Chapter 3
Percy tries to organise his thoughts but the aftermath of the drug is still present and makes it difficult to think clear. “ What do u want !?” He asks reserved “ and who are u ?” He asks suspiciously. “ If I may propose, I do not think we should talk about that here. If we could come in ?” The old man asks, even it doesn’t sound so much like a request and more like an order. Without waiting for a response he walks through the door and past Percy. The other three people follow him in. “ Yes of course people who I don’t know. Just walk in my apartment” he says sarcastically and follows them in. They are already sitting at his kitchen table and waiting for him. The teenager seems like he doesn’t feel very comfortable and is looking around a lot. Percy refuses to sit at the only chair left andeans instead against his kitchen counter. “ so again who are you and what do you want from me ? I am not going to ask another time and if you don’t answer I will kick u out of my appartment even if you are a child and an old man, ok !?” Percy says with a sweet smile, at the last part, on his face. The boy with the messy hair scuffs and mutters something like “ ass,a child are u kidding ?“ but the man with the curly hair only chuckles slightly.
“ About who we are, I am Albus Dumbledore, the so called “boy” is Harry Potter, that is Remus Lupine “ ,he points at the man with the scars who sits across of him, “ And I am Sirius Black “ the man with the curls cuts in. “ ahaaa, and what do you want in don’t have plenty of time “ Percy replies, while that is a total lie. “ As we asked at the door, do you know a Sally Black, we wish to speak to her it’s very important” Dumbledore says.
“ Yes I know her and i would love to help u “ Percy emphasises the word love ironically “ but I am sorry to disappoint you, I can’t. “ his face goes blank after this sentence and he looks Dumbledore dead in the eyes. No emotion is seen.
“ Are u kidding me. She is my sister I haven’t seen her in 20 years. Please u have to help us !” Sirius demands from him. “ I don’t have to do anything!” Percy spits out “ and certainly not for you, I don’t owe you nothing. Your sister, yes? Funny she never mentioned you.”
“ why would she mention me to you, how do you know her and why are you in her appartment? “
Sirius asks with a confused face. “Because she WAS my mother !!!”
His face showed a trace of grief and pain, but it quickly disappeared and his face was blank again. Sirius looked taken back and his face showed a lot of emotions. You could clearly see when the realisation that the man in front of him that claimed to be his sisters son talked about her as if she was dead, that couldn’t be true, he had to be lying.
“ What ? She was …? Wha-… what do you mean by was ?” His voice broke at the end of the sentence and he could feel a hand on his. When Sirius looked down on his hands he saw how they had begann to shake and were now in the firmly but so gentle grip of his boyfriend.
“She is fucking DEAD you dickhead. For not even a year. So pleaseeee by the love of the gods what the fuck do you want !!!” Came the answer from Percy. His voice sounded annoyed by the end of his sentence and there was a tiredness in his words that shouldn’t be in a what seems to be still a kid or young man.
Sirius looked taken back and his face showed a lot emotions. Doubt, grief and despair. He opened his mouth but no words were spoken. His eyes closed for a moment and when he opened them again he looked Percy in the eyes. Grey met sea green and Sirius was shocked by the intensity of Percy’s gaze. It seems like there’s a storm going on in his eyes and he looked away quickly.
“That is of course a shame. Sally was an extremely talented wich with a lot of potential to be great someday. We wanted to ask her to come back to England.” Dombledire asked with a small sad smile on his face.
“Are you kidding me ?! It’s a fucking “shame” my mother was murderd ? And a witch, what the fuck. My life is already fucked and I do not need new creepy people in it !!! And also why would you want her to go to England, she was born in New York ? Like what the fuck do you really want ?”
his voice witch has grown louder and louder, was so small and broken at the end.
