Poseidon's POV:
~14 years ago~
Lately I've been having nightmares about monsters going after Sally and my 3 year old son, Percy. So tonight, I'm going to visit them once Amphitrite falls asleep.
~Later that night~
Unfortunately for me, tonight just happened to be one of those nights where Amphitrite gets massive headaches and couldn't fall asleep. So I waited and waited until finally she fell asleep at 2:20 a.m. I quietly got out of bed and got changed. Before I left, I took quick glance back at Amphitrite and sighed. I kind of felt guilty for doing this, but then again I've been unfaithful to her for centuries before so I don't think she'll mind this time. With that, I left to see Percy.
Amphitrite's POV:
When is Poseidon going to sleep? I mentally screamed in my head. I faked having a headache and stayed up till 2:00 a.m. and he still won't go to sleep! I need to go check on my daughter, Aerie before she wakes up. Finally, after I pretended to sleep, Poseidon fell asleep as well-Wait a second! He's not going to sleep, he just got up. I slowly opened my eyes halfway and saw that he was changing into mortal clothes. What is he doing? Suddenly after he was done changing , he turned toward me. I quickly shut my eyes and hope he didn't see me closing them. I heard him sigh and soon after a few seconds that felt like years, he left.
I slowly opened my eyes and thought over what just happened. The clothes that Poseidon had put on, it looked like he was going to meet someone. That must be why he didn't fall asleep earlier. He was waiting for ME to fall asleep! I pushed those thoughts aside and focused on Aerie. I got up and went over to Triton's used-to-be baby room.
Poseidon's POV:
I yawned as I teleported back to my underwater palace. Two seconds later I was back in my room. I was about to change until suddenly I noticed that Amphitrite was gone! All of a sudden, questions started forming in my head. Where did she go? Omg, did someone kidnap her? Oh no, I need to go rescue her no- Whoa stop right there Poseidon. Amphitrite's pretty strong herself, she's probably somewhere in the palace.
Therefore, I decided to go search the palace. I went to the rooms where Amphitrite usually was, but she wasn't in any of those rooms. I was about to give up until I saw light in Triton's old baby room. No one's been there for centuries, yet why is someone there now? As I got closer I heard voices. "You did what?" Yelled one of the voices. It was Triton. I figured I should listen a bit more before I step in.
"Shh," shushed the other voice. It was Amphitrite! What's she doing? "You're too loud!"
"I don't care! You just cheated on father!" shouted Triton. What? I couldn't take it anymore.
I stepped into the room and bellowed, "What is going on here, Amphitrite?" Amphitrite jumped back in surprise. She was holding a baby girl wrapped in cloth. She had pitch black hair and pale skin. The strange thing was that she looked just like…Amphitrite. Triton on the other hand looked all worn out, he probably did extra training. Both of them were silent. I got annoyed and asked, "Well?"
That snapped them back to their senses. Amphitrite tried to explain, but Triton beat her to it. "Mother has cheated on you, father."
I turned to Amphitrite. "Is this true?" Amphitrite avoided my eyes and looked away.
Once again Triton spoke for her. "Of course it's true, this is proof," he pointed to the baby in Amphitrite's arms.
"Amphitrite, look at me. Why? You never seemed to be interested in mortals."
Amphitrite turned and murmured, "The same exact reason why you cheated on me thousands of times before."
"When was this?"
"It was when you to help redesign the forges for the Cyclops." I felt a little hurt that she did all that when I was gone, but I don't blame her I mean it's not like I've never cheated before. I also felt a little sad that Amphitrite has felt this every single time I cheated. I looked at Amphitrite's child and thought about how much she'd hate me if I killed her child.
"Amphitrite," She looked up and I gave her a reassuring smile, " I'll let your child live." Amphitrite's eyes beamed with happiness and gave me a hug. Since she was holding a baby, it was an one arm hug.
Triton, however wasn't happy with my decision and yelled, "Why?"
I answered in a calm voice, " I've always cheated on Amphitrite and she didn't do anything except for Scylla but other than that she never did anything. Why should I do something then?" Triton looked taken aback and didn't say anything. "Well, I believe this matter is done now, I think we should all go back to bed now, it's almost 3."
