I don't own COTT

Chapter 1

Theresa was standing in a field all alone, Jay and the others had been knocked out, and now she stood face to face with Cronus, just like back when she was a teenager, of course now she was twenty two, and she was strong, but she had thought that she wouldn't ever need to fight again since they had put Cronus away five years ago, clearly she was wrong since Cronus smiled at her before dropping his weapon.

"Theresa, my dear" he said his voice sounding strangely excited, "I don't want to fight you."

"Why?" Theresa asked not wanting him to know that she was secretly scared, "afraid to lose again, however this time to a girl?"

To her surprise Cronus laughed.

"What's so funny?" She asked angry now, she didn't want to fight him, but she would give it her all and she would never let him take over the world.

"I don't want to fight you…" Cronus said before pointing behind Theresa into the forest, Theresa risked turning around, and to her surprise found Odie staring at her.

"Odie" she said her voice barely above a whisper.

"Get her." Cronus instructed before snapping his fingers, as Odie stared at Theresa a smile crossing his lips, Odie took a step out of the woods and into the limited light from the moon, which was beginning to come out from behind the clouds, and when he did Theresa could see he had blood around his mouth, gasping Theresa took a step backwards, as Odie took another step towards her before jumping in the air landing a few feet in front of her, Theresa stepped back again as Odie opened his mouth revealing two fangs, that were also covered in blood. Theresa felt her eyes grow wide as Odie pushed her head down and lowered his head towards her neck, getting ready to bite her, Theresa was certain that she was about to die. But that's when the moon came out from behind the clouds completely, and Theresa found herself on all fours with Odie thrown half way into the forest, where she souldn't have been able to see him still. Odie jumped back up and snarled, and to Theresa's surprise she growled back, Odie clearly wasn't playing around now as he pounced back towards her, Theresa growled before jumping towards him.

"Theresa no!" She heard Jay yell, before everything went black.

Theresa shot up in bed looking around her room disoriented for a moment, before running her fingers through her hair and looking at the alarm clock on her end table, five thirty am, Theresa sighed she had been having almost the same dream for about three months now, and at first she hadn't thought anything of it, but now they were beginning to feel more vivid, almost like the way that her visions used to be when they were fighting Cronus… gasping Theresa jumped out of bed.

"Was that a vision?" She mumbled to herself, before hurrying over to her desk and grabbing a piece of paper out and writing a note to her Dad, telling him that she needed some air and would be back soon, although she was sure that her father would more than likely wake up and just get straight to work and probably wouldn't see the note until she got home.

After Theresa left her note on the kitchen table she tip-toed to the garage and opened the door quietly, before tiptoeing to her car, and opening it manually so that the horn wouldn't sound when she unlocked it using her key chain, after she opened the garage she ran back to her car and hopped in it, no point in being quiet anymore she was certain that one of the servants would have heard the garage door being opened and was about to come and check to see what was going on, Theresa didn't have much time, and she had to go, and had to go now, she thought as she stomped down on the gas and sped out of the driveway and down the street.

Jay looked at himself in the mirror as he placed his tie around his neck and attempted to try it, but his hands were shaking.

"Come on Jay" He muttered to himself, "you defeated a crazy god, and you're this nervous about asking your girlfriend to marry you?"

"Well it is pretty nerve wracking" Came his father's voice from the doorway.

"Oh, hi Dad." Jay said looking away, and attempting to tie his tie again.

"Would you like some help?" Jay's Dad asked, smirking.

Jay wanted to say no, but he was starting to get frustrated with the stupid thing.

"Sure Dad, thanks." Jay said turning to face him.

Jay's Dad walked over to him and turned his collar up, and taking the tie and tying it in one try, then smoothing out Jay's collar.

"There you are, son." His Dad said smiling, Jay smiled back and turned to look at himself in the mirror.

"Nervous?" Jay's Dad asked handing Jay the jacket to complete his suit.

