Apollo POV

"Look babe, I'm sorry for taking off like that yesterday but it was an emergency. I'm the god of healing, I'm an Olympian, the council and gods everywhere need me." The naiad I was talking to tilted up her head and looked at me. She turned to look around the fountain and then sat on the edge next to me.

"I want to spend time with you but my duties as a god just don't let me." She gave me a very sad look but then frowned.

"You aren't just saying that right?" I shook my head furiously and gently cupped her hands into mine.

"I am the Apollo, the god of truth. I cannot lie and even if I could I would not lie to you." A soft smile forced in her lips and I knew she was going to forgive me. We look straight into each others' eyes and just when I was about to kiss her I was pulled away by someone.

"Apollo, there is an emergency in your palace." At that moment I was about to unleash my true power upon the poor deity that took that precious moment away from me when I noticed it was Hebe.

"Hebe, are you sure. This is really not the time." I turned to look at Maya and she looked crestfallen. Every single time things were looking good between us we were interrupted, curse those damn fates. Actually I take that back, I'm sorry fates, I am just so angry at my rotten luck.

"Yes, your sister Artemis dragged in a camper that looked pretty bad. I don't think I can help him in the state he is in." I stood up and turned to look at Maya once more to apologize.

"I know, I know, it is an emergency and you are needed elsewhere. I understand." The sad naiad jumped back into the fountain and despondently waved me goodbye.

"Apollo, Artemis is going to get really angry if you don't go." I turned to look back at Hebe and sighed in resignation. I flashed into my palace to find Artemis holding what appeared to be a camper. His clothes were dirty, his face was full of dirt and blood and he looked outright sickly.

"Whoa Artemis, what happened to him?" I asked my sister. She must have tortured this poor guy and I bet it was for something stupid like he accidentally flirted with a hunter or looked at her funny.

"Just hurry up and heal him. I have to go check on my hunters." Artemis flashed away and dropped the kid on the floor, bloody forehead hitting the floor first of course. I reached over to grab him and tried to focus on his face.

"Who is he?" The voice of Hebe startled me and I dropped the kid on his head again.

"Hebe, please!" My sister immediately backed away in fear. Father is not going to be happy if she tells him I only ever got angry with her so I had to apologize. "Hebe, I'm sorry it's just I'm not used to having you around all the time." She simply nodded and came closer. I grabbed the kid once again and noticed he had a familiar flower shaped tattoo on his left wrist.

"Is this camper involved in what mortals call 'gangs'? They do cause the youth a lot of trouble, they kill each other over them. " I turned and looked at my sister incredulously. She really needed to get into the real world, she never went outside Olympus and all her knowledge was from random mortal movies and from the few times she spied on the mortal world.

"No Hebe, this is Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon." Hebe looked at me confused and slowly shook her head.

"I don't think I ever heard of him."

"The one that fought Kronos like two years ago. The one that refused Immortality and got dad angry." Hebe scratched her chin with her left index finger but then slowly shook her head again.

"I thought it was my brother Perseus that fought Kronos." Hebe was really starting to irritate me. She was not dumb but she was so ignorant when it came to the demigods.

"No Hebe, our brother died a long time ago. He was mortal remember? This Perseus is a son of Poseidon and... It's a long story. I'll just explain who he is later." I snapped my fingers and moved Percy to one of the rooms in my palace.

"So how exactly are you going to heal him?" It was time to demonstrate my expertise to my little sister.

"Well for starters I will dump him in some water, preferably sea water. Being the son of Poseidon all minor injuries he has will automatically heal. " I flashed to Percy's room and opened the cabinet on the left top side of the room for my special summoning. Triton has gotten injured before fighting rogue mermen and Poseidon basically forced me to keep sea water on me at all time in case the water alone on Atlantis could not heal him and he had to be brought down here.

"I still don't understand how the water alone can heal him completely Apollo."

"I was not done Hebe, I will explain my process as I go." I transformed the bed Percy laid on into a decently sized fish tank and poured the canteen of infinite sea water onto the container. I watched as the water instantly cleaned his face and cleaned the minor scrapes he had on his face. If only everyone could be healed by water alone, so many lives could be saved.

"What now brother? His stomach has not stopped rumbling ever since Artemis brought him here and his life force is very weak. I doubt you can force him to eat ambrosia." Hebe was right, he had very little energy left and his body will not respond to regular healing. There was not enough energy to keep him alive, thank Himeros he made Percy immortal or he would have went into a coma or died already.

"Worry not Hebe, the boy is starving but I am the god of healing and I can heal almost everything that is heal-able?" That did not sound right but who cares, I knew what I had to do.

