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Poseidon's P.O.V
If I kept learning things like this about my son I don't know if I could follow the Gods no contact rule. If you knew every time that your child was hurting and exactly how they felt at the time how could you not go? Sometimes I wondered what was the point… in anything, if everything we did was wrong. I put it out of my mind as Hades began to read.
My Mom, when I got home squeezed me so tight I thought my head was going to explode of the top of my shoulders. I loved every second of it; I had really begun to miss my Mother.
"I'd say wuss but…" Ares started in an attempt to keep things normal.
"Arcadia," I said making him flinch. I was happy that he'd missed Sally, because she was a great woman and as long as he missed her he would keep coming back to New York. I was scared that he'd leave to a place were I couldn't even watch over him one day.
"So," she asked after we'd sat down, "How was wherever you skipped out of camp for?" I completely froze for a minute, unable to figure out how she knew where I'd been before smiling and taking out the scrapbook that we had started completing on holiday and told her almost everything.
"I would have flipped if I were in her shoes," Hera admitted.
"I wonder if you noticed?" Apollo asked me. I didn't answer, because I didn't know.
"So Clarisse upstairs is a daughter of Ares and those little girls are her mortal sisters?" Mom asked, "No wonder she wanted to pay me to baby sit in the summer. And Rick Castle is a son of Apollo?"
"Thank Grandmother Rhea," Ares said, "I was scared that she wouldn't go back to camp."
"Why?" Athena asked.
"Because if she didn't go back to camp then I don't know how long she'd live when Kronos takes over," he responded.
"Yep, he tells great stories," I said before my curiosity got the better of me, "Mom how did you know that I wasn't at camp?"
"Does anyone get the feeling that we don't want to know?" Hermes said.
"Nah, I this'll answer a lot of Poseidon's questions," Apollo said. Considering how I met Sally I hoped so.
"Because you had that look," she responded, "The one you only get when you've been travelling but you haven't been travelling across just the earth have you? You've seen whole new worlds and all their stars… I can see it in your eyes."
"She can't know that," Aphrodite exclaimed, "How is it possible to even see that in another person."
"Easy," Hestia said with the tiniest secret smile, "You just have to have it to." Sometime I forget that she'd been places that we could only dream of.
"But how can you… oh," I started to ask before looking at her, looking at her properly for the first time in ages, "You can see it… because you've got it too."
"Told you," Hestia said matter of factly.
"Nobody said anything against you sweetie," Demeter said, braiding and un-braiding her wheat coloured hair.
"It's a long story," she said, "When I was nineteen I met a man, he had a little blue box called the TARDIS that was bigger on the inside and could anywhere in time and space."
"Aw fuck it's Lyra's alien," Apollo said before stiffening.
"What?" Artemis asked concerned.
"It's not just her alien… it's her Time Lord" Apollo breathed, "In every way." That was… scary, but Ares just looked like he'd been smacked in the face.
"It can't be," he murmured. I had no idea what he was talking about.
"You travelled with the Doctor," I said ruffling through my pocket for something. Finding what I was looking for I held up my TARDIS key. "Tell me everything," I request, she leans back with a smile on her face, letting her old English accent seep back through and told me.
"You know I'd forgotten about that," I said fondly, "She lost that shortly after we first met." My brothers pouted adorably, I rolled my eyes good-naturedly and took both of there hands.
"I met the Doctor the day he blew up my job," she started grinning, "I was nineteen and dumb. A bleach blonde, selfish, self adsorbed, whiny brat, but I managed to get invited along anyway. He took me to see the day the earth blew up."
"What the fuck!" Aphrodite said, "That is not first date material."
"So the earth will be destroyed one day," Hera said softly, "I wonder when, and what happens to us?" There was a pause of uneasy silence before…
"He does things like that sometimes. It depends on which regeneration you get," I said quietly. Regeneration being the term for when a Time Lord dies, it's like a trick. They burn up with energy and change everything; looks, personality, quirks, becoming almost another person but still the same.
"Fuck," Zeus swore shortly, "Really?" Ares nodded.
"Please tell me that Dad can't do that," Demeter groaned. That would make him fucking immortal… immortal-er? Anyway we'd be screwed.
"Yeah well after that it was all ghosts in Cardiff, meeting my Dad before he died, paradoxes, underground alien museums, nanogenes in World War 2 and Captain Jack," she said chuckling fondly.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa" Athena said, "Nanogenes? What the hell are they and what are they doing in WW 2?"