"Yeah." Jay admitted.

Jay's Dad smiled and put his hand on Jay's shoulder.

"Do you know when I proposed to your Mother, I passed out?"

"What?" Jay asked surprised.

Jay's Dad smiled "I had taken your Mom out for a nice dinner, and we were walking along the boardwalk right by the water, the sun had just started going down, and it was turning into an absolutely gorgeous sunset, red and pink, and the water was reflecting all the colours beautifully, that's when I knew that was the perfect time to do it."

"So what happened?" Jay asked confused.

"Well I got down on one knee…"Jay's dad began before trailing off and laughing.

"What?" Jay asked eager to know now.

"And the next thing I knew I woke up in the hospital."

"What happened?" Jay asked.

"Your father had managed to get himself so stressed out that he stopped breathing, and he didn't realize it, so his body did the only thing it could to make sure he stayed alive, it made him pass out." Jay's Mom said chuckling.

"So when did you propose then?" Jay asked turning to his Dad.

"When he woke up in the hospital." Jay's Mom said smiling at his Dad, "and you know what?" She asked though both Jay and his Dad knew it was a rhetorical question, "it was still the most romantic moment of my life even without the sunset or anything else, since when he asked me, I knew that that meant that we were going to be together for the rest of our lives, and on top of that I had already found out I was pregnant with you, Jay, so in that instant I knew that everything was going to be perfect." She said smiling at the both of them.

"You two really are how I want my marriage to Theresa to be like." Jay said smiling at the thought.

"Jay, our marriage is far from perfect." Jay's Mom said walking to his bed and sitting beside him. "But do you know what keeps a marriage strong?"

Jay shook his head "no."

"You have to love each other every day, take each other at your best, your worst, what have you, and you have to be able to communicate with each other, fight like best friends, and act like lovers, and always be there for each other, do you think you can do that?"

"Yes." Jay said without any hesitation, he had already loved Theresa from the first moment he had met her in New Olympia, and that attraction had only grown stronger, especially when he had almost lost her five years ago at the hands of Cronus, and he realized that he couldn't live without her.

"Alright, son you'd better go." Jay's Dad said placing a hand on his shoulder, Jay smiled at him.

"I love you sweetheart." Jay's Mom said hugging him, "good luck."

"Thanks." Jay said standing up and walking to his desk and picking up the corsage that he had bought for her, since they were going to a kind of make shift prom tonight, since they had never gotten to have one after what had happened with Odie, and Theresa none of the heroes had been in the mood to celebrate, but now they were all living in different parts of the world, and they all wanted to get together, at the thought that there would only be five of his friends there instead of six, Jay felt a lump in his throat, but he fought back the tears he was feeling, before turning back to his parents.

"Bye Mom, bye Dad." He said smiling.

"Bye son.

"Bye Sweetheart."

They both said before Jay walked out of his room and to his car, and drove off to do something that would be even more nerve wracking then asking Theresa to marry him… first he had to ask her father permission.

Atlanta smiled turning to face Archie, she hadn't seen him in a tux in ages, not since their wedding, but that was four years ago now, he had proposed right after high school, and they had had a very simple wedding, just getting married at city hall, but all their friends had been there, well almost all… Atlanta fought back the tears as she thought of Odie, she didn't want to be sad tonight, it was their prom, and it would give Archie and herself a chance to see all their friends again, at that thought Atlanta couldn't help but smile.

"Why do they have to make hotel bathrooms so small?" Archie asked walking out of the bathroom holding his elbow.

"Hit your elbow brushing your teeth?" Atlanta asked trying to hide her smile, they had flown to New Olympia last night and had just decided to get a Hotel, that way they could get ready and some alone time, since they hadn't had any since Atlanta had lost the baby, and found out that she couldn't have any children, at that thought Atlanta lost it as the pain came back from when she had had her still birth, almost a year ago now.

