My father wasn't around (my father wasn't around)/ I swear that I'll be around for you from Dear Theodosia is totaly a song Jason would sing to his newborn.
Jason wanted a family. He needed a family. He was a child soldier for all his life, the champion of Juno, groomed to be the perfect weapon and preator of New Rome. He was never a child, nor a son. He would never let his child live the same.
He would be so happy to be a father. He dreamed of a future in which he had a family! Grandchildren! Oh, Jason would have been a very good dad, better than Jupiter...if he had lived long enough to become one.
Au where Percy was taken by Amphitrite as her champion like Hera took Jason.
Heavily inspired by Prince of Lost Waters and Love is Enough (Until it Isnt) by WardofWinters (QoLife) in AO3- be sure to check these stories out and read their other stories (and if you know more stories with the same premise, please send them my way ✨)
Amphitrite gets the idea from Hera of course. If the sky queen can take her husband’s bastard as her champion - someone who can bring glory to HER name as payment for their existence -then as queen of the seas and the spurned wife, she should also have one, yes? Its only fair.
She takes Percy soon after Hera takes Jason. So he’s like 3 probably. But she doesn’t take him so CHB, she takes him to Atlantis as her personal project. Poseidon was furious of course. Sally called for him immediately after she found out Percy was missing. But can he do anything? No. He and his wife weren’t on best terms as of recent centuries and she’s invoking her right to the life of a demigod sired against their marriage. Also, he can’t interfere with the boy’s life as his father but the laws are more lenient with the stepparent. So he resigns himself to letting Amphitrite raise the boy as he watches from afar. Which is doubly painful as Percy’s within arms length practically but he can’t reach him.
The plan was 1) Get the boy; 2) bring him to Atlantis; 3) train him to fight for Olympus; 4) release him back when shit hits the fan to fulfil his role as the child of the prophecy; 5) Amphitrite gets recognition she deserves; 6) He dies. Thats pretty straightforward. Unfortunately she did not foresee that the reason Hera gave Jason up so early to Lupa was so she would not get so attached.
Amphitrite got very, very attached.
In a year, she was carrying him around her palace, braiding pearls into his hair and calling him “little prince” or “little pearl”. It became so concerning that Triton had to run an intervention when Percy turned 6 because Jason had started training as soon as he could walk straight but Amphitrite was reluctant to send him to training with the ichtyocentaurs because its too far- look at him Triton, he’s too young for this, what if he gets hurt, what if they treat him badly, what if word gets out and Zeus finds him blah blah blah. Fine. Compromise- Triton starts his training inside the palace of Amphitrite. But he has to start now.
To be fair, he’s not a bad student and he obviously adores the queen. They do have to stop him from calling her mother, though. That goes too far, for a bastard.
(Amphitrite was not pleased)
However, Triton’s concerns about how attached she’s getting was not without merit. She seems utterly determined to be Percy’s mother; even worse- she seems utterly convinced that he’ll survive the prophecy and as a consequence be offered immortality. That way, he could stay with their family for all eternity. Which is… entirely wishful thinking if Triton was being kind. Frankly delusional when he’s not.
Triton watched as the intensity of the training was doubled then tripled under Amphitrite’s instruction. He watched Percy fall again and again, get back up fight. He watched him cry then watched him bleed filthy mortal blood, which only increased his mother’s paranoia. He watched as his mother promised Percy that one day, after he had saved Olympus, he could finally be part of their family. Officially. A crown. A throne. A Family.
There was nothing Percy craved more than love and acceptance. Nothing he wished more than to meet their father. Especially since the boy didnt know his birth mother lives and was desperately looking for him.
Triton sighed. This was a recipe for disaster.
The boy was sent to Camp Half Blood when the Bolt gets stolen. Dutifully, he does as told. Each summer he comes back to the surface, faces horrors upon horrors, then at its end he comes home and brings honor and pride to the Queen.
To be fair to Amphitrite, she was almost entirely right in her prediction. Almost.
She did not account for Percy refusing immortality. She did not account for him growing close to the demigods in Camp Half Blood. She did not account for him falling in love. She did not account for him meeting Sally Jackson again after many years.
She is furious.
There was a tense few months after the war where no one knew what to do. On one hand the coronation will still proceed under the king’s instruction. On the other, the queen had been frigid with her son that she refused to see him when he visited. Considering that the planning was handled by the queen it was… not an ideal scenario. It frustrated Percy so much that he spent most days in the surface.
Which led to the present problem.
It was December. Percy was supposed to be in Atlantis. He was not. This year, he remained in Camp, with his significant other, occasionally going out to visit Sally Jackson. It was at this time that he was abducted from his own father’s cabin.
After Jason Grace popped up in Camp Half Blood and completed a quest to free the Queen of Heavens there can be no doubt as to who had taken her son.
She might not understand him. She might be incensed by his choices. But that boy was her son. He was her son, and damn heaven and hell, no one has the right to take him from her.
Poseidon really does treat Percy like a kitten a lot. Currently Percy has fallen asleep in his dad's arms and it doesn't look like Poseidon will be waking him up any time soon.
But on the following days on Olympus (the demigods are allowed to stay for longer), they see Poseidon scruffing Percy and lifting him up, causing Percy to just go limp. And also they've seen him frequently play with Percy's hair which seems to relax the demigod and settle his ADHD restlessness so much. They also see Percy be carried around or cuddled whether he wants to be or not.
