"Here come the sun."
- The Beatles
Everyone one had gone back to the throne room and had sat back down with the only exception being that Reyna had sat down on Hermes throne with him.
Luke looked at his father and the Roman demigod in anger when the screen lit back up.
The screen turned on and it shows three people, Will Solace, Percy and Lucrezia looking at a deep cut that Will had, it looked to be from a claw.
"Oh my gods, WILL." Michael Yew yelled, while looking at the screen in worry.
"Is he ok." Kayla, a daughter of Apollo asked.
Apollo looked at his child on screen and felt himself worry, while gripping his throne.
Reyna looked at the cabin 7 kids and at Apollo who looked at the screen in worry before she turned back to them.
"He is fine, Crezia and Percy took care of him." Reyna told everyone in the throne room. The demigods all sat back in relief along with Apollo, Hermes, Artemis and Hades.
Hermes looked at his brother and let out a noise.
"What." Apollo asked Hermes who looked at him in shock.
"Apollo your hand." Hermes said worried. "Your bleeding."
Apollo looked down at his hand and noticed that, yes his hand was bleeding he had apparently broke his throne when he gripped it in worry earlier. Apollo got the pieces of his throne embedded in his palms out and then cleaned the blood and healed it before he turned back to Hermes. "All good now."
Hermes looked at his in exasperation, his brother treating it like nothing happened.
Will looked at his dad knowing that his hand was bleeding because he was worried about him.
"I can't heal it with it being my own wound so I'm gonna need one of you to stitch me up." Will told Percy and Lucrezia through gritted teeth, you could tell he was in a lot of pain.
"I'Il take care of this." said Percy said while he went to grab the needle to stitch him up. Then Lucrezia grabbed his hand to stop him.
"Please tell me that Crezia took over." Jason pleaded with Percy.
"C'mon jase I'm not that bad." Percy exclaimed while being slightly offended.
"Tell that to the three campers whose wounds you tried to treat." Jason muttered under his breath.
"Hey they were fine after the Apollo kids helped." Percy said sheepishly to him before he realized that everyone was watching them.
"An what happened to these campers that my kids had to help them." Apollo asked amused, the banter between Percy and Jason helping calm him down from his worry for Will.
"The last time you took care of something, three people almost died." Lucrezia told him while she grabbed the needle. "I'll handle it."
"What." Will asked shocked. Everyone else was as well.
"This has got to be wrong." Past Annabeth said. Everyone turned to her in confusion. "Percy isn't that bad at first aid."
"Yeah we figured out that it wasn't really my fault but for now all you need to know is that I tried to help but no matter what I only seemed to make things worse." Percy told everyone there. "But not to worry I have gotten better at it."
Everyone looked back at the screen. Percy breathed a sigh of relief, this would probably tell them why he was so awful at first aid at this time but he wanted the screen to be the one to tell them After all just because Apollo stopped being jealous and took the curse back didn't mean that Percy couldn't be a petty bastard.
"Yeah, I hope you don't take this the wrong way percy but I'd prefer Crezia." Will told the two while looking at them with a pain riddled smile. "If only because she passed the first aid lessons our cabin taught and didn't almost kill three people, you understand where I'm coming from yeah."
"Hahahah." Jason started laughing.
"HEY, is my brother in pain funny to you." Austin another son of Apollo asked him.
The Apollo cabin looked at him a bit angered except Will who looked at him in confusion and Apollo himself who from the time they had spent in the throne room realized that it was probably because of something harmless.
"No,no,no sorry..it's just he just said it so nonchalantly that, I'm sorry I just found it funny." Jason said while calming down realizing how this might not be the right time for laughter.
The Apollo cabin still looked at him slightly angry since this wasn't something you just laughed about when they heard a giggle and turned to see it was the most unexpected person.
"You can't really find this funny." Lee fletcher, Will's brother said while looking at him shocked.
"Hehe." Will giggled while looking at Jason amusement before he turned to answer Lee. "I think if anyone can find this funny it would be the person who this is happening too."
Michael, Lee, Kayla and Austin looked at each other before they reluctantly nodded in agreement.
"Well.. Ok then the two of you have at it." Percy said knowing that he wasn't that great with first aid.
"Ah this takes me back." Percy said looking at the screen in nostalgia.
"Ah..JJ?" Jason asked understandingly.
"Yep, he wants to be a healer just like his favorite uncle." Percy told him. "He has actually been very vocal about it and has even gotten Laena to start saying heal, heal, heal every minute."
Jason laughed remembering that Percy and also Reyna who had been listening in both started laughing as well before they felt eyes on them and turned to see the entire throne room looking at them in curiosity.
"Who is Laena." Artemis asked them. She had a idea of who it could be but she wouldn't assume.
The rest of the people in the throne room be it Gods or demigods also wanted to know.
"Ahh...Laena is the youngest of Apollo and Crezia's daughter's and their youngest child overall." Jason hesitantly told everyone. The room went into shock.
Artemis and Hermes were happy they had at least two nieces yet they were also shocked seeing as how this meant that Apollo's youngest was probably just a toddler and yet she had already lost her mother.
