Chapter 14: TJ's in the Castle
Riley's POV:

Morning came quickly, though unfortunately the night still held nightmares about Kronos, but ignoring it was easier now! My siblings would be arriving sometime during breakfast, much to the distress of a lot of the half-bloods that were already here!

Ah... fun times, fun times!

I bounded downstairs, forgetting about brushing my hair as I went, allowing it to simply fall as a tangled mess of brown curls.

"Riley, wait up" I heard an all too familiar voice call, turning back I saw Lee running in my direction. "Finally got an answer... got... life insurance policy... Harry" he managed to pant out, though by looking over his shoulder I saw the twins simply jogging over, rather than sprinting for who knows how far as Lee had been!

"Wow... never thought we'd actually get one... does that mean that my siblings are going to kill him for the money now?" I asked, feigning absolute innocence.

I don't think it worked.

"What?"

"Don't you lot worry about it, my siblings won't kill any of you... I hope... I'll ask them not to. They are quite nice if you actually get to know them, though we'll probably at one stage declare war on at least one person! Probably Apollo cabin... but anyway" I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts, a grin on my face once again. The idea or rather the thought of seeing all of them again was getting me excited... rather overexcited in fact. Along with that I'd be seeing my best friend again, the daughter of Apollo who was so intent upon turning me into a slut of sorts!

All of them looked slightly shocked, but the grin on my face only grew, so I grabbed Fred's wrist beginning to drag him away, therein his twin and Lee.

Entering the hall I got a lot of stares, but I really didn't care. Matt's look was probably the most amusing, though he too looked happy and relieved to see his siblings again, he was getting pale, awfully pale at that. Let's just leave it at he looked awfully sick almost.

"You ok?" I asked quietly, when the boys had began to talk about Quidditch enthusiastically. "Don't worry so much, I reckon they'll at least try to be civil for a while!"

Just as I said that, the door opened again, a fat man with a purple Hawaiian shirt walking in. I immediately fought the urge to gag. Whispers erupted all throughout the room, especially as Mr D put on more of his godly aura, growing slightly as he walked, getting thinner at the same time.

"Who's that?" Fred asked over the table, pointing at him.

"Looks like he's a metamorphagus"

"He isn't" I said helpfully. "He's Mr D... Dionysus" I said lowering my voice before I allowed to go back to normal. "He's a god, God of wine amongst other things. Chased after an off-limits nymph if you get what I mean" I trailed off, seeing their nods. "Zeus punished him by sending him to camp as a community service thing of sorts. No offence but it's a punishment to us, but we'll at least have him to our deaths we reckon, unless he gets off sooner!"

"So you have a god at your camp?"

"Yup, and none of us are overly fond of it, you'll see why soon enough"

"Alberton" Mr D greeted Dumbledore, and I saw a lot of kids look curiously, amazed and some even slightly offended.

"Mr D"

"I see you've been keeping Anniebell, Peter and Robin alive, shame the brats didn't die, now their egos will keep growing, but maybe it'll get the best of them soon" Mr D said it with a careless air as I glared at him, I'd gotten used to be called Robin, but it was still annoying, especially with siblings who sometimes guess that that's actually your name!

And it wasn't just that; sure he was one of the gods, but that didn't change the fact that after surviving the almost impossible – even if dubbed a traitor – someone wishing that you were dead does hurt slightly.

It makes you wonder why you bother to fight!

The door opened again, a group of about 20ish Half-bloods, some from different cabins, though unfortunately not all my siblings entered the hall, with a grin I quite literally jumped out of my seat, sprinting over and jumping up to wrap my legs around the waist of my brother, clinging onto Connor as if my life depended on it.

Laughter erupted from my other siblings and I saw James' mock hurt look.

"What about me? Don't I deserve to get a welcome like that?" a voice said sarcastically and looking over Connor's shoulder I saw Travis piggy-backing TJ, the youngest of my siblings being only 3 years old.

"Nup, you're unopposed to incest!" I said just loud enough for the other half-bloods to hear, causing the others to chuckle, or giggle... some of them simply smirked but still... I think you get my point, don't you?

Untangling myself from my brother I walked towards James, wrapping my arms around his neck before kissing his neck lightly, he was my... well... on again off again boyfriend... I swear when I came to Hogwarts and even now it's an off thing. His arms wrapped themselves around my hips and I smiled, snuggling into the hold seeing a rather pissed off look on Travis' face, something had definitely happened between the two of them.

"Missed you" he whispered, kissing the tip of my ear before my cheek. His arms began to wander down to my waist before I swatted them away.

