New York, 2014

Jason

I hopped off the bus and made a straight bee-line for a taxi. I had been to Georgia recently as I was seeing Thalia off. It had been almost a month since I had last seen Piper and I so badly wanted to see her again. I had been besides myself with anger when she had said that she wont be able to come with me because of her new interior decorating project. Well... that had been the reason why I had transformed my five days trip to a month's vacation.

I had ignored Piper's messages and calls quite religiously but then Percy had called me and informed me that I was driving Piper nuts with worry. Every now and then she would call Annabeth and tell her about how my enemies must be attacking a poor helpless me in a dark ally and how cruel it was of her to leave a little weak boy, that to alone, to face the wrath of evil blood thirsty vampires in Georgia.

Of course her real words had been edited by Percy but the message behind them was still the same.

Jason come back. I am worried sick about you.

I sighed as I thought about her big kaleidoscopic eyes and instantly felt guilty for avoiding her for so long. The guilty feeling came with a desire. A strong desire to fold her up in my arms, to kiss he again and above all to feel her soft skin again.

I hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take a detour because I felt like buying some roses for Piper.

A lot had happened in the last few months. Luke had almost destroyed all our lives again but this time we had successfully managed to get rid of him for good. `I still wanted to kill him myself but well I guess him being killed by anyone else is also merry. I remembered Percy being covered in blood, hanging weakly from a cross and Piper tied to a pole with a gag in her mouth. The worst site of all was a broken and shivering Annabeth piled up on the floor beneath the stage right in front of a bloody Percy.

"Stop here!"

I had just seen a flower shop out side the beach turn. I stepped out of the taxi and decided to let the poor man off as my house was only a few kilometers from there on the beach and that was an easy distance for any regular vampire.

I have been a vampire for more than a few hundred years. The memories of black death at it's earliest flooded my mind and I shivered despite of the warm and humid weather. The disease was going to kill us all if I had not made that elixir that turned all my cousins, my sister - Percy and the three Di Anjelos- into vampires. Then after about a life time Percy had met Annabeth and fell in love with her around the same time as I had met Piper in the 1600s. But then Luke had killed Percy by using Piper as a bait leaving a heart-broken Annabeth and a furious me.

Miraculously we had found Percy's mirror soul in the 21st century and Annabeth had finally stopped being impossible and I had finally forgiven Piper for her earlier stubbornness and mistakes. I was in love with her. I still am. And I think I always would be.

She was my wife now and Percy is engaged to Annabeth to her immense delight that she had not stopped calling me and telling me about how Percy had proposed her for an entire week.

I entered the old battered shop and was immediately engulfed my the smell of a hundred differed flowers. They smelled sweet and a little gross at the same time as some smells didn't mix for good.

"What can I help you with dear?" An old wrinkly women was spraying water at some petunias and humming quietly to herself.

I thought about what to buy for a second then some crimson red roses caught my attention. The lady followed my line of vision and brightened up.

"My My! For a lovely girlfriend I suppose?" She smiled as she made her way towards the flowers.

My face turned pink at that. Piper was not my girlfriend now.

"No. It is for my wife." I replied politely.

The women was about to pick the roses up but stopped in her tracks and turned towards me.

"So young?"

If only she knew that I was older than her great-grandfather...

"We just got married Mam." I coughed a little to stifle the laughter that was threatening to erupt. It wasn't everyday that I was called young after all.

"Then red roses won't do." The women shook her head vigorously. It was kind of funny but why not red roses? They signify love after all. So I voiced my thoughts and to that the lady replied,

"Red rose do signify love but the love between a married couple is supposed to be more pure, more intense and more eternal." Her words were wise and they made me think. Was our love pure? Yes. I love her and she loves me back. Is it intense. The way my insides were burning with desire for her answered that question. Is our love eternal? I didn't have an answer to that question. But if it is pure it has to be eternal right?

"SO what do you suggest?" I asked the elderly lady.

"White roses. They signify eternal love and they give the message- 'I am worthy of you.' It is perfect for a married couple."

My lips broke into a smile as I nodded, almost as vigorously as she had earlier.

"I'll take them."

I paid for a bouquet of fifty white roses and sprinted of in vampire speed towards my new beach house.

