A.N: I swear I'm getting confused with the history, I kept having to re-read what I'd written to get the facts right, I keep changing them in my head, or at least it's playing out differently. I have different documents with the profiles of each character and their history and stuff, but my mind likes to go in it's own little direction! I'll write out a chapter, and then later decide I want things to play out differently, so I have to go back and change dialogue and stuff, but I'm sure it'll work out in the end!

Chapter 9: History Lesson

Terri p.o.v

Everyone had slowly gathered back together at the table; I saw Arizona, who had walked hand-in-hand with Callie, and smiled, and when I looked around the table, I saw the questions that covered their faces. When Arizona and Callie had taken their respective places on opposite ends of the table, I addressed the group once again.

"I'm sure that you're all interested in Callie and Aria's roles in this right?" There were nods all around.

"It all begins with your names. Calliope and Ariadne, and the history behind them." I looked straight at the sisters and they stared back in confusion. "Do you know the meaning behind your names?"

"Calliope was Homer's muse, and in Greek mythology, the inspiration behind the Odyssey and the Iliad, right?" Callie explained, and Arizona gasped, as she reached the implication behind it all. I had yet to tell anyone about the sisters, choosing instead to observe how their fates would play out, and I knew Arizona would not forgive me for it.

"Looks like Artemis has figured it out." I smiled.

"You knew? You knew and you didn't tell me? What would have happened if I hadn't been there when I was? She could have died!" Arizona slammed her fists on the table, making everyone but Tim jump in response. Behind me, I could feel Thalia and Clio tense and step forward, but I waved them off.

"I assumed that you'd figure it out when you started calling her 'Calliope'. You should have known once her full name was revealed. Our parents made sure that we were aware of the significance of our given names, isn't that right Artemis? Apollo?"

"I remembered calling her that back in high school, and you of all people should know that I don't remember my childhood," she hissed out.

"You know enough, Artemis. Enough to remember your parents being Poseidon and Aphrodite, and your twin: Apollo. But that is besides the point, you have been with me long enough to have studied up on all the significant players in our history, however you were too blinded by your affection to use your brain and make the connection." It wasn't really an accusation, but it was the truth. When Arizona had come to me telling me that she remembered Callie being in her past, it wasn't much, but she'd remembered calling her 'Calliope'. She was too blinded by love towards the woman and joy over remembering another part of her past that she had completely forgotten who we were.

Arizona deflated slightly and slumped back into her chair. "You should have told me."

"I wanted to, but you were so happy, I couldn't ruin this for you. You'd been looking so long for evidence of your humanity, and when she turned up, you were overjoyed, she was living proof that you were once 'normal'. Or at least thought you were." She tensed up at this, and stole a quick glance towards Callie.

"I assume you know as well, Tim?" She narrowed her eyes at her brother.

"You can't blame him, he had been tasked with another mission, but yes. When I told him about Calliope, he'd made the connection straight away."

"Uhm, not to be rude or anything, but could you explain it to us in like, English or something? Rather than speaking in code, not all of us are on the same wavelength here." Interrupted Addison, I could tell she was getting impatient. Arizona fell back against her chair and scowled at me.

"Right, sorry. I got distracted. Anyway, Calliope may be Homer's muse, but more than that, in Greek mythology, she's one of the 9 muses of Mnemosyne. Usually, it wouldn't mean much, but it just so happens to involve the first ever half-breed that existed. After Cronus turned her, she tried to return to civilization, but then the war happened and she fled to the safety of the Seers, and they bestowed upon her the name 'Mnemosyne'."

"Who are the Seers? You keep mentioning the word 'Seers', but who are they?" They all had their attention on me, captured by the small history lesson I was giving.

"The Seers are a group of vampires, blessed with the power of Sight. The original and first Seer was the sister of Cronus, she went by the name of Theia, and when she was born, she possessed the ability of foresight. She had made predictions that were always accurate, and eventually her powers developed into Thought as well. It went far beyond the usual ability of communication through thought we all possessed. She had the ability to see into your thoughts, past, present and future thoughts, and in turn she was able to influence your actions by altering your thoughts, planting memories as well as removing them.

Back when Cronus was still ruling, Theia had a small group of followers, all of whom were born with the power of sight, though obviously to a lesser degree. She trained them all in order to become aides of the King, but when the war started, she left with her students in tow for the mountains and solitary. She cut herself away from her brother because he wanted to use her power as a tool of war, and she refused to let her students become mindless slaves.

