5 months Later

It's been five glorious months already after the wedding. They had the chance to spend about a month as newly-weds before they got back to their normal routine. Reyna started traveling between New Rome and college three times a week. Jason had no idea how she did it. Something told him she used the magic she picked up from Circe's School of Magic. Jason returned giving battle training to the campers at Camp Jupiter. They had one day that they were both free from work or class. Today was one of those but it wasn't all that peaceful.

"Are you okay?" Jason asked as he walked back and forth in front of the bathroom door eating a granola bar inside their small two bed-room apartment.

Reyna was on the bathroom floor, next to the toilet seat. Lets simply say that breakfast wasn't staying inside. And this was second day in a row. She had a hand on her forehead as she tried to take deep breaths.

"Yeah.." She managed to say after a while, "I'm fine" She said.

A knock came from the door.

"I'll get it" Jason said since Reyna obviously wasn't able to and he wasn't going to make her open the door. Jason opened the door and Gwen smiled.

"Hey Gwen" He said as he let the door opened for her and walked back toward the bathroom but stopped when saw Reyna walked over them. She didn't look so good. She had a small towel in her hands, drying her face. She probably slashed some water over her face.

"You don't look so good" Gwen told Reyna. "Are you sick?"

Reyna shook her head but didn't say anything and sat on the couch.

Gwen gave Jason a look and then sat next to Reyna. "You definitely do not look fine" She said.

Jason sat on the coffee table in front of them, grabbing Reyna's hand. "She's been barfing her brains out today and yesterday every morning"

Reyna gave Jason a look that read, 'Why did you tell her that?'

Jason shrugged.

Gwen frown as she thought. She was surprised that Reyna hadn't thought about this but now that she thought about it and knowing Reyna, she kind of knew why Reyna hadn't brought this up.

"Every morning you said..." Gwen repeated, lost in thought. "Have you thought about taking a pregnancy test?" She said, straight-forwardly.

"I'm not pregnant" Reyna said with a snort. "No, I'm not" She repeated, trying to tell herself that. She knew that the more she said it, wasn't going to make it true. "It's impossible"

Gwen gave Reyna a look, "Really?" She said and raised her brow. "A surprise might be, but impossible? C'mon Reyna. It's impossible only if you two haven't..." She smiled mischievously, "...Which I doubt. So let's think this through again; is it really impossible?"

Reyna groaned. "Fine, it is possible but I'm not" She shook her head.

Gwen sighed, she wasn't getting anywhere with Reyna so she decided to speak to Jason.

"How about you, Jace?" She asked him.

Jason looked like a dear on the headlights. "What about me?" He didn't really think he should be in this conversation right now. Doesn't the guy find out way later...?

"Would you like to became a father?"

Jason thought about that. A small Jason Grace ruining around the house...He never really had those childhood experiences since he joined Camp Jupiter ever since he was three but he would love to have a child, a kid of his own, something his and no one could change that. He bit his lip. Darn, Gwen was good. He looked at Reyna and stroke her hand.

"Would it be so bad if you were actually pregnant?" He asked her. Hopefully, she wouldn't be mad at him for taking Gwen's side.

Jason knew the answer of that question right after he said it. Reyna always been terrified of kids. She didn't hate them. She simply thought they didn't like her. She felt like she wasn't good with kids.

Gwen and Jason both looked at Reyna, pleading for her answer. They both had that sad puppy look in the rain in their eyes. She fidgeted a bit before she muttered a, "fine".

Both Gwen and Jason raised their hands in triumph. "Yes!"

"I'll buy the pregnancy test" Gwen said as she stood up and walked out the door.

"Thanks Hon" Jason said as he kissed Reyna's cheek and followed Gwen. He had no idea why he tagged along with Gwen to buRey a pregnancy test. He had no idea how pregnancy tests worked and which one was more effective. Perhaps he wanted to be with someone who was as happy right now as he was.

Six Months Later

Reyna thought she was huge. Six months pregnant already. It seemed like just yesterday that she had found out she was pregnant; it wasn't an easy trip however. Morning sickness was terrible until it finally left, and now cramps and cravings were taking over. And she was huge. She thought her belly-bump was cute when she was 2-3 months pregnant but this was just ridiculous. People would be nice to her, offering her seats and such. She would refuse since she had pride but they insisted and she couldn't help but agree since her feet were killing her.

"I want cookies" Reyna whined from the couch.

It was saturday night and Gwen was over, visiting her pregnant unreasonable friend.

"Cravings?" Gwen asked Jason leaning on the counter as he entered the kitchen.

"It's. So. Strange" Jason confessed to his old friends of years.

