Whenever Aedos had a free day she and Hermes hung out, and for the first month since she started her gig she spent less time at it and more time socializing. Of course, she really only socialized with Hermes, but Sanders was grateful for it anyway. He always worried that she might meet up with a thief she wouldn't be able to stop and now he hoped that her relationship with Hermes would prevent that, or at least prolong it. That is, that's how Sanders felt for the first two weeks, but as the third week drew to a close he started to feel jealousy. Despite doing her gig less often Aedos also spent less time with him, as almost all of her time was being occupied by Hermes. This caused Sanders to involuntary resent Hermes, as since he never felt jealousy before he didn't know how to control it.

Hermes, meanwhile, had spent the third week wondering how he was going to reveal the truth about him to Aedos without hurting her. He eventually decided to just admit his feelings, and then reveal the truth and explain why he disguised himself as a mortal. Aedos had spent the second and third week wondering how she was going to admit her feelings to Hermes, and decided that the easiest way would be to first lead him away from everyone else and then try to bring up the subject. After they finished hanging out during the sixth day of the third week she suggested to him that they just spend the next day taking a walk alone in the woods. Hermes of course was more than happy to agree.

The next day they started walking through the forest, not knowing that Sanders had found out about their plan and was secretly following them. Hercules, Meg, Pegasus, and Feodore were there too, but they were doing a walk of their own and had no idea that Hermes and Aedos were there.

As Hermes and Aedos reached a clearing between the trees and a cliff Sanders confronted them.

"Aedos you stay away from him!" Sanders said angrily.

Aedos and Hermes stared at Sanders, beyond shocked.

"What? Sanders I thought you liked Hermes!" Aedos snapped back angrily.

"That was before I realized that he's just trying to steal you away!" Sanders glared.

Hermes was speechless, no one had ever spoken like that about him before. Not used to arguments, and certainly not wanting to be part of one, Hermes remained silent.

"Sanders you've gone way beyond odd ball! Hermes would never do anything bad!"

"You're just blinded by the fact that he's the first guy to accept your dangerous night job!"

Meanwhile, Hercules, Meg, and Pegasus were close enough to overhear everything. Confused, they, with Meg carrying Feodore, rushed towards the argument.

"And he does because he's a hipster with jets! He's not a party pooper like you!" Aedos retorted.

Furious, Sanders pushed Hermes to the ground.

"Try that again and you'll get a knuckle sandwich!" Aedos almost growled.

Hermes got up and backed away, not wanting to get in any deeper than he was already. That ended up being a mistake, as Sanders noticed and followed. This caused Hermes to run towards the cliff until he stopped near the edge.

"You're cruisin' for a bruisin' Sanders!" Aedos said angrily, following until she was near Hermes side.

"Be quiet!" Sanders snapped.

"You cut the gas!" Aedos retorted.

Sanders prepared to punch Hermes, but Aedos pushed Hermes out of the way and ended up falling off the cliff!

"Aedos!" Sanders cried, immediately regretting his quick temper.

Hermes froze for a second, knowing that there was only one way to save Aedos - he didn't know Hercules and the others were there at the time - but also knowing how Aedos might react. Realizing that Aedos's worse reaction wouldn't hurt half as much as her death, Hermes turned into his real form and flew down. Aedos dropped her mouth open as she saw Hermes in god form flying towards her and catching her. Sanders too was open mouthed. As Hermes gently set Aedos down back near the forest she stared at him.

"Hermes? You're the god Hermes?" She said, shocked and starting to become hurt.

"Yes but..." Hermes tried to explain.

Aedos punched him in the cheek.

"You lied to me!" She yelled, in pain since she has a high contempt for liars and yet deep down still loved Hermes. "I trusted you and you lied to me! To think I almost...cut out I don't ever want to see you again!"

She turned around and fell to the ground crying. Heartbroken from being dumped and for unintentionally hurting Aedos Hermes slowly set his scepter near Aedos and ran away in tears. That alone should tell you how hurt Hermes was, as not only was his scepter one of his most prized possessions, but he also forgot that he can fly again. Hercules and Meg rushed to the scene after putting Feodore in the saddle carrier on Pegasus that they used for Feodore during flights. Meg went over to Aedos and Hercules starting to run after Hermes, that is until...

"I knew you shouldn't have trusted him." Sanders said to Aedos bitterly. "He lied to you and pretended to accept your job to get you away from me! Who knows what he was-*ACCK!*"

Hercules had just grabbed Sanders by the throat and whammed him against a tree, half choking him.

