So, I wanted to portray the gods to how I would believe them to be like in the myths. Like overpowered children thinking they're entitled to everything. Also, this is the lead up chapter where we'll see the betrayal of the gods and subsequent banishment. Wanted to try something new I've haven't seen before on here, so tell me what you think.

Hestia's POV

Guilt and sadness. That is all I feel. For the one person who was able to relate to me after everything they went through. And for what? To keep the family that doesn't even pay attention to me happy? Percy made me feel as if I was the only one in his eyes whenever we would talk. He would just spend times with me when he wanted someone to talk to without any expectations for him. He saw me not as an all powerful goddess, but as a person. Someone he could talk and just pass the time with.

He saw me as someone who stood with him even when everyone else had betrayed him and looked the other way. He was the only one who made me feel wanted, to feel loved. Something more than what I could say for my family. After everything he's done for them, after everything he's went through for them. The things he's had to put up with FOR THEM!

They still act like they were children and feel like they are entitled to everything and anything. If they do not get what they want, they throw a tantrum. Like just recently after they were denied their consort. Their toy. My love. Percy...

When he told me that he loved me, I felt my heart soar to the clouds. I felt as if all my fears were washed away. That he would be there for me through thick and thin, through sickness and health. It's starting to sound like a wedding vow. Something that I wouldn't get with Percy.

I wish he would come back soon. Even after everyhting we've done to him, I still pray that he would be alright, and maybe even hopeful that he still loves me. Even after what I put him through. After what I allowed him to experience. I should've fought harder for him. Why, why didn't I?

I cried silently to myself by the hearth's embers, portraying my feelings at the time. I want Percy back.

flashback

I had just been confessed to by Percy. I was so happy that I was jumping around in joy. I didn't care that he had never seen me as a teenager, only in my child form. If that is what he in into, I don't care, I will love him the best I can.

I was practically squealing in joy as I ran into someone. I crashed into them, sending us both sprawling into the floor.

"Aunt Hestia?"

A voice called out to me. I looked up and saw my niece Artemis looking at me confusedly. I stood up and helped her up, smiling shyly.

"Sorry niece, I wasn't looking where I was going." I apologized to her as I smiled brightly at her, one she had returned equally.

She shook her head in amusement. "It's quite alright. Although, you seemed to be in a rather joyous mood. may I ask if something happened?" she inquired curiously. I debated whether or not to tell her. I mean, I trusted her to a degree and we were both maiden goddesses. So she might be happy for me. But a part of my mind argued back that then again, she is a maiden goddess and one known to hate males with a passion. Another part of my mind retorted that I remember hearing about how my Percy may be the only male she could tolerate.

Wait, When did I start being so possessive of him? No matter, he will still be mine in the end.

"Well, I had just been confessed to by someone..." I teased slightly, wanting to get her expression. At first she had been confused, then enraged, before settling to malicious.

"I see... well, who is the pig that you would like me and my hunters to teach a lesson to?" she inquired cruelly. I shook my head in denial which only puzzled her further. "You can't mean to say you would agree to pursuing this relationship, could you?" she asked astounded. I knew she would be shocked. I was always looked up to as her role figure on what it means to be a maiden goddess. To not allow any males to get too close to me.

"Yes, I do." I answered simply. She was about to explode so I cut her off. "Do not worry about it, I'm sure once you heard who it is, even you would give me your blessings in our relationship."

"What are you talking about? The only male I see as worthy of you is Perseus and he is in a relationship." she questioned. I shook my head at her. I guess she didn't know about their break-up, so I told her about it. As I told her about his relationship status, her face grew more and more blank. I assumed that it was just the fact that a girl had broken a boy's heart and didn't think anything more of it. I didn't notice the slightly possessive glimmer of emotion in her eyes.

"And so I helped heal him and afterwards, he told me he loved me!" I jumped in joy at finally being able to tell someone about my love. "I was about to tell everyone the news and hope for their blessing. I don't care about it though because I've already decided to forgo my vow for him should it come down to it."

"That's great, Hestia, we should tell everyone!" she congratulated me. I was so self absorbed that I didn't notice the slight envy and jealous look on her face as she hatched up a plan worthy of Athena. It would only cause more pain and suffering for my love in the future. "We best not be late to the meeting." she announced, speeding off before I could speak.

I should've known then that something was up with her. On the rare occasion she would talk to me, she would always bid me goodbye.

Instead, I walked happily behind her as I focus on telling everyone my position on pursuing a relationship the the Savior of Olympus. I still get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about his words to me as he confessed his feelings.