When she was in the mountains, she fell in love with Hyperion, the Shaman of the Light. He was a healer, who possessed powers that was said to be guided by the Sun itself, and together they were able to create a serum that enabled Theia and her students to survive without the need for human blood."

"So if there's a serum, why aren't all vampires using it? Wouldn't it be easier to stay alive?" Addison seemed really interested; I'm guessing the idea of feeding from human blood isn't too appealing for her.

"The serum is sacred, and only those blessed with the title 'Seer' are able to access it. The serum also works as a catalyst for their power, it activates and increases the potential of their ability, and because it was made specifically for them, who had grown up using the serum, it could be potentially toxic for other one else to try it."

"Toxic, like poisonous?" She recoiled slightly, seeing the advantage of blood pack immediately.

"Sort of. Our bodies would not be able to handle the sudden increase in power; we would overload and try to find an outlet to expel the extra power. We would become uncontrollable, but when the effect faded, we would burn away, and the damage inflicted to us both internally and externally would probably kill us. The only one's who may have a chance at surviving would be those with the Royal bloodline, but no one's ever tried. No one's that stupid or desperate, and unless it was an emergency or do-or-die situation, I wouldn't suggest trying it." I could see Mark and Addison blanching at that. It made me wonder who their sire was, as they didn't seem to know much about our history.

"Anyway, Mnemosyne was not a huge fan of killing or blood shed, so she fled to the safety of the Seers and sought sanctuary with them. She was lucky that she arrived when she did, because she was still a newborn, as she had been changed only a few months, and had lived most of her life as a human, she was able to adapt to the effect of the serum without imploding or anything. She was taken under the wing of Theia herself and trained to become a Seer, although she never possessed the power of sight, she gained the power of memories and the ability to control them.

When the war happened, there was a lot of death and a lot of children were left without parents; Mnemosyne had taken in 9 orphan girls herself to raise and train; and following mythology, they were blessed with the title 'The 9 Muses'. Their names were: Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Urania, Thalia, Clio, and Calliope." I heard gasps spread across the room. "They were not trained to become Seers, nor were they sired, but they were strong in their own right; they were taught to read and write, taught how to survive in the wilderness, taught how to fight, and taught about vampires. However, during Hades' first rebellion over 500 years ago, they were killed when he tried to capture Mnemosyne in order for her to wipe the memories of Zeus and Poseidon and plant the ones of himself as King in the brains of the vampires. The 9 Muses were slaughtered, but there were two survivors who were found by Zeus. They were pretty much at the end of their candle, but with their last breath they prayed, and asked him to sire them so they could continue to protect their mother. He did, but Mnemosyne had disappeared by then and they spent their new life serving by Zeus' side. All that was left of the 9 muses are the two behind me: Thalia and Clio." All eyes were now on my guardians, I could feel the anger radiating off of them, so I sent an aura of calmness to them and they relaxed slightly.

"Now Ariadne, I believe your story is more connected to my family; Ariadne's coming was told of, by Theia, over 200 years ago. Ariadne was prophesied as the future bride of Dionysus, my brother." Aria whipped her head towards me, our eye's met and I could see the look of disbelief in her eyes.

"Your brother?"

"Yes, my brother, Dionysus or as I knew him as, Tobias, Toby, was killed 20 years ago, he was 16 and I was 8. He was the first-born son of Zeus and would've been the next King.

The only thing that does not makes sense, is that Calliope and Ariadne are both human. The bride of Dionysus was prophesied as a vampire and Calliope has no connection to the original Calliope or the 9 muses that existed 500 years ago. I can only presume that the coincidence in naming has caused Hades to react."

Whilst everyone processed the information, Callie seemed to come to a realisation.

"Wait, you said Arizona is a pure blood, and her parents are Poseidon and Aphrodite right?" She looked towards Arizona who nodded. "Then why do you keep talking about her 'pre-vampire' life? I thought she was born vampire, so where does this 'human' and 'normal' life fit in?"

I chuckled slightly, Callie was a pretty smart girl; no wonder Arizona was so infatuated with her. She looked at me in bemusement as I laughed.

"Sorry, it's just, you're pretty smart you know?" she blushed at the compliment, "Right, this is all just what I've heard from my father, and since he's gone missing, I only have Tim's testimony to back me up; considering Arizona's pretty useless here." Arizona huffed indignantly and murmured something along the lines of 'I'll show you useless' under her breath.

