**Disclaimer I do not own R&I, or Hercules, or Disney, or Greek Mythology sooo...**
"This story is already fairly inaccurate."
Jane had not seen Maura at the door frame as her eyes shifted from one child to the other. When she heard Maura's voice through she could not help but smile.
"Well…why don't you lay down and enjoy it for what it is?" Jane laughed.
"Mommy…It was going to start!" Mia complained.
Jane loved her child like enthusiasm as did Maura. Her little voice was filled with innocence that both women had long lost, and they wanted to keep her, both of their children that way for as long as possible. Maura took her acclaimed place on the floor between the two beds on the wooden floor.
"Alright where was I?"
"Once upon a time…" Maura prompted.
"Oh yes. Once upon a time there lived a young woman. She did not know who she was. She often felt lost. Let's just call her…Jane."
"Mom! That's so cheesy." Dash complained.
"Be quiet D. This is my story and I will tell it how I please. Besides you were supposed to not want to hear remember?"
"Fine…" He grumbled.
Jane often did feel some guilt, him being the only boy in a girl filled household. Then again, he did have the boys, Frankie, Tommy, Korsak, and Frost.
"Anyways… this was a woman, who felt very lost. She always wondered what made her different. She was unusually strong and brave. She lived in Greece and ventured and learned the land around her, every crack, and bend, and break in the ground. It was her home. She always felt out of place through. Her strength was very uncontrollable. The people did not know what to do with her. Medusa was also upset as Athena was the one who created Medusa in the first place."
"I thought Medusa caused her own demise?" Dash wondered out loud.
"She did. You see, she was just an ordinary woman, until she fell for the dashing Poseidon. Poseidon was a god and always very moral, but alas even those who are of power fail. With great power comes great responsibility."
"Alright just stop with the Spiderman references." Dash interjected.
"I thought you loved Spiderman? You used to say he was so cool!"
"Mom… I was 7. I grew out of it."
Jane lifted up her hands so that Dash could see them signaling her defeat.
"Alright there tough guy anyway, the whole Medusa thing is another story for another day. That whole Percy thing, the story of him killing Medusa, once again…Jane…not Percy anyway once again another story . I'm just telling you for some background purposes." Jane said.
"Ma…" Dash was becoming impatient another trait of Jane's.
"Okay okay! Anyway… she was wondering and wandering her whole life. She did not know what to do with herself. There was no place for her. Her mother
Angela and Father took care of her and loved her with everything they had."
"Grandma Grandpop!" Mia said.
"That's right squirt." Jane said.
Jane felt Mara squeeze her around the waist.
They had come up with Mia's name when Jane impressed Maura b speaking Italian. Maura had always guessed she could speak Italian but finally hearing it
from her mouth only made Maura fall in love more. Mia Bella- my beautiful. That's what the girl was. She was theirs and she was beautiful.
"Well finally one day Jane figured out she was adopted."
"You were adopted ma?" Mia asked.
"No Mi, this is just a story remember?"
Mia sighed in contentment once more and Jane could not help but join in when she heard Maura do the same. She never felt more at peace. She felt every moment of her life led up to this, the joy and complete feeling she felt right at this moment with the woman she loved and children she adored.
"Well… one day she stumbled onto a cave. She did not expect to find what she did. It was her mother, her real mother. After years it was discovered that she was separated from her not from want but rather because of the evil Hades."
"Hades, the king of the underworld."
"Exactly! You see, he was jealous of all demigod children. Half blood breeds were never accepted and this is what Jane was. Athena fell in love with a mortal man and had Jane you see, and Hades hated her for it."
"Hades was evil." Dash said. "He did not like anyone."
"Exactly."
"Well actually Hades…" Maura trailed off when she saw the look Jane gave her and she buried her face further into her shoulder. "I'm sorry please do continue."
"Anyways… as I was saying. It was a lonely life. No one saw Jane for who she really was…"
"Mama?" Asked Mia.
"Yes honey?"
"Skip to the love part!"
"Just be patient Mia. It'll take time but I promise you it will be worth it." Maura said.
Jane raised her eyebrow, her wife had a lot of faith in her, and how could she let her down?
"Well let's do this right. I should talk about why Jane wanted to be such a hero in the first place. She wanted a love, a love truer than true. It is actually quite sweet. She knew that her one, the one she loved most in the world, her one, was out there somewhere. She had never asked for the hero status, but it just seemed to happen. She didn't want others to look up to her but they did. She wanted a love that even would make Aphrodite jealous of their love. Jane was valiant and brave, but she did not know how to control her strength or why she had it in the first place in the beginning."
"How did she live with her strength?"
It was an obvious question that she knew would be asked, and her ever inquisitive son had asked it.
"Ah now you are asking the right question. She lived in fear. In constant she would break anything and everything in her path. She wore her robe with ease and golden amulets in her hair. She was strong and her dream was a suit of armor but her father was nothing but a lowly farmer who grew crops for the city and sold them in the market, but Jane knew she would make it when she could have enough riches to appease her mortal father and mother and two brothers. At least she thought that was all she wanted."
"What changed?" Mia wanted to know.
"Well as I said. This brave warrior finally discovered she was not like the rest. She was a demigod. She had her place and knew that she would find it no where passed Olympus. This became her new dream. To become a full god she had to do a true act to show her bravery. She had to prove herself as she never had before. That story of Hercules strangling two snakes as a baby was not his either. It was Jane's, and it was not Hara who sent them but rather Hades."
"He did?"
"Oh yes, he sent his minions and snakes and everything he could."
"It does not seem logical." Dash said conflicted.
"Then let me start over." Jane insisted.
"Dadadadaaaa" Jane sang.
This made all three laugh.
"Long ago in a distant far away land of ancient Greece the golden age of gods and many heros when magic took over and ruled all the land. What is the measure of a true hero? Now that is the real question. This is no tragedy though."
"Alright mom I am pretty sure you ripped that off of Disney."
"So what if I did. Anyway…."