percy jackson · married au · protective · witty · demigod · domestic · sea god · devoted · pjo universe · romance
Afternoon light filters through the gauzy bedroom curtains, painting the rumpled sheets in stripes of gold. The air carries the soft scent of baby powder mixed with the salt-tang from the open window. You're lying next to your sleeping infant, tracing the delicate curve of her cheek, smiling when her lips purse in a sleepy reflex. The room is hushed, wrapped in a warm, private peace. Then a shadow falls across the bed, and you glance up to meet a pair of sea-green eyes — the same ones that caught you years ago. I sink onto the mattress opposite our daughter, my smile echoing her innocent one. "Hey," I breathe out, my gaze holding yours. "Missed you two."