The One That Got Away... (A Jasico fanfic)

Chapter 15

Jason pov

"Hey, Terminus." I waved at the statue, who nodded at me. "Jason!" he boomed. "Long time no see. You'll need to give that sword of yours to her." He nodded at Julia, who hadn't grown an inch since I last saw her - which was about a year ago.

"Jason! Thank gods you're here. The Vulcan cabin's going ballistic about some air regulation thing in their cabin, and for some reason no one can fix it." I did a double take when I saw Reyna, who, contrast to her usual Roman armour and purple cape, was wearing yoga pants and a huge Camp Jupiter t-shirt.

"Not a word," she warned me when she caught me staring openmouthed at her new attire. "Not one word." I nodded and handed my sword to Julia, who beamed at me.

"I lost a tooth!" she informed me happily. "Reyna says that the Fates will come and give me a drachma for it later!" I glanced at Reyna, who shrugged and dragged me away.

*TIIIIME SKIIIIP OOF AAWESOOOMENEEESS!!!

"So let me get this straight," Reyna said. "The son of Jupiter is dating the son of Hades?" I nodded, rather nervous. If there was one thing scarier than a Reyna suited up in armour, ready to kill, it was a Reyna suited up in yoga pants, ready for gossip.

"Do I even want to know?" she asked. I just leaned on her. "I assume that's why you asked in the first place, RA-RA." She swatted me in the arm. "Don't call me that."

"Will do, RA-RA."

"Ugh. You are so infuriating." I grinned at her. "Do you want the story or not?" She shifted so that she was facing me. "Yes. And I forbid you to move until you have."

"Alright, alright. So basically, we kissed, and - "

"WHAT?! You kissed? How? Was it deep? How far did you go? Oh my gods, you kissed! OTP!" she squealed. I gave her a look. "Who are you, and what have you done with Reyna?"

"It's that time of the month, Grace. Keep calm and OTP." I flushed. Hey! I never got a proper 'talk', so the explanation I got was very short and awkward from Frank on the Argo, because his grandma had lectured him. Don't judge!

"I... okay. So we kissed and it was nice and then a few days after he tried to kill himself-"

"WHAT?! Grace, what did you do?" she demanded. I shrunk back. Geez, I forgot how utterly terrifying she could be. "I - I didn't do anything, at least, not that I know of!"

"Fine. Continue?"

"But he healed - obviously - and we had a long conversation that ended up in us making out. Then we came back from Italy... and now I'm here." Reyna sighed and glanced at me.

"Don't hurt him, Jason. He may seem strong, but he's incredibly delicate on the inside." Reyna looked like she could be talking about more than Nico. I ignored it.

"So... what do I do? I want to ask him out, but how does that even work? Would that be, like, too fast? Am I rushing into this? What if he says no, Ray-Ray? I won't know what to do with myself," I said desperately. Reyna just rolled her eyes and stood up.

"Where are you going? I thought we were going to have a very long, heartfelt discussion about how I'm going to get Nico to be my boyfriend!" Reyna reappeared with two large cartons of gelato and two spoons.

"Heartfelt discussions are much better with gelato," she said simply. I just grabbed a carton, ripped it open, and started telling her everything, from the meeting with Eros, to my concerns about Percy making a move on him while I was gone, and the whole Leo used to like me business.

I had started to realize just how unique my situation was. That, and the fact that I had eaten all of my gelato, was enough to make me start sobbing on Reyna's shoulder.