Artemis POV

Immediately, I felt a splitting sensation in my head as Aphrodite started searching my love feelings. She could see everything, and I mean EVERYTHING! Despite it being futile, I attempted to block her out of my mind, but it did not work. This is the one thing that she is actually good at, and I have no control over it. She was looking at my personal memories with my hunters! Just wait until this is over, Aphrodite!

I saw my family, and all of my loved ones (including Apollo but let's not mention that to him. I'm sure his ego is already big enough for his head!) Then, I saw Percy. At this point, Aphrodite seemed to slow down. She was getting excited and searching every memory of me and Percy. All of the personal ones…

I could NOT allow that. With all the strength I had in me, my anger and fear of being found out fueling me, I blanked my mind and pushed out Aphrodite, as we both came back to real life, out of my memories. She went tumbling and fell on the ground, while I sat on the nearest sofa, breathing heavily. The relief! I did it. I blocked her.

Just not in time…

Aphrodite POV

She...she...she…

I'm out of words now. I mean the maiden goddess and she was… It's just… It's almost as significant as the French Revolution! The maiden goddess of the hunt feels this.

The maiden goddess of the hunt loves Perseus‽

"If the other gods found out about it…" I began, still trying to get over the fact that Artemis loves Percy.

"Many people, including you Aphrodite, would be jealous, while Perseus would… I'm not even sure what he would do, to be honest." At this, I nodded her head. He was very hard to figure out, even by the live goddess.

"Agreed. He can sometimes be very… unpredictable."

Now time to start the blackmailing.

Currently, Artemis was looking down at her lap, still trying to process her feelings, confused about love. Poor virgin. Her day was about to get much worse.

"Tell me Artemis," I started, a smirk on my face, "one reason why I shouldn't go straight to the other gods and Percy and tell them right now about how you would crave to have Percy inside of you."

Now maybe that was taking it a bit too far, but from the redness of the moon goddesses face, I couldn't be so sure. Still, she was experiencing these feelings for the first time in her immortal life, so I highly doubt that she's already having these dirty thoughts that belong to me rather than her!

"I have never asked much of you, Aphrodite," Artemis began, lips trembling as she feared the worst already. I see. She wanted me to not snitch on her. As these thoughts came to me, I decided to have some fun while I could.

"Goddess Aphrodite, the most beautiful lady on Olympus, I think you mean," I told her, smiling widely.

It had the perfect effect! As if on cue, her eyes glared at me as she started rambling.

"I'm sorry but who do you think you are. You are not beautiful at all. In fact, quite the opposite. Don't tell me what to do. Also, I'm a goddess too so you have no right to tell me to call a fellow goddess a goddess so just shut up and help me you wet, pink… thing."

All of this took her no longer than 6 seconds.

Well not exactly the best insult, but no matter. My fun time wasn't finished yet.

"I'm sorry Artemis, but I have rules, and if those rules can't be followed, my tongue might just slip out of my control during my next conversation with fair Perseus." It took a second for this message to sink into her. In the meantime, I simply thought over the few things that I could next say to the gods and Percy.

How about, "Hey Percy. Just to let you know, Artemis wants to ride you for hours on end in her tent." Hmmm… No. Too blunt.

I know! "Poseidon. The very girl who attempted to kill your son twice now wants your son for herself!" Just cue the tsunamis!

Eventually, through gritted teeth, Artemis spoke to me again, and what she said was music to my very ears.

"I have never asked much of you, Goddess Aphrodite, the most beautiful lady on Olympus-"

"I'm sorry, but what was that?" She was sure as hell pissed off now, if she hadn't been before.

"Goddess Aphrodite, the most beautiful lady on Olympus!" Artemis bellowed, flashing me daggers just in case I decided to ask her to repeat again. Looks like fun time is over…

For now…

"- but please don't tell anyone else about these feelings that I so badly want to get rid of, yet want them to stay with me."

Well well well! What can I say? I mean, who would have ever thought that the moon goddess was, in fact, an inspiring poet capable of rivaling that guy who wrote that awesome love play. Shakespeare or something… Perhaps it was Luke Skywalker, i mean how would I know! I only know the play because the boy kills himself when he thinks the girl is dead, and then the girl does too. Such an amazing tragedy of a love play. Going of topic here…

"You see, millady, I'm not quite sure why I should," I responded after (not) doing a poem analysis. If I do, then I would miss out on all the gods chasing after you, including Percy. Her eyes widened in alarm at this. She knew that I spoke the truth. A truth that could send her running into the darkest depths of Tartarus.

