Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or any of it's characters. I only own the plot and Emily.

Just remember I do not know Spanish, Latin and English with small amounts of Italian is it. I use google translate...a lot. Have Fun READING! :)

Rachel's POV

You know how girls are on another level than boys and always seem to know everything? Like how your mom finds that thing you lost sitting on your desk, your girlfriend is never surprised by your romantic gestures that you've been planning for weeks? I won't tell you how it works, but I will tell you I'm more powerful. Cause' even with less help from Oracle powers, I still get some visions. They don't make as much sense, but they still happen.

So when Annabeth and Percy left for their date, I had to run to my room because there was something I needed to see. I don't know what I was painting or why I was holding a paintbrush like it was a scholarship to MECA, but I needed to do create the scene behind my eyes. The only reason I could come up with was I missed dinner, because right as I was finishing the final touches, Percy walked in.

"Hey Rach, Reyna said you haven't come out of your..." Percy froze as he stared at my work, his eyes tracing every line and every drop of paint. "How did you know?" He walked over to it, careful not to touch the wet canvas. He looked back at me with worry in his eyes and suddenly I understood what he was going to do and why he was so scared.

I might have made a noise usually associated with Drew. I will refuse to admit this if it ever comes up again, but I squealed. "Okay, okay. You got her a ring, a promise ring, right? Oh this is so cute you're giving it to her tonight, right? Oh it's so cute and I want to help you plan this. What hand are you putting it on? How do you know her ring size?" I know I was freaking out but It's Percy and Annabeth. You kind of have to when they do cute stuff.

"Um. I was planning to. And she borrowed some stuff from my mom so we found out, she said to do left hand but pointer instead of ring." Percy relaxed a little. "But if she really wanted to, it would be cool if it went on her necklace or ring finger. As long as no one thinks we were engaged, that's not what this means right?"

I shook my head as I laughed at his discomfort, something that made him almost mortal. "No, no. It's not." I opened my arms for a hug and I got swept up in a lot of Percy. "I'm happy you're so happy. Congratulations on the next big step." I pulled away before really looking at my painting. It was two intertwined hands with one wearing a simple silver band with a piece of sea glass embedded in it. It was perfectly them. "Oh, wow. Can I see it?" I felt like a giddy child but it didn't matter because my best friends were so cute!

Percy pulled a ring box out of his back pocket and opened it slowly. "I got the band from my mom, it was my grandmother's graduation ring since she was the only one to go to college. Tyson wanted to help so he got me the glass and did the design. Do you think she's going to like it?"

"Percy, you got the band from someone who was the first in the family to go to college, it's beautiful. How couldn't she love it? Oh, not to mention it's romantic and from you. That girl has been in love with you for so long, I don't think you could do anything to scare her away..." I froze as I noticed him flinch, an image flashing across my eyes again of an arai laughing at him. "Percy."

He closed the door lightly, placing his head on the door. "I did something, Rach. Annabeth refuses to talk about it, Nico is someone I can barely be in the room with because I hurt him so much without realizing it...I can't talk to Jason or Reyna or anyone..." He tensed as he curled his nails against the door, shaking. "Do you know how much water is in the human body? What the percentage is?"

I covered my lips with my fingers, trying to process what could he could possibly be talking about. Annabeth and Nico would know, but he couldn't talk to them about it..."Tartarus, what happened?" I watched his shoulders rise and fall in little hiccups, if he was laughing or crying I couldn't tell. "Percy, talk to me. You know..."

"My powers. What I can control, how well." He turned to look at me and I swear as I looked at him he turned into cracked glass. "I learned I can control poison, I made Misery choke on her own. Annabeth was there. What she didn't see was that after that, I started to sense everything. Just like water, I could see the blood running through the ground, I could feel Annabeth's heart pumping. It was terrifying, like holding a kitten and knowing how easily you could kill it."

I tried to force out a small laugh like the thought of the daughter of Athena being a kitten was hilarious; but it came out as a gasp instead. "Annabeth isn't a kitten and you aren't the type to hurt someone like that." I grabbed his shaking hands, actually the key word for his whole body seemed to be shaking. "And that fear? That fear of what you did is why you're a good person, you don't want to hurt anyone and you don't like all this power you have. You're a child of the Big Three, it's understandable you have this much power. What you do with it, that's why Annabeth loves you and why the camp thinks of you as a leader."

