Jason walks past the statues and- well, temples on Temple Hill, but stops short when he someone standing in the temple of Bellona. He smiles to himself and walks inside.

The temple of Bellona is nothing extraordinary. Above the door is a crossed sword and torch. Inside, it's a square room. The walls are made of some sort of rough stone. It's painted a deep burgundy and has pictures of war and destructon on it. Cities burning, people screaming. Gruesome battle depictions. It always gives Jason a creepy feeling in here. And his mood always shifts slightly. He has the smallest want to destroy something, or pick a fight.

The floor is made of dark marble with veins of white, gold, and brown through it. Each side of the temple is probably only about ten feet in length. So it isn't very big. Candles are lit along a small golden altar. Behind that is a five foot statue of Bellona herself. With a helmet on her head and a spear in her hand. Reyna is standing in the middle of the room. Her back turned to him. Jason wonders if she even heard him come in. He knocks on the doorframe.

"Hey." He says brightly.

"Go away!" She says sternly. He notices the tremor in her voice. His heart sinks sadly.

Jason takes a few steps towards her, "What's w-"

"Do not ask me what's wrong! Like you'd even understand anyway! Did you not hear me? I told you to leave!" Reyna yells at him. He wonders if she's shaking with anger or if she's so upset it's causing her to tremble. Jason huffs in anger and crosses his arms. Like he's leaving anytime soon.

Reyna growls in frustration and throws her dagger towards him. He sees a flash of gold out of the corner of his eye. Jason yells in terror and hits the deck. The dagger is mere inches away from where his head had been moments before.

Once his heart has relaxed enough and he has convinced himself he isn't about to be killed, Jason stands up and turns to leave. He pries Reyna's dagger from the wall and puts it in his belt loop.

"Give me back my dagger." She says silently.

"Only if you tell me what's wrong. Or else I might have to hide it from you."

"I could find it anyway. I'm a human weapon detector, remember?"

"You won't want to touch it once I'm done with it. I might just pee on it." Jason threatens, only halfway joking.

"You wouldn't."

"If that's what it takes for you to tell me what's wrong, I most definitely will."

"I'm still not telling. You just... Wouldn't..."

"Maybe I'd understand if you give me the chance." He whispers.

Reyna shakes her head, "Why do you hang out with people like me? Like Dakota and Hazel? Why the people who don't fit in? You could have any friend in the world- any girl in the world, but you choose us. Why is that? Why is it so much easier for you to turn down things that are offered to you? Why turn down power and luxury and all the best things in the world that people would give an arm and a leg to have? I mean, you're the son of Jupiter. If you wanted to you could rule the world."

Jasoon walks closer to her until they're standing side by side. She looks at him slowly. Her face is streaked with tears and her eyes glisten with them. Even in the candlelight her eyes look puffy. Besides the tears and pain, she looks sort of pretty in the candlelight. Reyna's light skin glows golden and her eyes seem black as an endless tunnel.

"If I wanted to rule the world, then I would have joined Saturn."

"But why didn't you?"

"Why didn't you? Your mom fought against the Olympians. Remember when you told me that you kept having dreams of your mom. How she tried to convince you how much better it would be if the demigods ruled and the gods were overthrown? We both know you find it harder to turn down power-"

"Because of you," Reyna says forcefully. Fresh tears gleam in her eyes. Jason's suddenly taken aback. "And because of this camp. And my friends as well. Because I couldn't join their side and look into your- their eyes- and see the disappointment in them. I couldn't stand it if you just turned your back on me. If you said that maybe you were wrong about me and maybe you didn't know me after all. I actually truly considered it once. Joining the other side. And it was scary. I- I never want to feel like that again. To feel lost."

Jason wipes her tears away with his thumb. It's automatic. He doesn't even have to think about it. Once he realizes what he's done, he tears his hand away from her face and puts it down at his side. He hadn't ever known that Reyna had ever actually thought of joining the Titans in the War. The thought makes him scared, and he wonders what else there was that he doesn't know about Reyna that he should.

They stay that way for a moment. Unsure of what to do next. What to say next. Butterflies swirl in Jason's stomach. When her tears begin to flow down her cheeks again, he takes her face in his hands and wipes them away with his fingers once more. Although the tears are gone, he still traces her cheekbone. Her face is expressionless.