"Nanogenes are tiny microscopic robots that are found in med ships," Ares explained, "They patch people up, get them ready for the frontline. I think they must have crashed."
"Then how come we didn't notice them?" I asked curiously.
"We did, 'Are you my Mummy?' remember?" he said, "They went wrong." I actually did remember, but if he knew this before why didn't he say anything when it happened?
"Captain Jack Harkness?" I asked before freezing in horror, "Please tell me you haven't slept with him."
"Wait, that's that mortal that keeps getting killed and coming back against his will," Hades said, "What does she have to do with him."
"From what she told me he was her human best friend," I said, "Apparently he's a man whore."
"He hit on me," Hades said, "As well as… oh, everyone else in the underworld and then he get sucked back to life, forgets everything and repeats the process." I'm not jealous, I told myself… I refuse to be jealous.
"No, the first night I met him I was hanging by a barrage balloon wearing a shirt with a Union Jack on the front in the middle of a German air raid," she confessed, "He saved me and there was waltzing with champagne on an invisible spaceship to Glen Miller while he was trying to con me but we never slept together."
"She wasn't kidding when she said she was dumb, was she?" Athena asked in surprise.
"As someone who's met Jack, yes she is," Hestia said, "Oh, if I weren't a virgin goddess…"
"Actually I meant the Union Jack in the middle of an air raid," Athena responded, "Is he that…"
"Oh yes," Aphrodite said.
"Good," I said thankfully, "Because that would have been incredibly awkward."
"Wait a go Percy," Hestia said.
"I know that I probably don't want to know, but I find myself questioning exactly how old was he when he got into this guys bed?" I asked.
"Oh honey, that is so not the question," Aphrodite said, "The question is how he ever found the strength to get out."
"Wait did you…" she stuttered, "I'm mean it's okay if you did but…."
"That threw her," Apollo laughed.
"Yeah, but she's not even angry that he slept with her best friend," Dionysus commented. No, not Sally… she will always be one hell of a woman.
"Yeah, but I was about twenty-two at the time," I said recalling the memory and wishing it wasn't so fuzzy. She looked at me in confusion. "I sort of grew up while travelling about, but then the Doctor and Lyra de-aged me so they weren't messing with the time line," I explained, "It's confusing, but tell me more."
"Well, now we know how he spent so much time travelling the universe and is still the same age physically in age," Athena said happily. The more the blanks were filled in the happier she got.
"I just want to know what that pocket watch means," Zeus grumbled.
"Well we saved the day, everybody lived and Jack started to travel with us," she told me, "But then there was the Darlek's and satellite five. We got kidnapped into the games and found out the Darlek's the Doctor sent me home in the TARDIS. I don't think that he'll ever underestimate human stubbornness again. I got back by becoming Bad Wolf…"
"Bad Wolf, what is that?" Artemis said, her eyes gleaming at the mention of her sacred animal.
"Nothing good," Apollo said after a moment, "I can't see it exactly, but nothing good."
"Your Rose Tyler," I said, knowing which companion she was the second she said Bad Wolf. "You ripped open the heart of the TARDIS and absorbed the time vortex," I said in awe, "Going back to the Doctor and erasing the Darlek's from time and space, making Jack immortal"
"Fuck me," Ares said, "I we better not piss her off."
"Yeah, there's another powerful parent that is against the offing of Percy," I said. The entire room looked at me in surprise.
"I didn't realise that anybody still wanted to," Hades said. The scary part was that they didn't and it was something that we all agreed on.
"Yes… he eventually forgave me for that, even though he had to take the long way, it was centuries before he saw me again for him. I came the quick way," she chuckled.
"I wish that they'd talk about things that make sense," Athena groaned.
"Tell me about it," Hera agreed. I think the moment that we understand everything is the day my head implodes.
"Lyra hates you," I reminded her and she did. Really, really hated her with a passion.
"She's fucked, was fucked, will be fucked… fuck I hate time travel," Apollo groaned.
"You can't say fuck four times in the same sentence unless your having sex," Aphrodite chirped. There was a pause of awkward silence.
"Yeah, I think the only reason that she didn't kill me was because she knew that if she did that I wouldn't become…" she trailed off, unsure of how to finish that sentence.
"Yeah, that doesn't help us," Hera groaned. There was a chorus of agreements. I wish that I understood, even though I had the feeling that at the end… all I would want is to forget.
