#so he very quickly goes from unhappy camper to right behind you

[kirbykonka]

Gojo the kind of mf to lay on the carpet by the door until you come back

[theherondaels]

All Is Fair In Love and War

I actually wanted to post this on Valentine’s day. Last year. Whoops.

This is the PJO Au no one asked for. It’s also a mess, generation-wise. It has all gens mixed, bc why the hell not? No, really, I needed more half-siblings (I’m looking at you, Jazmín!)

Have fun reading!!!

Jazmín woke up with the biggest grin possible. But how could she not? Today was the best day of the year! And that included her birthday! While she changed into her knee-length dress with rose print, she checked her calendar. A big heart was drawn on the 14th day of February.

Valentine’s day.

Or the most important day of the year, according to her cabin. Oh, the Aphrodite kids just loved Valentine’s day. All the romance movies were on TV, everything was decorated in their mother’s colours and so many proposals were made and, of course, weddings officiated.

Silence hovered over the cabin, its other inhabitants still asleep. Jazmín had gotten up first since she still had to add a few things for Alexia’s birthday celebration. She was a bit envious of her youngest half-sister. Being born on Valentine’s day, just how awesome was that?

As soon as Jazmín had placed the chocolate cake on the mahogany table, the ground floor of the cabin slowly filled with her half-siblings. “Morning,” Alaia chirped, being in a good mood as always. Her twin sister, however, looked a bit drowsy. “I binge-watched Riverdale,” Amaya revealed without being asked, yawning, “But all the couples were so obvious… I don’t know why I did that.”

Jazmín nodded, totally understanding her. Aphrodite children really did have a sixth sense when it came to relationships. They could always tell who was together with whom and predict with terrifying accuracy who would eventually get together. It made everything on TV sort of boring, Jazmín always knew which characters would end up together. Sadly, this power didn’t work on herself or her half-siblings. The only chance they had was to see if their couple instinct would kick in, showing them if their crush would end up with someone else. It really sucked, Jazmín knew that from experience. She still wasn’t completely over the eldest son of Hephaestus. Oh, she had been so miserable, but she just had known that it would only end in tears, because Simón would eventually get together with Ámbar in the future.

Said daughter of Nemesis, of course, always dismissed this feeling as a “freak love hallucination”, insisting that it would never happen. Yeah, Jazmín had heard that a few times before. And where were they now? Busy being married to the person she had predicted. See? Her couple instinct was never wrong.

“It’s because you’re single,” her younger half-brother, Manuel, joked. “Maybe I should start playing cupid for all of you once the competition is over.” Amaya shot him an annoyed look.

“Oh, please do,” Alaia begged, obviously tired of being single. “I’ll help,” her other, much younger, half-brother Diego yelled, quickly making his way over to the table. Eloísa and Mia walked right behind him. “Where’s the birthday girl?” Mia, the only brunette among the girls asked. Godly DNA was really strong. Only she and Manuel didn’t have the fiery red hair. And all half-siblings shared the same brown eyes, no doubt inherited from Aphrodite.

But Jazmín did find it funny that the only two brunettes both had a name that started with M. Had her mother planned that? Since the two were a few years apart, the oldest child of Aphrodite decided that it was just a coincidence. “I’m here,” Alexia yelled excited, more or less sprinting through the opened door.

Jazmín’s eyes met her half-siblings before they all started to sing Happy Birthday to the youngest member of the cabin, Manuel and Diego dramatically singing off key for entertainment. “Guys, this is serious,” Jazmín nagged the sons of Aphrodite, looking a bit appalled at Manuel, as he was older and should take this much more seriously. It was her last year at Camp Half-Blood and he would definitely be the next counsellor, as that position always went to the oldest member of the cabin.

After Alexia had received a hug and birthday wishes from all of them, they distributed themselves on the various sitting bags across the room, Jazmín taking her place on the red love seat, already having pen and paper in hand.

“It is time. There’s a few though ones here, but don’t worry! I’m sure, we’ll get them together in no time, “Jazmín started, totally in her element. “Maybe Mom can give us some pointers when she visits,” she smiled.

“Oh, she already did,” Alexia said, looking a bit remorseful. “She did?” Jazmín asked, smile fading a little, unable to keep out the disappointment in her voice. Everyone got 10 minutes of Mom time on their birthday, but Jazmín had hoped to get a glimpse, or maybe even a few words, from Aphrodite. “Yeah, that’s why I took a little bit longer,” Alexia said, looking at the ground, “She’s really sorry, but you know how busy she is.”

“Yes, especially today,” Eloísa’s tone was bitter.  

