My Fairy Princess

Halloween and come and past, and the decorations were gone on November 1st so fast that you began to question if they had ever been there. There were no more cute little Halloween streamers in the legions. No signs in New Rome. Nothing.

The day came and left just like that, the only reminder being the hangover or the big bag of candy you got the night before.

Though Jason hadn't been drinking much, he woke up with a horrible hang over that he blamed on all that candy he ate with Reyna the night before instead of the two glasses of spiked punch.

Reyna, on the other hand, slept blissfully, still wearing that stupid hat from the night before.

Jason decided against braving his hangover, and he went back to sleep, burying his face in a pillow to keep the sunlight away.

Reyna wasn't ignoring anything as she kept sleeping. When the news spread about the big Halloween party, they made up an excuse so that everyone could have today off. While that didn't mean that Reyna's work was gone for the day, it was gone for a few hours, just long enough to get that sleep she had been dying for.

She slept as long as she could until she knew that she had to get up.

Her alarm clock went off at ten like a firealarm.

Reyna groaned, used to the horrible noise but still hating it.

But she heard a scream from beside her.

Her reflexes took over before her brain could figure out where she knew the voice, and she kicked the person out of bed, earning a hard thud on the luxurious carpet floors.

Regret flooded her as she realized who had been sleeping beside her, and she peered over the side of the bed, smiling apologetically.

"What was that for?" Jason held his banging head, his body aching from the kick to his knee that had been powerful enough to knock the boy out of the bed.

"Why are you in my bed?"

Reyna took notice that this was the one time of day where Jason didn't look like a perfect god.

Still perfect, but not godly.

This time of day showed his humanly side.

His sleepy blue eyes. Blonde hair in a mess. Tired body, and the desperate look of wanting to back to sleep.

When Reyna went over to his house to wake him up, he looked differently. He usually had been up but just hadn't gotten out of bed. Though his eyes were still sleepy, his body had woken up, and so had most of his brain. Then there would be that sultry smile begging her to go back to bed, usually the bed being more tempting than him to Reyna in the early morning hours.

"You said I could sleep here," he forced himself to remember.

"Yeah, but then we fell asleep on the couch. Why are you here?"

"I don't know. I must have been sleep walking or something. How did you get up here?"

Reyna stopped and realized she could remember sleepily coming up the stairs to her loft bedroom and collapsing on her soft bed, throwing a pillow at Jason when he laid down on the bed, too, but not telling him to get out.

As she kept remembering the night before, she began to remember when she woke up a little at three in the morning to find Jason's arms wrapped around her waist. Instead, she just fell back asleep.

Reyna shrugged in answer of Jason and she set out his hand to help him up.

Jason took her hand, and she helped him up, sitting on the bed as he massaged his temples.

"Dude, where did you learn to do that?" he rubbed his painful knee.

"Long story," she shrugged, and Jason decided to give up.

Reyna got out of bed and went to her closet, pulling out a pair of jeans and a random tee shirt.

"So, what happened at the party?" Reyna looked back to him, and he shrugged.

"Nothing much. Why?"

"Because you ditched it and showed up at my doorstep."

Jason hesitated.

"It wasn't the same," Jason admitted, "I don't know. I wasn't party boy anymore. It just wasn't as fun as I remembered it being…"

Reyna nodded, though she didn't quite know what he was talking about.w

While Jason had fun before getting this big responsibility, Reyna had been training most her life for this. When he was going to parties and New Rome's lady's man, Reyna was being voted in as Praetor.

She was only thirteen when her future co-praetor decided he wanted her as his next partner. When she was fourteen, she became the youngest Praetor ever, and everyone planned on voting her in until she decided to retire, which would probably only be when her ten years were up.

It made her proud, yes.

But it also made her tired.

And what would she do when this was over?

When she was all grown up. When she crowned a new female Praetor and walked away.

This was all she had ever really known…

"Why did you have to make me grow up?" Jason nudged her, and she rolled her eyes.

"Coming to breakfast or more sleep?"

"I don't think I can go to sleep after being kicked off the bed. I'll meet you over there," Jason pulled open the window, and she stared.

"What are you doing?"

"No walk of shame. The rumors are bad enough."

They were.

They pretended not to hear, but the gossip got worse with every time Jason fell asleep on her couch or every day where Reyna was the only human being he had time to talk to.

"So what? Suicide?"

Jason smiled.

"Yes, Reyna, I am going to commit suicide," he smirked.

"Seriously, Jason, what are you doing?"

He nodded towards his window.

"I left it unlocked," Jason pulled himself to the ledge of the window, and Reyna hurried to the window.

"That will never hold you, Jason," she pointed towards the closest branch of the tree separating their houses, and he rolled his eyes.

Reyna stopped, crossing her arms.

"Have you done this before?"

"No," he burned bright red.

