THE SEA QUEEN'S PEARL
Things got harder the older Percy got. Sally had learnt all the tricks into coping with Gabe. She did everything he asked while rebelled in a passive-aggressive manner, cooking blue foods and keeping her own surname had been the most obvious. She kept lavender in her pillow to lessen the stink in the bed, she avoided as best as she could to not feed Gabe food that could affect his Body Oder and managed almost successfully to keep Percy and herself out of his way when he was in a foul mood. Percy, now nearer a teenager than a child, was increasingly prideful, easily angered, and cheeky. He was certainly rather over-defensive of his own mother which made Sally flushes with pride and love for her only child. However this had increasingly made him a target of Gabe's anger and Sally is finding she has to move more and more quickly to intervene before Gabe actually lands a hand on her son. She grimaces when Percy's deep green eyes watch her carefully as she hides her bruises and split lips and black eyes the next morning. She is careful not to wince when she moves and to keep a cheerful attitude throughout the morning until her son was safely behind the school gates and then she puts the fake dazzling smile back on when he comes home six hours later right until she is in bed and she tries desperately to keep her tears back as she buries her face into her lavender scented pillow. She thanks the Gods for sending Tyson to her son. Percy's sad face would cheer up instantly when Tyson either appears before him or is talked about by Sally. He doesn't have many friends and the ones he did have were quick to forget him when something terrible happened. Tyson, however, would always stay by Percy's side, comforting him, making him laugh, and seeking protection from Percy as well. Whenever Percy got expelled (twice in the last three years) and was sent to a new school Tyson would always magically appear the very next day to sit next to Percy in class. She suspected one of the Gods, more likely her ex lover, had something to do with this and often burned food to thank them. Tyson was such a sweet boy. A very cheerful and innocent boy considering the life he had led. Her clear sight allowed her to see the mist and she could see the one sole green eye blinking up at her during his shy moments. She remembered what Triton had told her about the life Cyclops lead and knew that Tyson desperately craved someone to love him and take care of him. It made it all the easier to have the tall boy in her home and feed him alongside Percy, she only wished she could let the boy live with them as well but Gabe would not hear of it. At his newest school Percy had made another new friend and Sally couldn't help but half laugh, half worry at the situation he was in. Grover was a lovely boy, if a little too nervous, but he was also a Satyr, and Satyrs and Cyclopes did not get on well together. Grover moaned whenever Tyson got to close to him and Tyson would jump in fear whenever Grover entered the room. They both complained about the smell of the other and Percy being the oblivious child he should be pointed out that neither smelt as bad as Gabe and they should stop complaining. The amusing scenario continued for a while and then suddenly everything had changed. It all suddenly got worse. She should have known after all why else would a Satyr be in the same school as her son? PJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJ It started with Percy being expelled again. She wasn't quite sure why her son was expelled this time. It had happened so often that the reasons have all merged into one big headache and there were times that she felt her son had only been expelled because he was different. Many teachers didn't hesitate to show their dislike of her son at Parents' Evening and she always felt some of the excuses were rather bad. Anyway she couldn't afford childcare until the summer and had made a pact with Percy that he could stay in the apartment while she and Gabe was at work (no answering the door or phone, no inviting friends round, no leaving the apartment, no eating anything other than what she left out, no agitating Gabe, and no bad behaviour, oh and please try to do some work in the class books I brought you) and felt she could trust him to stick to it though she feared constantly that a monster would find him unguarded and attack him. Percy didn't like being locked up and within two weeks became agitated and temperamental, he was bored and lonely, and Gabe was taunting him. So Percy spoiling for a fight as any eleven year old child would back-chatted and insulted Gabe each chance he was given. She knew Gabe would erupt in a bad temper but she never once thought he would take it out on her child. It was mid-June when it had happened. She will never know what set Gabe off, it could have been anything from a bad day at work to simply because someone bumped into him on his way home. Either way she came home five minutes later than usual and was almost too late. He was screaming, swearing, and storming about as if he was a rhino or something. He kicked something on the floor, hard and the thing rolled over. Percy, covered in blood, lying there very still. A glance at the coffee table told her everything she needed to know, her son said something, Gabe argued with him, he argued back, Gabe smacked him one, a hit so hard that it sent Percy flying into the coffee table where he hit his head hard and knocked himself unconscious. Her baby could be bleeding to death right this second and Gabe was too busy shouting himself hoarse and kicking her son's ribs to notice. Let alone care. She felt numb. Horrified. Terrified. Angry. More than angry, she was furious. She was blinded by her fury. She let out a screech of fury and dropped her bag on the floor as she flew at him with her nails as if they were claws or something. She scratched and kicked and tried to bite him for daring to touch her child. But he was stronger. He was a natural fighter. And he was quick to defend himself. He punched her hard and his hands were suddenly tight round her throat as he strangled the life out of her. Poseidon have mercy on my soul, she thought choking on her last few breathes, save Percy if you can't save me, please. The door slammed open and suddenly Gabe was pulled off of her. She slumped down on the floor, her world slowly turning to black. Her last clear memory and thought was on this one tall child with his sole green eye blinking tears back as he held her to his chest. "Don't die Percy's Mummy, you can't die, Percy needs you, I need you, Daddy needs you, don't die Percy's Mummy," he wept. Oh Tyson, she thought, if only... The world goes black and she knows no more. This was the last day Sally Jackson breathed her last breathe. PJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJPJ Tyson felt something build up in him that could be courage as well as anger. He had always wanted to be brave like Percy, strong like Percy, outgoing like Percy, and best of all a fighter like Percy. Instead he was a coward who tried to hide from a Satyr behind Percy every time he had the chance. But today had been different and he wished it hadn't been. He had finished school for the summer and hurried quickly over to Percy's hoping to get to play with Percy and eat Percy's Mummy's cooking. He loved Percy's Mummy she was warm, cuddly, and nice, she smelt nice like cookies and hugged him almost as much as she hugged Percy. He hoped his real Mummy was just as nice as Percy's Mummy. He was shocked and scared when he saw Percy's Smelly Fake Daddy strangle Percy's Mummy. He saw Percy lying there on the floor covered in blood and anger suddenly raged through him. He grabbed Percy's Smelly Fake Daddy off of Percy's Mummy and threw him into the wall. He held Percy's Mummy for a while when suddenly Goat Boy appeared. "What did you do?" he demanded. "Tyson did nothing, it was Percy's Smelly Fake Daddy," Tyson snapped. "Help Percy's Mummy. Please Goat-Boy help her." Goat Boy nibbled his lip nervously and let out a grating noise before he rushed over to Percy and picked him up. "We have to get to Camp Half-Blood, if I Iris-Message them they'll let down the wards for you and Mrs Jackson. We can get them help there." "Too Far!" Tyson wailed. "Chiron is waiting for me downstairs, I saw you running and thought – never mind, point is the transport has a magical touch we'll be there in no time if we move quickly now." Tyson nodded and obeyed the Goat Boy. He didn't like Goat Boy, he smelt weird, acted weird, and was always looking at him with a mean look. But if Goat Boy was right and helped save Percy's and Percy's Mummy's life then Tyson will always respect Goat Boy. He just hoped Percy and Percy's Mummy will be all right.
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