Everyone had gathered in the throne room when the lady fates appeared again. Before anyone could do anything they started talking. "Now you will not only react to Lucrezia but to someone else as well since her fate is deeply intertwined with Lucrezia's." They said eerily at the same time.

Everyone but the future looked curious while the future demigods looked at the daughter of Bellona.

Reyna and Hermes appears on the screen. They are in what looks like a living room it has a cream colored leather couch, a purple blanket thrown over it, with a wooden coffee table. The two of them are sitting on the couch Reyna is working on paper's but Hermes meanwhile keeps on poking her to get her attention.

"Has anyone ever told you that you are the most childlike person to ever exist?" Reyna asked Hermes in exasperation, after he wouldn't stop poking her.

"Yes actually how did you know." Hermes told her.

"Lucky guess." She deadpanned.

"Huh..what are the little praetor and I doing together." Hermes said while looking at the screen before her words registered. "HEY!!" Hermes yelled before Artemis started laughing.

Reyna looked at her and Hermes on the screen, at the love they had for each. She remembered this day it was the first time Hermes told her he loved her, it was when she realized that she could trust him with her heart.

The past gods and demigods looked at the screen in confusion, they were confused that Hermes and Reyna were together on the screen.

The screen shows a fancy restaurant and at a table is Reyna and Lucrezia. Reyna ( Age 18) wears a dark red floor length dress with thin straps and a square neckline, it hugs her figure until it gets to her knees where it has ruffles in a mermaid style. Lucrezia (Age 16) is wearing a Navy blue strapless dress that goes to her knees with a white shawl and a very pretty diamond necklace and heels with diamonds.

Hades looks at his beautiful daughter who holds a strong resemblance to both Maria and him. She holds Maria olive skin tone and her delicate and tiny build with her sweet smile, yet from him she got her shiny raven hair and her dark eyes that are as dark as onyx.

Apollo looks at the future version of Lucrezia on screen, at the beautiful dress and the diamond necklace, and he finds himself enchanted by her beauty. She looks so happy and he thinks that he understands why he would have four children, why he would give one of his children a name that means immortality, he understands his future selfs plans.

Hermes meanwhile looks at Reyna in the dark red dress and feels himself short circuiting. The girl looks so pretty and while he thinks she would look better in dark purple, that red makes her look absolutely gorgeous.

Ares looks at the roman demigod on screen, at Hermes who is practically drooling over her, and feels himself frowning after all the girl is his niece. The gods don't put a lot of stock in the whole sibling thing but the Greek form of Bellona is Enyo, Enyo who is Ares twin sister, and while you will not find a lot of people who Ares cares about besides Aphrodite or his children, Enyo is one of them.

Apollo and Hermes appear appear. Apollo is wearing a white dress shirt with the top two buttons undone with a gold necklace that has an onyx stone in the middle and a gold watch. Hermes wears a Black dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, with a silver chain necklace and a silver watch.

Artemis looks at her brother or brothers that are shown and feels..sadness. She never thought that there would be a day when her brothers settle down, although she doesn't think anyone else noticed beside Aphrodite and Apollo, she knows that Hermes seems to fall in love with Reyna. Artemis never thought it would happen yet it seems that it does and she know that she shouldn't feel sad and instead should be happy but she just can't.

Lucrezia stand up and greets Apollo with a hug and kiss before she sits back down and he pushes her chair back in and sits himself next to her, he grabs her hand and presses a gentle kiss to it, whilst he gives her a sweet smile.

Apollo shudders while looking at the screen and at the smile he shows her. Apollo can't remember the last time he smiled at someone like that besides his mother, after all it is his true smile and he learned not to show anything true and sweet on Olympus a long time ago, he doesn't even smile at Artemis like that anymore.

The rest of the gods look at Apollo on screen and come to the same realization, that he doesn't look at them with a real smile anymore.

Apollo looks at Hermes in confusion. "Aren't you going to sit down Herm."
Hermes looks at Apollo then at the only empty seat next to the strong and beautiful Roman demigod,The praetor if he does remember correctly.

Hermes looks at Reyna on the screen and he wonders if she will say yes. They were shown to get along with each other if not particularly close with the previous scene being a good example, yet that was just one scene so...he wonders and he hopes.

Reyna looks at the scene in nostalgia. She and He had gone to dinner as a favor to Crezia and Apollo respectively, yet at the end of the night everything had gone so well that Hermes had asked her to go out on a date. This was what had started their love story.

