Author's Note: Hey everyone! I feel like it's been a really long time since I updated, sorry for that! Thursday night was the first time I got to even think about this story (not that I wasn't thinking of it constantly just didn't have time to formulate words for it). I actually wrote at least most of this then, but needed help deciding certain things and my helper (really good friend/distant cousin who I only know and met because we go to the same high school, also recently caught up on this series and finally has an account here (even though she was the one to introduce me to this site in the first place)), the purple monarch, delayed me a bit with her lack of response. Anyways so it's been a while and that is entirely due to my difficulties in English. Also I am terrible when it comes to deadlines. I was co-writing a Nicercy Valentine's Day story with the purple monarch for a contest and missed the deadline which was last week. We're still going to finish that and post it as soon as we can anyways though so ya if you're interested. Also, I was planning on making this a short chapter with a cliffhanger, but figured it was nicer after leaving you for so long to give the full thing.

Warnings: All canonical pairings in the seven were broken up; homosexuality is a big part of this story, so I'm sorry to the homophobes out there but I don't want to hear it. M/M, F/F, Threesome, I don't know what else to put as a warning so let me know if you see something I should add

Main Pairings: Frank/Leo, Jason/Nico/Percy

Side Pairings: Nico/Percy, Annabeth/Reyna, Hazel/Piper, Tyson/Ella

PJatO/HoO Characters: Annabeth Chase, Ella the Harpy, Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Octavian Simmons, Perseus Jackson, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, Thalia Grace, Tyson

Disclaimer: I am not 50 some odd years old. I am only a high school/college student with a love for mythology. All rights to the series and the characters belong to the amazing Rick Riordan.

Wait, What?

Chapter 6: When the fairies come out to play

Frank's POV:

It's been a year and a half since my life flipped around. A year and a half since the defeat of Gaea. A year and a half since I realized I couldn't stay there anymore. Not when there was not a chance that the one I love would ever love me back. Not since Hazel left me. It's been a year-

Suddenly there's a rainbow pulsing in front of me, asking to open a connection. In preparation of leaving, I paid a visit to Fleecy and persuaded her to cut off all connection through IMs. She said she couldn't completely disconnect me-that I needed to allow at least one person to be able to reach me, but that she'd make it so I didn't have to answer even them if I didn't want to.

I've avoided talking to anyone from back then for so long I'm almost tempted to do just that. Except it's so bizarre to receive an IM from him. That he is finally calling me, doing exactly what I'd left it open to him and him alone to do.

So I open the connection.

And there he is. It's Leo. The one who so completely changed my life without even meaning to. My life's not bad, don't get me wrong, but...it'd be so much better if I could share it with him. But I can't and I know that all the more since Fleecy told me he and Jason had moved out together (she's a terrible gossip honestly and calls from time to time. I don't mind because at least it keeps me up to date on the demigodly/godly ongoings).

For a while we just stare at each other. Somewhere in the back of my mind I see the rest of the Seven, plus some, standing behind him, but that doesn't register. Because he's here in front of me, calling me, just looking at me the same as I'm just looking at him.

"H-hi…" Leo finally croaks out. I'm still struggling to reconnect with the present so my mouth won't respond. "Listen I know I'm probably someone you never wanted to hear from again-ah, Hephaestus, any of us-but I just- I really- I-I… Frank, I-"

There's a crash behind me as a lamp tips over. My head snaps around to assess the damage, and it's apparently just enough for Leo to see her because suddenly he's dead silent. "Xiao jiahuo!(1)" I exclaim in part alarm and part exasperation. I jog over and scoop up the very little one year old baby girl, and cradle her in my arms while I walk back to the IM, where Leo is no longer silent but also not releasing any words.

"I-I...I- should really j-just uhm...go uh ya uh sorry for inter-uh-rupting you and I-I..I'm glad you found a-a normal l-life," Leo stutters and swipes his hand through the mist before I had a chance to say anything.

"Leo wait!" I shout uselessly as I lunge for the already disappeared rainbow.

~break~

I sigh in despair at the spot the mist had just faded from. Tati looks up at me with her slightly apologetic, slightly sympathetic look that she gives me whenever she somehow knows I'm upset, and then bats at my mouth signalling just why she was trying to get to me in the first place. I go to the kitchen and steam some broccoli, carrots, spinach, and squash and throw it into a blender, pureeing it to feed to her.

Tatiana Li Yin Zhang(2), a daughter of Hecate I found on a snow bank a year ago as a newborn. She was surrounded by a layer of magic that was protecting her a bit from the cold, and likely from monsters too. As soon as I touched the barrier it dissipated and in it's place was a note which I picked up in one hand while the other secured the infant to myself. The note explained who her mother was and how the father had abandoned the child there and Hecate was unable to directly deliver the infant anywhere, but had at least protected her in what minimal way she was permitted. It asked that who ever found her would take care of her or take her to someone who could.

There was no question about it. I took her directly to the nearest adoption center, which thank the gods was not very far as I was walking with a looming threat of a snow storm approaching. I filled out all the necessary reports and paperwork and they checked my records while I did so. They gave me a ride home and checked over my house while they were there. After that they allowed her to stay with me, and over the next several weeks they squared everything away so that now I was the sole parent, single father, of the infantile demigoddess.

I'm holding her as I spoon the mush into her mouth, which she happily slurps up and swallows as soon as the spoon is within reach of her tiny mouth. I smile down at her, but then frown as I think of Leo's reaction when he saw her. Why would he-?

I feel like all the blood in my veins have turned to ice water as the realization of what he must have thought hits me. From a distance, with her dark hair and dark eyes, Tati is often mistaken as my biological daughter. With how small she is it wouldn't be hard to mistake her as being 9 months or even younger. It's only up close that you can see her eyes are a purplish blue, not reddish brown, and that she's a year old already. But not at that distance...Leo must think I've had a child with some girl during all this time.

Tatiana starts fussing at me as she realized the spoon stopped moving. I snap out of it and continue feeding her. 'Feed her first, lay her down for her nap, and take care of this misunderstanding after,' I resolve.

A/N: (1) Chinese for little one (Google translate)

(2) Tatiana is the French version of the name Titania, the Queen of the Fairies from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's DreamLi is from Chinese 理 "reason, logic", 立 "stand", 黎 "dawn, black", 力 "strength, power" (which is usually only masculine) or 丽 "beautiful" (usually only feminine)
Yin is from Chinese 银 "silver", 音 "sound" or 荫 "shade".

Got help with the Chinese name (Li Yin) from the purple monarch (Zhang Li Yin is one of her favorite singers and she said she could see Leo making fun of the middle name because it almost sounds like lying). As for the first name, I shudder every time I see it because I prefer the Russian version (Tatyana) but French was more appropriate in this instance than Russian and the name fit so well with her magic and a certain person with elvish-features who has captured the namer's heart.

Anyways, I don't know when the next time I update will be, but if I had to guess it might not be until after I've graduated with how I'm struggling along in English. I've reached the end of what I'd had planned from the beginning so there probably isn't much more to this story unless you guys give me some suggestions or tell me what you would like to see. This has been pretty fun for me and I love hearing from you guys so let me know!