Detention

The Christmas break was just around the corner and everyone was getting ready for it. Snow covered the fields, and the school had decided to bring in an enormous Christmas tree to place in the dining room. Teachers, except for Professor Snape, decorated their classes with red and green decorations, just to get in the spirit.

McGonagall went to every class taking names of those who'd be spending their vacation in Hogwarts. That was when the owls arrived at breakfast, dropping off the things that were sent to parents to their owners. Percy's owl, Shannon, let go of a small package and at the right timing, it fell on his hands. It was from his mother. He quickly opened it, and as he expected, it was a bag of blue candy. After he was done, he reached for his bag and grabbed an envelope and gave it to Shannon, "You know what to do." He said with as smile as he ran his hand through his bird's feathers before it flew out the window once more.

"Look, that's Cecily West's bird." Draco said and Percy's eyes followed where his best friend's finger was pointing. The owl was small compared to Percy's. Its eyes were golden and its feathers white with a few strikes of black on the wings. His eyes stopped when they spotted Cecily. Her light brown hair was held in a sideway braid. Her smiled turned into a grin when she received a small box wrapped in purple paper and colorful ribbons. He would've been staring at her longer if Padma Parvati hadn't pointed him out. When she turned to his direction, Percy faced his breakfast plate.

"How did you know that was that loser's bird?" Pansy said.

Percy thought he'd never be present for the moment in which he'd see Draco Malfoy blush, but it was happening, "Lucky guess." Draco said nervous.

"You don't like her do you?" Pansy seemed angry.

"Well..." But he never continued, instead, the blond boy looked away awkwardly.

"No!" Angry, Pansy almost yelled, "You cannot like her! She's a loser! A nobody! That is why Cedric Diggory doesn't like her because she's nothing!" The Slytherin girl seemed to be going crazy and she stood up, making her way to the Ravenclaw table. Percy and Draco, both very mad, followed her. Pansy took the box Cecily's owl had left her and she dropped it on the floor, a loud breaking noise coming from it. Padma seemed as if she was going to attack her but a girl with blond hair stopped her. Cecily stared at the box and her expression changed from sad to extremely angry. Her fists closed and she was ready to hit Pansy at any moment, all she needed was one more push and that's exactly what she had done. "So, what, you just act as the misunderstood artist to get the attention?! You are nothing, Cecily West, NOTHI-" But Pansy never finished because a punch in the nose interrupted her.

Pansy had fallen to the floor, shocked, and she quickly stood to return the hit, but that was when Percy and Draco interfered. "Draco, just take Pansy and make sure, she doesn't try to put this all on Cecily...I'll just stay here and try to fix this."

With a nod, Draco took Pansy and they walked out of the dining room.

Percy turned to Cecily and she was picking up the box from the floor. He tried to get close to her, but Padma stopped her, "Don't worry about it, we'll handle this."

"No," Cecily stood up, "That's fine."

"Was that from your parents?" Percy asked.

She nodded, "For my birthday," Her fingers began to remove the ribbons and paper. When she was done, she opened the box, and inside was a broken glass figure of a swan. She seemed to be remembering something. She wasn't sure it would come out right but she was willing to give it try, "Reparo!" And with those words being said, the pieces flew back together, becoming one again. She smiled, satisfied by the way the spell had come out.

"Well, are you okay?"

Cecily nodded once again, "I've wanted to do that to Pansy Parkinson since last year." She chuckled.

That made him laugh, "She can be like that..."

"Yeah, I've noticed." She looked at Percy and smiled, "Thank you for helping me anyways...You're a good guy."

He smiled, "So, today's your birthday, huh?"

"Thirteen."

"Just like me." And their eyes at that moment met; his green eyes making contact with her sapphire ones.

"Percily!" Their moment had been interrupted by the shout of three girls.

"What?" Percy and Cecily said at the same time.

"That's what we're calling you guys...Percily." Padma said with a broad smile.

Cecily grabbed her stuff, "It was nice seeing you again, Percy." Her hand touched his arm, "I must go, bye." And before she left, she kissed Percy's cheek.

Blushing, Percy turned and started to walk back to his table. Cecily West was all he thought of as he made his way back to Slytherin. She was so pretty, prettier than any girl he'd ever seen. Her eyes a rare sapphire color, and her hair, a light brown hue.

The image of the girl faded away when somebody crashed into him. The sound of something hard breaking, made him snap out of it completely.

"Oh no!" The voice of a girl said and Percy looked down to her. Her hair was medium and a dark caramel color. She kneeled down and began to pick up the red berries she had dropped.

"I am so sorry...I was distracted..." He helped her by gathering the pieces of a broken jar.

"That's fine, it's not the first time I break something." She placed a lock of hair behind her ear and she sighed irritated, "Those were fresh mistletoe berries!"

"Choi!" They heard Professor Snape, "You dropped that on purpose didn't you?"

"N-no, I didn't."

"She didn't." Percy helped her stand up.

"Don't interfere, Jackson." His eyes went back to the girl, "As a punishment for creating this mess, you'll have to help Madam Pince with arranging books after dinner."

"It was my clumsiness that made her drop her things; you cannot just punish her when it was my fault."

"Then you'll be serving detention with her as well and my decision is final." With one last glare for the both of them, Snape walked away.

"Thanks for standing up for me, Percy that was pretty cool of you."

