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Oh boi, I update on Christmas Eve just like you guys wanted and you guys did NOT leave me any presents as a thank you, no sirree! Oh boi, 0 reviews, I sure as hell won't be updating on Christmas Eve again next year unless I see some good behavior out of you or I will bring coal!

This is a short chapter, I didn't mean for that to happen and I promise the next one will be longer to make up for it. I already have the next one planned, this is pretty short compared to what I have been posting lately, huh?

There is gonna be some intense action and plot twists in the next few chapters, it is gonna be crazy, lol.

Enjoy!

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Once again Artemis found herself staring at the door to Aphrodite's palace, she needed some advice, again... She needed advice about how to get her man back after she pissed him off, she really screwed up by not telling him about Calypso. She knew that that is what Aphrodite was going to tell her too, either that or she was going to tell her to fuck off. She had good advice, she knew EVERYTHING about love, so her help was invaluable, and she didn't really have any better options...

She could speak with Athena, but that bitch only wants Percy for herself. Why would she EVER help Artemis? There was Hestia, but at this moment there was no chance in hell that she would help her because of what she did to Percy. Both women that she just mentioned would probably prefer that Percy find a better girl to spend his time with, now that she thought about it.

Knock!

Knock!

Knock!

This was starting to get old, there was far too much door knocking in her life. Aphrodite answered the door almost immediately, making Artemis wonder what the Love goddess did with her life anymore... She has never seen her walk around Olympus, and she always seems to be home.

"What is it, Artemis? What the hell do you want now?"

"I need your help... Again." She confessed, lowering her head a little bit to show that she was quite ashamed of what had happened.

"Why should I help you? Everything I say to you always seems to go in one ear and out the other. If you really wanted or listened to my advice, you wouldn't ever need more of it!" Aphrodite screamed at her, her extremely gorgeous face twisting with anger. She was not very heavily dressed, but the love goddess never was, she was wearing a thin but decorative nightgown that covered her whole body, it had slits down the sides of her legs that would expose her beautiful and sexy cleanly shaven legs if she laid down. It also had a v-neck that gave a pretty good idea what she had to offer, which she had a pretty nice rack to offer, even Artemis had to admit with that. Even someone as stoic as Artemis was jealous of Aphrodite, she was just the embodiment of beauty, there was no way to even describe how beautiful she was... The love goddess was a dream, and she never had problems with her lovers either, unlike Artemis... That was what she was most jealous of, of course, how the love goddess was just so perfect when it came to handling her relationships.

"I know that I messed up, Aphrodite, and I want to make up for what happened."

"You'd better, Percy doesn't deserve to be constantly fucked around by you. Fine, come in, I guess I need to listen to your squabbling again."

"Thank you, Aphrodite."

"Don't even..." She mumbled and turned around to walk back inside. The first things that Artemis noticed when she walked in here, of course, the paintings... The erotic paintings of girls getting fucked, punished, making love... There was one of a girl's hot pink lips wrapped around a shining bulbous cock head, that one was erotic, even Artemis had to admit. Paintings of everything you could imagine. Some of them had quotes on them, sometimes the quotes being even more inappropriate than the paintings, but others... Others had some seriously good points.

"A wife does not owe her husband sex, but if he treats her well she will want to sleep with him." -Marriage Sub-RDDT, Anonymous

"A dick is only as big as the confidence of the man using it." - Aphrodite

"Love is like a drug, if you do not keep taking you will get withdrawal." - Eros

"The art of seduction is knowing exactly what she wants and giving it to her slowly in a way that takes her breath away." - Apollo

"A real woman is her man's personal porn star." - Aphrodite

"Black Friday sale. My house. You and I. All clothes will be 100% off." - Silena Beauregard

"It's one of those 'bend me over the edge of the bed and make me like it' type of nights." - Aphrodite cabin leader, 1882, Sicilia Kiss

"You like my paintings? There are good quotes up there, maybe if you read them all you would start treating Percy the right way."

"Maybe..." She said, astonished with how well written all the quotes were, some of them were really deep... And true. Aphrodite left into the Kitchen and came back out with two glasses of wine. If Aphrodite was going to listen to more of this woman she couldn't do it sober.

