Between Sea and Sky -AAThanatos

Chapter 1: Handjobs and Concubines

It had been two weeks. Two weeks of me just bathing in my self loathing as my world crashed down around me harder than both of the wars I went through. Annabeth has "moved on" as she so simply put it. She had gone to New Rome to check out their college for us.

Staying a month would give her time to look at apartments and check out the part time job scene. Instead she started talking with some guy named Clifford who was the son of Janus, apparently his debating skills and intellectual stances on the decisions we make in life were astounding. As was his dick apparently. I never got so much as a blowjob from the girl and she meets Mr. smarty pants and she just grabs ankle for him.

Five years down the drain, the love of my life just flushed me like I was nothing. Wouldn't even break up with me in person, Iris message. So of course I stayed in my cabin for weeks trying to pull myself back together. Today was the first day I showered and went to the pavilion for breakfast. Of course that's all I could really bring myself to do, everyone was staring at me shaking their heads and speaking in whispers. Nico was nice enough to deliver meals to me and fill me in on the town gossip.

Found out that Jason was moving back here to start NYU in the fall, so he would be showing up at camp any day now. I also learned he will be arriving alone. Piper and him split up too. Luckily for him it was a mutual decision. Apparently she got accepted to UCLA and both of them thought that doing the long distance thing would be to hard, they agreed that if at the end of their four years if they are single and want to try again they would. Fucking pragmatic people and their logic.

***time break***

BANG! BANG! BANG!

"Hey aqua man! I got some food for ya! Open up Bro!"

Jason.

Slowly I crawl out of my bed and make my way toward the cabin door. Squinting my eyes at the sunlight I opened the door and let him inside. Jason looked different, of course I hadn't seen him since September and it was June now but in that time frame we had talked yet I didn't expect him to look so different. He has grown three more inches leaving him tall enough to see slightly over my head. His hair has grown longer to his chin and had those surfer bangs that hung over his eyes slightly. Even his body has changed, putting on weight and filling out to a mans instead of a boys. I was a little startled at the whole thing. Jason was the same yet entirely different. I hadn't quite caught up in the filling out department yet he was younger than me. I also have pretty much stopped growing too.

Giving me a bro hug he squeezed my should sympathetically to let me know he knew how I felt. Pulling up a few gaming chairs he put on a mind numbing shooting game that would give us both a nice distraction while also giving us room to catch up and eat fries inbetween.

I told him about the break up and how I decided I was going to do all my classes online this year. I wouldn't have to do in class work until my third year anyway. Luckily marine Biology was really a breeze for me. I had never been good in school until now. Plus the online classes give me the room to read at my own pace to battle my ADHD and dyslexia. Jason told me how Piper was and how he actually took the break up a little harder than he thought, also that he was going to study English Lit? That was out of left field. Conversations like this were awesome. Two guys just holding controllers and not having to look at each other, just concentrate on the game and pour your shit out.

"So did you stop by and say hi to Nico?"

"Yeah I did, I walked in on him and Will."

"No fucking way, what were they doing?"

"Will was blowing Nico on the couch, I should of knocked."

"How did he take it?"

"Oh he was fine once his dick was in his pants. You know Nico, he has those instilled old times manners that made him apologize to me for watching him get a blowjob."