"Where are the girls?" Jason asked as he came into the kitchen, Piper at her laptop at the island. "Upstairs?"
Piper nodded. "Maddie's in the basement. Other two are in their rooms."
"We've got to talk." Jason leaned over her shoulder to look at the laptop's screen. "What are you doing?"
"Trying something new." Piper looked up at him. "Why?"
Jason's eyes scanned over the screen. "Horror writing? You gonna post that somewhere?"
"I'm not that good." Piper tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "I just thought that I have so much experience by this point..."
"That's true." Jason ran his fingers through her hair, keeping it back from her face for her. "We...we need to talk. I just went out there to talk to my mom..."
"What'd she say about it? Did she feel anything?"
"Uh...yeah..." Jason cleared his throat. "There's a reason Reyna told her to stay away. And she still is. Thalia went to take her to town to get into a hotel. I called ahead to pay for it."
Piper frowned. "We have so much room here. They don't need to stay in a hotel. Just because you don't get along with them easily doesn't mean-"
"She refused to get out of the car, Pipes," Jason admitted. "She didn't step foot out of that car. She was scared of this place."
Piper looked away from the screen to stare at him. "What did she feel, Jason?
He told her the truth, the full truth, but he wasn't proud of it. He wanted to hide it away, take care of it secretly. But Piper had the right to know just as he did.
So he told her.
