So I've read a lot of Mortals meet and Paul meets demigods and percabeth stories and I really like them, but none of them really focus on Sally. Sally is one of the biggest unsong heroes of the PJO books and I get it, Rick Riordan doesn't have the space to write whats going on behind the scenes at home, and what is happening between quests and when Percy is at home for the school year.
This story is going to be Sally's perspective on when she meets the Demigods, some of which will be multiple occurences some will only be one time things. Anyway I thought it was a fresh take on the Demigods in the mortal world.
I don't own Percy Jackson, or any of the plots and/or characters affiliated with the book series. I hope you enjoy, and would love feedback.
Sally's POV
I was in the kitchen washing some dishes when I heard the front door open, I thought it was a little odd since Paul shouldn't be home for another couple of hours, and Percy, well Percy hasn't been seen in what was it 6 months now. I miss my baby so much. I shook myself wondering if it was a monster, what kind it was, the human kind or the mythical. "Mom I'm home!" was yelled from the entry hall. It wasn't in the voice I was expecting it sounded like it had a bit of a Hispanic accent, but I dropped the glass I was washing anyway, and it shattered on the floor. Who else would call me mom? I rounded the corner at a dead sprint hearing the sound of skin to skin contact and was disappointed by what I saw.
Annabeth was staring daggers at a scrawny Latino kid who was holding the side of his face, whisper yelling at him, "She hasn't seen her son in 6 months and you're going to come in here yelling that. What the Hades is wrong with you?" My heart almost broke completely finding out it wasn't him, Annabeth looked at me and had the same hurt I assume was in my eyes shadowed back to me. "I'm sorry Mrs. Ja…Sally" she corrected making me smile a little despite my disappointment; it was taking forever to get her to call me Sally. "This is Leo; his head is full of Minotaur dung so he doesn't think much before he speaks."
"What, everyone at camp says she's the camp mom what do you expect me to call her? Besides you're the one who dragged me here anyway." He said back to Annabeth. It warmed my heart to know that not just Percy and Annabeth saw me as a mother figure but the whole camp as well. Over the years I had met many of the campers and the mother in me couldn't help but love them and try to take care of them the best they would let me.
I led them both into the kitchen and immediately busied myself with making them a sandwich for lunch. "It's fine dear you know you and any of your friends are always welcome." I told Annabeth, I'd even gotten her a key after finding her curled up in Percy's bed one night in one of his hoodies with the window broken. The two of us had bonded over the past 6 months and I looked forward to her one or two visits a week to keep the feeling of Percy close. After all she cared about him just as much if not more than I did, which is saying something. "It's odd of you to not come alone though," I turned to Leo and gave him a motherly smile while filling up a glass of lemonade for him, "not that I mind you being here sweetheart, it's just different is all."
I handed them both a sandwich and sat down at the table with them. "Your lemonade is blue" was the first thing he said to me staring intently at the glass nervously.
"Yes it is, I've also been told it's quite delicious." I answered, "So to what do I owe the pleasure of this different visit." I asked looking at Annabeth, but before she could answer I saw Leo take a drink and break out in a huge grin.
"Wow this really is delicious. As to the visit, Well," Leo started, "brainiac here got us both kicked out of camp until dinner time because she wouldn't take a break on building the Argo and ratted me out for not taking one either. It's just I know I can fix it, the hull is perfect and I've gone over the specs a thousand times," Annabeth huffed, "Fine, we've gone over the specs a thousand times and it all should be fine but it just won't fly." He rapid fired it at me so fast, that I thought this kid was a perfect poster child for ADHD and that's coming from Percy's mom.
Annabeth gave me an apologetic look, "Sorry, machine gun mouth here is an acquired taste. What he meant to say was that he is the one that designed and is building the ship we are going to use to fly across the country and save Percy in. I figured that you would want an update and I'm proud to say that we'll be leaving in two days if Valdez here can fix the problem." I leapt to my feet and hugged Annabeth tight before crushing a surprised Leo in one right after.
"What's not to like about him Annabeth, he's bringing our boy home." I let a few tears slip as I hugged Annabeth again and sat back down.
