Random One-Shots

Pairings: Hephaestus x Aphrodite

Characters: Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Zeus, Hades, Athena, Poseidon, Hermes, Demeter, Ares, Artemis, Apollo, Dionysus, Hera.

Prompt: Dirty Little Secret(Or shoes, vecause that's why she's looking for them.)

POV: Aphrodite(WHAT! I just like her point of view, because I like to make her less shallow, honestly, she has so much potential.)

"Aw man." I yelled as my foot hit the wall, I whispered a swear word and gritted my teeth, they had to be around he somewhere, Zeus would kill me if I'm late to another meeting this week. Muttering another curse I kept looking around my closet for my favourite pair of shoes, a pair of black wedges that made me look taller than my natural height of 5', I continued looking as I heard the door to my bedroom being opened and heavy footsteps coming closer, I know what your thinking, monster? Murderer? Evil physcopath out to kill you...? Yeah, not so much the last one. But I relaxed, it was only Hephaestus, I don't think he wants to kill me. Aw to Hades with searching.

"Aphrodite, what are you looking for?" I turned to find my husband standing in the doorway to my walk in wardrobe leaning against the frame. He wore a black shirt, jeans and smart shoes, while I stood in a black and floral print dress, barefoot and my hair a mess.

"I'm looking for some shoes." I replied briskily as I picked up a pair of mary-janes and put them back, deciding they didn't make me tall enough, heels wouldn't do for the occasion considering they made to much noise and didn't go with the dress. I finally decided on a pair of black stillettos and grabbed them before heading past Hephaestus, I sat on the edge of our bed and placed the shoes on, I was just standing up when I caught sight of something that enfuriated me, by the bed lay the wedges I had been looking for during the past hour, I gritted my teeth and picked them up, replacing the stillettos with the wedges. I returned the shoes to the closet and ran a hairbrush through the knots in my hair.

"I was about to ask what you were looking for." Hephaestus informed me as I changed my hair to a light blonde and my eyes to a crystal blue.

"I really am not in the mood for this." I said as I grabbed my chanel purse and emptied the contents onto the bed to see what I needed. I grabbed the small make up bag from the pile and placed my mobile in the purse, keys to the house, some chewing gum to stop me from biting my nails when I got bored and finally some breath mints, for when I ran out of gum. I walked back to the mirror and quickly did my make up, centuries of practice helps make you look perfect straight away, of course being the goddess of beauty never hurts. I finally put on some silver earrings, a charm bracelet and I reached for my favourite locket when I found I couldn't see it.

"What's wrong" Hephaestus asked as he slipped something over my head, I noticed it was my locket that I had wanted to wear. He fastened it around the back for me and I quietly thanked him. "What's so special about his locket anyway. You wear it every day and you've never told me why." I felt my fingers move to the locket on their own accord while I started to recount the story.

"When I was born from the sea, I found a locket left in the sand, by some man's clothes, when I picked it up I found an inscription on the locket." I turned over the locket so Hephaestus could read it.

"To my darling Gaea." He murmured.

"I carried this around for years hoping to find her and give it to her, it wasn't until I joined the Olympians and found out that she was my supposed mother who had my brother slice him up and throw him into the sea that I stopped looking for her, that was when I found out who she was, I had no intention of giving it to her if she did that to him. She showed no mercy, no love for him, in return I have no love for her." I finished the story. (This is one of the versions of Aphrodite's birth, so I'm using this version, I think that it was Kronus who cut up Ouranos? Right? Either way, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. For now.)

"It still doesn't explain why you wear it every day." Hephaestus told me.

"My father may be a titan, but I never knew him, it just helps me feel closer to the father I never had." I explained, Hephaestus wrapped his arms around me in a quick hug. (I can never be sure if lockets were around back in ancient times, but if wedding rings were, so can lockets be, just, they have no photos yet.)

"We should get going, we are incredibly late." I finally muttered after seeing the clock under Hephaestus's arm.

"Zeus will kill us, may Hades have mercy on our souls." Hephaestus muttered before flashing us both to Olympus, we landed in the throne room in the middle of Zeus ranting about us not being there.

"Where have you both been?" He thundered, sheesh dude, chillax.

"We were... busy." Hephaestus finally said, we both took to our thrones and found the council covering their ears. (My mind is planted in the gutter here peeps, lol.)

"Say no more." Zeus finally said, I shared a confused look with my husband before the council finally began, it was safe to assume that what went on today would stay our dirty little secret.

A.N. Two chapters in one night, and yet I don't think anyone has even started reading this yet. I haven't checked but since I posted the first chapter only an hour ago, I'm just going to assume. Well, while I work on another chapter for you all have fun, live long and don't eat batteries, or butterflies, you know what, just peace out.

P.S. I do not own Percy Jackson or the gods, I also do not own the story of Aphrodite's birth, they belong to Rick Riordan and Mythology, peace out and please, avoid any potential demigods, they may be highly dangerous or volitile, or both. Peace out.