"Atlanta, are you OK?" Archie asked concern evident in his voice.

"Yeah." Atlanta said forcing a smile.

Archie sighed walking over to her pulling her into a hug.

"I was going to wait to ask you, but I want to know now." Archie said walking away from Atlanta and opening his suitcase pulling out a piece of paper.

"Ask me what?" Atlanta asked confused.

"This." Archie said walking over to her handing her the piece of paper, Atlanta read it before looking at him surprised.

"Adoption?"

"I know it's a big step, but if we can't have one of our own, maybe give a second chance to a child who doesn't have parents?" Archie said talking in a much softer voice then Atlanta was used to.

"Wow…" Atlanta said not sure of what to say, "This is a big step."

"We don't have to make a decision right away obviously." Archie said kissing Atlanta's forehead, "I'm in no rush, I just want you to be happy."

"I am happy." Atlanta said smiling up at him as a tear fell from her eyes, "I have you, and I think this is a great idea." Atlanta said kissing him.

"I love you."

"I love you too, Atlanta, with all of my heart." Archie said pulling her into an even tighter hug, Atlanta couldn't believe it, they were going to be parents, and Archie was right, they were going to be giving a child a second chance, and that in itself was going to be amazing.

Herry smiled down at his newborn son, Tim, and felt happy, and proud, he had been born two days ago, and while neither him, nor his wife, Giselle, had slept at all they were both happy that they has at least had a baby finally after months of trying and having no luck, Herry still remembered then finally one night when Herry had been working all week, and by the time Friday came along we was exhausted, and was in a horribly bad mood, trying to hide his strength, especially working as a delivery person, and when he could easily pick up the heavy packages, but he had to wait, for a super long time, for his weak co-workers, or his clients to carry the things out, if Herry could just use his strength then he could probably work six hours a day instead of twelve, but he couldn't risk having his secret revealed.

That night when Herry got home he just wanted to sleep, but as soon as he walked in the door he found Giselle sitting on the couch in the living room, a strange look on her face.

"Hi." Herry had said taking off his jacket, and remaining in the entry way of their home.

"Hi." Giselle had said turning to face him, and smiling.

"Are you OK?" Herry asked.

"Yeah." Giselle said standing up and walking over to Herry and kissing him.

"What's going on?" Herry has asked, usually she wasn't this affectionate, especially not after he had just gotten off work and he was all sweaty.

"I have something to tell you." Giselle had said her smile growing.

"Oh?" Herry hadn't been sure what else to say.

"Herry, I'm pregnant!" Giselle said her voice full of excitement.

"What?" Herry remembered almost falling over and needing to lean against the wall to support himself.

"Are you happy?" Giselle had asked, Herry wasn't sure what was written on his face, but apparently it was enough to make Giselle think that Herry wasn't excited that he was going to be a father.

"Are you kidding?" Herry said as a smile appeared across his face, "I am so happy!" Herry said scooping Giselle up in his arms and kissing her.

"Look at my two boys." Giselle said as she walked out of the kitchen, and into the living room bringing Herry out of his day dream, Giselle sat down on the arm chair and kissed Herry's head, before stroking Tim's.

"Our life sure has changed." Herry said unable to take his eyes off of Tim.

"For the better." Giselle said as she looked at her watch. "you know sweetheart, if we're going to make it to your prom we'd better get going, we do have a five hour car ride."

"Yeah." Herry said kissing Tim's head before passing him to Giselle, and walking to the front entrance where there were four bags, one of them were for him and Giselle, and three were for Tim, laughing Herry picked all the bags up at the same time, since Giselle knew his secret he didn't have to hide it, which was a nice change.