"Coming!" Her voice made my senses melt but I steadied myself.

I was holding the roses closely to me and as there were a lot of them I knew that they were masking my sent. Now I could surprise her.

The door opened and Piper stepped out in a light blue sleeve-less nightgown with a lacy stole cover her shoulders and the low cut neck of her gown. Her eves were tired with dark circles and her now back length hair were sticking out. The tanned skin was looking pale in the moonlight and from her thin frame anybody could have thought that she must be fragile. I know for a fact that it would be their greatest mistake, and even though she was looking wild, she pulled it of so well that if any crazy fashion designer had seen her, he would have made her the latest fashion trend.

I removed the bouquet of rose from my face and beamed at her. Her eyes widened and hit my shoulder quite forcefully. I winced but handed the bouquet over to her. She hesitated to take take her eyes off me but she read the note sticking out of the bouquet and a small smile played across her lips.

One of her arm wet around to rest on the back of my neck., her warm skin sending fireworks down my spine. She leaned up and pushed me slightly towards he and I eagerly complied by leaning down. Standing there at the doorway to our house I kissed Piper, my hands first grazing her cheeks and moving down the length of her body to rest on her hips. Her soft lips parted letting me in. I slowly lead her inside the hose and closed the door behind me without breaking the kiss. Her lips tasted like the sweetest kind of rose mixed with the most delicious quality of blood.

I pushed her down on the couch in the living room and unwound her stole while she worked on my buttoned down shirt.

"I missed you Jason." She mumbled as she kissed my now exposed chest.

"Me too Piper. Sorry for being such a kid." I turned her over kissed her spine from her neck to her mid-back.

She laughed sweetly and said in a rough voice which was extremely seductive, "You are a lovely kid."

I turned her over and pulled out the last piece of clothing and said, "I am worthy of you my love."

She smiled, "Sure you are."

I knew at that moment that I loved her as we she pulled me down and my desires heightened up. There was no way any other girl could ever make me feel like this. There was no way I could fall in love co completely and irrevocably with anyone else. As I was one with Piper and was busy kissing her collar bone and taking in her smell I knew could almost feel the intensity and charge as she pulled me as close as possible towards her as her arms wound around my torso. I whispered against her skin, saying that I loved her again and again as all the horrible and sad things from the world melted away and what was left was only pure and strong love and my desire to be one with Piper.

Piper's perfectly beautiful face was sweaty and she was breathing as heavily as I was.

"Are you alright?" I asked as a tenderly wound a strand of her chocolate-brown hair around my finger. She nodded but I knew she was tired. This month had tired her and for keeping vague thoughts about my impending death out of her mind she had been working overtime and not taking her daily dozes of blood. It was the same for me. I was so annoyed at her legitimate reason for staying behind that I hadn't bothered to drink blood.

I smiled a little as I was now free from blood lust thanks to Piper. I lifted her up in my arms like a new bride and made my way towards the stairs. She yawned and wound her arms around my neck and looked right into my eyes. I looked back in hers. At that moment her eyes were an exact shade of sky blue as mine. That made smile down at her. She gave quirked an eyebrow.

"Your eyes are gorgeous." I whispered softly as I pushed open the door to our bedroom with my feet. She must have seen their color in my eyes as hugged me more tightly and said, "I guess you have a special effect on them."

I smirked as I laid her down on the bed beside me and pulled the cover over us.

"I sure do." I kissed her forehead and kept my lips there as she finally closed her eyes and snuggled closer to me.

I wondered what she would dream of that night and shook my head at that sappy thought but I couldn't help but feel soft, like my heart is made of butter, when ever I saw her like that. The moon light seeped in through the window and illuminated her bare skin above the cover and I fought my urge to get intimate with her again. But her sleeping self looked so calm and at peace that it made me relent. I made sure it would be the first thing I did tomorrow morning and put my arm around her back and pushed her towards me a little more. Her head rested on my shoulder. I couldn't imagine a life without her. I wondered how gloomy and soulless it would be. My eyelids finally became heavy and Piper's steady heartbeat lulled me to a blissful sleep.

I don't know for certain but I hope this is eternal.

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