That day when the PJO TV series finally reached season 4 of BOTL, and if they aired I Took A Permanent Vacation episode where Percy met Calypso, I'm gonna tear up in the first second. You'll see.... I'm not exaggerating
PJO Riordanverse Rarepair Week 2022 September 1 : Stars @them-awesome-rarepairs
𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 || Percy Jackson x Calypso || Fanfiction || credits: The Battle of The Labyrinth + Underneath the Stars
Ogygia Percalypso part 3 of ?
“Percy, what do you see?”
I brought my eyes back to earth. However amazing the stars were, Calypso was twice as brilliant. I mean, I’ve seen the goddess of love herself, Aphrodite, and I would never say this out loud or she’d blast me to ashes, but for my money, Calypso was a lot more beautiful, because she just seemed so natural, like she wasn’t trying to be beautiful and didn’t even care about that. She just was. With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight. She was holding a tiny plant in her hands. Its flowers were silver and delicate.
“I was just looking at…” I found myself staring at her face.
– Percy Jackson, The Battle of The Labyrinth
It was nighttime in the phantom island, Ogygia, where its existence was an enigma. A few days or weeks ago –nobody knows because time works differently there– he was injured badly, he gasped “Holy Poseidon” when he saw himself in the bronze mirror after the last occurrence in Mt. Hellens. He did not heal by himself. He was helped by a beautiful sorceress, Calypso. She tended his wounds, fed him ambrosia and foods, and gave him change of new clothes.
One night after dinner, they sat on the edge of the grassy meadow right before it slopped down to the sandy beach. It was dark but the stars, moon, and moonlace shone, providing them a shimmering light. They felt the breezy air, smelt the sweet-scented plants combined with the freshwater of the lake, and heard the sound of waves crashing to the shore. The feeling was just intoxicating and heavenly underneath the stars.
It was perfect. They looked up to the night sky and stargaze. This wasn't the first time they were stargazing, not the first time either Percy caught his eyes staring down at Calypso and thought nothing but how beautiful she is.
When her eyes met his, he blushed and looked away in embarrassment.
“Have I told you the stars in Manhattan are nothing compared to the stars up here?” Percy let out a contented sigh, “they’re brilliantly stunning.”
He brought his eyes back to her, “I have never seen anything like this.”
Then he saw the sad expression again. He didn’t know she was disappointed because she thought she would never see this Manhattan of his.
“Well, Brave One,” Calypso’s expression changed, “the stars won’t go anywhere, you can admire them for as long as you want.”
Maybe it was the atmosphere of how brilliant the night was, or maybe he was still tired and too lazy to get up to the cave and sleep, or maybe it was the company that made him want to spend more time outside. Whatever it was, he was just too fond of this state. He instantly spoke out his idea to sleep outdoors. Calypso hesitated at first, but after Percy's persuasion, she succumbed to his charm.
She raised her hand and waved at the cave. Just a few moments later, some cushions and blankets flew to her arms and a big mat flopped to the ground and rolled out by the invisible aerial servants. They arranged the cushions and lay down comfortably. They didn’t feel cold at all. The blankets wrapped them warmly and the wind blew softly.
Percy told her stories of the outside modern world, then Calypso unfold the stories of how the world is before she got imprisoned and quickly changed to other topics like musical instruments, favorite things, blue foods, and Percy telling jokes which Calypso genuinely found funny. They learned that they both were deeply compassionate towards other people around them.
After hours of engaging conversation, they kept letting out yawns but were hardly willing to sleep. But in the end, their eyelids got heavy and surrendered to bed.
They both contented to this, of how sublime the night was. But somehow they can’t shake off the feeling this will never happen again.
Calypso turned to sleep facing Percy, she thought of how she loved this moment, wanted to be selfish, and never wished for it to be over.
"Stay," she whispered.
Percy looked to his left and saw that she was already asleep peacefully. He turned to face her so she was the last thing his eyes saw, before he closed them to sleep, he mouthed:
"I'm not going anywhere."
And we drifted to another state of mind
And imagined I was yours and you were mine
As we lay upon the grass there in the dark
Underneath the stars
Weak in the knees wrapped in the warm, gentle breeze
Someone rating percalypso -20 of 10 because Calypso cURsEd aNNabEtH 😩 does she really cursed her?? Huh? Rate them because of what happened to anna b and not from how calypso treated percy? Not from despite how calypso held herself back from getting close to percy but he still smitten anyway by her kindness and how she looked more beautiful than the goddess of love herself? Not from how calypso doesn't force percy to stay and tell him to go? Not from how percy wanted her to be free he told the gods to release her from her island? Not from how percy thought of her as his "biggest what if' ?? *deep sigh*
