Old Vows, Young Lovers

What a Beautiful Name It Is

Alright, I am back with another chapter! I am so sorry for the long waits, I am having a hard time at School right now and the writers block hits me hard when I am home... Kinda just a lose lose no matter what I do. I tried to be original with this chapter, I made two obvious changes to canon in this chapter and I wonder if you can pick them out?

I have a little thing going with this chapter title, I wonder if anyone can figure out what it is :)

Please read the A/N at the end, I have some important announcements.

3 days later

Oh yeah! Get gamed on Nerd!" Percy yelled and threw the controller on the couch, pointing a finger at Triton as he jumped up and down with a grin on his face.

Triton's pained face only made Percy more gleeful as he clicked the replay button to rub in his face the final kill. With a mere bar of health remaining, the demigod had leaped off the building and shot Triton before dying himself later. The room was full of suspense as the screen loaded, waiting to show the winner.

"Gods dammit Percy, you cheat at this game!"

"Oh quit the cope, just git gud."

His head slumped in despair, Triton grumpily gathered the controllers off the floor, putting them on top of the console before starting to walk out of the room.

"Triton, you're forgetting something aren't you," Percy said from behind. He froze, turning around and glaring at Percy.

"There is no way I'm saying it," he said firmly, hands on his hips.

"Oh, you are! A deal is a deal after all." Triton sighed.

"Fine Percy, you're the best at video games, now let me go to my room and have some alone time."

"I think you mean some alone coping time," he snickered, watching his half-brother walk up to his room.

That had been their morning, just playing video games and his half-brother had lost nearly all of them... He was enjoying this time away from the hunt. Artemis always let him do whatever he wanted but there was always her judging face to deal with whenever he tried to do anything. He missed Atalanta and the rest of the hunters, but he was determined to believe that this time away was a good thing. He was enjoying the time away with his brother, Poseidon, and Amphitrite, who had been treating him so nicely that he could have believed that she was his real mother. He had thought that she would be cold, and distant, but she was loving. His brother had told him something that he had never heard before about her. He had told him that Amphitrite had been claimed by Poseidon after the first titan war as a spoil of war. He had had no wife and he had thought her to be very pretty, so instead of killing her, he took her home with him. He didn't know how to respond at first to the new information that his adoptive mother had been a slave or at least a servant, but Triton quickly told him the rest of the story.

"But dad told me that he took such a liking to the girl, that he gave her her freedom, she was free to do whatever she pleased and she didn't even have to stay with him... But she did, he was nice to her so she decided to stay, and from that day on she was the Queen of the sea. But don't ever tell dad or mom that I told you that story because mom would never fight down the blush and dad would be upset that I shared that story."

Percy had always thought that she had been one of the 100 Oceanids and that Poseidon had chosen her because she was the best dancer. Percy supposed that that was just a story that they had adopted to cover up her past. So now that he knew this he was not as surprised at Amphitrite's behavior, since even though she was free, she still owed quite a lot to Poseidon... Her life and her liberty. She still couldn't be very happy that Poseidon had cheated on her though, and made spawn with some mortal girl. Maybe she was also overcome with guilt at the fact that she was upset with a child that had 0 guilt in the crime that Poseidon did against her and the fact that that child was now motherless.