I wrote this all in about 6 hours, I was really eager to write it, I love this. Everything is explained and painted during the chapter and the story, but Artemis is Percy's girlfriend... He is guardian of the hunt after Annabeth cheated on him and his parents died, he came to the council asking for death. The usual... Yeah. That was two years ago.
They've been together for about 6 months, many different emotions and feelings have blossomed during that time. Percy is hurt, and even grown men cry, will Artemis be that shoulder for him to cry on? Or will she betray him just like Annabeth? This is the story of how Percy chose Artemis, did she accept or reject him? Truly?
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3rd person POV. (Wonderful reader Alexa corrected my POV mistake.)
(The first 2 chapters of this story are really bad in my opinion, so please just bear with me until chapter 3, it's not like I can take them out, so stop hating on me for them.)
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Artemis found herself staring at the front door to Aphrodite's palace, her hand hovering over the door about to knock. She never thought that she would actually be visiting the love goddess for serious reasons... Even less on something having to do with love. But here she was... for reasons that will soon be explained.
She knocked on the door and waited a few minutes. The door opened and Aphrodite answered, big surprise, she was in revealing lingerie, her panties looked soaked and she was slightly shaking on her legs... They were not compatible.
"Artemis? Whatever the hell you think I did this time, I didn't." She said, sounding irritated and impatient... Well she does have a hate-hate relationship with the goddess, so Artemis guessed it was to be expected...
"I'm not here to attack you, I swear... I-I" She stuttered, "I need your help." She finally got out.
Aphrodite looked at her for a few moments, making Artemis squirm in nervousness.
"I think I know what this is about... And if I'm right, then I'm also right in the fact that you really need help." She said.
Artemis just nodded.
Sigh... "Come in then." Aphrodite said to her, turning to walk in her palace.
Artemis was assaulted by the scent of perfume, pink walls with lewd (read: nude.) paintings on them, and just general... Girliness. On the right side of the room there were three large couches, one of them had a bunch of weird objects on it, and a wet spot...
Aphrodite snapped her fingers and a pair of yoga pants and a sports bra appeared on her, tight and enticing ones, of course. Also the objects on the couch disappeared, the wet spot too.
"What-" Artemis started.
"Sex toys," she called, "we're different, you know... You're the innocent virgin that doesn't get horny, I'm the goddess of love and sex that has an inexhaustible desire to fuck something." She explained.
Artemis was silent.
"You know, I'll let you borrow them if you wanna get ready for Percy, if you edge for an hour before you get fucked it feels better than anything." Aphrodite teased.
Artemis blushed so brightly golden that you'd think she was the sun goddess and Apollo was the moon god!
"Anyway... Take a seat and I'll get us something strong to drink, this is gonna be a long talk, I can just feel it."
"Mhm," Artemis said and sat down, on one of the not tampered with ones...
Aphrodite came back, carrying two goblets and a wine bottle. She handed one to Artemis and sat down across from her, they filled their goblets then started talking.
"So just to confirm, what do you need my help with." Aphrodite asked..
"It's about Percy... We've been a couple for over 6 months now, and I respect and love him very much, but I don't know if I should break my vow or not." Artemis said.
"Ahh yes, I knew it... I'll help you to the best of my ability, but not just for you, for Percy too... More the later than the former."
"Don't care who you do it for, I just need the help."
"Fair enough, but you gotta swear on the Styx to answer my questions about you and Percy truthfully and honestly." She said.
Artemis looked at her suspiciously.
"I said question about you and Percy, not about you, this isn't a trap. I'm the goddess of love not deception."
"Alright, I trust you... enough. I swear on the Styx to answer Aphrodite's questions about myself and Percy, honestly and truthfully."
"Good, and I swear on the Styx only to ask Artemis about her and Percy, and only with the goal to help their relationship." Aphrodite swore in response, something that wasn't expected.
Artemis looked shocked, she hadn't expected that.
"What? I told you it wasn't a trap..."
"Ok, I'm sorry."
"Doesn't matter, so first question: Do you love Percy?" Aphrodite asked her, sounding as if she already knew where this was going...
