"Let's see, donuts? Check. Sad boy face on? Check. My incredible ass? Definitely a check." Eros formed his best smile as he nervously looked at the door ahead of him. "Ok...turning my life around. Self improvement is happening...now!" With that, Eros tapped the doorbell. Not even a few minutes later, the door slammed open revealing Artemis in all of her purple glory. That was, a bit more dramatic than it had to be.

"Uh, hello Artemis." Eros said while holding the box of donuts closer to his body. What did the nice lady at the bakery say about them? Oh yeah, throw them at Artemis' and run away if everything went downhill quickly.

"Eros…" Artemis' blank face could barely hide her disdain, and her arm blocking the door could do little to hide the little pink ball of sunshine that was peaking over her shoulder. "What the fuck do you want?"

"You!" Persephone exclaimed as she took a step forward, dressed only in a t-shirt that barely covered the top of her legs. Huh, cute ass.

"Perse, remember what I told you about pants." Artemis sighed.

Persephone's eyes widened as she pulled her shirt down to cover her assets better. "Youuuuuuu…" She started glaring at him.

"May I come in? I just want to explain myself." Eros placed one of his hands on his chin while fluttering his eyelashes.

Suddenly, Artemis' flashed with anger, and the next second she was dressed in battle armor with her purple hair floating around her, spear in hand ready to impale Eros. Well, it wouldn't be the first time! "Men are forbidden in this house!" Artemis seethed as she blocked the doorway.

Shoot, it was time for his secret weapon then.

"But I have apology donuts." Eros held out the box with his saddest face on display.

LK LK LK LK

A few minutes later, Eros sat in the two goddesses's living room with his best smile out while the two happily munched on his donuts. Donuts were basically the highway to a woman's heart, and guys too.

"No wings in the house. I just vacuumed." Artemis snorted as she stuffed her face full of donuts.

"Heh, silly me." Eros lightly placed his hands around his neck, and slowly his beautiful wings started to disappear. "Better?" Hopefully there weren't any ants here. Shortly after dropping Persephone off at Hades' car, Eros had found himself covered in ants biting his junk. Thankfully he healed pretty fast, but it was still pretty painful. Apparently the same thing happened to Mom, but she had seemed to enjoy it.

"Eros, you said that you wanted to explain yourself. Why would you do this to me?" Persephone's watery eyes met his own, and Eros felt his heartstrings start to be pulled on. She was so cute!

"Let me start off by saying that...I'm really sorry." Eros sighed as he rubbed his beautiful neck. "I shouldn't have put you at risk. I was kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place-"

"So I didn't do anything to upset you?" Persephone had crawled up to him and placed her hands on his shoulder. Artemis was too busy trying to cover up Persephone by pulling Persephone's shirt past her waist.

"What? Is that what you thought?" Eros gave her a smile. "My Mother is just furious with you. That's it silly."

Persephone's eye twitched.

"WHAT?!" Persephone jumped up with her hands on her head. Ever faithful Artemis was still holding onto her shirt to preserve her dignity. Pfft, Eros had seen many bodies in his lifetime. He literally just saw a bunch of mortals making love yesterday before Mom called him to come and kidnap Persephone. He still felt the ant bites.

Wrapping her arms around a pillow that had appeared out of nowhere, Persephone started shaking back and forth slowly. Mom did have a bit of a reputation.

"B-B-But I have never even spoken to her before!" Persephone said with wide eyes.

"Yeah! Persephone's only been in the city for like two seconds." Artemis ran her fingers through her cat's fur. "How could she have possibly angered the goddess of beauty?" She held the cat even closer, said cat flashing him a shit eating grin.

Wait a minute! Does that mean that she doesn't know what Hades said? Eros formed a grin on his face. This was interesting, and sounded very fun.

"You know what?" Eros reached his hand out and poked Persephone squishy cheek. The upper ones not the lower ones. "She feels a little threatened by how pretty you are."

Eros removed his hand and leaned back on the couch casually. "We thought that a drunken night with Hades might shake you up a bit." Let's see if she took the bait.

Persephone was quiet for a few seconds, and then she started to glare at Eros. "I was so embarrassed!" Her pink skin turned a few shades darker. Wait a minute. Eros didn't need to use his power to know what was going on here.

"Hades is a busy god and he doesn't have the time to-"

"-Shut up." Eros interrupted her with a giddy smile. Wiggling up to her side, Persephone raised her arms in defense.

"You seriously call this an apology?" Persephone raised an eyebrow. Eros simply responded with a wide grin.

Placing a hand on Persephone's neck, Eros leaned in slowly. "Defensive tone." He pressed another hand to her forehead. "Slightly flushed." He pulled her head close to him. "High body temperature…"

Ignoring Artemis who looked like she wanted to stab him with her very pointy spear, Eros released Persephone.

"You have a crush on Hades." Eros was never wrong about these things.

….what?" Persephone's blush became even more obvious.

"You should take up yoga." She seemed tense. Relax those muscles baby!

"I don't have a crush on him. That's ridiculous." Persephone said casually while Artemis and her cat glared at her.

"Uh, you clearly do." Eros responded as he clasped his hands together.

"Do you?" Artemis seethed. Hehe, this was going to be fun.

"I don't!"

Eros smirked. "You have the glow of somebody who's been flirting allll morning."

Persephone stood up and faced them with a scowl. "Let me be clear. I don't have a crush on him!" She started wiggling where she stood. "I just enjoy looking at his dorky face." Yeah right sister.

"I guess you'll be needing this yoga pass." Eros quipped as he held up said pass.

"Get out." Persephone crossed her arms.

"Hey! Just wait a minute!"

This time, Artemis spoke.

"Eros, stop trying to change the subject." Was he really that obvious? "You're not Aphrodite's mindless thug." She gave him a glance, but there wasn't any animosity like before.

"What's she got on you?"

That question made Eros heartache even more painful. Attempting to hold back the tears of the memories, he shook his head.

"I don't think you'll understand…"

Persephone lightly touched his face. Her touch felt warm and kind. "Take a deep breath and start from the beginning."

Pulling a necklace that was hidden by his form fitting shirt, the sight of the necklace causes his tears to start to fall more freely.

"I...I…"

Psyche…

A/N

Ahahahaa. I woke up for an online concert so I wrote this while waiting for it to start at 1AM. It was pretty fun.

Anyways, here's my take on Rome Remastered.

I liked the graphics and some of the new additions. I can't wait to see what mods will come out.

But that UI is ass. I couldn't play longer than 30 mins. I guess I'm so used to the originals that the new UI just felt weird. I'll probably wait for a mod that'll fix it before I keep playing.

I was trying to decide when I should post this, but I got bored so here it is.

Here's a question for my readers that followed my other stories. Out of all of my stories, which is your favorite?