Hades was happy to know that he had another granddaughter. He also wondered if this one was as adorable as her sister.
Apollo was both nervous and happy, nervous because he now had two daughters and happy because he now has two daughters, you could probably understand why.
The screen then shows a bedroom. The walls are a pale blue, a bed is against a wall, pitch black sheets and a blue comforter and above the bed are music notes painted in gold.
"Who's room is that." Hermes asked the future demigods.
"Will's." Percy told him.
"My room, when did I get a room." Will asked.
"Oh right this hasn't happened yet." Percy slapped his forehead. "After something that happened, the cabins were renovated and the one who did it took inspiration from Harry Potter and made the cabins bigger on the inside so now everyone has their own bedroom in their cabins." Percy rambled to everyone in the throne room who listened avidly, especially the demigods after all this meant they would have their own spaces and for those who lived there year round this was amazing news.
The screen shows the bed and someone laying on it the person is Will, it seems that this scene takes place directly after the last one that happened.
"Is he ok." Michael asked the adults from the future while worried for his baby brother.
"Yeah man, he's just fine actually it should show him getting better in just a minute." Jason told him when he noticed that Percy wouldn't be able to reply since he couldn't even look him in the eyes. Jason knew that he was one of the ones who died in the second titan war and wouldn't make his cousin go through that after all if he saw one of the camp Jupiter people who died he wouldn't want to have to answer either.
Beside the bed a comfy looking chair had been place and in it sits Lucrezia who keeps checking on will.
"I don't know if I've ever told you this Will but sometimes I just wanna strangle your dad with my bare hands." Lucrezia told the boy who was unconscious. "He tried to make me eat this milkshake monstrosity, it was good but I really didn't need to see anything that sweet ever in my life."
Apollo looked at the screen in shock. "Wow you'd think that you wouldn't complain about getting a milkshake." Apollo said while shaking his head in complete disbelief at his future lover.
"Yeah but Crezia doesn't really like sweet things." Reyna told Apollo matter-factually.
Apollo looks at her. "Really...what kind of food does she like." Apollo asked her while trying not to sound too interested.
"Simplicity, quality and the freshness of ingredients used to make it." Reyna told him before she started explaining. "Crezia is Italian and even though she was quite young when everything happened." Reyna tilted her head. "The way her mom had cooked still had stuck and she also spent time in Italy when she was like fifteen as well and took cooking lessons when she was there." She told Apollo. "Also she lived their with the kids, she used shadow travel to visit us."
Apollo meanwhile was nodding along with her and mentally taking down notes about it, both the food and the fact that she would make her home in Italy, for future reference on things about her. He nodded for the Roman demigod to continue.
Hades remembered Maria's cooking and felt himself grow saddened before he listed to the Roman demigod tell him of a life his child had lived in her time.
The Apollo kids were watching in silence at their dad getting advice on things for him to woo their future kind of sorta but not really stepmother.
"Right." Reyna said before she looked at Apollo in contemplation than nodded. "When the kids were born you and Crezia didn't go out to dinner much but instead cooked at home and the same was true before that, oh you and Crezia went out on dates but that was to music festivals, operas, fairs, the arcade and skating rinks but you never really went out on dinner dates." Reyna told Apollo who had stopped taking notes and instead was listening in fascination at the life he would have with Lucrezia, he also wasn't the only one everyone from the past gods and demigods alike were listening in fascination.
"Lucrezia liked cooking, it's always been something she liked doing and you liked doing whatever made her happy, so the two of you would cook the food and would usually have your dinner dates at home." Reyna told him. "Also I have to give you props for a god who could make whatever he wants appear with a snap of his fingers, your a very good cook."
"Oh well thank you." Apollo told Reyna hesitantly. Apollo didn't ever think that he would give up his bachelor life style because he never thought that he was suited for a settled down life style but it appears that in the future that would change.
The past gods and demigods bar a few were trying to process what they had just heard after all it appeared that what the relationship between Apollo and the Daughter of Hades went even deeper than they thought after all it was already big that he had FOUR children with her but this was described a domestic life that they really didn't think was possible, the gods because this was Apollo and the demigods because for them gods usually didn't stick around.
Hermes meanwhile was happy, did he think that Apollo was going to fall for this demigod that hard NO no he did not but he wasn't really shocked like the rest he always knew that Apollo wasn't truly happy, oh he could act with the best of them and nobody could really see past that golden boy of Olympus persona but Apollo was somebody who was happiest when he was loved, whether that be familial or romantic and it seemed that with Lucrezia Apollo would have romantic love and from that romantic love children would be born who would give Apollo familial love.
Hades was just happy to hear that his daughter was treated well and was happy even if that happiness was Apollo and meant he would have to ugh play nice with Zeus shudders.
"How does it feel to know that Apollo will practically be your son-in-law and you will have to play nice with Zeus." Poseidon quietly asked Hades with a troublemaker grin as if he read his mind.
"About like how you definitely feel with the fact your son is married to Athena's daughter and so you'll have to play nice with her and since she is Zeus's favorite him as well." Hades replied to him with a smile as Poseidon's grin dissolved. Two can play at that game little brother.
