AN : SORRY I DON'T UPDATE OFTEN

I'm really busy with school, sports, and music. Hopefully my writing makes up for it. Enjoy! :)

Piper loaded all the makeup and perfume into an expensive coach handbag that she charmspeaked from a local mall. She felt guilty about just taking the bag, but what to be done, needed to be done.

She put the bag on the ground and retrieved a box of matches from her coat pocket. She struck a match and held it over the bag. She exhaled and dropped the match. At first, nothing happened. Piper took a step back. If she was right about this, the perfume would catch fire any second…

BOOM

A bottle of perfume exploded inside the bag. Smoke curled up from the bag, as more bottles exploded. Piper looked up at the Argo II to see all of the other demigods watching, except for Leo, whom they had locked in his room with the Archimedes sphere. He didn't put up a fight; he simply sat cross-legged on his floor tinkering.

Piper focused back on the bag, which was now engulfed in flames. Piper Threw wood and fresh green leaves onto the fire, to make the smoke more plentiful. Piper stepped forward and stood a few feet away from the smoke column. She threw in another stick and waited.

"Any minute now mom!" she yelled into the smoke.

Minutes passed and she stamped her foot in frustration. Where was Aphrodite? Piper was sure that the scent of makeup, perfume, and burning designer leather was strong enough. What was she missing? Her mother stood for beauty and love. Her sacred animal was a dove. But Piper was not going to strangle a dove and throw it into the fire. Piper was sure that she couldn't charmspeak her mom.

But she had to try.

"Mother, please, come down here and talk to me. I offer up in sacrifice makeup, perfume, and a designer handbag," she said looking up at the sky. Nothing answered. Piper pressed her hands to her temples. What could she do? "I really love Jason, mom. Do you know that? Of course you do, you're the goddess of love. It's hard being with him sometimes though. He so focused on the tasks at hand… which is good, I mean I would want him to stop in a battle to kiss me or anything but…"

Suddenly a warm breeze blew, engulfing Piper in the smoke. She covered her mouth and nose, trying not to breath in the smoke. She held her breath as long as she could, but she wasn't Percy. She needed air. She gasped for air, expecting the smoke to taste bitter and choke her.

Instead the smoke smelled sweet, like the perfume. The smoke didn't make her eyes sting. She felt perfectly fine. Piper stood in the smoke confused. Was her mom just making a dramatic entrance?

Piper frantically fanned the smoke, trying to dissipate it. Slowly, the smoke ebbed. Piper looked around, searching for her mother. The goddess was nowhere in sight. Piper furrowed her brows and crossed her arms. Where the hell was her mom?

Piper looked down at the offering and noticed something had been placed next to the bag. She stepped closer and realized it was a baby carrier. There was a not placed on top, which Piper took and opened.

Sorry I couldn't make it down there, Piper

Hope he helps.

Love, Mom

"He?" Piper asked. She looked at the carrier and pulled back the blanket. A chubby pink baby was struggling against the carrier restraints. He looked at Piper pleadingly, but she wasn't about to let him out, not just yet. Piper sighed and picked up the baby carrier. She began walking toward the Argo II, which floated off the island by a few hundred feet.

She was about halfway through the walk when the baby poked her arm. Piper looked down at the baby and stared at it.

"What?" she demanded.

To her surprise, the baby answered her.

"Can you let me out?" The baby's voice was not that of a baby's. It sounded like a man. "Mother put a charm on the carrier so only you can open it, daughter of love."

With wide eyes, Piper placed the blanket back over the baby. She was pretty sure she knew who this was, but she refused to believe it. "If you want out, you better not say a word until I uncover you," she said in a low voice, the charmspeak layered on thick.

Piper stood at the waters edge and waved Jason down. He was standing ready, when Piper needed pickup. Piper saw his figure rise into the air and begin to fly towards her. Within a mater of minutes, Jason was carrying Piper bridal-style back towards the ship. Piper Held the carrier in her arms.

