Chap 2

I own nothing, Sorry I haven't been writing, been out of town and distracted and school and life, I really wish life would stop getting in the way.


After the first week of raising his son on his own James thought he was going to be arrested for child abuse.

They had moved into a 'spacious' two-bedroom apartment since the galleon to pounds exchange rate was just horrible. James, Sirius and Remus shared one room and Percy had the other to himself but he spent so much time in James's room that it was almost as if they only had one room.

James, Sirius and Remus were all terrible cooks so they pretty much lived on peanut butter and jellies and Chinese takeout food.

Sirius was a convicted criminal since he hunted down Pettigrew and was framed for Lily (and James)'s murder so he got a job at a muggle grocery store cash register. Remus was the only one who managed to keep his job since James was dead and Sirius was a mass murderer.

James signed Percy up for pre-school at the local muggle school but he still felt like a terrible father.

One night when Percy couldn't fall asleep James just gave him a spoonful of firewhiskey and he went right to sleep (not his proudest moment).

They basically just hung out around the apartment and watched what Sirius called television.

After the first day of Percy going to school James was yelled at since his son didn't even know the alphabet. Within the first week Percy got in a fight with another preschooler and his teacher decided to check out Percy's 'living situation' it was bad. Eventually James ended up calling on his sister Sally Jackson for help raising his kid.


Flash back...

Sally was a cute little girl James obviously loved her to the ends of the earth but it was more brotherly-sisterly love than soulmate or parental figure love.

Sally unfortunately was a squib so her older brother obviously picked on her all the time for that especially after he went to Hogwarts and made all of those awesome friends.

One specific day of one specific summer Sally was about eight, Moony, Padfoot and Peter were over and they were in the kitchen doing 'big boy' things. Sally decided to try out James's broomstick in the backyard. She kicked off from the ground shot into the sky, spiraled out of control and ended up hitting a tree. She fell twenty feet but luckily didn't break anything.

James and his friends came outside to find James's broomstick in a million pieces. James of course did the least sensible thing, yelling at Sally that she was an idiotic squib who could never do anything right and basically a bunch of other things that you should never. Ever. Say to your little sister. Ever.

The next morning none of them could find her anywhere and they searched every where eventually James went into her room there was a note on top of a book on top of her neatly made bed. The note said:

Dear James,

I knew you would go in here! I'm really sorry that I broke your Cleansweep7 maybe now you can convince mommy and daddy to get you the new Comet. I decided it would be easier for you if I wasn't in your way so I am leaving on a train as soon as I finish writing this. I am leaving to find the Greek gods so I am heading west.

I want you to know that even if you don't love me I love you very much, I hope we meet again sometime.

Your baby sister,

Sally

James picked up the book it was called Greek Mythology for Adults he didn't even know how she'd gotten that book but one of the pages was dog eared. The page was about some Greek hero name Perseus she'd out a big heart around his name.

Years later James was expecting a son and named him Perseus. Years after that he contacted Sally in New York and apologized profusely for making her run away and that was that.


With 'Aunt' Sally's help Percy finally had a chance of growing up a proper man okay so maybe not a proper man, maybe just a proper boy, but still.

Soon days turned into weeks ands and weeks turned into months and months into years and slowly they all grew up.. In first grade they found out that Percy had dyslexia and ADHD. But even with those learning difficulties he still managed to make friends (after all he was a very charismatic boy). They didn't have a lot of money (James wasn't allowed to extract from the Potter vault since he was dead) Percy somehow managed to swing getting a DS for his birthday when he was ten and needless to say they were all rather disappointed when he didn't get his Hogwarts acceptance letter at eleven.


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