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Through her groggy, grey eyes, Athena expected to see one of her children jumping around away from a spider screaming their head off. It was not that scene in the slightest.

She did see a child of hers, but it was not her who had screamed. It was what appeared to be a young boy who was currently holding his arm as if it had been broken. Standing over him was her daughter who had something in her hand and looked murderous.

"You shut up," she said to the boy menacingly. She pushed her glasses further up her nose and huffed. "You're so big and tough. Athena's tiniest daughter took you down." She kicked him once for good measure. "You underestimated me didn't you? You thought we were weak, that we wouldn't hear you? Leave my sister alone."

Athena cleared her throat. "Elle…"

She looked up at her mother. "He deserved it."

It was at that moment the goddess realized what he daughter held was a spray can. He had been marking the building. "You broke his arm," she stated plainly ignoring the horrible feeling rising in her gut.

"I threw him, blame him for choosing the wrong body part to land on," Elle said. Her mother began to make her way to the side of the cabin. "Oh Olivia don't…don't look."

It was too late. Athena had already seen the graffiti. She felt the tears well up in her eyes as she read the message over and over again. It wasn't anything new to her; it was all the words she had been calling herself in her head. But the brutal red color just made it all look so permanent she wanted to burst.

"This jerk is going to clean this up," Elle whispered quietly. "Just go to sleep. I've got this."

She gasped slightly as she felt the warm tears roll down her own cheeks. Not so much at the words written, but at the fact that her daughter was taking care of her. She walked back into the cabin without much else of a word.

Zeus sat on his bed and looked at her concernedly. "You okay?"

She took one look at him and began to walk away.

"Hey!"

Athena turned back to him her eyes cold though the tears warmed them considerably. "What do you want?"

"Liv, I'm…"

"You left me. I have no reason to listen to you. Leave me alone."

Her father looked hurt, but he didn't say a word. Athena didn't care either. He had left her all alone when all she asked was for him to be there and to understand. But no he never wanted to be there when she needed him. He as only around when it benefitted him.

She was sick and tired of the way he just, ignored her.

Athena chose to lie down on her bed and cry herself to sleep warning everyone else to stay away especially Zeus.

Poseidon woke up to the foul sound of his little brother pounding on the side of the Demeter cabin yelling for him.

He walked outside grumpily. "What?!"

"You got her pregnant."

His older brother groaned. "Yes I did. I would say sorry, but this has nothing to do with you. Go."

Zeus glared. "How does this not have anything to do with me?"

"She's more than responsible enough to not depend on you to make her decisions."

"Yet, you're allowed to seduce her and ruin her life and reputation. You ruined her. She loves you and you don't care."

Poseidon glared at him. "Don't you ever say I don't care about her!" His voice betrayed a long hidden fear of hurting Athena. "Besides, she doesn't love me."

Zeus snorted indignantly, "She shuns me and runs to you. If that's not love, even what you've done to her, I don't know what is."

"What I've done to her? You force her to do your every bidding. This isn't Ancient Greece. She has rights. You do know that, right? The only thing I've done to her is did what she wanted."

"To have a kid?"

Poseidon rolled his eyes. "Unforeseen consequence of our actions."

His brother looked at him with intense focus. "You mean to just tell me this was all my daughter's fault even though you're breaking her heart and tearing her away from me?"

Poseidon's vision grew hazy with his rising anger. "Breaking her heart? I'm breaking her heart." He drew his hands into fists at his side. "I had to hold her when she cried her eyes out because you left. In fact, the three times I've seen her cry it's all been your fault. And you think I'm going to break her heart." He added the word again silently in his mind.

He grabbed his brother by the collar. "Listen here, I will be there. I will not let her go through this stupid thing alone. No matter much you hate it, or my ex-wife and Triton hate it; I will raise this kid or kids. I will try to make her heart whole again, because right now you've left it with nothing to break."

Zeus reached for his sword. "How dare you accuse me of such…lies!"

"You want to see the truth?" Poseidon asked in a low voice. "Look at her right now, her eyes look soulless and there's not one little spark I used to know in them."

Clang!

Blade met blade as both the brothers stared at each other. "You have always been the rebel. You've always made life difficult for me," Zeus said in a low growl.

"You hurt the one I love; hurt her in a way Apollo can never fix!"

Zeus's grey eyes blinked in surprise. "Love?"

"I love her more than anything, and if I could take away all this just to see her smile like she used to I would. Even if that means I'd be married Amphitrite still and that I never got as close to her as I did. I would do it. Because even if she's not ready to hear it from me yet, it's true."

His brother looked around worriedly in case anyone had overheard them. "What do you know of love?" Zeus eventually asked.

"I know her."

A/N:

Long time no see everyone.

Ah drama! We're starting Shakespeare at school and there's nothing he wrote better than a good drama.

How was your Valentine's Day this year? I actually got something even though people aren't forced to give them out anymore. It's the first time I've gotten one in four years.

So, yeah I'm pretty convinced my friend has a major crush on me. Now if only he wasn't so shy. He practically ran away after handing me my box of chocolates. Then he gave me lollipops on the bus because he remembered me saying I'm not that fond of chocolate.

He's not the Logan Lerman looking guy, but he's really sweet and I'm not going to discourage him. Love life rant over.