"I mean, yeah, he's my brother and all, but"—Thalia pointed a limp hand to the couple—"do they have to be so touchy-feely all the time around me? I don't really want to see that kind of stuff."

Leo, sitting next to her, slumped in his seat sighed and said, "You get used to it after a while."

Annabeth nudged Thalia. "You're only mad because you don't have anyone to love yourself," she said with a smirk.

There was a flicker in Thalia's eyes. It was a blue fire that burned in her eyes. But it wasn't a maddening anger—it wasn't anger at all—it was actually of sadness. When Annabeth said that, it made her pause and stop to think because it had stabbed her right in the heart. A small lump was in her throat but she cleared it away and said like nothing happened, "No, it's just that he's my brother and I don't exactly want to see him…doing that," She waved a hand towards the scene of Piper and Jason.

They were right outside Piper's office, which the door was open, and they could see the two as Piper began to work on another dress and Jason sat on the couch with his elbows propped up on the back of the seat, watching her.

They were talking and they laughed about something together. Piper then said something that made Jason react. His eyebrows shot up as if he was offended, but a small smile was tugging at his lips. His fingertips touched his chest as if she meant she was referring to him.

Piper didn't say anything except stifle her smile and inch around the mannequin to move away from him.

Jason saw this and leaned forward to grab at her and a laugh escaped from her as she moved her hips away from him. She kept laughing as she got on the other side of the plastic model and Jason on the other. She jerked one way and he jerked that way, his hands were spread out so he'll be ready.

She giggled and said something that made Jason say, "Try me,"

She raised the needle. "I'll poke you with this!"

"Oh, I'm so scared!"

"Yeah, you better be 'cuz it hurts like hell!" In an instant, Piper dashed the other way, toward the exit of the door.

The audience of three watched her laughing expression as she was about to run to the door, but then they also saw Jason right behind her.

He had gripped her hips and she ended up pushing the door closed, leaving nothing for the three to see.

Piper twisted around in Jason's grasp so that she could face him. He slipped his arms around her and stepped closer to her. "You didn't really mean that, did you?"

"Mmhm," she bobbed her head up and down as she placed her hands on his forearms and slowly rubbed them up to his elbows. She felt the strong vein that went from the back of his wrist and slithered up to around his elbow. She liked that and her fingers reached under the sleeve of his white shirt.

He gave a small laugh and leaned closer. "Is there any way I can make you change your opinion?"

She bit the inside of her lip and slowly shook her head.

"Oh, really?" He tilted his head a little as their noses touched.

His breath was hot against Piper's cheeks and they blew the blush on them. She was attracted to him and the pounding in her heart told her that she just wanted to hold on to him forever. It was like without the feeling of him, she would be lost and wouldn't know what to do without it.

"Really," she said in a low voice.

Jason closed the space and rested his forehead on hers. "Uh-huh," he mumbled as he slid down his head and kissed a higher part of her cheek.

Her other hand reached up to his neck and she turned his head back to her and kissed him. Jason smiled against her lips but definitely did not back away.

Piper brought her free hand also to his neck and kissed him rapidly and then her hand went down to her side again. She felt around for the door behind her, a taunting idea entering her head, and she had a small smile on her lips as well. Finally, she found the cold surface and gripped it.

She pushed forward against Jason to back him up a little and before his grip could tighten around her waist, she pulled open the door and peeled away from him and then darted out the door.

A laugh leapt from his mouth. "Hey, wait a minute! That's not fair!"

She just kept racing through the office because she knew he would catch up to her and she had to at least make it to the elevators. As she tore through, she found that their three demigod friends were no longer there. Piper wondered where they went as she jammed her fingers against the button. But she soon forgot as she looked over and found Jason running after her with a smile plastered on his face.

She grinned at him and a shrieking laughter came from her because it was suspenseful that the steel doors wouldn't open yet when she knew Jason was catching up to her.

They finally slid open. Unfortunately, a group of people exited from it and ended up forcing her to stumble back away from the doors a little. She kept glancing over her shoulder but that just led to her bumping hard into someone. So Piper kept her eyes in front of her, maneuvering around people.

When the crowd finally cleared and she could see, she finally glanced over her shoulder again. Just as she did, Jason found a tunnel through the crowd and gave her a look, his blue eyes shining brightly, and a devious smile on his face. She gave another loud laugh and ran to close the space between her and the elevators and she took a wide turn entering them.

Jason turned in right after her and the doors closed quickly, sealing him inside with her.

The other workers in the office heard her shriek, "No!" But then a maniac fit of laughter.

Jason wrapped his arms around her again from behind and his forearms crossed over her chest and stomach like they were a mummy. She held on to his forearms and couldn't stop laughing. Jason had a wide grin as he hugged her close to him and began to dig his fingers into her sides, which made her jerk around ferociously.

