Artemis cried more than a child who has just lost his mother. Every time she thought she was done crying, the image of Perseus rejecting her just came back to life. It replayed on her mind like crazy, as if it was the only thing that she remembered.

After an hour or so, Artemis calmed down and stopped hugging her pillow. She got up her bed and into her bathroom, drying her eyes and washing her face. When she was finished, it was almost unnoticeable that the goddess of the hunt had been crying for so long. But it wasn't totally unnoticeable. For the experienced eye or someone very close to the goddess, the crying clues were as clear as day light.

When Artemis flashed to the outside of her palace, she oddly met with Apollo.

"Oh sh- you startled me Artemis. Wait, were you crying?" He asked after jumping back in surprise at the sudden appearance of his twin

"Apollo, can we talk in private?" Artemis asked in a hushed tone

"Of course, lets go inside your palace"

Artemis shook her head "no, my hunters are staying in there. Could we talk in yours?"

"Sure, lets go" Apollo said, walking towards his palace.

Due to the way Olympus was planned out, the twin palaces were not far apart from each other. That meant that the gods arrived at the others palace in less than ten minutes.

Apollo's palace was very bright and golden, almost as if he wanted to compensate for something. It was very big and luxurious, seemingly as if he had just won some type of big money and wanted to assert his dominance at Olympus. Compared to Artemis palace, his was a little too extravagant. The goddess palace was a simple silver color and not as luxurious. It had much outdoor spaces, but still lacked the cockiness her twins palace contained.

"Before you come in, let me just warn you that I haven't cleaned up in a while" Apollo said before opening his door.

To describe the inside of Apollo's palace as messy would be lying and deceiving Olympus health department. So much trash was thrown on the floor, pieces of uneaten apples were rotting on the floor, and worse of all, many erotic magazines and tissues laid all over the floor.

"This is the most disgusting room I have ever seen in my life" Artemis said bringing her hands to her mouth, trying not to puke at the smell the room had.

"Yeah sorry, I haven't cleaned up since Wednesday"

"And today is..."

"Friday. What's your point?"

Artemis had to go outside to catch her breath before entering once again at the dump that was her brothers palace.

"Do you have a room that is less dirty?"

"Yeah, my patients room. Gosh would you imagine the amount of lawsuits that would follow if my patients had to be treated in a place like this? Thousands!"

"Ok whatever Apollo, lets just go there and chat" Apollo put a hand on Artemis shoulder and flashed the two of them to the medical room. The air smelled clean, no perfume could be detected. As cold as the room was, Artemis did not feel any change in temperature due to her godly powers.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" Apollo asked, sitting down on his chair

"How do you deal with heartbreak?" Artemis asked her twin in a hushed tone

Apollo's eyes widened before replying "it just goes away with time. Why? What happened?"

Artemis explained everything, from her playing Wii with Percy all the way to the part where she actually proposed marrying him. No detail was spared, and needless to say that the sun god was very surprised at the great amount of information he had just been given. His twin was not a woman who would just ask anybody to marry her. On the contrary, if she could disband marriage as a whole, there was no doubt that she would.

"Why do you act so different over there than here?" Apollo asked, not even attempting to answer Artemis initial question

Artemis raised her eyebrow "what do you mean?"

"Well, from what you tell, you act really friendly with this boy just because you feel like it. Meanwhile here, no offense, but you act like a cold heartless bitch. That's part of the reason why nobody missed you when you went missing."

"Could you refrain from making me mad while I'm dealing with stuff here?!" Artemis yelled at her twin.

Apollo's face morphed from neutral to angry. His face reddened and his knuckles turned white from the force he was doing. "Artemis, get out before I do something I'll regret"

"No wait, Apollo, you have to-"

"Get out!"

Artemis did not need to be told a third time. She quickly got up her chair and walked all the way to her palace, not looking back at her brother. On the way to her palace, the moon goddess tried to understand her brothers behavior. It was unnatural the way he had overreacted over her slightly yelling at him. After all, they yelled at each other all the time. Yet something about the conversation made him inexplicably mad at her.

Suddenly, an idea passed through the silver eyed goddess mind. 'What if he was jealous?' She thought. But why would he be jealous of a boy she had just met?