Gwen nodded understandingly.

"I mean, it'll be more understanding but her cravings are so strange"

Gwen raised a brow. "What you mean?"

"You'll see" Jason said to her as he started the cookie mix.

Gwen was at lost. What did he mean? She shrugged and walked over to the couch, sitting next to Reyna. Reyna was sitting with her legs resting on the couch, her body resting against the arm-rest.

"Have you figured out baby names?" Gwen asked her.

Reyna's gaze was to the kitchen, keeping an eye on Jason.

"Huh?" She turned to Gwen finally, "Oh, baby names? We don't even know the sex of the baby"

"What?" Gwen chuckled, "You don't know the sex? Are you one of those who want to be surprised?" Gwen did a thing with her hands at that word.

"Not quite. I just figured why get fixated on one gender when it can even come out the other? We bought baby clothes for a girl and the baby turned out to be a boy? What then? I don't think I'll get a refund"

Gwen nodded slowly, still taking in Reyna's words.

"It'll be a small disappointment finding out that we had the sex wrong all along so to avoid that, we do not know the sex" Reyna looked over at Jason and extended her hands, opening and closing her fingers like a child. "Bring me the cookie dough Jason"

Gwen glanced at Jason, bringing the bowl of cookie dough. He passed it over to Reyna, who smiled like a happy toddler in Christmas and started the cookie dough slowly.

"Thats the craving" Jason said as he sat down next to his wife, "Cookie dough. Not cookie-dough ice-cream, nor cooked cookies, but cookie dough" He said, explaining his words from earlier.

Gwen couldn't help but to crack a smile. So this was the strange craving.

"It's kinda cute" Gwen chuckled.

Jason shrugged, "Yeah, I know but is that even healthy?"

"Leave my cookie-dough alone Jason" Reyna said defensively holding the bowl around her hands.

7 weeks later

Reyna was in the apartment while Jason was out playing with a few kids from New Rome. He had this fatherly, big-bother thing going on now lately. He was simply excited to have a baby. Reyna mixed of cookie-dough for herself and was walking toward the couch when the bowl fell from her hands.

Reyna placed a hand on her stomach. She didn't know much about pregnancy but she definitely shouldn't feel this so early. She still had about 3-5 weeks left. If she didn't had that big belly, she would have been bent over to the extreme. She needed to sit down, now. Reyna, with much struggle, made it to the couch. She tried hard to stop a scream from escaping her mouth. She needed Jason. There was no way for her to contact him. She ran hand through her hair, her other hand on her stomach. "It'll be okay" She told herself but it was more meant to the baby. "It'll be okay" She took deep breaths. The contractions will leave eventually and everything will be fine.

It's been 20 minutes and the contractions kept coming. She felt a piercing pain in her lower abdomen. Reyna continued taking deep breaths, since that was the only thing she knew to do that helped. She felt the door of the apartment open and heard a basketball fall on the floor.

"Oh dear gods" Jason's voice came through. He walked over to Reyna and knelt down to her level. He placed a hand on her stomach. He was about to say something until he noticed something else. "Reyna, the baby's coming"

He said confidently that he was right. Reyna however shook her head, "It's too early"

"Reyna, the baby is coming. Your water broke"

Reyna haven't even noticed. She was scared. "What?"

Jason swallowed, "Your water broke. The baby will be pre-mature..."

He said the words she was scared to hear.

"What does that even mean? Is he okay?"

Jason didn't know what to answer her. He instead kissed her temple and looked at her in the eye.

"It'll be okay" He walked out for a moment and asked for help. He returned back to Reyna, "We'll have to take you to the clinic" He told her.

"And the baby...boy, is out..." The doctor said as he gave the child to the nurse. After 2 hours in labor, Reyna and Jason finally had their child. A rush of relief swept through Jason as he held Reyna's hand but Reyna didn't share his relief.

"Shouldn't it be crying?" She asked the doctor as her eyes never left her child in the hands on the nurse, "Why isn't he crying...?" She asked, panic filling her voice.

"One step at a time Rey. You are okay-"

"Is my baby okay?" Reyna totally ignored Jason. She was just worried about her new-born. The baby was pre-mature so Reyna knew that it would be a bit harder on him.

The doctor stood and treated the baby in arms of the nurse. A new-born cry filled the room.

Reyna closed her eyes in relief and rested her head back. She could finally take a breath. They took the child to another room, probably cleaning him.

Jason smiled at Reyna. "He'll be fine" He comforted her, knowing that she might still be worried. "Nothing will happen to our baby"

Reyna nodded at his words. "I hope so" She mumbled softly.

