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Ψ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐧 & 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲 Ψ

𝐌𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬, and I found it fascinating.

I made my way down a very long walkway to reach the place where I would find Zeus. I was terrified, I mean if I was Poseidon's kid then that would mean he's, my uncle?

Whoa.

That's kind of crazy. But as I was walking up the steps to reach the throne of Zeus...I heard voices.

I took out my sword and carefully crouched down  on the stairs to stay hidden but looked over at the throne seeing...that kid...Percy?

It's Percy!

Oh! He must've come back to give the bolt!

And I'm guessing who he was talking to was Zeus, dressed in a nice suit, with a very serious tone and manner in his voice.

And a stern but grumpy looking face...

"Your family is a mess." I heard from Percy, maybe not the best thing to say to Zeus kid?

Percy continued speaking very agitated and I got very worried about him, "They don't support you because they love you. They obey you because they're afraid. Ares, your son. He turned on you the moment someone stronger showed up-"

Percy continued on but I paid more attention to the tenseness in Zeus's face. I was staying cautious for Percy because he's just a kid and from what Luke told me about Zeus, he could kill Percy and not care about it.

And he's, my brother? Kind of? Half...

Oh gosh I have a gringo little brother; I mean I am partially white too then. But I was raised by a mom in our culture.

God this is very confusing now.

"Do you really think he'll be the last? How afraid of you do you think they'll be when your dad shows up-" but I couldn't let him finish, I saw that bolt in Zeus's hand ready to be aimed right at Percy.

And while I didn't know him or really accept him as a brother, my mother raised me with a heart.

"Percy run!" I shouted jumping up and holding up my sword in case Zeus tried doing anything.

Percy crouched into a ball as we both looked away, but nothing happened.

I was confused and I figured for sure that Zeus was ready to attack the kid. But as I opened my eyes, I saw a man holding Zeus and his bolt back.

"I surrender," the man said, staring at Zeus.

In my heart, deep down I knew who it was and yet I didn't want to be right.

It was my- no.

It was Poseidon.

"Take your victory, just spare my son." And with that I felt the tears building in my eyes.

His son.

What about your daughter?

What about me?

I didn't want to give this stupid man my tears and yet I have been giving them to him my whole life, could it hurt me any less? No, not at all of course.

I hated him.

"Even now you seem to surprise me, brother. You forget to mention one child. Understandably, I would also like to forget that I had a daughter as well." Zeus spat at Poseidon, was he defending me?

I mean...it was kinda backhanded.

Ugh.

But he was for sure getting a rise out of Poseidon. Percy looked at me and I sighed and stepped back.

"Both shouldn't have been born but can we blame one? You lied." He gritted out towards Poseidon as the god of the sea spoke back.

"Same as your Thalia? Whose bravery still inspires all Demi-God. Perseus is one of those heroes, he has shown that bravery today." I scoffed at those words.

Seriously? That's it? He could only recognize this stupid kid as his child and not me.

I saved the Lukes stupid-

Ugh!

My mom would say terrible things about him when I wasn't there and all of it was true, and we didn't even realize it.

They began speaking Greek and while Luke was trying to teach me it was still weird, unlike Spanish where I grew up learning it, and yet learning Greek...felt like a breeze.

Father. That's what I heard.

"Make sure I see neither of them again." Zeus spoke and he disappeared out of here and let out a sigh.

I didn't need much of an answer.

I already had it.

You favor one child over the other because that's all that matters.

"So, you're my sister? That makes me your brother, right?" Percy asked me and I turned my head to look at him.

"Yes...and no." I spoke and turned my head back to look at Poseidon as he finally turned around.

I just shook my head in disbelief at what was right in front of me...

I looked at Percy once again and told him "for 17 years this man forgot about me, my mom. He forgot about us. Believe me, don't even think that I will ever want to be known as his kid. I came here looking for answers but you standing here makes me know I have it all clear."

I turned to Poseidon with tears escaping my eyes as I laughed out "you have it. You have a perfect son. Son of Poseidon...you two have your stupid fictitious moment because I am leaving."

As I began walking down the steps I had heard "wait-"

Looking back and seeing Percy as he told me "Maybe he has a good explanation."

I smiled and looked at him "than you can hear whatever excuse he has."

Percy looked upset but I didn't care.

Was it selfish of me, sure?

But I had every right to be selfish. You would feel just the same if you were in my situation. Being selfish is seen as awful all the time when it shouldn't be. Why the hell should it!

We are all selfish in our lives! This is me being selfish and not giving anything if I have a brother if I finally know my dad because my answer is already there!

I made my way down the steps and back to the elevator as quickly as possible.

I finally reached the bottom floor and left the Empire State building and got into the car.

Maybe I shouldn't be driving because of all the emotions running through my body but I didn't care.

I knew it wasn't safe for me to keep going so instead of making it to camp I ended up at my mom's apartment.

Knowing she wasn't home but still at work I got out of the car and opened the door with the spare key she hid underneath the matt.

I walked inside our small home and looked around seeing it all looking...normal.

Everything seemed in place and neat and I saw my drawings scattered around and hung up. My frown appeared as I cried and held my face, I sat on the bed and screamed to myself as I rocked back and forth.

I hate him, I hate my dad.

I hate Poseidon.

But as I sat there, I suddenly heard a knock at the door, I was confused when I heard it.

Probably a neighbor telling me to keep it down. I made my way to the door but as I turned the knob to open it and looked to see who it was, I saw him.

"Poseidon..."

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Uh Oh...seems like Poseidon is gonna have a lot of explaining to do.

And Hayley might just explode-