"She hated Rose Tyler, but she loves her Aunt Sally," I reassured her, "And if she'd killed you then I would have never of been born. Stupid time travel, you can never meet anyone in the right order."
"Ain't that the truth," Hestia said shaking her head.
"Tell me about it, anyway after the Doctor pulled the time vortex out of me he regenerated," she continued, "Then there were aliens at Christmas, being possessed by a human trampoline, werewolves and Queen Victoria and Sarah-Jane Smith. I was so jealous when I met her."
"Oh you have got to be kidding me," Ares burst out laughing, "She didn't figure it out?"
"Figure what out?" Artemis asked.
"Lets just say she could join the hunters no problem," he said. I laughed. Oh Sally, what have you gotten yourself into?
"Really?" I asked bursting out laughing, "Tell me you didn't think he was in love with her?" She nodded uncertainly. "Oh Mom, Sarah-Jane is a lesbian and so in love with Lyra it isn't funny."
"She worthy of being in love with her?" Hera asked. Ares nodded.
"Yes, but from what I heard she didn't get anywhere with it," Ares responded.
"Oh Gods," Mom moaned blushing twenty shades of red, "That is so embarrassing. We blew up the school that was being invaded by this race of bat type aliens that were eating the kids. K9 blew up too though."
"K9?" I asked apprehensive. What the hell was that?
"No, not the sarcastic tin dog," I groaned, "He better of made her another one. You know there was a regeneration that gave them out like toys. When ever the current companion left they stayed with them, he acted so surprised but he kept programming them to do that."
"What the fuck, a sarcastic tin dog that he programs to abandon him?" Hephaestus said, surprising me. He hadn't spoken in so long I had actually forgotten he was here.
"How many regenerations have you met?" Mom asked. I thought about it for a moment.
"That's a good question, the more he knows about Time Lord in general the better the up coming war will go," Athena said.
"The question is how much does he remember?" Aphrodite said oddly serious, "Something is messing with his head."
"Does… does anybody wonder if he… maybe, could possibly… know Kronos personally?" Hestia asked. My heart jumped into my throat and froze as we all sat there in silence. We couldn't be this unlucky could we?
"I think I met almost all of them," I answered after a second, "What happened after Sarah-Jane?"
"How many are there?" Zeus asked quietly.
"The Time Lord council decreed that a Time Lord only has 12 regenerations, politics," explained Ares, "But now… I don't know, I think it's unlimited if he escaped the Time War."
"Mickey, the guy that was my sort of boyfriend for a while came along with us. We wound up in a parallel world with a Cybermen invasion," she said, "We beat the Cybermen but when it came time to leave Mickey chose to stay. His Gran that had died in this world was still alive there."
"That's so sweet," Demeter cooed. I just shook my head as Hades read over her. Scarily enough they were really close in Fathers stomach.
"I can understand," I said, it was something that I would have done.
"I know that we'd agreed to this previously but I don't care if we have to chain him to the décor, were keeping him," Aphrodite declared passionately. Normally I would feel disturbed but I shared her sentiment… in a less creepy way.
"After that we lost the TARDIS for a while, stuck orbiting around a black hole," she said.
"That's impossible," Athena declared.
"Almost, you'd have to be generating a power source of six to the power of six every six seconds," Are said frowning. Athena, I knew was hurt more than when either Apollo of Hermes hurt her. She had had an intellectual equal that she had always dismissed as stupid.
"That is impossible," Hephaestus said interested.
"But that is impossible," I said laughing delightedly; I loved it when people trounced the impossible odds.
"Well that works out good for us," Hermes said, "What with the impossible to win war looming over us." We all laughed at that.
"Yeah, well we managed to get out of there and then there was the battle of Canary Warf" she sighed, "And Torchwood…"
"That was…" Zeus said hesitantly. We just nodded, remembering.
"Wait," Apollo said sounding terrified, "Those things, not the metal mean the other ones… those… those are Darlek's?"
"Yeah," Ares said distantly.
"I know," I said sparing her from explain. "They played with a hole in the space-time continuum, and Darlek's and Cybermen attacked the city."
That was something that never ceased to amaze me. The stupidity of the human race, things like an alien invasion, because even if I didn't know what it was before I did now, happen and then they just goon like nothing ever happened. No mist necessary.
"And Pete, my Dad from the parallel world come across from the other side of the breech," she explained, "He and Mum met and when it was time to pull all the Darlek's and Cybermen back into the void they went back to the parallel world. I was supposed to go to."
