I've always wondered what was the relationship like between Sally Jackson and Poseidon. I mean, we all know bits and pieces of it from Percy, but what was it really like? My take on the love story that started it all. Let me know what your thoughts are, thanks!
alidei
Dear Poseidon
Sally Jackson has always loved Poseidon. Even when they parted, even when she gave birth to Percy, even when she married Gabe. She's never lost touch of Poseidon, either. Read her letters to the sea god about life, work, Percy, and her love.
Chapter 1 (Prologue)
He had offered her a place in the ocean. He had offered a palace that would be built for her, for a queen. In his eyes, she was everything he loved. Yes, he loved Amphitrite, but she was different. Not just because she was a mortal, not just because she could see through the Mist, but because she was unique.
Poseidon, god of the sea and horses, the Earth shaker, was in love with a mortal named Sally Jackson.
She loved him. She loved him through and through. But they had to part. She felt saddened by this, and when he had offered her a life in the ocean, she was heavily tempted to say yes. Is it every day where you get proposed by the god of the ocean to live with him in his palace?
Then she thought about it. She wanted to be independent, yes. She also wanted to be with him. It was a one or the other decision. When she chose, she weighed life against love. In the end, she chose life. Her decision had torn both of them, but she stood her ground, no matter how hard she was breaking inside.
Every day, she remembered that day. She remembered his heart broken face, and how he tried to compose himself afterwards. But Poseidon's façade was too easy to see. He hugged her, buried his head in her short, cropped brown hair, and when he left, his scent lingered. She cried. He moped.
From that day, when they parted, she wrote a letter to him. They could no longer continue what they had, she told him. But he could still love her. And almost every day, Sally Jackson would write. She would write to the love she had met in the park. And every time she wrote to him, she would go to the beach, to the ocean, and place the letter in the waters. She knew he would receive it.
And received it he did. Whenever Delphinus would come to tell him that a letter was found at the Montauk beach, his face would light up, like a child when they got their favorite toy. When he read it, he would smile, knowing that she still loved him, but she lived the way she wanted to live. Amphitrite would glare at the letter coldly, but Poseidon didn't care. Every time she wrote, he would learn more about her.
When she wrote about their parting, he would get tears in his eyes. When she announced she was pregnant, he smiled, and then remembered the horrors he had just placed upon this unborn child. Poseidon would drop his head in shame. He was a criminal. A criminal in love.
When she married some mortal named Gabe, he would sigh unhappily. He figured out why she had done it- to protect the child Poseidon had sealed the fate of. But when she finished the letters, she always ended the same.
I love you, no matter what.
This is Dear Poseidon