Thanks to everyone who reviewed. For some reason people seem to like this story, and I don't know why! Yeah, there's not many Thoth/ Athena stories out there but this story just seems so slow to me. I'll try to make this chapter more exciting.

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Thoth Pov

Chapter

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First

"Theodore, its Viola…"

"O-oh! Hello Viola, I didn't expect you to call so soon. Not that it's a bad thing. So, how are you?" It wasn't the calmest answer I could have given, but it sufficed.

"Oh, not much. I tried an Italian breakfast this morning. I always like to mix things up,"

"Ohm, I try to eat something different every night. This morning I had a Mexican breakfast" I interrupted her.

"That sounds good. I also ran to the library this morning. I was running out of books and I just got like a temporary library card. Nothing else, really. How about you?" she finished.

"I've been cleaning; I also did some research on American politics for my… one of my classes. I haven't done much either today." I replied.

"So… what are you, ah, doing today? Anything in particular?" she asked awkwardly after an awkward silence.

"I'm not doing much of anything, really. If you're not, um, doing anything either we could, you know, do something. We could, uh, go to the library, or… Oh! I could show you my office at the University! If you want to, that is." I suggested hopefully.

"Really? That would be great! I'd absolutely love to see the university. I'm not doing anything at all today that sounds great." She replied enthusiastically.

"Super! I can pick you up at your hotel around," I checked my arms, because the served as my portable calendar. I was free at 4:00 p.m. "how about 4:00 p.m. we can eat supper out anywhere you want. Then I can show you around the university, and my office. I can show you all of my projects!" I babbled excitedly.

"That sounds perfect! I guess I'll see you then! Bye, Theodore." She said.

"Bye, viola. See you then." We both hung up at the same time and I slumped back in my chair.

After a few minutes in deep thought of all the things we could do, and all of the things we could discus, I suddenly jerked forward when I remembered one tiny detail.

I had ibises, baboons, and "freaky" Egyptian things practically taking up every single inch of my office.

Looks like I had more cleaning to do before 4:00! I ran out of my apartment and down three flights of stairs to our complex's parking garage. I hopped into my brand new ford focus and sped off to the university.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Sadie Rides Shotgun (Worst. Idea. Ever.) chapter 16 the Serpent's shadow~~~~~

Athena Pov

When I finally worked up the guts to call Theodore it was already around 12:00! But, luckily, he was completely free and we set up a date, uh, I mean, meeting at 4:00. I was ecstatic to see his office at the University, and Theodore seemed like a truly amazing person. I and I found that I was, actually, begging to fall in love with him!

It surprised me because I came to Memphis strictly for learning, and I hadn't really been expecting to meet anyone here! Oh, I was going to get a very long speech from Aphrodite about this, I was sure. I'd probably get teased by most of the male gods, and probably even some of the goddesses!

And I was supposed to meet with the rest of the gods today in an hour!

I began to pace my bedroom as I thought of possible plans that would prevent the other gods and goddesses from discovering that I had a tiny crush on another mortal man. But the trouble was that, for one of the first times in my entire immortal life, I couldn't think of a perfect plan!

