Hey! I'm so so so so so so so so so so SORRY it took me this long to update! I'm going to try and update every 1-2 days for now on, but if I don't I'm sorry! It is summer and I do want to go to the beach every now and then so sorry if I don't get to it every now and then! Anyways, thank you all for staying with me on this story! And thank you all for liking the story! And thanks for all the reviews! Please keep reviewing; it makes me want to write more!

The next morning I woke up and decided to wander around aimlessly. Today I was going to avoid Atlas at all cost. There was no way I was going to be hanging out with him again. Even if I had to tell Cronus myself, I wasn't going to go messing around with Atlas. Speaking of Atlas, I wonder what Cronus did to him last night. Whatever it was It couldn't have been pretty. He was not happy with him last night, but from what I have heard, Cronus could be quite merciful when he wanted. That was probably a good thing on my part.

I walked down a hallway with blood red carpet and some statues of the Cronus and Rhea. There were also a couple of paintings of them together. They looked extremely happy together. They would have had the perfect marriage and the perfect life; if Cronus hadn't had freaked out when someone told him of the prophecy they had foretold, and ate his children that is.

Gaia never said exactly when we would free my siblings. All she ever said was; when it's time. Like I was supposed to know what that meant. When it's time, that could mean anything, right? I suppose I should get to know my father at least. Maybe he could tell me a thing of two about my siblings. I really am interested in them.

I continued to walk around, not finding much, but the place really was beautiful. I accidently stumbled into the throne room. It was hard to believe that only twenty four hours ago I walked in here for the first time and met my father for the first time. My eyes drifted to the thrones, only to find Cronus sitting on his, looking bored. I quickly looked away and absent mindedly wondered where Rhea was.

"Zues?" I heard Cronus call my name and I walked over to him. I bowed and took a seat at his feet, all without looking at him.

"Zeus?" he said again, "Is everything okay?"

I looked up at him and saw genuine concerin in his eyes, I smiled and said, "Yeah, I just, I don't know," and I really didn't. I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk to him, I didn't want to get close to him and then have to throw him in Tatarus. That would just make everything more difficult than it already was. I mean he is my father.

He put a hand on my shoulder and said, "Are you still feeling out of place?"

I nodded. Pretending that was the only thing on my mind. I was amazed, he really did care about me.

"I know it hard, but once you get to know people it won't be so bad. I promise," he smiled at me and I smiled back.

My smile vanished as we sat in silence for awhile, then I did the stupidest thing ever. But I had to do, I had to know. I asked about my siblings, "So, do you and Rhea have any kids?"

Without hesitation he said, "We have six. Three girls and three boys."

"But they're in your stomach," I said more then asked.

He nodded.

"What are they like? Their personalities I mean.

Cronus studied me for a few seconds and then began telling me all about my brothers and sisters, "Well, Hestia, our oldest is more of the quite type. She doesn't move around a lot, she doesn't kick her siblings ever. She just sleeps and stays happy. Demeter, she's kind of bossy. If she wants to move to another spot and someone else is in that spot, she'll kick them out. Unless it's Hestia. Her and Hades don't really get along. Then there's Hera, Hera is a pain! She thinks she's queen. She always kicking and keeping me up at night, she is most defiantly a pain. Hades, is more like Hestia, he's quite, doesn't move around a lot. Doesn't start fights with his siblings for no reason. He's sweet. Now Poseidon is a trouble maker he likes to get into fights and kick everybody. Not to mention 99.99% of the time, he is the one keeping me up at night. But I love him anyways. And out last child, we didn't name, by that time it hurt too much to name him. Naming them made us feel like complete monsters, so I just swallowed him and that was the end. He doesn't move around a lot, in fact he doesn't move around at all. And to be honest, that sorta scares me,"

"Do they, you know, respond to you in anyway?" I asked.

"Yes, whenever I say there name they move. And if they're acting up, if I just start talking then they settle down a bit,"

Cronus and sat in the throne room and talked all day. We talked about everything we could think of. I didn't want the day to end, I just wanted to sit and talk to my dad. He didn't expect a thing. The more we talked about my siblings the more I wanted to meet them, but the more I talked to my father the more and more I dreaded destroying him. By the time it was dinner time Cronus could have been considered my best friend. My worst nightmare had come true, I had gotten close with Cronus and I didn't want to fight him. I didn't want to go to war. I didn't want to be king. I was happy just being me and staying at my father's side. I just wanted to be me.

I mulled all of the day's events over in my head during dinner. I just keep quiet and eat silently. Cronus talked to Rhea and a couple of his brothers, every now and then rubbing his stomach trying to sooth his children. They must not be agreeing with his choice of foods for dinner. I was so caught up in the thoughts that I didn't even realize that Atlas wasn't there, until they every end when the nymphs came back to pick up the dirty dishes.

Once everyone exited the dining room, I walked over to Cronus and asked, "What happened to Atlas? He wasn't at dinner tonight, and I was just wondering if, well…"

"If I beat him and he was too weak to come tonight?" Cronus laughed, "No Zeus, I didn't beat him. I just yelled at him, we had a long talk. You see we don't fight much and he normally doesn't cause any trouble with me, so when we do fight, I just talk to him. Although he did make me mad yesterday. And as for him not showing up for dinner, he probably just wanted to be alone,"

"He probably didn't want to see me, so he decided to go hungry,"

Cronus laughed, "That is probably exactly the reason he didn't show up. He can be childish at times."

I stayed and talked to Cronus for a couple of minutes until I saw Gaia standing in the curtains, my heart nearly stopped. I stuttered to Cronus that I had to go. And started to walk out, planning on going around and meeting her in my room. But as I started walked away Cronus called to me, "Hey, how would you like to be my cupbearer? I know it's not much, but it will give you something to do until we come up the something else for you. It's only temporary."

I smiled and said I would love to and walked to my room. I opened the door and found Gaia sitting on my bed. She turned to me and said, "It's time,"

My heart was beating so fast that I thought it would fly out of my chest, and for the first time in my life I stood up for myself and told Gaia, "No."

Hey, so sorry it's kind of short! I hope you liked it! Please Review! Oh hey, if any of you are bored and want something to read, I posted a story called Oscar and Alphonse. It's posted on the Percy Jackson fanifcition site, but it has nothing to do with Percy. I just didn't know where else to put it, but I would forever grateful if you read it and told me what you thought. I wrote in a week for a school assignment. I've heard it's really good, but I put up the non-edited version without realizing it, so it you do read it just be aware, it's not edited. So thanks for reading! Please review! =)