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

When they returned from their short holiday their lives instantly became unsettled. Gabe had decided he wanted to get the wedding over and done with and he also decided he should move in now so Percy and Sally could get used to 'obeying him'. Sally was therefore overwhelmed with not only her work but planning a wedding and looking after what was practically another child.

A selfish, stinking, sulking, middle aged child but a child nonetheless.

She is horrified at the added stinking laundry of grey foul smelling socks and matching pants. Percy gags and holds onto his nose tightly whenever she is doing the laundry near him. She had to deal with a rather hysterical little boy when he found a giant ball of Gabe's hair stuck in the plug one morning. Gabe had been less understanding and shouted some harsh words at them both before storming off to work. To sweeten him up she had to cook his favourite meal...

Let's just say there's a reason why he smells so terribly.

The next few weeks were so busy as she rushed to the town hall in her lunch break to pick up the forms and rush back to do her afternoon shift without having eaten anything. She would then fill the forms in between cooking, cleaning, and sorting Percy out with a bedtime story and cuddle, and miss her lunch the next day only to find out she missed something out or put the wrong information in the wrong spot. It took her five tries before she secured a marriage licence and a date. She then spent the next few lunch breaks hunting through the bargain shops for something respectable for the civil ceremony. Her budget was more limited than normal since her holiday with Percy was taken out of her clothing allowance as well as the honeymoon.

On top of that she had to book a table in a steak house restaurant for the reception which included the obvious three people family plus Gabe's mother, Gabe's friends, and Julia who took the whole day off work as well.

The day before the ceremony Sally was rushing through a quick food shop. While Gabe was going to celebrate his last night of freedom with booze, card games, and most likely strippers, Sally was going to mourn her last night of freedom with a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a long cuddle with Percy while they watched Disney films.

Yes she knows how sad that sounds.

She was just about to turn on her street when a voice called her name. She knew this voice and suppressed a moan. It wasn't that she didn't like her ex-lover's eldest son it was just that she knew what he was going to say and she really didn't want to talk about it.

"Sally," Triton said as he stepped beside her, "Sally don't marry him."

"I have to."

"No you don't." Triton shook his head. "You can send Percy to Camp Half Blood, you can use the pearl and bring him to the Sea Palace and live with us, or if you really don't want to be part of our world you can surely marry a better man for love who will love Percy as his own."

"I can't Triton, I can't" Sally said desperately as she felt tears well up in her eyes. "He stinks. He stinks so badly, so strongly, that the paint on my walls are peeling off. That scent is bound to drive any monster that comes from the Underworld back to the very pits of it. This is the best way to protect Percy, I have no choice."

"There is always a choice."

"One day you will have a child yourself if you haven't had one already and you will realise how important it is to keep that child near you as often as possible and which way is the best way to protect that child," Sally said wisely, "Percy's best chance is with me and the best protection I can offer him is the foul smell of Gabe Ugliano."

Triton frowned. He had never had a child himself, hoards of siblings that he had set out to protect behind the scenes, but never a child he had sired himself. He had kissed millions of women and occasionally men but he could never bring himself to do the act. It was sad that he was thousands and thousands years old virgin but then again so was Athena, Artemis, and Hestia and he would love to see someone make a jab at them for their virginity. His lack of interest in sexual intercourse was most likely due to his desire to be the opposite of his father and to make his mother proud. He wanted to marry and truly mean his vows whenever that day comes.

He remembered his mother who looked similar to Sally and was just as protective over him as she was over Percy. However she had the opportunity, unlike Sally, to fully exploit this over protectiveness into a fearsome powerful battle like fury. The memory of his mother dressed in full armour spearing a shark with his father's trident in order to protect him was the clearest memory of his childhood.

He couldn't find an argument against Sally's cool, tragic, and terrifying logic. He hated the idea of her having to subject herself to this torture. The man she was to marry wasn't even worth to be the scum beneath Triton's shoe. While Sally was an equal to the old Queens with her grace, intelligence, manners, and sense of honour and justice. She had almost become a mother to him. Well not quite, he could not fully bring himself to believe in her actually being his mother but he could not help but love her a little bit like he loved his mother.

She was a loving tender woman with a fierce streak that rivalled a lioness just like his mother was.

Only she was just weaker, prone to hysteria, and far too human for his liking.

He really liked Percy though, it had been a long time since he had a sibling that wasn't a Cyclopes and he missed the playful, energetic, and sheer intelligence of a half human sibling.

He wanted the best for both of them and while he was certain it wasn't with Gabe Ugliano he wasn't sure if it was with him and his father either.

"If you ever need to escape from him-"

"I know who to ask for help," Sally finished with a warm sad smile. "I know. My friend Julia said the exact same thing. She doesn't like Gabe either. I have to go, I am sure Gabe wishes to leave as soon as possible for his Stag do and I'm pretty certain my Ben and Jerry's is melting and you don't want that to happen."

Triton let out a quiet, short, and slightly bitter laugh as he watched the woman who was the mother to his only human sibling walk down the street.

It felt oddly like he was letting her walk to her death.

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