"So, Poseidon and his wife Aphrodite knew that Hades did not play fair, and he would most likely come after the children in order to get to him and Zeus, so in order to protect Tim and Ari, he sealed their powers away so they could not be sensed by the other Royals. They lived out their lives as every day humans; Poseidon did tell them stories of our ancestors, though he just said it was a 'magical bed time story' using names of the Greek Gods and Goddesses. It was pretty imaginative, since we do just happen to share the same names. They thought they were pretty normal, and it wasn't until they were 15 that it changed. They were living in New York at the time, and Tim went 'missing'." I glanced briefly to Tim, knowing that this was pretty horrific to relive, and as expected, he had withdrawn within himself and was staring blankly at the table, whilst Arizona looked on in concern. "Well, that's what they all thought anyway, the truth was, Tim had been attacked by a stray. Obviously the stray didn't know who Tim was, but he was hungry and Tim was alone and vulnerable. Tim had been going home, after a night out with some friends, and as he was cutting through the park to get home, the stray attacked him, and left him there to die. What he didn't know was that, not only did Tim not die; but his hidden bloodline had woken up, and with it, his real form was awakened too. I'm pretty sure Poseidon realised this as well, because my father, brother and I all received a 'jolt' in the middle of the night. My father later explained that a Royal had been woken, but it didn't make any sense to me back then. I was only 7 at the time, but my brother and I were tasked with the retrieval of the newly awakened Prince. It later turned out that my father was aware of what Poseidon had done, and respected his wishes, but as he was King, my father was not able to do the same and my brother and I had to be raised and groomed as the Royal heirs.

A week after Tim had been changed, my brother and I had reached New York along with Thalia and Clio, and started sensing the presence of the Royal. But it wasn't until Tim attacked me that we found him." They stared at Tim in astonishment and I grinned. "It wasn't like he knew who I was, but he was hungry and hadn't fully adapted to the sudden change. So there I was walking down the street with my guardians in the middle of the night, and suddenly he tried to tackle me, and considering I had been trained since I could walk, he wasn't very successful. Instead we had him detained and brought back to Boston, which was where we were situated at the time, and had him trained and educated.

A year later, we received the same 'jolt' we did the day Tim was bitten. We didn't have to wait long though, because the next night, when I had gone out to the forest behind my house to train, I ran into Ari here passed out on the ground. I sensed her blood and brought her back to the house. It wasn't pretty, but when she woke up, her thoughts and emotions were all over the place, and it was giving me a pretty bad headache. When Tim got home that night he recognised Arizona straight away, we spent the next few weeks telling her about their relationship, and then she was started on the same training and schooling system as us. My father, however, started to train us harder and kept pushing our limits, it was a struggle even for me, let alone a newly awakened vampire like Arizona, and he starting disappearing a lot. We later found out that on the same night we felt the sign of Arizona's awakening, Poseidon and Aphrodite had disappeared, leaving nothing but the scent of Hades behind. It got worse pretty soon, because a few months later, my brother was killed.

Since then we've been doing everything we can to take out the strays from Hades' army and trying to find the Arizona's past on the way. We tracked his trail all the way here to Seattle, and imagine my surprise when I realised that the Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West was none other than Richard Webber!" The 4 guests looked on in confusion at my exclamation, and I mentally berated myself for getting carried away and forgetting about the situation.

"Sorry, uh Richard Webber is the right hand man, advisor and loyal friend to my father Zeus, which means, yes he is also a vampire."

"No fucking way! You've got to be kidding right? How many others are there at the hospital? I mean there's already the five of you, plus me and Mark, and now the Chief, uh, ex Chief as well?" Addison's outburst shocked me briefly, it was really unexpected, and I had gotten used to the silence that reigned whilst I was talking.

"Yup, Richard is actually one of the humans that helped during the rebellion, he was a human healer and had helped take care of the feeders after we were sent underground. He got really sick though, when he was out looking for medicine, he must have gotten infected some poisonous plants, and my father couldn't let someone with as much credit as him to die, so he turned him. Now as for the hospital, I know that Hunt was sired when he took the Chief position, there was no way he wasn't going to be though, considering he had so many vampires working in the hospital, he needed to understand why we would suddenly disappear and why the blood bank needed restocking so often." At the look I got from the four opposite me, I hurried on to explain, "Oh, don't worry, he was given the choice, Richard needed to go help my father, which is one of the reasons why I joined SGMW, but I couldn't just come and take Chief, so he carefully debated and then decided Owen would take the position. He took Owen into a room in the basement and carefully explained the situation, and the choice to join us or get his memory wiped, and Owen chose to join us. Although he did request the option for his wife as well, so we grabbed Cristina Yang and gave her the same options and she seemed morbidly interested, I'm sure the first thing she said was 'does that mean I can spend the rest of eternity cracking open chests and looking at hearts?' though I'm sure the term she used was 'playing' rather than 'looking', and so Richard sired them both. We did briefly consult with a Seer before siring Cristina, but Bailey said it wouldn't do any harm, she said it would be useful to have more of us around the hospital for cover stories-"

"Wait, Bailey as in Miranda Bailey?" I was cut off, rather rudely if I must say, by a horrified Aria.

