Aftermath of a Game

As soon as the Fates left, there was a few moments of awkward silence.

"This is too far," I said. "There has to be a way to deal with them."

"Well, they know your nature," Lucia said, palming Mom's ass. "They know what you want to do."

"Get your hands off me!" Mom yelled angrily.

"Sorry, Percy's Mom," Lucia said, her tone revealing that she was unapologetic. "My PTF just gets out of my control."

Mom backed up until she was against the wall. "Don't come near me, pervert."

Lucia raised her hands. "Alright, alright."

"Mom, are you ok?" I asked worriedly.

"No, Percy, does it look like I am?" Mom asked angrily, then she sighed. "Sorry, it's just..."

"I understand," I said. Well I didn't, not fully. Sure, it was weird knowing your mom was stuck wearing something straight out of a porno, but it was definitely weirder for her. "We'll fix this."

Lucia laughed. "PTFs are permanent, don't lie to your mom."

I glared at Lucia. "Do you mind?"

"Actually, I do," Lucia said. "You're the reason I'm stuck naked, after all."

"And you're the reason Kronos returned," I shot back. "One is worse than the other, so can it."

I turned to Sadie. "Are you ok, Sadie?"

"Kind of?" Sadie said shakily. "I mean, not really. I know that if I take a step, I'll lose the Charis, so I'd have to crawl, but I don't wanna do something so humiliating, so..."

"Annabeth or I can hold your leash, if that's fine with you," I offered.

One look at Annabeth told me she was in her own world ever since she had been assigned her PTF.

"Nevermind, just me for now," I said.

"I'd appreciate it, Daddy," Sadie said.

I took her leash hesitantly, and Sadie tentatively took a step, then she sighed in relief.

"Thank fuck," she sighed. "I was bleeding worried that I'd lose another Charis."

"You won't," I promised. "Rachel, Clarisse, you two alright?"

"I'm doing great," Rachel said. "I'm only disappointed that I didn't get some magic to go with this bod."

Rachel flapped her wings experimentally, and she started flying haphazardly. "Oh!"

Immediately, she dropped back to the floor, tumbling on her feet. "I'll have to practice that."

"Clarisse?" I asked.

"I'm doing fine, Prissy," Clarisse said softly. "They just made my feelings about you and everyone else a little exaggerated."

"So you always wanted to be submissive towards him?" Rachel asked curiously.

"Not like that," Clarisse said. "I've always been the General of the troops, but he's always been the General of the Generals. It's been that way since we went to the Sea of Monsters."

"Huh," Rachel said. "I never realized."

"I mean, it was unimportant," I said. "Mine and Clarisse's relationship had no importance on anything. Anyways, can all of you leave the room?"

"Oh, so you'll show her care, but when it came to me, you just let me be?" Lucia said.

"Out," I said.

Slowly, everyone left the courtroom, except for me, Annabeth, Sadie, and Mom.

I decided to deal with Annabeth first.

"Annabeth, what's wrong?" I asked.

"This changes everything," Annabeth said.

"Listen, we can work through the PTF," I said. "You and I have never even had sex yet. And before you say anything Sadie, our timeline with you doesn't count."

Sadie grinned unrepentantly. "I'm not sure whether to be disturbed or amused by this."

"Let's unpack that later," I said, then I cupped Annabeth's cheeks with my hands. "Talk to me, Wise Girl."

"Lucia was right," Annabeth said. "The Fates planned everything about this."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Think about it," Annabeth said. "We've been against some aspects of the Island very clearly. So, the Fates choose to push us to accept how things will go, while phrasing it as a punishment. If I want to be your queen, I'll most definitely have to have sex with you. If I have sex with you, I'll have to have sex with someone else, or risk my lead. If I have sex with someone else, I'm being hypocritical if I don't let you do it as well."

"Hey," I said gently. "I'm not being ****, you are. I won't do anything you don't want me to do."

"Even then," Annabeth said. "Juno's problem is being too proud to get fucked by you. Now, she's feeling your dick, whether you're using it or not. The moment you use it, and her newly found cuck fetish will go crazy and cause her to lose Charis, which she can only regain by trying to get you."

I paled as I realized what she was trying to say. "They know how we'll act, so they're choosing how we'll react."

