FORESHADOWING!

Thank you, Hermie.

No problem, Thennie! Well, actually, the foreshadowing does become a problem later on-

Hush. We will be going back to school in about a week, so we won't be updating as frequently, wihch isn't saying much because this story takes a long time to write, as we have been, but we will try to post another chapter before we go back for out senior year!

Also... there are some Aphrodirty moments in here... just a warning... so... read at your own risk! I had to put that here because Thennie has already whacked me several times... so...

DISCLAIMER

Rick isn't Chiron. Meaning he would never put Percy, Jason and Nico in the same hotel room with only two beds. Therefore, not Rick Riordan!


"Well, this is awkward." Percy broke the silence first.

"You bet." Jason replied, sighing.

"Guys, it's not like I'm going to, you know, do anything to you." Nico finished, sounding a little tired. "But, yes, Percy, it will still be extremely awkward." The three boys stood in the room Percy and Nico had shared the previous night, and were now sharing with Jason because Chiron figured it was smart to put the three most powerful demigods on the premises in the same hotel room together. The only issue was the two beds that needed to be shared amongst three demigod males, all of which would be extremely hard to swallow if one slept with the other.

"Dude, just know that neither of us are hating on you or anything." Percy began, placing his hand on Nico's shoulder. "It's just that we don't want to make this uncomfortable for you."

"So, Nico can't sleep with Percy because that's just… awkward." Jason began.

"And I can't sleep with Jason because water conducts electricity, whatever that means, and Thalia warned me he's a kicker." Percy added.

"But I can't sleep with Jason for the same reason, kicker, I mean, and it's also just as awkward because I told Jason first." Nico finished.

"Why don't we just get a cot?" Jason rolled his eyes.

"Thank you, Lady Athena, but we can't exactly fit a cot in this tiny room. The girls got all the good ones downstairs and I'm sure the other guys who are stuck in our living situation already thought of the same thing a few days ago. Besides," He pointed to the second bed in the room. "We've already got one!"

"Hey, look, I'm okay sleeping with Percy." Nico furrowed his brow. "Gods, that sounded wrong… Wait, how do you know about the girl's rooms?"

"I had to give Piper a hand with something, relax!"

"A hand with what?"

"Shut the Hades up, Jackson."

"Hey, can we get away from the topic of sexual activities and just talk about sleeping together?" Nico punched himself in the arm. "That'll never not sound wrong, but I'm fine with going with Percy."

"Yeah, well, it'll be awkward for both of us either way, and that's the last thing I want." Percy replied.

"We can put a pillow down the middle. That's what Bianca and I used to do."

"You were little, and now you've grown tall enough to nail Percy in the balls if you kick." Jason pointed out.

"Fine. Then Jason and I will go together." Percy suggested.

"What, are you crazy? I'd shock you in the night if I had some crazy dream and then you'd probably drown the whole hotel in Viagra Falls!"

"Niagara Falls."

"Whatever. My point is…" Jason wrung his hands through his hair, frustrated. "I just don't want to share a bed, okay?"

"Okay, just calm down." Percy said, trying to keep himself from exploding since Jason was being so childish. "Look, what about the tub? It's big enough to sleep in for sure."

"And have your father let out a jet of water to drown me in the night? Yeah, thanks! Why don't you take the tub?"

"I don't think my father would take kindly to that sick humor. It's like Hera putting Leo in the fireplace."

"But you can go in the tub, can't you?"

"Will both of you shut up?" Nico yelled, stomping his foot. The ground began to shake. Nico cursed beautifully in Italian before the shaking stopped. "I'll sleep in the tub!"

"No way!" The other boys yelled in harmony. Nico sighed and scratched behind his ear.

"Let's just start over… Guys, just forget that I'm gay, alright? I have a boyfriend, so it's not going to be awkward because I have no space to-"

"You've got a boyfriend?" In a flash, the tension in the room fell. Nico sighed.

"Yes, I have a boyfriend-"

"Have you guys kissed yet?"

"You don't even know his name and that's the first thing you ask? Gods, you children of Jupiter-"

"It's that Apollo kid, right?" Percy asked. "That… That Shoe-lace guy."

"Solace. His name is Will Solace."

"And have you kissed him yet?"

"Jason!" Nico's face turned red as he winced. He had been twisting his skull ring so hard that it had caused his skin to bleed. He stammered quietly under his breath as his lips trembled, looking around the room for some kind of non-existent support, anywhere but Percy and Jason, who were watching him closely. "Yeah…" he finally managed, sitting on the bed.

