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I still don't know if you guys liked the chapter with vague-ness over Rachel, but..

Yeah.

This is: Tears

Calypso

Summary preview: Lovely little tears...

Tears.

Calypso was no stranger to them. Every few years (or at least it felt like a few years)some injured boy would wash up on her shore.

He would be beautiful, if battle scarred. And always always, be absolutely perfect.

Okay so maybe she no longer fell in love with the boy (her heart had been broken one to many times), but she knew that if they really did stay she would eventually fall in love with them.

The Fates knew her well.

But every single one of them had something that they had to go back to. Maybe it was family. Maybe it was friends. Maybe it was war.

Maybe it was love.

But that day when she saw Percy Jackson fall from the sky, she could tell that her world was about to change.

For the first time in centuries, she fell in love with a hero. And of course, that came along with hope that maybe, just maybe, he would stay with her.

Percy was just so kind that he might actually stay just to make sure she was never alone again.

And maybe one day he would love her like she already loved him.

But when the fire god came (and completely deflated her servant's egos) Percy just seemed...distant.

Which was completely weird and just wrong because he was always so open with her.

And when he finally did tell her what the god had said, she still asked him if he would stay.

And though it crushed her when he said no, some small part of her had been expecting him to say this. To say what everyone else had answered before him.

But that didn't stop the tears from falling down her face as he sailed away forever, and she wished that Percy really could come back one day, if only just so she could thank him for letting her be happy for the first time in a long time.

The gods came and went, just like always, giving her reports on the second Titan War.

And when Apollo came and told her that yes, they had won, she honestly didn't know whether to be happy or not. Because this meant her father was still trapped under the sky. That her uncle was scattered, and may never smile down at her again.

But Apollo was either a little slow, or didn't care, for he turned to her with a blinding smile and told her exactly what wish that Percy had been granted.

Then he was gone, leaving her alone to wonder whether that was some cruel joke or real. Because surely Percy wouldn't have thought of her, in his path to get the world fixed, right?

But when she did try to leave, she not only found herself off her island, but sitting on a couch and accidentally waking up Percy himself, who blinked at her, grinned, and pulled her into a hug.

"Thank you so much." she whispered tightening the hug.

Percy laughed. "That's what friends are for, right?" he replied, then pulled away to stand up.

"Follow me. I need to show you something." he told me, before leading me to a glass-thing that let you see outside, and showed her the moonlace she had given him two years ago.

And that showed her just how much he really did care about what happened to her.

"Wow." she breathed. The moonlace had obviously been taken well care of, and looked beautiful.

"Thanks." he said and we just stood there looking at the flower for some time, savoring this moment.

"Would you like for me to give you a tour of Manhattan this afternoon?" he suddenly blurted.

Calypso looked at the clock and saw that is was already past ten A.M.

She must have said 'yes' weird, for he laughed.

A woman's voice said, "Percy Jackson who is this, and what is she doing here?"

We turned. "Good morning, Mom. This is Calypso. We, umm, met awhile back. It looks like the gods kept their promise and let her off her island."

Percy's mother looked kinda shocked. "You have been to Calypso's island?"

Percy looked a bit lost, so the girl in question jumped in.

"It is lovely to meet you, Mrs. Jackson. Percy spoke about you often." which was a completely lie, because he never even mentioned his mother.

Mrs. Jackson smiled at me. "You can call me Sally dear. And while I would love to hear of why and how he got to your island, I will let it go..for now. So I hear that you are going to be walking around New York."

Calypso nodded. "Though, you dress so strangely here, I really would rather not stand out, so do you by any chance have anything I could possibly...yeah." she trailed off at the look on her face.

Mrs. Jack- Sally was grinning in a devilish way.

"I have a top you can borrow, and I'm sure that Percy can go and get Annabeth's jeans out from under his bed so I can wash them for you."

She could see Percy's face began to look mortified and he quickly left to room, his face a bright shade of red, muttering something about "why was she looking under my bed?".

She stiffed a laugh and turned back to Mrs. Jackson smiling.

And for the very first time, Calypso felt as though she may never cry again.

Me: I liked this chapter. The last (or fifth depending on if you are reading the spin-off) book mentioned something about Calypso leaving her island as part of the promise, but it never went into detail.

Thoughts?

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Next chapter: Foreign

~ Anna/ Booklover98