I don't own PJO.

She smiled slightly. "Not yet actually, Apollo says I'm still not quite far enough along yet. But I learned something new."

"What?" he asked, smiling at her somewhat eager face.

Her eyes lit up, "We're having twins." She laughed slightly. "Oh my us, Artemis and Apollo version 2.0! Can we ever get a break?"

"Thee, when you're with me nothing is ever easy," Poseidon said with a light laugh. "If they fight as much as we do, then it will be a challenge." He gave her a pointed look when he said the next sentence. "But luckily I like a challenge."

Athena arched her eyebrow. "What exactly is that supposed to mean Kelp Breath?"

"It means you are just as stubborn as me."

She kissed him slightly. "I like a challenge too." She leaned back in for a second kiss when she heard a cough behind her. She pulled back immediately and nearly jumped out of the sea god's lap. "Hera?"

The goddess of marriage laughed, "I didn't mean to scare you." She looked at the couple with a smile. "It's just nice to see a happily married couple for once." She sat in her throne with a sigh. "Poseidon you've got some lip gloss on your face."

"I know," he said with a smile. "Its chocolate flavored." He wiggled his eyebrows at his wife who mentally facepalmed.

"Do either of you know where Zeus is?"

Poseidon's smile wiped right off his face. "Him? The jerk should still be where I left just two rooms over. I doubt he'd be the best conversation at the moment he's probably still sulking for no reason."

Hera shook her head. "I checked he wasn't there. Do you have any idea where he might be?"

"Maybe he went with everyone else?" Athena suggested with a shrug.

"Where's everyone?"

"Watching Ares's plan fail spectacularly," Athena said.

Poseidon nodded. "He does realize it won't work, right?"

"Considering he isn't that bright, no."

Sure enough the war god came back into the room covered in a sticky brown liquid and foam. "Dude? What happened?" Poseidon asked suppressing a laugh.

"It turns out a Mentos and Diet-Coke fountain was a stupid idea." He said it rather nonchalantly like it wasn't a big deal

The sea god laughed. "Even Zeus could have told you that!"

Ares sighed. "Whatever, I got a date."

"What?" Poseidon and Athena asked simultaneously.

Hera arched her brow, "You look like a pathetic idiot! How'd you get a date?"

"Thanks Mom," Ares said under his breath. "Apparently Chiron thought me humiliating myself was cute." He frowned. "I don't appreciate being called cute."

Zeus stormed out of his room when he said that. "I wouldn't exactly call you cute Ares…" He turned to Poseidon and Athena. "I want to talk to you two."

They followed, but Poseidon watched his brother warily. "What exactly do you want to speak about? I thought we already discussed your feelings on this situation?"

The younger god sighed. "Athena are you deadest on this?"

"I'm not a fickle person Father. When I make up my mind I intend it to stay that way. Do you understand?"

"Not really."

Athena squeezed Poseidon's hand and looked at her father. "I've had thousands of years to think this over. I know what I'm doing, this isn't a spur of the moment decision. I'm not going to turn around and regret it."

"I doubt that," Zeus murmured.

"Father!"

He swallowed. "I want to apologize. I shouldn't accuse you of trying to take over my throne. I talked to Aphrodite; she says it's the truth, so that's it."

"What?"

He sighed. "If you were trying to overthrow me, you wouldn't go to this extreme. And you wouldn't have given up your maiden vow, if you didn't love him. No matter how horny."

"What?!"

He threw up his hands. "That's how Aphrodite worded it!"

"Us, Aph has no subtly!" Athena complained.

Zeus sighed. "If your child tries to overthrow me, we'll deal with that when time comes." He looked at a note he had been writing. "I've been considering the possibility that Gaia had worded her prophecy in the most cryptic way possible on purpose."

Athena nodded as she thought about it. "She wanted to make you sweat it out. I prefer Apollo's prophecies at least he doesn't intentionally try to trick us."

Poseidon thought about it. "Good point babe."

"Oh, this is going hard to get used to," Zeus said looking at the couple. "It's not something I'm comfortable with."

Athena looked at her father. "Well you have the rest of eternity to get used to it. So you have to learn to deal."

"Just no PDA please."

"No promises," Poseidon said pulling his wife a little closer to him. He laughed at his brother's expression. "What you don't want a lot of Poseidon juniors running around?"

Athena laughed. "I don't even want that! You're all I can handle."

"Please like I want a bunch of brainiacs running around."

"Why you…" she said with a laugh. He began to run away. "I'll get you!" She said chasing after him.

"Okay, if destroying camp was Ares's goal, I give him props," Hermes said as surveyed the mess of soda and mentos everywhere.

"I'm going to kill him," Artemis said under her breath. She hadn't been spared by the explosion.

Apollo was laughing. "You look hilarious! What's your problem?"

She turned to her brother and shot him a death glare. "I would like to remind you that my daughter is standing behind you with a bow and quiver of arrows. She could just shoot you, you know."

"Nah, Gwen here's my new best friend! Right Gwennie?"

The girl laughed. "Yeah right."

Hermes sighed. "C'mon Arty, we should go to the Big House and get you cleaned up. Then we can kill Ares and Apollo."

She agreed and they headed up to the building. "You and Gwen seem to be getting along," Artemis said.

"Yeah," he sighed, "I wish we had told her earlier."

She nodded. "I don't like keeping secrets like that." She looked at Hermes. "She's ten you know; we kept that secret for a decade."

"It's been a long time since we went on that date," Hermes said. "Maybe after, you get cleaned up. We could go catch a movie?"

She smiled, but arched her brow. "Don't you have a job to do?"

He pulled out his cell phone and stared at it. Then after a few moments he stopped in place and turned back to the camp area. "Gwen!" he yelled. "Go long!" He threw the cell phone which landed just a bit short of his mark. Hermes could hear George and Martha complaining from where he was standing. "Sorry!"

He turned to Artemis. "What job?"

She laughed. "Okay, when I'm cleaned up we'll go to the movies."

Hermes smiled devilishly. "You know what happened last time we went to the movies…"

Artemis hit him on the arm. "In your dreams Fly Boy."

A/N:

That's all folks.

For those of you who wanted Mel, instead of including her in here I started a sequel to Love Quest called "Pollo, You Freaking Idiot!"

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