"Uh, Pipes," Jason said, the wind whipping his blonde hair, "What is that?" His eyes were trained on the covered baby.

"A gift, from my mother," Piper grumbled.

The demigods and Coach Hedge assembled in the mess hall, or as Leo began to call it, the situation room. Hazel stood in the hallway with Leo, waiting to bring him in when Piper called her.

Again Piper took the head of the table, even though she hated leading the meetings. In front of her on the table was the baby carrier.

"This better be good," Coach Hedge grumbled, "I'm missing mixed marshal arts for this."

Piper sighed. "Ok, I present to you, my mother's gift," Piper said, pulling the blanket off. The baby blinked, adjusting to the light.

"A… baby?" Frank leaned forward.

"God to you, Son of Mars," the baby crossed his arms.

"A god," Frank corrected himself with wide eyes.

The god nodded. "Now, sister release me!"

"Sister?" Nico asked.

Piper nodded. "This is my godly brother, Eros."

Eros' face contorted in pain. His image faded for a second. "Please, don't. I'm Cupid. My Greek counter part would not fit in this cursed carrier. Which is why you should let me out, sister."

Piper stared at the god. "If I let you out, you have to swear on the River Styx that you will help us cure our friend."

The god laughed. "Yes, I swear on the River Styx."

Piper nodded and unbuckled the god. She expected that she would need tremendous force to undo his restraints, but the buckle undid with a simple click!

Cupid shot his arms out, silently demanding to be picked up. Piper picked him up, discovering him to be nude. She sighed and placed him on the table. On his back were two small white folded wings.

"Hazel!" Piper called, "Bring Leo in!"

Hazel walked in with a flush face leading Leo by the hand. Leo wore a goofy smile on his face. She made him let go and walked over to Piper.

"He kept trying to kiss me," Hazel whispered, so only Piper could hear.

Piper chewed her lip. "Sorry," she muttered. Hazel nodded and took a seat. Leo tried to sit next to Hazel, but Piper motioned for him to come stand with her.

"Ok, so how do we fix him?" Piper asked Cupid, gesturing to Leo, who was starting lovingly at Hazel.

"One moment, I wish to change into my Greek form, if you don't mind," Cupid said, starting to transform.

"Close you eyes!" Piper yelled, squeezing her eyes shut, and covering Leo's eyes as well.

The light faded and Piper got an unpleasant view of Eros. He was still standing on the table. He was now a grown man now, rather than a baby. And he was still completely nude.

Hazel gasped and covered her eyes. Coach Hedge stood and left the room. He would rather watch grown men beat each other in a cage, than watch a grown man standing nude on a table. Jason looked at the floor and shifted uncomfortably. Frank and Nico were trying to comfort Hazel, and Leo was doing his best to not laugh, for the god was wearing a white sash with pink hearts.

Piper stared Eros right in the eye. He stretched and stepped down from the table. He pulled out a chair and leaned back comfortably.

"So how do we fix him?" Piper asked again.

"Oh, simple," Eros said, grabbing a grape from a bowl on the table. "You take him to the River Lethe, and rinse the puncture of my arrow. That will erase his memory of falling in love with the first person he saw when he woke up." Eros popped the grape into his mouth. "Could you not have figured this out on your own?"

Piper looked at her brother. "The River Lethe?"

"I know where it is," Nico said. "I went there with… Percy." The mood in the room dampened at the mention of the lost hero's name.

"Oh, and the person he loves must wash the wound, or else it will not work," Eros said. He suddenly stood. "I must be on my way now, mother is calling me back. Farewell sister."

Everyone closed their eyes as Eros changed into his true godly form. When the light ebbed Piper found Hazel still had wide eyes.

"What's wrong Hazel?" Piper asked.

She looked at Piper. "I have to wash Leo's butt. In a dangerous river that could erase my memory if I touch it's water."

AN: I'll try to update asap.

ps, I don't own PJO/HoO. That goes to Uncle Rick.