"Where?" Nico almost sighed.

"The… The supply closet… in the archery range…" Percy tried to hold in his laughter.

"The archery… how ironic is that..?" he managed. Nico was turning redder. "Sorry, man, I didn't mean it like-"

"No, it's okay… I guess it is pretty ironic, isn't it?" They sat in silence. "We… we didn't kiss again… until last night…"

"Whoa, right under Chiron's nose?" Jason asked. Nico nodded.

"In that little room behind the ice machine. It's so loud that no one can hear you if you're inside talking to someone, and no one goes near that thing anyway. It's your ideal kidnapping spot, really." He stopped when he saw the wide eyed expressions his cousins were giving him. "Not in that way, come on." Nico sighed, laughing to himself. "It's only been little pecks, I guess. We're still getting used to it… and I'm not really, well, ready, I guess."

"If he tries anything, and I mean anything, come to us, and we'll show him how much water electricity can conduct." Jason said, placing his hand on his shoulder. Nico nodded.

"I thought it was the other way around." Percy began. "I mean, electricity and water. That thing." Jason shrugged.

"I dunno. Nico?"

"I haven't been schooled in ages. I… I kinda forgot how to read a little." Jason began laughing quietly.

"Okay, bed situation. Let's sort this out, then we can teach di Angelo how to read his own name."

"I'm not that stupid, Grace."

"How about we do this?" Percy suggested, going to the desk across the room and grabbing a note pad and paper. He wrote quickly on three pieces of paper before folding them and placing them inside a cup provided by the hotel. "To keep the irony steady, the children of the Big Three will draw lots to see who they'll be spending the night with." He began, shaking the cup in his hands to shuffle the papers. "We can probably rotate, and each of these cards has one of our names written on it. I doubt we're unlucky enough to each draw a different name… I mean, someone has to get theirs, right?"


There was a knock on the door to Annabeth and Piper's hotel room.

"Coming-" Annabeth had begun to say, but the door opened anyway.

"'Sup, bitches." Aphrodite said, walking in while texting. She flopped down on a chair and crossed her legs under her house coat. "So, Hera made me, like, chaperone of the, like, girls floor, so I, like, came here to give you, like, a new roommate. She just got, like, out of prison, so if she tries anything, you know, like, dirty on you, text me, and then, like, I'll come record it."

"I didn't get out of jail, I got back from jail." Hazel grumbled, stumbling into the room. She flopped face first onto the nearest bed beside Piper, who was holding her head in her hands to hide the embarrassment of being around her mother.

"Gods, Hazel, you look awful." She began, picking chunks of rocks and dirt from her hair. Hazel groaned, the sound muffled by the sheets. "Did you get Leo out?"

"Mmm…"

"Can I get you anything?"

"Phnk…"

"Sweetie, we aren't, like, allowed to bring, like, boys here. Unless they're, like, really, like, really hot." Aphrodite girled, taking a selfie.

"I don't mean to be rude, Lady Aphrodite," Annabeth began.

"Oh, honey, go ahead and, like, bitch all you want." Aphrodite sighed, sliding her phone into her housecoat between her breasts. "I live with Hera. You can't possibly be, like, worse."

"Okay." Annabeth replied. Dear gods, this was awkward. "What are you still doing in our hotel room?"

"Hanging, like, out. I'm, like, bored, and Ares is, like, doing that girl from, like, Room 275-" she held her hand to her mouth and looked at them naughtily. "Oopsie…" she giggled. "So, I, like, need to hang out with, like, people who act their, like, age. Because the rest of the goddesses are, like, total children! I mean, like, Athena? Narcissist. Artemis? Rebellious phase. Hera? Insecurity. Demeter? Obsessions. Hestia? Oh gods, she's just too cute to take her seriously! Persephone? We'll, you've seen her high on that stuff. I guess she could be, like, a teenager for, like, that reason, but, like… no… just no… Hugs not drugs." Aphrodite held out her arms, expectantly. Her phone disappeared between her breasts. No one took her up on the offer. "Oh, come on. Piper, baby, I'm talking to you."

"Mother, I'm not doing drugs!"

"But, weren't you, like sent to a correctional school? They send, like, kids there for, like, doing drugs, right?" Piper rolled her eyes, just like her mother.

"Mom, I was sent there because I stole a car."

"Were you on your period?" Piper looked awkwardly at the other girls for support.