"Aphrodite, if you do, I swear I-I-I'll-I'll -" Abruptly, she stopped talking to me, and seemed to suddenly concentrate, as if trying to hear something from afar.

She felt it too.

Today, I, Lord Zeus, call all of the Olympians for a feast in the throne room. It has been a while since we all properly sat down together and eat. While I do understand that the current events have been tragic, I request that you all come to the throne room now.

PS: This is informal so please don't spend hours getting ready to come ( TALKING TO YOU APHRODITE!)

Well that's just humiliating. He just had to say that in front of everyone didn't he! Already, Artemis is smirking at me, though I can still tell that she is quite shaken up from the ordeal where I… invaded her mind? Sums it up.

"You heard that, right?" I asked Artemis, just to make sure that I wasn't delusional and didn't randomly appear in the throne room during one of Zeus and Hera's rare makeover sessions (Don't ask.)

In response, Artemis merely nodded, looking down and, dare I say it, frightened. While it was fun teasing the moon goddess, we needed to eat, and I wanted her to somehow enjoy it.

"Relax," I told her, putting some charmspeak into my words. It didn't have the full effect on gods and goddesses, but could sometimes calm them down, especially when their mind is unstable, like in my case.

"Let's eat, and I won't tell anyone, yet," I continued. At this, she looked up, pleased and happy.

"We'll talk later. Deal?"

She nodded happily and, without another word, flashed away to the throne room.

Rude.

Artemis POV

Her reassurance didn't last me more than a couple of seconds. How much time have I bought myself? A few hours, days, can't be more than a week, can it? The second she runs her big mouth, I'm in crocodile water. Nothing will help until I find the antidote to this love.

Sighing, I decided to push these thoughts to the back of my mind until the dinner was over. This was literally a once in a century, sometime once s millennium. They should be treasured. Opening my eyes, I realized that I had successfully flashed into the throne room and, surprisingly to say the least, Aphrodite had best me.

"I think this moment should be framed!" I exclaimed. When everyone shot me quizzical looks, I explained it to them.

"Aphrodite actually managed to spend no more than a couple of seconds for her makeup!" At this, everyone chuckled. Apollo even spar water out of his nose, or whatever the word is for water being ejected from someone's nose. Stupid brother of mine. Aphrodite merely glared at me while I smirked at her, time for me to have some fun seeing as she can't tell on me.

Looking around, I saw a spare seat at the end of the row. I guess I should explain the layout.

There were two rows of gods and goddesses, both facing each other, and one table in the middle full of Hestia's richest delicacies (My stomach was already rumbling!) On one row, we had Apollo, Dionysus, Demeter, Hestia, a spare seat which Aphrodite was going for and Poseidon, in that exact order. On the other side was Hades, Hermes, Ares, Hephaestus, Athena, and a spare seat for me. Quite a good seat, mind you. The two virgins for life next to each other, avoiding men. Perfect, if you ask me. Then, to sum it up, we had Father and Hera as the ends of the table. We all sat on the floor, to maintain tradition and remember the olden days, back in 69 BC.

Naturally, Aphrodite was trying to first with someone, who so happened to be Hades. Apollo and Hermes were discussing something, while Athena turned and started talking to me.

"Percy's favourite," she said as she handed me a plate of warm, blue chocolate cookies, giving me a wink. Now why was that? Shrugging it off, I took one and bit into it. I wasn't really one for trying new food, especially after 'sushi' from Japan, but this was a smart move. Immediately, the intoxicating Chocolat flooded my mouth and I shoved cookie after cookie into my mouth, relishing the warm sensation. They were like drugs, and being Hestia's cooking only made them better.

It was at roughly the half hour point that everything changed. I, and a few other gods felt a presence enter the room, good or bad, we didn't know. Hand clasping my hunters knife, I prepared to turn around, but that didn't matter. The presence spoke itself.

"Now I'm pretty sure that it's basically a crime to eat blue cookies without me," Percy spoke from the door to the throne room.

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