Aphrodite twirled a lock of hair around her finger. She sighed deeply. She picked one of her romance novels from the floor, and flicked through it. She rolled her eyes and threw the book across her room. It hit her vanity table (The one she had in her room, which had only her favourite makeup and jewelry on it, like a pearl Earring that had once belonged to her daughter Marie-Antoinette), and the neatly displayed lipsticks, bracelets, rings, eye-shadow and a hundred other kinds of pretty stuff fell on the floor. Aphrodite sighed, and stuffed her face into her pillows. Maybe I should go pay camp Half-blood a visit, she thought. There is probably something entertaining there.

'Aglaia! Ag-lai-a!' She yelled. The girl came running into her room.

'Yes, what is it, maam?' She asked. Aphrodite stood up.

'I am going to go see my children in camp Half-blood. I would like to see that my vanity table is completely cleaned up again once I come back, and I want my outfit for tomorrow to be put down on that blue chair in my bathroom on the first floor. Something with that long, green dress please, just throw something together. Aphrodite strided out of her palace, leaving her poor handmaiden wondering which long, green dress she meant and which bathroom on the first floor with a blue chair she meant.

Aphrodite was staring into her closet with coats. She picked a long, black-brown coat, which went good with the clothes she was wearing and her current hair color. She stepped out of her palace, and down the stairs, to the main square. As Always, Gods and Goddesses stared at her (Hard life, I know). Instead of taking the elevator, she teleported herself to camp Half-blood. She appeared right in the middle of the main room of the Big House.

Chiron and Dionysus were inside the main room of the Big House, and they looked extremely surprised to see the goddess just appearing in the Big House. Dionysus turned his head away from her. Chiron shook his head. 'Welcome, lady Aphrodite, is there a reason you just appeared in our living room?' Aphrodite flipped her hair onto her back.

'Oh, I just wanted to see my children. Sorry if I interrupted your work!' Aphrodite pranced out of the main room, and walked onto the camp grounds. Dionysus and Chiron were so mesmerised by the goddess of love that they didn't even think about the fact that Aphrodite walking around camp will have... not exactly the best consequences for the camp.

Aphrodite walked over to her own cabin. She softly knocked on the door, but didn't wait for an answer. 'Hello, sweeties!' she called out. The six children that were in the cabin looked over. Lacy let out a yelp, but nobody else said made a sound. They all just stared at their mother, like rabbits staring at the headlights of an approaching car.

After way to many seconds for everything to still be comfortable, Piper shook her head. 'Hello... Mother. What gives us the honour?' she asked, with a slightly sarcastic undertone in the word 'Honour.' Aphrodite either didn't notice or acted like she didn't notice it (Probably the last one, though). She shrugged. 'I just felt like it, Sweethearts. Now, can one of you show me around your lovely little camp? It has been so long since I last saw it!'

You could hear the heartbeat of a mouse, that's how silent it became. Lacy slowly raised her hand. 'I'll come along, mother.' She walked over to the door, but before the two women left the building, Piper jumped up. 'I'll come along, too.' She ran past Lacy and her mum, and jumped down the veranda that laid before the cabin.

'Mother, what is your real reason for being here?' Piper immediately asked. Aphrodite waved at a few staring campers with a fan she got out of nowhere. 'Do you suspect that I have ulterior motives, Piper, dear?' She asked. She didn't look at Piper, but there was something in her tone that made Piper realise that it wasn't supposed to be a joke. She looked at her feet. 'Well, no, of course not, mother. Ehm, do you wish to see something in particular?' she asked. She heard Lacy swallow right next to her. Aphrodite flipped her hair over her shoulder. 'Hmm. I don't know. Do you know where your sweet boyfriend is hanging out?' She asked. Piper rolled her eyes, hopefully out of sight of her mother. 'The battle arena.'

'Then we go there.'

They walked over to the battle arena. Children left and right were gawking at the goddess. Meanwhile, Chiron and Dionysus and somewhat agreed on a talk they could give Aphrodite, so she would hopefully get out. Aphrodite reached the arena, with her children walking in front of her. Piper and Lacy tried to walk further, to the sword fighters, but the goddess of love stayed. She looked over the training campers. As by magic (It probably really was magic) all of the training campers stopped training, and turned around. They stared at the goddess.

Piper couldn't help but role her eyes. Leave it to her mother to steal the show no matter what. She and Lacy waited for her. Aphrodite flipped her hair over her shoulder. She put her hands on her hips, and started to walk past the crews. They were all standing there, with their weapons in their hands. Aphrodite clapped in her hands. 'Come on, darlings, go on,' she said. The enchantment broke, and slowly the campers started returning to their daily training.