Somehow, Artemis knew that Apollo's outrage didn't manifest due to jealousy. If that was the case then he wouldn't have left a condom on her palace.

The mystery of Apollo's sudden change of demeanor remained unsolved to Artemis, but she decided that she wouldn't give it more mind than it deserved. All she needed was to calm herself down and try to forget the rejection her friend told her.

And so the silver eyed goddess decided to go on a hunt with her hunters. She sped up the pace towards her palace (where she had left the hunters last time) in order to pick them up and go hunting. When she arrived, the huntresses looked up curiously at the goddess, as if they had not expected her to show up.

"Milady, did you forget something for your hunt?" The lieutenant stepped forward and asked the goddess.

Artemis looked at her weirdly, "No, I finished it"

"That has got to be a new record Milady! It's the fastest you have ever hunted" Phoebe said from the couch

"I guess...how long was I gone?"

"Around 45 minutes Milady" Atalanta, a daughter of Apollo, replied

Artemis stared absentmindedly towards her hunters. Thousands of thoughts ran through her mind at the same time. It seemed impossible that less than 45 minutes had passed in this realm when a day and a half had passed on the island. Last time she had spent less than five hours on the island, yet 200 years had passed in her world. How was it possible that time in the island had its own way of moving?

The goddess of the hunt shook her head of the number of thoughts that plagued her mind, deciding that it was better to talk about them with Apollo once his mood brightened. Instead, she decided to hunt with her hunters in order to keep her mind busy, and eventually to forget all about the rejection. Theoretically, the goddess was supposed to turn all of her anger towards drive to complete her hunts.

The case though, was much different from that. Years passed and Artemis hunt began to turn less demanding, most of them being very close to Olympus just so once they finished, the goddess could go and mope around on her palace. Many hunters took notice of the mood change their mistress experienced, but none of them had the guts to question her on it.

Two hundred years had passed since Artemis last went to the unnamed island with only one resident. The goddess wanted to return to the ugly island prison, yet she didn't want to face the man who had rejected her so many years ago. She pondered about it for many years, and decided that it was better is she talked to her most trusted friend and hope that she would receive some good advice.

The auburn haired goddess walked from her palace to the golden one. For two hundred years, her brother's palace had not changed much. Only thing that had been updated were the number of gargoyles that he had added to the roof and columns of his palace. Aside those, the palace still shone brightly, probably blinding any mortal who wanted to witness it.

Artemis knocked three times, waiting for several seconds for the door to open. With her heightened hearing, she could hear running and shuffling on the inside of the palace.

"Coming!" She heard Apollo yell from the inside of the house

Artemis may have been a chaste goddess, but that didn't mean that she was stupid enough not to know what her brother was doing and why he had taken so long to answer the door.

Around two minutes passed when the sweaty form of Apollo opened the door.

"Artemis! You caught me kind of in a bad time-"

"Oh please, this smells stinks like Aphrodite, and if I know her well, she has already flashed out of here. You're going to be able to fool around with her later today probably, but I need to talk with you about something. So please get dressed, I don't want to be seeing my twin like that" Artemis said as she covered her eyes in the most dramatic way possible

"Alright alright, I'll cover up" in a quick flash, Apollo stood dressed in the uncomfortable clothing that was common for the high class of the eighteen century. "So what do you want to talk about?"

"I don't know if I should return to the island with Perseus" Artemis finally said, bowing her head in shame

"Oh, why do you want to return?"

"I miss being with him. Sure, the hunters are great company, but they're not really friends. They're more like my own personal soldiers. I mean, they think of us as family, but it's still weird. But with Percy everything is so fun. Our talks are interesting, the stuff on his house are awesome, and even his foods are really tasty. And ever since I left, I've been unlike myself. All I want to do is return, yet I find myself scared of doing so. Apollo, please help me"

Apollo grabbed his twins hands and held them supportively. "Artemis, when something has been bothering you for more than three years, usually it's your heart telling you something. I understand that you feel like you might be embarrassed, but don't be. You're so beautiful that any guy would be lucky to have you, ok? If he didn't, then it's his bad that he gets stuck on the island alone for all eternity. You did all you could Artemis, so stop blaming yourself. If it's in your control, then take control of it. If it's out of your control, then there's nothing you can do about it so don't be stressed over it."

