PPOV:

I smiled when I crossed the boundaries into camp, I had been away for a few months and well I'm not going to pretend like I don't miss it here. I was greeted by Leo who hugged me and Percy, Annabeth, Luke, Thalia, Nico, Frank, and, Hazel were there too.

"Welcome home Beauty Queen." Leo grinned.

"Hey Repair Boy." I smiled back there wasn't any way anyone could stop me from being friends with the guys I was before right?

I decided to go unpack and settle in with the girls before catching up with them. When I got back out they were scattered all over the place. Thalia and Luke were sitting on the porch of the Zeus Cabin with two plastic cups. Thalia was trying to teach him the cup song but he was epically failing. So he ended up picking up Thalia and running her around the commons.

Annabeth was laughing her head off but I couldn't find Percy. That was until I looked in a tree were Percy was being scared out of his wits by what he claimed was a rabid, demented, cyborg squirrel. I had to admit that was probably the goofiest thing I had seen since Leo freaked out when Frank turned into a bat. Apparently Leo hates bats….

Nico was being his loner self sitting on the steps of the Hades Cabin…was he bitterly watching Luke and Thalia? It would make sense since Thalia and Nico had a ton in common. But whatever that wasn't my job anymore. He had his earbuds in and was practically ignoring anything but Thalia and Luke.

Leo was trying to impress Percy's new half-sister Marleigh…long story. Marleigh was Australian and probably the only person at camp who didn't know Leo's tactics. She was actually laughing at some of his lame jokes and was I seeing possible interest? Well maybe Leo was finally going to get a girlfriend.

Frank and Hazel were walking back from the arena hand in hand. They were one of those couples who didn't seem like they were together until you really got to know them. And I was going to admit they had one of the cutest relationships at camp.

Then I saw Jason, he smiled at me and began to walk over. "Friends you were friends before this you can handle it." I thought inwardly. He walked over with his hand outstretched. He got closer and I took a deep breath. Yeah we've talked since the whole I'm-into-Reyna-more-than-I'm-into-you incident but it was always awkward and I had no clue what to say to him.

"Hey Pipes." He smiled with slight awkwardness.

"Hi Jason." I smiled back.

"So how have you been lately?" he asked looking anywhere but directly at me.

"I've been good lately. How have you been?" I didn't know what to say.

"About the same, training, keeping peace, and all that jazz." He said blandly.

"Sounds fun." I faked a smile.

"So are the huntresses back at camp for awhile?" he asked curiously.

"Yeah we'll be back for about a week or so." I replied to his question.

Before he could say anything Leo walked over to us and threw his arms around our shoulders so he was in the middle, "The Three Amigos are back together again…temporarily." He added at the end.

"Hey Leo." Jason smiled.

"So why don't we go up to Bunker 9 like we used to when we were the Golden Trio?" he asked curiously.

Jason looked over at me, "Sure why not it'll return at least some of the old normalcy to the group." He chose his words carefully.

"What about you Pipes?" Leo quipped happily.

"Sure why not?" I shrugged and we were off. Leo was humming the Yellow Brick Road song from the Wizard of Oz and tried to do the awkward skip step thing they did.

Soon enough all three of us were doing the same. We were singing it at the top of our lungs and well it really did feel just like old times. Leo fell down like six or seven times and we all burst out laughing. Once we got to the Bunker Leo clapped and activated the lanterns. There were a few renovations done. Then I saw it, curled up in the corner; a massive sleeping Golden Dragon.

"You rebuilt Festus?" I asked in amazement.

Leo walked over to the dragon and patted it, "Yup Jason helped me and we figured it out within the few months you were gone. We needed something to do since we didn't get to listen to your juicy gossip that you picked up from Drew."

Festus creaked affectionately as Leo polished the spot he had just patted before going back to sleep. Leo pulled a few sodas out of his tool belt that had now become his signature accessory. He had taken over the head councilor position of the Hephaestus Cabin after Jake willingly and happily gave it to him during the construction of the Argo II.

