Gabe had had a bad feeling in his heart all day and hadn't known the reason why.  When he received the iris call from his sister, he had a feeling he was about to find out why.  He was happy she was back at camp but worried about what this news could be and was slightly happy that he at least had some good news to tell her.  He made a quick check in on the kids and Apollo, letting them know he was headed out before disappearing to camp.

Gabe appeared outside the hunters cabin, not wanting to surprise any of the girls with his appearance there.  He knew most of the girls already and smiled past the queasy feeling in his stomach as he passed them, looking for his sister.  He hugged her when he saw her, taking note of her red eyes as he did so and the feeling of dread grew stronger in him.  He rubbed her back softly as he spoke, "it's good to see you Spence", he said, pulling back slightly to look at her eyes again.  "What has happened?", he asked her, taking a seat on her bed, his hand subconsciously resting over his stomach even though he was barely showing.

Spencer took a deep breath moving over and taking a seat next to him taking his hands in hers she held them tightly she let out a shuddering breath before starting to talk. “I thought long and hard over the past month on how to tell you, I wasn’t prepared to tell you over the phone like I was told so I had to wait till now to tell you.” She rambled on her eyes filling with tears. “It’s about Phryne, gods there is no easy way to say this, she’s dead.” She managed to get out before tears started to pour down her face as she clutched at his hands she somehow manages to get the rest out between sobs and sniffles. “She was driving home from her workshop and a drunk driver hit her, she was dead straight away, she didn’t suffer.”

“I…I couldn’t just call you understand that right? I couldn’t not be here to comfort you when you got the news like what happened with me please don’t hate me for keeping it from you, I never meant to I just thought it would be better this way, well not better easier, more comforting I don’t know.” She still hadn’t managed to stifle her sobs or tears which flowed freely down her face.

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It took a moment for Spencer's words to sink in for Gabe and he felt tears sting his eyes and roll down his cheeks. He wrapped his arms around his sister and held her close. He couldn't hate her for holding it back, but he didn't trust himself to speak with his voice breaking. He held her as they both cried for a moment before he found what he wanted to say. "I understand Spencer. I'm glad you did", he replied, his voice ruff from the tears. He wasn't sure he really was but he knew she needed to hear it.

Tears still ran down his face as he pulled back from her a bit. He felt like part of himself had gone with his sister and felt anger at the idiot who had taken her from them. She had been gone a month and he hadn't even realised. He should have known. He should have been keeping better contact with her and knew he would regret that now.

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Spencer started crying louder feeling relieved that she hadn’t lost the love of her only living sibling. She wished that she would have been able to come back early but it hadn’t happened. She slowly stopped crying her tears finally all cried out. She sniffled and rubbed her face moving back a bit, thinking about what they had to organise she almost started crying again. “How have you been?” She asked with another sniffle, rubbing her face again. “Let’s talk about something else, please, I just I can’t right now, How are the kids? Let us talk about them instead I know it’s a lot to take in but we should get our mind of it think about happier times like her first art showing? Or the time we pranked the headmaster by making his hair blue and got caught because Phryn got it all over her hands and had blue hands for a month?” She asked actually managing to giggle at the thought of old Mrs Handson with her blue hair. “What do you remember most about her? I remember most the pictures that she has drawn for me they are all over the walls, and it still feels like she is here.”

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Gabe laughed slightly at the memory of their headmaster with blue hair and how hard he had tried to convince her that his sisters blue hands where from a art class incident. He wished he could say the thing he remembered most was a good memory like one of Spencer's, but the main things that came to mind right now where all the stupid fights he had had with her over the years. He couldn't really say that though, knowing his sister would take that as a bad sign. His mind turned to one of the few times his sister had seen his on and a smile crossed his face. "Gale's second birthday. Watching her sit with him and draw", he replied, it was a simple memory but it had showed him how much she had loved his son and he knew it was a memory he would keep.

"But your right we need to remember the good things and if you think it's okay, I might have another way for us to be able to honour her memory", he replied. He wasn't sure this was the right time to tell her his news but if he waited for that he may be waiting a few weeks now. "I just found out I am pregnant with twin girls", he replied, a small smile on his lips that felt wrong considering everything else.

