brothers, friends, family
“Hi”
I say nervously. “There you are Charlie, see he is fine.” Aran smiled but that just seemed to make Charlie angrier than he already was. “Alright well I am going to bed, Percy your brother here just stopping by to make sure you're ok. Aran come on let’s let Charlie and Percy have some privacy.” Ivy said it softly, but he could tell that she was only doing that because she thought I was too young to understand the context behind why they were really fighting. To be fair she was probably right, but that didn’t make me feel any better about any of this. I see Aran and Charlie give each over one more angry look before Aran starts heading up followed by Ivy.
Leaving me and Charlie alone.
“Charlie I–Ah ” I didn't even finish whatever I was going to say as Charlie pulled me into a hug. This is nice. “You're not mad that I’m in a different house?” I asked. At that he pulled back to look me in the eyes. “Of course not. I was just a bit surprised, is that why you were avoiding looking over at the Gryffindor table?” he asked. I don’t answer verbally but I do nod. “Oh Percy no, no I am not mad or Bill and no one else will be okay.” he pauses clearly more he wants to say.
“Are you happy with your house?” he asked. Yes
Yes I was, I asked for this house. I already have two friends in this house. It is the coolest room ever in this house. And no one has compared me to Bill. I want to say but I pause. He said he didn’t care and when has Charlie ever lied to you, Bill yes he lies if he thinks he needs to but not Charlie. Charlie is straightforward with you if he had a problem he would have told you.
“Yes I am. I already have two friends, the rooms are calming and there are lots of books. More books than I think I have ever seen.” I say. Giving him all the reasons why I know make this the right house for me, but leaving out the fact that I asked to be here and compared to Bill reason.
“Then I am happy and everyone else will be. Just... if anything happens or if anyone and I mean anyone makes you feel uncomfortable even if you think it is just in your head, you come straight to me. okay ” he tells me. “Does this have something to do with the fight you had with Aran and Ivy? Ivy said you and Aran don’t get along” I ask.
“I…. mhm… me and Aran have a history of trying to one up each other…. Last year I… took it too far. I crossed a line and I just worry….. Just tell me if anything happens ok.” that makes me worry. “Okay I will” “good now come on let's get you to bed yeah” I nod.
As I lead him to my room, he doesn't seem shocked or surprised at the Ravenclaw dorm rooms. When we get to my room I see him making a note of where it is and again not even a hint of surprise at my room. As we walk in I find myself wondering if this what the Gryffindor dorm rooms look like. I always assumed that they shared an actual room but maybe not or maybe he had been in the Ravenclaw dorms before. That would make sense.
I climb into bed and I already feel better and tired. Knowing that no one will care or at least Charlie was enough to ease my mind.
“Goodnight Percy.” I hear just before I feel him kiss my forehead. If it was any other night I would have faked annoyance but tonight I didn’t mind.
“Goodnig~~mmm”
“Hehmm. Sleep well Percy” is the last thing I hear before I fall asleep. Now everything is perfected.
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I wake up to the sound of Scabbers scratching at his cage, Oh you really are a rat. Don’t get him wrong he is a fun rat and Percy has good memories with him but at the end of the day Scabbers is a rat. And well rats only live for four years five if you are really lucky and Scabbers was three.
I got up with a sign I don’t have any class and it was still pretty early but still I like to be on top of things. I quickly get dressed, grab my wand, and make my way as quietly as I can out of my new room and out of the first year boys little hang out area. I am definitely the first one up and was probably the last one to fall asleep, yay. I push that thought down as I make my way down the stairs. I want to be on top of things, the first place to start is to find out where everything is. My first classes are transfiguration and positions so I should probably start there. I exit the Ravenclaw tower and decide the best way to find them is just to look around.
So that’s what I do. I walk mindlessly around the castle, looking in classrooms, noting down mentally where they all are, before continuing my mindless walk. It is going pretty well. I have found everyone of my classrooms besides positions. But I still have time to kill before everyone should start waking up.