"Umm… not that I can remember… Why?"

"Because goddesses do crazy shit when they're on their periods." Aphrodite said, speaking her first sentence without the use of the word 'like'. "Like, so, it lasts for, like, on average ten days, and depending, like, on how much it hurts, like, you'll do weird things. Hera, like, had sex with Zeus two months, like, ago."

"TMI."

"I mean, come on! She, like, deserves it after, like, putting up with him!" Aphrodite exclaimed. They heard something buzz. Aphrodite giggled. "Sorry, my phone's, like, stuck between my boobs. It tickles! Where, like, was I? Okay, so, Zeus does not, like, put up with Hera. Hera has to, like, put up with Zeus. Do you know the reason we, like, never slept together? Of course not, because, like, you're not subscribed to Olympus, like, Weekly and didn't see, like, my interview in the Chilly Love in Fall, like, Edition. He's so hard to deal with, like, in real life, and when we, like, were in Australia, I tried to do him, like, a thousand times, and he wouldn't, like, have any of this! Can you, like, believe that?! And he was totes turned on, too!" She stuck a little pose that made her housecoat slip from her shoulders.

"Mother, you're showing."

"I don't give, like, a hooting Hephaestus about it! You can see my boobs all you want, Piper!" she said, sitting back in her chair. "But, like, Hera… I feel so bad for her. I mean, let's like talk about it. Hera had, like, five of Zeus' kids-"

"Wait… I thought they only had three." Annabeth said.

"Doesn't surprise me; after the Trojan, like, War, they kept it pretty covered, like, up. Hera had, like, Ares, Eris and Enyo, whoever she is, I don't, like, know, Ares keeps talking about wanting to, like, find her, but anyway, they were, like, triplets, and after the, like, Trojan War, Hera had to get rid of Eris and Enyo so, like, everyone forgot about them." Aphrodite explained. "Zeus is always, like, running around having, like, kids with everyone but, like, Hera, and she's stuck being, like, insecure about it. Is she angry? Like, yeah. Is she jealous? Like, so totes jealous. But that's why I, like, feel sorry for her. Hera, like, hides behind this idea of the queen she, like, has to be. This strong, like, person who lets no one stand in, like, her way. And it totes is, like, an insult to have your own, like, husband show you that a mortal is, like, more valuable to them than a goddess. That's what hurts her; Hera loves Zeus too much."

"What do you mean?" Hazel asked. "About her loving him so much. If anything, you'd think she'd hate him after he's been cheating on her for so long with so many women-"

"Because never once has Hera, like, hurt Zeus." Aphrodite replied. "In any, like, myth you read, it's always, like, the woman he slept with that gets, like, punished. Hera would never hurt him. She couldn't. Love does, like, strange things to you. I would never, like, hurt Ares, and Hephaestus would never, like, hurt me. But it's different with Zeus. To him, like, Hera's just another object; now, you could even call her, like, his problem. Behind all that, like, queenly power, Hera's, like, just a lost little kid. She's insecure. She's lost herself in, like, her image and character, and, like, may not ever find herself again. Not after, like, 3000 years." She sighed and leaned back further in the chair. "That's why I, like, feel bad for her. She's so, like, insecure and lost about herself, but, like, she doesn't think she can go to anyone, or, like, her character won't allow it. It's almost like she's swallowed herself."

"Who swallowed herself?!" Came a muffled voice. Aphrodite peeked down into her housecoat.

"Oh, I emergency, like, dialed!" she giggled, pulling out her phone and holding it to her ear. "Hi, baby. I'm sorry! Yeah. Totes. Yeah, my phone was, like, down my, like, housecoat and my, like, boobs must have, like dialed. Okay. Oh My Me, really? No, like, way! Okay! I'll let you go before, like, the mood is gone. Love you!" Aphrodite hung up and stuck her phone back in its first position. "Sorry, that was Ares."

"Mom, why is Ares your emergency dial contact?" Piper asked.

"Because he's more convenient and gives dirty CPR." Aphrodite explained. The girls blinked at her. "OMM, I just thought of, like, more reasons Hera is, like, so totes in need of, like, therapy."

"I don't think it's wise to talk about the queen of the gods behind her back like this." Annabeth said. "I mean… we're technically gossiping about someone who could hear us and make us all explode, right?" Aphrodite rolled her eyes.

