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

Chapter Eleven

Leo put his cheese curls in the cabinet and they helped me get the crutches all situated, and by then Percy was up.

He wasn't very awake, but when he saw us, he dropped his coffee mug.

"What the Hades happened?" He asked.

"Jason stricks again," I said. I walked - well, hopped - into my room. No one followed me and I was glad. I needed some time, without Jason or anyone.

I sat down on my bed and could hear the others talking. They were talking about the quest and questioning Leo on why he got cheese curls.

I laid my head against the wall, staring at the door, wanting normal Jason to walk in and carry me away to somewhere safe; somewhere I had never been before.

Suddenly all was quiet. I could tell everyone was  still out there; they were using hushed voices. Not to long after, there was a knock on my door adn it opened. Leo didn't realize it wasn't fully closed, so he knocked pretty hard so the door flew open.

"Hi," He squeaked.

"Um, hi?" I said, "What are you doing?"

"No-o-othing-ng," He stuttered. He ran down the hall. I grabbed my cruthes and went to the door. I leaned on the doorframe to see him dissappeared to the deck.

I was on my way to follow him when Annabeth grabbed me back.

"We're over California," She said. I stared at her in shock. She motioned me to follow her to the  window.

Sure enough, Mount Tam was rolling by.

"That means we're-" I saw it. I saw the camp. They had repaired the destroyed buildings. I have eyes, I could see the penquin duct tape.

There she stood. Reyna, in her Praetor cloak and her stupid dogs. her arms were covered by her cloak, and she looked mad.

We knew the drill. Terminus would be mad, so we had to float overhead and head down on the ladder.

It was fairly easy, even with a hurt knee. I just had Leo hold my crutches (he was the first down) and I got down second.

Reyna stormed over to me.

"What happened?" She demanded.

"Yo-you mean with my knee, uh," I looked at my knee, trying to decide if I should tell her the truth. '"Jason did it."

Yay, good, I said it confidently. She should believe me.

Her face was priceless.

Reyna loooked like a deer in the headlights who had been run over once and now the truck was coming back over her. Not to mention her eyes looked like her best friend had just died. Priceless.

She nodded, the look still on her face. "Let's talk in the Senate house."

She motioned for the little freak Octavian to follow her, then we walked to teh Senate house.

The penguin duct tape was not good at all with the columns and the gold. Little bits were still falling off when we closed the door.

She stopped and turned abruptly. Reyna locked eyes with Percy, who looked like he wanted to be invisible.

"A former Praetor has returned," Reyna said smugly.

Annabeth was about to kill someone. "He's not a Praetor anymore, so if you think you can bribe him or anything, you are dead wrong."

Annabeth put her dagger under Reyna's chin. Annabeth held out Percy's arm. "How do you remove that?" She pointed to the scars that still had a little bit of the SPQR from when he was abducted by Hera.

"There is no way to remove it," Reyna said, putting Annabeth's dagger down. "Unless Nep- Poseidon wants it off."

"Oh," Percy said, staring at his scar.

"Back to buissness," Reyna said as she went up to her throne, trying to be calm, but epically failing. "Look, to get to the point, Jason came here, too. He came yesterday morning..." She pulled up her sleeves relvealing a bandaged elbow.

At least she could still walk properly.

"Piper," Reyna began again, "He pointed something out to me." She motioned for me to follow her. I hesitated, but Leo pushed me forward. I had no choice but to follow her.

She lead me to a secret room. It looked like a uspplies room, with multiple stacks of penguin and now there was a hawiian flower design.

Reyna knocked over the duct tape. I backed away.

"Don't e afraid," Reyna said. "I just don't like that design. It was a mistake to let Octavian do the shopping."

Is that what she wanted to tell me?

"So, you're probably wondering why I brought you back here," She said.

No, that's not what she wanted to tell me. Just pointing that out.

"Um, yeah, I guess," I said.

"I wanted to tell you Jason told me something. Something I would have never done on my own." She turned around, looking shocked. I felt like I should stand up straight. " Jason told me to make friends with the charmspeaker, or else things wouldn't turn out good. I'm guessing the charmspeaker is you."

Now I was probabaly the one who looked like a deer in the head lights who was ran over by a truck and then the truck was about to run over me again.

"Me?" I squeaked. "We need to form an alliance?"

She nodded. "It's the only way."

I went up to her and put out my hand. "You have a deal."