Emily's pov
When Bucky took her hands that she wondered what he was going to do, than he lead her out of the bedroom and went into the living room. When they were in the living room that Bucky let go of her hands before going to over to the record player and turned it on. The song that Emily and Bucky danced to at their wedding started to play, Bucky walked backed over to her and held his hand to her. Just like he did all those years ago in the night the howling commandos were formed when they were at the awkward stage with each other. Emily took his hand and they started to dance, after a while that Emily out her head on his shoulder again. Bucky pulled her closer in a protective manner, Emily smiled when Bucky did that. It has been a while since she had the feeling of when someone, other than a god or Steve, was trying to protect her or made her feel like the were trying to protect her.
After a while that Emily lifted her head and kissed Bucky, he kissed her back. When they kissed that Emily and Bucky stopped dancing, after a few minutes of kissing that Bucky pulled her back into the bedroom. Once in the bedroom that they made way over to the bed, Bucky pushed on Emily on the bed before she felt his hand under her shirt. Emily smiled when she felt that, the kiss broke long enough for her shirt to come off before she started to kiss Bucky more deeply. After a while that they stopped, Bucky fell asleep first before Emily feel asleep with her head on Bucky's chest, thinking that her old life has finally caught up with her new life. For Emily knew one day her old life would catch up with her, it seems that her old life finally did.
When the next morning came that Emily groaned slightly as she woke up, she could hear the sound of morning in New York. As soon as she heard the normal morning sounds of New York that Emily groaned and shifted in the bed that she was sleeping in, thankfully she was used to hearing New York before moving into the avenger tower that Tony built for the avenger in the last few months. Though she knows she won't be in it all the time, like Natasha and Clint won't be in it, even if SHIELD was gone and it was being rebuilt by Phil. Emily was sure that J.A.R.V.I.S. was going to wake her up soon, but she didn't want to wake up quite yet because of the dream she been having the night before. It was dream that she wanted to back to, she was a bit upset that she woke up from that dream. Emily shifted and turned, when Emily did that, that she realized something and that she wasn't in the avenger tower.
It was clear from the sounds of New York that she wasn't in her cabin either, for if it was her cabin that's he was in than it would be the sound of nature. For when Emily shifted and moved her head and arm to her other side that her head landed on a chest and her arm fell across a torso. Emily froze when she felt the chest under her head and the torso under her arm, she could hear the steady beating of a heart under her head. Emily opened her eyes before blinking a few times, Emily sat up slowly, or at least propped herself up, as she realized that she was in the room that she was dreaming about last night. When she propped herself up more that she looked down and saw Bucky laying there still sound asleep. As soon as she saw Bucky laying there that she knew it was no dream that she had last night and that it was real. Emily watched Bucky as he slept, she was unsure of what would happen now, with happened in the last couple of months. But she was sure that it would take a while for Bucky to get adjusted back into the real world. For it seem that HYDRA didn't give him all the updates of the world, but enough to move around.
Emily got out of the bed, Emily was unsure if her clothes were, besides the ones she had been wearing. Instead of nothing to put her own clothes on that she put Bucky's shirt on and went to the kitchen. She started to cook breakfast, at the moment she was rather glad that Arabella wasn't here. For Emily had a feeling that she may not hear the end of it if Arabella saw her in the kitchen wearing nothing but Bucky's shirt. However Emily had a comeback with for that, that was if she needed to use and she hadn't before. Even though Emily didn't know the Weasleys as well as Arabella does but she knows them well enough to know that Arabella likes or has a crush in the one Weasley twin named Fred. Emily guessed that they had a crush on each other since Arabella's first year at Hogwarts judging for the first truth or dare game that Arabella was part of as well as the ones following that every year expect for second year. Emily was deep enough in thought that she hardly noticed Bucky entered the kitchen till she felt a pair of arms wrapped around her.
"It's still hard to believe that you can cook even after all these years, with what I seen you can do, how you fight, and everything."