"But that's the thing. I know that I can help him escape, but I also feel like I want him to escape the island more than he does. Hades, I was even open to be married to him just for him to escape, but he said no. The stupid moron said no"

Apollo thought about what his sister had just told him, when suddenly everything clicked. "Artemis, why was the reason why he said he didn't want to marry you?"

"Something about him depending on me" Artemis muttered

"Artemis you're such an idiot!" Apollo exclaimed

"Excuse me?"

"He didn't reject you because he didn't like you. He rejected you because he didn't want to marry you just so he could use you. He wants you to marry someone who can help you, but he thinks he is not that person. Artemis, the guy likes you"

"No, he's just a friend Apollo" Artemis denied the claim

"Artemis think about it. If he was just a friend, he would've just accepted your proposal and there would be hundreds of little Perseus demigods, because he wouldn't feel bad cheating on you. Yet, because he liked you, he rejected you because he knew that not only he was going to use you, but that you wouldn't return his feelings back. So, by rejecting you, he was actually protecting both of you from being harmed in the future. Wow, I should be a psychologist" Apollo said grinning

"Wait, he likes me?" Apollo nodded

"Yep, and from the looks of it you like him too"

At that statement, the goddess of the hunt got up and raised her hands in a defensive position.

"Wo ho ho, hold your horses. I do not like him"

"Oh please cut the crap Artemis. You're lying to the god of truth and your twin brother"

"But I swear I do not like him" Artemis screamed

"Maybe you don't know that you like him yet. Being the goddess of maidens and chastity might have kept your feelings in the dark, but feelings are stronger than they appear. Trust me Artemis, once you see him again after I told you all of this, your mind will open up to the feelings inside your heart." Apollo stood up and put a hand on his twins shoulder. "Now go get him tiger"

Artemis smiled and hugged her brother, before flashing to the nearest beach. There, she redid what had been done the second time she visited the island. The necklace lead Artemis body to the island, where nothing had changed at all. The goddess ran upon arrival towards the house, where her friend laid.

Opening the door, Artemis quickly found Percy laying on the couch, silent tears coming out his eyes. He laid unaware that she had just entered the house.

"Are you crying?" She asked walking towards the body of her friend

"Artemis...no, I was just sweating through my eyes"

Artemis chuckled "that is the lamest excuse ever Inbred boy"

"No it's-wait, who ware you calling inbred?"

"You of course. If what you said is true, then your parents are brother and sister" Percy turned green at the explanation

"Gross! Ew! Blegh!!"

"You're so overreacting" Artemis said, touching Percy's hair

"Easy for you to say, your parents weren't brother and sister"

"No, but I think they were cousins"

"Totally not the same thing. Cousins are bad, but siblings is wrong dude. I can accept cousins cause more than half of the pantheon is related to each other, but siblings are off limits"

"You're such a drama king Percy" Artemis kept styling Percy's hair. The both of them sat staring at each other's eyes for a while, before Percy began to talk.

"I thought you were going to leave"

"I did leave" Artemis replied "for 200 years"

"Oh" was all Percy replied. He could not believe that it had taken her 200 years to remember that he existed, that she was going to visit him. Did he mean nothing to her? Clearly not as she had asked for marriage, but did he mean as much as she meant to him? Probably not. "It has only been a couple of minutes here"

Artemis stared curiously at Percy "that doesn't make any sense Percy. When I was here last time, less than 45 minutes passed on the outside world. But now, 200 years passed outside and only a couple of minutes passed here? It doesn't make sense!"

"Yes it does" Percy said, receiving a raised eyebrow look from Artemis. "When you're here, time passes by really fast because I'm having fun and enjoying. But, as soon as you leave, time seems to stand still because I'm bored out of my mind. It's the only thing I can think of, because I'm the god of time so that makes sense."

"So theoretically I could pass a lot of time here and not so much time would've passed outside?" Artemis asked as Percy nodded. "Then it seems like I'm going to be making many frequent visits here" Artemis pecked Percy on the cheek.