Two weeks after the war officially ended, Percy was busy helping Camp Jupiter. There was still a lot of damage to be taken care of there and Percy liked altering between the different sights he'd help. Camp Half-Blood, Olympus, the underworld, Camp Jupiter – they all had taken a lot of hits. For the better part of the day, Percy and Jack had been helping Leo, Frank and Hazel.
"Uncle Leo, do you think you can teach me the fire thing?", asked Jack in total awe.
Leo was currently using his fire-powers to mend a big hole of metal while Frank was holding the metal-patch in place so Leo could melt it against the metal-wall. Hazel stood a bit farther away with Jack and Percy, filling up the holes of a regular wall. Hazel smiled fondly as she turned toward her two lovers and watched them. It was a really nice sight.
"That would probably be a good idea, seeing as Leo's uncontrolled fires have been a problem before too", sighed Hazel, throwing a thoughtful look at Percy. "I mean, it's your call, Percy, but..."
"I know. Training is important. But with the wild array of powers that Jackie has, it's hard to decide where to start", admitted Percy with a frown. "If Leo is up for the task... Sure, why not?"
"Yes!", exclaimed Jack eagerly, jumping up and down.
"Hazel, you think you can finish up here alone with Jackie?", asked Jason with the most innocent look on his face as he approached them. "I figured maybe Percy wants to help me and Octavian with the temple? We could totally use a little help?"
"Oh! I wanna help too!", exclaimed Jack, totally wired from all the excitement.
"How about you stay with us and I'll see into that fire-teaching?", offered Leo with an amused grin as him and Frank turned toward them, catching on with what Jason really asked.
Jack looked torn for a moment, between spending more time attached to his mom's side or spending time with his favorite uncle. In the end, Jack weighted how he would be returning home with his mom at the end of the day and get dinner, cuddles and a movie, so Leo won for right now.
"Okay. You, look out for my mom!", declared Jack pointedly, poking Jason in the chest. "No losing him accidentally in some kind of large pit, you hear me?"
The thing was, Jack hated being separated from Percy about as much as Percy did, because the last time Jack had been separated from his mom, Percy had gone to the most literal kind of hell and Jack wanted to protect his mom and keep him from suffering. Jason grinned and ruffled Jack's hair.
"Don't worry, kiddo. Your mom's safe with us", promised Jason before stealing Percy.
For about an hour did they actually work on the temple. After all, there was damage that needed to be taken care of. They also talked a little, Percy learned about how his Romans were handling the renovations and how things were going. There had been a re-election of praetors due to Jason being the original praetor, Percy being the step-in-praetor and then all of a sudden Jason handing his not really existing praetorship over to Frank like he had any right to do so. That was a bit of a mess and Percy understood that. Much to Percy's surprise, neither of the other two praetors stood up for reelection though. Frank had taken responsibility during the dire moments of the battle, but he didn't see himself in politics. That and because he now had a cute Greek he wanted to visit as often as possible without being tied by responsibility. And even though in the end most Romans and Greeks had worked together rather well, there were still a lot of Romans with distaste for Greeks. And Jason was just really done with it. He felt more Greek than Roman anyway after all those months. Octavian's long-lasting dream of becoming a praetor finally came true. He had played such a vital role as one of the good guys and leading them in this war that he had gained a lot of backup.