“Anyways,” Jazmín continued quickly, not wanting this to ruin the mood, “We’ll form pairs and every pair will get two couples. The more experienced of us will get the, well, more difficult cases.” So, they had a few hours for each couple, that should suffice. And they wouldn’t intervene with each other’s couples. It had happened in the past and really was a waste of time. “Okay, Manuel and Diego form a pair,” she read the parings aloud. “Yes,” the boys high-fived each other. “Mia goes with Alaia, Amaya and Alexia are a pair, and Eloísa is with me,” Jazmín smiled, pleased with her selection.

“No,” Eloísa groaned, her plan had been to somehow disappear during match-making, but now that she was stuck with her oldest sister there was no way she could do that.

Jazmín ignored her, beginning to tell everyone their couples. When she named the second couple for Manuel and Diego, she was met with protest. “They’ll kill us, or at least use as sparring dummies, if they find out what we’re doing before we’ve actually succeeded,” Manuel exclaimed loudly, “Which is a very strong possibility since one of them is literally the child of the goddess of deceit!”

"Good luck with that,” Alaia snorted with laughter.

“Can’t we switch with someone?” Diego asked in a pleading tone, not being thrilled with the prospect of having to play cupid for the daughter of Lyssa and the son of Apate. To be fair, rage and deception was a hellish combo. But Jazmín did have her reasoning for giving them, especially Manuel, this couple. Surely, if they managed to bring Stella and Andrés together, he would gain new self-assurance, which would really help him next year, when she was off to college.  

In the end, the couple distribution remained the same, her half-brothers clearly unhappy with it. Jazmín looked down at her list. If everything went according to plan Camp Half-Blood would have six new couples by the end of the day. She not only wanted to beat the Eros cabin, she also break the last couple record, which was five and had been set had three years ago.

If it was something Aphrodite’s children got competitive over it was match-making. It really showed with the competition they had with the Eros’ cabin, much to the dismay of the other campers.

The rules were simple: The cabin who had bought the most couples together by twilight won.

The couples in question were reaped from two bowls from each cabin. Sometimes a couple got drawn twice because the children of the love deities didn’t compare their choices.

All had started many years ago, when children of Eros had tried to play cupid too. Of course, the Aphrodite cabin hadn’t been amused, thinking the Eros kids tried to intervene with what they considered their business. Sadly, neither Chiron or Mr. D had been able to stop them. The read-head really would like to know what her mother thought about that. But if it bothered her Jazmín doubted this competition would have lasted this long. Who knew? Maybe Aphrodite and Eros watched them from above, having a good laugh.

Jazmín finally looked up again, a grin on her face, “Let’s bring these people together!”

~

Their first couple had been easy. Too easy actually. They hadn’t had done too anything drastic. Just spreading a rumour and suddenly those two love fools were finally talking about their feelings for each other. “That’s it?” Eloísa asked wide-eyed, gaze fixed on the two hand holding campers. “Seems so,” Jazmín answered, getting her list out of left pocket. Oh, how she loved this dress! It was already cute but the pockets made it 100 times cuter.

She crossed the first couple off the list, already eyeing the next one. This one was going to be more though. She knew the son of Hermes and daughter of Iris wouldn’t make it easy for them. But then again, she had thought that about Yam and Ramiro too. Maybe they should just try the rumour with Matteo and Luna too. All boys were the same after all. Just let them get wind of another boy liking the girl they’re interested in and all hell breaks loose.

She suggested it to Eloísa, who only shook her head. “Balsano would have a heart attack. And we get less points if we use the same method twice.” Right, Jazmín had totally forgotten that.

“We could lock them in?” she offered, as they searched for their couple. “How unoriginal is that?” Eloísa scoffed. If she had to spend her day doing this, it at least shouldn’t be so predictable. “It’s not,” Jazmín said, crossing her arms. Locking in was a true classic. It had worked on the most famous couples in and outside of camp.  

“How long exactly will we waste our time watching them staring at each other?” Eloísa asked annoyed, just minutes after they had found them. “Until I have a plan,” Jazmín admitted. “You don’t have one? Great, just great,” the younger red-head crossed her arms, a disgruntled look on her face.

Well, it would be easier if Luna didn’t wear such a hideous outfit. Jazmín cringed visibly at the too many patterns and colours that didn’t match at all. Normally, children of Iris tended to be good with colour coordination. Just what had gone wrong with Valente? With all the layers she looked like a main character that escaped from one of those new, absolutely horrid, Disney shows her two youngest half-sisters loved to watch. How Mia and Alexia were so invested in those shows was beyond her. They liked to make their couples suffer, which Jazmín was definitely not a fan of. She especially couldn’t handle love triangle after love triangle.

