Sparks Fly (A Jasper One-Shot Love Story)

2. Hopeless

AN- Let's see what happens now...this is present time Jason.

I have assumed some things here, don't freak out:

1) (BOO Spoiler) Leo and Calypso came back from wherever they went after the war, so Piper and all know he is alive.

2) Percabeth marry later than Jasper  

Have fun ;)

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Present time, five years later

The noise in the cafe was splitting Jason's head open.

All he wanted was some peace, but it felt like the whole world was trying to yell for only one purpose: to screw his ears up for good. He fingered his hot cup of cappuccino, trying to tune out the whispers, the happy noises made by the various couples having their daily routine of a cup of coffee before leaving for their respective jobs.

Couples...the word made Jason's heart throb, although he should have gotten used to it by now.

Just then someone snapped their fingers in front of him, and he was broken out of his reverie.

"Hey-oh, sugar! Watcha doing with that sad look on ya handsome face?" It was Lizzy, the cafe owner. She was usually the one who tended to the majority of the morning rush. And, the one who'd tried to heal his broken heart with a daily cup of coffee, extra hot so Jason could burn his tongue and forget the heartburn that struck every now and then.

"What? Nothing, Liz. Nothing. Just...nothing."

"Thinkin' about her, ain't you?" Her Okie twang was getting more pronounced. "My advice, sugar. If you're meant to get her back, ya'll get her back. Things happen according to destiny. Now see, that girl over there? She was working in the cafe across the other day. Came yesterday for a new job. Big hit with the customers. I tell ya, it was in my destiny to have her..."

Jason tuned her out as he turned and looked at the new waitress. For some reason, he always took interest in new people...possibly because he hoped that one of them would be Piper.

He got the shock of his life when the new girl turned out to be her.

It had to be. The same choppy brown hair, complete with its tiny braids and colourful feathers. Her multicolored eyes, undecided, not sure which colour to sit on. Her warm light coffee brown complexion. Her love filled smile. Jason felt a surge of happiness; he'd found her, after five years, he had. Jason was about to jump up and run and hug her when Lizzy snapped her fingers again and the girl's image...changed.

Jason's heart felt crushed.

The girl was not Piper. She was so radically different from Piper that he felt stupid for hallucinating her, AGAIN. The new girl had brown black straight hair, and bright blue eyes, and a pale, milky complexion. Pretty. Very. But Jason turned dejected. Funny how even so far away, Piper managed to break his heart, again and again.

He probably must have looked weird, because Lizzy took aback.

"My ,my," she murmured, "you look like you saw a ghost."

"Well," Jason shrugged, "maybe I did. Or, you put something in my coffee. Did you?"

"Pfft, as if. What do I look like, a drug lord? Well, I have a special whisper for ya."

"What is it?" Jason sighed.

"Talk to that girl."

"Really, Liz, if you're fixing me up with whoever, I'm not going to listen."