We sat back down and talked for another hour or so, before Leo let out a huge yawn shaking his head and blinking several times to keep himself awake. "Oh how thoughtless of me," I chastised myself, "keeping you awake with all my stories. Why don't you go into the other room and take a nap, I know it's been working to save my son that's kept you up for so long." Leo didn't even say anything as he got up to go into the other room, which from the short time I've known him was very surprising, his mouth was always running.
Annabeth looked dead on her feet as well but before I could tell her to go lie down as well she beat me to it, "I'm sorry to leave you alone in here with nobody to talk to Sally, but now that I'm away from camp and the Argo II I'm about to collapse I'm so tired. Would you mind if I went and took a nap as well."
"Of course not sweetheart you know you can always feel at home here." I told her and there was the sound of a door opening and Leo's voice traveled down the hall, "Of course his room is blue" followed by a laugh.
Annabeth was on her feet and out of the room quicker than I've ever seen her move. "Don't you dare go in his bed Leo Valdez; I don't want you messing up that smell." That had me smiling she was definitely going to be my daughter-in-law one day.
"Piper is gonna love to hear about this," Leo laughed out. I again heard the sound of skin connecting with skin. Boys, they never learn.
"If you so much as whisper a word about what happened here to anyone I will skin you alive." She whisper yelled at him in a voice I'd heard about from Percy as her scary threat voice. I had to admit it was just as scary as Percy said it was. I heard him gulp and then I heard a door shut followed by several steps and the sound of the couch springs compressing. I glanced into the living room to see Leo out cold lying on my couch. I quickly walked to the closet and grabbed an extra quilt to throw over him while he slept. It felt good to finally take care of somebody again; it made me feel more like a mother.
After about 3 hours I was in the kitchen preparing some dinner when I heard him shout from the living room. "Holy Hephaestus that's it. Annabeth get your blonde booty in here." I heard the door open and Annabeth storm into the living room as I too wondered into the doorway wondering what was going on. "What did I tell you about thinking about, looking at, or referring to my 'booty' in anyway shape or form." She growled.
"Oh, calm down Einstein I figured out why it won't fly." Annabeth and I both perked up at this her irritation with the boy seeming to disappear. "It's all about the intake capillaries and the jet stream flux modulator. I made them out of steel trying to save weight, but they need to be made out of Celestial Bronze, otherwise they won't collaborate with any of the magic properties that are needed to provide proper lift." He turned and looked at me "Thank you for everything Mrs. Jackson maybe the rest was all I needed to figure out the problem with the flight problems."
"It was my pleasure dear come back anytime." I said pulling him into a hug as he headed to the door. I handed him a box, "These are some of my famous blue chocolate chip cookies. Don't let anyone at camp know that you have them, especially not Clarisse or the Stolls or you won't get to eat any of them. Please bring back my son." I added and nodded.
I said goodbye to Annabeth and hugged her as well telling her now that the problem was fixed to go and get our boy back. They were walking out the door about to close it behind them when Leo stopped and shot his head back in the door, "Oh yeah I almost forgot to tell you your TV is now HD and you get all the channels you could possibly want through your cable box." He winked at me then got a scared expression on his face. "Oh and I'm sorry about the burn mark on your couch it kinda happens when I get excited or over anxious" and as he said this his hair lit on fire and I started. "Don't worry" he quickly reassured me, "happens all the time. They were right you know. You really are the best second mom any of us at camp could ask for." And with that Leo Valdez shut the door and left me alone, smiling in spite of everything.
It wasn't as good as it seemed like it would be in my head. I'm currently working on Annabeth's and Piper's chapters as those are two of my favorite characters and are around Sally more often, especially in Annabeth's case, they will be significantly longer, and have multiple scenes in them as opposed to this which had only one. I will say that I am liking how they are turning out a lot better than this one. In Annabeth's chapter I plan on revisiting her break in scene mentioned in this story. This isn't the last you will see of Leo but I just can't capture him well enough when he is the focal point of the chapter so I'm going to leave him as a background character.
Anyway I'd love to get some feedback and see what you thought of it, I know its not my best but I'm going to continue and hopefully it'll get a lot better as she starts to meet other characters.
