You would think by the age of 17 someone would be able to know when they should or should not do something. Percy constantly thought about this.

Yet, as a 17 yr old, he was still unable to go through a single day with out either being thrown into something stupid, or practically belly flopping into a completely avoidable situation.

His current situation was definitely a belly flop, and definitely in more than just the metaphorical sense. And it was not going to be an easy one to recover from.

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"Um... Hi everybody"

Percy waved at everyone one in the room smiling slightly. Though, his smile quickly dropped and he took a large step back when a scary man with a walking stick and a weird eye stormed towards him.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" He yelled roughly at Percy.

Percy stuttered slightly, " My name is Percy, um, Perseus Jackson Sir. And I just threw the powder in a fireplace and I landed here". He spoke quickly, trying to convey the little knowledge he did to the man with the bobble eye.

The man grunted in return, "That's impossible, we closed that entrance. Re-answer the question, and don't lie to me this time boy." The man was getting closer to him and Percy had already backed into the wall.

"That's all I know, I'm sorry" Percy replied as quickly as he could, "I was at some mansion and I was trying to escape and this is where I landed. I don't know how, I'm sorry"

Percy was looking the man in the eyes, trying to act brave, but probably failing miserably.

"That's enough moody. He's not going to answer us if you scare him to death." Another man walked up to Percy. "Remus Lupin, nice to meet you Percy" the man extended his hand to shake Percy's and as Percy was about to shake it back, Remus grabbed his left arm and spun it around sharply so that he could see Percy's forearm and, subsequently, his tattoo.

Percy let out an involuntary 'ow' despite feeling no pain whatsoever. Remus seemed to look at the same tattoo suspiciously before pulling out his wand from his back pocket, "woah, dude, what are you doing?"

Percy tried to retract his arm but Remus held on with a firm grip, and continued on ignoring the fact that Percy had even said anything. He waved his wand around Percy's arm, "Specialis Revealio" he said quietly.

Both Percy and Remus started at Percy's arm intently, but nothing happened. Satisfied, Remus let go of Percy's arm and looked up to Percy. He smiled slightly, "Sorry about that, just had to double check you weren't a death eater"

When Remus said this the plump red haired women quickly grabbed some kids by the arms and shoo-ed them upstairs. Though it was quite obvious they were trying desperately to stay.

Percy's eyebrows scrunched together, "A death eater?"

This time it was Remus' turn to scrunch his eyebrows, "surely you know about death eaters"

Percy, having no clue on earth who in their right mind would want to eat death, shook his head slowly, "No, I don't, sorry" he apologized, once again.

Remus, not knowing what to say turned away from Percy and walked back into the small crowd that had gathered around Percy. Remus stood next to a short man with red hair, and the red-haired man turned to Remus and spoke in a hushed voice, although Percy could still hear him, "Remus, can you double-check the charm you placed on the chimney please, I will help this young man."

The man walked up to Percy, "Arthur Weasley, nice to meet you" Percy nodded back in response a small smile on his face. This man seemed nice enough.

"I'm sorry to ask sir, but where exactly am I?" Percy asked cautiously.

Arthur laughed slightly, "surely you would know, you did after all use the floo network to get here."

Percy swallowed, "Well, two things. What's a floo network? And all I said was 'the orders safe house' and I landed here."

Arthur looked shocked, but Percy wasn't sure at what statement he was shocked at. Maybe it was both.

"Well that is a bit worrying isn't it" Arthur spoke, more to himself than to any one else. He turned around abruptly, "Remus? How does it look?"

Remus stood up from a crouching position. "Looks fine. The charm is still there. There is no way Percy here should've been able to get through"

Percy couldn't wait anymore, he needed answers, "I'm sorry but where exactly am I?"

The plump red-haired women turned around to face Percy once again, " you said it yourself dear, you're at the safe house"

"No, no, I'm aware of that but like what country am I in? What state?" He asked again, more specifically this time.

The women looked hesitant to answer, as if Percy should already know the answer, "You're in England my dear".

She must have seen Percy's face drop. "Where did you think you were?" She asked politely.

"Last I knew I was in New York" Percy was looking at the floor. This was not good, not good at all.

"Are you feeling ok?" The women asked walking up to him. She put a hand on his shoulder and another on his back, but Percy didn't object. It felt nice. A motherly and loving gesture that Percy hadn't had in what felt like years.

"Here, come sit down and we'll talk about it" she moved him to a nearby couch that looked extremely worse for wear, but was surprisingly comfortable in spite of it's mangy appearance. Once he sat down, the woman sat down next to him and started to rub his back slowly.

"My name is Molly, Molly Weasley. Now, why don't you tell me what you remember?"

Percy took a deep breath, "Ummm, well I remember somethings happening and then I felt like I was falling" he was about to continue when he was interrupted by Remus.

"What things were happening?" Percy gulped. He did not want to talk about that. Not at all.

"Uhhh, it felt like an earthquake or something. But yeah, after I felt like I was falling, I remember lying on a beach, no clue how I got there. I was there for a while before I heard some people coming, I was going to stay lying down but they sounded hostile. Talking about mudbloods and blood traitors. I think they were looking for someone and thought I might be that person."