"First I need to get his body back to a responsive state, after that I will heal him. I will infuse some nectar into his bloodstream directly with my specially designed Golden IV Pump." I took out some nectar and mixed it with some mushed up ambrosia. I did not know if Percy could get dehydrated but just in case he was I also added some electrolytes and a bit of glucose to the mixture. I made two packs and put one on the table near the door.

"This Hebe, is what is going to help Percy. It will go directly into his blood through a peripheral line and treat his hunger, his thirst and his fatigue. It will jump start his body and will replenish his energy. I specifically made it for his well being so don't lose it." Hebe was now paying close attention to me and watched me work in awe. It felt good to have skills be respected, most of the Olympian just took my skills for granted. Only Hestia, Athena and dad ever showed some actual recognition of my skills.

"I will now hook up my special solution into the injection port, it is about 450 milliliters. Percy is pretty fit and has plenty of muscle so he probably weighs around 80 kilograms. In order for my solution to take effect soon I will adjust the roller clamp to release about 50 drops per minute and it should be done in about three hours. Now if you excuse I need to go back to Maya. Think you can check on him every hour to make sure the drip rate is constant and refill it with the pack over there in about three hours Hebe?" My sister nodded and put on a determined face.

"You're in charge Hebe. If he wakes up or anything else happens I trust you will take care of it. I really have to go patch things up with Maya and well you understand." Hebe nodded and then frowned a bit.

"What about visits? What if your sister comes back?" I really doubted that Artemis would come back since she basically just dumped him here so there was no harm there.

"Sure Hebe, Percy is in no serious danger and he can have visits. Anyways I will probably be back by evening so catch you later." I gave my sister one last smile before flashing away to Maya's fountain.

Hebe POV

I could not see if color was returning to his cheeks since he was underwater but from the looks of it Apollo had done it. They boy was going to get healed and my brother truly was the god of healing. At first I thought he was just going to hover his hands over him and use his powers to heal him but even I could have done the non magical procedure he did, just a demonstration that he is truly skilled in the field of healing even without his powers.

I turned to look at the boy again and wondered why Artemis had done this to him yet brought him here to be healed. Was he some kind of sexual deviant yet Artemis feared the wrath of Poseidon? Regardless I was hooked, I needed to know more about him. The closest I ever interacted with a demigod was with Heracles but he was already a god when we got married and he turned out to be a self loathing, boring pessimist.

I went outside the room and went to Apollo's study to see if he had anything written about him. Percy Jackson was his name and he was a son of Poseidon. Apollo had a decent sized library, many books but they were mostly about medicine and demigod biology. From the looks of it he was smart enough to be a mortal doctor as well.

There was nothing on his bookshelves about Percy so I went check on his desk. He had a few pictures of his sister, dad and what I believe to be his mom resting on his desk. I opened the drawer, the only drawer that he had and saw what appeared to be a doctor's agenda and his date book. Of course.

"Apollo!" I heard Artemis scream from Percy's room. I flashed there immediately and wondered why she was here. Anyways as long as she was here maybe she could clear up a few things for me about him.

"He is not here Artemis. Do you need anything?" Artemis turned around and raised a brow.

"Where is he? I told him to hurry up and heal Perseus. If Poseidon finds out about his state it will be his fault not mine." Is she kidding? She brought a bloody kid to Apollo, he is doing her a favor by fixing her mistakes.

"Apollo did all he could do to heal him in the condition you brought him on. What did he do to you to deserve the way you treated him anyways?"

"I did not do anything to him, it was Ares who did that to him. Besides I don't have to answer to you. Tell me when Apollo gets back Hebe, at least be useful for something." Artemis flashed away and left me in the room with the unconscious boy.

I could tell Artemis did not like me. I guess she resented me for being a legitimate daughter of Hera and Zeus while she was the daughter of a random titaness. I did not like her either, she has a great brother that always watches out for her yet she only disrespects and insults him. She was born very beautiful, powerful and can do as she pleases. I was given a domain everyone hates, forced to marry Heracles to as serve as a trophy wife and nobody respects me, it is not fair.

"What she said was not very nice." I turned to look at the boy and he actually talked underwater. Must be a son of Poseidon thing because I heard him clearly. The boy started to get up from the fish tank and looked at my brother's IV machine.

"This stuff really works, although I would have preferred some real food instead of whatever is being pumped into my blood." He turned to look at me and instantly dried his clothes. His eyes changed colors from light violet to sea green and sky blue. He gave me a dazzling smile and reached for my hand.

