CH2
Using her Cloak of Invisibility, Morana snuck into the Hunter's camp, she made her way to Artemis' tent, where she could feel Artemis and one of her hunters inside. As she entered, she recognized the hunter Artemis was speaking to, her old friend Zoe Nightshade. Deciding that her loving dogfather from her most recent life, she positioned herself behind the goddess of the hunt and brought her mouth next to her ear and yelled in her ear.
"BOO!"
Both the goddess and her hunter jumped, screamed and spun around, looking for whoever was now laughing at them.
Laughing, she willed her cloak around her shoulders and let herself be seen. Chuckling slightly, she leaned down and gave Artemis a hug. As she leaned back she almost started laughing again at how shocked her two old friends looked.
"Hey Arty, I missed you." Morana laughed out. Artemis pulled her back into a hug and Zoe joined. Once they released her, they bombarded her with questions.
She told the two of them everything, how Thanatos stole her power how she died again and again being reincarnated over and over, how every time Apollo found her they would fall in love all over again, and finally how she got her powers back and reascended. Once she finished she, moved on to the past seven years.
"And so once I got my powers and memories back, I spent some time adjusting to them and once that was do I came here to see you and surprise Apollo."
As Morana finished, Artemis got a mischievous glint in her eye. "How about you 'surprise' him the same way you did us? He always brags about his singing so let's see how high his voice can go."
As the three of them got their laughs under control, Artemis and Zoe adopted cold masks and Morana hid under her cloak. Suddenly in a flash of golden light, Apollo appeared.
"Yeah sis? What'd you need? I'm kinda busy right now." Apollo said, rather impatient.
Before Artemis could say anything, Morana yelled in his ear.
"BOO!"
Apollo jumped and screeched reaching an extreme high note as the three girls collapsed into laughter. Normally Apollo would have responded with fake scandalization, but as he looked at Morana, he couldn't bring himself to care about much other than the fact that he could feel the divinity within her and that she was alive.
"Athanasia? Ana?" he choked out, eyes shining with tears that threatened to fall. He reached out to touch her, stopping just shy of her face, as if she would disappear if he touched her.
"Yes love, I'm here now, and I'm here to stay. I'm not going anywhere ever again." Morana pulled his had to her cheek, and wrapped her arms around his neck, wanting to be close to him again after so many years. He broke down into sobs and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close and hugging her tightly.
Morana took Apollo's face in her hands and kissed him lightly on the lips before wrapping her arms back around him. "Let's go home, to yours, and I'll tell you what happened, okay?" She whispered into his hair. She felt him nod into her shoulder and then he flashed them both to his palace on Olympus.
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And so Morana filled Apollo in on how everything happened. How she had been a goddess, but Thanatos had stolen her power, about how she got them back, her battle with Voldemort, regaining her memories and learning to shift the Elder Wand back and forth from her shield, and the Resurrection Stone to her sword and remastering her powers, and finally finding the Hunt, and returning to him.
"And since I'm back, and I'm a goddess, I expect you to remain faithful and after ten to fifteen years, depending how long it takes them to get to camp, there shouldn't be any more demigods of yours running around alright?"
"Of course Ana! All I was ever trying to do was fill the hole left inside me after each of your deaths! I swear on the Styx that as long as you are with me, I will never stray, I will only ever be with you." Thunder rumbled in the background, sealing the oath.
With Apollo's oath, all of the emotions she had been holding back re-surged. Grabbing her lover's hand and pulling him up as she spoke. "Come on lover boy, let's go get reacquainted with each other"
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The next morning Apollo woke with a head of ebony hair on his chest. Smiling as he remembered that Athanasia was back, and back for good, and held her closer.
He sat, holding her and gave the sun chariot a mental command and put it on autopilot. After a while, Athanasia woke up and gave him a light kiss, and burrowed deeper into his side.
After laying together in silence for some time Apollo quietly asked "Would you be terribly opposed to marrying me? I know that you only just got back and that you want to finish adjusting to godhood before but since the Summer Solstice was last week, I would only have to inform the council then, and we don't have to go to my father or mother to get married, we can go to the Fates and ask them to do it and-"
She cut him off with a kiss, and then pulled back and spoke. "I'd love to Apollo."
His smile at that moment shined brighter than the sun could ever be.
