Author's Note:
Disclaimer: Percy Jackson belongs to Rick Riordan.
I've found relatively few stories about Percy's childhood or Sally Jackson fanfictions so I wrote one myself. There will be more chapters to come. Please enjoy!
To Sally Jackson, there are some life changing events of life that you can remember exactly when they happened and how they came to be. One such event was how she first met Poseidon.
Surprisingly, Sally Jackson met both Poseidon and Zeus at the same time at a small stand on the beach of Montauk. She could remember clearly that unlike those sappy romance novels where they claimed that when you met the love of your life, sparks flew and both were instantly in love, what initially caught her eye was the utter spectacle and differences of the two gods' shirts. In her opinion, Poseidon's large Hawaiian shirt was the epitome of obnoxiousness while Zeus's pressed suit on the beach was just against nature. Unfortunately, when Zeus caught her staring, she was quite certain that sparks literally flew when an image of a lightning bolt flickered in his hand.
This, and the fact that the man in the loud shirt was holding a trident, making her feel that they were related to the monsters and odd things she occasionally saw in her life. In the past, whenever the monsters saw her looking at them, they always made a quick getaway, causing her unable to catch them and ask questions. The two men didn't seem to be moving so she watched them and decided to later ask them about her visions while planning how to approach them without seeming like a lunatic or a stalker.
Later, Poseidon would claim that she was in luck, because his invite to Zeus on the beach had almost caused World War Three and he was much too irritated to think straight. Sally's version would be that when Zeus left in a huff, Poseidon was just trying to find a way to irritate Zeus, and what better way than to reveal to a clear sighted mortal the world of the Greek gods?
Whatever the real reason, she and Poseidon both know that that conversation changed the fate of the world, (quite literally). Amused conversations transformed into long walks along the beach, and before she knew it, Sally had caught a glimpse of the Great Prophesy. Unfortunately or fortunately, by that time, Sally knew that she was already carrying the most Illegal Baby in the World.
Unlike their first encounter, Poseidon was thinking straight, and he decided that he couldn't let her fate be the same as Hades's old lover Maria di Angelo, so he reluctantly told her the truth and had to feel resigned for watching Sally's life from the sidelines. Yet, to Sally's credit, she bore it remarkably well.
Later in life, when they met again, Hawaiian T-shirts would always be an amusing tie between them.
Author's Note:
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