Second Yuletide fic. I actually dressed up as Athena for Halloween when I was 10, so I guess I'm a fan from way back. :)
( It’s hard being right all the time, Athena thought. She knew perfectly well that if Olympus ran the way it really should, Zeus would be the one standing around and expected to look pretty for the sculptors while she would be in charge. But no, the Fates decided the whole world should be run by a guy who had the worst case of teenage hormones ever seen in an immortal being, plus a temper than flared up over the stupidest things: the wrong color heifer in a hecatomb, for example. )
( It’s hard being right all the time, Athena thought. She knew perfectly well that if Olympus ran the way it really should, Zeus would be the one standing around and expected to look pretty for the sculptors while she would be in charge. But no, the Fates decided the whole world should be run by a guy who had the worst case of teenage hormones ever seen in an immortal being, plus a temper than flared up over the stupidest things: the wrong color heifer in a hecatomb, for example. )