She managed to twist around to face him, a grin on her face, and they both shared a light laugh. And then Jason put his palms on her cheeks, his fingers in between her soft hair, and brought her face closer to him. He pressed his lips to hers, even though they were both still smiling. They slowly stumbled back and Piper's back hit the wall of the elevator. She wrapped her arms around his lower back.

There was a dinging noise above them but they didn't pay attention to it. The doors slid back open to find their three friends again.

"Dude!" Thalia, who had forgotten her black bag, screamed as she raised her arm to her face. "Seriously, get a room or something!"

The couple split apart and stood side-by-side. Piper's hand instinctively took hold of Jason's.

Annabeth's eyes had widened a little and her brow rose.

Leo looked distastefully at the button next to the elevator. "Yeah, we'll just take the next one…"

Jason snickered a little and Piper snorted.

The doors closed again and those snickers turned into a fit of chortles.

They were in her apartment.

On her comfy couch, they lay together, with their feet propped up on the coffee table and a bowl of popcorn sharing both of their laps. The lights were turned off leaving the only source of it to be the glow from the TV in front of them, playing a movie.

Jason had his arm behind her head, which she had the base of resting against his forearm. She was in the crook of his body and her eyelids were slowly getting heavier. It was a little past two in the morning and she figured she would be the first to fall asleep. She might as well get comfortable; so she slid down in the couch and drew the cotton blanket more up to her chest.

Jason looked down at her and then took his arm back to slide down more with her to where he was now almost level with her. She looked over at him with her eyes narrowed and a smile tugging a corner of her lips.

"What?" His eyebrows creased together.

That was when Piper could tell how tired he really was, even though he seemed like he could stay awake throughout the morning as well. A purple tint hung under his eyes but they made his eyes bluer.

She opened her mouth to respond but she just closed it and shook her head. "Nothing," She said.

Jason chuckled and wrapped his arm back around her head. He pulled her close and kissed her temple.

She smiled as shivers ran through her body. She then tuckered herself back into the little crook of his strong and lanky figure. Piper rested her head on the space between his shoulder and his collar bone and her eyelids immediately slipped into each other. She raised her eyebrows, struggling to stay awake. But it didn't work as her thoughts left her and she soon slipped into a slumber.

When she groggily blinked her eyes open, the TV screen was blue and asking them to hit stop and take out the disc. Otherwise, the room was pitch black with the occasional blinking lights that dotted the outside sky through the window.

Piper felt like her ADHD was getting to her again because it was like that one missing puzzle piece and she was staring at the blank spot—she didn't know what happened in between.

She soon found herself trapped as something heavy and warm was leaning against her scalp. Piper could feel Jason's chest slowly move up and down and a small noise that sounded like a cat was purring somewhere nearby.

But Piper didn't have any cats.

She ever-so-slightly moved her head up and found Jason with his eyes pressed closed. Piper couldn't help but study how calm he looked with his eyelids forming a halo; or a C as they were closed. Or how his lips were parted just a little and that his cheeks came out over his cheeks again, outlining his teeth and strong jaw.

Piper smiled sweetly, finding the entire course of events amusing.

She didn't want to wake him, finding his eyelids blinking like his eyes were moving rapidly underneath them. She rethought about waking him up, wondering if he was having a nightmare, but then the ends of his mouth tugged up and she knew that if she woke him, she would be disturbing something really good.

So she best left him to his sleep and with her eyes drooping again, she fell back into her own sleep, a good dream floating around in her eyes as well.

And they dreamed of each other together.

Jason stepped out of the workout room with his towel around the back of his neck, soaking up his sweat there and cooling it down. But that didn't help at all to the areas on his back and thighs and calves and arms that were burning and glistening with irritating sweat. His shirt was plastered to his body and he felt suffocated to where he was tempted to just strip it off, but decided against it as he was making his way outside. His hair was wet with sweat and it dripped down into his eyes, making them sting, and down his temples.

He had overrun his energy and couldn't possibly move anymore. His back was slanted as he felt as if he were still carrying that heavy weight on his shoulders. He took the wet towel and slipped it off his neck and wiped off his face with it. He panted for air because his lungs burned.

Jason usually felt good after a workout, but this time he just felt like something had paralyzed him. He wasn't really having a good day.

Something buzzed in his pocket. He slipped out his phone as he began to descend some stairs, which only made matters worse. He looked at the screen, reading a text from Piper:

Hey, Jase, I'm outside:)

Jason gave a small smile as he threw the towel over onto his shoulder. He texted back:

K, coming out now

He held it in his hand as he finally reached ground level again and had to exit through a door. Out there was the front entrance and then he would be outside. But that also meant he had to walk through an entire parking lot under the heating sun that would just making his body become a literal flame—

"Jason, there you are!" Leo said. He excused himself from a man wearing a suit and lightly jogged up to his friend.