Jason smiled. "Cheer up and have some more faith"

After a few minutes, the doctor walked inside the room again. Jason stood up, waiting for any news, hopefully good news.

"There is good news and bad news"

Reyna held on to Jason's hand tightly. He squeezed her hand in return comfortingly.

"Bad news: the baby will have to stay here for a few days, more than most new-borns, being pre-mature and all. Good news: The baby is as healthy as he could be"

Reyna smiled at those words.

"Can we see him?" Jason asked and the doctor nodded.

"Of course you can" The doctor said and went to get the child.

Jason grin widely and placed a hand on Reyna's cheek. "You did a great job" He told her.

"Here we go" Said a nurse as she brought the baby boy inside. She placed the baby in Reyna's hands and left the couple alone. Reyna stroke the baby's cheek with the back of her finger.

"He's so tiny" Reyna chocked up. The child fitted perfectly in her arms. It had a head full of hair, of blond hair. It had round cheeks and a tiny mouth and nose. Reyna smiled and looked up at Jason, "He's beautiful" She said with a smile.

Jason leaned forward and they shared a kiss. He sat next to her, looking down at the baby. The door open, revealing Gwen and Bobby. They were hesitant to interrupt the scene but both Jason and Reyna welcomed them with a smile, encouraging them to walk forward and meet the latest addition to the Grace Family.

"So cute" Gwen gushed.

Bobby simply eyes the baby suspiciously. "Is it a girl or boy?" He asked them.

Reyna gave bobby a confused look but smiled when she turned to her child. "It's a baby boy"

"Aww, Jason Jr" Gwen gushed, again.

Reyna chuckled.

"What will be it's name?" Bobby asked.

"Definitely not Junior" Reyna said. Jason got a tad offended but didn't held it against her. "What will be his name?" Reyna asked Jason.

Jason shrugged, "What do you want? I don't mind" He trusted Reyna although he had no idea what she will choose. They been discussing names for a while but for every discussion, Reyna had different ideas. One time it was British sounding names, the other was foreign names, to exotic names, spanish names, romans names, so on so forth but never mentioned greek names.

Reyna looked at her baby boy. What does he looks like? She bit her lip as she thought. "How about Alexander?" She asked Jason.

Jason, Gwen and Bobby were surprised. "Alexander...?" Jason asked her. "As in Alexander, most famously known as Paris, the one eloped with Helen, Queen of Sparta, and caused the Troajan War? That Alexader?"

Reyna shrugged, "There are a lot of people named Alexander. Besides, that alexander was mostly known as Paris so no, not that alexander"

Jason looked at his pals for help. They simply shrugged. Great help. He turned to face Reyna again. "I guess you are right. They are plenty of people named Alexander. He will have a whole new meaning to the name"

"Thank you" She thanked him and Jason kissed her temple. Reyna smiled at her baby, who was fidgeting with it's small tiny hand. Alexander wrinkled its nose for a moment and then opened its eyes slowly. Reyna grin grew, if that was even possible.

"It has your eyes" Jason noticed. Alexander had Reyna's same dark brown eyes.

"Aw, Jason's hair and Reyna's eyes" Gwen gushed for the third time.

"Landon Alexander Grace..." Reyna mumbled as she shook the baby's hand. "That'll be his name" She told Jason as she looked up at him.

"Landon Alexander..." Jason repeated it a couple of times and then smiled, "I like it. It has a nice ring to it"

Two years Later

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"Let's put you in the tub" Jason mumbled to himself as he grabbed his son and placed in inside the tub, which had 6 inches of water and a bunch of toys scattered, including a rubber duck. "And now, stay" Jason told Alex and walked slowly backwards out the door.

Today was finally Reyna's graduation from Graduate School. Jason had a lot to celebrate; one reason being that Reyna got her masters, of course. But this also concluded her trips to college three times a week, leaving him alone with Alex. He wasn't complaining. He loved his child but he simply wanted them to live all together, happily, without having Reyna leave for school three times a week. At least Jason worked in the same town they lived in, New Rome.

This was their routine: Jason takes care of Alexander when Reyna is out to school -which was the entire day- and Reyna takes care of Alex when Jason is giving battle training, which was only in the morning and afternoons, evening and night free. They had Sundays off however and they enjoyed that day spending it with Alex and once the kid was in bed, they had their small talks lying on the couch.

"Okay, let's see..." Jason said as he walked into the living room, Jason gained the habit of speaking to himself lately. "I need to fix Alex's bag with all his stuff- OUCH" Jason had stepped on one of Alex's toys. "I also have to tidy this place up"

The door simply flung opened and a teenage girl walked in. She had blond hair and bright eyes. "Hey Julia" Jason said as if she simply walking inside here was normal. It was.

