Divine Children
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“What in all the seas has gotten into you?” Poseidon demanded.
Zeus didn’t even bother with preamble.
“I lost the baby.”
Silence. Actual silence. Echoing, cavernous, stunned silence.
Poseidon blinked. Then blinked again, as if waiting for the punchline.
“…You what?” he said slowly, as though his brain refused to process the statement.
“Hebe.” Zeus said, gripping his own temples. “Gone. Vanished. Evaporated into the void.”
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Hebe has just learned how to walk and bolts away while Zeus is asleep. Zeus and Poseidon go searching for her before Hera finds out what happened. Hades gets involved.Series
- Part 19 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
- Part 1 of Divine Children
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Ares And The Helmet by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
26 Nov 2025
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Hera went first. She lifted the helmet the tiniest fraction of an inch.
Ares’s eyes flew open. He shot upright with the speed of a startled hare, hands flying to his head in frantic panic. “Hel—? Hel—?? HELMET???” he gasped, patting wildly until he felt bronze again. The second his fingers touched metal, he relaxed so completely he practically melted back into the blankets, snored once, and went limp.
Zeus rubbed his face. “I’ll try later.”
In the darkest hours of the night, Zeus moved in with all the stealth of a master thief. He reached. He lifted.
Ares bolted awake so violently Zeus nearly dropped the entire helmet.
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Toddler Ares finds a helmet, that is most definetly not coming off.Series
- Part 18 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
- Part 2 of Divine Children
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Chaos At The Council by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
19 Nov 2025
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He did not look up as the gods filed in, though his jaw tightened ominously.
Finally, he cleared his throat.
“We will…”He inhaled. Then exhaled. “…ignore them.”
Silence.
Pure, unanimous disbelief radiated through the room.
Aphrodite raised a single brow. Athena looked like she had just witnessed a strategic impossibility. Hermes mouthed the words no we won’t to Apollo, who snorted so loudly Zeus opened one eye in warning.
But despite their doubts, every god instinctively understood the stakes.
Rule One: Do not upset Hera’s children.
Rule Two: Do not upset Zeus’s children.
Rule Three: For the love of all things holy, do not make either of them cry.
Rule Four: Don’t even look directly at them. They sense fear.
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Hera leaves Olympus for a day, Zeus has to attend the council, but Ares and Hebe decides to follow him as well. With two toddlers on the loose chaos ensues.Series
- Part 15 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
- Part 3 of Divine Children
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In the Shadow of Thunder by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably for Yelena_Natasha_Loki, MischiefSimpin
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
17 Nov 2025
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“You ran from me?”
No accusation. No booming thunder of betrayal. Just a man trying to understand why his son looked at him like a ghost in the doorway.
Ares felt Hera’s hand sweep once through his hair, grounding him, silently reminding him he didn’t have to answer. But he couldn’t stop his chest from tightening. Couldn’t stop the shame pooling warm and awful under his ribs.
He didn’t want to run. He didn’t want to be afraid. But the dream clung stubbornly to him, whispering that it had been true, that he was too much, too sharp, too shaped by war in ways Zeus would always judge.He pressed closer into Hera, hiding half his face in the folds of her robe.
Zeus’s expression changed. Just a flicker.
Something small and pained, like a crack spreading across stone. He blinked it away almost immediately — the king of the gods did not wear hurt so openly — but Hera saw it.
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Ares has a nightmare involving his father and their complicated dynamics, he runs to Hera's room for comfort to find Zeus there as well. The family has a small heart to heart conversation.Series
- Part 14 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
- Part 4 of Divine Children
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A Lazy Afternoon (All Is Well In Olympus, For Once) by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
05 Dec 2025
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Hebe stared up at them, eyes wide and bright as little moons. Hera traced a fingertip along her daughter’s cheek, marveling at how warm and new her skin was. Zeus gently tapped her tiny foot, pretending to be shocked when she kicked him. Hebe squealed at that, thrilled to be the center of everything.
It was a lazy afternoon—quiet, slow, unhurried.
And woven through the gentleness was something deeper, something soft on the edges and heavy with meaning. A sense that this child, this tiny late born daughter, had changed the entire rhythm of their lives.
She had arrived long, long after the chaos. After the wars and betrayals, after the storms they’d both created and endured. There had been peace before her—but not this kind.
This was a different peace.
A warm, low tide peace. A hearth instead of thunder. Something tender that neither of them had expected anymore, especially not together.
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Zeus and Hera spends a lazy afternoon with their 5 month old daughter Hebe. Warm scenes of trying to teach a baby to sit, feed a fruit for the first time and play. It's good to start a new peaceful era.Series
- Part 21 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
- Part 5 of Divine Children