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"Yeah," Percy shrugged. Maybe it didn't have a lot of sense to it, but Sally had done so much for him. Maybe he couldn't talk to the therapists she forced him to go to, but the effort was sweet and kind. She was good, and all he wanted to do was help her. Maybe make up for all the terrible things him intruding on her life had caused.

She could have been mourning the lost child Poseidon had hidden from her. Instead she had to deal with him, and all the weirdness he had going on as he tried to figure out the culture surrounding him.

He shrugged. "He says I'm still his son, born in his waves. Changed my eyes, gave me abilities. Gods are weird, though."

He glanced at her, unsure of what to do with the sentiment. "Yeah, well. I doubt you asked to watch five hundred kids die like that."

"The one you had before you came here," Lilia surmised, her tone neutral, revealing no commentary or opinion either way. Whether he considered the mother he had now to be his true mother or not was his own business, and not something she was going to pry into.

It wasn't really anything she hadn't Seen already, but hearing the precise details, the actual facts, was still shocking. And obviously traumatic for the boy; how could it not be? To have not just your home, but your entire planet, dying before almost dying yourself, surrounded by panic and destruction; it was a wonder he had recovered as much as he had.

"You became the ward of a god." The realisation of all the implications dawned on her as she spoke. "Poseidon made you his." That would certainly mean he was protected, but Lilia wasn't certain it was the kind of protection she'd ever want for herself; the gods were unpredictable, inviting any number of unpleasant dramas into the lives of anyone connected to them.

"It isn't the first time I've Seen those kind of tragedies," she told him gently. "Death isn't an unfamiliar face to me." Meaning to reassure him, she now wondered if she hadn't just made it sound even worse.

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"Can they be blueberry?" He asked. He was never one to turn down blueberry pancakes.

Percy smiled at her, a small little beam under her praise. It did mean a lot - both her pride, and the insinuation that his mom would be too. He felt pretty lucky to have her; sure, anyone would be better than Smelly Gabe, who'd probably been very close to getting custody what with being his step dad, but she was there and felt like a rock. "Thank you."

"Hmm." She really was proud of him. Percy was always a strong boy, but she was immensely proud of him at that moment. "You should know I am damn proud of you, Percy. Your mother would be proud." She kisses the top of his head. She had taken Percy in when he was younger as the last remaining friend of Sally and a demigod to boot. "How would you feel about some pancakes for dinner?"

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"No. Perseus has been dead for a long time now," He said quietly. And his poor mom - Sally, who had done so much for him. But he couldn't speak up, couldn't tell her to start mourning her true child. How could he? He'd end up in Area 51 or some other hellhole like that.

"Annabeth never met the real Percy," He shrugged. He didn't know how to explain it. "She doesn't know. She started with just me, so I guess, it doesn't really count."

Lilia threw him a look in answer.

"Well, it's certainly not anyone else's. Not anymore." Perhaps the boy would think that was harsh, but it was nothing more than reality. He couldn't undo what had happened, turn back time or change things; this was his life now, whether he felt he had ownership or not.

Raising her eyebrows at the mention of the friend, she felt more interested in reading a little of that connection than in the deceased monster turning to dust beside them.

"If none of this is yours, then what about Annabeth?" she asked with a knowing look in her eyes. "Is she your friend, or is that not really yours either?"

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send in " take it easy. you're safe now, but you need to relax. " for the sender to greet a waking receiver after having found them badly wounded and on the brink of collapse at their doorstep.

alternatively, send in " how long was i out for? " for the sender, having woken up on the receiver's sofa/bed/spare bed, to greet the receiver after showing up on their doorstep earlier with serious injuries and in a weakened state.

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He shrugged. "My first mother took me to the ship yard."

He didn't like saying that. Sally was his mom, now. She held him tight and never let him go, unlike his first mother. When the soldiers took him, she pushed his hands away and lied to him. "They called it the Children's Ship. The biggest one we had, stripped down to fit all of us. But not my brother, no one's sibling. They locked us in the dorms so our captain could talk to us while taking off, and there was this big bang. The big kids were trying to bully the little ones, telling us that it was our planet exploding behind us, that there was no grown up ship, and we'd be alone for forever. That's when we started crashing. And we didn't stop until we crashed into your planet and I..."

His mouth twitched. "Because of the fire, when I jumped, I didn't breathe first. Poseidon says that's how he had me, my first breath was his water."

He cleared his throat, straightening in the seat she had offered him. "Not surprising Death was there, considering how many kids died. I'm sorry you saw all that."

"Not exactly," Lilia told him, smiling a little awkwardly at the half-admission, knowing it was only going to lead to an inevitable, and further, explanation. So much for trying to appear as a fraud. "But I do See it. How you came here, what happened, who you really are. Or were," she added as a qualifier, knowing it was too complicated for simple definitions.