"Yeah, I know. If Phil wasn't a son of Demeter, I am sure I would hear it from him as well." Bucky laughed, but when he spoke that he sounded serious.
"Emily, what about Steve or Lauren?" Emily turned around and looked at Bucky, he was wearing his pants but no shirt, it would be hard for him to wear his shirt since she was wearing it.
"What about them?" Bucky lowered his head, Emily put her arms around Bucky before she went on. "Bucky, after the Helicarrier that Steve, Lauren and myself tried to find you. However due to the fact that we leaked SHIELD and HYDRA secrets that Steve and Lauren had to keep a low profile and thankfully we have the backing of Stark. So Steve and Lauren haven't looked for you as much as they could or wanted to in the last couple of months. With SHIELD at war with itself along with fighting HYDRA, that the three of us kept been pulled into it. Out of the three I spent the most time looking for you, if I wasn't looking for you, I was helping with the demigod war or the fight against HYDRA. Honestly, I didn't expect you to find me."
"Demigod war?" Bucky looked at her when she said that, Emily nodded.
"Yes, however no mortals are involved with this war. Well depending on what happens they would be but the mist is covering things up or make a change. Look, there is a lot of explaining to do."
Emily finished breakfast as she explained what has been happening since the Helicarrier as well as what happened to her before that. After Emily finished that they decided to go to the tower, before that, that Bucky decided to cut his hair back to how it was before he fell. Emily helped with the cutting of his hair before they left the apartment to go to the avenger tower. When they reached the tower that Natasha was slightly uncomfortable with being around Bucky as well as the other avengers expect Steve and Lauren of who know Bucky. Though Natasha was the one that was most uncomfortable around Bucky, though Emily knows that Bucky couldn't blame her. After that happened a couple of months ago, but it was plain in the first couple of days that Bucky was no longer the winter soldier but himself once more. So slowly the other avengers started to get use to having Bucky around the avenger tower. Emily was sure that part of it was because none of them, expect for Steve, thought much of Emily being married and the other part that Bucky was formerly the winter soldier.
But as the next few months went by that the other avengers got used to Bucky, even Arabella. During that time that Apollo gave Bucky the same gift as the rest of the howling commandos of which is was the same kind of blessing as the hunters. Unlike the rest of the howling commandos that Apollo gave Bucky a mission that will last till Emily and Bucky dies of which to protect Emily. Emily knows that he only did that as give Emily and Bucky a reason to make sure they stay together. It was during this time that Emily told Hades of what happened to Bucky and what he was able to remember. He pardon Bucky for what he did during those years for Bucky was not to blame for being brain washed.
When February came around that Lauren and Steve's wedding day came, Phil and Bucky were the best men. Arabella was a bridesmaid whisk Emily was still the maid of honor, the wedding of Captain America and Lauren was much bigger than the one Emily and Bucky had sixty nine years ago, almost. That was mostly because former SHIELD members were there as well as the new SHIELD, the avengers and some of the gods as well as project demigod and the howling commandos. Of course ghosts, or spirits, of people thar Emily, Lauren, Steve and Bucky knew form World War II were there as well, since Hades allowed them to go to the wedding. Among the spirits was Steve's and Emily's father, Dr. Erskine, Colonel Phillips, and Howard, the wedding gave a chance to Tony to talk with his parents and say good bye to them properly. Emily watched Tony from a distance when he was talking to his parents, the only other time that Emily saw Tony cry, like he was now, was at his parents funeral. Emily was in the shadows watching the funeral, in some ways that Tony reminded Emily of Howard but in other ways that he didn't.
