Disclaimer: I own NOTHING but Jasmine, my time, my computer and my own twisted imagination.
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Chapter One:
17 year old Percy Jackson sat at the bottom of the pool, his dark hair floating around him as he looked up. That was how he calmed himself, how he sorted his thoughts, it was his little sanctuary. He looked peaceful under the water and, to tell the truth, he felt that way. He decided that he'd been down there long enough and surfaced, taking short breaths while he was still in the water. Sitting there waiting for him, was his best friend Grover. And his pregnant girlfriend, Jasmine. Yeah, he was going to be a teenaged dad. But his mom adored Jazz and that's all he cared about. Of course, he HATED the way that his step-father stared at the girl. Percy got himself out of the water and dried off, walking over to Grover and Jasmine, helping his girlfriend to her feet.
"Almost eight minutes this time, baby," Jasmine chuckled, stealing a kiss from Percy before he slipped his shirt back on.
Percy chuckled and got on one knee before Jasmine, stroking her belly with one hand while placing a soft kiss on it, before standing and stealing a kiss from Jasmine. Percy laced his hand with Jasmine's and they followed Grover away from the pool. They had class. As they sat in class, Jasmine looked over at her boyfriend to see his eyes narrowing at the pages of his book. She looked at the book and saw the shifting letters, the letters forming ancient greek words. But she didn't know if that was the same thing that Percy was seeing. And she wasn't going to ask him. She tapped his leg with her foot, smiling at him when he looked at her.
Later, in Percy and Grover's dorm room, Percy laid back on his bed, Jasmine between his legs as she laid back against him. Percy's hands were on Jasmine's belly, feeling their sleeping baby under his hands. Jasmine leaned her head back on Percy, closing her eyes and sighing.
"I'm going to enjoy laying back like this," She told him, "cause it won't be much longer."
She put her hands over Percy's, lacing her fingers with his.
"I'm almost going to miss being pregnant," She chuckled, "but I'll be happy to finally hold this little one," she pat her belly gently.
Grover looked over at them. He was listening, but not saying a word, because he didn't want to butt in on the moment between the teens. Percy rested his head on Jasmine's. Jasmine's dark hair had light brown and almost blonde natural highlights, where Percy's was a beautiful dark chocolate color. It made Percy wonder what the baby was going to look like, whether it would have Percy's ocean blue eyes or Jasmine's whiskey amber. Percy's dark chocolate hair or Jasmine's highlighted brown hair. Percy's fair complexion or Jasmine's reasonably pale skin. Up on Percy's wall, with pictures of him and his mom, was pictures of him and Jasmine. From when they started dating, up until her first ultrasound picture, even the latest one was up on his wall. Both teens were excited about the baby, wondering what they were going to do, though, when it was born. They couldn't wait for their baby girl to be born.
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The next day found them; them being Grover, Percy and Jasmine, at the museum on a field trip with Mr Brunner.
"There are twelve Olympian gods..."
"Actually, sir, there is the council of Twelve," Jasmine spoke, "then there are the other gods. Those not of the council and the minor gods and goddesses."
Mr Brunner cocked his head for a second, thinking. Thinking that Jasmine's father would be proud of her. Mr Brunner smiled at her and chuckled. She folded a piece of paper and walked up to Mr Brunner, to whisper something to her.
"Unlike Percy, Charon," She whispered, "I know what I am," then she pressed the paper into his hand, "give that to my father, please. I want him to know he's going to be a grandfather."
When she stepped back, resting a hand on her belly, Mr Brunner nodded.
"I'll see what I can do," He said, sounding cryptic to the students, but winking at her when they weren't looking, then continued on, "though, Jasmine is right. The council of twelve is actually the most know of all the Greek Gods and Goddesses. That included Athena," he looked over at Jasmine, who's hand was laced with Percy's, "Ares," he looked to the other students, "Demeter and so on."
Jasmine chuckled quietly, squeezing Percy's hand.
"The major three were brothers," Mr Brunner continued, not letting on to the students that he saw Jasmine snickering, "Zeus became King of the Gods and ruled the sky," he ignored Jasmine's coughed out 'windbag' insult of Zeus, "his brother, Poseidon, ruled the sea," the comment said with a pointed look at Percy, "and their other brother, Hades, ruled the Underworld."
Mr Brunner rolled his eyes at Jasmine and shook his head. He held his hand back behind him, thinking to Ares that the paper in his hand was from his daughter. The paper disappeared in a muted and silent flash, Mr Brunner sliding his hand under the blanket over his lap without the students noticing. As Percy's head bopped to his I-Pod, Jasmine's hand in his, their fingers laced together, Grover was snapping a picture of the breasts of an Aphrodite statue. Jasmine swatted at Grover with the program in her free hand, glaring at him when he looked over at her. Mr Brunner took the camera from Grover, holding up the digital camera to the picture he took.
"What does this tell us about Grover?" He asked.
Jasmine snorted, "He's horny, Mr Brunner, that's no secret."
Mr Brunner nodded, "True, Ms Peace, true."
He passed the camera back to Jasmine, who sent the picture to an email address that she knew Ares would check at some point. Labelling it 'a friend's most favorite body part of Aunt Dite'.
"Lust," Mr Brunner continued after an awkward silence, "it's something the Greek Gods also shared with us. There were several occasions, when the Gods would come down to the Earth and..." He sighed, "how do I put this..."
Grover spoke up, "Hook up?"
Mr Brunner rolled his eyes, but nodded. As crude the term, it was accurate.
"They would...hook up...with mortals," Mr Brunner said 'hook up' with a note of distaste.
Jasmine nodded absently, rubbing her belly absently. The baby was unusually active today. Not labor inducing active, but still very active.
"The children of these unions," Another pointed look at Jasmine and Percy, "were half-god and half human," he looked to the students, asking "can anyone tell me what they are called?"
Jasmine raised her hand and Mr Brunner took a breath, ignoring Drew Bobofit.
"Yes, Ms Peace?" He spoke.
"Demi-Gods, sir," She gave him a pointed look.
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Percy was pissed. One month detenion cause he accidentally blew up the bathroom. Drew Bobofit tried to finger Jasmine in it, but Mr Brunner said this 'Why would Percy's heavily pregnant girlfriend be in a room, where you would rough house her and possibly send her into a dangerous labor that could kill both her and her baby?'. That made the Dean give Drew a second look. He'd heard rumors that Drew would assault Jasmine, Drew's ex-girlfriend saying that Drew had told her that he was purposely trying to make her miscarry. And THAT got the Dean's attention. So Drew was the one to get suspended. Percy never knew that Drew tried to kill his baby so many times, but Mr Brunner got him out of the room before anymore strange water incidents happened. Mr Brunner handed Percy a book, sighing heavily.
"I want you to read this," He told Percy.
He had sent word to Ares that he was right about who had been trying to hurt Jasmine. And to say that the war god was pissed was an understatement.
"You know that I can't..." Percy tried to protest.
Mr Brunner held up a hand, "Try," he emphasized.
