It was the year 2017 and Hephaestus was currently in his home that resides in the volcano/mountain of Olympus ((A/N: I can't decide where to put his home and it kinda makes sense to have Hephaestus's home in the mountain of Mt. Olympus due to it being the home of the gods and all)).

Anyway, Hephaestus was just getting the last of his hammers ready for the day when he was visited by the fates.

"My ladies, What may I do for you?" he asked

"Your bride has reached the age of 21 and you are now able to court her as you wish. We wish you well and good luck.

Hephaestus was letting an enourmous smile grace his face, the day he has long prepared and waited for has finally arrived! He hurriedly went to see the others and was quickly granted permission to leave Mt. Olympus and was wished many times of good luck. He went back to his home and changed himself just enough to look human (or closer to it anyway) and made his way to earth.

+++On earth with Kelcie++++

Kelcie was humming as she went about cleaning the stalls. She happened to look at her clock on the wall and gasped in shock, she was late to the museum! She hurriedly swept up the bits of straw left and dumped the wheelbarrow hurrying back to the house. She ran up to her on-suite bathroom after she hastily got out of her dirty clothes. After a 20 minute shower (normally its 10 but she wanted to shave) she dried her hair with the blow dryer for a few minutes and went to her walk in closet to find some clean clothes.

She was going to wear a shirt and jeans but deciding she wanted to look pretty she went for a light blue sundress that went to her knees. The sundress had white lace trim on the bottom and trimmed the sweet heart neckline. Medium width shoulder straps of the light blue color with no lace. A pair of matching sandals and a nice wide brimmed straw hat with the a light blue ribbon wrapped around it. She decided to wear some pearl earrings and matching necklace, with adding a final touch of minut amounts of make up (only around the eyes, little bit of lips and cheeks) and she was done.

She gave herself a once over in front of her floor length mirror and sighed, yes she was happy her legs were nice and smooth now but they were still chunky, at least though, the outfit complimented her and didn't make her look to big.

Anyway, she went down the stairs and went to her 1990 chevy blazer whom she called 'Ol Blue as he was a faded blue jeans color.

+++++++++++++++++++TIME SKIP+++++++++++++++++++

At the museum Kelcie walked around the other exhibits for about 45 minutes before she headed right for the Ancient Greek exhibit. As she walked around looking at the many pieces of jewelry (which she did find beautiful as it was true), statues, art, weapons, armor, and everything in between she could swear that she was being followed; every time she looked though there was no one there besides the other observers.

In the middle of the exhibit in a half circle were tall statues on thrones, Kelcie made a bee line for them and was shocked at seeing the gods and goddesses of the ancient world looking at her. Kelcie walked looking at each statue carefully but only stopped for longer than normal at Hephaestus. The smith god was made to have a perfect body like the others but he had numerous scares on his legs and arms, a few on his face and his legs were crooked. He had long that was pulled into a pony tail look and that was probably due to him being a smith. Kelcie smiled softly as she looked at him, he wasn't as handsome as the other gods but he had his own look to him and to her the scares showed he could survive and the stories behind them all would be telling.

As she was finishing up looking at the statues and going to the other side of the exhibit a hooded figure hidden behind one of the gods came out just enough and watched her sway away from view (not that he minded a whole lot).

=======Hephaestus on earth=======

Hephaestus entered the museum easily and hid behind his own statue to wait for her. The Fates just before he left gave him a medallion that would warm up when she was near. He gave a gentle kiss with his lightly scarred lips on the medallion and waited. As he was waiting many thoughts came to his mind: will she like me? Do I look ok? Should I be doing this or pull a Hades on her? ((After the Persephone incident that's what all the gods and goddesses called it and even Persephone had to laugh at it now since she was happy with Hades after all this time)).

He felt the medallion start to heat up and he hastily started to look around wanting to see if he could spot her. As he was watching the medallion heated up so much that he gave a small hiss of pain as it heated up so much to burn him. He knew she was very close but as he turned around he hastily pulled back behind the statue again as she was right in front of his own statue.

He took a breath and leaned over to look at her; she was short and curvaceous, that was a plus as he enjoyed women that were curvy for him to squeeze and hold onto, her being short just made him give a small inaudible growl (only to the mortals ears) since she only made it to just under his pectorals after all he was about 6'7 and she was what…5'3 or shorter? That drove his more dominating side a little more wild as it appeared to him that she was fragile and delicate something that was to be protected and cherished at all costs.

Her hips were nice and wide (his hands could get a nice grip on them), her legs were sexy and curved in the right places. Her ankles and feet (plus toes) were cute and delicate looking snug in those soft tan sandals. Her skin was only slightly tan (he was a very golden brown) but it was still a little pale but soft looking. Her hair was shiny and looked wonderful to run his fingers through, her eyes were gentle, lips soft looking and plump, overall he was a very happy man.

She was what he has always pictured and thank the Fates for this as she was the complete opposite of Aphrodite (she was drop dead sexy but a slut). It drove him wild as he felt the age old need to provide, protect, and pleasure his soon to be wife; the thrall to do everything for her and to her was enourmous…he didn't think he would survive.

His future wife was walking away and he was about to stop her but the age old problem of a guy loving to watch a woman leave but not wanting her to go was proven true. His eyes watched entrapped as the sway of her hips were captivating and his eyes moved from her ass to her feet and up again. Yep, he was screwed.

+++++++++++++++++Kelcie again+++++++++++++++++++

Kelcie walked out of the museum and saw that it was raining outside. "Great." She thought as she stood out underneath the museums roof. She knew she had to make a run for her truck if she didn't want to get to wet. She started heading out ready to make a run for it when she slipped on the steps and was about to fall when she felt a large pair do hands grab her waist and pull her back up.

She landed against a strong muscular torso, the hands she felt on just above her hips were thick but strong. She looked down at them and holy crap! Her head could almost fit into one of them and both of her wrists could be held in one.

She gulped and turned around looking up at her tall rescuer…she was screwed.

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