Chapter 3
“You four won’t like this.” Minerva cringes as she find the four ratty looking children out back. They’re soaking wet, have mud all over them, and are huddled around Leo, who looks like a fire giant—but small— that should be straight out of a video game.
Jason is holding the makeshift heater to him, Percy leaning against his shoulder, Annabeth with her head on Percy’s lap. It’s all in all just a very comfortable cuddle sesh with four best friends.
Percy’s head perks up when he heard Mcgonagall’s voice. “What’s wrong?”
She clears her throat. “Well, it would appear there isn’t enough room for you all in a single house.” She explains. “At most, there are three beds in Ravenclaw, but that’s about it.”
“What the fuck is a Ravenclaw?” Leo asks grumpily, snuggling further into Jason, who seems to be on cloud nine, despite his glasses fogging up.
Mcgonagall sighs. “Ravenclaw is one of the four houses. These houses are determined by key traits of our students. However, given you four will only be here for a little bit, you won’t be getting sorted properly.”
Annabeth hums, putting her hands up and closer to Leo, and Percy dully notes how they still have large droplets of water on them.
“So, what can we do then?” Percy asks, deciding to take initiative for once. “If we do the three beds, then one of us will be left alone.”
Minerva nods, delicately crossing her arms behind her back, her face set into a soft scowl. “Along with that, those beds are all in the girls dormitory.”
The fire engulfing Leo’s body quickly splutters out, making the other three groan in annoyance. “Wait, the dorms are separated by gender?” Leo asks, his face a bit pale.
Minverva frowns, eyeing the boy. “Yes.” She says slowly
Leo gulps and glances away, his eyes making to the four wizards are just watching them, board looks on their faces. James, at least, is smiling like an idiot as he plays with Regulus’s hair.
Regulus’s eyes meet Leo’s and he frowns. “Dude, they’ll let you in!” He calls over. “You’re a guy. And yes, I know.” He rolls his eyes.
Relief etches its way into Leo’s bones, and the fire quickly starts back up again, the demigods all cheering softly as their heater comes back.
It’s cold in England, okay?
Minerva seems confused out of her mind before ‘ooh’ing and nodding. “Yes, even if you are transgender, they will let you into your preferred gender’s dormitory. Regulus had a wonderful time figuring that one out.” She gives him a slightly amused look.
Regulus looks a bit bashful as he admits; “I was sleeping at the stairs for like, two days because I didn’t know why I wasn’t let in.”
Remus nods. “Yeah, after that he slept with Barty and Evan for like, a week.” He muses, nudging Regulus with his elbow, who grunts in distaste.
Leo snorts in amusement before turning back to Mcgonagall. “So… where can we sleep? Is it possible we can do like, a buddy-buddy situation? And can Annabeth stay with Percy? I’d prefer to stay with Jason.”
Annabeth nods. “Yeah, I’d prefer to stay with Percy.”
Minerva hums in thought for a moment before frowning. “I’m afraid I’m unsure if the castle will allow it, however, it might understand your desperation and make an acceptation to you going with Percy to a dormitory.” She explains.
Regulus pouts. “And my desperation to sleep in a bed wasn’t enough?”
Sirius rolls his eyes. “It was obviously telling you to sleep in the boys dormitory.”
he was met with an angry “How was I supposed to know that?!”
Percy holds a hand up. “I have a question.”
Jason rolls his eyes. “We aren’t in class, Percy, you don’t have to raise your hand.”
Percy shivers. “High school is changing me. I’m a changed man, Annabeth.”
Annabeth sighs and flicks Percy on the chin. “And I love you all the same. Now ask your question, Seaweed brain.”
James ‘awe’s “Regulus, why can’t we be like that?” He pouts and turns to his boyfriend, tugging on a small strand of his hair.”
Regulus gives him a look. “We are like that, Jamie.” He sighs, leaning onto his boyfriend and places a kiss to his shoulder.
James gasps. “Oh my god we are!” He says happily.
Leo lets out a haughty laugh. “Ha! Imagine being love sick. That’s totally not us, right Jason?” He turns to look at his boyfriend, who is giving him an annoyed look.
“You are literally on my lap with my arms around you, but yeah, sure, okay. What ever helps you sleep at night, fire cracker.” He snarks.
Minerva feels a bit disgusted at all of this PDA, but that’s on her. She clears her throat to get everyone’s attention back on track. “What was your question, Percy?”
Leo gasps. “Woah, is it a sentient Emo castle? Nico would love this place…” he gasps even louder. “Or is it one huge big robot? That would be so much cooler!”
Minerva’s lips thin, and she feels her patience slowly chip away. “The castle is not a robot.” She says slowly.
“That would be cool though.” Regulus points out, and Sirius nods in agreement.
“But yes, the castle is a sentient being. It is under many spells, designed to be as safe and strict as possible for young and learning wizards and witches.”
“Witches and wizards?” Percy demands.
“They used to burn people like you!” Leo cackles.
It’s silent for a moment, the wizards trying to decide how to feel about that comment, before Remus lets out a quiet snort, quickly followed by a snicker from Regulus, and James—with no self control— lets out a loud laugh, the others following suit.
Mcgonogall wants to kill everyone here and contemplates why she became a teacher.
Percy and Leo high-five, stroking each others ego on the good joke. “Hook, line, and sinker.” Annabeth deadpans.
“Great set up, great follow through.” Jason congratulates in a monotone voice.
