Percy Jackson Love of Aphrodite

Chapter 18

Percy's point of view

The day after Aphrodite's visit I was sitting on the beach just thinking when I heard someone coming toward me. At first, I didn't look to see who it was since I was rather occupied with my thoughts, but before long I twisted around to see who was coming. I kind of suspected that it might be Michael, Silena, or my dad, but much to my surprise, it wasn't any of them. I was quite surprised to see Aphrodite walking toward me. In surprise, I said, "Lady Aphrodite!"

I started to get up, but she said, "No stay, I'll join you. There's no need for such formalities either Percy."

Her words left me completely confused, for starters she'd called me Percy, and normally the only gods that call me that are my dad and Apollo and Hermes. Secondly, she told me not to be formal with her, and I don't think any of the gods had told someone not to be formal with them before. And thirdly she'd said to stay where I was when I didn't think she'd want to get sand on her dress.

I was even more surprised when I glanced back at her again and saw that she had taken off her shoes and was walking toward me barefoot. I remained silent until she sat down beside me and asked, "How are you doing?"

I replied, "I thought I was doing alright, but now that Annabeth is coming back I'm not sure."

Aphrodite replied, "You can move on Percy, despite what you think you and Annabeth were never meant to be, I couldn't have done anything to stop what happened between you. I know you can move on."

I wasn't quite sure how to reply to that so I remained silent looking out at my father's domain.

I eventually said, "I think Silena is the only reason I stayed sane these past years, taking care of her kept my mind off what happened. Ever since I guessed that you are Silena's mother I couldn't help but wonder why you chose me. I'm sure that there were many other men in that bar that night. What made you choose me?"

She replied, "Percy I went to that bar that night because I wanted to help you, the truth is that when you were still with Annabeth I began to develop feelings for you, and one thing that most people don't know about me is that I feel the pain of every heartbreak,"

At my surprised look, she said, "Yes Percy I felt the pain that Annabeth caused you, and although I wasn't sure how I wanted to help you. I didn't plan for that night to end the way it did, but I agree that Having Silena seems to have helped you."

I could only nod in response to Aphrodite's revelations since I wasn't sure how to respond to the fact that the love goddess had fallen for me when I didn't think that I had any feelings for her. I had just assumed that it was a one night stand where neither of us had feelings for each other but now I couldn't help but wonder if somewhere deep down did I have feelings for her too?

"I can't remember that night," I admitted, unsure whether she knew that already or not.

"I know," she replied, seeming slightly amused, but also a bit disappointed if I read her expression right.

She seemed to think for a moment before gently touching my forehead, that's when all the memories that I had been unable to recall from that night flashed through my head. After the memories ended I wasn't sure how I felt about the love goddess. I continued talking to Aphrodite for a while, and when we finished I had mixed emotions.

while I thought I might be slowly recovering from the heartbreak  I still didn't think that I was ready to fall in love again, and I was pretty sure that it would be a little while before I would be ready for that. Despite everything that Aphrodite had said, I was still apprehensive about Annabeth returning. I wasn't sure what she would do once she found out I was here, would she try and convince me to take her back, or had she moved on and would just leave me alone. I knew I wouldn't find out until she arrived so I would just have to wait and see what happened.

Silena's point of view.

I was at the archery range with some of my cabinmates, Chiron was giving instructions on how to properly hold a bow. After a bit more instruction Chiron told me to try and take a shot. I pulled back the bowstring and let the arrow fly. My arrow fell short of the target but I was hardly expecting a bullseye on the first try.

As the class continued I felt that I was improving a little with every shot. I'd already had a sword class earlier in the day, and so far it seemed that I was pretty good with a sword. The only thing about camp that I wasn't enjoying as much was the amount of attention I was getting. Word had spread that my father was Percy Jackson, the hero of the second Titan and giant wars, on top of that my appearance wasn't helping matters either since I would sometimes notice boys eyeing me.

I suspect that if I ever start getting close to one of them my father would probably go into his overprotective dad mode. From what's happened over the years I know that he is quite protective of me, and after what happened to him, I guessed he wouldn't want the same thing to happen to me. When my mother had visited I had noticed her briefly glance at my dad, was it possible that she still loved him?

I decided that I wasn't going to stay angry at my mother for not being there, while my childhood would have been better if she was there, I knew that there were other demigods that had it worse than me. considering everything, I'd had a pretty good childhood with my dad and grandparents so I shouldn't really complain. I may not be as close to her as I am to my dad, she is still my mother so I wasn't going to hold a grudge.

Piper had told me that my dad had told her that he believed that I had the ability to charmspeak. Piper explained that it was a power that only a few of Aphrodite's children receive. She told me that she had the ability and that she would teach me how to use it. she said that there were some situations where I just shouldn't use it since it would probably get me into trouble.

After learning about it with Piper it became clear that I did have the ability to charmspeak, but I couldn't help but wonder how my dad had figured out that I did. I couldn't remember ever using the ability before, but perhaps I just forgot, and most likely didn't realize what I was doing. I decided that I would have to ask my dad how he had guessed since I figured he would probably tell me now, Perhaps I had used the ability without even realizing it. no matter what it was I was enjoying my time at camp so far, and I hoped that being back here would help my dad recover.

A/N I know this took a little while, my only excuses are that I wasn't sure exactly what I would write for this chapter, and lately I've been reading fanfics from a fandom that I recently joined. I've got some ideas for fanfics from that fandom as well, but I'm still working on them and I don't know if I'll bother to post them.