It took a while, but I finally got him calmed down and drinking some blueberry tea on his bed. "Go talk to him. Both of you. You are the only ones who can kind of understand. Annabeth, you were there. You saw him after it happened. Nico, you almost faded. Reyna told me the strength of your power. You get how dangerous it can be and you were there too."

I locked them all in the couple's room before breaking down in mine, burying myself in the bed of blankets and pillows. I was the mortal, the oracle. The one who told everyone their fates and the one who was in the middle of everything. I was the one who spoke for the gods and sent everyone to fight their battles. I might not have that power anymore but I was still in the middle of this world that I didn't understand while having to fix the mess that I created unwillingly. Gods, it hurt. A burning that started at my fingertips and slithered it's way up and over my back, making it's way down my spine to my toes where it tethered me to the round.

"Mi ángel de fuego, no puedo arreglar lo que está mal. Pero quiero que sepas que estoy aquí." Reyna curled around my bundle, searching for a fold to free me with. "Mi amor, por favor, ven y déjame ver tu cara. Rachel, I need to see your face. Come on, mi ángel." She finally unfolded me, dragging me to her chest as I broke. One touch was all it took.

"I thought today was going to be a good day! I did, I thought they were going to have a great date and then I figured this out and I opened my stupid, stupid mouth." I curled into her as I sobbed, knowing she would probably joke that I ruined her shirt later but for now she just held me tightly. "I know you hate this but I just..."

Reyna pulled away to hold up my face to look at her's. "Rachel, you aren't strong because you don't break down." She pushed my crazy hair away from my eyes, looking annoyed as it just bounced back. "Okay, crying session after I fix your hair. I need a brush, a comb and some hair ties." She watched me grab them from my dresser, making me sit on the bed. "Talk as I take care of this."

I laughed at her as I wiped away some of my tears, going into a long and dramatic explanation of what happened, leaving out the details that weren't mine to share. "And then this evil creature stole me from my blanket burrito and I froze to death in her icy arms! Can you believe it?!" I whined as she tugged on my hair again to say she didn't appreciate my comments, digging my nails into her thighs behind me to make her stop. "Hey, I never said it was you. How don't you know it wasn't Piper or Annabeth that came in here and..."

Reyna spun me around, putting us nose to nose. "Oh, I don't think they came in here. Because they wouldn't apologize with this..." She pressed her lips to mine, her tongue teasing me for a second before pulling away and smirking. "And making you smile again by doing this..." She leaned in closely, her breath ghosting over my skin before suddenly I was pinned and her fingers were dancing over my hips, my sides and the back of my knees.

"Stop!" Tickling. My worst nightmare. Oh but I knew Reyna's secret, I knew her oh so dark secret. She couldn't take what she dished out. So of course, I easily got out from under her when I slid my feet over her calves to make her tense. "Oh, not so strong now are we?"

Reyna tried to get away from me but I wasn't going to lose to her this time, she'd figured out how to hide it from me for too long. "Come at me, Red." She tossed her hair over her shoulder, looking like a cat as she stretched and looked ready to pounce as she moved around our room slowly, watching me from each vantage point.

"Here kitty kitty." I smirked as she frowned, charging. I don't think either of us have had that much fun in years, it was exactly what both of us needed. Even if I didn't know then that her sister had found out about us via IM, or that she got a letter from the camp in the mail. No, but I would figure it out later because right now she needed me and I needed her. So we laughed and danced around each other more than before we figured out we liked each other.

Aphrodite's POV

"Oh, I can't and the, when they. Oh and the tickling! I just about died..." I sighed as I chatted with Persephone who was allowed to visit since Hades was here for a meeting anyway. "I know you don't particularly enjoy the boy but him and Will are perfect together." I sighed as I stared off into space, my eyes glazed over as I looked at them interacting like I was there.

The goddess before me shifted, pulling my attention away from the mortal world and onto her. "I need your help 'dite, I need help...understanding." When she had my interest, she smoothed out her dress. She was always my favorite of all of them since she understood. We may be goddesses of "soft" things but we could destroy anyone if pushed enough, I am still the goddess that started the Trojan war and got Athena to like Odysseus enough to get him home safely. I am still the goddess that led Percy and Annabeth to be so in love with each other that they fell into Tartarus to be together. "Nico is...different. When he was first with his father, he was harsh and rude. He was sick. Now he looks the same besides better health, but he's polite and gentle with his words. What..?"