Percy seriously abuses his power over the sea god to get what he wants (mostly for just small things). Poseidon is already a sucker for baby seal eyes from Percy so when Percy is being all sweet and calls him papa at the same time he gets such good cuddles out of it.
And Percy was a manipulative little shit who knew far too well how much power he had over his overprotective papa and he had no qualms about abusing said power. One memorable incident being when he was bickering with his godly cousins (Hermes and Apollo) over something minor and turned from the aggravating bitch he was being to his cousins, to smol baby mode when he spotted his dad, knowing his dad could scare his cousins easily enough.
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꒰ contents ꒱ jason grace x fem!reader. fluff. kissing. sweet!jason, maybe ooc(?) jason, my personal headcanons, boyfriend!jason grace. the burning maze never happened 😇😇 (canon)
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he gives you massages. maybe you're just lounging around together on the couch before he just grabs your feet and massages them for you. so yeah, he gives you massages after a long day, even when he's the one who needs it more.
your consent is his priority. when your relationship first started, this man was cautious as heck. like, he wants to hold your hand? he'd hesitantly take your hand in his, loosely, so you can let go if you want to (he'd cry if you did tho.) and he'd ask "is this okay?" and only after you give him the green light that he tightens his hold, lacing your fingers together.
it went on like that for months, and you had to reassure him many times that he didn't have to ask before he grew the confidence.
he gives the best, wamest, most comforting hugs. i think that's a canon thing, but if it wasn't, it is now. yeah, he gives you the best hugs ever. you're happy? he hugs you tightly with a smile on his face. you're sad? he quietly holds you in his arms, letting you cry on his shoulder. you're angry? he hugs you to calm you down.
he has a picture of you inside his wallet. i mentioned once jason is like an old man. well he is. and when he was running errands or something to take out his card, he just stops to look at the picture for a second, smiling like a fool.
he's observant when it comes to you. we all know how observant that man is, but when it comes to you, he does it like he's breathing. he just knows when you're feeling upset. he won't pry but he'd just be there with you so you're not alone. or when you're uncomfortable in a public setting, he'll hold your hand to ground you and just remind you that he's there.
he pays attention to small details. he knows how you like your coffee, how you like your tea, what kind of shampoo do you use, what kinds of food you like, your favourite artists. how many moles. freckles, or beauty marks you have. the book you said you really wanted to get is suddenly on your nightstand when you wake one morning.
reassurance king. so while he needs to be reassured from time to time, he does the same for you. he'll tell you he loves you—not just with words, but with his actions—and that he'll always stay with you, basically just batting away your fears just like you do with him.
he's powerless with you. oh, you want to go down a slide that looks like a metal death trap? he tries to stop you, being the usual responsible and reasonable man he is, but when you pull out the puppy eyes? he folds embarrassingly fast and he let you. (only if you let him join u tho there's no way he's letting u on that thing by yourself.)
“jase, i kinda wanna go down that slide...” — “absolutely not, that looks deadly, you could get hurt.” — “please...?" *blinks* — “.... oh fine. let me go with you, at least.” — “yay!!!”
he blushes at every kind of affectionate gesture you give him. that man is so soft and so sweet and so pretty. he gives you kisses, hugs you, sometimes tease you by kissing your cheek to see you blush.
but when he's on the receiving end? he short-circuits. if you peck his cheek? done. jasongrace.exe has stopped working.
he could be a little overprotective at times. correction: he could be very overprotective at times.
which yes, would sometimes escalate to a small fight—especially if you're more the reckless, impulsive type— but its nothing a simple communication couldn't resolve.
you'd both get like,,, 10000x more affectionate after a fight.
that's not to say that you weren't already sappy enough btw, you are. the rest of your friends could attest to that.
on the groupchat with the rest of your friends, your nicknames are 'mom' and 'dad' (leo was responsible for that but are we surprised?)
he associates every romantic love songs with you. has a playlist just filled with about a thousand soft love songs with titled with your name with a '<3' next to it.
when he kisses, it's a real kiss. like none of that quick peck on the lips— he wants you to feel it, like a full ten seconds of just kissing you slowly, not even caring if he's late for an appointment or any of that stuff.
he gives affection like it's a part of his to-do list. they are, sometimes out of nowhere he'd just be so casually affectionate like DOES HE KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING TO YOUR HEART???
*hugs you* "jase, what's this for?" — "just 'cause. you look like you needed one." *cue your tears* (no fr the author is currently crying ahahaha)
he does not like it when you talk bad about yourself. no, he absolutely hates this. he never lets you get away with self-depracation, nuh-uh not on his watch. he wont stop to remind you of how amazing and beautiful you are. doesn't force you to talk but he needed to know that you feel better or that he at least pull a real smile from you before he feels content.
he gets a baby fever when you babysit estelle. listen,,, this man has a future with you already planned out in his head. and seeing you with a kid,,, being so sweet?? may the gods bless his heart. the heart eyes he has for you would quadruple in size.
not really a jase headcanon, but aphrodite herself approves of you two. if you're a daughter of aphrodite,,, you best believe she visits you just to gush about your love life.
once you graduate college together, he'd subtly (not) check out jewelry stores for a ring to propose to you with.