"You and your, like, wisdom. Hera is not, like, going to blow us up. This is, like, girls gossip time. Even she, like, has it. So, you guys know who, like, Hercules is, right?" Everyone nodded. "Okay, so, like, after he was, like, born, his mom, whatever her, like, name was, was scared that Hera would, like, turn her into a snake or something." Aphrodite continued. "She did, like, the logical thing and left him, like, outside by the garbage. But then, like, Athena took him to Olympus and, like, told Hera she found this random baby and decided to, like, keep it. So Hera, like, had to nurse Hercules, but then she, like, figured it out, and that's, like, how he got his strength and she, like, made the Milky Way."

"With… godly… milk?" Annabeth asked. Aphrodite nodded.

"Wait, so goddesses can… lactate whenever they want?" Piper asked.

"Only if you've, like, had a kid." Aphrodite explained. "Because then it would be, like, awkward."

"So goddesses have their periods." Piper recapped. Aphrodite nodded.

"Totes. And it hurts. But, like, the funny thing is, like, we never have any more, like, godly kids, and it, like, still hasn't stopped. My babies, like, pop up everywhere, but I, like, still have the sex for them. I mean, like, how else do you get babies?"

"What do you mean we pop up everywhere?" Piper asked, concerned.

"You, like, pop up around beautiful, like, things. I don't even have to, like, give birth! Like, the most promising ones are, like, in the makeup bags or makeup, like, closet, some are, like, in the bathroom by the mirror, like, some are in my pantie drawer, and there, like, was one who was, like, in my tanning bed!"

"Where was I?"

"The barbecue. Ares almost burnt your face off." Piper sat with her mouth held open at her mother.

"That explains so much…" Hazel managed. Aphrodite scoffed at her, happy someone got it.

"I know, like, right?" she continued. "But, like, I'm not the, like strangest. Athena's babies, like, materialize right there in front of her. I've never, like, seen it happen, but, like, Travis Stoll has. Athena told me that, like, she's never dropped one, but I, like, beg to differ! And, like, Demeter, she grows them in these, like, cornstalks. I know she, like, has some sex, but then, like, maybe she makes, like, seeds or something…" Aphrodite's eyes lit up. "Oh, you know that, like, Triptobizmo guy?"

"Triptolemus..?" Hazel offered.

"Was he the one who turned Nico into corn?" Piper asked. Hazel nodded.

"Yeah, like, that guy!" Aphrodite fangirled. "He and Demeter should, like, totes hook up! I mean, they both like, like, lame farming stuff, so, like, they'd have a great time, like, getting their hands dirty. And not, like, in the farming way." Aphrodite moaned. "OMM, I can't, like, believe I'm making, like, farming innuendos! Oh, Ares, I need you to, like, come get me… You girls, like, tire me out… Oh, I need a beer… or a White, like, Russian…"


"Do you guys think goddesses have their periods?" Leo shamefully asked, rolling over on his cot since he couldn't fall asleep. In the bed nearest to him, Frank groaned as he rolled over.

"Gods, Valdez, not now… Why would you even ask a question like that?"

"Because I'm bored and just got out of prison! I haven't seen a girl in ages!"

"You saw Hazel and Demeter and Hestia." Will remarked, flicking on the light beside his bed. Frank groaned and rolled over, averting his eyes from the light.

"Yeah, but two of them are technically virgin goddesses and one of them has a boyfriend who could turn into an elephant and kill me." Leo pointed out, siting up so he could see Will. "I say technically because Zeus and Poseidon didn't listen to Demeter. Point being; Goddesses and their hormones. What's up, Doc?" Will bit his lip.

"Look, Leo, I know next to nothing about women's health; I'm only in charge of looking after the boys. Like I would know anything about how a goddess' body works."

"Then let's spend some time acting like teenage boys and make some crazy stuff up!" Leo exclaimed, picking up his pillow and chucking it at Frank. Frank groaned, sat up and launched the pillow back in Leo's direction, who caught it and held it in his lap. "They probably act like that," he began, pointing at Frank, who was burrowing into the sheets of his bed to avoid Leo and the light. "Except it's ten times worse and they start rampaging through Olympus eating their crave food."

"And what would that be?" Will asked.

"Mountains upon mountains of dairy products so they bloat to match their pain. And their self-esteem shoots down during their periods, which last about a month."

"Wouldn't they just go into crazy heat and all want boyfriends?" Will suggested. "They'd all crave someone touching them at all times and then have massive aggressive mood swings and want to be lonely forever." Leo laughed.

