THE SEA QUEEN'S PEARL
Based on the movie "Percy Jackson and the Olympians"

Dealing with sea business is easy. A few considerations of the consequences before making orders and it's done.

Dealing with sons is far more difficult.

He had many sons. And daughters. Most were dead though. A few weren't, some lived to old age while others manage to find some sense of immortality.

All of his children, though, were mentally screwed up some way or another. It seemed to be an inevitable of being a child of a Greek God.

Take Antaeus, for example, a very deranged son of his...very ugly son of his too... but anyway, the boy is under the impression that he is Poseidon's favourite and takes it upon himself to make a temple out of skulls within the Labyrinth.

Triton, however, was a much more difficult case.

Losing his mother – though he was old enough to take care of himself – had been hard on the boy. Growing to care for his siblings and then having to watch each and every one of them die someway or another...had made him colder...harsher...more distant. Having a father that disappears and reappears...just makes him angry.

"Where the hell have you been? You missed a conference with the delegations of the Seven Seas! I had to cover for you!"

"Triton take a chill pill" Poseidon said without a second thought. He really had to stop watching reruns of teen programmes.

"Take a chill pill? Take a chill pill? What are you, seventeen?"

Poseidon walked past him. Not bothering to say anything else, obviously his heir was far too winded up to have a proper conversation. Or at least a calm and collected one.

"I've got some business to deal with and then I'm going out again to Montauk. Send a seahorse or a Pegasus if you're that worried"

"I'm not five, you know" Triton said bitterly.

"Well act you're age"

"You found another woman, haven't you?" Triton accused, his eyes narrowing. "Damnit! Father, you made a pact with your brothers. Keep to it or all could be lost"

"She's not just any woman"

"It's never just any woman. Your mistresses were always special one way or another but right now I don't care if she's a cross between Pamela Anderson, Mother Theresa and the Queen of England herself. No more siblings, not when this pact is hanging above your head"

Poseidon laughed. A deep booming chuckle. His son truly amused him.

"It's not funny!"

"Oh it is!" Poseidon said between chuckles. "Because Sally Jackson isn't just any woman. She might be your mother"

Triton paled. His warm brown skin had actually gone a sickly white. Poseidon stopped laughing as he watched his son in concern.

"I don't believe she's my mother"

Poseidon sighed. It was all too sudden right now. Triton had always been a Mummy's boy and hearing she'd been reincarnated was all too much. He needed time to adjust.

"Believe it, she's back, I'm sure of it." Triton glared and pursued his lips. But he didn't say anything so Poseidon reached out and squeezed Triton's shoulder. "Just let me have some time with her. Just a little time so I can be completely certain of it. Then you can meet her"

As he left the room, Triton muttered to himself, "You mean so you can get laid"

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"Sally"

Her eyes cracked open slightly. A blurred black and tanned shape hovered before her. She blinked and focused on the blur.

"Poseidon!" she half yelped as she shot up. She staggered to her feet when he wrapped a very warm arm round her waist. It was so warm she could feel it through her layers of clothing and subconsciously leaned into it. "Y-You're real" she stuttered slightly.

He cocked a black eyebrow up at her. "Really? Here's me thinking I was a figment of your imagination" he said a touch more sarcastic than he probably should.

She scowled at him. "Don't be sarcastic" she said sternly. "It was very late at night and I could have easily put our conversation down as a dream or madness"

He smirked. "Well I can assure you, I am very real" he let go of her waist and she almost whimpered at the lost. "Now then, coffee or tea? Or do you drink something a little healthier?"

"Coffee helps me get through late nights. Black and strong though I do like a little sugar, I have a huge sweet tooth" Sally said leading him to her cabin. "I have some orange juice, a little milk and of course water if you prefer something else"

"Orange juice will be fine" Poseidon said with a smile as she bustled round the kitchen.

"Would you like anything to eat? I haven't got much, just some eggs and bread right now...but I got a car and the nearest store isn't too far from here. In fact I'll just get my keys now an-"

He grabbed hold of her wrist as she was about to reach for a simple key hanging on old ragged cat key-ring. "Don't bother. I'm not hungry right now but you are"

"I'm fine" she said.

Her stomach rumbled loudly.

She blushed faintly and looked at the window just behind him.

He couldn't resist laughing. "C'mon, blue pancakes on me" he said dragging her out of the cabin.

"Blue...you can get blue pancakes?"

"Sure you can. You can get all sort of blue food with that food colouring stuff you have now. Back in the old days I never had blue food, so now I like to eat as much as I can though I have to admit I like a bit of McDonalds here and there" he turned to see her looking at him with an amused smile but admiring eyes. He wondered if she was checking him out. He'd like it if she was. "Now then, swimming or flying?"

"Err...swimming if possible, I don't like the sky much"

Ha! Take that Zeus!

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She could hardly believe it.

She was dry. She had been in the sea, swam under without needing to breath and never got wet. A little part of her wanted to pinch herself. Just to make sure she really wasn't dreaming.

Here she was in a cafe, somewhere along the West Cost (she wasn't sure where, Poseidon had said but she couldn't remember), eating blue pancakes (that tasted like blueberry) as the Greek God of the sea told her about the basics of his world.

Ambrose and Nectar. God food that could kill a human and a Half-Blood if they ate too much. All the different type of monsters. What his siblings and nephews and nieces were like. He briefly mentioned a camp for the half-human, half-God children before hurrying along and asking her about her life.

"Nothing much to say, I lived with my uncle up till his death and now I'm looking for something as I try to write a book" Sally said taking a sip of the tasty coffee. It was rather nice, bittersweet almost. "I did well in school, had very little friends, a couple boyfriends here and there but that's really it"

"What about your parents?"

"They died" she said looking down at her coffee. "A very long time ago. I was a little child; no older than five...it was a plane crash"

He winced. No wonder she didn't like flying. "I'm sorry" he said sincerely. "It...It was probably Zeus' temper...and I probably set it off...so I'm sorry"

She took his hand. Just reached out and grabbed it, her tiny little fingers squeezing his. Her little delicate nails pinching into his skin. "It is not your fault" she said in a dangerous tone. A tone that told him to not push it or he'll end up regretting it for the rest of his days. "It is not your fault. Things happen, maybe the Gods accidentally caused it, maybe they didn't but it's just fate. So never blame yourself or your brother"

He placed his spare hand over hers. "I won't"

She smiled. A little nervous one. "Good" she used her spare hand to take another bite of the blue pancakes; once she swallowed she gave him a bright grin. "These, are the best pancakes ever!"

He grinned at her. A dazzling, wonderful grin that made her heart pick up a little fast tempo, "I told you so, didn't I?" He let go of her hand and dug into his own stack. After a few bites he winked. "I'm usually right about a lot of things"

She laughed. "I'm sure you are" she took another bite of pancake. "I think I'll only ever eat blue pancakes in the future"

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