Harry had flinched at the volume of his voice but when he ended he could only think about how confused he was and how lost he had felt when he learned about the magic world and his parents true death. He felt pity coming up in him and it was also shown on his face, which Percy saw and he quickly looked away from his face. “Don’t look at me like that, I am not a kid who needs your pity” Percy snapped at Harry, but this time in a much more gentle way. Remus started to talk “I am sorry, Dumbledore wasn’t the most empathetic person right now but he didn’t mean it like that. I am truly sorry about your loss even if I never had the opportunity to meet your mother. About the “witch” part, I take it from your confusion that Sally didn't tell you anything about the magical world ?”
His voice was soft and you could hear from it his honesty in every word he spoke. Sirius gripped his hands only harder to show his relief remus had spoken.
“No she never told me a thing about any magical world so I have really no idea what you are talking about .” Came Percy’s frosty reply. It wasn’t as harsh as before because he felt a weird feeling from the man that he could trust him and he didn’t wanted to hurt the mans feelings.
“ As Remus already sad, I think my wording was not quite right and I wouldn’t dare to speak so about your mother. It wasn’t my intention to be hurtful and I ask for forgiveness.”
Percy only nods his head at this statement and his eyes go back to Remus. He seems to only respect him at the moment.
“So, it makes it a little bit more difficult with you knowing anything about our world. That doesn’t mean it was your mother’s fault, I can understand why she didn’t wanted you to be involved in this world. But it can be dangerous if wizards or witches don’t know about there powers. I have to ask you did you in any way experienced abnormal things or stuff that happened when you were feeling strong emotions ? It could be anything like exploding glass or anything else that seemed not normal. “
Percy had to smirk at that. Dangerous ? My whole life was dangerous, as if that would have been more dangerous than everything that happened to me. “You mean I didn’t figure out that letting explode everything around me when I was bullied in school was not normal ? No shit Sherlock.” Percy had to smirk at that, of course he knew a lot of those incidents when something exploded were to be explained because of his heritage but that is something they didn’t need to know. “Ok, that are clear sings of magic. It would be better if you would learn to control these outbursts. It is also possible that when you are not in control and you are still this powerful you could be very strong if you trained your powers. Just a question how old are you ? That would be important because first, there is a school that teaches magic, it is named Hogwarts and Dumbledore hear, is the principal and I am also a teacher at the school, and second, if you are not an adult we can not let you live hear alone that is not legal and with Sirius as your uncle you could stay at his house.”
“Ok, stop whoa that was much information. You Seriously want to tell me I am a wizard and you want me to go to a school for wizards, are you nuts?”
“ No, Percy I am not nuts, but you basically summed it up really good an-” Remus said with a little smile on his face “ and there is still the opinion you could live with me and Remus in London. I have a house there and Harry lives also with us. It’s not so beautiful but you wouldn’t live alone and I would get the chance to get to know my nephew. I really want to get to know you Percy, please. “ Sirius cut in with a hopeful face.
“First for all of you as it seems to be so important to you I turned 18 in August . So yes I live legally hear . I can take care of myself I don’t need a babysitter. Though I think I will go to yours Sirius, under some conditions, first I will have my own room and nobody goes in there without me or my permission I really don’t like people go through my stuff so that would be important, and second somebody explains this whole magical thing to me and I mean everything, and third I would like to learn more about my magic so someone should teach me spells or whatever you call it. That would be all for now. I think it would be nice spending some time with you ” after his reply Sirius face light up he smiled widely. “I understand these conditions and they are all understandable. We will follow them as good as we can. Also if you want and if your magical skills allow it you, you could be a student at my school. Of course you would be far behind every one else but with some extra lessons you could be in the same year as Harry. That wouldn’t be the right year for you at 18 but you would know Harry and you will meet some of his friends at Sirius’s house. But all this can be discussed later, I would suggest you pack your belongings and Sirius and Remus are going to come back tomorrow morning and bring you to his house.” Dumbledore spoke with a clear tone. At his suggestion Remus and Sirius nodded and everyone looked at Percy waiting for an answer. It came quickly “ so with that cleared in think I will see you tomorrow ? But how do you intend to be back at London at also hear again in less than a day ?”
“Oh we have our ways, you will get to know them too “ and with that all four people stood up, Harry took Sirius arm and with a loud plop they all just disappeared.