I entered the throne room and sat down in my throne, something I don't usually do since I take care of the hearth for the most part. Today though, I want to appear serious about this, so I decided to be professional about it.

One by one the gods trickled in, something clearly on their mind. I made a note to tell them that they could come talk to me about their problems. As everyone was seated, Zeus started the meeting. It was for the most part normal, aside from the fact that the gods weren't arguing today.

That was the second time that I should've known something was up. No matter what, no meeting goes this uninterrupted. But I didn't notice and was just happy my family was not fighting. It was also nice since I thought that it would be easier to tell everyone my news.

Zeus shifts in his seat as he stares at every one of us. "Now for the topic everyone has been waiting for: Perseus Jackson." He rumbles. As if a shock went through everyone, all bored eyes instantly sharpen with interest. "Now, we know what has happened down in camp. So what shall we do with the situation. I for one want him by my side so he can..." he paused, licking his lips with a strange glint in his eyes. "...serve us."

I decide now would be a good time to speak up about my part. So, I stand to get everyone's attention and relay about what has happened in a more detailed version and what has occurred between Percy and I. As I go on, I see the amused faces of my family looking at me.

"W-What is it?" I ask awkwardly as they simply smile at me knowingly.

Hades chuckles lightly. "We know dear sister."

"So that means that you all approve?" I ask ecstatic at their reaction to the topic.

"No." was echoed around the room by every single person present without hesitation. I didn't understand what they meant at first, but it slowly dawned on me that the didn't approve of my relationship.

"B-But why? Surely he is good enough for me to try to pursue?" I question flabbergasted.

"Of course he is. We are saying no because the way you say it, it's as if he is yours only." Artemis interjects. I was baffled, why would she care? At most, she sees him as a good friend right?

"W-Well, yes. I mean I don't believe he would cheat on me and instead remain faithful. Isn't that good for me?" I look around desperately, but no one speaks up.

"What Artemis is trying to say is that we don't approve of him being only yours." Apollo informs. What... What do they mean by that?

"We all want him now since he is... available, but we just can't come to a compromise." Poseidon adds thoughtfully.

I was enraged. "You! Shouldn't you want what's best for your son?!" I shout at him.

He sighs heavily, as if this truly troubled his mind. "That's what I've been saying, but the others say that I just want to keep him by my side to serve me."

Aphrodite speaks up. "Don't act coy as if you aren't imagining what you'd do to your son if you had him to yourself." She said sharply. Poseidon merely glances at her briefly before smiling fondly.

"He's daydreaming of dominating his son again." Ares sighs wearily. I look at him.

"Don't you hate him? Why are you agreeing with them?" I ask.

He looks me straight in the eye. "Because it has been long since I've taken a male lover, never mind one as highly regarded like Perseus by the whole council. I also respect the kid for what he's done."

Realization dawns on me. I look at each of my family members in the eyes. All of them have that hungry look to it.

"You can't!" I shout out in a panic. "You can't just share him, he's a-" I was about to rant before being cut off.

"Why not?" Athena interrupted. "I mean, we can just have him as a consort of ours and we would just work out who has him on different days." I glare venomously at the wisdom goddess. Shouldn't you be hating him?!

All the gods look at her in shock, probably because none would ever think that she out of everyone else would be willing to share him. They had all (save Hestia) seen how jealous she was of her daughter for being the only one in his eyes. Until now.

"He's a human being. You can't just do this!" I scream at them. "This isn't what he would want!" I yell desperately.

Hera scoffed pridefully. "He doesn't know what he wants nowadays. He's confused. Once we make him ours, he'll see that we are right."

I can't believe it. My whole family is working together. Something that should make me happy. Yet it is because they all want something from the one I love.

"He loves me." I blurt out desperately. "If not for him, then for me, please, don't do this."

All of them look at me with slight guilt and sadness before shaking their heads, giving me the answer I already knew. I fall into my seat, slumping and covering my face with my hands.

Zeus cleared his throat. "Now, since we now know what to do, we must go about planning how to get him on our side."

"What if I just tell him?" I ask quietly. I know they all heard me since the conversations stopped. "I'll just tell him and elope with him."

Demeter chuckles darkly. "Dearest sister. I know you wouldn't want to do that. I mean, we wouldn't want young Perseus to have an unfortunate accident now wouldn't we?" she threatens. I look at her, betrayal scrawled across my face at one of my closest family members is saying this to me.

"You wouldn't do that. Because then you can't have him since he'd be dead." I mutter quietly, yet increasing in volume as I grow more confident.

All the eyes look amused as they glance at Hades. He shrugs nonchalantly. "I can get Thanatos to walk him out of his Doors of Death some way or another."

