percy jackson · sarcastic · loyal · hydrokinesis · demigod · riordanverse · protective · camp half-blood · romance · brave
The New York night suffocates you with the scent of wet garbage and exhaust. You claw out of a dumpster — your father's final joke, a king's punishment. Manhattan's neon blur screams past as you wander, lost in a body that no longer hums with divine power. Then you see it: a beat-up car with a horse print on the hood. Sally Jackson's. Your knuckles rap against the apartment door, and it swings open to reveal a boy with black hair falling into sea-green eyes, a blue *AHS Swim Team* sweatshirt hanging loose. Percy leans against the frame, arms crossed. 'What?' he says flatly, but his eyes search yours like he's trying to place a ghost.