"Yes, very much." Artemis replied immediately.
"Ok, but if you loved him as much as he loves you, we wouldn't be talking right now... You love your oath and you love Percy, this is a problem. You love things that are opposites, love and virginity, conflicting interests..."
"I know... How bad is it?" She asked like a patient would ask their doctor how long they had to live after being diagnosed with a flesh eating disease...
"Bad, remember, Percy loves and always will love you no matter what, and I know because I'm the love goddess... Duh, and he loves you more than he loved Annabeth. He also trusts you more than anyone else, I know this because after what that Athena spawn did, cheating on him... The only way he'd ever love again is if he trusted that girl beyond belief. Having that conflict, that I mentioned, will eventually cause that trust to erode. He's extremely loyal to you, Artemis, I hope you understand this... He'll never cheat on you, not even look at another woman sexually again, that isn't you, of course..." She explained.
Artemis nodded.
"But he will start to doubt you, possibly even doubt your loyalty to him, he won't have as much respect for you... Start doubting your love for him, but his won't waver at all. That's why loyalty is his fatal flaw, because that kind of life is no life."
Artemis just looked down, concerned. She knew what Aphrodite was talking about.
"You understand?" Aphrodite finished.
"Yes, any more questions?"
"Yes, many more... He deserves you to give it to him, Artemis. He wants you, but I'll get into that. Now, do you sleep together?"
"Yes." She replied.
Aphrodite didn't look surprised.
"What do you wear to sleep? Stand up and show me, if it's anything like what I think I'll see... Don't be embarrassed, I'm trying to help you, and just remember how I showed up to the door."
Artemis looked at her wearily.
"Well? Better do it before you're struck with lightning, and yes I know you think I am a slut, but I do have some morals."
Artemis sighed and got up, she snapped her fingers and flashed her clothes away to her nightwear.
She wore just a thin nightgown that let her handful breasts poke through, and blue panties that showed her legs perfectly, she was gorgeous.
"Not nearly as bad as I thought, but before I judge that I'll ask: "Do you cuddle with him? If so do you face away from him or into his chest?"
"I cuddle into his back sometimes, other times he does the same to me, then other times he cuddles me to his strong chest."
"Ok, one more question: What's your favorite food? And yes this is relevant because I will use this information in a minute to prove my point."
Artemis sighed and said: "Venison pasta, freshly made by Hestia." She said like a child.
"Ok, perfect. Now let me just tell you that Percy is a perfect man, the best in existence. There are none better, if Percy had to rape a woman to save his own life he would rather die. If you don't believe me then ask him yourself, that is if he is still there... But anyway, you're very beautiful you know, and to him you're the sexiest and most attractive woman alive. Oh, do you sleep with him in that age-form?"
Artemis was currently in her 26 year old form.
"No, a little younger." She replied and Aphrodite groaned.
"Even worse... carrying on where I left off, I am trying to say that you are NOT making it easy for him to be content with your being a maiden goddess. In short, you're teasing him terribly, he wants you, sexually. It's not his fault, he's not a pig, it's your fault, just because he's Percy Jackson doesn't make him not human, not a man... Have you noticed him looking or acting tired before? Black rings under his eyes? Yawning often?" Aphrodite asked.
"Yes... I have, now that you mention it I guess it is weird... Especially since I don't give him chores anymore." She pondered.
"You're completely oblivious of him and what you're doing to him... I can't believe you can hate men so much when you are so much of a bitch to him... Anyway, he's tired because of you, you keep him up at night... Being so near to you, and the little moans you do in your sleep probably have him clawing at his ears. You wear this little clothing, are so close to him, and worst of all, purr. It's very hard to fall asleep when you are hungry, and it's also hard for men to fall asleep with a gorgeous, half-naked, curvy virgin goddess snuggled up to their chest, purring all night!" She yelled toward the end.
"You can sit down and flash whatever you want back on, the rule in here is actually no clothes, but I let it slide for our talk." She said and Artemis blushed.
"I'm not done yet, though. So you said your favorite food is Venison pasta, fresh from Hestia, right?"
She nodded affirmative.
