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A/N: Short one but a good one. Warning: Contains a bit of language and some slight spoilers to HoO and ToA. Also, another Author's Note at the end.

Summary:

Jason Valdez, son of Leo and Calypso Valdez, has gotten into a fight in school and was called to the Principal Office. Calypso and Leo arrived at the school to understand the situation. However, Calypso is very upset at her son. Why did he get into a fight in the first place? He never gets himself involved in situations like this. What happened that led to this? What made Jason get into a fight in the first place.

Story:

At the Principal Office, a young man named Jason Valdez is sitting right in front of the office while his parents are inside talking to the principal. The reason why he's there in the first place is because he got into a fight today and was sent there. As he reminisced on the events that led to this, his parents walked out of the Principal's office, his mom had a very angry expression. One thing is certain for Jason.

He's not getting out of this situation very easily.

As the family walked out of the school and arrived at their car, Calypso spoke, "The principal says you're getting only a week of detention."

Jason sighs in relief, it could've been worse.

"You're not out of this, young man!" Calypso yelled, furious at her son's actions. "What were you thinking?!"

Jason shrugged, "He asked for it…"

"No me des esa actitud!" Calypso said in spanish. "You're gonna go to detention and you're going to write an apology letter to that boy. Understand?!"

Jason scoffed, "I ain't apologizing!"

"Jason," Leo spoke, "I understand what you're going through. I was like that too back then. Whatever this guy did, you need to be the bigger man and-"

"I'm not apologizing to him! I'll take the detention but I'm not apologizing to him. If he just kept his mouth shut about…"

"About what?" Calypso asked.

Jason said nothing.

"¿Mijo, qué dijo él?" Leo said.

"Nothing…"

The Valdez arrived home and Jason said nothing more for the whole ride. Calypso was furious at her son. She raised him to be a kind and gentle soul with a bit of anarchy from his father. For him to get into fights out of nowhere was very shocking. They had to temporarily close the shop and diner to come to school and talk to the principal.

Calypso is not your ordinary parent though. Heck, she's not your ordinary human either. She was THE Calypso, the goddess that was trapped in Ogygia for more than three centuries and was forced to fall in love with every hero that landed. The last hero was Leo Valdez, and it was completely by accident. Even so, she fell in love with him and he was the only one to come back and save her. They had some rough moments in their relationship, but they were always there for each other. They got married and have a business that's both an auto-shop and a diner.

When their first kid, Zoe Esperanza Valdez, was born, Calypso wanted to give her kids a happy childhood and life that she was never given until Leo saved her. Thus, why she's furious at her son.

Jason walks up to his room in silence as Calypso talks to Leo about his behavior.

"¡¿Qué estaba pensando?!"Calypso yelled.

Funny story, at some point, Calypso tries to learn Spanish as a gift for Leo on their anniversary. Leo tries to convince her that she doesn't have to, but at this point, she is too stubborn to give up. Eventually, it became her third language; the first two being English and Greek.

"Sunshine…"

"After everything we gave that boy, he went and got himself in trouble!"

"Sunshine, it's fine. It's only a week of detention, I did it before."

"Exactly! He shouldn't be doing what you did in the past."

"Ouch," Leo said jokingly, pretending like he's wounded.

"You know what I mean," Calypso sighed. "I just, I want what's best for our kids, Leo. It's bad enough that they're demigods. But what will they do with their lives when we're not gonna be there to save them? What if they get into danger and…"

Leo walked up to her and held her gently but firm.

"Sunshine, it's okay. You know how stubborn we Valdez are. If I recall, didn't you disobey your dad during the Titan war one time?"

"I did to help him, only to end up helping the gods instead."

"And saved the world," Leo added. "And look at me, I was supposed to die during the Giant war, but I was too stubborn and madly in love to accept my fate. Now look, we have a home. We have a life. A family."

Calypso sighs comfortably.

"We made mistakes in our lives, yeah. But that's who we are. We're not perfect beings."

Calypso scoffed. "Say you."

"Hey, you decided to join me and be free from that island; love me willingly AND marry me."

Calypso chuckles as she punches her husband on the arm.

"Just go talk to our son. I'm sure that he's hiding something from me, but he'll definitely tell you."

"Okay, I'll go talk to him. See what got him mad," Leo says as he kisses her by the forehead and walks up towards Jason's room. He knocks on his door and answers him to come in. Leo walks in and sees Jason on his laptop, listening to music and doing some homework.

"Hey kiddo, wanna talk about it?"

Jason was quiet for a moment but spoke.

"Not really, but I might as well. Otherwise I'll have to either suffer from mom's wrath or your terrible jokes."

Leo smirked.

Jason got off of his headphones and closed his laptop. He adjusts himself so that he can be comfortable telling his story.

"So tell me sport, what happened in school today?" Leo asked.

Jason took a moment to ponder on the events that led today.

"So, the guy I beat up is from my myths and folklore class. He's one of the football players in our school. I heard him in his group talking about what we learned today in class and…"

Leo understood a bit of why he did it. When Leo and Calypso told their kids the truth about their pasts, they worried over how it'll affect them in their daily lives. For the most part, they were able to handle it pretty well. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that monsters will now be on alert for them, but since Esperanza is in New York with some family friends, she'll be okay. Jason, on the other hand, is still in high school and will be going to college in New Rome, wanting to be an engineer and help out with the family business.