"That's how you get here so fast in the morning! I never lock my window!"

"I do not do that!"

"Yes, you do," Reyna laughed, "I knew you weren't an early riser."

"I have not done this before. I-I just think it will work."

"Sure you do," Reyna rolled her chocolate brown eyes.

"Watch and learn, Queen."

"Queen?" Reyna rolled her eyes.

When she had told Jason that, it was just coming up in conversation.

Something you mention while ordering lunch. They were talking about his name, she thinks. Somehow, she brought up that her name meant queen. She barely remembered telling him that, but he had remembered this entire time.

"You told me," Jason smiled as he reached out to the branch, pulling himself quickly to the strong part of the tree and reaching for the ledge of his window, pulling himself up to it.

Reyna watched him, having to give him points for how well he was able to do it.

Just another reminder of him being an Adonis, Reyna reminded herself.

"See you at breakfast," Jason smirked from his window.

"And I'll remember to lock my window," Reyna pulled the window down and the curtain across as she went to her bathroom and changed into her usual outfit of jeans and a tee shirt.

They both got dressed, and Jason swallowed two cups of coffee with a bunch of Tylenols.

Reyna pulled her Northface as the cold began to invade the warm Californian air. Her sneakers crunched on leaves, and she took in the autumn. She preferred summer. It reminded her of her childhood in Puerto Rico. But there was something about fall here.

Gwen told her that it reminded her of her new life in New Rome, but Reyna just shrugged it f and told her that she just liked the season.

Jason didn't take his time to enjoy the beauty of the basically-empty morning. He hurried past everything, keeping away from the sunlight with his Raybands, and he cringed with every crunch of the leaves below his converses. When he finally made it towards the dining hall, he found that he was surrounded by hangover kids as well.

Well, except for a little girl in a Princess outfit.

He had to take a double-take when he saw hot pink in the sea of kids wearing sunglasses and hoodies.

"Ella?"

The little girl smiled as she hurried to Jason, and he quickly got on his knees to look at her.

"Where's your mom, Ella?"

"She and Daddy are 'alking to wook at the 'eaves," Ella nodded, "LuLu was babysitting me. And she wanted to come see her 'oyfriend."

Jason looked up to see Lucille making out with her son of Apollo boyfriend, Ryan.

Jason let out a moan and shook his head at Lucille.

"I 'anted to show you my Halloween 'ostume," Ella spun around, "I was a Fairy 'rincess."

If she hadn't told Jason, he would have thought she just went as the color pink. Her hot pink tulle skirt was probably bigger than Ella, and the top was covered in pink sequins, turning her into a hot pink disco ball in the morning sun. She had a big crown on and hot pink fairy wings behind her.

"You look adorable," Jason smiled at her, taking off his sunglasses and letting his blue eyes brace the bring sun, "My beautiful fairy princess."

Ella smiled wide at the compliment, and she was about to wrap her arms around his neck and her legs around her waist in what Jason called the tackle hug, but then she remembered something.

"She 'obly alweady got bweakfast. I don't 'ant to 'orry her," Ella nodded as she began to lead Jason into the building.

"Who is she?" Jason asked worriedly.

Ella didn't answer as she hurried into the building, pulling Jason along.

"Ella?"

Jason froze, but Ella kept

"There's the little fairy princess," Reyna smiled as Ella ran towards her, leaving Jason behind.

His eyes widened as she put a bowl of her favorite marshmallow cereal in front of her and smiled from across the table.

Reyna was opening her mouth to warn Ella not to tell Jason because he would never let her live it down, but she was cut off.

"Good morning, Reyna," Jason smiled as he sat down beside Reyna at the table, smiling as he snatched a piece of bacon off her plate, "Bacon, yum."

She stared, waiting for impact.

"So, what's up with you two?" Jason smiled, leaning over the table to talk to Ella.

Reyna was frozen, unable to quickly say anything before Ella admitted everything.

"Reyna 'ame with 'e trick-or-tweating," Ella smiled, "She 'aw LuLu and brought me 'ere for bweakfast."

"Isn't that so sweet?" Jason smirked as he looked back to her, and her eyes widened when he slung his arm around her and pulled her closer.

"What the Pluto are you doing?" Reyna hissed in his ear, and he just kept smiling.

"This is called revenge, Reyna. This is why you shouldn't tease me for being Jay-Jay," Jason whispered back as he planted a big kiss on the side of her head, making everyone pull off their sunglasses and brace the bright lights for a double take.

Reyna couldn't decide if she was about to die herself or kill him.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone that you got soft," he nudged her before letting her go, and Ella was smiling at the two.

"I 'ought you said 'ou were just fwiends."

Reyna burned bright red.

"Well… uh, we are… Jason just…"

"I'm going to leave you to handle this," Jason whispered again and smiled at Ella, "I'm going to grab some breakfast. Want some bacon?"