I wish I could say I tried not to fall for her. I truly wish I could have spared her the terrible fate that awaited her because of me. I tried to be nothing more than a friend to Laura Collins, I really did, but the fates are cruel. So is Aphrodite, actually. To an extent I blame her for everything that happened.

Now, before I get into my side of everything that happened, I should probably explain somethings. First off, I get bored easily. Being immortal can lead to some never ending times of boredom. So when I feel boredom coming on I usually find myself hanging out with mortals. They amuse me, plus the world always needs more demigods.

Sometimes when I get bored though, I try to make friends with mortals, it's hard with most of them but usually I can find a demigod to spend time with. The only downside was that I needed to be careful with them. The laws forbid me from having children with the half-bloods. Past experiences taught us that it was too dangerous. The children would cause more trouble than even the Titan Wars did.

I had never broken that law, never once. I was always careful with the demigods I chose to befriend. The most powerful demigods are always the ones who pass down their powers, so I avoided them, even though I found them more interesting. I mean sure, I more often than not chose a girl, but that's only because I have a hard time getting along with guys. I blame my devilishly good looks and my amazing personality.

I was growing bored the day I met her. It was the first day of summer session at Camp Half Blood, and over the years since the wars it had become tradition for the gods to visit for the campfire. Now, most of the gods arrived early that day but as usual I was running late. I was not watching where I was going as I ran to my kid's cabin, and smashed into something.

"Hey, watch-" it was a short girl with black hair and pale blue eyes. She had a sprinkling of freckles across her nose and cheekbones and a natural tan. . I held out my hand to her to help her to stand. She took it and rose. When she took my hand, I wanted to drop it and run away. Her past, present and future flashed before my eyes. Her past was filled with fear, pure terror burning white hot. Her present was like the calm before a storm, everything was bathed in yellows and blues. The future was like a canvas that had been doused in blood. It oozed panic, fear, hatred, and suffering. There was more suffering than any human should ever have to endure, but at the end there was a ray of white, of peace.

I saw all of this in milliseconds. It was like a lifetimes worth of experiences had been downloaded into my brain. It gave me a massive headache. I should have apologized and made a hasty exit, but something held me back. There was something about this girl that drew me in.

"Sorry, I didn't see you there," she said softly. I laughed, trying desperately to forget what I had just seen.

"Well, you were moving so fast I can't really be surprised. What were you running from?" she laughed.

"Oh, you know the usual, annoying siblings, dad's in town early, so they all decided to start showing off. I'm getting out of there before any of them get the idea to prank me." I laughed some more. She defiantly one of the Ares kids, too easy going for that, or Hephaestus, since she didn't have overwhelming muscles. She defiantly was not my child, since I take pride in knowing all of them as well as I can. That left Hermes or Dionysus. "So what are you doing?"

"Oh, a little of this, a little of that, charming a cute girl." She looked over her shoulder for a minute.

"You're trying to charm me?" She snorted like that was a stupid thing to do. "GOod luck with that, I'm immune to it."

"You only say that because you've never been charmed by me," I said.

"Or because I have fifteen brothers who are all trained to kill, and if they see me being 'charmed,' will most likely disembowel the poor guy," she said tapping her chin thoughtfully. I snorted. She was defiantly one of Hermes' kids. I was proud of myself for figuring it out so easily but then I became upset. Hermes had grown overprotective of his children since the Titan War, there was no way he would be alright with me spending time with his little girl.

"I doubt they could catch me," I shrugged. "What's your name?"

"Laura, what about you?"

"Call me Fred," I said. I lied to her partly because I wanted her interested in me and partly because I did not want her dad chasing me down.

"That's not your real name is it?" I shook my head.

"Nope, and don't try to ask my real one because I'm not telling." Laura smirked up at me.

"I'll figure it out," she assured me. "After all your in camp, so that narrows it down considerably." I was about to respond when she cursed under her breath. I looked behind me and saw Hermes. I started to back away.

"I'll see you around,Laura," I said before jogging away. I met up with my kids on their way to the dining pavilion.

"Hey," I greeted my oldest Will. He smiled at me and nodded before sitting down. Unlike the other gods I refused to sit at the head of the table and found myself seated between Molly and Daniel.

"Hi dad," Molly greeted me. The little girl still didn't completely understand the whole 'not completely human' thing.

"Hey,kiddo. Anything new going on?" I smiled at her.

"Will said he's gonna teach me to be a healer, just like him. And then I'm gonna be able to fix people when they get hurt." I smiled at Will who shrugged.

"She's already pretty good at it without training and I'm getting old, ya know?" I laughed.

"Oh, you're getting old?" I snorted, "I'm about to turn five thousand years old."

"You still look younger than me," Will laughed. I nodded. I scanned the area to see what else was going on and locked eyes with Laura at the Hermes table. I quickly winked and turned back to Molly's detailed description of her new flute.

Down the table a little ways from me I saw my sons Daniel and Rory arguing.

"Just admit you like her, man," Daniel kept saying while Rory shook his head.

"You're eighteen years old it's time to man up," Daniel snapped. Will groaned.

"Rory has a crush on one of the other campers but refuses to do anything about it," he explained. I raised an eyebrow.

"Rory, you're my son, you can get any girl you want, you just gotta use you're instincts." Rory turned bright red.

"He won't do it because he's afraid of her siblings," Daniel explained. I laughed.

"Who are they? Ares kids?"

"Nah, Hermes," Rory muttered. "Her older brothers are scary as hell though." I looked over at the without all the unclaimed kids it was still crowded. I noticed immediately that all of them looked fast, but not overly muscular.

"Just don't try to run away from them," I suggested.

Before anyone could say anything Chiron clamped his hooves from the head table.

"Welcome everyone!" He said once all the chattering had calmed down. "I welcome each and every one of you to the first day of summer session. Just a reminder, Friday night is Capture the Fl-"

"Look at Rachel!" someone screamed. My head went foggy as Rachael started to spew smoke. My head filled with images. A shadow of a mother holding a child, swords clashing together, an arrow shooting it's way through the air, a girl begging for mercy, a dead body falling, a sword stuck through it's chest and finally a white hot wall of fire.

A child of art and travel

Will set forth in a great battle

Death bring forth mother's fury

Neglect befalls the greatest duty

A new age born again

Be it one of pride or chagrin

A/N So this is Apollo's version of the events in my story Forbidden.I highly suggest reading both for the full experience. Also in this fic the name of each chapter is a song that I feel goes with it.

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