Jason cleared his throat as he stood up. He straightened his shirt and said with a small smile, "Hi; and you must be…Chris," Jason held out a hand to shake.

Chris's mouth was gaped open in utter shock but he reluctantly stepped forward, shaking Jason's hand. "Yeah, and you know my name." his smile wavered, slowly growing into a grin. Then he blinked, clearing his throat. "Yeah, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Jason nodded. "The same," He murmured. His handshake had been firm, stating the man he was, but when he released he found that he was nervous. His eyebrows twitched together in skepticism. Was could he be scared about? Jason looked up at Chris, who was staring at him with glazed eyes. That's it, he thought, I'm scared of Chris and that we'll fight or get on the wrong foot. Jason was like this because he really didn't want to fight a mortal and there wasn't exactly a need to—it's not like they hated each other.

Besides, Jason thought also, that wouldn't be what Piper would want or need either.

On that thought, Jason turned toward Piper. He was about to speak but then Chris asked, "What is Jason Grace doing here?"

Jason turned toward Piper's boyfriend. "You can just call me Jason. Just 'cuz I'm famous, you don't have to call me with both names."

Chris nodded with his lips a pressed line as his ears turned into a red color. He sighed, a smile joining it, and he said, "Okay; sorry…Jason…"

Piper spoke: "Jason is here because he's going to be helping me with my runway show."

"Oh, okay." Chris nodded. Then he stopped himself. "Wait a second—you know Jason Grace?"

Jason cleared his throat intuitively. He regretted doing so because he now felt like he was being forceful.

But Chris didn't seem to care. He took a short nod, swallowing and then correcting himself by taking off Jason's last name.

"We were friends when I was in that Wilderness school," Piper answered.

Comprehension spread across his face as he nodded.

Something made Jason's insides hurt. He knew it was jealousy by the thought of not liking that Chris knows all about the Wilderness school. It was something that was just between him, Leo, and Piper. No one else—not some mortal—had to know about it. It was their precious thing that they held dear to them because they knew of the things that happened there and the things that they did together. Jason might've been a little hazy on some things, but that was normal. More normal than Chris knowing about it, Jason grumbled in his head.

Jason stopped himself. Jealousy was a powerful thing and he couldn't let that be the reason for his disliking toward Chris. In fact, he should try not to have any disliking to him. Chris seemed like a pretty decent man for Piper; at least he wasn't obnoxious or a jerk-ass or someone annoying.

Jason looked closer at Chris. With the glasses, and the wide brown eyes, Chris seemed like a curious and shy person. His light hair glowed with an almost orange color. The only thing wrong was the darkly tanned skin, almost the same as Piper's. He was almost the same height as Jason except he was shrugging forward but Jason knew that if he just stood up straight, he would be taller than he was. He knew this by Chris' lanky form and skinny and bony legs and arms.

Jason met eyes with Chris again, finding them turning gold under the light that was reflecting off of his glasses lenses. Jason cleared his throat in the silence and he announced, "I should be leaving now." He offered his hand back out to Chris. "It was nice meeting you,"

Chris stepped forward to shake it, but then they heard a light crunch. Chris looked down at his feet and found that he had stepped on a piece of popcorn. "Why is there popcorn on the floor?" He asked with his hand still outstretched.

Jason and Piper shared a chuckle. "It's a long story,"

"Oh," Chris said in a small voice.

As they shook hands once more, Jason saw something flicker across Chris' brown eyes. Something bit his own stomach, making him smile with a pinch of smug. It was what told him that Chris was jealous as well.

Jason turned to Piper, who was standing up now, and he trailed off, "So…?"

"We'll meet up tomorrow to talk about the show." She answered for him.

He nodded and then opened up his arms. She chuckled and stepped into him, joining him in his own warm and smells-like-rain aura. She wrapped her arms under his armpits as he rested his around her neck. He squeezed, liking being close to her. He liked her smell, vanilla like the Grand Canyon scene, and the softness of her hair that rubbed against his cheek. Her hair smelled like watermelons—or strawberries, he thought—and without thinking, he nuzzled his face into her just a little. He realized what he had done and he knew that he shouldn't have done it. Not when they were right in front of her boyfriend.

But Piper didn't notice. With her chin on Jason's shoulder, she was able to see Chris as he beamed at her, pointing a finger at Jason and mouthing, "I just touched Jason Grace's hand!"

Piper let out a soft chuckle, rolling her eyes, and then giving on last squeeze before they both let go.