"Not now" I said, grinning again as I walked to TJ. I toned it down so I was relatively calm, replacing the grin on my face with a small smile as I gave Travis a one-armed hug taking TJ from him, placing him so that he was resting on my hip, my arms around him as I brushed my nose across his, a habit that I'd gotten from his older half-brother – not a child of Hermes – who came from New Zealand originally!

Let's just say I played the role of Mum for TJ since he came a couple of months ago... though I must say I was horrible at it!

"Hey TJ" I whispered.

"Hello Riley" he said rather energetically, though not to loud.

"How are you?"

"Good" he basically yelled into my ear, causing me to cringe slightly as Travis laughed at me.

'Get lost' I mouthed at him, causing him to laugh louder as I only rolled my eyes. Still carrying TJ I made my way back to where I was sitting before, grabbing my plate and carrying the two of them toward the fire. "Do you want to make the offering with me?"

"Yup" TJ said happily, squirming around, sure he could walk but still, this was easier for me at the moment.

"Ok, just push the food into the fire and then together we'll say Hermes, ok? Good..."

"Hermes" I said with him at the same time, hearing him squeal happily as the smell of chocolate rose from the fire.

Chocolate always seemed to the smell whenever an offering was made to our father... and everyone in Hermes cabin did seem to be chocoholics, time for another conspiracy theory, our fathers a chocoholic and therefore all of us are, so it's his fault and not ours!

Or at least I could try to convince everyone else of my theory...

I highly doubted that anyone would actually believe it though... perhaps they would but the chances really were against it!

Carrying my brother – who was currently carrying the food – I made my way back to the Gryffindor table, my brothers following me as well, whereas the others spread out a bit more, sort of avoiding the Slytherin table though... I may have managed to slip a couple of things about them back to camp, which was part of the reason both Ghost-boy and Clarisse seemed to sit over there so often... and... no... yup... my brother was so pathetic that he was following her over to Slytherin table to spend some time with her. How in Hades' name they like each other was a mystery to us all, but she seemed really kind to Chris now, she's even listening to him!

The rest of us... not so much, but honestly we didn't want that anyway. The Ares cabin weren't known to be great friends after all, sure they were relatively close to the Aphrodite cabin – probably because of their parents – but to the rest of us, they were never too kind, always seeming to try and murder us or possibly maim any of us, though at the moment Chris and Travis (occasionally even me) were off limits.

Chris for obvious reasons, Travis because he's a sleep around, you're perfect no strings attached kind of guy and me... because... well let's say starting when I turned 13 Travis' habits rubbed off on me a little bit, leaving me as Hermes cabins no strings attached girl, especially when I wasn't dating James...

And when TJ wasn't around, as soon as TJ came, I'd attempt to hit any guy or girl annoying/insulting either of us, TJ was definitely too young to learn about the world of drugs, alcohol, clubs and no strings attached relationships!

"TJ say hi to Fred, George" I said their names pointing to the correct twin, much to their annoyance. "Lee, Angelina, Alicia and Katie"

"Hi" he said quietly snuggling into my hair as a way of hiding, he really was a cute kid, no matter how much I didn't like some of my other siblings when they were younger, TJ really was cute!

"Guys this is TJ, my youngest brother, and those two are Travis and Conner, my older brothers" shooting Travis a glare as I introduced them I hoped that he understood that my new friends, especially the girls, were off limits to him. I wasn't going to have them be the mother of any nieces or nephews of mine if I could help it, and especially not if that child was the product of a one night stand, or a no strings attached relationship. Immediately he put his hands in the air as a sign of his surrender before grinning at the others.

"I'm Travis" he said, shaking their hands. "You better have taken good care of Riley here; she's the baby in our family"

Shooting in a glare I sat TJ down next to me, allowing him to eat my food after I'd taken an apple whereas the others were snickering at his statement.

"Just because you're the oldest... besides your only 6 months older than me and you don't treat Connor like that although he's 3 months younger than you" I pointed out taking a bite from my apple. Rolling his eyes at me he sighed.

"Yes but he's a naive idiot" he said raising his eyebrows suggestively which just caused me to roll my eyes.

"Well I haven't had anything since... the night before I left camp; I've been clean for the last few weeks actually..."

"Clean?" Angelina asked, raising her eyebrows suspiciously, looking at her innocently I decided to quickly switch the subject.

"Yup, but anyway, the first task is coming up what do you think it'll be?"

"No clue" they all said shrugging, changing the subject relatively well as they did. Smiling at TJ I decided I could try on last thing, winking at Travis, I stood up, walking up to Dumbledore before in shouting out for the whole hall to hear.

"Hey! Dumbledore! Can you show me the pointy hat trick?"

Hey guys

Really sorry that its taken me so long to update again, I know its no excuse but I've been really annoyed as my boyfriend broke up with me when I moved from England and now he's gotten his girlfriend pregnant...

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