Percy Jackson Love of Aphrodite

Chapter 6

Percy's Point of view

Did I ever expect that I would end up being a single father? No definitely not. Am I complaining about it? No, I'm not. There are really only two things that I'm not looking forward to when Silena gets older, one of those is camp, and the other one that unfortunately will come sooner than that is putting her in school.

I certainly wouldn't be the best person to help her with her homework since I had a hard enough time with it myself when I was in school. I wouldn't be much of a help to her when that time comes. I think my mom and Paul will have to help her with that. I try not to think about that since it won't happen for a few years.

Lately, she has started to hate it when I leave her with my mom and Paul. I'm pretty sure that it's not that she doesn't like them, she does, she just doesn't want me to leave. That makes it harder for me to leave her even though I know that my mom and Paul will take good care of her. She'll usually start crying when I try to leave, and since I hate seeing her cry it's hard to leave.

My mom said it's just separation anxiety, and that a lot of babies go through It at her age. Hopefully, she will get over it quickly. She is the most important Person in my life at the moment, and I hate seeing her upset. I may not be able to love anyone romantically right now, but I can, and do love my daughter.

One evening when I was on my way home from work my ADHD was starting to act up as I sat in traffic. finally, we started moving again, and I continued heading to my mom and Paul's in order to pick up Silena. After I made a couple of turns I noticed a group of hellhounds coming toward me. Great just great. I thought sarcastically. Slightly annoyed I pulled into the first parking lot I came across since the hellhounds were continuing to approach my car. Since my mom's books had done quite well she had bought the car for me, I'd argued against it, but she didn't listen. She had done it several months ago after I had moved out. Anyway, I got out of the car as the hellhounds approached. You might be wondering why I chose to stop and fight instead of trying to just lose them in the car, well the reason was that with the state of traffic at the moment I figured stopping was my better option.

As the hellhounds got closer I pulled out riptide and uncapped it, when it was close enough the first hellhound leaped at me but I slashed my sword through its stomach causing it to disintegrate into gold dust.

Before the second one even got a chance to attack me I attacked first slashing my sword through its neck. It tried to dodge my blow, but it just wasn't fast enough. By the time I finished off the third one the fourth was expecting my attack and managed to evade it, but before long I finished it off, along with the other two hellhounds. After that, I got back in the car and continued heading to my mom and Paul's.

When I got there it didn't take long for my mom to figure out that I had been in a fight since I still had some monster dust on me. she asked, "What Happened?"

I replied, "Ran into a few hellhounds, no big deal Mom."

She just nodded before I asked, "How was she?" I was wondering how Selina was after I had left since she had been rather upset when I left this morning.

My mom replied, "She cried for awhile, we tried to calm her down, but she just wanted you."

I sighed when she said that, mom obviously knowing what I was thinking said, "Don't worry so much, she will get past it soon enough."

I replied, "I know, but I hate leaving her knowing she's like this."

My mom replied. "I know, and that shows how much you care about her you have done well taking care of her, but now you just have to wait for her to get through this."

I reluctantly nodded, although I wish there was more I could do to help Silena get through this.

My mom said, "Come, I'm sure she'll be happy to see you."

I nodded, a slight smile crossing my face. I headed into the living room where Silena was playing with a toy. When Silena saw me it wasn't hard to tell how happy she was. After that, I took her home, thankfully no more monsters found me that night, and we made it home without further delays. Even the traffic wasn't quite as bad as it was earlier.

We are trying to make sure that Silena doesn't find out about the gods, and monsters too early, obviously she's so young now that even if she does see a monster or anything else mythological she wouldn't understand what was going on, but we will have to be more careful about what she sees as she gets older.

For dad, she won't know the difference until we tell her, but when she's older I'll have to keep Iris messaging to a minimum, or at least that she doesn't see me doing it. and I know that she will most likely see monsters, but that's kind of hard to avoid since they come after me, but I will do everything I can to make sure she's safe.

I know that when she's older she will eventually ask questions about her mother as well, unlike my mom and me I won't have to completely lie to her about that since I don't actually know who her mother is. but that information will have to wait until she is old enough for it.

I couldn't help but wonder whether she would have any powers from her mother, she might, depending on who her mother was. I also wondered if she would get any power over water from me. I knew that legacies don't always receive powers from their parents, but Silena is kind of a special case since I'm a child of the big three, and she's a tri-blood, not just a legacy.

I knew that we wouldn't learn the answers to those questions until she is older, but I couldn't help but be curious about it, I also wondered what my dad would do when we do find out who her mother is, I suppose his reaction could vary depending on who her mother ends up being.

After we made it home I set Silena down and got dinner ready for myself. I didn't feed Silena because my mom already had since I was late picking her up thanks to the hellhounds. I hoped she would get over her separation anxiety soon because I just hate seeing her upset even though I usually have to leave and I know my mom and Paul are fully capable of watching her. I have pretty much settled into a routine at this point, and the days seem to blend together, I'm just pleased that no one from camp has found me since I'm not interested in going back at all even though I know that I will eventually have to return with Silena.

A/N Just so you know there will probably be a lot of time jumps in this story until Silena is old enough to go to camp.