A.N. Ok. I was looking around on here and I noticed a lot of people were writing about Sally's reaction to Percy's phone call from Alaska. Most of them were pretty good and I was going to do one too, but then I was thinking about it and I completely changed my mind because all of a sudden I started wondering about Paul's reaction.
This was originally meant to be a one-shot about the phone call itself, but then I wondered about his reaction to the whole disappearing problem, so voila. My brainchild.
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Disclaimer: Because yeah, Rick Riordan is totally a teenage girl living in the Southeast.
"Mom! Where is that thingy?"
Paul suppressed a smile as he watched his wife sigh and roll her eyes at her son's question.
"Percy, you're going to have to be a little more descriptive."
"It was round and bronze and had all those design thingies on the outside."
When she didn't answer he sighed in exasperation.
"You know, Tyson made it for me last month. He brought it here, told you not to touch it…"
"Oh, that thing? It was under the couch last I saw."
Paul could hear his stepson's feet as they moved from his bedroom to the living-room, a moment later he heard a triumphant shout.
"Got it!"
Paul got up from his seat at the kitchen table and moved around next to Sally, where she was mixing cookie dough in preparation for Percy's departure for camp.
"You are a genius you know that?" He told her.
She scoffed, but he smiled, wiping flour from her cheek.
"I know three languages, and even I couldn't interpret that whole conversation."
"You haven't been living with him as long as I have." She answered back.
"True."
Percy burst into the kitchen, snagged a cookie off of the pan and ran back to his room, juggling it between hands in an attempt to cool it off.
"Percy!" She called after him, shaking her batter covered spoon at his retreating back.
Paul chuckled and pulled a lump of cookie dough out of the bowl, dodging the swat she aimed at him.
"I swear, both of you are just big babies. I ought to bring out ye old hickory switch."
Her face did not match her words though; she was smiling from ear-to-ear.
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