Percy seemed to take the goddess-given news fairly well, surprising Annabeth. She was panicking, ready to research autism. Percy was really calm and held her for an hour until she calmed down enough to think straight.

"What are we going to do?" Annabeth asked quietly, strangely relaxing to the steady beat of his heart. Percy stroked her hair and kissed her forehead.

"We'll treat him like normal."

"But he'll have trouble learning to walk and talk and… and… ooh, let me research it." She tried to pull away from his arms, but he held tight. "Percy, let go."

"Calm down, OK?" He smiled. "He's still our son. He'll be fine, Annabeth."

Other than the autism, Alvie was fine, as Percy had said. But that didn't stop Annabeth worrying. Tobias and Max didn't seem to understand why Alvie acted differently and they grew wary of him. It broke Annabeth's heart to see the two elder brothers treating Alvie as if he were a bomb that could off at any second. Percy tried to encourage them to sit together, but Max didn't 'want to sit with Alvie 'cos he funny baby'.

"No, he's not a funny baby, you are." Percy replied instantly, smiling and poking Max in the stomach. "Be nice to your brother, you two. He needs big, strong brothers, not silly little weeds."

"We no weeds!" Tobias protested. "We big, strong brothers."

"We be nice to funny baby." Max added. Percy folded his arms stubbornly. "We be nice to Alvie." Max corrected.

"There we go."

The boys stuck to their word, much to their parents' approval.

Annabeth and Percy cheered. Alvie was nearly two years old and was still getting the hang of walking.

"Alvie, come to Daddy!" Percy grinned. Alvie didn't respond, but waved his hands by his ears. "What's he doing?" Percy asked, barely moving his lips. He glanced at Annabeth.

"It's a self-stimulatory behaviour."

"Right…" Percy said uncertainly. Max moved towards Alvie and handed over a toy car. It took Alvie a while to focus on the toy, but he seemed content with spinning the wheels and watching them. "And that one?"

"They, uh, do that. It's another self-stimulatory behaviour, apparently." Percy just nodded, looking back at Alvie.

"Alvie." He called. Max looked up and patted Alvie's shoulder.

"Daddy calling you." Alvie squirmed around from Max's hand and toddled off, taking the car with him. "Daddy, why he do that?"

"He thinks you're smelly."

"Percy, don't say that!" Annabeth snapped. Percy smiled sheepishly. "Max, you're not smelly. Alvie's just learning to get on with people." Annabeth frowned. "Where's Tobias?"

"He sleeping under bed." Max said matter-of-factly. Percy sniggered. Annabeth glared at him and Percy hurried off to find Tobias. "What funny?"

"Daddy's just being silly. Ignore him." Annabeth looked down to see Alvie was sitting at her feet, still spinning the wheels on the car and watching them blankly. "Alvie." She said, kneeling next to him. He didn't look round and Annabeth tried to take the car. He tensed and held onto the car with surprising strength. He didn't look up at her, not responding to his name, just the fact that his car was going to be taken away.

"Alvie can keep car." Max said.

"That's nice of you, Max." Annabeth smiled, letting go of the car. Alvie carried on spinning the wheels as if nothing had happened.

Tobias wandered over, yawning and holding Alvie's toy rabbit. "Did you fall asleep under the bed, silly?" Tobias nodded, holding out the rabbit toy. Alvie watched it for a few seconds, before dropping the car and taking the rabbit. Tobias moved away and put his head against Annabeth's leg. She picked him up and patted his back. Tobias seemed a bit warm and she caught Percy's eye across the room.

Sorry it's not much, but I made it up on the spot. I was thinking of a time skip for when Alvie starts school. What'd you guys think?