Jason stared at Piper's eyes, which were a lagoon green, and gave a small smile. She did the same and she felt her heart flutter so rapidly in her chest, it hurt.

He turned and with a last glance at Chris, Jason left Piper's apartment.

Chris closed the door behind him and turned to Piper, wrapping his arms around her lower waist. "Well today has been an interesting day…" He said and his lips caught hers. She kissed him back promptly but then tore away.

"I thought you said you weren't really a fan of Jason,"

He pointed a finger at her face, barely tapping her nose. "I said I don't watch him much. That doesn't mean that I'm not a fan of him."

Piper's eyebrow rose, but she laughed. He smiled with her and he pushed up his glasses. She could tell he was about to come in for a kiss, but before he could do it, she walked away as if she didn't see it.

Chris stumbled forward, "Whoa!" He mumbled but then caught his footing. "Where are you going?" he asked her.

Piper felt a twinge of guilt. She didn't want to kiss him; not if it meant feeling the same feeling she just felt a while ago: tasteless and nothing. She felt cold suddenly and her heart oddly longed for Jason's arms around her again. She shut her eyes, squeezing to try and forget the thought. Her back was to Chris and she said with her eyes still shut, "Getting us some popcorn."

Piper knew something weird had suddenly changed in her. She knew this because of how she was feeling. It was like with Jason gone, she suddenly acted like Chris wasn't her boyfriend. She gave a bitter sigh, telling herself that she couldn't do this because it wasn't right.

"Oh, thanks, Pipes." He said.

Piper's arms froze, her muscles tensing at the name. She wanted to tell him that he couldn't call her that, but she knew that she couldn't. What was the big deal anyways? Everyone called her that because it was her nickname from everyone. She kept telling herself that and the bitterness almost subsided.

"So why is there popcorn everywhere, anyways?"

Then it came back a little. "Oh, it was nothing. Jason and I were just playing around." She would usually tell him everything, but for some reason she didn't want to tell him anything about Jason—her Jason. She bit her lip, shaking her head a little like she was trying to rid the thought also. But she knew that she was trying to protect Jason from getting near Chris and that she wanted to keep him to herself.

"Playing around? W—how?"

Piper had the urge to sigh impatiently and grumble that it was none of his business and that he didn't need to know. But then the good part of her reminded her that he was just innocent Chris and that he wasn't doing any real harm. He wasn't trying to be mean, she realized, he was just jealous.

But there's nothing he needs to be jealous about, Piper thought.

A little voice in her made her doubt that.

She turned, finding him right behind her in the kitchen. She rested the balls of her hands on the edge of the counter and she leaned the small of her back against it. A taunting smile played on her lips. "You wouldn't happen to be jealous, would you?"

Chris' cheeks glowed pink and he stepped toward her. "No." He reminded her of a little kid who lied about stealing a cookie from the cookie jar. "I'm not jealous." He stepped toward her, wrapping his arms around her—just below her ribcage—and he pressed his body against hers. "Should I be?" he asked softly as he brushed his lips against hers.

She paused, smiling a little, and then said, "Not at all," when her mind said, "Maybe just a little." She ignored it and wrapped her arms around his neck, straining hers to reach up and kiss him since he was so tall.

But she still felt cold in his arms.

A dinging noise chirped from the platinum elevator doors as they slid open. Piper walked out and since it was Friday, she wore skinny jeans, her ratty and old orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt with a black sweater over it. This time, there wasn't a clacking noise against the floor as she walked. It was more like a thump-thump-thump with her snug black sweater boots.

She held a coffee in one hand, which was slowly reaching up to her wet lips, and her touch-screen phone in the other. Piper was reading her emails that she didn't have time to do that morning when she woke up late and then was distracted by Chris.

Lacey bounded next to her in a white blouse and a black pencil skirt. In the crook of her elbow, she still held up those same notebooks.

Without looking up, Piper said, "Hey, Lacey,"

"Good morning, Piper," Lacey said, her voice pinched with a high-pitched edge.

Piper stopped, looking up from her phone which she now locked and put in her pocket, knowing that Lacey was excited for some reason. Lacey stopped as well and skipped back to in front of Piper. She was biting her lips and her blue eyes were wide with sparks of anticipation.

Piper narrowed her eyes on her friend. "Are you okay?"

Lacey's eyes grew wider and she was about to nod, but then she stopped and thought about it. She then shook her head.

"So what's wrong? Did you take something this morning?"

Lacey gave Piper a look.

"No? I'll take that as a no."

"No, I am not okay!" Lacey finally said.

"What's wrong?" Piper asked again.

