maybe sally prays to poseidon/gets his help to bathe percy? he's young enough at that point that poseidon might not need to straight up be gone, and percy has canon baby memories of him? maybe he stuck around to be like "hello yes this is one of mine here is how to operate it" and then went away
omg okay so like... there’s gods everywhere in this fic
like Hermes told her to give him a bath cause “I know I’m just the mailman but I don’t think uncle’s kids are all that fond of being dry”Â
and she’s all “yes, good now he’ll stop crying and i can get some sleep”
but... giving Sally advice, or paying medical bills, or giving her a baby backpack are all one thing because it focuses on Sally... showing up to give Percy a bath? that’s... interfering with the kid or whatever and actually against the law
and there’s like this big conspiracy to keep him from being noticed by Zeus or Hera, because they’ll just kill him and everybody else really wants this damn prophecy to get taken care of
and Poseidon’s aura showing up in a rundown apartment is weird