Herry walked out of the house and to their car, before walking back to the house and taking their outfits that they were going to wear to the prom tonight, and walked back to the car, while Giselle locked up and carried Tim out, after everything was in the trunk, and Tim was in his car seat Herry began driving away from his new life, and was about to re-enter his old life, and although Herry was nervous about seeing Jay, Thersa, Neil, Archie, and Atlanta again he couldn't help but think that it was going to hurt not to see Odie there, sighing Herry pushed the thought out of his head, tonight was going to be a fun night, and it would be nice to see everyone again.

Neil couldn't believe how good he looked, of course he always looked good but he was in a suit, and he hadn't been in a suit since he had married the love of his life, Krista, but that was two years ago now, and that was the last time he had seen his friends… well almost all of them… Neil pushed the thought out of his head as he looked at himself again.

"You look very handsome." Came Krista's voice from the doorway, Neil turned around smiling at her, even though she was seven months pregnant, she still looked beautiful, she was wearing a dark purple floor length dress, with jewels all around the neckline, and she had her naturally straight hair curled, Neil couldn't believe that he was married to her.

"You look beautiful." Neil said walking over to her, and kissing her soft lips.

"Well I think I'd look better if I wasn't as big as a house." Krista said looking down at her stomach and touching it.

"Krista, you're beautiful, and the fact that you're carrying our child makes you even more amazing and beautiful then you already are."

"You mean it?" Krista asked smiling.

"I've loved you from the first time I've laid eyes on you." Neil said, as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a box, handing it to her.

"What's this?" Krista asked doing her famous one eye brow raise as she eyed Neil suspiciously.

"Just something to complete your outfit for tonight." Neil said smiling.

Krista opened the box, and fought back tears as she pulled out a stunning sterling silver butterfly necklace, "oh Neil" she whispered unable to take her eyes off the necklace.

"Do you like it? Neil asked, though the look on her face told him that she loved it.

"I love it." Krista said as Neil took the necklace and placed it around her neck clasping it shut "thank you." Krista said putting her arms around Neil's neck.

"Any time." Neil said leaning down and kissing her.

"We should get going though." Krista said noticing the time on the clock in the bedroom.

"OK." Neil said walking past Krista and down the stairs into the front room of their house, pausing to pick up their suitcases, before walking out of the house, Krista smiled following him.

Theresa stopped her car, and looked at the building that she hadn't stepped foot in for five years, she was back at New Olympia High, and as much as she didn't want to go back in there she had to, something was wrong she could feel it, and Persephone was the only one who could help her.

Taking a deep breath Theresa walked through the front doors, and began making her way to the janitor's closet, when she arrived she took of her pendant and stared at it, she had worn it for the past five years but she hadn't looked at it. She had been too afraid to. Fighting back tears Theresa placed the pendant in its spot on the door and watched as the door opened, taking another deep breath Theresa walked through the door, and turned on the light as the secret entrance to the gods was revealed.

"Here we go." Theresa said as tears began falling from her eyes as she remembered back when her and the others were in high school, and as she remembered Odie she had to hold her breath to stop herself from blubbering.

Walking down the hallway she walked faster, hoping that it might stop the memories from flooding back to her, she was wrong though everything reminded her of Odie, and how he wouldn't be at the make shift prom tonight. When Theresa finally made it to Persephone's Solarium she took a deep breath before knocking on the door.

"Come in." Persephone called.

Theresa cracked the door open slightly "Persephone?" She called.

"Theresa." Came Persephone's surprised voice "what are you doing here?" She asked as she waved Theresa in.

"I had a vision." Theresa said walking in all the way, and joined Persephone who was sitting on one of the pillows on the floor.

"What kind of vision?" Persephone asked confused.

"See for yourself." Theresa said, as Persephone touched her head, and watched her vision, once it had ended Persephone's eyes shot open and she looked at Theresa gasping.

"We have to go see Hera, now!" Persephone said not waiting for Theresa to respond, but instead grabbing her arm and pulling her out of the Solarium, and down the hallway towards Hera's room, and that was when Theresa realized that something more serious then she thought was going on.

That's the end of chapter 1, I hope you liked it, please review.