Jason had taken back his Praetor job and the camps combined here at Camp Half-Blood. He was co-councilor with Thalia since there was still only two of them. I had that information from before I left with the Huntresses. I had only been with the Hunt for about three or four months but my memory of both Leo and Jason weren't matching up to what they looked like now.

Leo looked like he had grown a foot taller since when I last saw him. His muscles were more defined and he looked more mature. I highly doubt that his personality had matured but he looked like a seventeen year old and less like a little, as he liked to put it, Santa's Latino Elf. His hair was still dark and curly and I swear it was more unruly than it has ever been his dark eyes still looked like the same old crazy Leo though.

Jason looked had obviously grown taller he was at least a foot taller than me. He had cropped his blonde hair short so it looked kind of like Luke's. He was tanner and it was pretty obvious that he had been hitting the training arena with the guys. He had lost his teen age features and looked more like a young man now. His eyes looked ad though like someone had taken the happiness from them.

Me I still looked the same. My hair was still self-cut in choppy layers but they were longer now. My eyes had actually decided to stay on the same color now that I was seventeen, my birthday was right before I joined, yet I was a few months older than both Jason and Leo. I have a February birthday whereas they have a July birthday and a November birthday. They opted for the same brown hue that I shared with my father. My skin was a little tanner and I was still 5'6.5 and I'm pretty sure that's where I was going to stay for the rest of my life.

Leo sat in his favorite recliner chair, "So Piper do tell about your crazy adventures and Jason and I will see if they match ours."

He opened his soda and gestured to the other chairs opposite of him. I took one and Jason took the other. He handed Jason and I each a can of Dr. Pepper.

"Well last week we came across this massive Manticore." I said before taking a sip of soda.

"Well that's cute; Jason and I came across an angry water spirit." Leo smirked.

"Did the angry water spirit have venomous spikes?" I asked.

"Well no but she did have good aim." Leo grinned.

"Leo I think the point goes to Piper." Jason added in.

"No it doesn't because Leo always wins…CHUCK NORRIS!" Leo yelled.

"Leo that wasn't even relevant to the conversation." Jason pointed out, "The point goes to Piper hands down."

"Fine, fine." Leo grumbled, "Ok two weeks ago we were ambushed by a bunch of Hermes campers with Silly String and water balloons."

"Well we had to take out a whole Cyclops family before they could eat a bunch of people." I said now this was turning into a competition.

"Well played McLean." Leo nodded, "Well I guess our adventures are no match for yours."

"So what's your latest project?" I asked.

"A time machine." Leo nodded sincerely.

"You're going to build a time machine?" I asked him curiously.

"Indeed we are Piper. Aren't we Jason?" Leo said in a British accent.

"I don't recall Leo." Jason said in one too.

"So we're British now are we?" I asked deciding to join in.

"Yes dear Miss. McLean." Leo said trying for a serious face but you could see his smile cracking at the edges of his mouth.

We stayed there for awhile until Percy and Annabeth walked in and told us we were going to miss dinner if we didn't hurry up. Dinner was uneventful, the girls and I exchanged plans for the night. Coach Hedge greeted me from the Dionysus table where he was feeding Mr. D grapes. Chiron nodded at me in a greeting.

"Campers please welcome the Huntresses back…since it's a Friday I can guess you all know what that means." Chiron announced.

"CAPTURE THE FLAG!" the campers rang out.

"That's correct; it'll be the campers versus the Hunt." Chiron announced.

There was a collective groan; the campers hadn't won a game against the huntresses forever. So Chiron chuckled, "The game will begin at 6:00 sharp in the woods."

The Romans were still settling into the fact that it was basically our version of the War Games without fortresses and unfair team division. We were divided by cabins that usually made alliances but tonight it was a different alliance. The campers out numbered us by a lot but we had amazing tactics that were still legal according to the rules.

Phoebe called for the huntresses to convene in the Artemis Cabin after dinner so we could come up with a strategy. The head councilors headed off to make their alliances. Things were going to get interesting…