Love Me, Hate Me, But I Promise You Won't Break Me
A PJATO Fanfiction
By: xXxDaughteroftheKingxXx
AN: It's official. I REALLY love Jasper. They're cute, but so are Jason/Reyna. I CAN'T make up my mind! T-T
Disclaimer: If I owned PJO, I'd be SOO happy... Hm... Time to write up to Santa.
12. Forget the risk; take the fall. If it's what you want, it's worth it all.
They're standing out in the pouring rain. She's nearly crying, and he's begging for her to forgive him.
How corny and cliché.
"Piper, you have to believe me." he whispers softly, stepping up to her. She flinches, stepping back, and he sighs. "I really am sorry."
"How can I believe you?" she asks, her voice bitter and hurt. "You left me, Jason. You left me three freaking years ago, and you suddenly come back, begging for my forgiveness? Is this how you think it should work? You come back to me in the pouring rain, begging for me back? Well, I have something to tell you, Jason Grace." she spits. "I'm not one of those spineless girls who let's her boyfriend trample all over her, allows him to apologize, and forgives him as if nothing happen. You're out of luck."
She turns away from him, refusing to meet his eyes. She wants so badly to forgive him, to be held in his arms just once more, to believe that he actually is sorry for leaving her, but she can't bring herself to. She won't set herself up for heartbreak again.
"Piper," he says gently, lifting up her head. She glares at him, but he holds her cheek in his hand ever so gently.
It makes her go weak in the knees.
"I know I shouldn't have picked Reyna." he admits. "But what was I supposed to do? She was my girlfriend, remember? I couldn't just do that to her. She'd searched for me aimlessly, and what was I supposed to say? 'Oh, I'm sorry, but I fell in love with a different girl while I was MIA.'."
"Something like that," she mumbles. The two stand in awkward silence, before she realizes something. "Wait… you fell in love with me?"
He nods, blushing slightly. "How could I not, Piper?" he whispers, and suddenly, it's like no one else is there. Just the two of them, in a fantasy. "Do you want to be with me, Piper?"
Yes! she wants to scream, so, so badly. Of course I do! She hesitates. "I-I don't know, Jason."
"If you don't want to be with me, then I'll leave you alone." he says. "But if you want to be with me, but you're scared of being hurt by me, I promise, I swear on the river Styx,"—Thunder rolls in the distance—"I won't hurt you. Just think about it. Do you want to be with me?"
And that's exactly what she does. Does she want him? Of course. But she knows that he'll just leave her again. And that's why she doesn't want to say yes. But this is Jason, the sweet, wonderful boy she fell in love with. He wasn't like the others. He was different.
So, she makes her decision. She's ready to take that risk. It's what she wants, what she's longed for, for all these years. So, she looks up at him, and they lock eyes, before she whispers one word, "Yes."