Chapter 10 Truth or Lies?

Poseidon POV

I watched as Deuce shifting nervously looking at his hands, his green eyes seemed to glow with this uncertainty. I could tell that he still felt like he didn't want to tell me what was wrong with him, but he was shaken up, almost terrified the other night. Plus he never took his glasses off.

I walked over to him slowly so that I wouldn't freak him out. As I walked over to the side of the bed but he made no attempt to look up or to even move away from me.

It was like he was blocking out of this conversation and hoping that I would just drop it when I saw how uncomfortable he was about this whole hang.

I slowly sat on the bed putting a gentle hand on his shoulder only to feel all the tension that was racking his body and his muscle. He seemed too tense, what could possibly be making him react this way.

"Deuce it's okay, whatever happened, no matter how bad, I won't be mad at you." I watched this shudder go down his spine. When he looked at me, there was this look in his slit green eyes telling me that he didn't believe a word that I had just said to him.

Was he that afraid of what I thought about him or did he not believe that what I said was sincere at all. It had been this way since he was 6. I said something in the heat of the moment and I have regretted it ever since.

"Alright, then last night I left the party to get some air and Zeus followed me into the throne room. He attacked me, told me that I was a disgrace to the family and that if I didn't leave by tonight then I wouldn't live to regret it. Then he beat the living crap out of me and threw my glass to the other side of the throne room. After that, I opened my eyes long enough to crawl into your throne and I a sat there.

Hoping that you were there, it was like I was mute no matter how much I wanted to speak or move. There was this fear that I would stone the first person that hears my call and with the shades so far away I didn't want to risk it. I wasn't even going to tell you what happens. I was just going to stay there till the party was over and then try to find my shades."

I could see the hurt and fear that was in his voice, it felt like something tangible and it cut through me like a knife. I don't know what to think, I knew that my brother was…complicated for a lack of a better word. One moment he hates you and the next moment he loves it was too hard to believe that he would really attack my son. I knew that after yesterday he said that he didn't want him here.

He even said it himself but to threat and beat him that was hard to believe. This was the same crap that he said the night that our relationship fell apart. I am going to have to handle this differently or our relationship could be damaged beyond would never attack a child, would he?

I let out a sighed, Deuce who slowly stood up and started to move around his room getting dressed. I did know what to say so I just looked at him, he has this deep frown on his face and I could tell from the way that is muscle contracted, that he was beyond irritated. But his shoulders were slumping downward like he was also disappointed.

"I knew that you would believe me just forget that I said anything," I growl loudly and stood up what did that mean that he didn't trust me. When I turned to Deuce he was glaring definitely at me. He was starting to get angry. When his Greek blood boils there is not stopping it.

I walked over to him I could tell by his tense posture that he was close to hitting me, which wouldn't help the situation. I rested my head on his shoulder but gripped it tightly forcing him to as I looked him in the eyes. I looked at the mirror image of my green eyes only his pupils were slit. I placed a gentle hand on his shoulder and sighed.

"I will deal with Zeus alright? I will handle this mess and make sure that it never happens again okay?" I looked at Deuce he seemed even more angry as he slapped his hand away from my shoulder. "What the hell would be the point you άπιστος δειλός " His voice was stone cold and distance. I could see his eyes lighting up form anger. I didn't like how he called me a faithless coward, but he had a point.

"You can call me faithless, but I believe that Zeus doesn't like you… but I will, and I mean this Deuce I will talk to him and make sure he stops treating you like a second-class citizen. For now, why you don't take your friends on a trip around to enjoy yourself."

I looked at him as he shrugged his shoulder and looked down at his feet while his snakes snapped and hissed widely at me. I could tell that his snakes were showing the emotions that he couldn't risk showing himself. "Yeah, dad okay."

His voice sounded monotone and I could tell that he did believe anything that I could just say. Just like he didn't believe that I could change the way that Zeus saw him. "Alright, I got to go, but we will talk more about this later."

I watched him nod his head as I was walked out of the room. I could hear the door slam loudly as I walked slowly down the hall. Thinking back on it, this was what the third or fourth time that he told me this. Maybe there was some merit to what he had to say.

I shook my head walking down the silent hallway ignoring the sound of the house, I could hear the other ghouls and manster getting up. I could even hear Hera cooking which she didn't do very often. Must have been for Deuce his birthday is tomorrow. I sighed had walked into the throne room to see Zeus looking at the vision pool.

It was our way of seeing the mortal's affairs. That was how I was able to see Deuce casketball games he never wanted me there but I wasn't going to miss out on it. "What is so funny brother."

I snapped my head up at the sound of a stern but powerful voice that filled the entire throne room. "Just thinking about something. What about you so interested in the at viewing pool. You're not cheating on our dear sister again are you?" I looked at him his blond hair was slick back as the stubble on his chin had grown out.

He wasn't dressed in one of his usual pin trips suits. Instead, he was wearing a pair of jeans and a light gray tee-shirt. He must have been planning on doing something else today.

"Looking at one of my half-bloods, I am going to see her today. We are going to see a ballgame in New York." I nodded my head slightly before walking over to him.

When Iai tired to see what he was really doing her turned to me this wide smile on his face causing the image of the viewing pool to disappear. He was definitely hiding something from me and I didn't like the way he was smiling at me.

"There is something that you need?" I looked at him with his sparkling blue eyes looking intently at me, it was also like he was trying to find something in my face. I smiled lightly and looked down at my feet for a moment before looking at Zeus' hands They weren't brushed so he couldn't have hit Deuce.

We heal quickly but there would still be some kind of scratch on his body. "Nothing really, it's just that Deuce and I were talking and he said that you were saying some unsavory things about him and we'll that you beat him. I hope that it just a misunderstand right little brother.

My son comes first and you need to remember that" I looked at him and there was this twitch in the corner of his eyes. I listened to his heartbeat as he spoke.

"I would never do that to my own nephew we don't see eye to shades with almost everything but I would never lay a hand on him. Its under ing of a god even if he is a monster."

I listened to his heartbeat and I heard the upticks in it as he spoke each lying word, so Deuce was right but if he was right about this. Does that mean that he was right 10 years ago? I feel a shudder go down my spine as I smiled politely at him.

I had to make sure that he didn't know that I knew that he was lying. "What it is worth brother I told that boy that there was no way that you could do that. This is the same lie from 10 years ago he is such a disappointment. Enjoy your day with your daughter."

I watched him give me this sly grin and it made my blood boil the lying sack of shit deserve nothing less than death for putting his filthy hands on my son. My anger coursed through my veins on my lips moved on their own. "Zeus one thing, if I find out that you laid even a finger on my boy. All the gods on Olympus combined can't save you."

I watched as he nodded his head and disappeared from sight. I let out a large sigh and snarled. "What the hell is really going on here."

"Do you really want to know." I looked up to see that the hearth was talking to me as Hestia appeared from the hearth. This warm smile plastered on her pale and sweet face. What the hades could she knew about any of this.