Percy stopped momentarily when he heard them muttering.

"Ruddy snatchers, must've thought he was Harry."

"I don't blame them they've got the same hair"

"As well as similar eyes"

Molly looked at them fiercely, before shushing them loudly and turning back to Percy, "Continue on Percy"

"Right, well um, once I heard them saying these things I ran into the forest and I was running for quite a while until one of them managed to hit me with one of those wand spell things and I flew backwards. They came up to me and realised I wasn't that Harry dude and they seemed annoyed. But then one said that I was powerful so they brought me to someone's manor. I think it was like mall... Malloy... Malfoy, yeah Malfoy manor."

"Why did they think you were powerful Percy?" Remus asked, looking more than a bit suspicious.

Uh oh, this was definitely something Percy did not and probably could not talk about without either being injured by the Wizards in front of him or electrocuted by Mr thunder thighs from up above.

"Uuuhhhh, welllllllll" Percy spoke, his voice an octave or two higher than usual.

'Ah Styx', Percy thought. He'd have to show them his 'talents' but not explain the back story.

"C'mon boy, we haven't got all ruddy day" Mr creepy eye spat.

Percy took a deep breath, "I was able to defend myself in a way that I assume they have never seen before" he spoke, desperately trying to lace confidence in his words so that they wouldn't ask any further questions. Unfortunately, he did not have such luck.

"What was this way Percy?" Lupin asked quietly, his face a mixture of curiosity and caution.

Percy gulped before he lifted his right hand up towards the nearby sink and flexed it causing the pipe to shudder slightly.

Creepy eyed guy scoffed, "That's pathe..." He was interrupted by a stream of water flowing out of the tap and quickly fly to where Percy sat. It spun around his outstretched hand until it formed a perfect circle that almost looked sharp, before he clenched his hand and the water and exploded around him, spraying the small crowd surrounding him.

He looked up at the crowd around him, all of whom were looking at him in silence.

Creepy eye guy was the first to respond, "Not bad kid"

Remus spoke up, "Ummm excuse us Percy, but we're going to have to have a quick meeting" Percy nodded quickly and leaned back into the couch, nearly being swallowed whole, as the adults all huddled into a small group away from Percy.

Percy waited quietly as the group of adults talked in hurried whispered, occasionally glancing at Percy with a mixture of emotions on their face. If Percy concentrated enough, he could faintly hear their conversation, though he would be lying to himself if he pretended that he knew what they were talking about;

" He's obviously from Ilvermony and he has somehow been obliviated" the creepy eye guy spat.

Lupin responded, "Usually I would agree with you Mad-eye, but I'm not sure this boy has any knowledge of the wizarding world whatsoever"

Mad-eye, as Percy now knew his name, retorted back, "He could be an American criminal", he looked over at Percy suspiciously.

"Mad-eye, the boy looks scared and hungry and I'll be damned if we don't help him a little bit" the plump lady, Molly, added in.

"Molly dear, just because he looks sad and a bit torn up, doesn't mean he's a good guy" Mr Weasley added, wrapping his arm around his wife's waist.

"He's right, Molly," Lupin joined in, "for all we know he could be a spy for you-know-who"

Molloy scoffed, "look at the boy Remus, he looks like he's about to collapse. I simply cannot believe that he is a follower of that monster"

The huddle seemed to get tighter all of a sudden and Percy was having difficulty hearing what the group was saying but just as he was about to fully zone out of the conversation, he heard something that caught his attention and he couldn't help but speak up.

"I'm so sorry, but did you say 'the dark lord'?" Percy sat up slightly.

Mad-eye turned around, cocking his head slightly in suspicion and took a step towards Percy, "What's it to you boy?"

"Umm, well when I was in that mansion I talked to some dude who referred to himself as the dark lord" Percy was interrupted by Molly who gasped loudly and muttered 'oh the poor boy' under her breath.

Arthur comforted his wife quickly before prompting Percy to continue, "Well, long story short, I think I can help defeat him."

This seemed to spark some interest amongst the group, for the most part their eyes widened, except Mad-eye who looked completely stoic despite the shocking news. Mad-eye took a step forward and Percy sunk deeper into the couch.

"And how do you think you can help us exactly?" He asked, his face completely plastered with disbelief.

"Well, uh" Percy gulped,"Technically speaking, he is my first cousin once removed" he stated, quickly counting his fingers to double check he got the relation correct. He looked back up satisfied with himself, only to be quickly pushed deeper into the couch by a hand grabbing the remains of his top and another hand shoving a wand underneath his chin. "You have some explaining to do Mr Jackson"

AN-

I know, I know, it has been 8 months since I last updated, and I'm so incredibly sorry!

I have decided that from now on, including all my other stories, I will be decreasing the chapter sizes to roughly 2000 words rather that the usual 4000-5000. This way I can update faster and keep all my stories up to date.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed!

*gives you virtual hugs*

Bye my little blue Pancakes, xx

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