Chapter 9

"Hardly," Hera replied nonchalantly has she put down her shopping bags. She pushed some of her black hair out of her face. Hera was the mother of Hephaestus, Ares, Hercules and Dionysus. Amphitrite was Triton's mother while Persephone didn't have any children.

Persephone wrinkled her nose, "What're you eating?"

"Um, barbeque?" Thalia replied.

"Oh," Hera said. "No wonder you're fat."

Thalia shot up, "Excuse me?"

Percy put down his fork, "Thalia is not fat. If anyone here needs to lose weight it's you, thunder thighs."

Jason narrowed his eyes, "Call my sister fat one more time and you'll regret it."

"And what're you going to do?" Hera challenged. "Run to daddy? News flash, he's my husband."

Piper rolled her eyes, "News flash, you're a bitch."

Hera crossed her arms, "This is my house, princess, I will kick you out."

"Go ahead," Leo said. "Because if Piper leaves, I leave."

"Mother," Hercules stood. "Stop it, you're making yourself look like an incompetent fool."

Hera ignored him and turned back to the others. "You sure you want do this?"

"Hera, you have the grace of a hog," Thalia said.

"Do I?"

Hazel stood up, "You know what? Maybe we should leave, will that make you happy?"

Hera nodded, "I don't know why our husbands insist on inviting the product of them cheating."

Artemis stood up, "Maybe that's because father was sick of you."

"And now I'm sick of you. So I'm asking you to go upstairs and collect your things and leave."

"Gladly," Thalia growled letting her piercing blue eyes stare holes into Hera.

Everyone but Triton and Hercules got up and left the table. When Thalia got to her silver painted room she simply put a few things in her suitcase and zipped it up. She was glad she hadn't unpacked anything but a couple of things.

Once everyone had met in the kitchen they left just as a car pulled up to the driveway. Out stepped Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. They were wearing business suits. Zeus stopped them, "Where are you going?"

"We were kicked out," Hazel answered as she stood up her suitcase.

"W-why?" Zeus stuttered.

Thalia pushed past him, "Ask your wife."

"Now, now, just wait a second Thalia, I'm sure we can work something out," Poseidon assured.

The three men walked into the home. They called for their wives who were in the kitchen.

"Hello," Hera greeted. "We just got home."

Poseidon sniffed, "Do I smell barbeque?" He followed the smell to where there were twelve half eaten plates left. He walked back into the kitchen.

"So," Hades muttered, "Heard there was a fight."

"Well, I wouldn't consider it a fight," Amphitrite said slowly as she played with the hem of her blouse. "More like an escalated misunderstanding."

"What happened?" Zeus asked.

"Wait," Poseidon stopped them. "I'd like to hear both sides of the story." They called in everyone including the two boys upstairs.

"Again, what happened?" Everyone started to talk at the same time. Thalia was particularly yelling in Hera's face while Hera was being held back by Poseidon and Hades. Hazel was the only on not talking. Zeus held up his hand. "Hazel, what happened?"

Hazel's gold eyes widened from being put on the spot. "Well, we were in the dining room eating lunch, that being Nico, Bianca, Percy, Thalia, Jason, Leo, Piper, Hercules, Triton, Artemis, Apollo and I. Then Hera, Amphitrite and Persephone came home and came to the door of the dining room. They asked us what we were eating and we said barbeque and then out of nowhere Hera goes and calls Thalia fat! We stood up for her, some names were called and then Hera said she didn't want us here and told us to leave. So we grabbed our things and began to leave. That's when you showed up."

Zeus turned to everyone else, "Is that true?" Everyone nodded. "Hera, please apologize."

"I'm sorry," Hera said through clenched teeth.

Zeus nodded, "And Thalia?"

Thalia huffed, "That's okay."

"Good," Zeus said. "Now that that's resolved why don't we have Jackson put your things away again and you can finish your lunch."

Percy shook his head, "Nah, Jackson's getting old, I'll do it myself."

Zeus shrugged, "Suit yourself."

"Wait," Poseidon put out his hand. "What is that?" He pointed at Olivia.

"My child?"

"You have a child?"

Percy nodded as Nico intervened, "Why is it so hard to believe that Percy has a kid?"

"I…just wasn't aware," Poseidon explained. "Why didn't you tell me you and um…where is she anyways?"

"She died," Percy snapped like it was the 100th time. "And I didn't tell you because I didn't think you'd care."

Bianca placed a hand on his shoulder. "Percy. Don't get all snappy," she whispered.

Percy bit his lip, "Um, I'm going to head upstairs." They watched Percy rush up the stairs.

Thalia then turned to everyone else. "We need a favour or two."

Zeus narrowed his eyes, "Depends. What is it?"