"I am about to burst with excitement! You will not believe what happened!"

Piper glanced down at Lacey's left hand. There was no ring, so Piper knocked getting proposed off of the list.

"Why?" Piper asked as she walked around Lacey, making her way to her office.

But Lacey didn't follow her, she stayed quietly behind. "You'll see," she said quietly. She then trotted to her desk with black heels.

Piper waved it off and took a drink from her coffee. She opened the door with her free hand and when her coffee cup came back down, she was staring at her crowded office. She didn't swallow yet and her cheeks were puffed out from being filled with a sweet, adrenaline-coursing brown liquid.

The loud conversations died down and it suddenly came to her when she looked closely, seeing who these people were. She found herself staring at the familiar eyes—her friends from Camp Half-Blood.

"Jeez, it took yah long enough, Beauty Queen," Leo said.

"Shut up, Valdez," said Clarisse. She hadn't wanted to come, but Chris was able to talk her into it. It didn't mean that she was in the best of moods—which she never was anyways.

The room was lifted with chuckles and Piper couldn't resist smiling.

Piper stepped in, closing the door behind her and she found her cheeks hurting from grinning. "Is this everyone?" she asked, astonished.

Some people stood on tip-toes to look around, making a head count. She found Percy and Annabeth, the Stoll brothers, Grover, Drew, and many others.

They heard a bear growling—or was it a cat purring? Piper looked over and found Clovis lying across her couch with a puddle of drool also spilling from his mouth.

"Yeah, it should be," a sweet voice said. Piper was now standing on her tip-toes and found a giant wave of frizzy red hair bobbing up and down: Rachel.

"That is, if you don't count the Romans." Jason said. Piper found him sitting in a wheelie chair at a glass table, his calf arched over his other knee.

"Why would we want Romans here?" A voice that Piper didn't recognize sneered.

"There's no need to argue about the Romans, now." Chiron said, wheeling forward in his wheelchair.

Piper was shocked to find him here. But then Piper figured that he was immortal. Nonetheless, he had dark gray streaks coursing through his mane.

"Yeah, that's right!" Jason said, sitting up straighter as he pointed a finger into the large crowd.

"Oh…" Connor stepped forward, rubbing the back of his neck as his shoulders were raised slightly. He sighed through his teeth melo-dramatically. "So it was a bad thing that I invited some over?"

Thalia, nearby, slugged him in the arm.

"Ow!" He rubbed his arm. "I was only kidding!"

"Oh…" Percy said, standing on the other side of Thalia. "Well I invited some over."

Thalia whirled around and without a protest, slugged him in the arm and then slapped him upside the head.

"Hey!" He yelped.

"Why would you do that?!" She screamed.

"Please tell us you're joking, Seaweed Brain," Annabeth was rubbing the bridge of her nose.

"No," He answered. As if on cue, the door opened and Frank and Hazel slipped in—only those two.

"Hey, guys," The said, giving slight waves.

The room was filled with sighs and then Thalia said, "Oh, well then that's okay."

"What," Hazel spread out her arms as she said tauntingly, "and we don't mean anything?"

"Well it's not like you're Octavian," Travis said matter-of-factly.

"True," was heard all around Piper's tiny office. She glanced down and found Hazel and Frank holding hands, rings making their fingers glint. Piper gave a small smile and turned back to the crowd.

It started in an uproar as people carried on conversations that were left off from when she had stepped into the room. She was so happy that they were here and that they could spend some time together while making progress in her show. She hadn't seen anyone in ages and as much as she would like to stare at each one and see how much they've changed, she decided against it. She set her paper coffee cup aside and made her way through the crowd, which was so big. This was why she stepped onto the glass table and cupped her arms around her mouth, yelling with charm speak, "BE QUIET!"

The voices died down once again and she had to admit that there was a small twist of stage fright thumping through her jittery heart. It was either from the coffee or this because she could also feel her body beginning to shake. Dozens of blinking eyes stared back up at her and she could spot out a few more people. None specific but just the random, Hey, I used to sit near that guy at dinner. Or Hey, I saw her at archery sometimes.

"Yeah, guys, shh!" Travis said loudly with his finger to his lips.

"Shut up, Travis," Katie said.

"Make me." he dared, getting in her face.

She smiled and pushed him away, though he had a smug look on his face.

"Guys," Nico gave them a bemused look. "Seriously?" Piper noticed how much deeper his voice was. It made him look more eerily than he was.

Travis coughed into the side of his fist. "Sorry."

