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"… My only love sprung from my only hate…"

Now only mine, forever and ever,

But just make sure that you remember

Balls or not!

They'll be off!

If you stray from my heart.

This day I was dreading, and not because I was scared of piercing Lynceus' ear, no! That was going to be the good bit, bring it on! It'll teach him not to get caught sneaking back into his own house.

No, the reason I was worried was the small, or rather larger-than-life problem of his majesty Rosie-Posie and the trouble that him and Lynceus were bound to get into. I had been black-mailed against my better, beautiful nature to bring along with me Artemis and Eros, together the four of us were double trouble, double!

He was wating for me as I had told him to, see, he was beginning to learn, he only needed to be trained. I was walking with Artemis on my left and Eros on my right. That rat was deliberately tripping me up as I walked, and because he was invisible it looked like I kept tripping over my own big feet. I muttered a dire, vile threat at him under my breath, all he did was wink, blow me a kiss and he vanished, only to reappear in the right of Lynceus.

Rosie was preparing to push him over, still invisible to normal mortals. I glared at him.

Do that and I swear I will kill you in your world, he going to be in enough pain as it is, wait until I've pierced his ear later on and I'll join in as well.

You are just jealous that I thought of it first.

He winked at me, letting me know he would make Lynceus' life hell later on.

He became visible and leaned heavily on Lynceus' shoulder.

"I do believe," he said in his ear, "That we are going to be the best of friends. I am constantly abused by those two mere women, but really, only one woman, Artemis, after all you can hardly call Nessie a woman, can you?"

I threw mud at him and he vanished and reappeared behind me with the mud ball, he then dumped it in my hair.

Lynceus laughed and as he told Eros that he too thought they would be friends. I glared at him and threw a stone at him, at least he didn't vanish.

"Lynceus, Artemis." I gestured to his left, Artemis to had left me. "That thing on your right is Rosie Posie."

I smiled sweetly at Eros.

"Call me that and I will make you fall in love with a goat, simply for the pleasure of watching Nestra castrate you."

"If you listen to him I will kill you, nobody listens to me when I ask them not to call me Nessie, why listen to him?"

"Well… Nessie suits you and he is the God of love, how exactly did he get the name Rosie?"

"He called me Nessie, and if you don't stop it I'll call you Lynnie."

"But that's a girls name, and I'm not a girl."

"Very well observed brain box." Artemis said laughing at him.

"So what exactly am I then Lynnie?" Asked Eros dangerously, "A transvestite?"

"Let's stop this debate over who's a boy and who's a girl, Eros, everyone know that you are a girl, and Lynceus, everyone knows that you are just stupid, time to pierce your ear."

Artemis froze his ear, Eros stood and laughed at the bizarre faces Lynceus was pulling, and his feeble protests that he really did not need his ear pierced, and I passed the needle through a flame of a small fire that I had lit.

"Where's the earring?"

"Here." He passed it to me. It was a small black stud.

Eros sat on Lynceus to brace him before I pierced his ear, although I really don't think that it was necessary.

As I pushed the needle into his ear, my mind went blank and body limp, I knew what was happening, I frantically sent messages to Eros, and Artemis in what I knew would be my last lucid moments. Artemis grabbed my shaking hands and continued the piercing while Eros picked me up and set me down on the floor.

My eyes rolled back into their sockets, and I was transported somewhere in the future.

My eyes opened and I looked around, my visions did not normally last long, so I would only be here for a few minutes. I lay in a bed of silk, soft and cool, the room I was in was filled with expensive and beautiful things, there was a piece of polished silver, acting as a mirror.

I looked in it, it was me, no one else this time, sometimes I was other people, but it was me, I had short hair again and looked a little older and more tired, but it was still me.

I turned over and screamed.

There was some one else in my bed!

I pulled the sheet of his head and was only slightly relieved to find out it was only Lynceus, I still wanted to know what exactly he was doing there. I kicked him

I looked down and saw my stomach, I screamed silently again, I had the biggest, most gigantic stomach anyone had ever seen, I was pregnant, God, the one thing I never wanted to be. I continued screaming, even though I knew that no one in this world that I was in would hear me, only Artemis and Eros and Lynceus, in the other one would.

Everything spun as I came back, my head hurt and I was screaming my head off like some one was trying to kill me, considering everything that I had seen, I would have preferred to be in a vision where I was being killed rather than one showing me looking like a beach whale.

Artemis was stroking my hair, my head was on Eros' lap who was looking worried, Lynceus sat next to me arguing with Artemis, who was trying to persuade him that I was not having a seizure, and that it was only a faint.

"I have seen faints before, and a person who is in a faint generally does not end up screaming like a banshee."

"I am a Goddess, do you dare suggest that I am lying?"

"Yes, I do, just because you are a Goddess doesn't mean that you are incapable of lying."

"Artemis never lies, it's Rosie you have to look out for, he wouldn't know the truth if it danced naked in front of him dressed as Zeus, shooting rainbows at him."

"I would if it was a female Zeus."

"What the hell happened Ness? Don't tell me you fainted because it wasn't a faint."

Nestra, what did you see? Was it hideous?

You can say that again, it was Lynceus, he was…. He was… he was, I don't know!

He was dead? He was tortured? He was killing you? He was what?

Not dead, even worse, the exact opposite.

He was pregnant?

WHAT?

No you idiot, you know full well what I mean Eros. Number one, it's not going to happen, number two, I don't want to think about it, number three, I would rather be dead that what I just saw so don't please remind me.

One question for you Ness, do you actually know where babies come from?

Even if I didn't I would not want a biology lesson off of you. Why, what exactly are you trying to imply?

"I really would rather be included in this conversation if you could, rather than be in the middle of an imaginary argument between Ness and Rosie."