"I think my name is Percy Jackson and yours is Hebe?" I took a close look at his hand and wondered if I should take it. Apollo did not tell me much about him but he did supposedly fight Kronos and was a hero. If he had been someone evil or dangerous he would have told me right? I took his hand and shook it gently before letting it go.

"I am not going to pretend to know who you are but you must be a powerful goddess. Only a powerful goddess could be as beautiful as you." The boy was very direct and his compliment took me aback. It had been centuries since I have been called beautiful and it felt nice. I tried to hide my blush and smile from him but I could not break of his gaze.

"I am Hebe, goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera." The boy looked in deep thought and smiled.

"A princess of Olympus? This must be my lucky day." He immediately reached for my hand and gave me a soft bow. I actually never thought of it that way, if father and mother were the king and queen then I was a princess and that was kinda nice.

"Do you know where I am? It looks like the palace of Apollo but I don't know why would I be here? Last thing I remember I was fighting Ares and…" The boy shook his head and pressed on his right temple. It was like he was trying to think really hard which was funny since even I know children of Poseidon are not known to be the smartest.

"This is Apollo's palace. I am just supposed to be taking care of you."

"Hmm, do you know how I got here?"

"Artemis brought you here. You were very bloody and it looked like she gave you a severe beating and kept you as a prisoner." He scratched his chin and shook his head some more.

"I don't remember any of that. Why does my head hurt so much?" He asked as he rubbed the front of his forehead.

"Oh! You were dropped on your head by Apollo and Artemis. I accidentally surprised Apollo and he dropped you but I think Artemis willingly dropped you on your face." The boy eyed me suspiciously but shrugged it off.

"She did not have to do that, she should have just dropped me on my back or something."

"Well Artemis is not the nicest goddess there is. I think she is one of the most conceited ones if not the most stuck up of them all." I immediately closed my mouth and regretted saying that aloud. That was something that nobody was supposed to know but now this kid knew how I really felt about her.

"You think she does not deserve everything that she has?" I don't know how he knew exactly how I felt but I nodded. She did not deserve to be on her merry way, she did not deserve her close group of hunters and her liberty to do as wants. Father lets her do as she pleases and never punishes her, just a week ago she fired a dozen arrows in his private area and he did not even get angry at her. As for me he just married me off to Heracles to live a miserable life.

"It is not fair that she gets to be happy while I'm stuck being miserable." I looked at Percy again and saw he did not look at me in the eyes. He pitied me, he thought I was strong goddess and I was just proving I was an emotional weak one. "Father always loved her more than everyone else, maybe even more than Athena and she even has a loving brother. I have none of that and I never will." I sulked to one of the chairs in the room and sat down.

I wanted the boy to leave, I never wanted to see him again. He knew my real thoughts and he just stood there doing nothing.

"There is more than just one path to happiness. I like to think the fates do not control everything, they can only control so much so our future is not written in stone. We can choose our actions in the moment." He walked to me and sat on the chair to my left side.

"What do you mean when you say there is more than one path to happiness?" Percy scratched his head and then grabbed my hand. His eyes showed sympathy and I knew that I could trust him.

"It means when you find out what you want don't hold back. Sometimes you just have to recognize when there is something good in front of you and take it." In that moment something in his eyes changed. The look of sympathy in his eyes turned to one of lust and he eyed me like a prey. I wanted to run away but that is when he magically removed his shirt.

My brother was not lying when he said the demigod was very fit. He had a muscular frame and his abdomen looked like it was sculpted out of marble. His face complimented his body and for the first time I realized that he was beautiful, too beautiful to be a mortal. His eyes settled in a sea green and his beautiful face was only a few inches from mine now.

"What is it that you want Hebe, is there anything in the world right now that you desire?" Percy's gaze never left my lips and I leaned closer to him.

"I know what I want. It is something that I desire more than anything else in the world right now." I struggled to pass saliva down my throat but remained in the same position.

"Wha-what is it that you want?" I asked him delaying the inevitable. Percy just gave me a crooked smile and gently caressed my left cheek with his finger.

"Only one thing is stopping me from getting what I want. I just need to hear one thing and ecstasy will follow." At this point Percy was breathing on my neck and I felt myself going damp. If he was not a son of Poseidon I would have thought he was god of lust. I cleared my throat and struggled to ask another question.

"What is … what is it that you need to hear?" I asked meekly. His close proximity was making me feel like I never felt before. It was a new feeling but I liked it.

"Just answer me this one question." He hissed next to my ear making it tingle. I took a short breath and took in his scent, it was delicious and I knew what he was going to ask."What do you desire Hebe?" The question echoed through my head but I knew what I had to say.

"You."