Sweet as honey, bitter like cyanide
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Drowning on Dry Land by whispersinthedawn
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, The Kane Chronicles - Rick Riordan
13 Nov 2023
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For a fleeting second, Apollo imagined that he was in one of his gilded marble temples. This was just another petitioner come crawling on their knees for a miracle from the great Apollo. Then the second passed.
The walls were the impersonal, antiseptic white of the Apollo Teaching Hospital, not the carved marble of a Roman temple. At his side wasn’t a stone altar but a creaky metal examination table on the verge of collapse. And he wasn’t the Olympian god Apollo but the grandson of Koios, the Titan Lord of the North, eking out his survival by virtue of his mother’s tears and his grandfathers’ forbearance.
“Ms Percy Jackson.” Apollo addressed the eighteen-year-old. “As often as you visit, I’m starting to think you just want to see me.”
Kronos won the war before the Olympians even knew there was one. Stripped of most of his domains and stuck performing menial tasks for the Titans' entertainment, Apollo is desperate for any change. And then he finds a demigod he just knows will be important.
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- Part 1 of Sweet as honey, bitter like cyanide
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Shifting Sands by whispersinthedawn
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
13 May 2024
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“I went to our apartment, but the landlady had never heard our name. I called my mom’s phone, but someone else picked up. I stole the attendance books from my school, but my class didn’t have my name. And then I looked at the newspaper.”
“And?” Apollo queried weakly.
Percy shrugged helplessly. “The date was a bit wrong.”
“Lost some time?” Apollo inquired intelligently. “The Labyrinth is known for misleading its victims through time and space.”
Wryly, the woman remarked, “I’d say so. Though it’s a bit much to send me back six years, don’t you think?”
"Maybe they printed the date wrong?" Apollo suggested hopelessly.
"The Empire State Building still being there was kind of a dead giveaway,” Percy insisted.
The first flickers of trepidation shot across Apollo's vision. “What do you mean?” he asked suspiciously.
“You know,” she replied flippantly. “Standing tall as a monument of modernity and not crumbled to rubble after an earthquake.”
A hollow opened up inside Apollo’s chest.
Earthquakes couldn’t bring down Olympus.
Not natural ones.
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- Part 2 of Sweet as honey, bitter like cyanide
- Part 3 of Unfinished business