"Somehow I don't see that happening, especially if he has Sally's stubbornness," I said.
"Yeah, I really need you to give me her number," Aphrodite said dreamily. I won't lie, tiny bit scared. I could only imagine what those to could do together.
"You refused and then later you were nearly sucked into the void," I finished, "You were stuck there until the thing with the planets in the sky,"
"I don't think that ones happened yet," Artemis said after a moment. Great I thought another thing to look forward to.
"Then I met Donna and Martha and I was so jealous, I actually thought I was in love with him… he was just one of my best friends," she said sadly, "We would have all died if it wasn't for Donna, she stopped the stars going out."
"The stars go out," Athena gasped, "What could have done that?"
"A reality bomb would have made much more than the stars go out… it would have erased all of time and space. I can't help but wonder if the Time Lord stole that idea from the Darlek's or if the Darlek's stole it form them," the last part came out as a quiet murmur, a half forgotten question.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me," Zeus swore. I shivered in the non-existent cold that was something I was not looking forward to.
"Nope," Hades said, "This isn't going to be good, do you have any idea what this is going to do for the underworlds traffic?" I chuckled, only Hades.
"Donna caused a biological meta-crisis, making a clone of the Doctor and herself both part Time Lord part human," she said, "The human Doctor came through the void and into the parallel world with me. We got married, because it was what I thought I wanted but later on we both realised it wasn't right."
"Gah, does anyone else's head hurt?" Hermes said staring eyes wide at the book. We nodded in agreement.
"Not really," Apollo said, "I see parts of the future all the time, you get used to it eventually." I had never thought about it like that.
"Then how did you get back to this universe?" I asked curiously, because that was where the story of Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor ended.
"That is what I want to know," I murmured. Zeus pecked me on the lips and chuckled.
"Well if you let Hades read he'll tell you," Zeus said. Can you believe the other Gods had the audacity to laugh at us? Aphrodite declared us cute.
"He started to get sick… and he wouldn't get better. The day before he died he gave me a device that would get me back to this universe" she said with tears running down her face, "It was a long time coming I think, but after that I hated myself. I came back to this universe determined to be everything that I wasn't before."
"Is that when you met her?" Demeter asked me.
"Yeah," I responded, "I picked her name."
"Montauk, you ended up on the beach there and that's how you met Dad," I said connecting the dots.
"How is he connecting the dots, it a completely random theory," Athena said in amazement.
"That is Percy for you," Hestia said laughing, "Nothing will make any sense at all, to everybody else. Until he does that thing where he explains it all and you stand there thinking 'huh, how the fuck did I miss that?'"
"Yeah, that exact night actually. I wanted to know what he was because I could see he wasn't human and he wanted to know more about the stubborn girl that appeared with a flash of light, determined to change everything about herself and could see through the mist," she said a wistful smirk on her face.
"No wonder you couldn't resist her," Aphrodite said smiling. But the truth bothered me more that it should because it was wrong, so wrong.
"I had never met anyone that had hated themselves as much as she did," I said quietly. They looked at me in surprise, like they couldn't understand why I helped her. I suppose it was because I needed saving too and there was nobody there to help me.
"And then I came along," I said finishing the story.
There was Goddesses cooing, but I'll just pretend that I was internally joining them. I missed my son, because whoever he was now, what ever he's become… I had no part in it.
"Yeah, best bit about coming through the void… when I come out the other end I was seventeen again," she said, "Now off to bed, you've got school tomorrow."
"Oh, he's not going to like that," Hermes chuckled.
"I don't understand why so many demigods are against school," Athena said, genuinely confused.
"It's because everything is in English," Hades drawled sardonically. She blushed cherry red and I snickered at her.
"What?" I groaned, she had that look the one that said there was no point in arguing with her. "Fine," I sighed, "Love you Mom."
"Aw," Hera squealed, "That is just perfect." Nobody inched their thrones away from my crazy sister… nope not at all.
"Idiots," Apollo murmured.
"Psych," Hera said bursting out in laughter, "You losers are to easy fool."
"Love you too baby," she said heading off to bed.
"Next," Hades said throwing the book to Aphrodite. She caught it read the first few lines.
"Oh, I'm gonna like this chapter," she chirped.
Phew, finished. Here is my new and improved (Read, stuffed full of Doctor Who and other fandoms) start to Sea of Monsters. What do you think? Review me and let me know.
Also, favourite characters from the TV show Charmed? Don't ask but it important to the story.