"It doesn't necessarily mean you were supposed to die," she reasoned sympathetically. "But there was Death there when it happened. When you took on this life for yourself." A new identity rather than a false one, he still wasn't the boy everyone thought he was. At least, not originally.

"What do you remember from when you came here?" she asked. "What happened after you crashed in the ocean?"

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"How many people have tried to kill you?!"

“To anybody who has tried to kill me, you’ve all been forgiven. I honestly can say that I don’t blame you so let’s call er’ even. Cheers.”

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Percy and Annabeth Percy Jackson and the Olympians - S01E03 - We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium

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"That's a bit hard when none of it is really mine," Percy said.

His mouth twitched. He could consider all the people who had died. A ship full of five hundred children, crashing for so long he was all that was left, just him and the captain, until the captain used the last of his strength to give him this life, a life that wasn't his to begin.

"I think you need to get to know me better." He snickered a bit. He watched as the Greek monster began to glow, a dark monstrous light, until it dissolved to dust. "Annabeth would be quick to tell you, the only thing I can do is something stupid."

"All the more reason to appreciate what you have," Lilia countered pointedly through a gritted smile.

"If someone has died to keep you alive, maybe you should consider that next time you..." Lilia looked in the direction of the destroyed beast of a monster, and thought about how to sum up what had just happened here. "Do something heroically stupid."

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WALKER SCOBELL & ARYAN SIMHADRI starring as PERCY JACKSON & GROVER UNDERWOOD in PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS (2023 - ) dir. James Bobin

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OOPS! ALL ANGST! PROMPTS *  assorted dialogue, adjust as necessary

when were you going to tell me the truth?

so you're telling me everything has been a lie.

i never should have trusted you.

you've done nothing but lie.

i had to make you believe me in order to get you to come.

there's nothing you can do for me now.

go! i'll fight them off! get to safety!

i'm done with this place.

we were never meant to be together.

there's nothing you can say to convince me otherwise.

i put my faith in you, and this is how you repay me?

you should have known better than to trust me.

is that all this is? a ploy? a game? is that what i am to you?

you've been playing with my heart this whole time.

was any of it real?

i'm never coming back here again.

i have a message from your father.

you were a waste of my time.

so that's it then? you're leaving?

we always knew this was a one way trip.

it's been an honor serving with you.

how long have you known?

did you ever love me? i mean really love me?

they made me a better offer.

it's not my fault you fell in love.

i need you to promise me you'll do everything in your power to fight.

what are you talking about? i'm not leaving you here!

there's nothing we can do now.

it's useless to try and fight.

i always thought there was more to you. turns out i was wrong.

you betrayed me for nothing.

you made me a promise.

it's no use. i've tried everything.

i can't believe you fell for that.

everything you've ever known is a lie.

do you want to hear what really happened?

i should have told you this a long time ago.

you're going to want to sit down for this.

i'm not sure you're ready for the honest truth.

i have a message from your mother.

get out of my house!

i'm never speaking to you again.

i'm not going to repeat myself.

i told you to never contact me again.

i warned you this would happen.

you're really good at fucking things up.

don't worry. you'll never hear from me again.

you were wrong about everything.

you already missed your chance.

i never asked for much.

i've loved you since the day we met.

i don't want you to be here when it happens.

you're such a disappointment.

i can't go on without you.

you have ruined my life!

we should run.

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Reconciliation verse

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"I didn't know you were alive when I stole your life," Percy reminded him. He tried to say more, and failed to find decent words. None of them would really work or fit here. He shrugged uselessly and ended up settling. "If you want to see your mom, I can't stop you. It'd be selfish."

He watched Perci spin out, and did his best to keep his hands to himself. "Yeah. I guess you would. Do ... you think she won't recognize you?"

"Yeah, I did. Why didn't you talk me out of it!? This was a horrible idea!" He was trying not to yell loudly, his voice quiet despite the tone he was using. He knew why, he had seen how guilty he felt the second Percy knew who he was.

But even if he just came to say 'Hello' and use the lie of being Amphitrite's son, her and Aunt Amy had been close once. Would she see the lie? Would she be able to tell who he was? Honestly the idea of her not recognizing him almost seemed worse. "Even if she doesn't recognize me, I told you why Dad took me. I'll still probably have to tell her I'm Amphitrite's son."

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"Please. If I should have died only once, things would be easier. We were crashing for months. Plus what all the big kids said," He grumbled the last part, almost chuckling at how ludicrous her reaction felt. "It definitely feels borrowed. When our pilot said he'd die to make sure we lived, we thought he was exaggerating."