"Hey, Leo," Jason greeted back without looking up. Piper had texted him again:

K…r u alright?

Jason blinked. She was asking him how…how she knew—? She had that special power of hers, he knew, that always knew when he was happy or in a bad mood. He loved that about her.

Jason texted back:

Not really…I'll just be glad to see you again:)

"Listen, buddy," Leo said as he hovered a hand over Jason's shoulder. He was going to place it on him, but he was sweaty, and Leo didn't want to touch that. "I'm really sorry that I'm going to be the bearer of bad news here, but, I've got to go over some plans with you before you leave,"

Jason stopped, bent his knees and threw his head back. He groaned. "No, Leo, why?!" He whined; he didn't care if he sounded like a five year-old.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. How do you think I feel? I had to go through an entire one hour meeting about it. And that was just about the decorations and food and crap—"

"Okay, okay, I get it. What is it?" Jason asked as he continued walking.

"Well we're going to have this dinner—it's all big and fancy just a really big dinner celebration for the whole team and the fact that the season's going to be over soon. There's going to be paparazzi and a couple of interviewers and things."

"Mmhm," Jason mumbled as he straightened to scan the parking lot for Piper. He didn't see her yet.

"And then the circus is going to come and then I'll light up in flames and streak across the crowd. Oh, and did I tell you Percy was going to be there? Yeah, he's gonna be this giant whale…too bad Pinocchio won't be there…"

"That's great, Leo," Jason said without noticing what his friend had really said. He quickened his step because he could just barely see the top of her head.

"Jason!" Leo yelled as he finally just put a hand on his arm. He turned Jason to face him. "Come on, man, you aren't even listening to me! This is important!"

"I know, Leo, okay? It'll all be fine. I'll be there," Jason said.

Leo gave him a look. "Fine, then," he scoffed.

"What's wrong with you, lately?" Jason asked. "You've been…just bossy lately."

"That's because I am your boss,"

"But you don't usually act like that. What's up, man?"

"What's up is that the reason I've been so bossy lately,"—Leo raised air quotes at the emphasized word—"is that I don't have a friend to not be like that too."

"Leo—"

"You've spent so much time around Piper, and I get it, I know, you're girlfriend and boyfriend, but I'm your friend, too."

They were silent for a while. "I know. I'm sorry. I should've—we should've let you hung out with us, too,"

"No, because then I'll also have been a third wheel,"

Jason slapped a hand on Leo's back. "Nah, not around us. We wouldn't have made you feel like that if you didn't want to,"

Leo shook his head, scoffing. "Listen, its fine,"

"No, it's not. Look, I'll tell you what—the three of us go right now and have some lunch, hang out for the day, it'll be fun. She's picking me up right now."

Leo's eyes flickered to something behind Jason. A small smile came onto his lips. "Nah, it's okay. Maybe another time."

"No, come on. You've been cooped up in here too long. You deserve a day off," Jason offered and tugged at Leo's arm.

"Seriously, I've got some things to do. You two go out and do what you guys do. But I don't want Piper coming back—"

"Leo, don't—no. You know I wouldn't do that." Jason cut him off.

"I know, but," Leo raised his hands defensively. "I'm just sayin'. Who knows what you two would get into."

Jason gave him a look.

"Listen, Jase, its fine. Honestly, all three of us can get together later after all this drama is over."

Jason's brows scrunched together. "Drama?"

"Oh, you have no idea," Leo said with his eyes widening and a sigh hissing through his clenched teeth.

"What are you talking about?"

"Let's just say someone at that dinner celebration thingy is going to stir a lot of things up." Leo said as he rocked on his feet. Jason was about to say something when Leo pointed to something behind Jason. "You better get going."

Jason turned to find Piper through the glass doors laughing Jason's name and running to him. He smiled, her being a sight for sore eyes, and he mumbled a goodbye to Leo before heading off.

"Hey, and don't forget what I said about the dinner thing!" Leo hollered to him.

Jason waved a hand back and slammed against the door and bursting through. Piper sprinted up to him and she jumped up to him. He opened out his arms and held up her thighs as she wrapped his calves around his back, not caring about the sweat. Her arms were around his neck and she tilted her head down and kissed him. All Jason did was hold her up to him and let her kiss him and he let his heart soar and pound through his ears.

After a while, she pulled back. "Did I make your day better?"

"Definitely,"

Just some fluffiness and the next start of a plot point...:3 I know the ending seems kind of clichéd but, like I said before, it kind of has to be part of the story for now. I hope you guys liked this I tried typing it up enough because I had the time for it and decided it was about time for an update. I now also have a deviantART so if you guys would like to check out my drawings (there's not much on there at this moment but there are some) then I'm also on there as NeverStop13.

Please tell me what you thought! And good luck if you've also got some exams these next few weeks. :)