AN: So… this is the new chapter. Yeah. After Giant War.
Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or Les Miserables.
STORYTIME!
Juliet wanted to shoot herself.
Because the gods promised to pay more attention to their kids at the end of the titan war, she was now being forced to spend a week with her father. The god of death. Great.
This is what happened when she got to her father's residence in the Underworld:
Thanatos- "Who are you? Why are you in my home?"
Juliet- "I'm your daughter. I'm supposed to spend time with you."
Thanatos- "Which of my kids are you?"
Juliet- "…Ladies and gents, the worlds greatest father. Give him a hand."
Thanatos- "Oh, yeah. The annoying one."
That's pretty much what happened.
Now she was sitting on the floor, trying to ignore her father, who was apparently an EXTREME monarchist. Whoopee.
"I do not understand what was wrong with the way things were in Greece. Of course the world is having problems, they have gotten rid of all the kings! If they just forgot this whole 'voting' idea, everything would be fine. It is inexcusable-"
"OHMYGODSWILLYOUSHUTUP!"
Thanatos looked startled. "Excuse me?!"
Juliet huffed. "You know what I said. Royalist pig-" she muttered to herself as she stomped out the door.
As she stormed away, she walked right into Nyx.
"Sorry, Lady Nyx."
Nyx looked mildly annoyed. "Juliet, do me a favor and take this boy to your father."
Juliet looked down and saw a little three year old boy hiding behind Nyx's robe.
"Of course. But why?"
Nyx rolled her eyes. "Your father was supposed to come fetch him to spend time with his children. In fact, aren't you supposed to be with him now?"
"Yes, but the amount of stupidity he possessed was killing me."
Nyx nodded. Juliet knelt down in front of the boy.
"Hey, squirt. I'm your sister."
The boy peeked at her from behind the black fabric.
"What's ya name?"
The boy shook his head.
"No name?"
The little boy stared at her with large, black eyes. She almost laughed. He looked like a mini Nico.
"No name." The child mumbled.
"Okay, so, let's pick a name."
He looked up and her and slowly came out from behind Nyx.
"Pick?"
Juliet smiled. "Yup, pick. I'll list a bunch of names, and you tell me the one you like best, okay?"
Her brother nodded.
"Okay, let's see… what's your favorite letter?"
He looked at her blankly.
"Did you go to school?"
He shook his head.
"Okay, um…" Great, now she had to try to remember the stupid song she heard at Walmart. Hey, it's not like she went to school either!
"Um, A-"
"A!" The little boy shouted.
Juliet looked at him uncertainly. "You like letter A?"
He nodded.
"Okay, um…Aaron, Antoine, Adam…" Jeez, this was harder than she thought.
"Alabaster, Alan, Alexander, Aiden, Antony-"
"AIDEN!" He shouted. Actually, screamed in her face is more like it. She actually fell over. She had no idea toddler lungs were that strong.
"…You like Aiden? Are ya sure?"
He nodded furiously. A thought suddenly occurred to her.
"…Wait, where's your mére?"
He stared at her.
"Sorry. Where's your mom?"
He shrugged. "My fwend say she's hewe."
She raised an eyebrow. "And what does this friend look like?"
His eyes lit up. "He weaws cool clothes, and I can put my awm in him! Like dis!" He ran over to a nearby shade and stuck his arm through it. The shade didn't seem to notice.
Juliet nodded. It was clear that his friend was a ghost, she wasn't sure which one. She'd have to ask Melinoe later.
"Okay, Aiden. I'm gonna take you to a really cool place. If you want to, you can stay there forever. There's horses with wings, and goat people, and kids like you and me who have special powers. Do you want ta go?"
Aiden nodded. He was practically bouncing up and down with excitement. "I wanna go! I wanna go!"
Juliet grinned at him and stood up. Her knees were sore from kneeling so long.
"Okay, Aiden. Just hold on to my hand, and we'll be there in a minute."
The boy gleefully snatched her hand and watched as Juliet reached towards the side of a nearby poplar tree.
"Ready?" She asked. He nodded. "Let's go!"
They ended up shadow traveling into the mess hall, actually, onto Mr. D's plate.
Juliet ignored the stares of the newer campers and waved cheerfully at Chiron, before lifting her brother off the table.
"Greetings, in-humanoids! I brought a friend!"
Sadly, Aiden had to stay with Nico. (Poor kid. Nico, not Aiden. Aiden can take care of himself.)
Random Aphrodite kids kept showing up at the door (because apparently, Aiden was 'cute') until they all got sick of it. Nico left to convince Piper to rally her siblings while Juliet built a rather impressive barricade outside the cabin. That last part hadn't been part of the plan, but hey, it did the trick.
Then Juliet left for the night and promised Aiden she'd come back later.
The next day, she walked across the border and what's the first thing she saw?
Aiden playing tag with a skeleton. Nico was just sitting under a tree watching them.
"God d- Nico! Where did he get a skeleton?!"
He lazily glanced up at her before returning his attention to the pair.
"Where do you think?"
"And why couldn't he just play with some of the younger campers? The kid playing basketball over there is, like, five!"
He shrugged. "They decided to keep there distance."
Juliet sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. "And you gave him a skeleton?"
"Yep."
Aiden spotted her. "Juwie!" He shouted.
Nico snickered.
"Shut the hell up, Nico."
Aiden hugged her legs. "Juwie! Can I go howme now?"
She pried him off her. "Why? Don't you like it here?"
Aiden shook his head. "No. No one want to pway with me. The horsies don like me too."
Nico glanced at Juliet. "Can you understand him? Cause I thought I heard him say 'blood' yesterday, but I was probably wrong."
Juliet rolled her eyes. "Yes, I understand him. You need to spend more time around children."
"No, I do not."
"Yes."
"No."
"Ye- Aiden, what are you doing?"
Aiden had decided to entertain himself by playing with Juliet's hair.
"I'm pwaying."
Juliet carefully disentangled his hands from her hair, then picked him up.
"Okay, kid. Let's talk to the horse man."
In the end, Aiden wanted to stay in the abandoned house he had originally lived in. Chiron said it was fine on one condition. The deal was that he could stay there if Juliet would check on him once in a while.
Okay, then.
"Juliet." Chiron called as she was leaving the big house. "Your father Iris-messaged me. He said something about Napoleon?"
"Bloody royalist scum." Juliet muttered as she stormed out the door, leaving Chiron in total confusion.
AN: So, that's Juliet's bro Aiden! Review if you liked this chapter!