I curl up on my throne tightly, quietly sobbing to myself. Even in death, he would have no rest. I ignore the outside world until I hear something that nearly tears me apart.

"Either way, we need to have Hestia reject his confession so he won't have any preconception that he is only hers."

"NO!" I shriek at them. I can't do that. "I won't do that ever."

"You don't have a choice sister." Zeus glared, as did the rest of them. "If you don't, I'll make sure you'll never have time with him again. Even after he becomes ours."

I feel myself trembling all over. Why? Why is this happening? Why does it have to be him? Why does it have to be my Percy that suffers?

"So, Hestia will reject him by the end of this week. Next meeting we will discuss how to convince him to become ours. Meeting adjourned." Zeus declares, flashing out.

I barely have enough strength left to teleport myself to my palace. I lay in bed sluggishly as I think about what's to come. I ask Iris to show me a one-way message to Percy. I see him being ostracized by everyone else, but he didn't seem to care. He was just laying there in his bunk, daydreaming about something. Whatever it was, he seemed to love it as his eyes filled with love and a smile I've never seen him show anyone else but me appears. He turns in his sheets, smiling widely.

"I can't wait." He mumbles to himself, "Can't wait to show Hestia how much I love her. How much she means to me." he mutters as his eyes droop sleepily. "Can't wait to sleep." He mumbles once again. "Can't wait for these dreams of Hestia to become real."

I tear my eyes away from the IM as I cried myself to sleep.

It's been nearly two weeks since I had cut off interaction with Percy after rejecting his confession. I didn't want to think about how his face fell when I told him and about how I left him just like that and not speaking to him again.

I entered the throne room quietly, not looking at anyone as I sat by the hearth to try to keep the fire going, but since it takes after my emotions, it was barely embers.

The meeting goes on normally, until the end, where something catches my attention.

"Now, Poseidon's newest spawn has evidence proving young Perseus of betraying us." Zeus announces solemnly.

My head snaps up at this comment. My mouth speaks before my brain could process what it is saying. "Percy wouldn't do such a thing."

He looks down at me and smiles. "I know sister, that's why we are talking about it." I nod my head as he continues. "I believe this is a perfect opportunity to convince Perseus to become ours. Does anyone have any idea to go about it?"

"How about we just don't do it at all?" I mumble aloud but was ignored. Like usual. Something that Percy wouldn't allow. He would listen to me. I lament glumly.

After a few debates, it was decided that I would bring Percy here before us, in chains. He would be accused even if we knew he was innocent. I tried time and again to convince them to not do this, to not hurt him, to not betray the smidgen of trust he has in us.

In the end though, I was forced to bring him back here. While the others got the camps and hunters to witness his 'trial' in a way to pressure him into accepting by reminding him that he has nowhere else to go.

I flashed to where he was currently at, the front of his mother's apartment. He was standing outside, a complicated look on his face. I waited in the shadows, peeking through the walls silently as I waited for him to finish his business with his family. He should at least be allowed this.

After a while, he knocked on the door, waiting quietly. I was puzzled since he should have a key to his mom's apartment. Maybe he forgot it somewhere. Sally opened the door slightly, looking to see who it is.

Strange, since she had never acted like this before. Even stranger when she saw who it was and tried to slam the door on him. He stopped it by placing his foot in the doorway.

"Leave." Sally announced coldly. I was shocked, as were the others who were listening in from an IM behind me.

"Please, Mom. I just want to see her one last time." Percy pleaded, looking her straight into the eyes. The two had a staring match for a few moments, before she caved in, opening the door wide for him to enter. Before he did though, she placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Five minutes and you are outta here. I don't want her endangered." Sally compromised. Percy looked hurt, but nodded his head. We observed as he walked inside, in a beeline straight to his old bedroom, which had been remodeled to become a nursery.

Percy walked up to the crib, where a child lay. It looked like a child baby version of Sally. He picked her up and cradled her in his arms, rocking her silently as he closed his eyes and enjoyed the moment. Slowly, I saw tears fall from his eyes. It dropped down onto his sister's hands, waking her up. She stared up at him quietly, eerily silent for being woken up.

"I don't know what to do baby girl. I have nowhere to go. No one is there for me anymore and I'm sure this is the last time I ever get to meet you again." he whispered to her. "You're the only thing left in this life that I wish I could be there for, but I don't think that ain't gonna fly. Even if I want to, I don't want to endanger you." He sobbed silently. I felt extremely uncomfortable intruding on this private moment. "I'm tired. I can't even get a moment's respite. This is the most peaceful and calm I've been in this past few weeks." He scoffs bitterly. "It's the calmest I've been since my whole life. No need to act for everyone else. No immortals trying to kill me, no trying to be something I'm not. I just get to be me. A regular person like everyone else."