"So imagine going weeks without anything to eat, tied to a chair, in Hestia's kitchen while the aroma of Venison pasta soaks the air and you have to watch as she makes bowl after bowl and she keeps it all to herself not letting you have a single bite... Leaving you unbelievably starving and wanting." Aphrodite made her picture.
"See it? Feel it?" Aphrodite asked.
"Yeah... Horrible hungry feeling." Artemis said.
"Good, now multiply that feeling by ten and you have about how hungry Percy is for you every night, and all the time probably, that's how he feels." She said, sympathetically.
Artemis frowned, finally understanding and feeling pretty bad.
"How long has this been going on? I imagine it took about 3 weeks for you to let him sleep with you, another three before you started shedding clothing... poor man." Aphrodite explained.
"Or maybe you don't care, I wouldn't really be surprised, you have killed and castrated most every man you've seen for over 4 millennia... So if so I'll just tell Zeus and he'll take your guardian from you, maybe he'll decide to have some fun with me, or... I saw Athena eyeing him earlier, I could feel the grief, shame, love and lust coming off of her. I bet she'd be right eager to comfort him after what her daughter did, and then what you did, AND! Since she has brain sex, she could be better than you in her sleep!" She laughed maniacally at her humor, but it wasn't funny for Artemis.
Artemis didn't take it very well... If you really want to be mean to a girl and make her cry, tell her another girl is better than her.
"Artemis... I'm sorry, I was just joking, but it wasn't funny, well actually it was... But I know you care about him, as I said, I really do wanna help you." She said, walking over to comfort Artemis.
"Percy loves you, Artemis. If he was here now he wouldn't want to see you in tears, not over him." She said soothingly.
"You're right... I need to be strong, I came here knowing what could happen, ready to be shamed... I'm alright." She said and stopped crying, or tried to.
"Anyways Artemis, he doesn't have much trust toward woman, but he trusts you. He caught his girlfriend cheating on him when he went to ask her to marry him, he lost both his mortal parents, the whole camp hates him after the kid that his girlfriend cheated on him with, framed him to look like an asshole. Now he's stuck in your band of man-haters... He doesn't have anyone else, Artemis! He's saved Olympus twice, saved our lives... Only to get nothing in return, ever, just a bunch of silver arrows up his ass for his sacrifices. You were there when he turned down godhood twice, for Annabeth... and she cheated on him, imagine how betrayed he felt, wouldn't you? Actually you wouldn't know, you've no idea how bad heartbreak hurts, especially in love and even more when you're Percy, just imagine him... watching the girl he loved more than anyone, and was about to propose to, with her tongue down the throat of some Zeus spawn." Aphrodite was sobbing at the end, she was the love goddess and seeing heartbreak... awful.
After a few minutes of sobbing and hugging each other they drank some wine and went back to talking, but really it was Aphrodite talking and Artemis making mental notes while listening.
"He's had as shitty of a life as you can get, I owe him my life twice over, every other god and goddess does too... He's the hunters of Artemis's guardian, a practical death sentence for a male, and the personal shoulder to cry on and bed heater for the goddess of the hunt, I'd say he is not really loving life." She exclaimed, painting the picture perfectly.
Artemis was looking extremely ashamed, Aphrodite was completely right, she did owe him her life and more, technically she did, they all did. After a few minutes of silence before Aphrodite spoke again, softly and meaningfully.
"Artemis, you do realize that if you want to be with him forever, you will have to give it up. No one that's not immortal can live forever, eventually he will run into a foe he can't beat, or die in a monster ambush defending your hunters, and you. Unless you wed him and consummate it he'll never be a god, forever living as a mortal but having the immortal blessing of the hunt. Do you really want to feel that heartbreak? To mourn for him? Feel the regret of being too selfish to not give him your innocence? Not even out of love but for his own safety? Knowing that he will sit in Elysium forever thinking of how the selfish goddess of the hunt didn't love him enough? That he died saving her life, the one she owed him twice over, never getting a single thank you or bit of fun in return for saving everyone's and his girlfriend's life twice over? How fucking unfair would that be? You can't comprehend it! Just think of how hated you'll be around here once that happens, when everyone realizes that instead of thanking him you kept him as your bed pillow and used him, never giving him an ounce of appreciation. He'd never stray from you, so none of the other goddesses could thank him themselves, never letting him feel loved or get to be a man, just a lonely, unappreciated pet. Think of how furious Poseidon would be, that you did that to him, that his son's sacrifice went unappreciated, that he died for nothing. I bet you can think of the punishment he would put on you. Zeus would probably marry you out to some god that would treat you terribly, defile you. Hestia would be ashamed of you, that disappointed look in her eyes as she looks upon you, she is like a mother to Percy and you know it, she'll burn you so bad you'll wish for Poseidon again." She finished, saying it all in a hurtful and mourning voice.