A month later, as Emily and Bucky decided to do, was to renew their vows on the days they got married seventy years ago. Of which was a couple of days after Bucky's birthday, Emily wore the same dress that she did when she married in. Thankfully the dress passed off just as well in this time as it did back in the 1940s but with a couple of adjustments. Bucky was surprised that she even still has that dress from the 1940s, Emily wasn't going to throw away her wedding dress. But she has to admit that she was surprised that it seem like the dress never aged, when the day came for Emily and Bucky renewed their vows that she had both Arabella and Lauren as the maids of honor. Unlike their wedding in the war that this time it was held at the avenger tower, of which seem odd in a way. Emily and Bucky sort of went on a honeymoon, they went to her cabin in the woods that she hadn't used since a little over a month since Steve was pulled out of the ice. For after Steve moved to Washington that Emily either stayed at the SHIELD headquarters with Phil. Other than Steve, Hades, Persephone, her mother, Hestia, and Arabella, Phil was the one she spend the most with.
Out of her mortal half siblings that the one she spent the most time was with was Phil, than it would be Steve, than Arabella. So when Emily and Bucky went to her chain that they had to clean it up, Emily had do some of the fixing of the cabin while Bucky did most of the cleaning. Considering that Emily used her powers over plants to built the cabin and use to repair that it was easier for Emily to fix the cabin itself as oppose to Bucky. Emily and Bucky stayed there for a week, thankfully by than that Emily got used to the metal arm. Bucky got used the metal, doing other things besides using it for fights like he has done for fifty years. It was the last day at the cabin when Emily was about ready to to make breakfast when there was a knock on the door. Emily stopped and looked at the door just as Bucky came out looking slightly confused, there was only a handful of people that would come here. Emily walked to the door and opened, Emily sighed when she saw who it was and walked over to the kitchen as Phil entered the cabin.
"Hi Emily. Hi Bucky." Bucky smiled slightly when he saw Phil, emily dropped the pans onto the counter before looking at phil.
"Hi Phil. What brings you here today?" Phil walked over to Emily and dropped a file in front of her, Emily looked at the file before looking at Phil with a raised eyebrow. "What's the file for?"
"Mostly picture and little information that we have on certain children and teenagers."
"Demigods, you mean. You know while they are camp that most of their information is missing till they leave camp. You could easily go to camp to get that information. You have no reason to come here to talk about this."
"True, but this demigods are not demigods of camp halfblood." Emily bit her lip, there was plenty of things she told phil, there was only a few things she never told Phil. For example, she never told him that the only lover she had was Bucky, Bucky doesn't even know that simple fact. But there was another thing she never told phil and that was the god's other personalty or other form, roman. Because of this that she was worried of where this might lead to.
"Well if they are not demigods than they are mortal." Emily hoped that would stop Phil from figuring this out. Phil shook his head as Emily expected.
"This are demigods, though it's like a couple of them are more like legacies instead. See look." Phil opened the file as Bucky came over, the first picture was of two girls about the same age, fourteen. One girl was had dark skin like roasted coffee with curly cinnamon brown hair and gold eyes. The other girl was different and the opposite of the other girl. For the other girl has black hair that was halfway down her back, her skin was pale and her dark eyes were gleaming with madness or that of a genius. Both of them were purple shirts form camp Jupiter, blue jeans and tennis shoes, Emily could see the SPQR tattoos on their forearm. Emily knew at once who this two were, it was Hazel and Jennifer, Emily looked over at Phil of who was waiting for her to say something.
"Why are you showing me this?"
"Considering you been around for seventy years that you may have run across another group of demigods."
"That doesn't mean anything, sure I seen and did a lot of things but seventy years is a short amount of time compared to the gods."
"But it could give you enough time to find another group of demigods." Emily was about ready to say something when there was a scream, Emily looked away from Phil. Panicked filled her, for she knew that scream, it was hard not to with knowing her for nearly a year being at Camp Jupiter. Without saying anything to phil or Bucky that Emily ran from e kitchen and out of the door towards the scream. Emily was barely aware that they were running behind her. As she ran that she snapped her fingers and her appearance changed to her daughter of Hades appearance. Than Emily took her skull necklace off and swished before it become her stygian iron sword. It didn't take long for Emily and the other two to reach the edge of a clearing, there was gold dust from monsters everywhere in the clearing. There was a battle happening, there were three monsters left, the manitcore and two Dracaenae. Not only that but there were three demigods in the clearing as well as the three monsters that were left.