Minerva waits for everyone to calm themselves. After the wizards calm down and are waving their wands at each other in mock duels—because their attention spans are that big— the woman continues. “Yes, Hogwarts is a school for witchcraft and wizardry.” She explains, eyeing the four demigods. “From what I can tell, none of you are children of Hecate, so you would not benefit from our teachings.”
Annabeth raises a brow. “We’re being taught under Chiron—I think we’ll be fine.”
Miverna hums. “He still is on about that little camp? I thought he would have abandoned it by now to Dionysus to run.”
Percy shudders. “Oh, the camp would not have survived if Mr. D was running the place.” He says, a bit of horror in his tone, and the others voice their opinions.
“Back on track.” Jason snaps, pinching Leo, who yelps and swats his hand away. “Which dorms can we sleep in?”
Minerva hums. “There are two beds every male dorm except Slytherin, so I suppose you can choose from there.”
James quickly raises his hand, getting poked with Sirius’s wand. “Our dorm is the one with the spare beds!” He says excitedly.
Remus nods. “Yeah, me and James share the dorm. Two of you guys would totally be welcome—Siri, stop poking me,” he grunts, batting away his boyfriend’s wand.
Sirius cackles evilly and resumes poking Remus, much to his annoyance.
Mcgonagall shrugs. “I suppose two of you may join them in the Gryffindor, of which I am the head of.”
Leo pats Percy’s arm. “You will survive the door of griffins,” he says glumly. “You made it out of Tartarus and fought a demonic chihuahua, you’re immortal at this point.”
Sirius grins. “Heh, demonic chihuahua. I would have loved to see that.”
Annabeth nods. “It was actually a chimera in disguise.” She explains, causing Regulus to snort.
“All chihuahuas are chimeras in disguise—the mean little things.” He grumbles, copying his older brother and poking Remus. James is safe.
Leo nods. “They are. My foster mom used to have one, and I swear she thought she was better than me. That little rat better watch out.” He waves his clenched fist like an angry grandpa that’s tired of all these neighborhood ruffians.
Mcgonagall clears her throat, obviously demanding attention. “I can assure you there will be no chimeras in the dorm.” She says sternly, eyeing Percy. “But I would like to hear about you surviving Tartarus?”
“Isn’t Tatar sauce a condiment or something?” James speaks up.
“No, you idiot.” Remus snorts. “Tartarus, the deepest pit of hell in Greek mythology.” He explains, glancing to Mcgonagall for confirmation, and she nods.
Percy sighs. “Well, the doors of death were open, and Gaeya was about to rise again, and me and Annabeth fell in, so we had to shut the doors of death and escape.” He summarizes a whole six months into one paragraph.
Leo pipes up, “I exploded in that fight with Gaeya! It was really cool!”
Sirius gapes at him. “You exploded? How did you survive?”
Leo rolls his eyes. “I died, obviously. Keep up, Alexa.”
Sirius glares. “I don’t know who ALEXA is.”
“Well I don’t like Siri, so you’re now Alexa!”
“That’s NOT how this works!”
“Sureee, it isn’t, Alexa.”
Jason whispers something into Leo’s ear, and the boy goes bright red before murmuring a half assed apology to Sirius, who huffs.
Mcgonagall is still processing. “Gaeya almost rose again?” She asks.
Percy nods. “Around then is when the Greek and Roman gods began to struggle with themselves, and when the two camps came together,” he says.
Jason takes over. “Me and Percy were swapped by Juno, or Hera, and it was meant to create a sort of peace between the Greeks and Romans.”
“Then Leo blew up camp Jupiter, but that’s unrelated.” Percy says, giving Leo a look that says he’s still a bit salty about that whole incident.
“I was possessed!” Leo argues, flicking a flame at Percy, who brings his hands up so his clothes don’t get set on fire.
“Uhm, guys?” Remus speaks up. “Cool story, but like, have you decided who’s gonna sleep with us and who’s gonna have to thug it out in another house?”
“Me and wise girl will sleep with you guys.” Percy says, and, given the other two don’t argue, means it’s decided.
Jason sighs. “Well, where will me and Leo sleep?” He turns to the very ignored goddess right in front of them.
Minerva sighs. “Your options are Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.”
Leo cringes. “Who came up with these names?” He grumbles.
“A bunch of old wizards from like, the fifteen hundreds.” Regulus snorts, rolling his eyes.
Leo nods. “Makes sense.” He agrees easily.
Jason ruffles his boyfriend’s hair. “Leo, pick which dorm you want to stay in.”
Leo gives Jason a look. “Superman, I can’t choose for the life of me.”
“They have cute nicknames for each other,” James hints to Regulus.
“So do we, Prongs.” Regulus sighs.
“Oh, yeah.” James grins like an idiot. A cute idiot.
Jason sighs and presses an annoyed kiss to Leo’s hair. “Wanna do eenie-meenie-miney-mo?” He asks.
Suddenly, he’s smacked in the cheek with a coin, and in bounces off his skin and into the grass.
“Use that.” Remus says, watching Jason rifles through the grass the try and find it.
The blonde eventually finds it and holds it in front of Leo. “Heads for Huff n’ puff, tails for Raven claw.”
“Huff n’ puff.” Sirius snickers.
“Jason, it’s Hufflepuff.” Annabeth corrects, not even trying to stave off her smile.
“Same thing.” Jason grumbles, blushing in embarrassment.
Leo takes the coin. “Let’s see,” he sings, before flipping it in the air. Everyone watches it for a few moments, before Jason catches it with a loud smack on the back of his fist.