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Ψ 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 Ψ

"𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞." Was the first thing I said.

Backing away from the door as he just walked in, maybe not my smartest move as I grabbed my sword and held it up to him.

"I saw the way you spoke about him, how you looked at him. Your son. The way I always wanted my dad to look at me, but he never gave a flying hell!" I screeched out as I rushed at him.

I tried hitting him, but he grabbed my arm, and I lifted my leg and kicked his arm and sliced his leg as he groaned grabbing his thigh, and I held my sword to his neck.

"You may be immortal, but I have been waiting so long to see you. And now that I have, you're just a coward. Leaving a poor woman-My mom! My mom had to sleep on the streets! Beg for food! And now she's finally found an ounce of stability. Meanwhile you just went off, had other children, and forgot all about her just to pick and choose who you wanted." I growled out as I elbowed his face.

"You think that's funny!? Forgetting about poor women! A woman who was laughed at! Beaten down! Pregnant, for God sakes Poseidon! You're a coward!" I sliced his arm as he stood up on two feet his blood...not being blood..

I looked at him as I shouted "you are the man who destroyed my life! I don't see you as anything else but that! You destroyed my life! My mom's! She was there for everything! Every anxiety attack! Manic episodes! The times I wanted to just end it all! She was there and you never were!"

As I aimed once again, he grabbed my sword as I cried, as he tried to pull it out of my hands. I backed away and looked at him.

"Your son...he was all you cared for! Why! Why couldn't that have been the same with my mom! Why didn't you tell her what she was getting into so she wouldn't make a mistake like me!" I shrieked out holding both my hands in front of me shaking violently.

I saw my hand was shaking, my whole body was shaking, my teeth chattered as I let out in tears.

"How many times do we have to suffer for it to be your time?" I asked almost dropping my sword.

But just then he finally said "you love your mother very much..."

My eyes met his blue ones, and I approached him and spat in his face "I do, and I'm glad I'm nothing like you."

He sighed and I asked "do you even remember her name? Even remember her face?"

"Melina...Reyes." He finished and I shook my head and laughed.

"Of course, you remember a name, but you pick and choose who to forget and remember right? My friends tried so hard to tell me I didn't need to feel this when all I want to do is kill you. Kill you for destroying my mom." I seethed out.

My fists tightened as I tried punching, but he instinctively grabbed my hand. I winced and looked at him as he put down my hand and I tried my other hand, but he grabbed that one too.

"Just a misogynistic man, aren't you? Favoring stupid Percy Jackson. Is it because he looks the way you hoped? Blue stupid eyes, blonde hair? Is that it? Why come if you don't even speak a word to me, you coward." I hashed out in his face as he stood there staring at me.

I shoved him away and shoved from his grip.

"For 17 years I have begged for you! And you never came!" I shouted.

He had the audacity to say, "you are my daughter."

I screamed out "I am Melina Reyes's daughter! Not yours!"

I held up my finger at him, my face was probably bright red from anger as I stared at him.

"You're at the beck and call for a woman and her child and yet you took advantage of a woman with the biggest heart and big issues! How dare you!" My voice croaked as my anger continued to flow throughout my body.

"There is no excuse for what you did to us, and you know that." I told him finally calming down but panting harshly out of breath.

Finally walking up to him calm enough I told him "I don't care if you apologize to me. I don't need an explanation, but my mom. The woman who sacrificed everything deserves the biggest explanation of them all. Having to see her daughter suffer and she felt helpless because she didn't know what to do! You broke my mom and I was the one who repaired the cracks."

Poseidon stood there staring at me as I smiled while shaking my head "do you not understand what it does to a teenage girl to see this from the person she's supposed to call dad? Seeing him look at his son with such...love and concern. And then me? Nothing...should've expected nothing less. He was right. You're all selfish cowards that don't deserve us."

"I spent the last 15-ish years chasing after some sort of...notice from you and after a while I realized I shouldn't, and even now...finally meeting you, you're incapable of loving me. Putting your pride ahead of anything." I muttered the last sentence.

I forced my sword out of his hand, and I grabbed my bag "don't claim me. I don't ever want to be known as your daughter. I want everyone to know...that Poseidon is just like any of the other God's."

He stared at me and simply said "fine."

My head shook from side to side as I shoved past him and said "get the hell out of my mom's place, I'm going back to camp."

I felt him grab my arm and I quickly turned around and held out my hand all of a sudden through the pipes of water we heard the rumbles.

Suddenly from the bathroom appeared serpents. Snakes as they were at my sides as I looked at him and he stared at me in disbelief.

"Don't you dare touch me, I don't know what I can do or what I am but believe me. One day I will understand what I am, and you probably won't believe in me and that will just make me want to push myself even more." I declared and he just gave me glaring eyes.

I lowered my hand and the serpents left my sides and I opened the door to leave the apartment and walked down the steps as I saw Damien's car, I put the keys in and looked back seeing the door shut and Poseidon nowhere.

I felt a lump in my throat form as I was just filled with anger and rage and had no time to cry anymore. No more tears for him.

I got out of my parking spot and began making my way back to Camp.

And I didn't know it would be the last straw I would have before I would feel so...broken.

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Seems like Poseidon stayed silent.

Perhaps he knew it was all true.

We're close to the end and you all aren't ready for whats to come!