A few months had passed since that night I'd spent with Hebe, Although I didn't know it then, that night had just been the beginning of an affair that would last for quite a while. I had mixed feelings about the whole thing, it's not because of any feelings for Hebe, I don't have any aside from finding her attractive, it's not even that Normally I wouldn't have any kind of relationship with a married person other than friendship, I know that Hebe's husband is Hercules, and I knew enough about them both to know that Hebe had been forced to marry him and that he doesn't treat her very well. I didn't really feel guilty about it, she was an attractive woman who deserved better than him, and Hercules is an asshole who honestly deserves worse.

What bothers me is that I'm sure that sooner or later someone will find out despite everything we do to keep it secret. I wasn't cheating on Apollo since we still have an open relationship, I didn't have romantic feelings for Hebe, and our encounters had all been sexual and nothing more. I'm pretty sure that she doesn't have romantic feelings for me either, she just calls me occasionally when Hercules isn't around, and if I'm not busy I'll go be with her, or sometimes like that first night she comes to me.

Also like that first night, I always make sure I use protection when I'm with her because I don't want to get her pregnant. I have had enough children for a while, and getting her pregnant would cause problems for us that we didn't want to have to deal with. The other gods don't need to know about what we have been doing. Despite all that Affairs rarely stay secret forever so I figured that sooner or later someone would find out. Either someone would walk in on us, or she could get pregnant if the condom breaks or for some reason in the heat of the moment I forget to use one, I was considering just calling the whole thing off although I do enjoy it.

I suspected that if he found out, Haracles would probably want to fight me. I wasn't sure but he might even complain about it to Zeus. If he did that, Zeus definitely wouldn't be happy with me, the hypocrite, after all, Heracles was the result of Zeus sleeping with another man's wife, although you could definitely argue that it hadn't been consensual since Zeus had made himself look like Alcmene's husband so she would sleep with him. Regardless, I wasn't going to worry about that right now since I don't have to, and I may call the whole thing off before I do.

I doubted I Would be seeing Hebe today, since I already have plans with Apollo, until then I just took care of my duties and visited my children, once it was evening, Apollo and I met up before we went to a restaurant in New York, we didn't bother hiding the fact that we are a couple, we don't care what anyone else thinks about us, although once we were seated and waiting for our food, I eventually heard a guy at a nearby table make a homophobic comment to another person at his table about us, that included calling us fags.

I was pretty sure that Apollo heard him too. More than anything I was annoyed, and I was pretty sure Apollo felt the same way. He had no idea he'd just insulted the wrong couple, Apollo and I were both silent for a moment, and I wondered if we were both doing the same thing, that thing was cursing the guy. Was that overreacting a bit? maybe, but No one should say things like that.

Once I was done Apollo contacted me mentally, yes gods can do that, and asked,"Did you do something to him too?"

I replied, "Yes, from now on he won't be able to do anything that requires courage since I made him a coward. What did you do to him?

He replied, "I gave him a chronic disease, nothing that will kill him, I thought that might be going a bit far, but his life will be much worse now,"

I nodded and went back to speaking normally, "Well, he will never realize why these things happened to him, but his life will definitely suck,"

Apollo agreed, and not long after that our food came. Nothing else out of the ordinary happened, so the rest of the date was normal. Our date may not have gone entirely to plan considering we had ended up cursing a homophobic guy, but it had still been good in the end. After we left the restaurant we went back to Apollo's palace, and it wasn't long before our clothes were scattered over the floor and we were in his bed.

A few days later, Hebe called on me again, and since I didn't have anything else going on I agreed to go be with her. For now, I would continue to see her, although I wasn't sure how long I was going to keep that up. If I keep it going for too long I'm sure someone will eventually find out one way or another, and I would rather they don't.

The day after that, I was visiting Camp Jupiter again, I talked to Frank and Reyna for a while about the camp, before Frank asked me, "Did you know that Tyson is here?"

I replied, "No, when did he get here?"

he replied, "The other day, from what I understand, your father let him come here to be with Ella. There isn't as much need for weapons since the wars seem to be over, at least for now anyway,"

I nodded, it had been a while since the last time I had talked to my dad and Tyson, I guess I will visit Tyson now while I'm here.

