19~ Family Dinner

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long time no updates huh

okay i'm just going to say it. I HAVEN'T WRITTEN ANY FAN FICS IN LIKE THREE MONTHS. also these are kinda becoming one shots but whatever

happy jiper floats my boat (so much so that i made this chapter on a boat. ha.)

also friendly reminder that piper's dad is like a billionaire are she can afford expensive dates etc

and i didn't edit so yup here you go :)

Jason climbs aboard the yacht with care; wreck his girlfriend's rich dad's boat? No thanks. Below the bridge the water laps at the harbor and the sky is clear except for a few small clouds. The gods hadn't been fussy in a while.

"Jason?" He turns in front of him, where Piper is wearing a blue dress. The others had already boarded. "C'mon, they're waiting." She smiles and he notices for the hundredth time that her eyes match her dress.

"Yeah, okay," and Jason jogs up the stairs to meet her.

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Percy ran to the head of the eight-seater table and grinned at Jason.

"Beat you to it, Sparky," he says, and Annabeth rolls her eyes next to him

Jason smiled, remembering fighting with him on the Argo II. He slid into the other head seat, looking up at Piper expectantly.

She knows what he's asking and takes the seat on his right, while Leo clambers into the left seat.

"Wow, Pipes," he says, looking around the room like a dazed puppy. "I've gotta ask you dad how he installed the..." and he goes into technical speak that everyone drowns out.

Hazel and Frank sit next to each other, and Nico finally takes the seat next to Leo. The two of them had become fast friends after the Great War, and Jason was happy Leo had found someone to relate to, even if he wasn't a girlfriend.

"Yo, Nico," Leo smirks, tapping his new friend on the elbow. Nico already has a groan between his lips when Leo says, "You're almost as pale as the walls."

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Dinner is served - broiled chicken, steamed broccoli and some kind of French salad, according to the chef - and it is filled with more than just expensive food. Jason can hear Percy telling Annabeth his stock of lame jokes that she's already heard thousands of times before. Frank is pretty quiet until Leo actually gets a conversation about the old-school architecture out of him, which really gets Hazel going, too. Nico and Piper try to talk across the table a little, but it doesn't work because Jason is trying to yell to Percy that his humor is worse than the time he almost drowned, and Percy is pretending to get all huffy, and Annabeth is laughing anyways and she's tearing up, and Hazel and Frank are actually smiling and holding hands on the table, and Leo keeps nudging Nico whenever he tells an (actually decent) joke and Piper laughs and suddenly dessert's been swallowed and it's time to get back into the limo.

"C'mon, kids," the butler says, and he only really smiles at Piper, who thanks him when it's just her and Jason next to him. She crawls into the car and the butler pats Jason on the back.

"Look, son," he starts and his voice is stern; he sounds like Piper's father. "You take care of her. She means a lot to me."

Jason nods. "She means a lot to everyone," he says, and the butler grins as he shuts the door behind him.

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The plan was that everyone would go to Mr. McLean's personal apartment; aka, the apartment that takes up two floors of one of his business buildings. The plan was also to separate the boys and the girls to separate floors, but once Percy throws a protective arm around Annabeth and Jason pulls Piper closer when some rowdy boys show up in the lobby - none of them even try to get near Frank and Hazel once he shows them his bear claws -  it's decided that everyone sleeps where they want.

Piper guides Jason to an elevator and presses number twenty three; the elevator music is better here.

"How'd you like dinner?" she asks nervously. Jason catches a glimpse of her in the elevator's shiny wall. She's blushing, and she pushes her hair out of her eyes.

"It was great," he tells her, and kisses her on the cheek. Piper looks up and offers a sheepish smile.

"Really?"

"Yeah," he says, bumping her with his shoulder and kneading his fingers through hers. "It was."

all of my endings are really bad :( sorry!

buuuut it's still a chapter and i'm quite proud of myself haha :P tbh i haven't really been thinking about wattpad too much and it makes me feel bad but it also lets me concentrate on more things..

which leads to why i've been on hiatus. i started a tumblr writing blog called howsey. it's for my poetry only and i'm really happy writing in a new kind of style. here's the link:

http://howsey.tumblr.com

i'm sorry for not updating. i'm going to try for 25 chapters, and then from there i'll go for 50!!

happy reading!!!

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