As the demigods would say, I was screwed; and I only had one hour left before I had to transport back to Manhattan. I was jittery and nervous, again that was a first for me (was this what people felt like when they didn't have a good plan?). I decided to pass the remaining hour by starting the second book in the Percy Jackson series.

~~~~~~ "Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit." Sadie kane~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was in the elevator of the Empire State building (a truly excellent example of modern architecture in itself) rising gently towards Olympus as the rather annoying elevator music played in the background. I reviewed the plan once again in my mind:

Once on Olympus I would seek out Aphrodite and enlist her help. I would explain my situation and force her not to reveal my predicament to any of the other Gods. Hopefully she would be able to give me some advice. Once I had done that I would proceed to the throne room* for the meeting. I would just try to simply act as normal as possible, so that the other gods saw nothing wrong me. Once the meeting was over I would quickly escape from Olympus and transport myself back to Memphis.

If all went well no one would find what was going on between Theodore and I (even though I wasn't even sure what exactly was going on between us!). The elevator glided to a smooth stop and the doors dinged open. I rushed out, paying no attention to the marvelous sight around me. I dashed around like a mad woman, checking all of the usual places that Aphrodite usually resided: The Goddesses' restroom, the spa, and the makeup and clothing stores.

The last place I had left to look was her very own room, where she usually watched the love lives of demigods, and usually interfered. That was exactly where I found her, leaning over her gold looking glass, watching a fight between Travis Stoll, of Hermes, and Katie Gardener, Of Demeter (who happened to be a good friend of some of my daughters.). She was mumbling something unintelligible as she watched the fight. I silently closed the door behind me and forced a little cough. She didn't turn around, I guess she was just so captivated by the fighting demigods, so I stepped up behind her and tapped her shoulder until she turned around.

"Athena?" she asked, startled. "What are you-"

I cut her off by talking, "What am I doing here? I, uh, really, really need your help. It's kind of an emergency!" I pleaded, which was very UN like me.

"Oh! Is this perhaps about that rather handsome man you've been calling? What was his name… Randy, no…Theodore! That's it!" she asked.

"You were watching us, weren't you?" I grumbled, angry that I was being watched.

"You bet! But, what was it that you needed, 'Thena?" she asked, calling me by the annoying nick name she had created for me during the time of the Great Depression.

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" I yelled, infuriated.

"Sorry, sorry! But, really, what did you need?" she apologized.

I sighed, "I really need you to not tell any of the other gods about this. And later, I, uh, might need some advice."

"Of course! Why would I tell anyone? That might ruin this perfectly good relationship!" she replied.

"Good, now we had better get going before the meeting starts. I'll go in first so they don't get suspicious about why we were together. Wait about five minutes than go in." I commanded.

I walked out of the room and headed to the throne room for the meeting, alone. About three minutes after I walked in and seated myself, Aphrodite strutted into the room and sat delicately in her throne. I didn't even spare her a friendly glance so that no one would even be the tiniest bit suspicious.

In a few minutes the meeting had begun and we addressed all of our current and our suggestions on how to fix them. Throughout the whole hour and a half I tried to act as normal as possible, which actually wasn't that hard because I was concentering hard on solving our problems.

Soon the meeting was over and we all began friendly conversations with each other; except for me, because I was quickly fleeing the room. I was almost out of the room when a male's voice called, "hey! Athena? Who was that guy you were with in Memphis?" I turned around slowly to face Hermes.

"What?" I asked, trying to sound completely clueless.

"I was delivering a package to you and I saw you eating at a café with some blonde haired guy. Who was he, somebody special?" he teased.

I mentally cursed as I realized that all of the other gods had fallen silent and were waiting for my reply. "I, uh…" I stuttered.

"Athena's got a cruuush!" sang Poseidon.

"Shut up Barnacle head!" I sneered

"Athena, who was this man," asked my father.

When I didn't answer my father commanded Hecate to show him an image of the man. I was too busy thinking of a way to avoid this to realize that Hecate had already used her magic to create an image of Theodore. He was running through the doors of the University muttering something about cleaning his office as he ran.

Father's eyes widened and he turned towards me. He was angry, lightning bolts were shooting form his hands. Thunder rumbled in the sky and his eyes were swirling. "ATHENA! WHA WERE YOU DOING WITH AN EGYPTAIN?" he boomed.

I jerked back and whispered, "An Egyptian?"

~~~~~~~~~~~~ "If you're listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday!" Sadie Kane~~

Hope you guys liked it! I won't have a computer for a week or so, so I won't be able to update! But I really could use some ideas for what should happen next and also some ideas for Thoth and Athena's "date". I'm not really sure what to write! Review please! Sorry if there's bad grammar but I have no time to check this and I'm really busy (bad excuse, I know!)