Percy's point of view

After I finished visiting my mom I decided to go see Tyson, I knew he was probably working in the forges but I figured that I would be able to get him a break long enough that we could talk. I left my Mom's apartment, making sure she wasn't still looking at me, before I teleported to just outside the forges. I looked in to find Tyson.

I spotted him and I also saw another Cyclops who must be his boss since he was clearly supervising the others as they worked. I Walked over to him and asked him to give Tyson a break so he could talk to me. When the Cyclops realized who I was he didn't argue, I guessed he probably knew that I was now a god, or even if he hadn't known he would probably be able to sense it.

I left the Forges knowing that the cyclops would send Tyson out. We certainly wouldn't have been able to talk in the forges, it was too loud in there, it had been hard enough to hear what the other cyclops had said since the sounds of the cyclopses working had nearly drowned out anything we had said. It wasn't long before I saw Tyson come out of the forge.

He didn't see me at first, and he looked kind of confused, I assumed that his boss must not have told him that it was me who had come to see him. When he finally saw me he asked, "Is that you, brother?"

Smiling at him I said, "Yes Tyson it's me,"

Once he had confirmation he shouted happily, "Brother!" before hurrying toward me and nearly squished me in one of his hugs. The hug did hurt and I had to tell him not to squeeze so hard but I don't think it bothered me as much as it used to. Once Tyson let me go he asked, "Why do you look so different, brother?"

I explained what had happened when dad took me to Olympus and that I was now an Olympian. Obviously, that news surprised him since he seemed to speechless for a moment and his eye widened. Finally, he said, "You're a god?"

Grinning I replied, "Yes Tyson I'm an Olympian god, I'm the god of time, tides, waves, heroes, swordsmanship, and loyalty,"

Once the news sunk in he seemed excited and happy for me. He was also still sad that Annabeth had betrayed me the way she had, not just because she had hurt me, but also because he had considered her a good friend once she got over the distaste she had for cyclopses. So her hurting me the way she had upset him.

To change the subject away from me I asked, "How are things between you and Ella,"

He blushed, he hadn't really understood what he was feeling for Ella until recently, but it had been obvious to the rest of us that they liked each other. The only problem was that they don't get to see each other all that often due to Tyson Working in the Forges. Tyson replied, "Good, I try to get time off to see her whenever I can, and when I can't I try and find time to Iris message her,"

I smiled, I was happy for him really, and I hoped they'd be able to see each other a bit more often so their relationship could work out, after all, distance relationships don't always end that well. Tyson and I talked for a little longer, but He had to return to the forges, and although I didn't really have anything better to do I knew I should let him get back to work. I told him that I would try and visit as often as I could before I headed back to Olympus. Once I got there I went into my dad's palace there since that was where I was staying until my palace was finished.

A week passed as I continued to train, went to any meetings that were called, and went to visit my mom whenever I could, and sometimes visited Tyson when he wasn't working. During that time I started to realise that I didn't have a whole lot of free time to visit my mom, and I really only managed to see Tyson on days where there wasn't much going on except for my training.

It occurred to me that with everything that was going on I couldn't really visit my mom as often as I would have liked, and I was pretty sure she was still kind of lonely since I couldn't be there all the time and she didn't have Paul anymore. I thought that my dad wouldn't mind visiting her when he could since I knew he did care about her considering what he had told me the first time I met him.

Truthfully I thought he might still have feelings for her based on how he acts anytime I mention her. Like most demigods I wouldn't mind if my parents ended up back together, my only concern was if dad would eventually cheat on her, obviously he had cheated on Amphitrite numerous times, one of those times being my mom, but for some reason I wondered if maybe he'd change or if his feelings for mom were different.

He could get back with my mom since Amphitrite had faded a couple years ago because not enough people still believed in her. I knew losing her had been pretty hard for dad, it seemed that despite the fact he had cheated on her many times he still seemed to love her. He was doing better now but I'd heard that hadn't been the case for a while.

When they had made me a god the Olympians had also manipulated the mist and made almost all the mortals think that I had been one of the Olympians since ancient times, the only mortal they had left out was my mom and the demigods, both Greek and Roman had also been excluded from it. That way I probably would n't end up like Amphitrite, or at least not for a long time.

So I decided to mention mom to dad and ask if he would visit her when he could. I went to his palace under the sea and found him in the throne room. I held back a sigh when I Saw that he'd added a throne for me. I'd told him he didn't have to do that. Regardless he obviously had and there wasn't anything I could do about it now. When he saw me Dad said, "Percy what brings you here?"

