The Tide Does Not Take
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What the Sea Asks by ilupin_vacker
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
23 Feb 2026
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Percy Jackson has spent his life learning how to survive the sea. He earns a scholarship he never expected—and Atlantis takes notice. He builds an aquarium.
Now, years after turning away from godhood, grief, and prophecy, the sea brings something back to him instead.
Caught between the surface world and the ocean’s depths, Percy trains under Triton’s relentless watch while a growing threat stirs below. As the waters test his control, his fear, and his sense of belonging, Percy discovers that power without understanding is just another kind of drowning.
This is the story of a choice: not between land and sea, but between running from the ocean and learning how to listen to it.Series
- Part 1 of The Tide Does Not Take
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What the Sea Takes by ilupin_vacker
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
19 Mar 2026
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Percy Jackson is balancing two worlds—and failing more quietly than anyone realizes.
When a mysterious donor accelerates a major aquarium expansion, Percy agrees to bring in architect Annabeth Chase, reopening old trust in a space where scrutiny is already mounting. At the same time, the sea begins calling more insistently, ancient ceremonies closing around him with consequences no one fully explains.
As Atlantis tightens its expectations and the surface world feels his absence, Percy must confront what power demands, what love withstands, and whether destiny is the same thing as inevitability.
This is not a story about sacrifice.
It is a story about choosing where—and how—you stand.Series
- Part 2 of The Tide Does Not Take
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What the Sea Returns by ilupin_vacker
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
26 Mar 2026
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Annabeth leaves on a routine project. Percy feels the shift in the water—and lets it go.
By the time he understands what he missed, it’s too late.
Years later, Percy Jackson is a prince, a scientist, and a father of four. He has learned how to read currents before they turn, how to anticipate disasters before they crest, how to make himself indispensable in every place that matters.
What he hasn’t learned is how to stop trying to be everywhere at once.
His children don’t need a guardian. They need a father.
And the sea he no longer trusts might be the only thing that can teach him the difference.
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- Part 3 of The Tide Does Not Take