"Dude, that would be hilarious with Athena and Artemis. Aphrodite would be practically everyone on every dating site's boyfriend and Hestia would lock herself in a cupboard and knit a house."

"Zeus would lock himself in the closet, then a cage, then a safe and finally wire himself with explosives to hide from Hera-"

"No, I don't think he would mind that."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. I mean, this is Zeus we're talking about. He's a ladies man, like me. I understand his struggles to keep his hands off beautiful women."

"Guys, will you please shut up?" Frank snapped, his head peeking out of the sheets. The other boys blinked.

"I can't believe the Canadian just asked us to shut up." Will said.

"Go chill in the tub, Zhang. You're a descendant of Poseidon and Ares loves sleeping in odd places during wars; you'll feel right at home." Frank glared at him before he stood up and dragged his blanket with his over his head into the bathroom, closed the door and locked it with a satisfying click.

"Okay, so, goddesses and their periods." Will said, returning them to the conversation. Leo leapt on Frank's bed excitedly. "They basically go berserk and give away free hugs."

"I heard some weird stuff happened with some Hermes kids and Athena delivering a baby. Was the Apollo Cabin off duty that day?" Will chuckled.

"No. Apparently, they happened to be in the area while Hermes was busy with something else and Athena asked them to deliver a baby she had already birthed… well… they watched her give birth-"

"How does that happen? Do they have belly buttons?" Leo paled. "Oh, man, what if they had belly buttons in the middle of their heads? Or their ears are actually their belly buttons?" Will was silent.

"Let's just leave it at that…" he finally managed. "I don't even know how she makes them. I mean, from what I've heard, neither Athena or Demeter have the usual contact before-"

"So she just thinks about it and they happen?" Leo asked. "It's like the skeleton forms first, or you gradually watch layers of it appear and it's all alive so you can see every little organ moving and blood flowing and she had the blue prints for these things memorized-"

"Valdez, shut the Hades up, I'm gonna be sick!" Will exclaimed, stopping Leo's dramatic explanation of how Athena created life. "Though… Hera must be pretty mad if Athena's able to will pregnancy or children to life like that after what happened with Hephaestus."

"Hey, she probably doesn't even care about it like my dad." Leo pointed out. "I mean, technically they birthed them differently, right? If Athena's just kinda pop up out of nowhere, and Hera was actually pregnant with Hephaestus, aren't the two matters separate? And there wasn't that huge thing about creating without a man because Athena was a woman and Hera logic…"

"I can't believe she just got away with throwing your dad off Olympus and no one noticed." Will furrowed his brow. "No, wait… they might have."

"Why? Don't ladies deflate pretty quickly?" Will shrugged.

"Well… I don't know, but someone might have noticed a change in her physically. Probably… Oh gods… Zeus of all people-"

"Are you talking about her weight or her boobs?" Leo said, shamelessly. Will nearly face palmed. Frank was wise to have left the room when he did. Leo caught on. "I can't believe we're talking about our grandmother's breasts."

"Thank you, Valdez, for now making this conversation twice as awkward."

"My point is, Hera's messed up. I have first-hand experience with that."

"Just go to bed, Leo. You've been dead and in jail for the past few months. Rest up; Doctor's…" Will trailed off, his face turning a little red.

"Doctor's orders?"

"Yeah. Go sleep in a fireplace or something." Will flicked off the light before Leo could reply, turning over and pulling the blankets around him. Leo shrugged and did the same.

The next morning, he woke up in the fireplace when Hestia was nudging him awake, remembering something hazy about being carried into the elevator by an elephant.


"Good night, Jason, Percy."

"Good night, Nico." Percy shut off the light on the table shared between the two beds and turned on his side.

"I know where you live." Jason whispered into the silence. Percy whacked him with a pillow.

"Don't do that!" he hissed, rolling over as Jason cackled in the bed beside him. It was only shortly after he had begun snoring that Nico saw something light up in the other bed. He sat up and looked over at Percy, who was slowly being electrocuted and wore a very painful look on his face.

"Thalia was right?"

"Thalia was right…"


NEXT TIME ON OLYMPUS GOT TALENT! BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO TYPE HERE!

"Come on, Nico! Show me your best dance moves! You're Spanish! Dancing runs in your veins!"

"Lady Hera, I'm Italian."

"Oh, Italian, Spanish. Chiron, Charon! Eris, Iris! Same thing!"

"Lady Hera, none of those are the same."