Silena's point of view.

It was the weekend when my grandmother received a rather shocking and worrying phone call. I was visiting with her so I heard her side of the conversation and saw as her expression quickly went from calm to confused to worried. My grandmother told me that when  dad had gone to pick up a few things he had noticed a man trying to kidnap a kid while the girl's mom was distracted, putting the stuff they'd obviously just gotten in her car.

Being the brave and rather reckless person that dad is he'd tried to stop the guy.  That wouldn't have been so bad if the guy hadn't been armed with a gun. He'd shot dad, and although the doctors said he would recover we were still worried. After we found out about that we were going to go see him since he'd made it to the hospital but we both realized that we should probably tell Luke about what had happened since he is my brother afterall, even though we are technically only half siblings.

After we contacted him I knew he was worried just like we were but he was also relieved when we told him that the doctors said he would recover from it. Just when we were about to leave to go see him I ralized that if he got nectar and ambrosia he would probably heal faster than he would otherwise. After that I took some  with me and we headed to go see him. While the doctors weren't in the room I gave him  the Nectar and Ambrosia I had brought with me.

I hadn't been sure if he'd had any with him when he left that morning. It's not that often that I hear my grandmother scolding my dad for something  but that day I definitely heard it since she was anoyed with him for "nearly getting himself killed,"

She knew he'd been in numorous other life or death situations, but most of those had been basically unavoidable so that's why this situation upset her. Sure she didn't want the kid to get kidnapped by some creep but in her mind dad had basically charged in blindly without considering the possible risks that came with doing so.

I guessed based on how close they were that my dad would probably end up having a similar conversation with my mother. I could tell how close they were and I was certain that my mom wouldn't be happy with him for this. I knew that he thought it was best for him to step in because he doubted cops could get there before the guy got away with the girl but he could have at least called them.

The  girl's mother did call them once she realized what was going on but by the time they got there the creep had run away, but thankfully he had done so without the girl. Dad figured the guy would probagly get caught though since he would be able to recognize him. Ironically the cops that came were ones that dad knew even though they didn't work the same shifts.

Dad recovered quickly, unsurprisingly for us, the doctors were rather surprised by it though, we knew it was mostly due to the nectar and ambrosia although water probably also helped.  After he came back home things pretty much went back to normal, The creep that dad was trying to stop was eventually caught  so at least dad didn't go through all that for nothing.

After that we kind of tried to put the whole thing behind us so things would hopefully go back to normal. Obviously our lives can never be completely normal since even when things are mostly normal we still get attacked by monsters every now and then. If nothing else, dad getting hurt reminded me that not all monsters are from greek mytholohy. There are people out there that are just as bad as monsters and you never know when you're going to encounter one of them.

I didn't want to think about what that creep might have done to that girl if had actually gotten away with her but thankfully dadd had stopped him before he could. A little while after that things did go more or less back to normal, or our version of normal anyway. Obviously we did encounter monsters every so often and we kept in contact with our friends from camp via Iris Messaging but other than that not much happened.

Percy's Point of view

I realized that it was rather reckless of me to try and Stop that man when I had basically no clue what he was capable of but I felt like someone needed to stop him since the girl's mom didn't realize what was happening and no-one else had noticed what was going on. Not only that but on first glance the guy didn't look like too much of a threat since he obviously had his gun concealed somehow. I felt that with all my training I would be able to stop him and I didn't have a phone to call the poliece, not to mention that the cops would probably end up being from the same station that I work at.

That wouldn't have bothered me I just doubted they would get there soon enough if I didn't stop the guy first.  The man seemed vaguely familiar to me. Perhaps he was someone I'd arrested before, probably shortly after I first joined the force. The main thing that I thought of when I saw what he was doing was the girl  and since I had my suspicions of what he would probably do to her if he got her I knew I wasn't going to let him hurt her.

Although the girl was younger than Silena I knew I certainly wouldn't let a man like that get my daughter  so I knew I couldn't just stand back and let him take that girl. It might have been stupid of me to just charge over to him with no weapon and no real plan  but even thoughh I got hurt I was okay in the end and the guy did eventually get caught.

Once I found out more about him I realized I had been right since he did have a previous conviction and he was one of the first people I'd arrested. He'd only gotten out of jail recently and clearly he'd broken the conditions of his parole so that meant he would be in jail even longer this time. Considering what he was in jail for in the first place I was glad I'd made himleave the girl alone.

Despite all that, all those reasons didn't stop some of my coworkers, family, and friends from telling me that I should have been more careful and done things differently. Most of the cops at the station thought I should have called them, but I pointed out that I didn't have a cell phone and they might not have gotten there soon enough. Most of them hadn't realized that I didn't have a cell phone so several of them made comments like, "How old are you, 80?"

Or just saying to get with the times. Obviously I pretty much just ignored all their comments since I didn't want more monster attacks than I already had to deal with. My mom was one of the other people who was annoyed with me for being so reckless. And that was one of the few occasions that she'd ever yelled at me. Obviously she didn't want the girl to get kidnapped anymore than I did but she also thought there had to have been a better, safer way to deal with the situation.

I hadn't seen one at the time but then again I obviously hadn't noticed everything since I hadn't seen that the guy somehow had a gun. The other Person who was rather annoyed with me for taking such a huge risk was Aphrodite.  She showed up at my apartment the evening after I got out of the hospital. Due to the fact that I had Nectar and Ambrosia I had healed faster than the doctors expected so I hadn't been in there long. My conversation with Aphrodite, or more acurately, argument went something like this. She said, "Percy what were you thinking! Do you have a death wish!"

I replied calmly, "No but I knew I wasn't going to let that girl get kidnapped, I thought I could take him but I didn't realise he had a gun,"

She sighed before admitting, "I just don't want to lose you and I know you won't accept immortality at least until Silena is old enough to take care of herself. Were you even thinking of her when you did it?"

I was slightly annoyed by that last acusation, of course I didn't forget Silena, she is more important to me than basically anything. Despite my annoyance I still tried to remain calm. I didn't want to fight with her I just wanted her to try and understand why I did it. I explained that I had been thinking about Silena when I had tried to stop the guy and that I had no intentions of leaving Silena or her.

Aphrodite eventually sighed, either she'd accepted what I said and understood or had just given in. Her final statement sounded almost pleading as she said, "Please be more careful from now on Percy, I don't want to lose you,"

I told  her that I would try and be more careful from now on, but obviously since I'm a demigod as well as a cop I couldn't really make any promises. Despite that She seemed okay with my response I guess she probably knew that there was no guarantee that I would stay safe but she just wanted some reassurance that I would at least try not to be so reckless.

It seemed that was enough to satisfy her because not long after I told her I would try to be more careful she kissed me and returned it. It seemed like we had gone from arguing to kissing in a matter of minutes, not that I was complaining. That evening might not have  started out very well, but in the end, it ended rather well-considering that we spent that night together and we ended up doing a bit more than just sleeping.

As far as I knew my dad and Ares were the only gods that knew about my relationship with Aphrodite, but I would soon find out that wasn't actually the case. I may have tried to keep it quiet, but obviously that hadn't worked.