Title: What You Don't Remember

Author: jasongracist

Rating: T

Summary:

I was bored so

I'm just trying to get into the swing of things with writing again.

I don't really know how long this'll be but

I have a lot of headcanons for this so I wanted to write them all out (they are so fluffy, oh my gods)

By beginning the story here (you'll see what I'm talking about in a second) I'm not saying her life began when she met him. I just can't write out what I think happened to her before camp, ya feel?

Enjoy, I guess.

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Reyna

Reyna's eyes felt sewn shut. She felt groggy and unaware. She hated it.

"Jason, seriously, why are you still sitting here?" the disembodied voice was masculine, it sounded a little croaky, like he had just awoken.

"She saved my life, Bobby." this was a new voice, still masculine. He was definitely tired, she could plainly hear it in his voice.

Reyna didn't remember saving a life. All she remembered was running, trailed by a Cerastes who was not going to let its meal go. She only knew what the stupid thing was because all she did at Circe's island was read. Reyna read myths, legends, stories, anything and everything. She had come across the Cerastes in a gem of a book called Little Known but Deadly Monsters.

The Cerastes, she had read, lured its prey by burrowing in the ground and disguising itself as food. When its prey went to pick it, it snapped up and ate it.

Reyna should have seen it coming, but it was her first day without her sister, Hylla. She had left with the Amazon that morning, leaving Reyna . Reyna had been stumbling around that entire day, hungry and moping, until she saw it. It looked like a carrot. Her stomach did a thousand backflips when she gleefully ran towards it, until she saw it quake. The ground rumbled, making Reyna finally aknowledge the uneasy feeling in her gut.

The carrot popped out of the ground and with it, a dirt covered, dragon snake thing. It looked nothing like the diagram in her book, probably because anyone who had actually seen it, had been eaten. The Cerastes had beautiful horns that curved up and forward, they were splattered with a murky red shade that Reyna immediately recognized as blood. Its head was bejeweled with emerald eyes and pearly teeth, drenched in the same color as its horns. Its body was adorned with jade colored scales.

Her heart slammed against her chest as she began running for her life. Reyna could feel its breath on the back of her neck as she ran until her lungs felt like they were bursting open. Hoping she tired it out a little, she whirled around, a knife in her hand.

"Hey!" she'd heard a defiant voice behind her. Reyna didn't dare turn, she had the Cerastes' attention, she didn't want to lose it.

But it was already gone, the monster had already turned its attention to the voice. As Reyna turned, she saw that the voice belonged to a boy, around her age, carrying a golden, well-balanced gladius. He had blond hair, blue eyes, and an arrogant grin lighting his face. Reyna instantly hated him.

The boy launched himself at the Cerastes, cutting and slashing at it with what looked like years of training. The monster lurched and screeched, its jaws snapping. the boy wasn't noticing the monster's tail which was thrashing very close to him. He's going to get hit, Reyna thought. She sighed and launched herself forward.

Reyna had made it just in time, as the Cerastes tail would have hit the boy instead of her.

She ran toward the boy, her small knife gripped in her hand. Reyna slammed into the boy just as the monster's barbed tail smashed into her, sending her to the ground.

She didn't feel the impact of the ground, the pain in her stomach was too agonizing. It was like someone was driving a hot spike into her over and over again. Reyna's vision was getting increasingly blurry, but she could still see the boy, his shirt ripped and bleeding in numerous places, battling the Cerastes. Reyna yearned to cry out, to warn him, but her mind was occupied with the huge gash on her stomach.

Reyna guessed she blacked out after that and someone had carried her here, wherever here was.

"Whatever, Jason," the first voice, belonging to someone named Bobby, she guessed, startled her out of her revery. "Just get back to training soon."

"Yeah," Jason, Reyna guessed, said absently.

Reyna heard footsteps falling and a few moments later, the slam of a door.

"You can open your eyes now. No one's coming in."

Reyna cracked her dark eyes open to see a smiling face hovering over hers. Her breath caught in her throat. He looked like a prince from one of the fairy tales she had found deep in Circe's library. His blond hair was shining like gold and his blue eyes looked like the sky on a cloudless day. He had a small scar at the corner of his mouth, making his smile a little crooked.

Reyna mentally slapped herself. He was a boy. Circe would whip her if she heard Reyna's thoughts.

Reyna squinted at him, making his smile only grow.

"Hi, I'm Jason Grace," he grinned. She didn't want to give this strange boy her name, not until she got her bearings.

"Where am I?" she croaked. Reyna hated it, she sounded weak, helpless. A bad first impression to a potential enemy.

"Camp Jupiter." Jason said it as if everyone knew what that was. If Reyna didn't feel so drained, she would have rolled her eyes. She tried to sit up, but the searing pain that erupted in her midsection made her cringe. "Don't do that! Here, take this." he pushed a glass into her hand. "Drink it, I swear it isn't poisoned." he smiled again.

Reyna rolled her eyes and gently lifted the glass to her lips. The second her tongue brushed across the liquid, she drained the cup. It tasted like her father's warm apple empanadas.

"Slow down," Jason chuckled as he gently lifted the glass from her hand.

"What is it?" Reyna asked.

"Nectar, the drink of the gods," he replied with a little too much emphasis. Reyna sighed, suddenly feeling sleepy. "No don't sleep! The praetors need to talk to you," he shook her shoulder. She wanted to bite his hand off.

"Fine, when do I have to see them?"

He looked at his watch.

"We could go now? I think they're in a Senate meeting but they'll make an acception." his blue eyes glimmered with mischief. "Come on."

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Ah yes, there we go. I'll probably write up chapter two right about now because I can't really put this up from my Chromebook (fucking google docs)

Um stay tuned and stuff

Read and Review ^-^

I'm wondering if I post regularly enough, I'll beat BoO release and be able to write my own Jeyna ending. With summer break coming up, I might actually be able to do it ^-^

THE TITLE OF THIS WONDERFUL FIC IS COURTESY OF brayah_huntress_of_artemis ON INSTAGRAM