"Is it alright if i sit here?" Hermes asks the raven haired girl. She smiled up at him and smiled, pulling the chair out for him. Apollo and Lucrezia share a look across the table.

The gods looked at the screen in dawning realization Hermes was going to fall in love with a demigod as well, a Roman demigod at that.

The past demigods also understood and they all wonder what it mean that two gods fall for two demigods, although not all are happy or neutral.

Luke looks at the screen in anger although he hides it well, he doesn't understand how this girl could fall for his father's act, not understanding that it isn't a act yet it wouldn't be long before he did.

The screen showed the same living room from the first scene but there were a few differences. The couch now had bronze colored pillows, the table had what looked to be textbooks on it and sitting on the floor looking through them was Reyna and Hermes. Reyna has her hair in her signature braid, a purple sweatshirt and a pen in her mouth while going though a textbook. Hermes had on a plain black shirt, and he is highlighting things in the books.

Hermes looked at the girl on screen and smiled. He knew that she would look better in purple.

Apollo looked at his brother. It was rare that he saw Hermes dressed like this, his job often made it to wear he couldn't wear normal clothes and when Apollo saw him he was always working.

"Y'know I don't ge why you're heping me." Reyna said to Hermes although it was muffled due to the pen in her mouth.

"Well for one maybe don't talk while you have a pen in your mouth, second you said you needed to study for this test so I'm helping you." Hermes said before he looks at her and his smile softens. "I love you Reyna and so I want to help you, that's it."

Hermes looks at the screen in shock before he turns to the future demigods, more specifically Reyna.

"SURPRISE." Reyna said while doing jazz hands.

Hermes stares at her then he looks at the screen then he starts doing that back and forth a couple of times until Reyna yells at him. "HEY!"

Hermes looks at her the he slowly starts to smile. "We are together?" He asked her

Reyna nodded.

Hermes nodded as well and turned back to the screen.

The Hermes kids looked at their dad and the girl on screen, they had never heard him say the L word. The Hermes cabin wondered in like Apollo, their father would fall in love with this demigod.

Reyna meanwhile could read Hermes and knew that Hermes was happy so she turned back to the screen.

Reyna took the pen out of her mouth and looked down with a blush before the blush disappeared and she looked at him with slight worry.

Past Jason couldn't believe that Reyna blushes, she usually only did that when she was embarrassed, and that wasn't something that happened often.

Apollo looked at the screen and the girl on it, the girl who his brother would apparently fall for, and he wondered if they were still happy.

"Wow Rey, I didn't know you could turn that red." Percy told Reyna in surprise before he looking at Jason and asking. "Did you Jay?"

Jason nodded but Percy knew that he wouldn't get anything out of him about it.

"THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS." Reyna yelled at Percy quietly.

Percy then nodded quickly, after all nobody wanted to deal with an angry Reyna.

"I love you too, but you have duties on Olympus and I don't want you to get into trouble with the sky lord." Reyna said.

"I won't Reyna." Hermes said knowing her worry wasn't unfounded.

"But I-." Reyna said before she was Hermes interrupted her.

"I won't just trust me please." He said while looking at her pleading.

Zeus looked at the screen and felt two thing one, slight appreciation for the demigod because at least she knew the importance of duties and two anger at his son for trying to shirk his duties.

Hermes looked at Reyna the one on screen, the one from the past, the one from the future and he wondered if this girl was worth it, because he knew what he sounded like when he was trying to reassure someone when even he didn't truly believe himself.

Reyna wanted to hit herself. She had always prided herself on being able to read people, yet Hermes had managed to get her to believe him when even he didn't. Reyna in the beginning couldn't read Hermes it was only after they had been together for awhile that she was able to read him.

"Alright but you have to promise that you won't let this interfere with you duty's on Olympus." Reyna said while looking at Hermes seriously.

"I won't, I promise my Queen." Hermes said while looking at her serious face. "After all I know that we are bound by our duties ."

Bound by duty the words resounded in Hermes head and he wonders if he truly believes that, they are all gods they take and take and take for their own joy, they aren't the most dutiful.

Hades, Poseidon and Zeus all looked at the screen in understanding. Zeus may not say it but he was proud of Hermes, his son did his job even when it was tiring having to deliver things to every god across the pantheon and sometimes even mortals.

The demigods looked at at the two on screen and then the ones in the room with them and they wondered if Hermes was the same in both times.

Zeus decided it was time for a break

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