"Sorry, that was rude of us, but it was meant to be private." Artemis glared at Lynceus, silently reminding him of his manners. Eros threw a stone at Lynceus and hit him on the top of his head. I was again reminded of how much of a baby Lynceus was as he sat down and pulled faces at Eros, which just encouraged the God to pull even more grotesque faces back, which were impossible to copy, mainly because Eros had his nose wrapped around his head and his lip pulled down to his foot.

"All I heard was Nestra asking Eros what exactly he was implying, what's the secret? And what exactly was that so-called faint?"

"That secret was something between us, you weren't invited, and as for the faint, you are right, it wasn't a faint, but I don't want to tell you about it now, I'll tell you when I'm ready."

He shrugged and then threw grass at me.

"You didn't tell me how much that ear piercing would hurt. You said it would be a pin-prick, it wasn't. It hurt."

"Serves you right for getting caught sneaking back into your own house."

"That isn't fair, it was your fault."

"Was not."

Instead of arguing more with me he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, I kicked and hit and fought back, and even bit his shoulder, but it did me no good, Eros looked like his birthday had just come earlier, he could not be more delighted and even Artemis was laughing.

He stopped and asked me whether or not I wanted to be put down.

"Yes, I want you to put me down. Put me down now."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure, put me down."

He threw me into a freezing cold ice stream. It was a cooler day today, but still hot, and I screamed my head off, loud and nastily high-pitched I grinned as they winced and put their hands over their ears. I was wearing my father long trousers and a top with thin straps, hopefully he would not notice if they were a little wet.

I got up with as much dignity as I could muster, being soaked to the skin and freezing, my hair dangled in my eyes, and I was really mad.

But my anger could wait for a little while as I spotted something that I was a great deal more interested in, the food basket!

"Eat first, revenge later."

I grabbed the basket and slung it over one shoulder, then climbed the first tree I saw,

"Any one who dares to come up and eat with and face my wrath may, and their own expense, all those who stay down there will get only my apple cores."

Artemis climbed up first, sat down beside me saying,

"Nestra, you know I am your best friend, how could I have stopped him from throwing you in that lake, would you like me to dry you off a bit?"

"That would be nice, and as for being best friends, I don't remember laughing my head off as I watch Eros throw mud at you."

Eros was next, climbing the tree whilst watching me cautiously out of the corners of his eyes, then came Lynceus, sitting as far away from me as he could, unfortunately for him it was not far enough.

The food he had brought was delicious, and he brought enough to feed an army which was good as I said to him before, I can out eat any one, just to prove it, all four of us had a competition. Eros and Artemis had an advantage of course, but even Gods have to watch their figures, and besides they hadn't been wandering around in other times, having visions really makes you hungry. As for Lynceus, well, he tried, but he really didn't stand a chance against me.

I am as slim as a stick, you know that, food goes straight to my feet or adds to my brain power, I don't gain weight.

The tree that I had chosen was not just a convenient place to eat, it was a weeping willow, one of my favourites and dangled over the stream that I had just been unceremoniously dumped in. I ate first of course and fought later just how I had been brought up, as a genteel and graceful lady.

I sat deliberately leaning onto the tree trunk, forcing all those who were too scared to sit next to me to venture out further down the branch, which was leaning out precariously over the stream.

Artemis had caught on; she usually knew what exactly I was plotting and decided that making peace with me was better than siding with Rosie and Lynceus. She sat the closest to me.

I moved round so I was leaning backwards over the branch and placed the basket on the floor, no use sacrificing the food still left in there.

I was already wet, so another soaking would not bother me if I fell in accidentally, Artemis and Eros would vanish being immortals, and as for Lynceus, well he would get what was coming to him.

"I think, being so hot, that a little dip in the water would be really nice, it would cool you down a little, yes?"

Immediately Artemis and Eros vanished and reappeared on the ground below us,

"Thanks a lot you two, glad to know I can count on you to help me, she's mad, you don't know what'll happen to me."

"I do, exactly the same that happened to me."

I inched along the branch and with one fast, sharp movement pushed him in, he grabbed hold of my wrist and fell in on top of him.

I swear by Zeus that the water was even colder than it had been before.

I screamed, again.

As for Lynceus, well, not only had he just experienced the coldest, wettest soaking of his life, I had also probably paralysed him by sitting on him.

"I am going to kill you for this, this water is freezing, how can this water be so cold, when it's so hot?"

He had screamed even louder than me.

"You are such a baby. Don't your brothers do things like this to you? Play pranks and tricks on you?"

"No, why would they? They love and respect me and obey me. My brothers would never dream of doing anything like this."

"Rubbish." Artemis said. "Your brothers loved playing with you."

"If they didn't I understand why you think so much of yourself."

They sky grew dark as the sun set, I finally persuaded Artemis to join us in the water by telling her that it was lovely and warm and a nice way to cool down a little, after all the sun had warmed it up a little bit more, really it was as cold as ever.

She had tried to drown me where she eventually came in.

Eros took the easy way, not believing us, he merely pointed at the water and warmed it up, then he came in.

"I do not believe that you warmed the water up for yourself, and you let him throw me in here, in freezing water, you rat, you really aren't my friend at all. Cheater."

We ganged up on him and soaked him, he was trying to keep him hair dry, and unfortunately, it did not stay dry, what with Artemis being as angry as she was and Lynceus trying to drown him.

We stayed the night there, it was warm enough to just sleep on the grass with a small fire burning, telling ghost stories.

Eros had Artemis up all night with nightmares about really strange things, such as butterflyies turning into snakes and eating her toes, after the gruesome tales he told us.

We tried to tell her that she was immortal and no creature would dare do that to her, but she wouldn't listen.

I was just happy to sit there between them and feel content.

We may have spent the night messing around and wasting time, but it is the best way to spend time.

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