Heroes of Olympus Children

We're Home, With a Surprise

A/N: Okay so I'm returning to the major plot line of the grandparents. Adluts are back with some news and Piper and Jason have to deal with Jake having a broken ankle. The picture is of Percy and Annabeth's living room.

"We're home!" the adults all chime as they enter Percy and Annabeth's living room where the kids are sitting watch Tv. Angel and Trenton on the floor holding hands, Inara and Isobel at the counter eating sandwhiches, Lily going through the fridge for a snack, and Alex and Jake on on the couch, Jake's ankle propped up on a pillow and in a cast.

"I'm going to regret asking this," Piper sighs looking at her son. "but why are you in a cast?"

"I may or may not have broken my ankle when I jumped off the bridge at the park playground." Jake says looking at the ground.

"Why did you jump off the bridge?" Hazel asks as Percy, Jason, and Leo do their best to hide their laughter at the mental images of Jake jumping off the bridge and breaking his ankle.

"This isn't funny." Nico snaps.

"I was racing the others to get to the baby swings to see if I could still fit in one." Jake says and the dam breaks. Percy, Jason, and Leo's laughter fills the house and their respective wives slap them upside the head.

"Why would you try to-" Calypso starts but is cut off by Lily.

"He was driven to be an idiot before the night was over and that was probably the first thing that popped into his mind." the dark haired girl shurgs taking a bite out of an apple.

"To be fair it worked." Jake smiles. "I still fit, but the doctor told me to not participate in any sexual activities for the next three weeks or so. As if I was gonna anyways. I have no life outside of my family."

"Should we find thta touching or sad?" Frank asks.

"Both." Leo, Alex, and Inara say.

"So what happened on your trip out of town?" Isobel asks as her dad sits at the counter next to her.

"We talked to some family about them visiting you guys." Annabeth says.

"What kind of family?" Angel asks slowly.

"Grandparents." Nico sighs looking as tired as ever.

"WWhat about my mom?" Isobel asks quietly.

All eyes turn to Nico and his daughter, he'd been dreading this day since he came back to the group, but he was gratefull that others were there to help him, even if only a little.

"Well, that's a bit more complicated." Nico beings slowly.

"Shouldn't be." Percy mumbles under his breath.

"What Uncle Percy is trying to say is the situation was complicated when she left." Nico says. "it shouldn't be more complicated than the situation with your grandparents, but it is."

"So how complicated is it exactly?" Alex asks.

"Very." Annabeth and Frank say at the same time.

"Can you at least try to explain it in a short version?" Isobel asks.

Sighing Nico nods. "The easiest way to put it is when Alex was two and Trenton, Lily, and Jake were one I went on a year long trip around the world. When I was in Brazil I met up with a group of people who were doing the same thing. Your mother was in that group. After a few stops in other places, like Chile and Argintina, we were all really good friends. By the time we were in Poland things got awkward between your mother and one of the other guys. Something about money and cheating, I don't really remember.

"Well he left for Japan and we headed to Norway. That's when...things happened and two months later in Germany your mother told me that she was pregnant with you. Well we travled on for a few more months and You were born in France on midnight January 1st. I always thought that was the best way to start the New Year. I guess your mother thought different.'

Isobel nodded and tilted her head to the left a bit. The others were dead silent.

"When she was allowed to leave the hospital she did, she also left the country and left a note saying that she wasn't ready to be a mother so she left you with me. You were two months-old when I came back here. And let's jsut say some were not happy about what ahppened." Nico finishes.

"So Aunt Calypso and Annabeth and Uncle Frank?" Isobel asks.

"Why'd she assume it was you three?" Percy asks.

"Becuase it was them three." Jason shrugged. "You and Leo were busy making jokes, Hazel and Piper were trying to make sure he had enough stuff to properly take care of her, Annabeth and Frank were demanding the name of the mother, Calypso was judgin siletnly, adn I had no idea what to do so I just congradulated him on being a dad."

"This is true." Leo nods.

"So she didn't want me?" Isobel asks.

"In short yes." Annabeth said for Nico. "When he finally caved and told me and Frank the name I regadnized it instantly. She was a fellow student when I was in college and she wasn't exactly the most motivated. Her main motivation was the class being over soon."

"So you know my mom?"

"In a way, yes. But if she wanted to find you, trust me when Isay she would have by now. I'm not saying that you're not worth being with, I'm only saying that she was right when she said she wasn't ready to be a mom. Maybe she still isn't ready to be a mom. But here's the thing we want you to remember, no matter how much you might grow up and act like her, you're not her. You're better than that. She left you and your dad, and you don't need that in your life."

Isobel nodded and smiled. "i think I understand now, well better than I did before."

"So we're good on that topic?" Nico asks.

"Yup." Isobel says nodding with a smile.

"Good."

"So what's the situation with our grandparents?" Alex asks.

"Something we haven't wanted to deal with until now." Percy sighs. "But you're old enough, heck older than I was."

"Okay now you're just confusing them." Frank says rolling his eyes.

"How about we all deal with this together instead of seperately." Piper says sitting on the arm of the chair. "They'll be here in a week or two anyway, just in time for Trenton and Lily's birthday."

A/N: So you know more about Isobel's mom. The grandparents are next chapter. Also the thing that Jake did happpened to my brother when he was sixteen and let's just say our parents were not happy. -G