Hearing a very loud scream was not the way Harry wanted to wake up, in fact, the scream just happened to be very close to him, which is not what you want to be hearing at four in the morning.
Harry sat up, not sure who was screaming, but it didn't sound familiar.
"Who the hell is screaming?" Ron groaned while Harry just shrugged.
Hermione burst into their room with a crazy look in her eyes, "It's Percy, he's having a dream, no one can wake him up," there were footsteps behind her and Annabeth appeared,
"This is what you get for not letting Percy and I share a room, the nightmares never stop," Annabeth didn't wait for their response, just ran up to Percy and Jason's room.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione all followed her, unsure what exactly was happening. Another terrible scream shook the house and Harry felt the ground beneath him shake, though he supposed it was his sleep-deprived brain making things up.
The golden trio arrived outside Percy's room and saw him lying on the bed, shirtless, his body covered in scars and his face scrunched up in a tortured expression.
"Annabeth, he's going to destroy the house!" Jason yelled and the blonde girl who had just been staring at Percy in shock ran to his side.
"He hasn't had one this bad in months, I thought it was getting better,"
"It was, but you need to wake him up, NOW!" Annabeth wiped the tears from her face and sat next to Percy, wrapping her arms around his thrashing body.
"Seaweed brain, we're not down there anymore, nobody can hurt me, you are alive!" Percy stopped screaming at the sound of Annabeth's voice but his breathing was heavy, sweat pouring down his face.
"Annabeth," he whispered, opening his eyes a little, Annabeth pulled him into her arms and whispered soothing words into his ear. She made eye contact with Jason who nodded and got up, sending a look to the trio as well as all the other members of the house who had gathered outside the door.
"I'll tell you guys what happened, just leave them alone for a little, he needs to calm down," Jason motioned for all of them to follow him to the kitchen.
Everyone sat down except for Jason who stood at the head of the table, like an army general preparing to brief his troops.
"Annabeth and Percy have gone through a lot in their lives, more than all of you combined, and I don't need sass or arguments, it's true," Jason made eye contact with Harry, who had opened his mouth to say something.
He shut it immediately.
"Dumbledore told you guys that Percy and Annabeth needed to stay in the same room, same with Nico and Will, though you didn't have a problem with them for some reason," Jason rubbed his temples and sighed.
"Percy is the most powerful person I've ever met, I've been training for a solid eight years at least, he's only been training for about half of that and I wouldn't be surprised if he could beat me in a fight," Jason smirked a little as though thinking of a fond memory, his face then took on the previous serious expression.
"If Percy has a nightmare, he loses control of his powers, I've only seen the full extent of that once," Jason shuddered, "our headmaster wouldn't let Percy and Annabeth share a room, Percy had a nightmare, he almost destroyed the entire school," He looked around to see the shock on the wizard's faces.
"What happened to Percy and Annabeth?" Hermione asked timidly, Jason gave her a small glare and was about to respond when a voice sounded from the doorway.
"We don't like to talk about it," Percy was leaning against the door frame, he wasn't wearing a shirt and you could very clearly see all of the scars (not to mention muscles).
Harry wasn't sure why he noticed Percy's muscles so much, and why the sight of them made his cheeks flame up. Perhaps it was all the things Fred and Heorge had mentioned still in his mind, but Harry wasn't sure.
"Will, stop staring," Nico hissed to his boyfriend, Will smirked at him.
"You jealous Sunshine?" He teased and Nico playfully smacked his arm.
"Percy and I have gone through a lot of things in our lives, we are the only one capable of calming the other down when we have flashbacks, that's why we sleep in the same room," Annabeth tries to explain but Mrs. Weasley shook her head.
"I'm sorry dear, but having a boy and girl in the same room is against the rules, no matter the circumstances,"
"You have no trouble with Nico and Will, and I know for a fact that they have sex," Fred spoke up, pointing at the currently bickering couple.
"What about sex?" Will asked and Nico rolled his eyes.
"No one wants Percy and Annabetht to share a room because they might have sex, then Fred pointed out that we share a room and are also a couple,"
"Oh, yeah, I guess the whole pregnancy thing is always a possibility when it comes to people of the oposite sex, but we don't have to worry about it," Will smirked and winked at Nico who rolled his eyes.
"Will, you're a doctor, if you didn't know these things I would be worried, we're talking about the fact that Percy and Annabeth get nightmares, I get them too, you've seen them, tell Mrs. Weasley about them, please?" Nico sounded genuinely worried and Will could sense this, he immediately changed his tone.
"Yeah, I've seen all three of them when they get nightmares, Percy and Annabeth get hurt and have to stay in the infirmary overnight sometimes. I have healing powers, I can see what's causing a patient distress and-" Will shuddered, "I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy,"
The whole room got quiet, Mrs. Weasley looked a little ashamed, her cheek were flushed.
"I'm sorry, Dumbledore had told us that you shouldn't be seperated, but I'm a mother, I'm always going to be overly cautious," Jason gave her a nod of understanding while Thalia looked mad.
"If Dumbledore told you to do something, why didn't you do it? Did he not tell you that we had traumatic pasts and that we needed other people? You better be glad my girlfriend isn't here, she would beat your asses for putting Percy and Annabeth through this," Thalia's eyes were blazing, the electric blue was flashing with lightning.
"Girlfriend?" Ron choked and and Thalia turned her fiery glare on to him, making him sink into his chair.
"Yes, I might be demisexual, but I'm biromantic, I don't feel sexualy attracted to Reyna but I do love her romantically," Thalia was playing with a very sharp bronze knife, Ron wisely decided not to say anything else.
"Alright," Sirius interrupted before anything could get out of hand, "Percy and Annabeth need to share a room at night, Molly, you might not like it, but they've given us good reasons. It seems like Nico and Will need to do the same thing, so don't think about separating them just because they fool around," Mrs. Weasley looked ready to argue but thought better of it, Dumbledore had said they were very powerful before and she had only heard a little about their lives.
Mrs. Weasley sighed deeply and shook her head, "Alright, I don't like it, but I'll allow it,"
"Thank you," Annabeth whispered, you could see bags under her eyes, it was obvious that she wasn't able to sleep without Percy, but with him standing behind her, his arms around her, her eyelids felt heavy, it was all she could do not to fall asleep right there.
Percy could tell Annabeth needed to sleep, he scooped her up in his arms, pulling her to his chest and walked towards the staircase.
"We've dealt with a lot of horrors, but most of us know how to handle them and how to calm ourselves down, please just listen when we say we need something," Nico said before grabbing Will's hand and dragging him up the stairs.
Jason and Thalia were the only ones of the group left with a room full of the Weasleys, Sirius, and Remus.
"I would ask if you have any questions, but it's not our place to tell you what they went through, just understand that they need each other," Jason said and Thalia nodded, giving them all a look that said 'or else'.
Harry went back to bed feeling confused and worried, what had happened to them? Will they be able to help if they're so obviously hurt and traumatized from past events?
All of these thoughts clouded Harry's mind as he fell into a dream.
I don't do authors notes a lot, but I need to rant and this is the only place I can. You can skip this if you want to as it doesn't involve the plot or story directly.
So, my mom has been reading a lot of articles online about how bad technology is for people with depression (I have depression) and she seems to believe that I am depressed because I spend a lot of time online. Now she has shut down my phone, won't let me access anything on it other than messaging, even though I use some apps on my phone to help with panic attacks and mental break downs.
So that's what's been happening in my life, I've had more panic attacks in the past week than I had in the last month but my mom doesn't listen to me when I tell her about them.
Thanks for listening to my rant :)