"So what do you plan to do to get Percy back?" She asked all of a sudden, indicating for Artemis to sit down on the couch while Aphrodite sat down opposite of her.

"That is what I hoped to get your help with, I don't really know... He is not on Olympus, I don't know where he is."

"I heard rumors that he was having orgies with the Sea Nymphs down in Atlantis, but that is just gossip."

"You just want to make me jealous." Artemis said and took a sip of her wine to emphasize her point, but it also proved that it had worked to a certain extent.

"Yeah, I am. But I do know that he is in Atlantis, you won't reach him there, and you won't see him again unless he wants to see you."

"Lord Poseidon always thought that I was nice, do you think he would let me visit the palace of the Sea?"

"No, Triton hates you and Lord Poseidon probably spurns you after you kept that information from Percy for so long."

Artemis looked concerned and she brought her wine glass up to her lips to empty it all in one swig, but then she looked down at it and frowned.

"I need something stronger than this." She told Aphrodite, setting the glass down on the table with a frown.

"Go get the Whiskey then, it is in the freezer in a small insulated box on the bottom left, you can't miss it." She instructed, and Artemis nodded her head, assuming the freezer was in the kitchen, which it actually was. Artemis opened the freezer, which was in the Kitchen. She searched for the little insulated box that Aphrodite mentioned... She found it but she had to move a bunch of Popsicle boxes out of the way before she could remove anything from it. She got some Jimmy Dean out of the container, it was Ice Cold thankfully. She went to the cubert and got a whiskey glass... Reminding her of that country song the mortals like to listen to, which fits her current situation because it is about a man who is dealing with a breakup and she is currently suffering as well.

"Why do you have so many popsicles in your freezer?" Artemis asked, taking a seat on the couch opposite of Aphrodite where she had just been sitting before she got grinned, as if she had just heard something really funny that should would not be able to laugh down for a week.

"Take your best guess, Moon Goddess." She said, smirking like she had just heard the funniest thing in the world.

"Because you like them?"

"Yes, and why else might a goddess of love have a freezer full of popsicles?" Hmmmmm? What do they sort of resemble?"

Artemis thought for a second, if there was one thing, she didn't have, it was a dirty mind... But then she realized, and she went a little golden.

"They resemble... penises."

"They're for practice, suck on it till it melts and try for a faster and faster time each time. The faster you can get to the stick, the better you are. It's not great practice though, because every man likes it differently. Some like it slow and meticulous, to build up that massive crescendo, some like it fast. If you can melt it evenly then that is another great thing that you are getting practice with, if you can melt it perfectly even it means that you pay good attention to his entire cock. The Popsicle doesn't teach you the pleasure spots though, which is unfortunate."

"Why do it at all if it has so many negatives?"

"Because it is fun, and it's a sweet way to teach bitchy girls like you how to suck dick without shoving one down your throat till you learn, I find it to be less invasive; however, in your case it would be safe to say that Percy shoving his cock down your throat is exactly what you deserve."

"You will always jump on an opportunity to insult me, won't you?"

"Only when you deserve it, and seeing how you have screwed up things with Percy again, you deserve it. Maybe you should take a box into the next room. I have some wonderful and detailed instructional tapes on how to perfect the art that you could watch, and a really good book too, even a few magazines if you are a visual learner. You might as well spend the rest of the day here practicing something. It's not like you have a limited amount of time before Percy decides he wants to see the source of all his problems again." She mocked and grinned mischievously. She was so mean, she knew it, but it was oh so fun...

Artemis didn't even respond. She just took a long gulp of her Jimmy Dean to drown her discontentment of that statement.

"I don't drink that stuff." Aphrodite said to her in a sweet voice, pointing to the glass that Artemis had in her hand, "Wine is the drink of love, red wine is the drink of sex... Whiskey is for breakups, there is no love in that poison. If I am going to drink something hard, it has to at least be rum, rum makes babies, there is some lust in that drink." She explained, taking another sip of her lovely red, honestly it was the nicest, sweetest, and just realistic thing that Aphrodite had ever said to her.

"You should become an inspirational speaker, that was beautiful."

"No, it's the truth." She explained.

"Then why do you have so much of it?"

"You think you're the only person that comes here for advice after a breakup, or a split, or when their partner is just beyond upset with them and there is no way to save the marriage or relationship without divine intervention?"

