A/N: Dedicated to Booknerd22202 for being awesome.

Athena sighed. How did she let herself get sucked into this job? Oh sure, Annabeth's kids were kind of cute, and luckily they didn't inherit too many of their father's characteristics.

That would have been terrible.

Meanwhile, Baby Dylan sat in her lap, whilst Callie and Katherine sat across from her.

"So, today," Athena heard herself saying. "Your Mommy and Daddy are busy doing something at Camp Half-Blood, so I'm going to watch you."

Callie wrinkled her nose. "What are they doing at Camp?" she asked curiously.

"Umm…" muttered Athena. Being the goddess of wisdom, she couldn't very well admit that she had no idea. "That doesn't matter. Today," she said, pulling a chart out of her pocket. "We are going to learn about pi."

"I like pie!" Callie informed her. "Especially the blue kind."

Athena forced a smile. Hadn't Annabeth taught them anything? "Not that kind, dear."

"Cherry pie?" Katherine asked from across the room. "Mommy makes that."

"Not that kind either." Athena sighed. "No pi, as in 3.1415926535897932384-"

"That's long!" Callie cried. She frowned slightly, then suddenly brightened up. "Hey, I have an idea! Why don't you take us to Olympus!"

"Well-" Athena started to say, but stopped herself. What was the harm in that? After all, she was not one to keep children from learning.

—-

Ten minutes later, Athena decided her plan had been a failure. Callie and Katherine ran around Olympus, while Dylan crawled. Athena was stuck chasing after all of them.

"Help me!" she called to a nearby Aphrodite, who just shook her head and laughed at the sight. Apollo just muttered some stupid haiku about the whole thing. If Athena remembered correctly, it went somewhat like this:

"Athena chases

All her grandchildren around.

Aphrodite laughs."

Athena glared at her younger brother, if he could even be called that. "That isn't funny, Apollo!" she called.

Suddenly, a tall figure appeared behind her. "Pizza!" he called, and all the children came running over. Well, except for Dylan who was nowhere to be seen.

"How did you-" Athena asked, turning around to face-

Poseidon?

"Let's just say I've babysat them before." Poseidon answered, a twinkle in his eye. "After all, they are my grandkids too, Athena."

"Hi, Grandma Athena!" Callie called, laughing. Katherine grabbed Athena's hand, also giggling.

"Where's your brother?" Athena asked, slightly alarmed. "And Calliope, why did you run away like that? Do you know how much of an unwise decision that was? And not watching your brother"

"Oh, let her be, Athena." Poseidon answered. "She's only six."

"Anyways," Callie sighed, looking around. "I have absolutely no idea where Dylan is, so maybe you two should put more attention into finding him," Her cold gray eyes hardened, looking nervous.

Nervous? Calliope was almost never nervous.

Athena and Poseidon shared a look.

"Don't worry, Callie," Poseidon told his young granddaughter, patting her shoulder. "We'll find him."

Calliope raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?" she questioned.

Athena blinked. Maybe Callie was a little smarter than Athena had given her credit for. Even though it was her fault that Dylan was lost.

Poseidon frowned slightly. "You know what, Athena," he hesitated, then picked up Katherine and placed her in Athena's arms. "You take Katherine, and Calliope and I will go look for Dylan. Okay?"

Athena glared. "That may not be the wisest strategy." She sighed, muttering something about the stupid sea god, and his grandchildren always getting into trouble.

Poseidon ignored her. "Well, time is precious. Come on, Calliope." He then proceeded to walk away, with Calliope in toe.

Athena sighed, wishing Poseidon didn't have to be so dumb. Katherine stared at her.

"I want my Mommy!" she cried.

Athena patted her arm awkwardly. What were you supposed to do if little kids said that again?

"Um, chances are that she'll come back eventually," Athena promised. "After all, she never finished redoing Olympus what with all the demigod stuff and everything."

"I want her now!" Katherine cried.

"You know," said Athena. "Just be thankful you have a mother. Zeus ate mine."

Katherine looked at her wide-eyed. "Someone gonna eat Mommy?" she asked.

"I don't think so," Athena replied. "But if they do, your mortal grandmother can take care of you. Okay?"

Katherine started to cry.

Athena sighed. "You know," she said sternly, "If you keep crying your Mommy won't come back."

Katherine cried even harder after that.

"Um…. don't cry?" Athena tried. "Please?"

Although Athena hadn't really put much thought into this before, she had no idea how to take care of young children. Oh sure, she visited her own children at Camp. But they were much older, and more mature.

"Why are you crying?" Athena asked through clenched teeth.

"I WANT MY MOMMY!"

"How about I tell you a story?"

"No."

"Will you stop crying if I give you a cookie?"

Katherine quieted down a little after that. "I wanna cookie!"

Athena pulled a chocolate granola bar from her pocket, opened it, and handed it to Katherine. Wait, why did she have mortal food anyway?

Luckily, Katherine stopped crying completely after that.

Ten minutes later, Poseidon suddenly appeared, carrying Baby Dylan, and holding his granddaughter's hand.

"Come on, Athena," he said. "It's getting late. We should probably get these kids to bed."

"Oh, so now you're helping?" Athena almost said, but didn't. Instead, she set Katherine down, took them home, and helped put everyone to bed.

—-

"So they were good?" Annabeth asked. "No fights or crying or any problems or anything?" She grinned. "Are you sure you're talking about my kids?"

"Yes," Athena told her. "They were perfectly fine."

"Does that mean you won't mind babysitting again next week?"

Athena froze.

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