"First, don't ever say Annabeth's name." She went on to explain what happened at the hospital and the car crash. "He doesn't remember, we'd like to keep it that way."

They nodded. "I think I can agree to that," Poseidon said.

Apollo looked like he wanted to say something but he bit his tongue.

"Um…anything else?" Thalia turned to everyone else.

"No, not really," Piper shrugged. "Just…no more snarky comments and we'll be good."

Hera rolled her eyes as everyone else gathered their things and left for their respective rooms.

Once upstairs Piper walked into Bianca's room, "Hey, what did you ever do with the ring?"

Bianca shrugged and pulled it out of her suitcase, "I would've given it to Percy but I don't want him to remember the fight. I'm thinking Sally…"

Piper nodded as she put it away. "Its 2 o'clock, maybe we could go out to the beach," Piper suggested.

Bianca nodded, "It's so hot today I don't see how anyone could say no."

They asked around and twenty minutes later they were heading out. Percy quickly applied sunscreen on his daughter and took her to the water.

Piper and Jason joined a few minutes later. Piper was wearing a purple bikini and Jason was wearing yellow swimming trunks. Percy had dressed Olivia in a little bathing suit and gave her floaties on her arms and ankles. He waded into the water until he was waist deep. He slowly lowered Olivia in. She made a blank face as her feet touched the water. Percy dipped her and quickly then took her out. She giggled and after Percy was sure she wouldn't cry he put her in the water again. Thalia had brought out a beach chair and was tanning. Nico was sulking around because he didn't want to go in and Hazel, Bianca and Leo were also in the water. Piper screamed as Jason and she played around in the water. Bianca waded over to Percy with a camera around her neck.

Percy looked at her, "Bia, you sure you won't get that wet?"

"It's waterproof Percy. Now play with Olivia so I can take some photos."

Percy obliged for a bit before Bianca decided she would tell him what to do. They ended up much farther in that Percy couldn't touch the ground without submerging.

"Okay," Bianca said. "You're going to go down under the water and make sure you hair is like, flying around and make this face." Bianca made a fishy face where she puckered her lips, widened her eyes and blew up her cheeks.

Percy raised an eyebrow. Bianca swatted him. "Just do it. And Olivia." Bianca made the face. "This, okay?" She made the face again.

Percy sighed.

"Ready?"

He nodded.

"'Kay, 3, 2, 1!"

At the same time they went under water. Percy opened his eyes and made the face underwater. He saw a few flashes before coming back up to the surface. Bianca came back up a second later.

She immediately started to scroll through the pictures. A grin stretched onto her face. "Olivia, I freaking love you."

Percy waded over beside her to look at the pictures. Percy's hair farmed his face while Olivia—she didn't have much hair. "Look," Bianca demanded. In the first picture Olivia looked scared. In the next she looked at Percy. She then turned back and mimicked his face. Percy smiled.

"Olivia is smart like her daddy."

Bianca snorted, "More like her mommy."

Percy looked up and Bianca looked down. "I'm…going to go take pictures of Piper and Jason."

Hazel had finally convinced Nico to come into the water. She was on his shoulders as they snuck up on Leo. Next thing he knew, Bianca was snapping photos of Hazel flying through the air into the water. Percy turned back to Olivia. "Let's go build a sand castle with Thalia."

Three hours later and 10 minutes convincing Thalia to join them it was 5 o'clock and Olivia was sleeping on the beach in her carrier. Percy was practicing his butterfly stroke. The sun was starting to set. Thalia got in the water for the first time and was laughing with Piper and Hazel. Jason and Leo were seeing who can hold their breath the longest. Nico was sitting on the beach with Bianca. They were speaking in Italian. Nico was shaking his head no. Percy wondered what they were talking about but decided not to ask. That was for another day.

Hey everyone it's Mimi, and school is over! Yasssssssssssssss. Anyways, I bombed only one of my tests. It was math which is ironic because math is my best subject. Anyways, final grades were: Science - 95, Math - 74, Language arts - 86, History - 92.

Anyways, that whole thing with Bianca and Nico will be in a series of shorts about this story. It doesn't have a title yet, but I'll be working on those shorts this summer, only if you guys are interested. It'll be past, present, future and what ifs. What Ifs are short little things where we see what would've happened if Annabeth hadn't had 'died'. Also, don't forget to vote on my poll! Also, who wants sneak peaks? Okay, so, here's a few:

Annabeth, Bianca and Hazel actually meet each other in Chapter 11. Percy and Annabeth meet each other in Chapter 13. Hazel and Frank reconcile in Chapter 15. Percy and Annabeth kiss in Chapter... (unless I already told you, I can't remember, lol)

Anyways, thanks for reading guys!

Review goal: 65! You guys can do it! Now that I'm on vacation, I'll actually update on time! Have a great Summer guys!