A/N I know this took a while, I will try and update again soon, but I still have my other stories to work on as well.

Percy's point of view.

I did tell Annabeth about Silena's theory about what might be bothering Luke, and Annabeth said she would look into it since she was just as worried about Luke as I was. Hopefully, the school would do something if there had been something going on at Luke's school that was bothering him. I didn't know what else it could be since Luke had seemed a little better when he was at camp. Annabeth did go to Luke's school to try and get them to do something, but We would only know if anything had changed once the new school year got underway.

Luke and Silena returned to school although Neither one of them were super thrilled about that. I knew that the person Annabeth had contacted at Luke's School had claimed that they were unaware of anything bad happening to Luke, but they also said they would try and find out what was going on.

I wasn't sure if they just said that last part to satisfy Annabeth or If they were actually going to do something. If the school didn't stop what was going on, it might be best for Luke to go to a different school. I also knew that if I stepped in they might actually make an effort to do something, and if not I might have to take matters into my own hands rather than leaving it to the school to do something. Whatever happens, we would try and help Luke and hopefully get him back to his old self eventually. Based on how upset he seemed to be, I knew it would probably take a while for Luke to get back to normal but hopefully, he would eventually.

As the first weeks of the new school year went by nothing really seemed to change, and Luke didn't seem to get any better if anything he was getting worse, and as you would expect Annabeth and I were extremely worried about him. He had become quiet, too quiet, and according to Annabeth most of the music he listened to nowadays was depressing.

We were honestly worried about him since we were starting to think that maybe he'd gone from just being upset to depression. I certainly hoped not, but we just weren't sure. I knew how I'd felt after Annabeth first dumped me and in those first few months there were moments when I thought it might just be easiest to end it all but I never tried to follow through on those thoughts, and After Zephyrus showed up with Silena she'd given me a reason to keep going on with my life.

Now I was just hoping that Luke wasn't having similar thoughts since he wouldn't open up to us and I certainly didn't want to lose him especially since I hadn't even known he existed until he was twelve. We have gotten pretty close since then and try to see each other often, but he still refused to tell me what was going on so I honestly didn't know what I should do. I wanted to help him but I didn't know how since I didn't want to resort to desperate measures just yet.

Silena was going to school as well, but I knew that she quite often iris messaged her boyfriend, and sometimes wanted to visit camp on the weekend. I was still getting used to the fact that she had a boyfriend but I hadn't done anything to try and separate them and I was hoping that their relationship wouldn't end badly. I wouldn't be too surprised if Silena's boyfriend leaves camp sometimes to come see her. So far he seemed like he was a decent guy but I knew that might not last.

Due to how close we are I was still spending a lot of time with Aphrodite in the evenings, but I still hadn't mentioned the idea I had about how to find out what's bothering Luke, after all, I didn't want to resort to that unless I absolutely had to. I knew that if we didn't find out what was wrong soon though, I might just give in and resort to my desperate plan, if Aphrodite agreed of course, but I figured she probably would, she might try to talk me out of it but I think if I refused to do that she might give in.

I also knew that Ares hadn't stopped bothering her about taking him back and although that annoyed me I was sure she wouldn't give in. For whatever reason Ares hadn't come back to bother me so maybe he'd realized I could defeat him now and he didn't want risk taking me on again, whatever it was I didn't mind that he hadn't shown up again, after all, he didn't like me and the feelings were mutual, he's probably the god I like the least, he's certainly right down there with Dionysus and Zeus.

Aphrodite's point of view.

I don't think I've been this happy in a long time, Percy and I are just as close as ever, the only downside is that Ares still won't accept the fact that I don't want to be with him anymore. Honestly, I don't have a clue what I ever saw in him in the first place. Now I'm regretting ever being with him since he is really starting to annoy me.

He came whining to me just the other day, trying to get me to take him back, obviously, I refused, but he didn't seem to want to accept that.

"You liked being with me," he whined not wanting to accept the fact that I no longer wanted to be with him. For a while, I had enjoyed being with him, but I eventually realized that he no longer cared about me and was basically just using me for sex. I obviously was no longer interested after I came to that realisation, so I ended it.

"That was before I realised that you were just using me," I snapped, tired of his whining and nagging.

"I'm better than that demigod!" he said, getting annoyed now.

"No you're not," I said, not even bothering to try and make it easier on him. "for one, Percy actually cares about me, and I know you don't anymore. I honestly don't know what I ever saw in you, half the time I didn't enjoy being with you as much as you think and I got pretty good at faking it,"

After that, it seemed like he'd finally given up, or at least he had for that night. I wasn't sure if I'd finally made him realize that I was done with him, or whether he was just going back to his own palace to mope and would eventually decide to try again despite the numerous times he'd tried before. It was honestly annoyed that I couldn't get him to give up but despite being the love goddess I wasn't sure what else to do.

There are ancient laws that state that we aren't supposed to use our powers on each other, so even if I wanted to do that I couldn't. I may have liked him quite a while ago, but now he was just plain annoying. It seemed like he hadn't been stupid enough to try and face Percy again, perhaps because he was afraid of losing to him again.

Whatever the case I hoped he would realize that he was just being a nuisance, and making himself look like a fool. I don't blame Hera for considering him a disappointment since the only things he really seems to care about are weapons, war, blood, and women.

Hopefully, he would give up, but since I knew he was rather stupid It might take more attempts before it would finally sink in. After I finally got him to leave I decided to go see Percy, I was aware that Silena had a boyfriend, and that Percy seemed to be having a little trouble accepting that, but I think he was finally coming to terms with it since he'd been aware of their relationship for a little while now.

I also knew how worried Percy was about his son Luke, technically I might be able to find out what was going on if I used my powers, but I wasn't going to do that since Luke obviously wanted that kept private, and unless his situation got worse I wouldn't even consider doing it. When I got to Percy's apartment his worry was obvious. I went over to him and tried to reassure him that Luke would be okay.

I knew that Percy didn't completely believe me but I could tell that he had relaxed a little, and that was better than nothing. I knew that Silena was back in her room although I wasn't sure what she was doing. Although that left us with some privacy we didn't do that much, even after we were sure that Silena was in bed, after all, Percy still wasn't really in the mood, and I certainly wasn't going to argue.

I could tell that he still had a lot on his mind, and although I wanted to help him there really wasn't much I could do short of using my powers to try and find out if what was bothering Luke had something to do with my domain. I wasn't going to do that though, after all it would be prying into things Luke obviously didn't want us to know.

I hoped that Percy would find out what was bothering Luke soon though, since I didn't like seeing Percy this stressed out, the things Percy has to deal with on a daily basis as cop are bad enough, but with his worries about Luke on top of that I knew he was under a lot of stress right now, and he would only really be free of that when he would finally find out what had been going on.

I stayed with Percy that night, but like I already said we didn't do much. That didn't really bother me since I could understand why and I just tried to help him relax a bit and reassure him that sooner or later, everything would be okay. What neither of us knew at the time was that Percy would get the answers he wanted sooner than we realized and that he was in for a surprise when he finally did.