her nose and a puff through her mouth. Everything about her was perfect to me, her ripped jeans and camp half blood t-shirt, her purple converse that she bought in New York with me. I turned away, looked out the window, yawned, I put my head on Pipers, and entwined my hand in hers and fell asleep into a dreamless slumber.
****************************************************************************** I woke up to the sound of the beverage cart coming down the aisle. I looked over at Piper. She was awake, her hand still intertwined with mine. When she saw me awake she smiled and said "Good morning, Sleepyhead!" I grumbled a response back, something like "Urhg," while rubbing my eyes. She threw back her head and laughed the most beautiful thing in the world. Just then, the beverage cart pulled up next to me.
"Honey, what would you like to drink?" I looked at her, her eyes turned red for a moment, and then returned back to normal. I looked at Piper to see if she noticed it, and by the way her face paled I'm guessing she caught that.
"Yes" I said slowly, "I would like a cup of root beer." I had noticed that it was in the way back of the cart, she turned around to fetch it and at that time I got out my sword and Piper her dagger, I looked around to see if anyone was watching. Every person near us was asleep, naturally, that meant Leo as well, and who was cuddling the armrest of his seat.
The old lady turned around with my "root beer", but it had a little green tint to it, that i never noticed root beer have.
"Here ya' are love." She said, in a sickening sweet voice. I felt myself go rigid, but Piper had this under control. "Why don't you take a sip of it first? He HATES airplane drinks." She said in such a way, that I wanted to take a sip first. The lady brought the drink up to her lips and drank it. Her skin paled and for a few seconds we could see her as the disgusting fury that she as, then she exploded in a pile of golden dust, Piper and i looked at each other, then at the other people on the Airplane. All of them were still asleep, and Annabeth had ear plugs in and was engrossed in her laptop that had the designs to one of the buildings for Mount Olympus.
Or at least that's what I had guessed she was doing, but when I adjusted my position a bit I could see he from across the aisle, and on her laptop screen was filled with pictures of her and Percy together. Tears were streaming down her face, as she scrolled through the pictures of him, Annabeth and Percy sitting on the beach eating Sandwiches, Percy trying to get Annabeth to swim with some Manatees. She stopped at one picture and stared at it for a long time, it was of Percy holding out a seashell to the camera, his sea-green eyes sparkling with emotions that I had only begun to understand, for Piper.
I turned my attention back to her just as the pilot came on the radio "Hello Folks, we will be landing in a couple of minutes. So buckle up them seatbelts and down we go to California!" I looked at Piper.
"It can't be." She looked just as shocked
"Oh, I think it is!" Annabeth took out her ear plugs, after she wiped her eyes.
"Was that just-"
"I believe so." Piper answered.
"What is Leo doing up in the cockpit?" I asked getting really confused "And what happened to the pilot?"
"Oh, he's in the bathroom, I should probably go and unlock it so that he can land the plane!" Leo said, walking back from the cockpit, nonchalantly. His face read Yeah, I just took over a plane. I'm only 15, watcha gonna do about it?
Piper and I rolled our eyes at the same time, it was then that we noticed we were still holding hands, Annabeth and Leo noticed it too. I blushed deeply and let go of her hand quickly, I walked towards the bathroom and let the poor Pilot out.
"Wha- what happened?" He asked completely freaked out. Piper came up behind me and explained, "You accidently locked yourself in the bathroom, nothing really happened." The Pilot nodded and walked back to the Cockpit, Piper and I got back in our seats and buckled our seatbelts. Time for us to get Percy.
The plane landed, and we waited for what seemed like forever for an old lady to get her walker situated. We hurried out of the airport and Piper got us a Taxi. The taxi-man I think was going to kick us out when we asked to go to Mount Tam, but he brought us there anyway. Piper gave him almost a twenty dollar tip. He tipped his hat to us and sped off.
"Okay what now?" Piper asked looking up at the mountain. The Cab driver wouldn't bring us any farther, I didn't blame him, remembering the battles I had fought here made me want to turn around and run as fast as I could away from this place. One look at Piper made that feeling go away instantly.
Annabeth started to walk up, and we all followed suit, Leo was tinkering with some screws and a paper clip, since the Airport security wouldn't let him bring anything else. I heard a scream, a girl scream, though, not Percy's.
We ran up the hill, only stopping once, for all of us to catch our breath. Annabeth's face looked determined; I understood where she was coming from. Percy was just as important to her as Piper to me. But I wasn't ready to admit that out loud. I caught a glimpse of where the earth and sky met. I couldn't see who was underneath the sky, but I was guessing it was probably Percy.
We got up there and Atlas was walking in the opposite direction of us. When he was out of sight we crept up to where Percy probably was. When we got close enough to see him Annabeth's body went stiff, she inhaled a lot of air and marched right up there. Because right under the sky was Percy, but also under the sky, was a girl, who was chatting with him. They both laughed, and then the girl noticed Annabeth.
Annabeth put her hands on her hips and glared at them, the girl elbowed Percy and he gave a yelp of surprise and joy.
"Annabeth!" He said, and then groaned under the weight, he was sweating pretty badly, and his face kept twitching weirdly.
"Who is THIS?" Annabeth spat out at him.
"Oh, Annabeth you're not going to believe this! This is-"
"You're new girlfriend huh?" She said her face bright red
"What? No Annabeth-" But Annabeth stormed off, Piper ran after her, Leo and I walked up to Percy and the girl.
When I saw who it was I practically fell down. "Samantha?" I asked, speechless. She looked up at me her green eyes tinted with a little anger. "Hi Jason" She spat out.
"I thought that you-"
"I did."
"But how did you-"
"Got caught apparently." She said not very nicely.
I ran a hand through my hair, worried. Did she remember about how I had...? Of course she did, who could forget?
"Wait, wait, you two know each other?" Leo asked, "Great, I'm the only one who doesn't know this fine looking girl." He winked at her, she just sighed.
