River Island

Thirteen

Thalia

I woke up with the sun slipping through the curtains. I tried to move but was held in place by an arm. My back was pressed against a hard chest and I didn't want to move anymore. I scanned the room from my position; we were in some sort of resort. The roof was thatched and the floors where wooden. I could here waves crashing on the shore from inside. Where had he brought us this time? Barbados, Thailand, Bahamas, Indonesia? Honestly I was excited.

Jasper stirred next to me and pulled me even closer. Which seemed impossible because we were already pressed together. I forced my self to turn in his arms and face him. His eyes were closed. His chest raising and dropping slowly. My eyes darted to his lips and immediately remembered yesterday. That kiss drove me crazy. He was an amazing kisser. And boy did I want to kiss him again.

"You're staring." He said startling me his eyes still closed. His sleepy voice making me shiver.

God help me.

"I'm gazing." I said.

"It's creepy."

"It's romantic." I said smirking. His eyes shot open and he looked at me like I had grown another head. I found myself laughing at his reaction.

"Haha very funny." He said letting go of me and lying on his back.

"You should have seen your face." I said breathless from laughing. He smiled at me with an unrecognizable look in his eyes.

I climbed out of bed and stretched myself. The silk night gown ridding up a little. I turned and faced Jasper his eyes on my ass. I smiled loving the attention and made my way out of the room. I took myself on a personal tour of the place. There was a sitting area with French doors leading outside. I found two other bedrooms and a bathroom. There didn't seem to be any electronics in the place. The stove wasn't electric and there was no fridge or TV.

I made my way back to the room where Jasper was and decided to step outside. I immediately froze the second I walked out the door leading onto a nice balcony like setup with chairs and a table. I saw Peyton marching right towards me a scowl on her face. I slammed the door before she could reach me. I turned to Jasper who had a small smirk on his face.

He was sitting up, the sheets not serving their purpose of covering him. How the hell does he look so hot when he just woke up. I probably looked like a freaking scarecrow. Peyton's pounding on the door snapped me out of my trance.

"Thalia! Open up!"

"What is she doing here?" I hissed at Jasper.

"Well it's not like she left the place in the past five years." He said climbing out of bed.

"What do mea..." My heart sank when realization struck. I looked at him in disbelief. He wouldn't. He made his way towards me cautiously.

"Let me explain." He said slowly like he was talking to a child. I'm not a child.

"You brought me back? You know I hate this place and you bring me back?" I asked. Jasper raked his hands through his hair in frustration.

"Look..." He started but I cut him short.

"Are you seriously trying to give me some stupid excuse right now?"

"Thalia..."

"God I can't believe you. Who am I kidding? What did I expect?" I said. "I keep forgetting how heartless you are."

"Heartless?" He hissed. He walked up to me anger in his eyes.

"Yes heartless. Completely inconsiderate of my feelings. Why else would you bring me back here? This is your way of torturing me isn't it? One of your stupid games? Make me happy then take that all away? I didn't want to come back you had no right...." I was interrupted by his fist hitting the door near my head.

"You know the whole world doesn't revolve around you Thalia. Not everything is about you." He said through clenched teeth.

Back down Thalia. Don't push him.

If only I had listened.

"Then tell me this Jasper. Why are you still here?" I asked him. Something flashed in his eyes before they went cold again.

"Because princess." He said smirking. "I have to figure out what your weakness is. How else do you expect me to kill you? The minute you kill my mother Hades will be here ready to destroy you. I'm just here to watch it happen. Your death is inevitable Thalia. You aren't that special."

I stared at him wide eyed. I slowly pushed him away from me and walked out closing the door behind me. What was I expecting? Why did that hurt? Peyton's expression softened when she saw me. She sighed then pulled me into a hug. I didn't realize I was crying until I saw my tears stain her shoulder.

"What did you expect?" She asked softly. "He was sent to kill you. So it's not surprising that he hurt you."

He was just wasting my time. Distracting me from what I was supposed to be doing. But I wasn't going to let him lead me off course. Not anymore.

Two weeks later

"It's been two weeks where do you think he's gone?" Peyton asked as we went through some drills with Amelia.

"Hopefully back to hell." Amelia said bitterly. Hopefully he did.

Peyton and I had moved into the new hut. Amelia and Allison got Peyton proper clothes and moved in with us. This beat the rags we used to wear. My clothes as it turns out were already in the closet of the room I woke up it. Along with what appeared to be a few of Jasper's stuff. I also found a bunch or weapons and some books when I was going through the room. Peyton and I had surprisingly gotten close. She trained along with me so she would be able to defend herself.

"If he has it probably means his on their side now." Peyton said

"He was never on ours." I said. "What do we need to do now Lia?"

"Persephone definitely won't show up alone. She'll want to be the one to kill you but she'll bring an audience who will also serve as back up. So we'll need to put together an army." She said.

"I know someone who can help with that." Allison said.

"So do I." I told them

"Good. Meaning whoever we get will have to move here so they can get familiar with the place." Amelia said. "We can use the island as a base and to reduce casualties we'll have the fight happen here."

"We'll also need to move Peyton." Allison chimed in.

"You guys handle the army recruiting first. I'll be fine for now." Peyton said.

"Okay. Thalia since you can teleport now you can go see who you want to see. If you aren't back in Twenty four hours I'll come get you." Lia said.

"You think I'll run away and leave Peyton alone?" I asked.

"It wouldn't be the first time."

"Amelia." Allison hissed.

"No she's right." I sighed. "Twenty four hours."

I got up and made my way into the house. The rage I was feeling had fueled me the past two weeks. I could now officially beat Amelia's ass. But that wasn't going to be enough. Next week I was being shipped off to Olympus for a month to train with my dad. Sounded like fun.

I took a quick shower and changed. I didn't really think he was going to help me but I hopped so. I also needed a break from all the training. Amelia was driving me crazy. Envisioning where I wanted to go I teleported myself to Miami. To his front door. Before I could knock the door opened and there he was in all his glory.

"Thalia." He smiled.

"Axel."

"I've been expecting you." He said moving aside to let me in.

"That's not creepy at all." I said stepping into the house.

"Let's go to my study and talk." He said walking up the stairs.

"Okay." I said following him.

This should be fun.