Why Did He Have to Go? ~A Piper and Jason Fan-Fiction

Chapter Seven

I glared at her. She spotted me and glared back. I looked over at Jason, who was pacing. She looked, too.

This is not the Jason I knew. Something is wrong.

I could'nt take anymore of this so I pinched myself and woke up.

I flinched so hard my knee hit Leo's.

"Watch it, beauty queen," he said. I punched him on the same knee. It was a pretty good punch considering how week I was.

"Piper, what did you see?" Annabeth and Hazel asked at the same time.

I tried to collect my thoughts. "Reyna and I are being controlled by Jason. She is in as bad a shape as me. Jason has a British accent."

"British?" Hazel asked, "That's weird. So, Reyna's as sick as you are? We have to leave immediately."

"One thing," I said, "Percy needs to come."

"What?' Annabeth asked," Yes, he needs to come, but why exactly?"

I shrugged. "Just so you can have him." Yes, I was being nice.

"Piper," Annabeth hugged me, but I didn't hug back, "That's so nice of you!"

We left a note on the house fridge saying where we were and all that crap.

Percy was in battle training with the Ares cabin. He was against Clarrisse. That was really interesting.

Annabeth was trying hard not ot laugh. "Seaweed Brain!" she shouted. That got him off track and he stumbled over but came up behind Clarrisse and still defeated her. Amazing.

"What?" he asked, a little annoyed, "Can't you see I'm busy?"

"Well, are you to busy to hear this?" Annabeth said. Percy came over. "You are going on a quest."

"What? Which one?" He asked.

Annabeth put me in front of her. "Piper's and Reyna's."

"Oh," Percy had a disgusted look, like the name "Reyna" had bad memories along with it. I couldn't help but laugh.

"You are coming, Seaweed Brain, or else I will take you on the first-class, three-week , fastest plane in the world for a date," Annabeth knows how to get Percy to agree to stuff. She almost has charmspeak.

"Fine. Are we taking the flying ship?"

"Yes," Leo said proudly.

"Does Chiron know?"

"We put a sticky note on the Big House fridge," Hazel said. Percy stared at her.

"So now we just pack up and leave?"

"Yep," I said. And with that we went our different ways.

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I should have known not to walk in my cabin when my siblings were still there, but I completely blanked out.

When I opened the door everyone surrounded me.

"Guys," I said, my charmspeak getting a lot of their attention, "I just came back to pack for my quest."

"But you look terrible!" Angela said.

"So?" I said. I went to my bunk and got all of my things ready. I left without saying another word. I silently said goodbye to Mitchell and Lacy.

Annabeth wasn't ready so I waited outside her cabin.

She came out as soon as I put my bag on the ground. "Ready?" She asked. I nodded.

I wasn't ready, I was anything but ready, but I was not ready to tell Annabeth how I felt. She was almost like a sister to me, but I couldn't let her know.

"Let's go get the others," Annabeth said. We went for the Hephaestus cabin. Leo was saying good-bye to his bed. Go figure.

"Leo!" Annabeth and I said.

"Nothing!" He said standing up straight. We started laughing.

Percy met us at the Hephaestus cabin so it saved us a trip to the Poseidon cabin. We went and got Hazel and then we went off to the warship.

Festus' head had fallen off.

"Aw, Festus," Leo said, "I just shined you!" He fixed it in ten seconds flat and we borded the ship.

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I entered my old bunk and so many memories came back to me. Some good and some bad.

I went over to the window seat where Jason kissed me the night before the battle. It was such a warm place right next to the window. When it rains it's so beautiflul. The soft rain patters against the window and I can see it as clear as a flat screen T.V.

I laid my head against the window hoping it would rain. It didn't.

There was a knock at the door. Annabeth was walking toward me.

"Hey," she said, "Isn't it amazing all of this stuff is still here?"

I shrugged.

"Come down here," Annabeth said, "So I can talk to you better."

I reluctantly got down from the window seat and got down on my bed where Annabeth was sitting. Her grey eyes were full of concern. "Bad memories coming back?"

I started to cry. Annabeth hugged me but didn't say anything. Annabeth had been through this. Percy was here now and we need Jason back. Whether he was at Camp Jupiter or not, I could still Iris Message him, he needs to come back.

"Come on," Annabeth said, "I heard Leo upgaded the rest of the ship."

We decided to go and check out the ship with Percy. It would take my mind off of Jason.

The ship was pretty cool. There was a game room with Wii's and XBox 360's and PlayStation's. And then just some board games in that room. The loung area had two couches, a love seat, three recliners, a coffee table, and a flat screen T.V. The kitchen had hi-tech appliances and granite counter tops.

From the outside of the ship, it didn't even look big enough to hold all of this stuff.

"This is really impressive," Percy said, "Looks like someone could live here their whole life."

It really did. I went over to the huge window in the lounge area and looked up at the night sky. I guesstimated we were over Pennsylvania by now. The stars were so crisp in the night sky.

Percy and Annabeth came over to look with me. Annabeth pointed to a constellation and looked at Percy. "Zoё Nightshade," she said. Percy and Annabeth's eyes were full of sorrow. I figured that girl, Zoё Nightshade, was an old friend that died.

I restrained myself from asking who she was. I'll ask Chiron later.

"Oh, my gods," Annabeth said, "I am so stupid. We need to Iris Message Thalia and tell her what's going on."

We tried to do that but we couldn't find a drachma.