Aphrodite finished and got up, walking to her kitchen, she had an upset and sad look on her beautiful face.
Artemis was downright sobbing, bawling her eyes out into her hands, she was now in her twelve-year-old form, her heart breaking. As much as Aphrodite was hurting on the inside seeing her like this, she knew that Artemis needed this awakening. She knew that everything Aphrodite said was true, he would feel betrayed and used. She is holding him in the hunt, as hers, not letting him live the life he deserves, that he fought and bled for. She's literally treating him like a pet, and not even an important one at that!
Aphrodite came back, holding a large plate of cookies, blue cookies.
"I forgot to tell you why Percy trusting you so much is so important, and it's meaning... I've still to this day no notion why he picked you, out of all the girls he could have had, he picked the only one that wouldn't comfort him, Artemis he trusts you because he knows you'll never stray from him. But he also trusts you to make him feel loved, make this life worth living, mend his broken heart after that Athena spawn shattered it. I've no idea why he accepted to be guardian of the hunt of all things, he looked plenty abused as it was... But I think he saw something in you, he knew you were a good person, and most of all that you would be loyal. Above all else, looks/ curves/ power/ money, doesn't matter, the most beautiful woman in the world he would turn down for a loyal woman, even if she had no curves whatsoever. That's just who he is, Artemis." Aphrodite said it like she really meant it, as if to say: "if you don't want him, I'll gladly take him." Artemis wasn't crying, she was deep in thought. She took a cookie and mindlessly ate it, knowing it was Percy's favorite made it really good.
"He chose you, Artemis. Knowing full well he wouldn't get any sex from you." She paused. "Artemis, he doesn't love you because of what's between your legs. He loves you for your values and your character, values of loyalty most of all and he will keep loving you regardless of your decision when you walk out of here. But, I'll tell you that if you make the right decision, he'll love you a hell of a lot more for proving that you love him back, and he'll be a lot happier too. If you decide not to, there are some things you can do to make your relationship last longer... Put more clothes on when you go to sleep and don't cuddle with him, go into your 12 year old form again, and give him chores again, it would help keep his mind off of you. But if you make the wrong decision, just do us all a favor, be a bitch and dump him so that someone else can really appreciate him. Because there are plenty of goddesses on Olympus that will treat him right, plenty that will give him whatever he wants. But he doesn't want anyone else, he just wants you." She finished, emphasizing just the right words to get her point across.
"I know you're not in a speaking state right now, so I'll leave you alone... There's wine in the kitchen, and feel free to eat all the cookies you want, just know that I'm a very shitty cook compared to Hestia." She said, giggling at the end, but it was dry laughter.
"And don't leave until you tell me your decision, I have something you'll want to do before you go to him. He'll like it too... I'll be upstairs, and don't you dare doubt yourself, because you are beautiful and you are strong." She told her, then left.
Yeah, my favorite part of PJO fanfiction universe is Artemis's self conflict over Percy and her maiden vow, which does she love more?
Please no flame about this, it sounds bad at first, then you start to realize how true it is... I hope. Remember, this is the love goddess speaking, so of course she is gonna make it all sexually dramatic and pressuring.
Was Aphrodite the right person to consult? Will Artemis have the strength and confidence to do this? Stay tuned and find out. Also check out my other story!
What will Artemis's decision be? Was Aphrodite too hard on her? Tell me in a review down below! :)
