Author's Note: I know, it's been forever since I've updated, and for that, I'm sorry. But here's just a substance-less little piece that I came up with out of the one-word prompt 'purple' given to me by The Goddess of Myths (like, forever ago). I hope you like it. I'm not sure how much sense it makes, but oh well. Please tell me what you think! Oh, and by the way: the obsession with purple and the purple stuffed cat named Pink Cat? Yep, those were inspired by true events; by "true events", of course, I mean my… rather peculiar little sister Claire's entire childhood. -Emmy
11. Purple
If there was one thing that Percy and Annabeth knew, it was that Sophia loved purple
Ever since she was a toddler, everything had to be purple. She had to have purple clothes, purple toys, and purple shoes. She complained if she didn't have her favorite purple cup at dinner. In Sophia's confusing, childish mind, she couldn't survive without the color purple.
So Percy and Annabeth decided to humor her. They gave her the purple clothes and the purple toys and the purple shoes. They made sure she had that special purple cup every evening. Annabeth, in her good-natured attempts at what normal people called sewing, had even made her a lumpy, slightly misshapen purple blanket, which Sophia absolutely adored.
And for those early years of childhood, the girl's obsession with purple didn't seem to be a problem. Percy and Annabeth would tuck her in every night with the purple blanket and the little purple stuffed cat that Sophia had very affectionately and creatively named "Pink Cat" (to the bewilderment of both parents).
Even though Percy and Annabeth had absolutely no clue what they were doing when it came to parenting their firstborn, it seemed to them that the love of purple was a perfectly normal thing for a little girl.
As the years passed, it seemed as though she had grown out of it, that it had only been a phase. Sophia grew into a teenager, a normal girl (as normal as a girl with godly blood in her veins could be), and, although she still liked the color, it seemed like the years of her obsession with the color purple were over.
Then, on Sophia's eighteenth birthday, Percy and Annabeth realized how very wrong they were.
And Sophia told them that she was in love with a Roman son of Apollo.
As if that wasn't enough of a shock, she then calmly announced that she was moving to New Rome.
So as it turned out, Sophia did indeed still love the color purple—a great deal, in fact. Jason Grace in particular seemed to get a real kick out of the fact that Percy and Annabeth's very own, entirely Greek daughter had converted to the Roman way of life of her own accord.
Percy and Annabeth loved their daughter, so they learned to love that symbolic purple of Rome, too…
Eventually.
