A/N Okay, so sorry about that false 3rd chapter, I didn't even realize that I reposted to 1st one instead of this one, but here it is!

Nadia pulls away from the hug first, "do you have somewhere to stay?"

"Umm, no…" Jason says, "I'll get a hotel room somewhere."

"No! You don't have to, you can stay in my room, I have a closet I can hide you in."

"Really Nadia, a closet?" Jason asks skeptically.

Nadia glares at him, "Jason, seriously, are you staying or not?"

"Okay, thanks Nadia," Jason tells her gratefully.

She nods, "yeah." She walks into the apartment, "shh, don't wake up Peter, okay?"

Jason nods yes, "uh huh," he whispers, his eyes grow sad, "I wish I had been here… I miss him so much."

Nadia looks at him sympathetically, "I know, but we'll talk things through in the morning, yeah?"

"Yeah."

She leads him over to her room, setting up a sleeping bag in the closet.

"G'night Nadia."

"Night Jason," Nadia rolls over and closes her eyes, she smiles to herself as she goes to sleep.

-The next morning-

Nadia wakes up to the sound of Peter moving around outside her room, she quickly gets up to check the closet and make sure Jason is still there. He is, and still sleeping soundly, Nadia lets out a sigh of relief and goes out of her room to eat breakfast. "Hi Peter, how was the couch?"

"Not great, why didn't you wake me up?" Peter asks, obviously annoyed.

Nadia scoffs, "you looked peaceful, didn't want to disturb you."

Peter rolls his eyes as he takes out two pieces of bread and puts them in the toaster oven that they had

bought.

"Hey Peter, can I have some too?" Nadia asks, "four pieces please?"

"Four?" Peter asks skeptically, "kind of a lot, isn't it?"

"I'm hungry!" Nadia exclaims, "please? I have to work on something in my room and I'm hungry, okay?"

"Fine, fine," he puts four more pieces in the toaster oven. "Wait, what do you have to work on?"

"Something you can't know about, okay?"

"You know, you say 'okay' at the end of almost every sentence, right?" Peter informs her.

"Well sorry, it's not my fault, just how I talk, ok- got it?" Nadia corrects herself at the end.

Peter laughs, but it sounds sort of flat, and almost lifeless. Nadia takes the toast and puts jam on the pieces and runs to her room the find Jakob awake, sitting in the closet, hugging his knees close to his chest. Nadia walks over and hands him the plate, "hungry?" she whispers, and sits down across from him, watching as he takes a piece. Jason nods, "thanks," he mutters.

"So where have you been?" Nadia asks as quietly as possible. Jakob finishes chewing before answering, "I've been in LA, I went there and camped out with an old friend, Erin, remember him?"

"From summer camp in 2006?" Nadia recalls, and Jason nods, taking the other piece of toast off the plate, he says, "thanks for the toast though."

Nadia says, "sure, anytime-" she's interrupted by a loud knocking, and then Peter's voice floats through the door, "hey Nadia, I'm going out to the grocery store, do you want anything?"

"No thanks!" Nadia calls, and Peter replies, "okay, bye then!"

They hear the apartment door close, and Jason asks, "would you mind, can I have a cup of water?"

Nadia answers with a quick sure, and gets up, darting to the kitchen and taking a cup off the shelf, filling it with tap water. She walks back to her room carefully, so she doesn't spill it, and then hands it to Jason. "You can come out if you want, Peter forgot his keys, I saw them on the counter, so I'll have to let him in. It would give you enough time to get into my room."

Jason nods, and stands up, stretching before he walks out to the small kitchen and sits down on one of the stools, "so how is Peter coping?"

"With the love of his life being dead?" Nadia asks, "actually, better than I would have expected. But still not too well. He looks at your picture every night."

"So he hasn't forgotten me?" Jason asks hopefully, and Nadia shakes her head, saying, "I wish he had."

Jason sighs, "yeah, I don't know, I was in a dark place, alright?"

Nadia says exasperatedly, "yeah, but then you put Peter in a dark place, so you can't really justify it like that."

"Yeah, you're right… so what can I do to prove that I won't slip away again?"

"Look, you just need to give him some time, and to be honest I don't really know how we're gonna reintroduce you, but we'll figure something out, I promise."