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Chapter 99
Alone time (Yeah right)
(Artemis)
I was quite surprised to find that not only were all of the Perseus's that were here when I left were not only still here but also behaving in a calm and rational manner I felt a little let down. After losing my cool against Kym I wanted something to vent my frustration and that black haired bimbo doppelganger was a very good punching bag with how quick she healed.
So to find them all gathered around the bizarre human created combination that was a console and TV and behaving was a little disappointing in my opinion.
"Oh your back?" The freak asked not even turning her head to look at us, far more entertained with the collection of pixels stamping on another's head repeatedly. The other two conscious ones at least had the decency to turn around upon being informed of our return. Sloth was well exactly as I left him two hours previously curled up asleep in the swivel chair he had claimed as his own.
"Anything interesting happen here any sign of Pride or Gluttony?" Percy asked and I realised the pair had been gone for several hours unattended and more importantly no one knew where they had gone. Now Pride might have saved me from Wrath but that did not earn him a free ticket to do as he pleased. He was after all the dominant aspect of Perseus and the last week had taught everyone what sort of trouble he could get into when unattended.
"Nope. Which is a shame, because he is the only interesting one out of all these idiots." Lust said simply earning looks of ire from the other two which she then proceeded to ignore.
"Any problems let us know, other than that, have fun and stay here." Percy told them firmly yet with a bored tone clearly as not bothered with his doppelgangers lack of excitement as I felt.
"No promises I might need to get some more games." Lust remarked as we turned to leave.
"You haven't got any money." Greed remarked simply.
"Nor did he and yet he has every console. However the local Gamestop is missing some from a stocktake last year. But I am sure they are both completely unrelated facts." Lust said finally turning towards us with an evil grin causing Percy to cough and look away.
"What can I say being a Full Time Titan Lord pays as well as being Guardian of the Hunt. But without the fringe benefits." He said finally with a grin as I raised an eyebrow whilst letting go of his good hand.
"Pray to tell what exactly are these benefits you speak of?" I asked sarcastically grabbing him by the ear and pretty much dragging him out of the room behind me as he desperately hopped sideways to avoid losing another body part today. As it was all I could hear over Percy's pained ouches was his counterpart's laughing in unison.
"You know I reeaaally should learn to keep my mouth shut." He said as we finally reached the bedroom door again and finally being released from my grasp as I made sure it was shut.
"You could do but then this would be nowhere near as enjoyable for either of us." I told him pulling his face towards mine into a desperate oral territory battle that he soon found himself losing. Before he could even launch a counter attack I pushed him backwards stumbling onto the mattress where he hurriedly propped himself up on his elbows looking at me as I pulled my hair down.
"So I take it Marina and the Hunters can wait a bit lon-?" He said with that stupid grin of his only to be silenced as I put my left index finger over his lips before slowly moving it down his chin and neck to the top of his shirt.
"See now I have found a problem." I told him sweetly tugging at the neckline of it a few times to get the point across.
"Yes ma'am. You're the boss." He replied timidly before hooking the offending garment over his head with his good hand and tossing it across the room.
"Glad to see you have remembered that fact." I told him with a grin as I positioned myself over his lower legs pinning them down.
"You do know someone is going to interrupt this right."
'Shut up and enjoy this and stop jinxing it.' I told Diana as I looked down at the Titan pinned beneath me. Sure enough I felt her fade from my active consciousness and back into a more passive awareness. Something that was becoming more common recently. Normally due to us never actually agreeing I could always either feel or more annoyingly hear her express her difference of opinion to me. But now we actually ended up agreeing more often than not, generally on the subject we actually both liked currently beneath me.
Leaning forward until my mouth was level with the side of his face I began to whisper. "You shouldn't expect your employer to remove her own garments you know." As soon as I had finished saying it and he had comprehended my words I found his hands desperately tugging at bottom of my top pulling it out from my skirt before his hands made their way under the fabric. I was going to reprimand him for using his bad hand as well but it seemed that he had managed to distract himself from whatever discomfort he was experiencing for the time being.
I felt as his hands explored the contours of my back in fine detail whilst he lifted his torso up and began to caress my jawline with his lips. Savouring his touches I pulled back slightly before lifting my top and discarding it in the same direction as his. Sure I had asked him to but if I had we would probably be here all day and that just increased the chance that something would ruin the moment. Again.
"That's cheating." He whined as I felt his cool breath on my exposed chest. One final line of garments between me and him. Behind me I could feel his hands probing at the 'key' to my defences and utterly failing at making the clasp work in his favour as I chuckled and bent down and kissed him before reaching back with one hand, knocking his aside and accomplishing the task he had failed at.