"Wait," Amphitrite stopped me.
"What is it?"
"Can she stay here for the next 3 years?"
I raised an eyebrow, "You want her to live here? Amphitrite nodded. "But isn't that dangerous? The more she knows, the stronger her scent will be."
"True, but if she already knows, then she'll be more ready when monsters attack. Besides I don't want to lie to her."
I sighed, "All right she can stay here, but ONLY for 3 years."
"Thank you!" Amphitrite came up and gave me a peck on the cheek.
"So, I'm guessing she'll be staying in this room?" Amphitrite nodded. "Well then, like I've said before, it's late now we should go to bed no-"
"WAIT! You guys are just going to decide all this without me? You're ignoring your own actual son?" Triton interrupted.
Amphitrite and I exchanged glances and said, "Yes?"
Triton gasped, "But isn't this against Zeus's law? And this is MY room, you can't just take it."
We all turned to look at Amphitrite. "Zeus says it's fine since I'm not as strong as other gods and goddesses so Aerie won't attract that much monsters and about living here, he says it's up to Poseidon," she looked at me, "to decide."
"And, your room is in MY palace, I can do whatever I want with this place," I reasoned.
"But-" Triton got cut off by the baby. She started crying. Immediately, Amphitrite started to rock her and kept saying, "Shh."
"Here let me try," I offered. Amphitrite gave me a doubtful look, but gave the baby over to me. But that only made it worse. She didn't seem to like me at all. She kept wiggling and then she got out of the cloth and swam over to Triton and hugged him. Triton's eyes looked as if they were about to pop out and awkwardly wrapped his arms around her. Right away, all of her crying stopped.
There was an awkward silence in the air. Finally I broke the silence by saying, " Well, it seems like your baby prefers Triton over us."
Amphitrite smirked, " Yes, it sure does seem that way, maybe we should have Triton be Aerie's babysitter."
"What? No!" Triton immediately refused.
Amphitrite cocked her head and asked, "Why not? You saw how easily she stopped crying, you'd make a great babysitter for Aerie. Besides, I bet you actually think Aerie's pretty cute and you're just jealous."
It seems like Amphitrite hit the jackpot, Triton's face started to redden. "N-n-no," Triton stuttered. Then, Triton sighed and shook his head. " I give up, you guys win," Triton threw his hands in the air.
Amphitrite and I laughed at Triton's actions. Suddenly I noticed that where the baby's legs should be, there was a tail! I looked at Amphitrite and pointed at her baby, "Um why does she have a tail?"
Amphitrite looked over to where I was pointing, " Oh, she only gets a tail when she's underwater. When she's on land she has feet, but if she ever gets really mad or when she uses her powers, her skin turns light green scales. But I think whether or not she gets a tail every time she goes in water is her choice."
"Is that one of the reasons why you want to keep her? To teach her how to control her powers?" I asked. Amphitrite nodded.
"Like Poseidon has said twice before, let's all go to bed. Can I have Aerie, Triton?" Triton handed over the baby to Amphitrite. Wait, Amphitrite said hang over Aerie and Triton handed over the baby. The baby's name is Aerie!
To make sure I asked, "Her name's Aerie?"
Amphitrite almost dropped Aerie. "Poseidon," Amphitrite says my name as if she were trying to teach a dumb kid how to add 1+1, " I've been calling her Aerie over 3 times, of course her name is Aerie!"
"Hey! I just wanted to make sure!"
"Sure you were," Amphitrite rolled her eyes as she placed Aerie down on Triton's old crib.
Finally, we all went to bed.
Not a very good ending I know sorry. Anyways, thank you those who read this far! :) Sorry if I made Triton OOC...if he even has a character, but for those of you who think he is OOC, if both of you parents cheated on each other wouldn't that make you feel jealous of their other child or make you feel like an unwanted child? Makes sense doesn't it? No? Well this is how I imagined how he'd react. Anyways, how was the story? Good? Bad? Please review, this is my first Fanfic story so it'll really mean a lot.
