Hi! This is my first one shot so I hope you enjoy :D Disclaimer! I own nothing, It's all Rick Riordan!
Saoirse24 Xx
If,
That one simple, small word added to another can create a completely different meaning to a sentence.
The word 'What' added to 'If' can become a sentence that can burry itself deep into your mind until it's all you think about. It's a simple sentence that can change everything; they mean something and can make a simple question spiral out of control until it is the most important thing in your everyday life, trying to answer this question.
For sally Jackson that question had become a part of her daily life a long time ago.
'Would Percy Jackson-my son- live till he was sixteen?'
She worried about him every day, more so since he had started camp half blood.
He was constantly on quests, saving the world and making a few more enemies each time, getting himself hurt.
Once upon a time things in her life had been a lot less stressful, safer and relaxed.
He'd only been a baby then though, he hadn't known who he was so there hadn't been the constant danger of monsters coming to kill him.
The older he got though the more in danger he got himself into.
And then he turned sixteen.
Sally had never felt more stressed in her life. Not when he was traveling halfway across the world to save his friends or when he'd disappeared after blowing up a mountain.
That day she'd woken up in a car surrounded on all sides by a war zone, fought monsters with a shotgun and agued with an obnoxious man who wouldn't give her the key to the damn 600th floor!
But then he'd strutted in the room with that confident swagger of his, cut and bruised but alive.
And that was all that mattered.
He'd run of again of course, more times than she could count but she'd learnt that day that she couldn't keep putting an if on everything. She had to have a little faith in her amazing son and trust that in the end he would be ok.
And hopefully he would be.
Hope you liked :D