Hello all of you beautiful people! The Christmas season is here, so I decided to write this little story that will be around five chapters. Oh, and let's pretend that the ending of BOO never happened, okay? Enjoy!

Four days before Christmas, Jason was laying on his bed, face resting on one of the pillows in his cabin at camp half blood. He had just arrived the day before to spend Christmas with his friends and sister rather than at camp Jupiter. He closed his eyes, then snapped them back open again. No, sick people felt tired, and there was no way in Hades that he was sick. Well, he certainly did feel sick (he'd been coughing since the night before), but Jason wasn't sick. In reality though, he just wouldn't admit it. Deep down, he knew that he was most definitely sick, but there was no point in bothering people about it if it was just going to go away on its own. Maybe.

Reluctantly, Jason dragged himself off of his bed and ran a hand over his forehead as he sometimes did when he was tired or stressed. That wasn't a fever, was it? No, it's just hot in the cabin. If that was the case, why did he feel so cold?

Jason was jolted out of his thoughts as someone knocked loudly on the door.

"Come..." He trailed off as he went into a fit of coughing. "Come in!"

Percy opened the door and stuck his head into cabin one. "C'mon, you and I have a sword fighting class for the younger campers in a few minutes. You okay?"

"Oh, yeah." Jason cleared his throat. "Perfectly fine."

"Okay." He could tell that Percy knew he was lying. "Breakfast ended ten minutes ago, but maybe we can-"

"No, I'm fine." Jason interrupted. "Let's just go."

"Does he look... Off to you?" Piper asked. Annabeth looked up from whatever blueprint she was drawing.

"Who, Percy?"

"No, Jason." Piper answered. "Look at him." Her friend squinted against the bright sunlight.

"He does look tired." Annabeth agreed. "On a lighter note, Thalia has a break for two weeks and she's going to stop by today and stay until after Christmas. Then Frank and Hazel will be here tomorrow. It'll be so nice to spend Christmas with everyone."

"Oh, that's great!" Piper said. "Do you know her well?"

"Well, actually we were together for a while, because her and I... And Luke stuck together as we were on the run." Annabeth answered. "It's a long story, I'll tell you later." Suddenly, Piper noticed someone go limp from the snowy sword fighting area out of the corner of her eye.

"Jason!" She yelled, running over there. "What happened?" She demanded.

"I-I have no idea." Percy's eyes were wide. "He said he was fine, but I knew that he wasn't... This is all my fault."

"Just go get one of the Apollo campers!" Annabeth ordered. Percy ran off towards the Apollo cabin as Piper stroked Jason's hair.

"What happened?" Will Solace, head of the Apollo cabin asked. He bent down and felt Jason's forehead, then checked his pulse, and all of that jazz. "Definitely a fever. Let's take him back to his cabin." He decided. With surprising strength and gentleness, Will managed to get Jason off of the ground and sling him over his shoulder.

Jason woke up shortly after. Percy and Piper were in his cabin. "Percy, don't we have to finish..."

"No way!" Percy grinned wearily. "You're sick, so you need to rest for a while. I cancelled the rest due to you passing out in the middle of it."

"I passed out?"

"Yeah, Will thinks you have the flu or something, but good news!" Percy said, trying to lift his spirits. "Thalia will be here any minute and she's staying through Christmas. And Frank and Hazel are coming tomorrow. It'll be great."

"And I'm sure that Thalia would love to take care of you." Piper added. Percy snorted. "What?"

"It's just... I just pictured Thalia as a nurse and..." He burst out laughing. "It just doesn't fit her very well."

Jason tried not to feel hurt that Percy knew his own sister better than he did. "Well, even if I am too sick to do much with everyone, it'll be nice seeing Thalia and it's nice to see all of you guys. Frank and Hazel would've come earlier, but Frank had something to do as praetor and Hazel didn't want to come without him."

"That's great." Piper smiled. "Now you need to get some sleep, because the faster you kick this bug, the better." Jason found himself smiling as he drifted off.

He was woken up rather abruptly as someone slammed the door to the cabin.

"Hey Thalia," Jason said hoarsely.

"Percy told me you were sick." She said simply, sitting down at the foot of his bed.

"Yeah."

"How are you feeling?"

"Fine."

"Oh, really?" Thalia raised her eyebrows. "You're honestly feeling fine?"

"Not at all," he admitted. "But I didn't want anyone to worry. You guys are supposed to be having fun and singing carols, not worrying about me."

"You're supposed to be having fun and singing carols too," Jason's sister pointed out. Jason shrugged. "Gods, you look awful. It's good to see you though."

"Ugh, just... Oh my gods, this tape has issues!" Percy shouted, struggling with a roll of tape while him and Piper were wrapping presents.

"I think you are the one with issues." Piper replied. "That tape is perfectly fine." To prove her point, she took the tape from him and perfectly taped a corner of wrapping paper shut, completing a perfect looking present. Then she took out a gift tag, fastened it to the gift, and wrote: to Leo, from Piper.

"What did you get him?" Percy asked curiously.

"A gift card to Home Depot and a bag of peanut butter cups." Piper answered. "For Annabeth, I have an owl necklace that I made, and some new colored pencils for Hazel. For you, well, that's a surprise."

"What about Frank and Jason?" Percy asked.

"I can't think of anything!" She exclaimed, throwing her hands up. "What did you get them?"

"Annabeth and I have been making Jason this super ugly sweater as a joke, and then I just now decided that I'd throw in some tissues and Tylenol." Percy replied.

"Yeah, speaking of that, how's he doing?" Piper asked.

"Thalia told me that he's definitely sick, but otherwise okay." He answered. "Oh, and for Frank's gift, I have four different Chinese handcuffs, all in different colors."

"Nice. What about Thalia? I don't know her well so getting her a gift is kind of hard."

"A postcard of the Hoover Dam and a Starbucks gift card." Percy replied, looking triumphant.

"A dam postcard?" Piper asked, but Percy was rolling on the floor laughing. "...what?"

"Inside joke."

"So, what kind of stuff does she like?"

"Get a dam t-shirt!" He laughed.

"I seriously don't get this joke..."

Of course I had to add in he dam joke at the end there! Hehe. I'll update again in a day or two. So to recap it all, Jason is sick (four days before Christmas), Thalia just arrived, and Piper can't figure out what to get Jason or Thalia for Christmas. If you want to leave ideas for their gifts in the reviews, feel free to do that. Or tell me any of your predictions (will Jason feel better in time for Christmas? Will anything happen to Percy or the others? Let me know!), tell me a joke, whatever. Merry (early) Christmas! :)