"Love, Sephie." When she made to shake her head that no, it was before Will that this happened, I held up a hand. "Nico was taken from his country at a young age, forced to forget his mother after she died and then shoved into a different century. His sister left him and died because of it, his crush was the person he blamed. On top of that, he was a child of Hades and got manipulated by some ghost. He hasn't had anyone in his life that he felt really cared about him since before he was aware he was a demigod." I watched her face change as she took in this new information. "Do you understand now?"

Persephone nodded slowly. "He'd just lost everything and I was the evil step mom." When she looked at me, I watched her face turn to horror. "I was my mother!" She ran a hand through her curls, looking completely horrified at herself. Of course I would look like that too if I acted like Demeter...

"Just listen, he was not in a good place and you were his outlet. You responded with the same and both of you are at fault." She blushed darkly as I told her flat out, but I knew it was only for interrupting. "Think of this as a home. Nico since when you first met has found a Roman sister, Hazel. This relationship is healthy and helped fix the cracks from when Bianca died, which gave him a foundation. Then Jason came along and gave him someone to trust and they became friends and later became brothers. This gave him structure or walls. Reyna came in as another, older sister who already knew every bad thing that happened to him and his dark secrets. She loved him anyway and that gave him strength and a finish. But all he was was a layout house till Percy became his older brother. That gave him the finishing touches for Will to move into his heart." I paused as I quickly fixed my makeup, a more neutral and highlight kind of day. "What I don't think you know, is it made room for the two of you as well."

While Will helped him fully accept himself, he started to accept others too. I don't know when but I started to see the strings on his fingers change and multiply. He had more friends which showed on his pointer fingers, with lots of yellow strings connecting them. On his middle fingers were red strings which connected him to his family and when I first saw her today, I could see the red one connecting him to her as well as his father. "You mean...?"

I smiled my 'oh honey you really couldn't figure this out on your own?' smile as I took her hands in mine. "I'm the goddess of sexuaity and love. Not just romantic, but every kind of love you can imagine. In his eyes, you were originally a replacement. Now, you aren't his mother but you are his stepmom." I smiled as she hugged me lightly before dramatically flinging myself across the couch, Roman style. "So...Gossip?"

Persephone nodded excitedly, moving to mirror me. "Tell me about Hazel and Frank, what have they been up too? I mean obviously they haven't done anything to..." She gasped when I gave her a look, giggling as she moved closer. "Tell me."

"Okay so obviously they aren't on the same level as the others in the Seven, even Leo and Calypso. They've planned for this Mechanic Shop, he's working with Annabeth to design it and a house...It's going to be so cute and oh the babies...!" I lost track of what I was saying as images flashed across my vision of small children with Leo's darker skin and his curls with her eyes, laughing as they chased each other around as Calypso made stew in the kitchen and Leo came in with oil stains and a rag, saying he needed help on a big project. The oldest quickly said they'd watch the stew while the youngest signed that they wanted to help. I was brought back to reality but the thick smell of the new flowers on the table brought me back. "Right, well they are more confident now...so they've started being more confident with each other and what they do..."

Persephone scrunched her nose for a second. "She is my daughter, do I really want to know?" Just as she realized her use of words, I quickly started talking about the chocolate fiasco and their cuteness at school. "Oh, I'm so proud of her. I knew that girl had some sass in her."

"At least it's not aimed at poor Percy this time..." We both covered our mouths as we remembered hearing that argument between Hades and Poseidon, before falling into fits of laughter. I don't think I've seen Hephaestus so concerned as when he walked in to inform us that the meeting was over. "Phaestus, baby, thank you." I gave him a kiss on either cheek quickly before moving to leave. Vlaca, you just showed affection towards him! They can't know yet...I sighed as I looked back to find my husband looking even more confused as Persephone seemed it figure it out. I put a finger to my lips before disappearing to visit Hestia at Camp Half Blood. My son was arriving that day and his mother was going to need a little help...remembering me. I knew the perfect way to...boost her memory and it was going to be so much fun.

Translations:

Mi ángel de fuego, no puedo arreglar lo que está mal. Pero quiero que sepas que estoy aquí. "My angel of fire, I can not fix what is wrong. But I want you to know that I'm here."

Mi amor, por favor, ven y déjame ver tu cara. "My love, please come and let me see your face."