Percy Jackson entered Little Collins. When he came home earlier, both Hestia and Zoë snuggled the teen, intent on not letting the teen go. Lady Chaos also came up to him and asked if he was okay, and gave him a necklace that would instantly teleport him to her side if desired. The demigod entertained her girlfriends, and they all played games on his Gamestation until Hestia went back to Olympus.
Zoë asked about Olivia, to which he explained that she chose to stay at Athena's palace because she wanted to learn more about her current situation.
Back to where Percy currently is, he was sitting in the innermost area of the Café, hidden from the door with a huge divider. Percy waited for a bit, knowing that his cousin has a tendency to be late sometimes.
What the demigod didn't expect however, was the patron of his cousin, looking around the cafe, clearly looking for someone. 'Lady Artemis? What is she doing here? Is she also looking for Thalia?' The son of Poseidon, wanting to hide, decide to use the cafe's menu to hide, leaving a line of sight where he could see what the goddess is doing. 'I really don't want to deal with Lady Artemis, not after suffering a beat down from her.' Waiting for the goddess to leave, Percy lowered his head even more that the menu was covering it.
Percy thought that looking at where the goddess now is a bad idea, considering that he might look like a weirdo right now. The demigod didn't listen to his gut, and opened his eyes to take a look at the goddess.
It was really a bad idea, as his emerald eyes met the goddess' silver irises.
'Crap.' Was the demigod's thought. The goddess then made her way to his table and sat down in front of him. "Good evening, Perseus." The goddess greeted.
"Good evening as well, Lady Artemis. What can I do for you?" The demigod replied and asked. "Thalia IMed me and said that she needs my help. Are you looking for her as well?"
"No, I am looking for you." Came the reply of the goddess. Percy wasn't sure if he was seeing things or if it was the ambient lighting but he thought he saw the goddess' cheeks turn golden.
"Why are you looking for me Milady? Is there something you need from me?"
"I wanted to talk to you. That's why I asked Thalia for help." Artemis answered. "I wanted to talk to you about what happened yesterday, but you didn't come home so I had to ask for Thalia's help."
'So Thalia asking for my help was a ruse to get me to come.' Thought the demigod as he responded to the goddess. "To be honest Lady Artemis, you're the second to the last person that I wanted to see right now." Percy then continued speaking. "Getting a fist to the face as a greeting in the morning is not really my style."
The goddess got embarrassed by what he said and meekly asked him. "Who's the last person?"
"Annabeth."
"Oh." Came the wise words of the goddess. "I wanted to apologize for what I did yesterday. I tried to wait inside your place, but for some reason, when Zoë tried to drag me inside, a barrier stopped me from going in."
Confused, the demigod asked her about it. "Barrier? What type of barrier is powerful enough to keep a goddess? Besides, my place never had something like that. When Lady Athena helped me with it, we never talked about any of those."
"Look Perseus, I have talked to Zoë about what happened. She said that it was her choice breaking her oath." The teen nodded at the goddess' words. "I'm sorry for going berserk on you. I was not in the right mind and losing her tracker once more has been traumatic for me."
"I understand, Lady Artemis. But next time, please do not let personal feelings cloud your judgement."
"When I asked Zoë about why she broke her oath, she told me that because she loved you. She was very happy, you know? She willingly abandoned being immortal just because she loved you dearly." The goddess of the moon spoke out.
"Why do I sense resentment in your voice, Lady Artemis?"
"I guess I was jealous." The goddess shrugged. "It was the second time I've seen Zoë smile that genuinely. The first time was after she took her oath."
"Why would you be jealous about it? Shouldn't you be happy for your friend?" The demigod asked.
"That's what I asked myself earlier. Why was I jealous?" Artemis started to speak. "Was I jealous of you because you've seen her smile more than I do? Was I jealous of her because she was happy? Or was I jealous of her because she has you?"
Her words surprised the son of Poseidon. 'Jealous because Zoë had me?'
"I heard what you and Lady Chaos talked about back then." Her words stopped his mind. "You and her were talking about your feelings. I never wanted to eavesdrop but when I heard my name, I had no choice but to do so." The cheeks of the goddess brightened once more. "Were you telling the truth? Do you see me as an object of attraction?" Her voice sounded hopeful, wishing inside her that his words would affirm her beliefs, that he would tell her it was true.