Reyna, daughter of Bellona, Jason Grace, son of Jupiter and Jennifer Richards, daughter of Pluto and Emily's half sister. It was clear the three of them were close of being at the end of their role with the state that they were in. For she could see the different cuts, scars and wounds that they gained form the recent battle only. Jennifer was the one that was worst shape, she has an open wound in her side as well as another open wound on her shoulder. Jason was the one best in shape for the worst wound that he has was a cut that was bleeding on his face. Emily knows that Jason wouldn't Joel much longer not with how Jennifer and Reyna were as well as having no extra help. Reyna also has a couple of wounds that were prevents her from fighting as well as she normally would, however her wounds were not as bad as Jennifer's wounds. Jennifer was up against a tree and tried to stand but she failed and fell to the ground again, as Jennifer did that, that Reyna was knocked out by one of the Dracaenae.
The Dracaenae lifted her sword ready for the kill while Jason was knocked away by the other Dracaenae before he could try to help Reyna. At once Emily used shadow travel and appeared in front of Reyna as the Dracaenae went for the kill, Emily blocked the blow with ease. Emily kicked the Dracaenae and she stumbled back some before regaining her balance and looked at Emily. The Dracaenae hissed at her, Emily raised her sword as the Dracaenae charged at her, when the Dracaenae was close enough that Emily dodge the strike before she knocked the sword out of the Dracaenae's hand and cut it's head off. The Dracaenae turned to gold dust, the other Dracaenae charged at her with no weapons, Emily stabbed that Dracaenae in the heart and she turned into gold dust as well. Emily than turned to the Manitcore, the very same monster that chased her through these very woods eighty two years earlier. Emily gripped her sword tighter waiting for him to attack her, however it seems that the Manitcore decided to do a different tactic with her.
"Well, another daughter of Pluto and over the age of sixteen. I am surprised that the great prophecy hasn't happened yet." Emily noticed, out of the corner of her eye, that Jason went over to Reyna and Jennifer to help them, but her kept her eyes on the monster before. She noticed that Bucky and Phil were at the edge of the clearing and they looked puzzled by what the Manitcore said.
"It hasn't happen because that prophecy was made over sixty years ago and I was already passed the age of sixteen when the prophecy was made." The Manitcore tilted his head when she said that and looked at her.
"So you are immortal than. I would think that you would be in the underworld, no matter if you are immortal or not."
"Not during this time of the year." When Emily said that, that the Manitcore lunged at her while Emily barely managed to block the attack since it happened rather quickly. Emily kept fighting the manticore for who knows of how long, she knows it was longer than Jason, Reyna and Jennifer had been fighting. However Emily has more training than the others, she even has some roman training as well as her Greek training. Hades and Hestia trained her in her new powers in the first three years and Emily learned of how to use it on her own since than. She also got extra training from the dead, so she was able to match the Manticore head on after the first attack. It seems that the manticore was surprised of well she was able to feed him off of herself, so he spoke.
"I am surprised that you managed this long, not even your half sister could go this long." Just after the Manitcore said that, that his tail jabbed towards her stomach but she moved but not in time. The tail didn't hit her stomach but it hit her arm instead, one of the spikes managed to into her skin as the manticore pulled away. He smirked when he saw the spike in her arm, but it quickly faded as Emily looked at him with a small smile. Emily pulled the spike out of her arm, as soon as she removed it that the skin healed of where the spike was and the manticore looked at her in surprise. Thank goodness for being the champion of Hestia and a daughter of Demeter, other wise she would be in great pain and her vision would be blurry so that she would be an easy target from the posion in the spike. "What's this?" Emily stabbed him in the heart with the spike, he walked backwards in shock, than Emil spoke.
