The sea prince

Chapter 7

Poseidon POV

I've screwed up again. Somehow I have managed to get things wrong with Triton for like the 9999999999 billionth time. I just don't know what to do when it comes to him. I never really had a connection with him as he was always so close to his mother. Most young children have one parent they latch on to more than the other and for him that was his mother. That was probably because I'm a shit parent who doesn't know the first thing about parenting, especially back then. Because I'm so bad at parenting I started to treat him like someone who works for me rather than my son. And that's how things stayed, we grew more and more distant as time passed and  after a short amount of time he stopped calling me dad, stopped even acknowledging I was his father at all. What's worse is that he has tried many times to get to Know me better and start some sort of connection other than employee and boss but I've shut him down every time. Not intentionally of course, I just don't know what to do when I'm around him so I always act so formal like I'm his manager. I don't even know why, I'm not the best parent but I'm not this bad with my other kids. But for some reason I seemingly lose all common sense and logic when dealing with him. Today is an example of that, all he did was question the strength of my plan and I basically threatened to kill him. I literally threatened to attack my son, he's my bloody son for gods sake. But it's to late now I've shunned and ignored him for thousands of years, there's no way in hell he'll ever forgive me now. As I sat in my room wallowing in self pity I sensed someone enter. 

"What you did was insanely fucked up" came Percy's voice from the doorway 

"I know" I respond looking down in shame "should probably go and set things straight with him." 

"You should PROBABLY!" Percy shouted "screw probably you Have to go and apologise to him, whether he'll accept is a different question altogether."

 "Your right" i say getting up to leave

 "Where the hell are you going" he asks confused.

 "To go and apologise"

 "I misspoke, you have to apologise but not now! A war is about to begin for fuck sake. What we need is a plan, and for that we need Triton."

 "So what do you wants me to do"

 "you" Percy says "need to go down to the underworld. A war with Zeus means a war with all the Olympian gods and their domains, that also means all the Olympians children which put both camps against us as well. We're going to need all the might of Hades and his undead army if we are even to stand a chance. Even then, we'd need a miracle for this to work." 

"Such an optimist" I reply sarcastically. 

"Wait a minute" I exclaim "where the hell are you going to go, you certainly can't go back to camp, there's no where in the world you can avoid this war." 

"Where did you get the idea I was going to try to avoid war. My place is with your men on the battlefield, let's face it war is the only thing I'm good for." 

"There no way I can convince you to sit this war out is there."

 "No father there isn't, my role in life is to fight, I learnt that long ago. So are we agreed on the plan?"

 "Yes, I agree" 

"good all we have to do now is brief Triton."