"No?"

"No, that's right, I get many visitors. Unlike you I treasure and appreciate men, there are some that come here asking me what they should do about an unfaithful wife. Women worse than you, believe it or not, I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it though..." She mocked and just shook her head in disbelief, "Your little girl scout troop isn't completely wrong, however, there are men that are bad... I get wives and girls that come in here crying about domestic violence, a cheating husband, a loveless marriage, you name it. I have businesses all over the mortal world made for this type of counseling. I will do anything to see love bloom or bloom again between two lovers, two spouses... It doesn't always happen, though; sometimes the two are just not made for each other or don't deserve one another." Aphrodite finished, pointing an incriminating gaze at Artemis that could have cut through was a silence between them for a good minute and a half, Artemis downed half her glass of Whiskey in that time and Aphrodite's gaze wandered around the room looking at all her erotic paintings and reading the quotes on them.

"So how do I make it right with him?"

"I don't know, Artemis, figure it out. I've counseled you enough by now that you should be able to figure it out. The thing that keeps coming back to amaze me is that you keep managing to fuck this up. I've spent so much money on you that it is getting out of hand, I sent you the best custom made lingerie I could find in the best fabric I could find in his favorite color. I sent you master crafted, beautiful celestial bronze shackles to indulge his fantasies with. I sent you the best lipstick and lip balm I could find at the goddesses store so that you could please him better. And then I find out that you have only used two of those 4 things!? Percy doesn't ask the world of you! So how do you keep managing to fuck this up!?" The love goddess never raises her voice, ever, but she got close there.

"Tell me what I should do! Please, I need your help, if Percy is in the Kingdom of the Sea, then it is because he does not want to even see me..."

"I could tell you what to do, I guarantee it would work, but you wouldn't like it."

"Tell me, I'd do anything."

"Would you though? See that is what I really don't like about you, you lie out your ass all the fucking time."

"No I don't."

"That is the biggest lie, right there, the biggest lies are the ones you tell yourself, Artemis."

"And what lies do I tell myself?"

"That you don't lie to yourself."

"And?"

Aphrodite sighed and got up, she started walking to the kitchen and starting to say, "I don't know what to tell you, Artemis... You come in here and expect me to just work miracles for you and your love life will be fixed so that in a week you can fuck it up again." She nagged as she rummaged through her cabinet to find the wine bottle that she had opened earlier, she finally found it and poured herself a new full glass.

"I try so hard, but I still manage to screw this up! Why is it so hard for me to do this right?"

"Because you don't think, you don't have any common sense when it comes to relationships, and you are a master at HURTING men, not loving them."

"I will... No, I try to do my best."

"You try, I'll give you that, but you don't try hard enough, or you would not be here right now."

"Please help me, Aphrodite."

"By the gods, Artemis, save the begging for Percy... Fuck."

Artemis opened her mouth like she was about to ask something else, but Aphrodite interrupted her.

"You know what, I am too fucking on edge for this, go take a nap and a bath, like the first time you were here... And then when you are done with both we will talk more about how you are going to get Percy back, understand?"

"Yes, Aphrodite."

"Good," she said and sighed a big sigh of relief, already thinking of where she was gonna get some dick while Artemis was sleeping. Holy heavens did she need it badly, this entire conversation had only lasted about half an hour but it drove her up a wall. It just infuriated her to no end how Artemis can keep messing this up with Percy, Aphrodite would treat him like a King... And this girl can't even be honest with him, it's just so frustrating watching this lucky ass girl fuck things up with the man that deserves a dream girl more than anyone.

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It was not often that Aphrodite left her palace, but she really wanted to have some sex and she couldn't invite anyone over with Artemis there, that would be insufferable listening to the Moon goddess go on and on about how she is a slut, etc...

She knocked hard on the golden door and it opened almost immediately after she knocked, he usually opened the door quickly. The love goddess briefly wondered why the Sun god was not driving the sun chariot, but she didn't really care as long as he was in the mood.

"Hey there, Aphrodite." He greeted her in a sweet voice, pulling a hand through his hair to attempt to comb it out for his beautiful guest.

"Hey Apollo, mind if I come in?"

"Uhm..." He thought for a second, looking around outside trying to see if anyone was watching them.