"Never use poison on a champion of Vesta or even one who was blessed by Ceres." The manticore remained shock as he turned into gold dust, Emily stood up from her kneeling position and swish the sword so that it turned back into the necklace. Jason was trying to wake up Reyna, Jason managed to put some nectar on Reyna's wounds to help her heal. Emily walked over to Jennifer, even with Jason getting her to have some nectar and ambrosia that it was still not enough to heal Jennifer properly or quickly. As Bucky and Phil walked over to Emily that Emily healed the wounds that Jennifer has were not healed yet. Emily noticed a few differences in the last two months since she seen Jennifer, of which was around Christmas. That she grew at least another inch and her build was more of a roman warrior's build, Emily managed to help Jennifer to her feet but Jennifer was unsteady.
"Rachel, are they going to be all right?" Emily looked over Jason when he said that before looking at Reyna, her life aura was not fading so she should be fine.
"They will be fine, but they would need some time to recover though." It seem that as Emily spoke that Jason noticed Phil and Bucky.
"Who are you two?" Emily looked at Bucky and phil, they looked slightly confused and unsure of what to say or do.
"James Barnes, son of Auster and Phil Coulson, son of Ceres." As soon as Emily said that, that Bucky and Phil stared at her, Emily gave them a look that said, play along. "My cabin is nearby. So come on Lightning boy." Jason picked up Reyna.
"Lead on, Ghost Girl." Emily looked at Jason when he picked up Reyna, she knew not too long ago that Jason and Reyna went on a mission together. After that mission that Reyna seem to act differently around Jason, for it was clear to Emily that Reyna likes Jason more than a friend but Jason doesn't see her more than just a friend. Emily didn't comment or said anything as she lead them back to the cabin, once inside that Emily checked on Reyna and healed the wounds that were not healed before checking on Jennifer once more. Bucky and Phil were standing just inside the door watching, Emily stood up and spoke to Jason.
"I will be back in a couple of minutes, Jason." Emily walked out of the chain and gestured for Bucky and Phil to follow her, Emily walked far enough that Jason or Jennifer would be able to follow, see or hear them. When Emily stopped that she turned to face Bucky and Phil
"You knew about the Romans gods existing, the whole time? Why were you denying it earlier?"
"Because, it's dangerous." Phil looked puzzled when Emily said that.
"How can it be dangerous? I mean all of the demigods are facing the same enemy."
"That is true, but there is an old rivalry between the Greeks and Romans, they last time that the Romans and Greeks meet resulted in the American civil war, one of the most bloodiest wars of all time. Even more blood than the two world wars together." Phil and Bucky looked shock, Emily looked between them. "I need you two to swear that you not reveal to any of the Greeks or romans about each other for it could lead to another war." Bucky spoke up.
"But couldn't the gods stop them from fighting each other for the romans come from a different set of gods than we do."
"The gods won't be able to help with that. As a matter of fact they won't be any God when the Greeks and Romans start to fight each other." It was Phil that spoke.
"Why not?"
"Because they are not from a second set of gods, yes they are Romans. But the thing is that they come form the roman aspect of our gods." Phil opened his mouth to say something but he closed it again, Emily went on. "Yes, Phil, their gods are our gods as well. This is why they would not be any good for if war is upon the two groups that they would be calling on the gods to help in that war. The gods will have a personality disorder for each side of themselves would be fighting against each other."
"Do the Romans have their own camp?"
"Yes, it is in the Bay Area." Phil was stun.
"Of course, that is why we're told the Bay Area and San Francisco was dangerous for demigods at camp because the Romans are there."
"Among other reasons as you know."
"Couldn't you tell us before?" Emily shook her head.
"No. You see, I swore on the River Styx not to tell anyone. The only way I could tell them was if they found out by accident. So swear on the river styx that everything I tell you about the Romans and Camp Jupiter that you won't tell anyone." They smeared on the river Styx, when they did that Emily went on. "One more thing, as for as the Romans are concern that I am Rachel Blackthrone, daughter of Pluto, champion of Vesta and ambassador of Pluto."
