A/N: Shira Lansys fault once again! This time word count of 199 and additional prompt of focus.
Prompt: 45. Cooperate
Character: Percy Weasley
He's always been different to the others. Where they have laughter and running about and mucky hands, he has books and thoughts and whispers of a future where he can just be.
See, in this crumbling home, with the seven-handed clock and the gnomes in the garden and six other children, Percy's been lost for so long, hiding from the shouts and screams and commotion when all he wants is silence, beautiful, musical silence, where he can focus on his own mind and try to be happy. He hides away in his room and he buries his head between faded, yellowing pages, but they're always there in the background, making themselves known with shrieks and giggles.
His family.
And maybe that's what really drives them apart in the end. Percy's just too different and they're all too similar and he's always going to be just floating in this madness and trying to stay afloat.
It takes him a while to realise that, just maybe, they wouldn't drown him. They'd be the ones keeping him afloat.
And if they can't be the way he wants, and he can't be them, well, then they'll just have to learn to get along.