I see him sigh wearily and sit down in a rocking chair, rocking back and forth in a soothing motion for his baby sister. "I won't get to see you anymore Buggy. I won't get to hold you when you have bad dreams. When you need someone to comfort you. I won't get to see you grow up, to see you learn to crawl, to see you take your first steps, to say your first words. I'll miss out on you making friends and fighting with them, to get a crush on some boy or girl that I have to threaten to treat you right. I'll never see you find the one for you, to fall in love with them and live your life with them, to try and grace you with my infinite wisdom of relationships. I won't get to see myself become a uncle." He was tearing up once again. "I won't get to be there for any of it. I already know my fate. I was shown how I would end up. Either way, this will be the last time I see you. I-I just... I just want you to know..." His words got caught in his throat. "I just want you to know that I love you, always have, and always will. No matter what you do, no matter what happens, I'll always be there for you. You can see me as your guardian angel. Unseen, but always there watching over you."

He sobbed quietly as he held her close. Before his allotted time was up, he stood, placing her back into the crib. He stood straight, wiping any traces of his tears away and looking like he did when he walked in. He stepped back, which caused his sister's eyes to widen and tear up at him leaving. She started to wail, which prompted Sally to run in, passing Percy as if he wasn't even there and console him.

"You've overstayed your welcome. Now please leave. We can speak later on the phone." Sally told him.

She had her eyes closed and her back to him, so she didn't see him slumping where he stood, probably forgetting that he wouldn't be able to use phones to contact anyone with.

"Okay." He mumbled. "Love you, mom." He muttered, looking up for her response.

She said nothing as she tried to coo his little sister back to sleep. He noticed his little sister reaching out to him, so he waved to her sadly as he walked out of her life, most likely for good.

He walked outside and stood outside of the apartment, taking a few moments to think to himself, before walking to a convenience store, walking out, smoking a cigarette. He took a long drag, expelling the smoke out of his lungs in a blissful sigh as he walked to Central Park, sitting at a bench. he then looked up at the sky, a pondering expression on his face.

I frowned, not remembering Percy being a smoker. I walked up to him quietly, waiting for him to start the conversation.

"What are you here for?" he spoke gruffly, cutting straight to the chase.

I was sad that he didn't try to converse like he usually did with me whenever we would talk in the past. Mentally shaking my head, I spoke up. "You are needed on Olympus."

He frowned at this, glancing over at me. For a moment, I saw a sad look in his eyes. He returned his attention back to a family walking through the park, a wistful expression on his face.

"I never got to do that..." he mumbles to himself, but I can hear him crystal clear.

"What? Start a family?" I ask, wincing as I did.

He chortles slightly, returning his gaze back to the stars. "No, just hang out with my family. Walking through a park without a care in the world." he replies curtly.

I shift uncomfortably, not used to him being this quiet and calm. One wouldn't think he had ADHD if they saw him like this.

"Sooo... Buggy?" I ask, trying to bring up a happier topic.

"So you gods were even listening in then, huh?" he comments coldly. I flinch at his tone, but have no defense to him. He takes another drag before speaking. "She was born in May. When I first saw her, she was wrapped up in this adorable bundle of clothing with ladybugs on it. The first thing that came to mind that I blurted out was Buggy. Hence her nickname."

I nod at him, asking my next question. "So, what is her real name?"

"Andromeda Alexis Blofis."

"Like the princess?" He nods to me. I look down tot he grass as I try to think up of something. "Why are you looking at the sky?"

Without even turning, he responds, "I'm just saying goodbye to the stars."

I grow confused at his answer. Sensing my confusion, he responds, "I had a friend in Tartarus who asked me to tell the stars he says hello. I'm telling them goodbye."

"Why?" I ask him.

He ignores my question, responding with one of his own. "Why aren't you just bringing me to Olympus?" I panic, trying to think up of an explanation while my family is yelling in my head to just cuff him. "I'm saying goodbye to the stars because..." I stop my internal shouting match with my family as I look at him. He looks at me sadly as he just shrugs. "I have a feeling that I'm not going to see them again."

My breath catches as he looks at me, holding his hands out as if waiting for something. Only then do I realize that he knows that he's being brought to Olympus in chains. I stare at him sadly as he smiles back at me, a broken look on his face.

I only now realize that I'm crying as I cuff him and flash us both to the throne room.

Next chapter is where we'll see what happens during the trial and how Percy reacts to it. Til next time.