"Your father should be here soon to heal you but for now it's just us." She tells the sleeping boy. Lucrezia looked at Will in worry when he started turning a little with a frown and she then grabbed his hand and started to sing to him.
"She's going to sing." Apollo says while looking at the screen in anticipation although he did wonder what caused his son to have a nightmare
Hermes almost started laughing at the look on his brothers face but didn't as he remembered the ending of hyacinthus and daphne and how Apollo hadn't fallen in love since then and yet from what he was seeing it was happening once again.
Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright
Lucrezia started to sing her voice wasn't something that would make her a superstar but it was pretty and she sang with enough emotion that it covered up anything that was wrong.
Apollo looked at the screen in awe not only because of her singing but because of the song. She was singing to his son here comes the sun, was singing to Will a song that could very well reference Apollo.
Hermes looked at the screen softly. He didn't think that Apollo was going to fall for her this hard but Hermes was starting to understand why Apollo fell for Lucrezia di Angelo and while she wasn't his type, his type as he was finding out being the beautiful and strong purple wearing praetor, he could also understand the appeal of someone like Lucrezia and Hermes thinks that she's a pretty good fit for Apollo and he hopes that they can fix what went wrong in the future so his older brother doesn't loose her.
Little darlin', the smile's returning to their faces
Lucrezia starts to stroke Will's hair while she continues singing not noticing that Apollo himself appears in the doorway of the bedroom.
Will looks at the screen and the girl who's probably his age and yet was stroking his hair like he was her kid and recalled that the future demigods said that he was her best friend and he also remembered that they called her a mother hen and looked at the screen with a smile.
Will knows that their dad loved them, that has never been something that Will had doubted and he knows that cabin 7 and all the Apollo kids are a lot more lucky than most kids at camp half-blood, their dad has always claimed them usually when they first get to camp and most of cabin 7 have never had trouble getting to camp safely the first time, so yes Will knows that their dad loves them but this just confirms it and as Will see's his dad appear on screen even with the ancient laws he resolves to give him a huge hug when he has the chance.
Apollo looks at the screen and started to grin when he see himself appear before he remembers someone who will not be happy with this, Zeus. Apollo turns to his father, his king and almost winces when he see's the look of fury on his face.
Zeus when he see's Apollo appear feels his temper start to rise before he feels a hand on his arm and looks over to see Hera.
"Hera what are you doing?" Zeus asked her.
"Zeus he technically wasn't breaking the rules." Hera told him and when Zeus started to talking she cut him off. "He is visiting his lover, it's not anything but a coincidence that his son also happens to be there a coincidence that has happened to you before has it not husband." Hera asked him rhetorically whilst she remembered beryl grace and Thalia and the boy that Hera saw as her own child, her little Jason.
Zeus looked at Hera in shock before it turned into remorse and he turned back to the screen in silence.
Apollo looked at his father and Hera in shock, shock that his father didn't explode and punish him and in shock at Hera for helping him. Huh I guess that miracles do happen.
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's alright
Lucrezia sings to Will as she pulls the blanket on him that was slipping back into place.
The Apollo cabin looked at the screen softly and decided that they could respect and like their fathers lover for the simple kindness she shows Will by singing a lullaby.
"That was beautiful." Apollo told her.
Lucrezia jumped then she spun around with her Stygian iron sword ending up pointed at Apollo's throat before she realized who it was that said it. "Gods Apollo don't do that." She hit him after she made her sword disappear.
Hermes started laughing only one of his brothers lovers could be so nonchalant about pulling a sword out on a god.
Apollo also looked at the in amusement before his gaze softened looking at the Lucrezia on screen - her pitch black hair like a raven's feather and eyes that shimmer like obsidian - she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen and she was made even more beautiful with the fact that she cared for his son even though they were around the same age and he was not hers.
Apollo laughed. "Don't tell me you were scared, La mia regina fantasma." He said with a smile.
"Before anyone asks it mean my ghost queen." Apollo to the throne room more specifically the young Annabeth before she could even open her mouth.
Reyna looks at the Apollo on screen, the apollo in the throne room who is soft smile and sweet laughter and gods she misses it more than she ever though possible she remembers how Apollo is in their time cold and hard without a single hint of softness unless it was one of his children, Hermes, Artemis, Jason or herself and she can't help curse the fates. Can't help but curse the primordial that cause this all.
"No but it pisses me off when you do that and one of these days your not gonna be able to dodge and while you'll be able to heal I don't want to have hurt you at all especially when it could be avoided." Lucrezia told Apollo so very solemn.
Apollo's smile faded. "You won't and anyway like you said I can just heal it." He said as he took her in his arms.
Artemis looked at the girl on screen and felt herself soften, after all while she might not show it and as she's starting to realize maybe not as often as she should Artemis does love her brother and so anyone who cares for him even knowing that he would heal has earned herself some points.
Hermes meanwhile takes back what he thought earlier about her being nonchalant about pulling a sword out on a god although the reason she's worried is different than it usually would be because this was a worry borne out of care for Apollo.
Lucrezia nodded before she started talking. "And speaking of healing, I'm guessing by the fact that your here you heard mine and your kids
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