Second Chances

Pipers's POV:

"Hey have you seen Leo?" I asked Jason popping my head into his cabin.

"No and I really need to find him, my swords all bent," he answered with an annoyed face.

"Yeah I can't find him any where," I said frowning. "Can you help me look?"

Jason nodded and got up from his bed. "Yeah, sure." He walked over to me and gave me a kiss before grabbing my hand and heading off.

The first place we checked was his cabin.

I nocked on the door before warily entering. It was the Hephaestus cabin after all, you never know what they might have tricked up at the door, they where almost as bad as the Hermes and Ares cabin. I walked in and saw Nysa grabbing some tools from her bed. "Hey Nysa," I said smiling at her.

She looked back at me, surprised to see me. "Oh, hey Piper, what's up?" She asked with slight concern on her face.

"Nothing, just wondering if you've seen Leo."

Nysa thought for a second before shaking her head. "No, I haven't seen him in a coupe days. I figured he was in Bunker 9 working on some project. Why? Do you need something done?"

"Actually, I need my sword fixed," Jason butted in. I nudged him in the side. Now was not the time, we were trying to find Leo.

Nysa shrugged. "I can do that for you if you want."

"Yeah, that'd be great. I'll just go get it now-"

"Jason," I cut off sternly looking at him.

"Sorry," Jason mumbled.

I looked back at Nysa with a polite smile. "No I don't need anything done, I was just looking for him. I was going to ask him a question but now I don't even remember what it was I'm just concerned with finding him."

Nysa nodded in understanding. "Well, I was just now on my way to go to the Bunker to work on some stuff so you're welcomed to come with me to see if he's there. And Jason, bring your sword, I'll fix it up for you." We nodded and quickly stopped by Jason's cabin to grab his sword before heading off into the woods. "Oh yeah, you did mess this up pretty bad. Gods, how'd you do this?" Nysa asked Jason examining his sword.

Jason blushed a little and fixed his glasses looking slightly embarrassed. "I was practicing with Percy," he mumbled.

Nysa laughed a little. "Looks like he got the best of you," she teased with a smile.

I laughed a little and gave Jason a peck on the cheek for encouragement. "Don't worry you're still a great fighter." Jason seemed a little more at ease with those words but he was still slightly flushed. We reached the Bunker and walked inside to see a couple of Hephaestus children working on some machines.

"You guys are welcomed to look around, I'm going to go fix Jason's sword," Nysa said before walking away to the other side of the Bunker. We nodded and began to slowly weave our way through the crowded mess. We tried our best to look around for him but it was nearly impossible without stepping on a nail or nocking something over. I decided it would be easier to just ask someone so we walked up to a boy of about 17 hammering a piece of scrap metal.

"Um, hi, excuse me?" I said trying to grab the boys attention but it was hard to hear anything over the noise. "Excuse me," I said again a little louder but he still didn't hear me. "Stop!" I shouted getting annoyed. The boy froze in place and a couple people around me stopped what they were doing too. "Can I ask you a quick question please?" I asked the boy.

He slowly looked up at means put his hammer down. "Yeah, sure," he agreed a little concerned.

"Is Leo here?" I asked him.