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When I'm Awfully Low, When The World Is Cold (I Will Feel A Glow Just Thinking Of You) by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
17 Dec 2025
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“Hey.” he says softly. “Do you… need a hand?”
Hera doesn’t even look up at first. She’s trying to talk and soothe and juggle all at once, and she answers out of pure reflex.
“No, no, I’m fine— I’ve got it— I just need to—”Her bag slips at the worst possible moment.
The strap slides down her shoulder, yanking her balance. Hephaestus gives a miserable hiccup and starts wailing harder, that baby sharp cry that slices through bone. Ares sways, his small hand losing its hold on her leg for a heartbeat. Hera gasps and shifts to catch him—
It all happens at once.Her sentence dies. Her composure wavers.
The exhaustion wins.
She lets out one thin, defeated exhale. And nods.
“Okay. Yes. Please.”
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Zeus, a single father to Athena, meets Hera — a single mother of two, Ares and Hephaestus — in a hospital while she’s struggling to juggle her kids and a heavy bag. He helps her, and… well, the rest is history.Series
- Part 22 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
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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
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A Quiet Evening in the Royal Chambers by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
03 Dec 2025
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Hera finished the final stitch with a tiny flourish — pulling the thread through, tightening it, smoothing it flat with her thumb. Zeus watched her hands with a kind of reverence that would’ve embarrassed him if he’d been aware of it. But he wasn’t. He was just… proud. Softly, helplessly proud.
“It’s done.” she murmured, lifting the blanket a little.
He leaned closer. “It’s beautiful.”
She folded it carefully, then paused, looking down at her belly beneath her hands. “I wonder,” she said softly, “what he’ll think of us.”
Zeus blinked, surprised by the question.
She continued, voice gentle but threaded with vulnerability, “We’re not… simple people. We’re not easy. Too fierce, too many sharp edges.” Her hand drifted over her stomach in a slow circle. “I hope he sees more than that.”
Zeus studied her for a long moment, something tender flickering across his face.
“I hope,” he said quietly, “that he feels loved.”
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A quiet night with Zeus and Hera, pregnant with their first child. Warm and honest conversations between two hopeful soon to be parents.Series
- Part 20 of Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s
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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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Hera/Zeus Oneshots,Fic,Au’s by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Iliad - Homer
17 Dec 2025
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Bunch of Zeus/Hera fics!
Cloud and Crown/The Wooden Bride/ The Arrow And The Crown/Olympian Board Games/Where Thunder Sleeps/In The Shadow of Thunder/Chaos At The Council/The First Wedding Of The Universe/The Unmaking of A Myth/Ares And The Helmet/Lost & Found: Mythological ones that stick to canon universes! The rest are au's. More will definitely come soon, they are in the works. Enjoy!
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Divine Children by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
05 Dec 2025
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Zeus has been trying to be a better father lately. All the years of ruling his kids before raising them are catching up to him, and despite his chronic inability to show love, things are not going as bad as they could've.
Which is why he decided to give his son a late night visit after one too many thoughts telling him to.
Bookmarked by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
11 Nov 2025
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Feathers of a corpse - Maybe your father did love you by Yelena_Natasha_Loki for tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
20 Nov 2025
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This is a shit idea I had randomly w my amazing friend 😔 (I think I can call her friend)
WAIT I FORGOT THIS IS A SUMMARY.
It's a fic where Zeus made the first “Angel” for Ares and how it changed meaning :)
Bookmarked by tryingtowriteandfailingmiserably
28 Nov 2025