since Rick Riordan forgot Sally existed here’s something to fill the empty void in my heart:
Poseidon was the one who informed Sally Percy went missing (shh i kno he was a bit haywire at the time but i need that angsty parent shit)
for a while Sally would just bake blue cookies and cry thinking about little toddler percy and 16 year old percy getting the melted chocolate all over his face
but thank god for Paul, because he was always there to help, but losing her son was far worse than anything Paul could heal
when she got the mssg from Percy on the phone she listened to it literally for hours
and she was crying again, but she found hope again
okay and at this point she was a mess tho like bags underneath her eyes, paler than usual, and she lost weight
but whenever she lost hope she listened to that mssg again
Annabeth was also a help, looking at Annabeth reminded her of percy tho
they’d meet up for lunch sometimes and Annabeth would share the latest news
and when Annabeth told her that they’d see him again, Sally told her to give him a hug from her
Flash forward to the reunion that never happened- Percy is nervously standing outside his apartment door
he knows his mom will be home at the time and he rings the bell
paul opens the door and he is literally like at a loss for words
and then sally calls out to paul who is it honey and she comes to the door and she’s also like *_*
and percy’s just says hey like all sheepishly
and Sally bear hugs him and she’s crying and a lot and percy is crying too and Paul is tearing up and im crying too
and she just holds his hand on the couch and listens to him recount his adventure
and like hearing him talk again, hearing his laugh is enough to break her again
but as she listens to him she sees he’s grown taller, but he looks thinner, has new scars, and has bags under his eyes that rival her own
and his eyes look different, the usual playfulness isn’t there
and he just seems so tense and sally wants to make sure he’s comfortable and he says he’s fine so Sally doesn’t push it
Something is different and she sees Annabeth again and sees something is different about her too
and one day it’s 3 am and she finds him with a bowl of soggy cereal just staring past the tv
and he just says he cant sleep and he leaves it at that
he doesn’t want to tell sally about tartrus
but one day he screams in his sleep
and Sally’s there and he’s just so broken and vulnerable and sally just sees her son looking so scared like when he was a child
and over some hot cocoa he tells her about tartrus
he doesn’t go into gruesome detail
and sally tries to help but she realizes it’s something she won’t ever be able to understand
but she helps in tiny ways, like packing a fresh brownie with his lunch for school, asking for his help in the kitchen when he seems more down than usual
plus on his 17th birthday she throws him a surprise party and she gets to meet the people who kept her son alive during the quest
which sally profusely thanks them for
and eventually he heals maybe not completely, but with time, with the help of everyone Sally sees him grow up with the same contagious happiness he was born with
but regardless, Sally is just happy to have her son back
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