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"Aph!"

The goddess was standing in the doorway wearing a big smile. "I knew it! Take that Apollo!"

"Yeah, yeah whatever."

Athena looked at her brother. "The god of prophecy lost a bet?"

He shrugged. "It doesn't work as well when I'm mortal."

"He's just a sore loser." Aphrodite sat on the end of the cot. "What are you going to name her?"

Athena looked at Poseidon. "I hadn't really thought of any. Have you?"

"Actually, I have."

She looked almost surprised at him. "You have?"

He nodded a little sheepishly. "My mind tends to wander, when I don't want it to." She prodded him on. "Well, I was thinking about us on a beach, as gods again. And no one else was there, but the three of us. It was simply paradise. And that got me to thinking about a name for her. A name that means paradise."

"Eden?"

He nodded. "Yeah, I just can't think of anything else that I would even consider."

Athena smiled. "I like it, but just so you know. I reserve all rights to name the next one."

"The next one?" Poseidon asked, almost choking on his words.

"You don't think you can get rid of me that easily can you?"

Apollo, who had been silent for a while as he surveyed the ultrasound, looked at the picture again. "This doesn't look quite right. By all accounts, this kid should be a demigod."

"No of course not, we were both immortal when…"

He looked a little taken a back. "What?"

Athena sighed. "The kid should be just as godly as the rest of us."

"No, that's…" he sighed, "that's just dangerous Thee."

"How?"

Apollo sighed. "I know you never cared to learn about childbirth, but I'll tell you this. It is painful, sometimes women die. From normal kids. Demigods are tougher to birth, that's why some will be in orphanages. Gods would kill you without a second thought unless we get you to being immortal again."

Poseidon sighed. "Well she's only three months along."

"That's the thing, have you ever noticed that gods are born at random?"

Poseidon's eyes lit up. "Triton took four months. Percy even though he is a demigod was only three months."

"So, what does that even mean?"

"Well, in order to give birth, a goddess of childbirth has to be present." Apollo thought about it for another second. "With our half sister faded, it's all on Arty, which means that any time you have contact with her you have a chance of going into labor."

Athena sighed. "So I'm playing Russian Roulette with my uterus. That's a pleasant idea. It's not even a question of if I'll die, but when."

"You sound so cheery about it," Poseidon grumbled.

"Well, I don't know," Apollo said. "Arty might have lost the power to do that. But, she's never had a kid so we don't know whether the power transfers over."

"So, I can't see my sister at all until we're gods again?" Athena asked.

Poseidon grabbed her hand. "Please don't, really Thee. I can't lose you."

She looked up into his pleading eyes. "Poseidon she's…I can't she's my…oh don't look at me like that!"

"I can't lose you, Thee. I can't. You're all I got, don't you realize that?"

Athena closed her eyes and it looked like she was in pain. Then she turned to Aphrodite with a sigh. "Tell Hestia to bring Dionysus here so I can kill him myself, and find some way to occupy Arty's time."

Aphrodite nodded and left, with a devious plot forming in her mind.

Artemis sighed, "Get away from me!" She sighed. "Look I appreciate you keeping that Ares brat away from me, but no."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to. I just…"

"Look I guess the idea is good, but having a fake boyfriend isn't my style."

Hermes sighed. "I thought it would be a more comfortable arrangement."

"I know." She paused a moment. "You can move farther away you know."

He blushed slightly. "Sorry, it's just…they already think I'm your boyfriend, so I'm trying to be boyfriendy…"

"That's not a word."

Hermes shrunk back but nodded. "Yeah I know."

Finally taking pity on him, she gave in. "Okay, we can fake date if you follow some rules. First, as soon as we're gods, we never speak of this. Two, you don't touch me. Three, if any of the other gods ask you have to explain everything. And finally, after it's over you have to get me flowers every Valentine's Day."

"I thought you hated Valentine's."

"I do. But I like flowers."

Hermes nodded. "Buy you flowers every Valentine's, I got it."

Artemis frowned. "No, not buy."

"What? But you just said…"

"If I'm going fake date the god of thieves, then you're going to do some thieving."

He laughed. "Thieving? Like this?" He pulled out a tiara.

"That was under my bed!" She hit him upside the head and grabbed it back. "You can't steal my stuff."

"Why not?"

She didn't respond, but gave him a small smile before turning her attention back to the road. After a while, he broke the silence. "What are we doing up this tree anyway?"

"Aphrodite said she saw our obnoxious little brother coming along this path."

"Why would she have even been over this far away from camp?"

She set down the binoculars and sighed. "Apparently, the path leads directly to Mt. Olympus. She was doing some shopping earlier. She swears he was walking down it."

"And we're the recovery team why?"

"Hestia's trying to flush him into the woods, and you're quick enough to catch him before he runs away."

"Then why are you here?"

"I have the best senses out of all of us."

He sighed a decided to leave it be for a while. Then he noticed a dove nearby. Was Aph watching them? He couldn't let Artemis see it or else she'd think all of this was just a big ruse to get her to like him. He had finally made some progress! She smiled at him, she joked with him. She was nowhere close to pulling a Athena-Poseidon incident, but she was befriending him, a boy. So, he did the only sensible thing he could think of by standing up to shoo the dove, before falling off the branch.

Desperately he called, "Maia!" knowing his shoes would save him. "Maia!" However, help never came and he fell straight onto the ground, barely catching himself.

"Hermes!" Artemis called, before gracefully jumping down. "Are you okay?"

He shook his head. "I think I, hurt my arm."

"Well, I think we should go to the infirmary it looks broken."

"No, I think Apollo has enough on his hands. I'll be fine."

Artemis sighed. "Well I could fix something up from around here; it's not typically my job in camp. But nymphs are very helpful, so I can whip something up soon." She propped him up against the tree before scavenging the area for things she could use. After ten minutes she came back, "This should be sufficient. Just..."

"What?"

"I need to take off your shirt."

"Oh…"

After a minute or so she finally sorted that out, and began to apply an herbal remedy to his arm. He felt all the awkwardness of the situation hit him as he asked, "Why didn't my shoes work?"

Artemis smiled so sheepishly. "Well," she pulled the pair out from behind her back. "I did say not to steal my stuff."

Hermes looked at her. She had stolen his shoes off his feet without him noticing. So he burst out laughing. "That's it, when I pull my April Fool's Day prank on Aphrodite this year, you are so helping!"

"You're not mad?"

"Mad? That's amazing! Why didn't I know you could do that?"

"Well, you're always gone."

"So are you, Arty."

She sighed. "We're always running around."

"We should run around together sometime."

She laughed. "I'd like that."

"Whenever Athena and Poseidon marry, could I maybe have a dance? If they ever marry."

She laughed. "Or we could get married and beat them to it."

Hermes sighed and with a laugh said, "Sounds like a plan."

"I wasn't joking Hermes. I've always had a bit of a Sunkist on you…"

Sunkist? As in the soda? That didn't…did she mean crush? Arty couldn't have meant crush. Could she?" Without pausing to consider if this was all an elaborate set up he leaned in and kissed her. Only to be interrupted by a drunk man being chased by a nine year old girl.

A/N:

So did I make up for my long absence due to writer's block with this really long chapter full of lots of relationships?

Sorry, if you know me I had to get the Hertames in there. I'll be darned if Arty doesn't have a bad boy complex.

The first half, I just wanted an excuse to fuel my drama meter. If you can't tell by the last sentence of the chapter the story's almost over. Just an ending and perhaps an epilogue to go. Would you guys like one of those?

Also Eden won out in a very close race with Kaya, but seeing as you all love that name so much I will use it at some point I will promise.