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DANAE SANTOS THE HALF BREED TITAN
𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐀𝐁𝐄'𝐒 𝐂𝐀M𝐀𝐑𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑, Danae couldn't help but bite her tongue as she watched the young demi-god panic over everything that was going on around him.
Feeling sympathetic as she too had somewhat gone through the process of this, however, she'd always felt her mother at her side, in her mind, and all around her.
She could hear her voice in her head since she was a baby, along with the vision she'd send down of not only the future but the past and the present.
"Look, what's going on," Percy asked once again in hopes of getting an answer this time, still reeling on why everyone suspected him of stealing some bolt. "okay, I swear I didn't steal anything?!"
Almost immediately at his words, Sally looked over at her son who she knew had better morals than to steal something like that, plus the fact that he knew nothing of the Greek godly world.
"Honey, I believe you," She spoke seriously looking over at him, before continuously glancing back at the road ahead of them as they crossed the bridge to get out of the city. "I believe you."
However as they dove and drove, Percy attempted to bite his tongue to have some sort of decorum, as the street lights quickly turned to large green trees.
There came a point where he couldn't bite his tongue on the subject any longer.
"Where are you taking me," Percy asked getting more frustrated and jittery by the second, struggling to put together the pieces of little information that he had. "what is this camp?"
Grover and Danae were stuck in the backseat watching and listening to the conversation between the mother and son, Grover somehow managing a bag a chip which he was currently chewing on.
The satyr was quick to tilt over toward Danae, who did a small double take before grabbing a chip, not used to her friend handing her actual edible food.
Given his ability to eat things that would harm a normal person with his goat-like physiology.
"It's a camp for really special people," Sally answered as calmly as she could, whilst glancing over at her son from the driver's seat for the umpteenth time. "like you."
However hearing the term 'special', the thought of being more than the average person didn't seem to cross Percy's mind, only taking his mental disorder and learning disability as possibly something more negative.
Added onto the things he'd been seeing lately.
"Special people," Percy scoffed not understanding what his mother meant, only thinking she was confirming something he both jokingly and not jokingly feared. "what, am I crazy or something?"
"No, honey, no," Sally almost immediately responded turning towards her son to look him in the eyes for a few seconds, really only imprinting the memory of his face in her mind once again. "Percy, this is about your father."
With that, she turned back toward the road, on one hand not wanting to crash out in the middle of nowhere and on the other not able to look into the eyes of her son any longer.
Especially as Percy's head almost immediately turned toward her, there had been so many times that he begged for the littlest information on his dad, and his mom never, not for a moment relented; so why now?
"I was just out of school and working at the Jersey shore when we first met," Sally continued to explain the history between her and Percy's father, softly beating around the bush to soften the blow of the information she held. "your father was unlike any guy I'd ever seen, he was just dazzling."
"They're always dazzling." Grover couldn't help but scoff from the backseat as he continued to munch on whatever snack he could find and heard stories of the proud gods.
"It's the narcism." Danae couldn't help but jump in actually having seen the gods, seen conversation she'd participated in with them without them even having occurred yet.
"We were really in love, Percy," Sally continued gaining back her son's attention, as he had glanced back at Danae and Grover due to their comments. "and then you came along, and then it was just perfect...but he had to leave."
Sally paused as she thought back on the most heart-wrenching moments of her life, the day that she'd been told that she'd never be able to see the love of her life again because they created the best thing that'd ever happened to her.
"So he did abandon us." Percy questioned getting an entirely different interpretation of the events, given the impossibility of them happening, and the fact that he was still completely in the dark.
"No, honey, he was forced to," Sally said surely knowing the immortal man she loved, wouldn't abandon them with ease. "he loved you, leaving you, was probably the most difficult thing he ever did."
"Why did he have to go?" Percy softly forgot for a moment that his best friend and a stranger were in the back seat, returning to that innocent kid who wished, prayed, and begged for his father to show up.
Seeing that honest hurt in Percy's eyes, Sally froze no longer turning back to pay attention to the road instead wanting to clear up the assumption as quickly as she could.
"Because he's...." She attempted to tell the truth however before she could, Danae suddenly shot forwards in between the mother and son as she pointed towards what was coming at them.
"Sally, watch out!" Danae shouted as she pointed toward the street as an adult-sized cow suddenly launched out of the field to the right of them on the road.
And seeing the large blob of animal in the middle of the road, Sally quickly swerved the car over to the left in hopes of not slamming head-on into the medium car-sized cow.
However as she reared the car to the left it still wasn't fast enough to avoid colliding with the thrown car, or at least the tail of the car wasn't as it furiously smashed into the cow.
Sending the car flipping over onto its head and sliding a few more feet down the asphalt road, before coming to a screeching halt giving those inside a quick moment of relief.
All of them had fallen onto the roof of the car as it was now the closest thing between the four of them and the ground, Danae somehow finding herself squished against the very demi-god she'd come to see.
The two pressed together shoulder to shoulder groaning from the impact their bodies had against the top of the car, sadly even as a demi-titan Danae wasn't exempt from receiving both lethal and non-lethal damage.