It was all going well until I turned a corner and bumped into someone, making both of us fall back. I really need to stop do that. I was however able to catch myself from falling over the boy I bumped into though was not as lucky. “Marcus, are you ok?” the boy next to him asked. “Oh my Merlin I’m so sorry I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going I–“I’m fine. You stupid prat, where you were raised in a barn or did your mother not know how to act so you don’t” Marcus snapped before I could finish. And what the bloody hell is he to say that he ran into me too. Before I can stop myself I snap. “Oh and you're one to talk. Your father snap like that at you or did your mother never bother to teach you how to act before she could get rid of you.” I say. And it worked. Marcus was looking at me like he wanted to kill me and right now the feeling was shared. “Oh you're going to regret that” he screams reaching for his wand, I follow his lead, brazing with my.
“Stupefy"
"Confringo"
"Expulso"
"Avis”
I don’t know how I ended up dueling someone on my first day but It didn’t last long. “Teacher teacher.” the other boy said, stopping both me and Marcus in our tracks. “What going on over there” we then hear. And before I know what's happening or the teacher can see us, Marcus and the other boy are grabbing my arms. “Run” they both say and I do.
I am not sure how long we were all running before we started passing classrooms again. I look over to the boy that I don’t know the name of as we read each others minds with a look and in a moment of recklessness, we both pull or push Marcus into one of the classrooms before we all hit the deck. We all sit on the flour as quietly as possibly. It’s a minute before we hear the sound of footsteps changing past us and the sound of a man screaming “when I catch you kids you’ll be sorry”.
We sit there for a minute longer after the sound of him is far away. In the mean time I look around, this is my potion room. I make a mentally note of that just before I am snapped out of my thoughts by Marcus grabbing my arm again. “Come let's get out of here, before he comes back” Marcus whispers as he grabs his friend's arm and leads both of us out of the classroom, and in the opposite direction we were going before. When we are sure we are far enough from the teacher's ears we start running again. And I don’t know why but the boy that I still don’t know the name of starts laughing, and after he starts we all start, I’m run away from a teacher and laughing well doing so. How I went from dueling to laughing with these two I have no idea. But I am kind of happy that I did.
We ran until we were outside. We ran all the way to the black lake at which we all fell over bellowing with laughter.
“Ahahah God dammit Marcus, hahahaha, I have been friends with you a day and you are already getting us in trouble” he says “hey I did hahahah warn you Adrian” he answered “Adrian so that your name ah that was bother me.” I say. Then we pause for a minute before we all burst out in laughter again.
After laughing hard then I have ever laughed before Marcus Adrian and I calm down and after a minute of surprisingly comfortable silence Marcus specks up. “Sorry for what I said and for the dueling, I shouldn’t have snapped like that it was my fault just as much as yours, so yeah I’m sorry uhm what’s your name” he said sincerely.
“Percy, my name is Percy. And I am sorry to I shouldn’t have retaliated like that. It’s just that you hit pretty close to home with the ‘prat and raised in a barn’ comment” I say. I have been called a prat by everyone I had ever known, and I was raised in a barn when you really think about it. I don’t like to think about it.
“Well you hit pretty close to home too.” Marcus replied. We both just sat in silence after that but it was not uncomfortable, sad yes but comfortable it was a weariedly nice feeling. We all stayed like that for a moment longer before I spoke up.
“Well I think your pretty cool. Both of you, i mean.” I say to lighten the the mood. Ok Percy you can do this ask know. “And I would really like to be your guys friend. That is if you want to.” I ask.
“Of course. I need someone to help me keep Marcus out trouble, and you can think on your feet if it wasn’t for you we would still be running from that teacher.” Adrian smiled. I look over to Marcus who was also smiling. “Yeah just be ward I am a handful. So stay on your toes” he smiles. “Oh I don’t think that will be a problem” I say. If I can live with the twin, Marcus should be no at all.
Well it looks like I have to new friends Penny is going to be happy. “Penny is going to be so happy” I say with a smile. “Penny who’s Penny” Marcus ask. Oh right they haven’t met Penny or Audrey yet. “She is our friend. And yes I did say our.” I tell them as I stand up and dust myself off and start walk to the other end of the black lake. “Percy who’s Penny and what do you mean by our” Adrian’s voice is riddled with concern. “Percy you are keeping secrets I don’t like secrets” Marcus continued. When I still don’t answer they both stand up and start chasing me. “Percy answer the question”
“you are being creepy Percy”
I am smirking as I continue walking still saying nothing, I have no reason to give away the surprise of Penelope clearwater. No they’ll find out soon enough but in the mean time I am going to enjoy there fear.
This is going to be a fun year for sure. No this is going to be a great new start to my life.
I just know it.