"Cat got your tongue? What's wrong?"

"I- I've been trying to impress this girl, and I don't think letting you in would look too good."

"Oh? Who's the lucky lady?"

"Nyx."

"The Night Goddess? The primordial? How in the seven hells do you expect to ever get her in your bed?"

"She said she wouldn't date a playboy, and that I needed to start being responsible, so I think if I can get rid of those two habits I should have a chance... Go find someone else to rail you, I really want this."

"I'm going to have to get used to a smart, responsible Apollo... Good luck, buddy, I hope it works out for you."

"Thanks."

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Artemis always finds it hard to walk around Aphrodite's palace, doing anything... There are so many erotic tapestries and pictures and wallpaper... Everything sexually related that you could imagine is in her palace. The guest room that Aphrodite had suggested for her was the least erotic place in the entire palace, which meant precious little. She had taken a good long nap, slept for almost 2 hours, then went to the bathroom and soaked in the tub for a good 20 minutes, doing the entire routine that she does almost every time she takes a shower normally and from when she was here the first time.

She missed Percy a lot... She missed his hands on her, she felt empty without him here, and sleeping was cold without him. But she had no one to blame but herself, and she knew it. Especially since Aphrodite made sure to remind her so many times that it was her fault, the love goddess was mean, but her domain was love... And Artemis had taken advantage of the love that Percy has for her, and so she was rightfully upset with her. One thing she found herself thinking of while she was here was their first two nights together, under the sheets. How the first time, when he had taken her virginity, he had been so gentle... Then the second time she had invited him to be as rough as he liked, and he had.

It was so childish of her to keep things from him like that, she had no idea that he would get so upset that she had kept the thing about Calypso from him... But he did get upset, and she should have realized that since Calypso saved his life there was good reason that he would want to have her freed. Then learning that she never got freed and never having been told about it just sent him off into a rage, and she was the closest one to home and the most responsible, so she doubted that she would be seeing her lover again anytime soon. She really did miss him and there was no amount of Whiskey or Wine in the entire world that could make her miss him any less or sleep any better without him tucking her into the crook of his arm, or taking her for long hours at a time.

She had not gone back to the Moon Mansion after the meeting, instead she had gone to her palace and spent some quality time there thinking about her problems, and her situation. She had gone around Olympus trying to see if she could find Percy, she knew he had to be on Olympus because he had no parents in the mortal world anymore, no friends... She doubted he had gone to Camp-Half-Blood because he really hates that place like nothing else. She had visited Hestia, the peaceful goddess had given her a thorough mouthful of phrases that need not be repeated, told her Percy was not there, and to leave her alone until she had made things right with Percy and he railed her so hard she couldn't walk.

That was also when she realized that she needed to talk with Aphrodite if she was going to get her man back, in any reasonable amount of time. She knew that Percy would not cheat on her, that he wouldn't spend his time away from her fondling and having fun with other girls... but she knew that came with a price, it would be a good bit of time before Percy trusted her enough to approach her again. It had not even been a day and she already missed him like nothing else you could ever imagine.

It was torture living like this, now she knew what it was like to be lonely.

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I'm really sorry for the short chapter, I am so sorry... I got fucked over by my phone twice and decided to just send this, it deleted every single line spacing in the entire document twice and it took 15 minutes to fix it each time. And then there was a problem with Docx after I had my betas review this chapter, it was a hell in a hand basket getting this chapter out... Holy shit. I really counted on my Betas here because they helped a lot to make sure everything was as it should be before I released this, and I read it myself twice to make sure that nothing was still fucked up.

So this chapter was all about Artemis, the next will be all about Percy, and it is gonna be gooooooooood.

Then the next chapters after that will be about Atalanta, there is gonna be some more plot with her being revealed that is gonna have you going nuts.

Please leave some feedback on this, let me know what you guys wanna see next. I am giving you basically 3 free chapters here before we get back into the main storyline to give me ideas and thoughts about what you guys want me to add in the future, give me scenes and ideas, interactions and lemon ideas you want me to write in between the characters. I really want to know what you guys want to see, please.

Besides, the 27th is my BIRTHDAY, please leave me some reviews as a present :)

Have a wonderful new year guys, and I look forward to seeing you all soon!