Aphrodite stopped next to a girl from the Ares cabin. She was trying to cut down a strawman, but it didn't go very well. 'Go for the left side of it's neck,' she whispered. The Ares girl shot her a cynical look, but she tried it anyway; the strawman immediately fell apart. The girl looked at Aphrodite with big eyes. 'How?..'

'The straws were hanging lose in that part. It won't work on humans, but for strawmans...' She smacked her lips, and walked away, leaving the Girl from the Ares cabin completely confused. The goddess trodded over to Piper, who was talking to Jason. Lacy was already looking at the archers. Aphrodite put her hand on Pipers shoulder. Both Jason and Piper stared at her. 'I am sorry, am I ruining something? I'll just walk on over.' She softly tapped Jason's' shoulder, and pranced away.

Piper stared at her mum walking away. She rolled her eyes, while turning to Jason. When she looked straight into his eyes, she suddenly realised how cute she was. 'Eh... oh. Say, want to get ice cream somewhere?' she asked. Jason dropped his weapon.

'Sure. Let's go.'

Aphrodite giggled. Lovey-dovey couples were absolutely the best. She tapped Lacy on her shoulder. 'Lacy dear, let's continue the tour, shall we?' she said. Lacy nodded. Suddenly, Aphrodite grabbed her hand. Lacy almost froze, but realised that probably wasn't a good idea. 'Uh... mum... we, eh... we could see the strawberries?' She said. Aphrodite squeezed her hand. 'Sounds good, dearie.'

They reached the strawberry fields, were the Demeter and Hermes cabin were picking strawberries. Aphrodite stepped into the fields, with Lacy. They walked around for a bit, until Lacy felt that her mother started to get bored. She looked up. 'Want to see something else?' She asked. Aphrodite was looking around the field. 'Yes. This is kind of...' She stopped talking. Lacy raised her eyebrows, and followed her mother's' gaze. She suppressed a sigh. Oh. Travis and Katie. Of course.

They didn't get along, but for some reason everyone had to agree that they looked ridiculously cute together - even Connor once said as much. Katie and Travis' opinion on the matter wasn't clear. They never said anything about their relationship, though, neither the bad or the good kind. And Aphrodite had apparently caught onto that. Lacy acted like she was busy with a few strawberries.

Aphrodite shook her hair onto her back, again. She blowed a kiss at the two... demigods-whom's-relationship-we-do-not-know-but-we-do-not-assume-here. Immediately, they stopped squabbling over one of the baskets, and the field went completely quiet. They stood up, and even Lacy turned her head towards them. Slowly, they started talking. It looked so flirty, and yet nobody could pull their eyes away from it.

Then, it started raining. Lacy took a deep breath. 'She really wants this to be as cliché as possible, right?' She muttered, as soft as possible. Aphrodite pulled her onto her legs. 'Come, Lacy, it's raining! Let's get back into that really Big House! Or is there anything else you guys do when it rains?' she asked. Lacy hobbeled along, to the Big House.

'Eh, nothing. It doesn't rain. Our protective shield also has an in-build weather shield, so it only rains or snows when Dionysus wants to. Which is only in the night. Sometimes. For the fields.'

'Oh, nice dear.' Aphrodite was looking at Katie and Travis, who were running away, but not to their cabins; they were hiding under some trees. Aphrodite giggled. So romantic! Her plan had worked!

She and Lacy walked to the Big House. Inside, Chiron was looking at some papers - Dionysus was staring out of the window. 'The weather shield gave up. How is this possible?' he muttered. Aphrodite tapped him on the shoulder. 'Come on, Di, it was to get two of those kids together.' Dionysus shot her a dirty look, before looking away from the love goddess again. 'Stop it, Aphrodite. We aren't used to rain and it is only a matter of time before the first buildings start to collapse and we get mud flows.' Aphrodite rolled her eyes.

'Alright, Alright.' She clapped in her hands. Before Chiron and Dionysus could say anything else, she looked at them and said: 'Now, I got to leave. I have to see if my handmaidens put down the right outfit. She winked, and disappeared in a cloud of make-up.

Lacy let out a breath. Chiron couldn't help but laugh. 'She isn't an easy goddess, now is she?' Dionysus rolled his eyes. 'That is an understatement, Chiron.' Chiron didn't really answer to that; he had gotten used to his nephews' remarks. 'Do you want a cup of tea, Lacy?' he asked. Lacy nodded. 'Yeah. Yet, Chiron, do you think she was really bored or if she wanted to show us she had power? I mean, in the arena, she could tell someone what the weak point of a strawman was by pointing at it.' Chiron shrugged.

'I don't know, Lacy,' he said, while putting a cup of earl grey in front of her.

'Nobody knows anything for sure with Aphrodite,' Dionysus remarked. Chiron stared at him. 'This is the part where I want to remark that counts for most gods, Dio.'