Artemis PoV

I froze, a needy moan escaping me as my lover squeezed. "I'm sorry," Percy mumbled, pulling away.

He wrapped a blanket around me and stood back with his head down.

I stepped close, touching his hand.

My lover looked up. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful."

He was shocked when I kissed him.

"Percy," I chided, "you can't do that." He looked down, ashamed.

"I meant that you can't be sexy and dominant, then suddenly be cute and sweet," I murmured.

"Oh," he said softly. "What do you want me to be now, then?"

My husband smiled when I snuggled into his chest.

Percy kissed my forehead, carrying me back to the bed.

"You're going to be a great father someday," I murmured into his chest, falling back asleep.

Percy PoV

I smiled, realizing my wife had fallen asleep in my arms. Following her actions, I did the same.

I was awoken by my wife's lips on my cheek.

I held her tight and rolled over, the moon goddess squealing in my arms.

"Good morning, love," I kissed her cheek. Artemis flopped around onto my back and raised her fist in the air. "Onward! To breakfast, o mighty steed!"

I smiled and laughed at her silliness.

"Alright then, goofball. Let's get dressed first," I kissed her nose.

Artemis disappeared into the closet, I into the bathroom, and we found ourselves ready to go, standing in the foyer of the palace.

"This place is much too big for the two of us," I commented. "Maybe if we had a few kids, that'd do the trick."

Artemis blushed, thinking of what happened before the kids.

She kissed my cheek, slipping on my, excuse me, her, blue hoodie, while I grabbed a black sweatshirt.

I grabbed her hand, and we walked out the entrance, through the gate, and into the streets of Olympus.

As we strolled along, many other immortals stopped and stared, shocked.

Artemis and I couldn't possibly get along and be civil, much less have feelings for one another, could we?

Did I mention I'm the god of sarcasm?

We entered the restaurant, being seated in a private booth. We could've had sex in there, and nobody would've noticed.

We sat next to one another, scanning through the menu before finally making our decisions.

I punched in our orders, and they appeared in front of us.

As we were eating, Aphrodite approached us, sitting down on the other side of the booth.

"Good morning, Percy. Artemis," she said my wife's name disdainfully.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"Sex. To fuck. I'm even fine with a threesome, I just wanna bang you!" She exclaimed, grabbing at my pants from under the table.

I smacked her hand. "Aphrodite, leave us in peace. I just want to eat breakfast with my wife."

She stormed off, muttering under her breath.

Shortly after, we were called to the council. Artemis as it was her job, me for an unknown cause.

When we showed up, hand in hand, the other gods were shocked.

After Ares made a rude comment about me sleeping with Artemis, she shot an arrow at him.

I chuckled, getting the evil eye from the war god.

Zeus cleared his throat. "Onto what we've all been called here for. Aphrodite has brought it to my attention that Perseus here has expressed no interest in her whatsoever. Only a highly trained agent with something much better where they came from would resist such a thing, and I thus find it sufficient evidence pointing toward the conclusion that Perseus is working for Tartarus, attempting to overthrow us. He will therefore be

sentenced back to from whence he came."

The king of the gods then looked me in the eye. "And you, traitor, you will have one hour to think about your failed mission before we send you off."

Finally seeing a moment to speak up, Artemis protested. "Father, that's completely unjust! You accuse Percy of being the enemy because he is loyal, while he maintains the title of the god of loyalty!"

"Why do you care so much, daughter?" The lightning god questioned.

"Because he's my husband! Unlike you monstrous people that lack feeling and cheat on your partners regularly, I love him!" Artemis exclaimed, rising from her throne to stand beside me.

"Those are strong words, coming from the former goddess of virginity," Zeus spat.

"And it was you that took the title from her," I countered.

"This changes nothing!" The thunder god boomed. "Your hour starts now."

I grabbed my wife's hand, and we appeared back in our room.

Artemis cried into my chest, while the tears I shed fell to her hair.

"I love you, Artemis," I mumbled against her forehead.

"I love you too, Percy," she murmured.

I pulled her out of my chest and brought her to the bed.

"I was going to save this until Christmas, but I can't do that anymore," I sighed, pulling out a heart-shaped locket on a silver chain.

"I made this for you," I explained, opening the locket. There were pictures of us happily married on both sides.

I kissed my wife's forehead as I placed the necklace around her neck.

"It's beautiful," she finally spoke. "I'm going to miss you so much."

I touched her cheek. "It's not a goodbye. More of a see you later. I'll come back for you. It might be a while, but I promise on my love for you I'll come back."

Artemis grabbed my hand, pulling me toward our maze of a closet. "Then we have to get you prepared for surviving Tartarus."

The goddess pushed a few buttons on a side panel, and a set of clothes was moved to the front.

"Bulletproof, fireproof, waterproof, blade proof, impact-proof, skintight suit. It keeps you at your preferred temperature, and you can't get injured unless you remove it. There's a spell cast on the backpack to have whatever you would need," Artemis

explained.

I kissed her temple. "You must've put a lot of thought into that suit."

Artemis snuggled into my chest. "If you die, I'm going to kill you."

"I love you too, Arty," I mumbled into her hair.

Then she handed me a small compass. It had a hinged cover, with a picture of us on the inside of the lid.

I slipped it into my pocket, pulling her into my arms.

I kissed her with all the love in the world, because I knew it could be the last time I could for a long while.

Artemis blushed deeply when we broke the kiss.

I suited up and sat back down on the bed.

My wife and I exchanged talk of sweet nothings and loving kisses for the remainder of the hour.

The door burst open, and I knew the hour was up.

We exchanged 'I love you's, and I felt a stab at my heart as the tears slid down my wife's face.

I was silent as they dragged me off to the dark crevice that had opened up in the centre of the Council Room.

I was silent still as I was thrown into the ominous pit.

As I flew down the long fall, I finally understood what deafening silence meant.

Silence became unbearable. I couldn't stand it. It was like I was the only thing in existence.

Then I remembered the pack and pulled out an iPod.

Monsters would be attacking me left and right anyway.