Sorry for Spelling Annabeth wrong in the last chapter, I couldn't remember how to.
~Piper POV~
Flames. That's all I can see everywhere I look. I have the feeling that everyone is int trouble and it's up to me to save them. I look for Jason first. "JASON!" I yell. Somehow through all this smoke, I can breathe, even though I should be suffocating. "PIPER!" I hear Jason scream. "HELP!" He yells. "I CAN'T BREATHE!" He says. I follow his voice, until I find him. "Jason?" I ask, because I can't tell if he's conscious or not. "Piper." He groans. I walk over to him, and kiss him. He suddenly has more energy and can breathe. "Pipes, how did you do that?" He asks. "I don't know, but I don't think it's 100% good, but I couldn't let you die." I say. "Help! HELP HELP HELP HELP!" I hear the voices of my friends screaming. I try to move towards them, but the ground is holding me down. "I CAN'T HELP YOU! I'M STUCK!" I screech. "My pretties, you can't defeat me, for I am mother Earth." A sleepy voice says. I automatically know that it's Gaea. "You shall die here. Give up hope. Piper. There sin't any left." She's right, so I give up hope, and let the ground devour me.
I wake up, thinking I'm going to the underworld, but I wake in my bed, in the Argo 2. I start crying silently, I can't believe I let Gaea talk me into loosing hope. I hug myself, and pull my knees to my chest. I decide to get up, and talk a walk outside, the fresh air normally calms me down, it reminds me of Jason. I get out of bed, and put a sweatshirt on. I don't care about my hair, so I just head to the deck.
When I get up to the deck, there isn't a cloud in the sky. You can see all of the constellations. Lean on the railing, just staring at the stars, clearing my head. But, I think back to my dream, and hope the hope was lost, and silent tears stream back down my face. I hear footsteps behind me, but I hope they don't realize I'm hear, so they walk on, and they don't know I'm crying. But the footsteps stop anyway. "Piper?" They ask. I realize, that it's Jason. "Yes?" I say, willing my voice not to quiver, but it does anyway. "Are you ok?" He asks, and comes over, and puts his arms around me. "Depends on your definition of ok." I say, voice quivering again. "Okay, rephrasing. Who should I kill for making you cry?" He says in a dead serious tone. "Well, it depends. I had a dream, where we were fighting Gaea in a field, that was on fire. But that still isn't what what made me cry. Gaea had started talking to me, she said that I should give up hope, because there wasn't any left. But there was. I gave up anyway. You died because I gave up. I died because I gave up. We all died because I gave up." I say letting my voice quiver and myself cry. Now my crying is audible, and is turning into sobbing. Jason puts his arms around me, and pulls me into a bear hug. "Pipes, I'm fine. See." He takes a step back, and gestures at himself. "Pipes, if you're this upset, you won't do it again. Subconscious or not." I start crying harder. "But I did it once! I could do it again!" I say. He comes closer again, and places a kiss on my forehead. "Pipes, I have faith n you. I know you. You won't do it again." Jason says, while leaning down closer to my face. Kisses my, slow and soft at first, but it gets fiercer the longer we kiss. He pulls away for air, and I put my head on his chest.
"HEY!" Coach yells. "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING UP? I DON'T SEE ANY MONSTERS!" He yells. I facepalm, and so does Jason. "Coach, I couldn't sleep, so I came up here to clear my head, and I think Jason was on guard tonight." I say, putting some charmspeak into my words. "Okay... just go to bed now." He says. We both nod, and head below deck, to our rooms, but instead of going to his, Jason comes into mine instead. I let him in, and I crawl into my bed, and he does too. He puts his arms around me, and says, "If the dreams come back, I'll fight them off with my bare hands." I nod my head, starting to drift off, but before I can, I say "I love you." I think he says it too, but I'm too far gone. to hear.