Jazmín sighed loudly, this was giving her a headache. Maybe her style would get better if she dated Matteo. Oh, a girl can dream.

She focused back on Balsano, who had just received a pep talk from his best friend Gastón, a son of Apollo. It gave Jazmín an idea. “I’ll be right back,” she told her half-sister, not even bothering to wait for her reply.

“Hey, guys, how are you?” she greeted them. “I’m good, very good actually. Matteo not so much. It’s the nerves, you know?” The glare Matteo sent Gastón didn’t stop him from talking. He was more cheery than usual. Her brothers must have been successful with Gastina.

“I love giving advice,” Jazmín said. She really did. Just ask other campers. “Especially love advice,” she added with a grin.

“I don’t need you and your freaky love powers. I want to do this on my own,” Balsano said, crossing his arms. “Clearly, or you would have asked her by now,” Gastón pointed out. Jazmín couldn’t quite decipher on which side he was on. “Listen,” Jazmín tried again, “I only need to give you advice and when she say yes, it’ll get added to my couple number, really, what can it hurt? Just listen, okay?” Matteo sighed, but didn’t disagree. “Okay, be romantic but not too sappy. Finding a good balance is key,” Jazmín already advised.

“You don’t even know if she’ll say yes,“ Matteo remarked. "Please she will.” Gastón nudged him forward. Jazmín was really thankful for Perida right now. "Now, go get her,” he said with enthusiasm. The son of Hermes rolled his eyes, but made his way over to Valente.  

Soon after Jazmín heard Luna’s excited answer. She pulled out her list, a big grin on her face.

Another couple down.

~

Not everyone did have such luck as Jazmín and Eloísa. “I’m pretty sure the Eros cabin tried to sabotage us,” Amaya voiced her suspicion during dinner. Jazmín frowned. She would have a word with their counsellor about that. “But did you get them together?” Alaia wanted to know. “Yes, we almost died, but we did it.” Manuel winced at Amaya’s words. “Well, once Stella and Andrés escape out of the armoury we’re definitely dead.”

“You locked them in?” Alaia asked loudly. “It seemed like the safest option,” Diego explained. “Such a classic move,” was all Jazmín said, sending Eloísa a grin, who just rolled her eyes.

“Hide me,” Diego said all of a sudden, ducking his head. Jazmín moved her head to the entrance of the pavilion, seeing a very angry Stella monitoring towards their table, Andrés just a few steps behind her. Whatever was the reason for his evil grin, she didn’t like it.

The daughter of Lyssa stopped, placing her hand on her table, eyes already murdering Jazmín’s half-brothers. “Any last wishes?” she asked, drawing with her index finger on the wood. It made all the Aphrodite kids uneasy.

“Let’s just get over with it,” Manuel sighed, having accepted whatever would follow already.

“Hm, yes, I could do that. Right now. Oh, but where would be the fun in that? All the anxious waiting would be over. No, I’m not going to do that today. Or tomorrow.” Her smile had become very twisted, it scared Jazmín. “No, I’ll do it when you’ll least expect it. Maybe in a year or two,” she chuckled, “the uncertainty will slowly drive you crazy.”

Satisfied with the shaking sight of Jazmín’s half-brothers, Stella continued talking, “Also no locking people in or trapping them in nets on next Valentine’s day!”

“Wait, that wasn’t us. The trapping people in nets thing, I mean,” her older brother clarified. “Yeah, right,” Stella said, voice full of scepticism. “Stella, they’re saying the truth,” Andrés stated, having heard no deceit in Manuel’s answer.

Confusion slowly replaced the anger on Stella’s face. “But who was it then?” she asked in Andrés’ direction.

“You actually thought the Aphrodite cabin is capable of doing something like that? I’m wounded!” a new voice said behind Stella. Jazmín knew this voice. Her expression darkened. Just what had the son of Eros done?

Stella turned towards Étienne, “Listen here, French fry-“ He interrupted the Italian, which earned him both a murderous look from her and Andrés. Jazmín would have actually squealed at that if this whole situation wasn’t so tense.

“No need to thank me,” the blonde said, “Oh, by the way. They kissed with our plan. So-“ Stella interrupted him this time. “Yes, because we would still hang in the air otherwise,” she hissed.

What exactly had the Eros cabin done to them? Sure, all was fair in love and war, but they had taken it way too far!

“Either way,” Étienne said, turning his head to Jazmín, “You lose!” Jazmín rarely wanted to fight, but right now she really wished she could throw her dagger at Sauveterre. Multiple times.

The Aphrodite kids eyed each other.

This meant war!

[jocelynbass1991]

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