"Jason, I get it. It's hard knowing that most of those myths and legends are real and involve real people. But the world is not ready to accept what's out in the dark. People would freak out knowing that the world is in constant danger every week."

"But it's not that, dad," Jason replied. "What they said was more personal."

"What do you mean?" Leo asked.

"…Today, we talked about the Odyssey."

"Oh.." Leo knows where this is going.

The Odyssey, the Tale of Odysseus' adventure.

Calypso's first love.

Leo tries his best not to compare himself to Calypso's previous lovers, but he couldn't help himself. How would you feel if the girl who truly loves you back has had many and more cooler boyfriends in the past. Heck, she even fell for Percy back then too.

And what can Leo do? Build things, burst into flames and tell the best jokes (arguably) in the world.

But despite that, he was the only one who came back to her. Who loves her. Who made plans of a future together, even if it was a joke at first. So Leo may have won her heart in the end, but it doesn't change the fact that there's always better people out there. It's life, no one is perfect.

But Leo is learning to accept himself. And accepting that Calypso loves him and him alone.

"I see," Leo spoke. "Let me guess… Mom?"

Jason didn't say anything, but he nodded.

"They… they were talking some stuff about her. I know that nobody knows that mom is the real goddess from the stories but…"

Jason took a deep breath.

"I tried to hold back my anger, dad. I really did, but the way they talked about mom… I just…"

Leo hugs his son, interrupting his talk.

"I get it, mijo. I do," Leo replied. "It hurts when someone talks crap about someone you care about. Do you have any idea how many times I got into fights back then?"

"Did you win any?"

"That's not important," Leo replied quickly. "Point is, I have seen my share of struggles in the past. Especially those involving your mother."

"But dad," Jason spoke. "I just hate when people talk about mom like she's some evil witch or something. I've seen it in movies, books and stuff. I saw it in people's faces when we read about her. I just…"

Jason grips his fists tighter as he tries to calm himself.

"I just wish people knew how much mom has been through, how much of a good person she is. Sure she's scary when she's angry."

Leo snickered at the comment.

"But mom is always compassionate to others. If mom hadn't saved Odysseus, he'd never have come home, built that device and passed it on to you to save the world. If she hadn't saved Drake, he'd never have found America, our home. If she hadn't saved uncle Percy, Olympus would've fallen."

Leo sat there silently as he listened to his son's rant.

"Why couldn't people see the fact that mom was just as much of a hero as everyone else?! That's why I beat that guy up! He was talking shit about mom and I couldn't let that slide! So yeah, I'll take the detention, but there's no way in any realm am I going to apologize to him."

Jason took a deep breath as he finished talking.

"I'm sorry," Jason spoke again. "I didn't mean to yell, I just-,"

Leo hugs his son and interrupts his conversation.

"It's okay, Jason. I understand. You were protecting your mom's honor. I'd do the same too; hell, even your sister did too back when she was in high school too."

Jason didn't say anything and just embraced his dad's hug.

"Your mother has been through so much," Leo continues. "And I know that we can't change how other people will see her in stories and such. But know this, Jason, your mother loves you and is very proud of who you are."

After a couple of minutes of taking a breather, Jason thanks his dad for the conversation as Leo walks up and leaves his room. Standing next to the door frame was Calypso, hiding so that her son couldn't see her. Leo notices the tears dropping on her cheeks.

"You heard us, didn't you?" Leo asked.

Calypso nodded.

Leo hugs her in comfort.

"Don't blame yourself for this, sunshine."

"But it is my fault, Leo. If I didn't do all those-,"

"Calypso," Leo said. He never calls her by her name unless he has something important to say. "Never in our lives have your past ruined us. In fact, it made us love you more. Sure you fell for heroes who were already taken, but you also saved their lives. You helped me when you could've just left me alone on your island, you could've fallen for anyone else in the world, yet you chose me. You gave me a home, a family, a future."

Calypso stood in silence as she listened to Leo's words.

"You gave our kids a happy life. Yes, he shouldn't have got into a fight, but he did it because he loves you. We all do, honey. Because to us, you are our light, our rock, our sunshine."

"I thought I told you not to call me that," Calypso responded as she cried tears of joy.

Leo laughs and then kisses his wife on the lips, telling her how much he loves and how grateful he is to have her in his arms.

The two never got a happy past, struggling with loss and trauma. But now they built a future filled with hopes and dreams. Their children were gifted with loving parents who would do anything to keep them safe and happy, as would the kids would for their parents.

After all, aren't the kids the pride of the family?

Author's Note: Short one today, I hope it was good. I just want to say thank you all for reading some of my work even if most of them aren't that good. Still, I ain't stopping, I'm going to keep writing about this ship because other than Percabeth, it's one of my OTPs in this franchise. However, I will be focusing more on my other work, Estelle and The Mark of Arachnid. If you don't know what that is, it's pretty much a Spider-Man origin trilogy but Estelle is the main character, and it takes place in the Riordanverse with connections to the MCU Multiverse. The goal is at 30+ chapters and I'm already at Chapter 5. I'm getting a lot of views and I would very much like it if you get the chance to read it too. It'll still have Caleo in it, just more to the sidelines since this is more of a hero's story.

This doesn't mean that I'm ending this series here, I will be continuing on working more stories, just that I will be posting them at a later schedule. So instead of once a month, it'll mostly likely be once every 2-3 months. So don't worry, I will be continuing this series, just that there will be later updates. I still have some stories on my list to write for this series.

Thank you all for reading my stories, until my next update.