For the love of Aphrodite (a Percy Jackson story)

yours truly, Aphrodite

We arrived at the Hamptons and I knocked at their door.

"Percy dear! Come on in. You must be Annabeth. I'm Giovanna Bianchi, Chiara's mother..." she introduced herself to my former girlfriend.

"What are you doing here?" Jason started saying. "Haven't you done enough?"

Mrs. Bianchi was so confused she was paralysed unaware of how to act. Annabeth came in between us.

"I know it was all an act Jason. Cut it. She told me everything!" I spit

"You know nothing Jackson. You better stay away! You've hurt her too much already! You had a girlfriend but you'd still hit on Chiara, I don't know who you think she is but she have me now! I won't let you play with her feelings..."

"Jason, we just want to talk to her..." Annabeth said.

"No can do. We can't get late or we'll lose our reservation!" The blond guy said.

"What reservation?" I asked

"Ours. It's date night tonight! Usually it would be Friday because game night is on Saturdays  and she believes Sundays are an odd day for that but we had the gala on Friday..." what the hell is going on.

"Percy? Annabeth?" She asked coming down the stairs all dressed up.

"Can we talk?" I asked.

"I know you guys are in a hurry but can we please just talk about the Instagram text..." Annabeth said.

"What text?" Chiara asked.

"The one you sent Percy..." Annabeth said confused.

"I don't remember sending any text..." she said and pulled up her phone. She read the text. "I'm sorry. I don't recall writing this. I'm so confused..."

"Wait. What?" I asked as I felt my heart break...

"I don't know, maybe I had a black out..." she said "Sorry Percy. Sorry Annabeth. Did you guys came all the way here because of that? We can get you rooms so you don't have to go back now..." I stormed off. I couldn't stay there anymore. Not for a single second.

"Percy. I'm sorry. I don't know what's happening. Maybe Aphrodite's game is one we've yet to understand..."

And after she finished this we've got a note.

Dearest Percy,
Remember me?
I'm the one that almost became your godmother in law. But you might know me also as Aphrodite. Or as my daughter's current boyfriend Jason calls me, Venus.

You see, the Bianchi family is one too special to me, and I made myself a promise to have them be a blessed one, to have only the best of the best.

It all started when the beautiful love of Benito and Giovanna caught my eyes. They were 17 and it was their first date, they were in Rome and went for a picnic at the Borghese gardens. I was there with my then lover. They exhaled a pure and beautiful love I had never seen before and I it captivated me, I gave them my blessing that their love would only grow. And it did. Even when their wedding reached a hard path they never stopped loving. The fact that they couldn't bare was too much for me, why them? So young, so beautiful and so in love. It wasn't fair.

One night, in Washington, a year after they stopped trying and their marriage was on for the appearances I paid Giovanna a visit. I explained her who I was and after regaining her conscience and pinching herself a couple times to realise it wasn't a crazy dream, I told her I wanted to help.
I asked if she was willing to do anything to save her marriage and she said she was. I asked if I could compel her husband and I would give them their daughter. She agreed. I did it. I gave birth to the most powerful demigoddess. You see, you are right to fear our powers more than any other, love gives and love takes and we can manipulate even the gods and titans, our power has no boundaries as it's one that messes with the most powerful organs, your mind and your heart. Chiara has her gift accentuated as she was born of the love of her parents, my admiration to their love and the goddess of love herself, if that wasn't powerful enough she grew up surrounded by the most beautiful loving family and it brushed off on her. I blessed them once again and this time I asked for a little help from my friend Hera, goddess of family, that touched by this beautiful one, gave the young couple now, 30 and married for 5 years, with a demigoddess daughter, decided to bless them with the gift of fertility.