"So they don't know about your normal appearance than?
"No, but there would be a few that I will tell when the time comes."
"Can we at least see the other camp."
"Yes, as soon as Jennifer and Reyna are healed." They walked back to the cabin, Jennifer was moving around, Emily could tell the wounds were tender still since Jennifer seem it be in slight pain still. Reyna was sitting up on the couch, as soon as Emily that Reyna looked at her than Emily spoke.
"Are you all right?"
"I have been better." Emily nodded when Reyna said that, Emily was about ready to go to the kitchen to get them something to eat when Reyna had spoke. "I am glad we found you." Emily looked over at Reyna when she said that. Emily wondered why Reyna would say that, somehow Emily felt it has something to do with why they were. Emily figured that they were here because of a quest.
"Why is that?" Reyna sat up more properly before going on.
"You see we were giving a quest and it is proven to be taking longer than it should be. You are the only person we can ask for help. We need to know about Percy Jackson."
"What? Why?" The surprised and confused look on Reyna's face told Emily that she was surprised that Emily hadn't asked her of who Percy Jackson was.
"You know him?"
"We have meet before but you haven't answered my question. Why do you need to know about him?" It was Jason who spoke up.
"Remember the prophecy of the child of the big three?"
"Of course, what of it?"
"We believe Percy is the one in the prophecy. So do you know where he is?" Emily sighed when Reyna said that, yes, Emily knows where he was or at least during the summer, she is aware that Percy leaves camp during the school year. She also knows that he lives in New York City during the school year, but where he was in New York City was beyond her.
"There are a couple of places of where I can think of where he is but it would be too dangerous for you three to go there."
"Why?"
"Well for one thing there is a lot of monsters there, if you hadn't notice. Besides you know it's bad luck to come here to the east."
"Can't you tell us of those two places are?"
"No, I can't tell you that. When you get back to camp just tell them that you couldn't find him."
"What about the prophecy?" Emily looked over at Jason when he said that.
"You, out of everyone, should know that one shouldn't try to figure out prophecies or even to mess with them. Remember what happened to Michael Varus?" All three of them lowered their heads as Emily looked at them before going on. "I know that with this war that you feel that you need to play a hand of some kind. But I can safely say that it may not be a best idea to find Percy and take him to Camp Jupiter for it could raise another problem. It would be best to leave him of where he is. Trust me on this, the prophecy will happen soon enough. I will let you stay here till you three are up to travel again." They spent the rest of the day in the cabin, upon learning that Bucky and Phil never went to Camp Jupiter that they filled them of what it was like there and told them about the SPQR Tattoos. Phil and Bucky looked at the tattoos oddly, than they looked over at Emily before Phil spoke.
"Do you have the tattoo?" Emily sighed before she pulled off her two bracelets and rolled her sleeve up enough to show the the SPQR tattoo that has a glyph that looks like a cross with curved arms and a head along side it was fire. Bucky got up from the chair before walking over to her and looked down at the tattoo on her arm. Emily knows she didn't have this before Bucky fell and ever since Bucky came back and they be sharing the bed again that Emily kept her brackets on no matter what so that Bucky wouldn't see. The first few times he was close to taking them off but Emily managed to get him not to took the bracelet off. Bucky trace the tattoo, Emily was close of wincing for when touched in a certain way that she could almost feel the tattoo burning. Bucky was about ready to ask of when she got the tattoo from but form the look in her eyes told Bucky to ask her later. Than Jason spoke.
"Are they well enough to travel?" Jason gestured to Reyna and Jennifer, Bucky let go of her arm before she out the bracelets back on and walked over to Reyna and Jennifer. Than she checked to see how he wounds were, thankfully the wounds were healed.
"Yes, they should be. I will shadow travel you back to camp. Bucky, Phil, you may as well as come." Jason took one of her hands while Jennifer took the other hand, when each of them stood in a circle that the shadows engulf them.