"Exactly!" Annabeth said. "Sadie, I'm sorry that you're going through this too, but I hate to say that it'll probably be especially difficult for you, considering how Lachesis is interested in you."

"It's fine," Sadie said. "We'll make it out."

"I can't willingly do what this place wants me to do," Mom said. "I know what you're going to say next, Annabeth. This place is forcibly making me basically naked, so I'm **** to accept their ideals. I don't want to do that."

Having said her piece, Mom quickly walked out of the courtroom, pausing to give us a look over her shoulder.

"That was... Weird," Sadie said after a moment.

"Sadie!" I admonished.

"No, she's right," Annabeth said. "She chose to leave now, rather than wait."

I sighed. "I'll deal with it."

"How?" Annabeth asked, raising an eyebrow, her tail standing up.

"Clarisse helped me discover a hidden part of the Island," I admitted. "I can mentally choose a Contestant to receive a hidden quest from me, which they can complete for extra Charis and Drachma."

"So you'll give Clarisse the quest and not me?" Annabeth asked.

"You know it's not like that," I said.

"Tell me how it is," Annabeth said sarcastically.

"I promised to give her this quest when she helped me find this out," I said. "I'll give you the next quest, I promise."

"You better," Annabeth scoffed, taking Sadie's leash from me. "See you at lunch."

Sadie ran after Annabeth as her collar was pulled, looking back at me to wave hesitantly.

I sighed, then I mentally sent the quest to Clarisse.

Hidden Quest 1 assigned to: Clarisse LaRue

Objective 1: Interrogate Sally Jackson about her changing relationship with Perseus.

Objective 2: Return to Perseus with your findings.

Reward: 1 Charis and 400 Drachma

Having finished what I had to do, I headed to the dining hall.

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Lunch was a mixture of quiet tension and companionship as we all processed the results of the Game. The only altercation happened when Lucia subconsciously palmed Clarisse's tits, and Clarisse slapped Lucia on the face.

After lunch, everyone dispersed quietly, no one wanting to spend a single second in the awkward hall more than necessary.

Of course, all the tension would explode at dinner.

---

As soon as everyone was seated for dinner, Amphitrite spoke up.

"I trust that we've learnt the lesson of trying to work against the machinations of the Morai?" Amphitrite asked.

Annabeth barked at Amphitrite. "The exact opposite, actually. I don't know how it used to work, but I know how it works over here. So, the Fates can take all their planning and scheming and shove it up their asses."

"You shouldn't be so combative," Zoë said. "You have seen the games of the Morai."

"I won't trust the same people who played with the strings that made the Gods, the Titans, and the Primordials as cruel as they were," Annabeth said.

"You dare judge us?" Juno asked. "Your betters?"

Clarisse scoffed. "You lot are many things, but not our betters, not in the way you're thinking."

"You're going off topic," Lucia said. "Sally is basically nude, I'm nude, Annabeth is **** into polyamory, Sadie is basically property, Juno is a cuckqueen, Clarisse is a switch who loves bukkakes, the list can go on for everyone. Can we just admit that going against the Fates is a bad idea?"

"Working for Kronos was a bad idea," I sassed.

"So learn from me!" Lucia exclaimed.

"Can we just agree to disagree?" Mom asked. "All of you are under some assumption we all have to agree. We don't. Amphitrite, you're free to make your own choices, so is Annabeth, so is Lucia. We've gotten to the point where these arguments will go nowhere."

"So, you're saying that I should court your son, knowing his partner will consider me an enemy?" Amphitrite asked.

"Not necessarily," Mom said. "Judge whether it's worth the risk, and make your decision. I'm tired of hearing the same damn argument, we're supposed to be a family, for crying out loud. It's always the same damn argument, and you know the other side won't change their stance! Each of you are your own people, act like it, then compete, or choose not to!"

Once Mom finished her rant, I felt a message in my head.

4 Charis Earnt by Sally Jackson: Push the Contestants one step to accepting the reality of the Island.

I stayed quiet as I made eye contact with Mom while we received the same mental notification.

"Thank you," Clarisse said. "Now, I will not hear any other arguments, or so help me Prissy, I will put you over my knee, and slap you until you wished you got a PTF instead."

Everyone wisely shut up, and dinner went by fast after that.

Once dinner was done, I quietly headed to my house, thankful for a night of solitude after everything.

Tomorrow would be a problem for future me.