"I don't know how to answer that without getting pummeled." Was the uncharacteristic reply of the teen. "If I tell you no, you would get mad at me. If I answered yes, you'll get mad because I see you as an "object" therefore you would punch the living lights out of me once again."
"I would not get mad, just please answer it truthfully."
"Then yes, I do think that you are truly beautiful." The son of Poseidon scratched the back of his head. "I don't think that there's a sane man who wouldn't find you attractive, Lady Artemis. Your beauty rivals Aphrodite, but you had her beat with your natural beauty. Aphrodite has this unnatural look to her, you know? While yours just screams all natural." Percy finished explaining, looking away from the goddess.
"Then are you attracted to me, Perseus?" Her question came quickly after he finished speaking.
'I was not expecting that, but given where the conversation is heading, I guess she's going to ask it.' The demigod thought. "I am. Just like what I said earlier, there's no sane man who wouldn't, they're just scared of getting castrated." The demigod swore she hear the goddess sigh in relief.
"Then I don't think I'm going to regret doing this."
"Doing wha-" The demigod was not able to finish his words as Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, maidens, and the moon, grabbed the back of his head and mashed her lip with his. 'What the Hades is going on!?' After a solid fifteen seconds, in which the demigod had to close his eyes due to the bright flash which he knew as goddess teleporting them somewhere. The goddess separated herself from the son of Poseidon. Currently, the two were now in her chariot.
"I've realized that I wanted to do that." the goddess giggled? Surely, he was hearing things he thought.'This has got to be a weird dream or something that Morpheus would do. Artemis just fucking giggled! I swear she would never do that!' All the teen could do was stare dumbfounded at the goddess, who then spoke once more. "I like you Perseus err, Percy. I guess I was getting angry because of my jealousy, and it reached its boiling point with what happened between you and Zoë."
"Before we delve into this deeper Milady, I have something to tell you." The son of Poseidon quickly uttered once he got his bearings back.
"What is it?"
"What if you're not the only one? That there's multiple people that you're gonna have to share me with? Would that be fine for you?" Percy questioned. He wanted to know her thoughts, since Zoë, Hestia, and him haven't really talked about their arrangement and what the boundaries are.
"When I said I heard what you and Lady Chaos have talked about, I meant that I've heard all of it." The goddess simply replied. "Though I can't help but ask, you are harboring feelings for Hestia, right? That's what I heard back then."
"I haven't even talked to them properly." The son of Poseidon remarked. "We haven't sorted anything about this. I know that they both love me, but I can't take advantage of their kindness like this. We need to talk about our relationship."
"Wait." The Goddess of the hunt questioned the teen. "Are you saying that something already happened between you and Hestia?" Percy nodded to answer. "Can you explain what happened?"
"It happened back when I brought both her and Lady Hera on a poetry pub." The demigod started explaining. "I had to answer an IM from Zoe back then, and when I came back, she was drunk. Apparently she had ten lemon Martinis when I was gone. Lady Hera said that her husband called a meeting and left me to bring Hestia home. When I did, she said that she loved me and then kissed me."
"Then you guys had sex." The goddess of the hunt finished. "That's actually surprising Hestia would do something like that."
"Yeah..." Percy murmured. "What I'm surprised with is that you're not angry at me for doing it with her while drunk." Artemis giggled once again, laughing at his words. "Is there something wrong with what I said?"
"Divine beings don't get drunk that easily, Perseus." The goddess said between her giggles. "Especially on mortal drinks." She continued laughing for a solid minute before calming down. "If anything, that makes Hestia a great actress if she fooled you like that."
"Right..." He didn't know if he should feel good because Hestia was not drunk or if he should feel bad for falling into such a trick. "She got the whole drunk act together though. I guess Hera leaving was also a ruse right? I don't think Zeus called a meeting that night." Silence enveloped the two, which Percy broke as he spoke once again. "So what about you, Lady Artemis? Are you still going to pursue me even knowing that I'm in this sort of situation?"
"I have questions for you as well before I answer yours Percy. Is that alright?" The goddess saw him nod and started asking questions. "Do you love them both?"
"Yes."
"Will you do everything in your power to keep them safe from harm?"
"Until I die." Came the answer of the demigod.
"Will you treat and love them equally?"
"I do, that's why I cannot choose." Percy replied.
"Then, is there a place for one more?" Was Artemis' final question. "To be honest, I don't like the idea of sharing. But if that's the only way I'll have you, then I think I can learn to share you."