"So you just chase towards death because you had a near miss with it once?" Lilia challenged in no-nonsense disbelief.

"When you get a second chance at life, you're supposed to savour it, not deliberately risk it." She punctuated her point with a smack to his arm for emphasis. "There's no such thing as borrowed time. The time is yours."

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CARING FOR THE SICK PROMPTS.

i found this list and kinda fed into it each time i got the flu or a migraine, and u know what, it's just me revealing just how much i love the caring threads and the soft threads and the fondly exasperated "let me help you" threads! use at your pleasure, DO NOT ADD TO THE LIST NOR EDIT IT! i will be changing it accordingly!

" i found you passed out in the kitchen. you wanna stop working yourself so hard? or do i need to keep hitting the gym to carry you to bed every day? "

" you're burning up. "

" your neighbour called me and said you could use a nurse. looks like they were right, too. "

" you were told to take it easy, so... yeah. this is kinda on you. "

" you took a sick day. you NEVER take a sick day. so yeah, i got worried, and i figured i'd come over and keep an eye on you. "

" you texted me a long and incoherent text that held about 90% of the emoji list and about four different languages. figured it wouldn't hurt to drop by and see how you were doing. "

" how long have you been sick for? and don't lie. "

" you look like hell. "

" i brought you some soup; let me heat some up for you? "

" okay. it's time you went to the hospital. "

" hey… hello there, sleeping beauty. you gave me a bit of a scare yesterday. how are you feeling? "

" i swear, if you even think of getting out of that bed… "

" you know when i said to call if it's an emergency? a fever is most DEFINITELY considered an emergency! "

" if you think you're going to work like this, you better think again. "

" don't worry. my family swears by this remedy; just let it work its magic and you'll feel good as new in no time. "

" I don't care about getting sick. i'm not leaving you until you're back to full health. "

" you didn't stop to think that this might happen when you're burning the candle at both ends? "

" yeah, I can play the role of nurse AND say "I told you so" at the same time, actually. "

" you better drink every last drop of this tea, no matter how disgusting it is. "

" i told my boss it was an emergency so they've given me a full week to look after you. "

" quit being so stubborn and get into BED! "

" what part of doctor's orders hasn't sunk in yet? bed rest! for the WEEK! "

" right, where do you keep your saucepans? i'm going to make you my famous noodle soup. it's a cure-all, i'm telling you! "

" hey, unless you're going to the bathroom or the sofa, I don't want to see you out of that bed. got it? "

" when are you gonna start letting people look after you, huh? "

" i know, i know, i turned off all the lights once i figured you had the migraine. you want some tea? water? "

" don't be mad, but i saw your fridge, and... it frightened me. so i've taken you back to my place, and i'm gonna get deliveroo to bring some groceries to your place tomorrow. okay? "

" i know your appetite is a little off, so i ordered in a whole tonne of options. just try a little bit of something, please? for me? "

" i've brought half a pharmacy, enough movies and boardgames to last us a decade, and every single snack i could fit into the basket at the grocery store. so sit your butt down, eat your soup, and try and make the most of your bed rest for the next week, will you? "

ACTION PROMPTS ( SEND THE FULL LINE! and feel free to reverse if u wish! ):

[ TOUCH ]: sender gently rests a hand against the receiver's forehead to check their temperature.

[ DAMP ]: sender presses a cool cloth against the receiver's face, neck and forehead to try and lower their fever.

[ BLANKET ]: sender wraps another blanket around the receiver to try and stop them from shivering.

[ SPOON ]: sender gently coaxes spoons of soup into the receiver's mouth to build up their strength after an illness.

[ CARRY ]: sender, finding the receiver weakened/unconscious on the floor, immediately lifts them up and carries them back to bed.

[ AROUND ]: sender keeps a protective arm around the receiver to help them walk without the risk of stumbling or collapsing.

[ STAY ]: sender decides to stay by the receiver's bedside after learning that they're sick.

[ HAIR ]: sender smooths back the receiver's hair in a soothing gesture to try and help them go back to sleep.

[ TILT ]: sender tips a bottle of water up for the receiver to sip from.

[ HUM ]: sender hums/sings to soothe a sick receiver back to sleep.

[ BACK ]: sender gently rubs the receiver's back, either to soothe them or warm them while they're unwell.

[ SHARE ]: sender climbs into the receiver's sickbed with them, wrapping their arms around them to offer warmth and comfort.

[ SHOWER ]: sender, learning the receiver has a high fever, takes a cold shower with them in order to lower their temperature.

[ WAKEN ]: the receiver wakes up in bed, having been found unconscious by the sender and carried into the bed from the floor.

[ QUARANTINE ]: the sender and receiver, both being sick, decide to quarantine together and spend the recovery period with each other.

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...this poor boy