I replied, "There's something I wanted to ask you,"

He asked, "What is it, son?"

I replied, "Mom hasn't quite been herself ever since Paul died, I think she is doing better now, but I know she is still lonely sometimes, with everything that's been going on it's been hard for me to visit her as much as I'd like, I know you still care about her so could you visit her once in a while when you have the time?"

As an afterthought, I added, "Besides I'm pretty sure she still likes you,"

Dad said, "She does?" sounding pretty surprised.

Chuckling I replied, "Yeah based on the way she acts every time I mention you I'm pretty sure,"

Dad was smiling when he disappeared off his throne without another word, I was slightly amused by his actions, although I'd already suspected that he still loved her, and how quickly he had left pretty much confirmed it.

Knowing dad was probably with mom at that exact moment I didn't bother following him to her apartment, instead, I headed to his palace on Olympus, not quite sure what I was going to do next.

Poseidon's point of view

After Percy asked me about visiting Sally I didn't hesitate, especially after he said that he thought she still had feelings for me. I had some free time at the moment so I thought, why not? When I arrived in her apartment I saw that she was sitting at her kitchen table a notebook in front of her and a pencil in her hand. The look on her face told me that she was thinking pretty hard.

I guessed she was probably working on a book. I knew she already had a couple published but she must have been working on another one. It seemed that she was full of ideas, although that wasn't a bad thing.

"Sally," I said to get her attention.

"Poseidon!" she said rather surprised to see me.

I guess that was understandable since I never really visited that often, and since Percy was now staying on Olympus she probably thought I wouldn't come at all anymore.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, seeming kind of confused.

smiling at her I replied, "I came to see you, Sally how are you doing?"

she replied, "I'm fine, did Percy ask you to do this?"

being honest with her I replied, "He did mention it to me but I was thinking about doing it anyway,"

"Why?" she asked, obviously not realising how I still felt about her.

I replied, "I wanted to come to visit you because I still care about you Sally, more than you realize,"

She was silent for a moment as she looked at me. I wasn't sure if she had realised the true extent of my feelings for her yet so I just went for it and told her, I said, "Sally, I still love you,"

Once again she was silent for a moment as she absorbed what I'd said. Once she understood though I heard the words that I'd hoped to hear as she replied, "I love you too,"

Obviously, I was pleased to hear that I wasn't alone and she still loved me as well. I also couldn't help but notice that there wasn't a lot of space separating us now since she had gotten up and walked over to me. I knew I wanted to close the distance that was between us. It may have been years since we were last together but honestly, Sally was still beautiful to me and I knew I still loved her.

Not waiting any longer I closed the distance between us, kissing her. She didn't respond right away, possibly because she was surprised, but before long she did, returning the kiss. It seemed that what we'd shared so many years ago was still there, it had just been buried and needed to be brought back to the surface. There was just something special about Sally that had caused me to be unable to move on from her like I had the women I'd been with before her.

Don't get me wrong I did Love Amphitrite, but I also loved Sally just as much if not more and that had made it rather difficult for me to leave her after we'd found out she was pregnant with Percy. Now here we were rekindling our relationship despite the amount of time we'd been apart. Eventually, we broke the kiss but I stayed with Sally for a while, and we talked and kissed some more.

In the end it seemed like things had turned out pretty well, sure I would have preferred it if Percy's life so far had been easier but it would have been practically impossible to change anything that the fates had planned out for him, and due to the ancient laws I couldn't do much to help him, for that matter I couldn't even see him that often.

Part of the reason why I'd wanted to offer him godhood again was that I wanted to be able to see him more, and I didn't want to lose him, of course, there was also the more obvious reason that he deserved it. One of the hardest parts of being a god is having to watch your demigod children die while fighting for a cause that can never truly be won, even after we defeat one threat a new one always seems to appear eventually.

It's depressing but we can't do anything about that, unfortunately, and I hadn't really been thinking about that when I'd made the offer to Percy. Regardless I doubted Percy would have to deal with that for a while. After all, he's still getting over the Athena spawn so I doubted I would be getting grandchildren any time soon.

Besides I knew that Percy was fully aware of what demigods usually have to go through and that knowledge might be enough to stop him from having any demigod children for a while, if not forever. I suspected that due to that knowledge that Percy might be better at controlling himself than the rest of us usually are.

No matter what happens I hoped I would be able to stay with Sally and that Percy will be able to just be happy for a while before the fates throw some new challenge at him. If I could I would stop them from causing him any more pain but unfortunately, they are older and more powerful than me and unlike what the mortals seem to think it is practically impossible to fight fate.