Reyna's hands wrap around his wrists. He stops what he's doing immediately. She shakes her head and pulls away from him.

"Don't." She says, stepping away from him.

"I'm sorry, I just..." Jason closes his eyes and clenches his jaw. Why did he do that? Why the hell did he do that? He knew she was going to pull away. Maybe it was because he thought she wouldn't.

"You never answered my question. Why do you hang out with us misfits?" Reyna walks towards the door, then turns on her heel. Awaiting his answer.

Jason looks down at the ground and scuffs his shoe. He shrugs nonchalantly, "Because... It makes me feel normal. When you're the son of Jupiter. No one likes you for you. They just want to be with you because- well, you know- you're the son of Jupiter. You have no idea how many girls have come onto me to just say they've been with- or kissed, or dated the only living son of Jupiter. The 'Child of the Prophecy'-"

"And let me explain to you why they don't come around when I'm with you. See, I overheard some... people... talking today. And that's what lead me here. They said that... Jason, they think we've been together."

"Wait, wait, wait. As in dating, right?" Jason edges closer to her.

"No. They think we've actually been, you know, together. Anyway, I heard them talking about- about what they really think we do in the principia," Reyna stops and tears fill her eyes again. "They said that who was I to deserve you? Who was I when my mother fought for the Titans? Why would someone like you choose to hang out with someone as- as low on the totem pole as me. And I realized that it's true. I'm nothing compared to you. You- who is everything good in the world. Everything optimistic. When compared to me. With a goddess for a mom no one even pays attention to. Ask any elementary school kid or even a great professor who Bellona is. No one knows about her because no one cares about her. I'm not anything. I'm just another minor demigod! No special, amazing powers. Just an antisocial girl who was rude and short with everyone when she first came here. But when I became praetor, suddenly I became this important person. Just because I held the title. And now with these rumors that Octavian's throwing around about us being in the bathhouse together and getting to third base in the dungeon and how I- I don't even know how I'm able to make eye contact with you. I don't deserve to even know you like I do. I'm like a queen from a small country and you're like the ruler of the world... Do you even know how hard it is to be friends with someone who is walking perfection-"

"I do," Jason cuts in. He takes both of her hands in his, hoping she gets the message that he's talking about her. She cocks her head to the side. Trying to see if he's being truthful. "And for the record... You were always important to me. And always will be."

They stand in the doorway of the temple. Reyna runs one hand through his hair and puts the other on his shoulder. He feels electricity crackle on his empty palms. He presses them on either side of her, against the doorway to keep them from shaking and sparking up again. Jason steps closer to Reyna.

His heart is doing somersaults like crazy. Reyna leans forward and his mind screams Yes! Yes! Yes! electric currents pass through them. Which is all Jason's fault. This happens when he has a huge surge of adrenaline or his overactive brain is going crazy. Which it is. Jason leans in closer until he can taste her breath. He has wanted this for so long. And now, finally, he gets to kiss her. Jason can't help but smile and think all of this waiting is worth it. Definitely worth it. Then suddenly she-

"Holy mother irrumabo!" Someone, who Jason immediately identifies as Dakota, screams. They jump apart immediately.

Dakota stands there with a look on his face that, in different circumstances, would have been hilarious. His flask, which he never let's go of, falls to the ground slowly and splatters the dirt with red liquid.

He looks between them for about a minute. He looks like a deer in the headlights. Then, quick as a flash Dakota's running down the hill and screaming, "Gwen! Gwen! Oh my freaking gods! You have no idea what I just saw! Holy Tartarus!"

Jason and Reyna look to each other with the same expression of fear on their faces. Reyna grabs her dagger from Jason's belt and steals the coin from his pocket then begins to run after Dakota in a war-like scream Jason was sure Saturn himself would have been afraid of.

"Reyna! Reyna! Wait! Don't kill him! Reyna!" Jason charges after her. Willing the winds to carry him faster.

By the time he gets there, Reyna has Dakota pinned to the ground with his arms behind his back and her knife and his sword crossed in an X against the back of his neck. Jason runs his hands through his hair and covers his face with his hands in fear as Reyna threatens Dakota with curses and the whole 'if he wants kids when he's older he won't breathe a word to anyone about what he saw' speech.

Yep. Just a normal day at Camp Jupiter.