With the piece of Lingerie gone I felt exposed to his gazes as he froze in place the only thing moving being his eyes as he took in every detail whilst I felt my face blush instinctively.
Sure he had seen me topless a few times let alone completely naked once. But that did not mean that he did not behave in exactly the same way every time.
"You are so beautiful." He said as a statement causing me to frown.
"Scratch that you are the MOST beautiful goddess in the world." He corrected quickly under my gaze catching sight of my reflection briefly in his eyes. I noticed that my own eye colour was once again asymmetrical something I still had no definite answer to explain with.
After all Diana only had Silver eyes being post Eidolon incident and mine were naturally the same now. Mine reverted back to gold when I got emotional (angry/upset/Perseus) so the heterochromia was still confusing to me as well as my aspect. Though I was starting to suspect it was related to me and my counterpart actually agreeing as well. But this was all musings for another time.
"Artemis are you sure about this?" He asked concerned though I did not fail to notice his hands creeping forward and upwards towards my chest slowly.
"Sure about what, we both agreed we would not go that far." I reminded causing him to look downbeat for a second as I placed a hand under his chin and held it up looking at me.
"However I am sure there are other things we can think of that don't involve that." I told him seductively causing him to go wide eyed as I gently pushed him on his back before stepping back off of him.
First thing's first, we were both still far too well dressed to proceed…
(Marina)
"Aunt Kym and Lady Artemis are taking their time coming back." I commented to my father who was impatiently twirling his trident through his fingers.
"They shouldn't be much longer, your grandfather is reasonable." He said simply before turning around and swimming a few yards further away.
"Shame neither of them is. I should have let her make Percy come." He muttered under his breath, clearly he had forgotten that I could hear underwater just as well as he could.
(Lust)
"So what punishments do you think our dear moron counterpart is being put through." Envy commented hooking a thumb towards the corridor that ended in the bedroom.
"I would hardly call it punishment, going by their previous track record." I told him, pausing the game and putting the controller down before turning to look at him seriously.
"Please if there is one thing we can agree on it is that Percy Jackson is a masochist." Greed commented correctly however missing where I was going.
"And she gets off on exerting control over him. Them arguing and hurting each other is practically foreplay by now, I wouldn't be surprised if you opened that door and found them doing many non-PG things. And yet I am the freaky one." I argued offended at being treated as such.
"You tried to rape Wrath while he was tied up and unconscious!" They both said in tandem.
"Semantics. At least I am not interested in the loser duo of the seven of us." I remarked folding my arms and shrugging as they both looked at me with shock.
"Hey, what about him?" Envy asked in outrage pointing at Sloth.
"He doesn't count as people, more breathing furniture, a paperweight at a push." I stated waving the argument off. As usual there was no response from probably the laziest being in existence to argue his point.
It was at this point that a being flashed into the room before immediately disappearing into the bathroom, slamming the door in the process. Not that it did anything towards hiding the very distinctive sound of someone hurling their guts up… a lot.
"Well that answers the question of what happened to those two?" I commented to the background noise of further hurling and pained coughing.
"I only saw one?" Envy asked confused.
"That is the point dumbass, you make Percy look clever." Greed mocked slapping his counterpart around the back of the head.
"And so there were five…" I said simply rising to my feet before straightening my dress and making my way to the bathroom and slowly pushing it open holding my nose tightly.
"Dear gods it is everywhere." I said in horror as I looked around the devastated scene. It was easier to say where it hadn't gone. In the toilet bowl considering the seat was still down not that he hadn't tried to reach it.
"As much as I want to take a picture and saver this moment for ever it smells far too bad for me to do anything other than clean it up." I said trying not to gag as I used my control over time to reverse the condition of the room. I left Pride covered in vomit for a laugh as I shut the door and walked back to my game.
"How bad was it?" Envy asked almost excited.
"Bad enough that one day when we are one again you will look back at it in horror. I never knew the body could hold that much… whatever the hell that mess was." I said closing my eyes and cringing only to remember the smell and shiver.
Before long the sound of running water could be heard as Pride hopefully took a shower.
"I thought you said you cleaned it up?" Greed commented.
"I cleaned it up I said nothing about cleaning him up. He made it pretty clear he does not want me doing anything to his body."
"Since when has that stopped you?"
