Percy sat at the dinner table with his family, eating the spaghetti he had made with them. Seeing Estelle freak out as he moved stuff around telekinetically or with water tentacles had been worth the wait, although it made Sally almost pass out a couple more times.
Paul cleared his throat. "Right. So, if you would be willing to explain more in depth?"
Percy nodded. "Right. Yeah, what would you like to know?"
"Full list!" Sally said with a mouth full of spaghetti and a pointed finger.
Percy smiled. "Okay. Well, if you mean the full list of my lovers, there's Ouranos, Eros, Nyx, Erebus, Chronos with a ch, Aether, Hemera, Apollo, Dionysus, Ariadne, and... Tartarus. And then, if she accepts, Annabeth."
Estelle stared at him with wide eyes. "WOW!" Under the table, she pumped a fist, thinking of Christmas and her birthday, imagining a mountain of presents.
Paul counted them on his fingers. "Wow. Okay, hold on. I thought you said Tartarus tried to kill you when you fell into... him? The first time, anyway."
Percy nodded. "I thought that too, at the time. however, I was wrong. He was going to try to propose the whole 'many lovers' thing, but he was really, really bad at communicating at the time. It wasn't until Nyx slapped the hell out of him that he realized how threatening he had come off as. And, uh, unlike the other primordials, he's not really into Annabeth, so his actual threats were mainly directed at her."
Sally raised an eyebrow. "And how does the whole 'many lovers' thing happen to work?"
Percy rolls his spaghetti up on his fork. "They all love me. Technically, it's closer to harem..."
Sally and Paul both raised their eyebrows. "It's consensual!" Percy quickly added. Paul and Sally sighed in relief, and Percy kept talking.
"Basically, I'm just in a relationship with each of them," he said.
"So like an open relationship?" Sally asked. Percy nodded. "Essentially. I can travel between any of their... 'dimensions' and visit them if I want."
Paul looked up from his spaghetti with interest. "Dimensions?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "Each- well, some of the primordials have their own dimension. Tartarus has... well, Tartarus, Nyx has her mansion and its pockets, Gaea has the Earth, Pontus has the Ocean, and Chaos has space. And then, of course, Chronos has..."
His voice tapered off.
"Chronos has what?" Sally asked.
Percy looked pained for a moment. "Nothing. It- it doesn't matter right now."
Paul spun some spaghetti on his fork. "When you say Chaos, do you mean..."
Percy nodded. "Yeah. Like the creator of the universe. She's very nice."
Sally raised an eyebrow while Estelle's jaw dropped.
"What do you mean by, 'she's nice'?" Sally asked.
"You know the creator of the universe...?" Estelle whispered.
Percy laughed. "She's my mother-in-law, and she very nice. She makes good danishes."
Sally nodded in acceptance. Estelle looked at Paul in confusion. "What's a danish?" She asked.
Paul opened his mouth to explain, but Percy absent-mindedly snapped his fingers and made a Danish appear in front of Estelle. He pointed to it.
"That. That is a Danish," he said simply.
Paul stared at him with wide eyes. "You can CREATE MATTER?!" He shouted in surprise.
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Consort to the Primordials
Fiksi Penggemar"Okay, hold on hold on hold on," Paul said, shaking his head. "Just one more time. You were framed for the killing of two gods, sent to Tartarus because Zeus used a spell he learned from Gaea, were approached by multiple of the PRIMORDIAL BEINGS OF...