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“OMG!” She squealed wrapping her arms around him and hugging him tightly feeling ecstatic two more nieces to spoil rotten holding him tightly for a few more moments before letting him go, while her sadness was not gone having something so positive to focus on meant the world to her. She started to think about what he had meant about honouring Phryne her eyes lit up when she caught on to what he was saying. “You want to name one of the babies Phryne.” She says softly her eyes sparkling with tears which she wiped them away at least this time it was happy tears mixed with a few sad her brother was the most giving person she knew and if anyone deserved to have been made into a god it was Gabe with or without being married to Apollo, the twin of her Lady Artemis. She hoped this time she had enough down time between quests that she could hang out with her nieces and nephews. “Ohh Gabe you are truly amazing, I think Phryne would be… would have been over joyed to know that you named one of your children after her, even if it’s just a middle or hyphenated name like Emma-Phryne, Sara-Phryne.”

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Gabe jumped slightly when Spencer squealed, having not expected it. He nodded slightly to her, "I think just Phryne would be nice. Me a Phryne may not always have been close but I loved her and I will miss her", he replied honestly. He sighed when he realised he put them back onto a sad topic again. He thought of how many of his sister paintings he had around his home. He had always been proud of her work. "Of course I will have to check with Apollo though to and the kids don't even know about the twins yet. We only found out today", he continued, his mind muddled between the good and the bad. He knew that he would one day see Phryne die, but he had never expected it to be so soon. She had only been 23 and doing so well in her career. Gabe whipped his eyes on the back of his hand as he felt more tears fall.

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“Ohh Gabe she knew that you loved her and you were getting closer, since she started getting less volatile.” She tells him giving him a hug when he started to cry helping him to wipe away the tears. “I think just Phryne is a lovely name, I’m sure Apollo will agree after all he named Gale after you, so I’m sure he’ll be fine with naming one of your little ones after Phryne, maybe she’ll inherit Phryne’s skill with art, she was amazing, I was jealous you know.” She told him rubbing his back. “We had this major argument over the fact that she was going to be an artist and not anything to do with what anything serious because I really wanted to the arty one, but I really sucked at it, she chucked it in my face when I told her and we didn’t speak for almost a year when I almost died and she came and told me that we had been through too much to let something as little as me having no art skills.” She says with a bitter sweet smile she had realised that her sister was right something so small shouldn’t have come between them.

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Gabe was grateful for her support and was glad that she had left it to tell him in person. He wasn't sure he would cope otherwise. He nodded, he knew Apollo would do anything for him, after all he had almost died once to save him from Ares. The memory of his sisters art skills brought a smile to his face. He remembered all the pieces of hers he had around his home and he knew she had sold many others. She would never be lost through her artwork. "I am glad the two of you made up over that. Though I must say if I had of know I would have had to tell you both off for being so stupid", he replied. Although he knew he couldn't talk after all the little arguments he had had with their sister. "I hope one of my kids does get her talents. I always was envious of it to. There isn't much of true interest in numbers, though I try to prove to my classes differently."

"I can't stand numbers." She jokes with a little smile. "She was the lucky one I guess, but over the years I've come to realize that there is beauty in every talent, like languages, I now see that there is an art to speaking another language, the way it rolls off the tongue, the beauty that you can articulate through words, such as poems and stories are just as beautiful as the arts. I never got to tell her I felt this way, that I was no longer envious because I had my own art to give to the world. I should have told her but I put it off because I was always going to quests for Artemis." She says bursting into tears. "I wasted so much time with her and now I can never get that time back." She says getting it out between sobs.

Gabriel nodded, "I never understood your language thing until I became a god and it was one of my powers. Getting used to the fact that I could understand and speak to you in languages other then English and Greek took some getting used to", he replied with small smile at the memories. He pulled closer and wrapped his arms around he as she cried. "I think she knew. I think she always knew you would work that out. She loved the languages almost as much as you did and I know she never held it against you that you where always away", he continued, while rubbing her back comfortingly.

"You really think so?" She asked sniffling a little and rubbing her eyes wincing when it stung her eyes. "I don't want her to have died thinking I hated her I don't think I could live with that." She tells him, looking away feeling ashamed of her actions back then that meant that she hadn't spoken to her in too long and Phrine having died before she told her she was sorry, she choked a bit before whimpering her eyes welling up again she wanted her back so that she would know for sure that she would be forgiven because no matter what Gabriel said she didn't know if Phrine would actually had forgiven her.