And a very happy Halloween to everyone! To celebrate, some more drabbles. :) African Titan, I'll bring out more Herry just for you! And thanks for the tip on the YouTube channel, hopefully I'll be able to get caught up this week.

12 - Marriage

It caught her off guard when he asked her about her marriage to Hephaestus. Neil usually didn't talk about anything other than himself and at first she wasn't really sure what to tell him.

Eventually she dove in and gave him the full explanation of how Zeus and Hera had offered her to Hephaestus to assuage their guilt at throwing him off of Mount Olympus. And then, at the end, when he frowned and told her that he didn't think it had been fair that she hadn't been able to choose her husband, she didn't quite know what to say.

13 – Technology

"Guess what I just got today?"

"What?"

"An iPhone!"

Aphrodite shoots him a confused look. "What?"

"It's the newest cell phone technology!" He shoves the phone under her nose, proceding to show her every imaginable feature it has, regardless of whether or not she understands.

"That's nice, Neil."

"Hey, let's test out the camera!" He puts his arm around her shoulders and takes a picture.

"What did you do?" She's confused.

"Look! I took our picture." He shows her the screen, and she taps it with her fingernail.

"Hey, how did we get in there?"

He can't help but laugh.

14 – Drawing

"Oh, you're so going to like this." Neil grinned happily to himself as he put the finishing touches on his masterpiece.

Aphrodite picked up a green crayon and attacked her piece of paper. "When you look at mine you'll think you were looking in a mirror!"

Neil laid down his yellow crayon. "Oh yeah, this is awesome. I think I'm done."

Aphrodite threw her crayon into the pile and sat back triumphantly. "Let's trade!"

They passed each other their papers, grinning madly.

"Neil, honey, my hair looks amazing!"

"Ooh, you really make my eyes pop off the page, nice job!"

15 – Costumes

"I don't know what to be for Halloween." A pouting Neil sunk down into Aphrodite's couch.

"What are your friends being?" She was sitting at her dressing table, having her hair brushed.

"Theresa and Jay are being Romeo and Juliet - Theresa's idea."

"How boringly typical."

"Archie and Atlanta are being ninjas."

"Ooh, I like ninjas."

"Odie is being some geeky character from a video game, and Herry is being a cowboy."

The Goddess suddenly turned around, looking excited. "You could be a horse!"

Neil frowned. "Herry should be the horse! He's bigger than me after all. Then I could be the cowboy, and I could ride him."

Aphrodite started giggling. "Hehe, that reminds me of this time, back on Mount Olympus, when Ares and I played a prank on Apollo…"

"Continue?" Neil's curiosity was piqued.

She grinned evilly. "Let's just say, if you're the cowboy, make sure you get spurs."