The Choosing (Percabeth AU)

44. Piper Messed Up

Piper had plans. While the rest of her friends went to their little garden party, she made her way to the dungeons.

To see Drew.

There was a funeral going on, so she encountered only one guard. She told him that a fight had broken out in the hallway and sent him off.

After she found the dungeons, she walked down a huge flight of stairs. It was bleak and liflesss in here.

"Why did you do it?" Piper asked when she found her sister.

Drew smirked. "Well well. Look who it is...."

"Why?!" Piper screamed.

"Calm down honey. I don't need to answer to you."

"Drew you took everything from me. All my life, you've been taking. And as if that wasn't enough, you killed my sister. Our sister.And now Jason...."

The prisoner smirked, plan forming. "Ah Jason...that was fun. Torturing you like that," Drew laughed heartily.

"Can you fix it?" asked Piper, clenching her fists.

"Sure I can. But why should I?"

"Aren't you forgetting that you're the one in jail here? I can make you do it."

"Oh Piper......you are so naive. There's no way you can torture me into telling," Drew announced.

Piper knew she was right. She knew her sister wanted something. Certainly something she couldn't give. But she still had to. For Jason.

"What do you want in return?" she finally said.

Drew sighed dramatically. "Why would you think I'd want something? I wanna help, Piper. I'll give you the antidote. But it's in the locker in my room. It needs my fingerprint. Take me there and I'll give it to you."

Piper's heart raced. She had a chance to save her relationship. A chance to get her Jason back.

She took a deep breath, and before she knew it, she was unlocking the door.

Drew was obedient. She quietly walked with her head low, but that just made Piper more suspicious than ever.

She didn't have a choice though. She needed Jason back.

When they arrived at the criminal princess's room, Drew shook her head. "Tsk tsk tsk" she said wagging her finger in front of Piper's face. "A lady needs her privacy"

"Drew" Piper almost screamed, she was angry, nervous and very angry. And her step sisters behavior was not helping. "I come in with you or you don't go in at all"

"Oh Piper. Stupid little Piper" Drew grinned. "You can take me back to the dungeons and never find the drug. And your precious little Jason can have forgotten he ever met you, my little rat"

Piper clenched her hands into fists and forced herself to remain calm, " The royal physicians are working on a cure. They'll find one even if you don't give me the antidote"

Drew just laughed, "How long has it been little rat?" she purred, using the knicname she had for Piper. Little rat. "In a few days, the memory change is going to be permanent. And your stupid physicians will be too late"

"You're...you're lying" Piper stuttered. Her chin trembled.

"Think about it little rat"

Drew was right.

 In the beginning Jason was able to remember atleast some smidgets of his time in the Pallas. The water gun fight. Their names. He'd been grasping at straws, but it was better than grasping at nothing.
Now...he couldn't try to remember even if he wanted to. It hurt his head too much. And if he tried super hard, he would faint.

Piper looked incredulously at Drew, "5 minutes. Get the antidote and get out"

"Uh uh uh, you're forgetting our bargain"

Piper rolled her eyes, "Fine you can get your diamond necklace too. Hurry up. Before someone notices your gone"

Drew went inside her room. Piper stood guard outside her door. She counted the minutes in her head.
Her palms were sweaty, her breathing was heavy. She was nervous. If someone found out what she did, she would be sent to jail.

5 minutes were up.

Piper pushed opened the door and ran inside.
She gasped.
Drew was not there
Just a little note on the bed with a vial

It read

Well well, little rat. Seems like I won. Be a good girl and don't mention it to anyone. Remember, it's your ugly head on the line.
Take the vial, and seal your lips.

Pipers hands trembled. What had she done ?!
She peered out the open window, the one Drew must've escaped from.
She gasped again.
There was a body at the bottom, on the green grass directly underneath the sill.
A bare body, stripped of clothes. A bloody stab wound in his back.

That was one of the soldier's Piper realised with a jolt.
She slid against the wall and cried.

What had she done ?!

Piper messed up