"No, don't worry about it, um..." He hoped that the girl with the dark blue eyes would help him out with filling in the blanks.

"Uh, yes, Arwyn Choi." The girl of Ravenclaw shook hands with Percy, "I'm in your potions class...I'm the girl Snape took the mythology book from." Embarrassed, Percy shook his head...he still had no clue who the girl was. "I'll see you after dinner for detention."

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When dinner ended, Percy made his way to the library, where he was supposed to be helping Madam Pince with organizing library books.

The thin old woman gave a cart to each of the second year students. They were large heavy books, with thousands of pages in all of them. "Organize them on their corresponding shelves by the author's last name." And both responded with a simple nod.

The first book Percy had to put on its place was Working with Werewolves by Hector Whitehall. He looked up and on the side of the forty-eight shelves were letters from the alphabet.

With an irritated sigh, he walked to the second to last shelve: W-Z. There, he looked for the last name closest to the one he was looking for. Wagg, Washington, Whitman, Wiggle. He moved the books of Samantha Washington and Carl Whitman apart so that in the middle, he could place Working with Werewolves.

He opened the book to check in there was anything inside, and he was right. In between pages 238 and 239 there was a cut off article of The Daily Prophet. He slowly unfolded it and read:

Two Prisoners Escape from Azkaban

Last night, two of the biggest criminals, Sirius Black and Damien Lestrange, escaped the highly secured Azkaban prison. According to Cornelius Fudge, Sirius Black, possibly the most dangerous ever to be held in Azkaban, and Damien Lestrange, son of another hazardous delinquent, Bellatrix Lestrange, teamed up and organized their escape.

"All of the most powerful wizards and witches are already looking for the pair," said Fudge, "The Ministry has everything under control."

The Muggle world has also been warned and is already taking precautions in case they ever come across them.

Underneath the article were two pictures of the fugitives. Sirius Black was a man with a sunken-face with long black hair. Then, there was Damien Lestrange, a boy much younger than the first man, possibly in his early twenties, with extremely messy charcoal black hair but with a blond braid that stopped in the middle of his torso. Both of them were pale and they seemed as if they lacked sleep. In their picture the two laughed manically, especially Damien, whose psychotic appearance killed the remaining innocence in his ice blue eyes.

"It's like staring into the eyes of evil." Percy looked up, and stared at a tall fifth year student with blond, almost white, hair and sapphire colored eyes that said with a broad smile, "It gets to anyone who stares into it."

Percy folded the paper and placed it in his pocket, "Yeah...I guess...so this is how a wizard criminal looks like?"

The boy chuckled, "Dude, if you think that's bad...you obviously haven't seen Bellatrix Lestrange, she looks way much worse than her son."

"Oh...well, is there anything you need?" He said shyly.

"Yes, um, I am looking for my sister, Cecily West," No wonder that sapphire color in his eyes seemed familiar, "She's usually here, drawing or looking for a book that might give her inspiration for her next art piece."

"Sorry, man, I haven't seen her...I'm just here serving my detention time."

He leaned on the cart full of books and stretched out his hand, "Jordan Heath West, fifth year...you may call me Heath...not Jordan, only my parents and sometimes Cecily call me Jordan."

Percy, who was still holding the book, didn't shake Heath's hand. "What's your name?"

"Percy Jackson." He placed the book where it belonged and grabbed the next one: I'm in Love with a Vampire by Melinda Jones. The title made him roll his eyes.

"Your name is cool." Heath said as he pulled out a piece of gum from his pocket.

Percy looked at him in surprise, "You've never heard of me before?"

"Nope."

"Funny, because most Ravenclaws like to talk about me."

"I think Cedric might've mentioned you in one of conversations, but I may be wrong..." Heath smiled, "I suppose, since you're busy, I must leave, it was nice chatting with you and, if I were you, I'd keep that article hidden...there must be a reason of why it was left there."

After the boy disappeared, Percy made his way to the J-K shelve where he bumped into Arwyn Choi. "Oh, Percy, I'm sorry."

"No, that's fine."

"I was just looking for Heath West because I just saw Cecily pass, atleast I think it's her, but there's a low possibility of me being wrong because I'm really good with faces."

"I was just talking to him...he went over there."

Arwyn looked to where Percy had pointed but to her disappointment, Heath had already found Cecily. "Ah, damn it"

"You seem disappointed."

"It just that...never mind!" And she took her cart from the J-K section.

The minutes in detention seemed like hours and Percy didn't like that. He didn't go back to the Slytherin house until midnight because it turned out that Madam Pince had more books for him and Arwyn. What was worse is that the effects of not having enough time to sleep were probably going to begin during Snape's class on the following day.

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**Author's Note: Hello! It is I, again, cadlg7...Well, here I go again with another awkward moment but first, I must announce the winner of the contest...her username is Jayfire (The character was Cecylia Barnes of chapter 6) and that person has a character in this chapter, and, no, it is not Jordan Heath West. Second thing, I guess I will give Percy a love interest and I think some of you might've figured out who it is...Anyways, sorry for the late update...I've just been sick for a few days and it takes some time to plan the process of the chapter and story...so yeah, thanks to all those who have reviewed and put the story on their Alert and/or Favorites... To all those who added me to their favorite author list, thank you all too and well, READ & REVIEW!