I'm on a roll! Third Author's Note!

This day's part of our Christmas fanfic is Jasper.

Disclaimer: We don't own PJO or HOO. But I do own a cute puppy.

And now, for our feature presentation...

Sparkle Wars and Mistletoe

"Jason, did you get the sparkle spray bottles?" Piper asked, stumbling around with her arms full of mistletoe, holiday garlands and glitter, her cornucopia perched on her head like a hat.

"Uhh... What sparkle spray bottles?" Jason replied, slightly afraid of what Piper would need sparkle spray bottles for.

"The bottles that spray sparkles on the wall for decoration? I told you to go get them from Leo," Piper replied, setting down the decorations on the floor, just missing the table.

"Oh..." Jason replied, helping Piper pick the decorations up from the floor while she put the cornucopia on the table.

"Judging by your complete cluelessness on this topic, I will assume you were not listening and didn't get the stuff from Leo," Piper replied, bopping Jason over the head with a tube of wrapping paper.

Oh, Jason remembered now. He vaguely remembered Piper telling him about this... He wasn't really listening, he was kind of... Maybe... Staring into her eyes as they glittered with excitement for this party? Just maybe...

"Jason... Jason... JASON! Are you listening?" Piper shouted, looking as if she was about to hit him with the tape roll she had just picked up.

"Nope," Jason replied. That was not a good thing to say. Piper did end up hitting him over the head with the tape roll.

"Now that you have been thoroughly punished, go get the sparkle spray bottles, please," Piper instructed.

"Yes, sensei," he muttered, grinning. He walked out quickly before his girlfriend could use any other decorations as weapons.

When he staggered back into the room with the giant box of sparkle spray bottles Piper had already gotten a good start on putting everything up. Streamers were strung across the ceiling neatly and with complementary colors. Jason doubted he could even hang one of them correctly.

Piper was standing on a ladder near the doorway, hanging the first of the mistletoe. Jason craned his head to look at her. "I got the sparkle spray bottles," he called.

"Good. Just let me finish this..." Piper made tiny adjustments to the decoration that he could not see the point of at all. "Almost there." She gave it one last tweak and leaned back. "Perfect!"

She climbed down the ladder and opened the box that Jason was still holding. He noticed that as she leaned over that she smelled kind of like how Drew had smelled during his first day at Camp Half-blood, but with a warmer, more Piper-y scent.

"Leo really came through with these," she said appreciatively, ending her inspection. "They'll match the tablecloths perfectly if we use this color-" she pulled out a red spray bottle- "with this color-" she pulled out another one- "as long as we don't use that other dark green..."

Jason nodded as if he understood what she was talking about. It was enough work to make sure his clothes didn't completely clash in the morning. Anything else was pushing it. He set the box down next to a table so Piper could continue to ramble on about Aphrodite things without killing his arms from holding that giant box. Jason began to rifle through the supplies on the table. Red puff balls? Where could those possibly go? And those Christmas lights would look really pretty when they were all lit up. He reached for an unopened bag and accidentally knocked over a tub of silver glitter with his elbow onto Piper, who had been kneeling on the floor sorting through the spray bottles.

"Hey!" she sprang to her feet, glitter cascading off her sweater and onto the floor. Her hair was full of it and her face had also gotten a light dusting.

"It was an accident, I swear!" Jason raised his hands and gave her an I'm-so-innocent look.

"You're giving me the I'm-so-innocent look. That's never a good sign."

"No, really!"

"Payback!" Piper grabbed a bright orange sparkle spray bottle and blasted him in the chest.

Jason looked down at the swathe of orange that now swooped across his favorite light blue sweater. "Hey, Hazel made me that shirt!"

Piper's eyes widened. "Whoops."

"Well, too late now. Guess you're in for it too!" Jason scrambled for something and found a paint tube and squirted it at Piper. Green splattered against her cheek, dripping down onto her shoulder. She gasped in outrage.

"Oh, you are going down, Grace!" she yelled.

"In your dreams!" he called back, ducking behind the ladder to avoid most of the next onslaught from the spray bottle.

Piper pulled out her cornucopia and shot a barrage of sugar cookies between the struts of the ladder.

"No fair!" called Jason.

"All's fair in love and war!" she sent right back.

"Frank, get back here you sheep!" Hazel's voice wafted up from the stairs.

There was a confused silence for a moment, which Piper took advantage of by starting to sneak closer to Jason's hiding place. She was almost there, bottle ready to spray, when he came swooping out and flew up toward the ceiling. He stopped and hovered above her. "Everything's fair, right?" he smirked, his hair tousled and covered in cookie crumbs.

"Oh, shut up," she grinned back , and shot a ham at him.

He dodged easily. "Not so nice to be on the losing side, is it?"

Piper's eyes narrowed as she thought. Most of her projectiles wouldn't reach him at that range, and the ones that did he could dodge easily. So shooting things at him was out, but what else could she use...

Oh. Duh. If Jason was going to fly, she could always use her gift.

"Jason," she said, lacing her words with charmspeak, "Come back down."

"But-" His forehead crinkled as he dropped a few feet in the air.

"I only want to talk to you," Piper continued. "Just come down-carefully," she added, as Jason dropped another foot.

"Okay." He floated back to the floor and landed lightly. "What do you want to talk about?"

Piper stuck her spray bottle to his chest. "I win."

He blinked. "Wait, what? What just happened?" His vision clearing, he exclaimed in surprise. "That wasn't fair!"

She raised an eyebrow.

"Okay, it was, but still! Hey, mistletoe."

"What?" Piper looked up.

Jason acted quickly, snatching the spray bottle and turning it on Piper. "Ha."

"No, there really is mistletoe."

"Yeah, right." Jason rolled his eyes. "I'm not falling for that."

"Just take my word for it." And she kissed him.

And that was how the couple experienced the most sparkly kiss of all time, literally.

"You taste like sparkles," Jason commented and Piper laughed happily as they fell to the ground of the messiest, sparkly-est, mistletoe filled party room of all time.

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