I replied, "It has been a while since I last saw either of them, I will visit Tyson after we're done here,"

They nodded, and we talked for a while longer, but once I left I went to find Tyson. Once I did he was happy to see me. He shouted," Brother!" Before rushing over to hug me. I smiled and hugged him back. I asked him how he was doing, and he replied, "Good, Daddy let me come here so I could spend more time with Ella, and he said that if he needs me to come back he would contact me,"

I replied, " That's great Tyson, Annabeth hasn't bothered you has she?"

He replied, "No I avoid her since I don't like her anymore after what she did to you,"

I chuckled, at least she hasn't bothered him, maybe she's finally learned to mind her own business, although I wasn't going to get my hopes up. I was considering telling Tyson about my kids since I hadn't told him yet and I was pretty sure Dad hadn't either, if he had I guessed that Tyson probably would've asked me about them by now. He's my brother and we are close so I felt like I should tell him, and since he's at camp Jupiter I doubt he could accidentally let it slip to anyone who might want to harm them.

I decided to just tell him, I asked, "I know it's been a while since we last spoke to each other, so has Dad said anything to you about the fact that I have kids?"

Tyson looked both surprised and confused at my question he replied, "No, I thought that you were with Apollo,"

I replied, I am, but we have an open relationship so although we love each other we can still sometimes be with other people if we want to,"

Tyson didn't understand at first so I had to explain an open relationship to him before I could continue telling him about my kids. That was a bit awkward, but he understood before long and once I told him more about them, he was excited and wanted to see my kids. After he asked about seeing them I replied, "I Would be happy to take you to see them, although for most of them, I should probably check with their mothers first, just to be sure they're okay with you coming by, one of my sons is here in New Rome, so if you give me a minute I'll go check with his mother Olivia and see if it's okay to bring you there to see him,"

Tyson replied excitedly, "Okay!"

So that's exactly what I did, I teleported to her apartment and once I got there it wasn't hard to find Olivia, I noticed as soon as I got there that Mark was crying so I went to his room and they were both there. Before I could even say a word, much less ask about Tyson Visiting, Olivia was passing Mark to me saying, "Maybe you can calm him down, I've tried everything and he just won't stop crying,"
I didn't argue and began trying to calm him down, even though I was sure I was probably just trying the same things Olivia had already done. Much to our surprise though not long after I started bouncing him and talking to him in an attempt to calm him down, he finally calmed down.
Olivia grumbled, "Of course, he calmed down once you got here,"

I chuckled, "Maybe he just missed me and wanted his daddy,"

She replied, "Yeah maybe,"

I was sure she wasn't actually angry that it had taken me showing up to calm Mark down, she was probably just frustrated with how long it took to get him to stop crying.

I had set him down in his crib now that he was settled down, so I could finally ask Olivia the question I had been planning to ask her. I said," There was something I was going to ask you once I got here,"

She replied, "What was it?

I asked, "Do you remember my half-brother Tyson?"

"Yeah, he's the Cyclops that helped us during the last war right?

I replied, "Yes, he's been staying at my father's palace most of the time since then and working in the Cyclops forges, but the other day he came back here. I was just talking to him since I hadn't seen him in a while. I told him about my kids and he wants to meet them. I know I'm a god but I decided I would still be polite and ask you if you would mind me bringing him by to see Mark?"
She seemed a bit surprised, but once she got over it she replied, "I never met him before, but from the little I saw of him during the last war, I'm fine with that,"
I replied, "Great, I'll go get him,"

When I went back to get him, I said, "She's alright with you coming to see our son,"
He replied, "That's great, but what took so long,"
He wasn't being rude, he seemed more confused than anything, so I explained that Mark had been crying for a while when I got there, So I'd had to calm him down. After my explanation, I took him to Olivia's, after I introduced them to each other, they spoke for a minute, and then we went back to Mark's room. He was awake and not crying for now, so I picked him up. I said, "Tyson, this is my son, Mark,"

Before I took Tyson to see him, I wondered if Mark might be afraid of Tyson. Mark is still just a baby so he might not understand that he's really nice, even though he would probably look scary to Mark. Much to my surprise, Mark took his first encounter with Tyson well, and I wondered if the fact that he was my son had anything to do with that considering that one of my domains is courage. Tyson had already heard about Silvia, although until I told him he hadn't known that she was my daughter. I was glad that Tyson's first visit with one of my children had gone well, he's my brother so I want all my kids to know him eventually, for now, though I don't think I will take him to see the twins for a while, I think I have put Lisa through enough already without coming over and asking if she would mind me bringing my cyclops half brother to visit our children.