"Yeah!" Grover pointed a rolled-up magazine with a bite mark in the corner at them. "Be ashamed of yourselves!"

They furrowed their brows on him at his suddenly odd outburst but then broke out into smiles and laughter. Travis clapped Grover on the shoulder. Grover raised an eyebrow at him but then said, "Please continue, Piper."

"Thank you." She said. "We have to start planning—" She stopped herself when she realized that she needed to have a pencil and paper in her hand. "Um…I need to write something…" she mumbled to herself.

"Ooh!" Jason jumped. "I got it!" He reached over in front of Clovis and slipped a sketchbook and pencil off of the glass table. He flipped through, finding a random blank page. He got a glimpse of an amazingly well-drawn drawing and he stopped, turning back to it. He found that it was him. A warm feeling spread through his chest and he couldn't help but give a small smile. He frowned it down when he heard the Aphrodite girls start giggling and grinning at the two.

They both rolled their eyes and thought, Same old Aphrodite girls.

Piper reached down to get the sketchbook, but Jason pulled it back. He looked up at her with a pleading face, like he was a little kid. She saw how his cheeks even rounded around his teeth, making him seem younger. "I wanna do it," He mumbled.

She sighed. "Fine."

He fist-pumped in the air and exclaimed through his teeth, "Yes!"

"Just write down the names of everyone here." She explained.

His head thumped against the chair and his shoulders heaved forward and he groaned. "Pipes, do you know how long that's gonna take?" he whined.

"Oh, stop being a baby," She said.

He replied with a groan that dragged on and on and on…

"Okay, fine!" She bent down, feeling weird as she was still on top of the glass table. "Just make a list,"

He straightened as if he revived from the dead, looking absolutely normal. His eyes were static and sparking with cerulean blue. Piper knew that's what they looked like when he was either curious or excited about something. "Of what—"

"You'll see in a second." She said and stood up again. "Okay, now who really wants to be shown in the show several times?"

Multiple hands shot up.

Piper looked back down at Jason. "A list of that."

Jason stood up, his head by her thighs now, and he looked over the crowd, jotting down the names of the people he saw with their hands raised. He nodded up at her when he was finished.

"Okay, now who doesn't?" She asked and her fingers spread out in front of her like she was a woodland animal. They did that instinctively, she realized, when she gestured with her hands and was leading an entire show.

Multiple hands shot up then as well and Jason jotted those down under the other half of the page marked "Doesn't" at the top. Piper bent down, shifting her weight to where she was sitting on the table, putting the sketchbook in her lap as she stared at the names. After scanning through it many times, Piper found herself intrigued at his handwriting: a couple scribbles, slightly sloppy, but almost cursive-like.

Piper nodded and stood back up, conversations dying down again. With her free hand (the other still holding the sketchbook) she pointed a finger out, her feet rising to her toes naturally so she could look over the crowd and at her desk. "Will someone please hit the front desk button on the phone and call Lacey in, please?!" she shouted.

"I got it!" Annabeth said as she hastily wheedled her way through the crowd so that no one got there first and ended up breaking the phone base.

Piper went back to talking once Lacey started again. Their friends were getting excited now and so the talking was getting louder. She had to get them back on track; a room full of ADHD childish grown-ups on a week deadline was going to be hard to handle but Piper's dealt with worse.

"We have to start planning now, actually," they quieted a little and she continued, "so we don't exactly have enough time for chit-chat!"

"You sound like Coach Hedge." Leo observed out loud.

The room bursted with laughter everywhere. It bounced off of the marble walls and echoed throughout in a humorously taunting way. Piper laughed along with it, feeling right at home. "You're right." She lowered his voice to a gruff tone and said, "Now let's get to it, cupcakes!"

So please tell me (how you thought, of course) but also if the Jason and Piper and Chris part was a little too forwarding on Jason and Piper's relationship. Also, besides the thoughts I have in mind, if you have any specific characters that you would like to read about.

And if you're Thor fans, check out the teaser trailer! I'm so excited for this movie, along with Iron Man 3, and I'm really hoping that Thor and Siff (Syph?) get together and then that would leave Loki with Jane(: Speaking of Loki, I love his hair and all, but it seemed a little weird to me when it was super long in the trailer...

Also, the Sea of Monsters trailer is out! I'm really glad they're continuing it and I think this one is going to be much better than the first one. MUCH better. I still have hope in this!

And for a triple whammy, there's the Catching Fire teaser trailer! This was amazing (except for Finnick not being there). But it looks like it's gonna be even better than the first as well.

So back to the FanFiction, please tell me what you thought!