"Percy!" Zoë rushed to his side as the demigod came home. "How's the meeting with Thalia?" The demigod shrugged his shoulders before speaking.
"It's not actually a meeting with her, but with someone else." Percy then opened the door behind him, letting in the moon goddess. "It was with Lady Artemis."
"Milady!" The hesperide exclaimed. "What brings you here?"
"I wanted to say that I'm checking up on you but that's not the case." The goddess' cheeks brightened. "It's him that brought me here." The former lieutenant shot her mistress an inquisitive look, which the goddess smiled nervously into.
"Right, why don't we just sit down and talk about it." The girl answered, quickly walking back to the couch. "It will be for the best if you call Lady Hestia for this Percy." The demigod did just that. He prayed for the hearth goddess to come and within seconds, the goddess flashed beside him and is now clinging to him. The four were currently in front of the hearth that was in center of the demigod's living room.
"So uhh-" Percy started but his voice cracked. This stopped him and forced him to clear his throat before continuing. "Who's going to go first?"
It was the hearth goddess who spoke after him, asking a question towards the moon goddess. "What brings you here Artemis? Yesterday I remembered that you've almost skewered Percy here." While her words sounded threatening, her face was playful. The smug smile she had was teasing the other goddess, who in turn blushed for the nth time of the day. "It looks like something happened earlier if you're reacting that way."
"Let's talk about what happened earlier before anything else." The former lieutenant proposed. "So Milady, please start telling us what happened."
"Thalia planned all this." The goddess of the hunt started speaking. "She cornered me last night because she noticed that I was gloomy. She asked about what happened and then I explained to her what I've done yesterday." The goddess pauses as she winces when she recalled what happened. "Thalia then asked if why I did it. After that, she made me admit to her that I like Percy." Her blush that almost disappeared returned even brighter this time. "Then she set up the meet that Percy went to."
"We knew you liked him Artemis." Hestia giggled. "What Thalia did was make you realize it yourself that you liked him."
The said goddess could only nod as her bright blush became brighter once again. Coughing to try and calm herself, the silver eyed goddess spoke. "So what now? Do we decide what days we get to be with Percy?"
"None of the sort Milady." The former huntress replied, lightly giggling. "That's going to be exhausting if we went through with that. If any of us wanted to spend time with him, we just need to tell the others. I'm sure Percy would make time for all of us."
"That sounds like a fine idea Zoe." Hestia agreed to what the hesperide had in mind. "And you're right, he'll make time for us. Isn't that the case, Percy?" His first lover gave him an inquisitive look.
"Yeah. I told Artemis that I would do everything in my power to keep you guys happy." He smiled at the girls. He then turned on the Gamestation and gave the girls controllers. "How about we play some Mario Kart?"
"I still don't know the primary reason as to why you've stayed." The goddess of wisdom stated as she continued skimming a book.
"This might sound selfish, but I really wanted to return home." The outlander answered. "Even Percy knows that. I just can't sit around and wait for a solution." She finished as she completed looking at the book the goddess gave her.
"You're allowed to be selfish." The goddess countered. "Especially here. You're not from our world, you don't have to shoulder our world's burdens, your counterpart already did that." It was at this moment that Athena stumbled upon a section from an ancient greek book. "I found it."
"Found what?"
"Your way home." The goddess answered. "We just need to Hecate and tons of godly power. Getting Hecate's help is easy, it's getting enough power to open a portal that is hard, as we'll need the whole council for this."
"Can't two or three Olympians do it?" Ollie asked.
"They could, but that would kill them." The goddess grimly answered. "The best thing we could do is present you in the next council meeting and see if the others would be willing to help."
"Yeah. I hope that they'll listen. They're usually so self-centered that the likelihood of me turning blind is higher than them listening." The girl gave the goddess a sad smile. "But both Percy and I have a knack for doing the impossible."
Athena smiled at the demigoddess' words. "Doing the impossible is normal to the both of you." The goddess stops her from doing more work. "You should take a rest. There will probably be a meeting tomorrow. I want you to save your strength."
The outlander reluctantly stopped. "Alright." She bid the goddess farewell before heading to a nearby bed, thinking about one thing.
'I'll do what it takes to get home.'
Sup guys!? Jasserru here with a new chapter.
Not much has happened here but I think I did good with this chapter. There's one more chapter I'll upload before the year ends, and will probably be about getting Ollie home.
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