"This place is a mess" She pointed out as she opened the refrigerator and grabbed an apple.

"I thought you were only allowed to steal our food when you took care of Alex..." Jason said.

Julia shrugged, "Don't be silly. You guys love me and don't mind me stealing your food" She said matter-of-factly.

"I liked you better when you were terminus' assistant" Jason muttered.

"Well, I liked you better when you were at Camp Half-Blood" She stuck her tongue out at him. "Where are you going anyways?"

"Reyna's graduation"

"Is that today?"

"Yeah"

"Ohhh" Julia sat down on the counter chair, twirling around on the seat.

"We are taking Alex with us so you don't need to baby-sit" Jason said as he started to pack Alex's baby bag with diapers, towels, lotion, etc etc.

"I guess I could help you and pick up Alex's toys..." Julia said as she started doing so.

"Thank Jules" Jason thanked the teenager. "It'll make it so much easier to me"

Suddenly, a naked blond toddler ran across the living room to the bedroom on the other side of the apartment.

"Alex" Jason whined. "How did you even get out the tub?" There was a lot that simply did not have answers when having a child that was grandson of Jupiter and Bellona.

"I'll take care of things here" Julia told Jason. "Go catch that baby"

Jason nodded and ran after that naked baby. Alex stopped on his tracks and turned around, looking at Jason. Jason also stopped. Alexander laughed loudly, at the top of his lungs. He thought his father was playing a game.

Jason smiled and caught Alexander when the kid started to run, trying to get passed him.

"You cannot get pass me lil guy" Jason told him with a smile as he cradled him in his arms. "Now let's finish getting you clean"

"Hey Reyna" Called one of Reyna's college friends. "Want to get a drink?" She wiggled her eye-brows mischievously.

"Can't..." Reyna declined with a frown. "I have a baby and husband waiting for me"

"Right" Her friend remembered, "You are married. I forgot since, let me see, I never met them or even seen them in a picture!"

"You never seen a picture?" Reyna wondered. Her friend shook her head. "I guess I simply don't like you" Reyna joked. Her friend pushed her playfully and then left.

"Hey Reyna" Reyna looked around and saw her two closest college friends, Brittney and Samantha. She smiled and waved.

"Hey"

"What did she want?" Samantha asked her.

"Oh, nothing. Just asking if I wanted to tag alone for a drink. I can't..." Reyna said.

"Right, baby issue" Brittney concluded. She neither met Reyna's child. "When are we going to finally meet your mysterious family?" She joked.

"Yeah, we've only seen your baby in that picture you carry around"

Reyna bit her lip and shrugged. Should she tell them Jason was seeing her today or not..? No, this way would be much more fun. And speaking of the devil, Reyna saw Jason in the distance. He was wearing a casual sweater (while everyone was in formal attire) and jeans. He had Alexander in his arms. It seemed like Alex was rambling on about something. That kid sure knew how to talk for only being 2.

Reyna smiled and walked over them, leaving her friends behind. "There's my favorite man" Reyna said as she picked up Alex in her arms.

"I hope you were talking about me" Jason joked.

Reyna gave him a look and then turned back to Alexander, who started speaking to her. "Mom, mom. Daddy said we were going to go to the park and that he'll finally let me use his sword and..."

Use his sword?, Reyna thought and glanced at Jason who simply sighed.

"I think Alex been drinking too much milk..." He said jokingly.

"Well, are we?" Alex asked.

"What sweetie?" Reyna asked, trying to figure out what he meant.

"Are we? Are we going to the park?"

Reyna smiled. "Yes we are" She said and started walking with Jason's arm around her shoulder.

"Can we get on the swings?" Alex asked.

"Yes"

"Can we have Grandpa blow and make the swings higher?"

"Perhaps"

"And he came back the sky go gray if there is too much sun. Julia told me that sun isn't good for the skin and that we have to protect mommy's skin"

"Indeed" Reyna said with a laugh.

"I think we should get to the park first before you get to ahead of yourself" Jason chuckled at his son, who pouted.

N/A: THANKS EVERYONE WHO READS MY STORIES AND MADE IT THIS FAR. I LOVE YOU. MUAH -BLOWS KISSES- MUAH. LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH AND THANKS FOR THE NAMES. TWO PEOPLE ASKED FOR ALEXANDER AND LANDON WAS SO FREAKING CUTE TO PASS OUT ON. LOVE YOU GUYS. TAKE CARE, WEAR A SWEATER IF ITS CHILLY AND DON'T GET SICK.

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