"Um, yes?" I didn't quite get what the commotion was about.

"God, that explains a lot, that woman has always scared me. So much fire for such a tiny woman," Mark added, whilst shivering at the thought.

"Right anyway, so Hunt, Yang, Bailey, and um, oh! Derek and his wife, Meredith too. Timothy sired them though. There was an incident when we first got to Seattle 3 years ago, and we'd all been separated, Tim had somehow found his way onto Derek's land and they saved him. Well tried to anyway, but they found out the truth when the strays followed his scent to the house and attacked Derek and Meredith. Tim ended up marking and siring them to keep them alive." I concluded.

"Jesus, it's a hospital full of freaking vampires, there are human staff too though right? Is that why you didn't seem surprised to know that we were vampires too? Did you just assume because the most of the department heads were vampires that we were too?" Addison shot out question after question, and I had to take a moment to rearrange my thought to answer each one as diplomatically as possible.

"Right, first thing, yes there are human employees at the hospital, secondly I know that you two were human when we first met 3 years ago and thirdly, I didn't just assume, I sensed it. As part of Royalty, we have the ability to know and sense where there are other vampires, now I don't know exactly when you were sired, but I can narrow it down to some time this year, a few weeks before Callie and Aria arrived if I'm not mistaken." Addison was taken aback, and stared at me blankly. I'm guessing I was right by the looks of things. "The only thing I don't know is who your sire is, and why you were changed." I inhaled deeply, breathing in their scent, "Though I will admit that your scent is familiar."

Their faces darkened immediately, and Mark's low voice carried through the room, "We can't tell you that." My team tensed up immediately.

"I accept and respect that." My team turned to me in protest, and I held a hand up, cutting any off any complaints, "But only because I know your scent, and can say with absolute certainty that you are not underlings of Hades." I levelled my eyes at the 2 newborns, so they could see the seriousness in my eyes and hear the warning in my voice, "but you will be forthcoming with any other information I require about you and if I feel that you are a threat to my team, I will not hesitate to destroy you both. Is that clear?" They gulped, feeling the authority coming off my body in waves and nodded meekly.

I knew it was a lot to take it, but there were other things that needed to be addressed. I had sent Tim on a recon mission for information, and he seemed pretty excited about the results.

"Tim?" he looked at me, "did you manage to get what I asked for?"

He perked up immediately in excitement and the others watched him with great interest.

"Yeah," he turned to address the group, "Right so T sent me out to get some more information on Mnemosyne. We had Bailey look over Arizona, but not even she could break through the mental block that's been placed in her head, and we reached the conclusion that only one person can do this. As vampires, we all have the ability to wipe someone's memory, but we are limited to time. For instance, they," he gestured to Teddy, Lexie and Alex, "could wipe your memories of everything that has happened within the last day, and nothing more; as a Royal, Arizona, T and I have a stronger ability and we could probably wipe your memories from the last couple of months, maybe a year if we stretch it. But to completely erase 16 years worth of memories? There are only two people in the world that could do this. One of them is Theia, but she would have no reason to do that to her own blood, and the other, Mnemosyne. We've narrowed it down to Mnemosyne, and in the last few months have also narrowed down her location to Miami, Florida." His enthusiasm started to deflate as he revealed his recent findings.

"We-uh-we've tracked down her human alias too," he kept stealing glances between Arizona and Callie, I tilted my head, deep in thought. When I came to the realisation at what he was implying, my eyes widened and my throat constricted.

It couldn't be!

I looked at Callie and Aria who had their complete attention on Tim, and then to Arizona was still watching with complete interest, a look on innocence on her face.

No… not now.

"It's… uh… She's … Her name is Lucia." A gasp left their lips as Callie and Aria stared at Tim dumbfounded. "Lucia Torres."

A.N: The truth will be revealed soon!