"He could be outright naked and offering himself to me and I would have zero interest in him as he is." I said firmly taking a hold of the controller once again to exterminate more aliens again for a few minutes until the door reopened and one sad sorry excuse for an aspect of a Titan Lord stepped out. The fact that he was still wearing the same suit along with the tie suggested he had showered whilst still wearing it. Of course we were all still immune to water so he was dry at least.
"Wow you look like shit." Envy said earning a look of ire from Pride before he simply nodded.
"When someone offers you chocolate fudge cake after a literal all you can eat buffet with alcohol involved. Tell them NO!" He said shivering against a wall.
"Gluttony?" Greed asked simply.
"Gone as well. Not before giving me everything he had eaten as well." Pride said gagging before covering his mouth for a few seconds until he was sure he was fine.
"Now if you will excuse me I need some new clothes and these need burning." He said ripping the tie of his neck rather than undoing it like a normal person.
"Well go in the bedroom and get some then." I told him simply turning around to hide my smile. As long as the other two played along this was going to be magical.
"Percy and Ar-" Envy began only to be cut off by a punch in the gut courtesy of Greed who finished.
"Left a while ago to go get Marina from Fish Camp, been some trouble there apparently." He explained calmly though I could see the sweat running down his neck before Pride simply shrugged and turned round and left towards the room.
I was pretty much counting down on my fingers with excitement as I heard the door open, enough time for a heartbeat or two before the door slammed shut at the same time as a roar of animalistic rage from within the room. A few beats more was all it took for Pride to reappear running as fast as possible before a thrown weapon to appear just behind him and lodge into the wall.
"You Bastards!" Pride shouted angrily however you would never tell he was angry by the enormous grin on his face.
"Did she throw Maelstrom at him?" Envy said nervously as the only one who could spot the swords hilt and pommel sticking out of the wall.
"I need to get out of here quickly, if you are thinking about food. Don't worry about those two, they've eaten if you know what I mean." He said laughing as he disappeared at the exact same time as a Silver eyed Panther came around the corner looking murderous and only catching a brief glimpse of her target before he was gone.
The rest of us wisely decided to be quiet as she looked from one of to the others as if daring us to make a comment before growling in what I guessed was annoyance and instead locking her teeth around the sword and pulling it out of the wall before slinking back to the bedroom to lick her wounded pride.
It was only when we heard the door shut, we laughed.
Sounds like they finally made it to third base. Consensually this time of course.
(Percy)
"I am going to kill him one of these days." Artemis growled angrily her body curled up alongside mine with her head lying on my chest. A position she had initially taken still as a panther before shifting back into the much better form of a naked goddess. Though sadly most of the sight was now obstructed by the sheets. Still it was not as if I was unaware of what lay hidden underneath.
"Maybe we should start using your place? We seem completely out of luck while we are here?" I said half-heartedly, the truth was he was lucky I only chucked the nearest thing at hand at him rather than the entire arsenal. But then again we had been rather 'distracted' when he intruded.
"Or maybe people could just leave us alone for more than ten minutes without bothering us." She complained her hand slowly walking up my chest unconsciously until I grabbed it with my own.
"We could always carry on where you lef-… nevermind." I began to suggest only receiving a withering look in response.
"Blame your idiot counterpart for ruining the moment. Cause the next opportunity is not going to be for some time." She said huffing in annoyance.
"Ok a shame though you were doing pretty well." I joked only for her free hand to find its way to my left upper thigh and start to dig her nails into the soft flesh there.
"Shut up or the next time I use my teeth." She warned firmly clearly wanting to end the conversation. However she left herself far to open for my next remark.
"That's funny you enjoyed it when I di-." Whilst I left tender flesh far to open to her response. A few inches more to the right and well I would not be much different to Lust.
AN. Short chapter this time and well you can see why it did not really fit into the previous one. a LOT of people have asked for a chapter like for a long time and generally i have been putting it off because frankly i had no idea how it would work out. i am not a Lemon writer who mass produces this crap with just about every pairing under the sun. however nor for the sake of the story did i want to take it too far, Artemis/Diana are still virgin-ish goddesses even if they are willing to explore the boundaries a bit by now. however they will not actually have sex until after the kids are born.
It is kind of ironic that for a nature goddess she is far less about make love not war and more make War then crazy Love.
For those wondering about Pride and Gluttony, Pride won the eating contest. Still remember people always avoid the Chocolate Fudge Cake, we don't have magical cleaning powers like Perseus, trust me.
Still two chapters in a week is something that has not happened in a very loooooong time so i hope you all enjoyed this Pertemis teaser chapter.