"YOU STOP TALKING ABOUT MY FAVORITE UNCLE THAT WAY!" Hercules screamed, furious, startling everyone else. "HE IS NOTHING LIKE THAT! YOU PARANOID...!"

"Hercules!" Meg scolded.

Hercules stopped, and realized that he'd kill Sanders if he continued choking him.

"Oh, sorry." Hercules said, letting go of Sanders. "But I'm not sorry for what I was about to call you."

Sanders didn't respond because he was on the ground in a heap catching his breath.

Hercules then ran after Hermes, and since Sanders was still too out of breath to talk Meg took the opportunity to talk to Aedos.

"I can understand why you're angry with Hermes, but he didn't really mean to lie to you like that." Meg said gently.

Aedos just frowned and said nothing.

"Believe me I know how you feel, I once had a boyfriend who dumped me even though I had literally given up my soul to save his life." Meg continued. "I thought I would never find anyone after that, but then I met Hercules. We fell in love, but that time I was the liar because since I had given my soul to Hades I had no choice but to work for him, and Hades wanted Hercules dead. Hercules was heartbroken when he found out, just like you are now. Except he didn't cry, I think he wanted to save as much dignity as possible since he temporarily gave up his strength to Hades to set me free. It was a set up of course, be he didn't know that at the time."

"So why did he forgive you?" Aedos asked, calming down a little.

"Because I sacrificed my life to save his from a falling pillar...just as Hermes sacrificed ending up with you to save you from your death." Meg explained. "After that he remembered how much he loved me and was tearfully happy to find out how much I loved him back. Of course he was also tearful because I was dying at the time. I did die, but Hercules risked his life to bring my soul back from Hades. That's what restored his godhood, but he gave it up to be with me on Earth."

After hearing all that, Aedos entirely calmed down. And when she turned around, she saw Hermes's scepter near her. Taking it and looking at it for a few seconds, the love she had for Hermes came back full force and she ran after him. Sanders had recovered by this time, so he and Meg followed too. Pegasus, still with Feodore, was not far behind.

Meanwhile, Hermes had continued running until he tripped on a tree root. He fell to the ground crying heartbrokenly.

"Hermes!" Hercules called from a few feet away.

Hermes was too upset to respond, but Hercules managed to find him.

"Hermes, there you are." Hercules knelt down next to him. "Look, I know you're heartbroken but don't give up. Aedos is just mad, when she calms down she'll come back..."

"Hercules don't you get it?" Hermes interrupted. "I shot down, I didn't make it in the shade, I'm un-jacketed, I goofed, I was a fake out..."

Uh, basically he was just saying that he failed and was dumped...obviously he was too hurt to realize that he was just in a sense repeating the same thing.

"Hermes knock it off." Hercules scolded gently

"I'm serious Hercules, I've been clutched." Hermes insisted. "My heart is shattered right now."

"Hermes!" Aedos called, starting to catch up.

"Aedos?" Hermes said, surprised.

"Hermes I'm sorry, I overreacted." Aedos apologized.

"Told ya so." Hercules said.

Meg, Sanders, and Pegasus with Feodore caught up by this point.

"What do you mean?" Hermes asked Aedos, not hearing Hercules. "You had every right to be mad, even dump me."

"But I didn't...not really." Aedos admitted as she got down on her knees in front of Hermes. "I just spoke without thinking. I didn't even give you a chance to explain. Now that I'm thinking straight again I've realized that you didn't intend to hurt me, if you did you would've let me fall to my death. Which reminds me, I never thanked you for saving my life for the second time so here is my thanks."

At that, she kissed him on the cheek again, this time not surprised by it. Hermes was blissfully shocked, and his heart started to heal.

"So, why did you disguise yourself as a mortal?"Aedos asked.

"Because..." Hermes blushed and hung his head. "Because I wanted you to love me for my personality and not for my status."

"Love you?" Aedos blushed back. "You mean...?"

"Yes," Hermes looked up and held Aedos's hands. "I'm in love with you. I have been ever since I saw you save that lady's jewelry from those thieves a month ago and found out that you're a girl...you disguise yourself really professionally by the way."

Aedos entirely forgave Hermes, and her heart healed completely.

"Thank you, and...I'm in love with you too." Aedos smiled back.

"I'm...I'm very sorry." Sanders suddenly said, causing everyone to look at him. "Aedos ever since our parents were killed I became scared of losing you too. Hercules was right, I became scared up to the point of being paranoid and I became overprotective of you." Sanders looked so regretful that he also looked sad. "Hermes I'm so sorry, I didn't mean everything I said about you it was just the jealousy talking."

"It's cool cat." Hermes smiled. "No cream done."