The Boggart- Percabeth's greatest fears 3 years later
A/n A sequel to my two previous Stories The Boggart- Percy's greatest Fears and The Boggart- Annabeth's greatest fears
Harry's P.O.V
'Hey Percy, Are you okay? You were screaming through the night again last night.' The black haired, sea green eyes teen turned to face me, bags under his eyes as he gathered his school books for the day. He nodded slowly and replied 'Yeah, just some nightmares. I didn't keep any of you up did I, Harry?' Shaking my head I told him 'no your fine, we all got back to sleep fairly quickly. Are you ready for Defense today? I heard Snape was getting us to go up against Boggarts again.'
The Hufflepuff's eyes darkened and he said 'Really? oh….Yeah...I'm ready...totally ready.' His voice betrayed him and I could only think back to our third year where he also seemed nervous to go up against the Boggart. I hated wondering about my friend but I couldn't help but be curious as to what his greatest fear was this time. Before it was that girl but it's been 3 years since then and people do change.
Percy stretched and said 'well we should probably head off now. I really need to thank Professor Dumbledore at some point for letting me sleep in this dorm. Nothing against my Hufflepuff classmates but they can't exactly stop me when I have a nightmare and start Sleep-fighting.' Shrugging my shoulder I patted him on the back and said 'hey you can't help it, so don't worry about it mate' The two of us started to walk down towards the Defense against the dark arts room.
As we arrived at Snape's classroom we found Annabeth Chase, a Ravenclaw in the same year as us….and Percy's girlfriend waiting at the door. Percy smiled and said 'Wise Girl!' The Blond turned around and said 'Percy! Looking at her properly I noticed that she was very messy and similar to Percy, she had deep bags under her eyes although they weren't as bad as Percy's. Percy hugged his girlfriend which I definitely wasn't still jealous about and said 'Nightmares?' she Nodded and they placed their foreheads against each other 'only another couple months then we are back at camp.' Percy smiled replying 'Then to New Rome University.' The two of them had been different since they came back after the summer. Both were more weary and only truly smiled when they were together which they tried to be as often as possible. In fact they tried to avoid most other students most of the time now. Neither of them really wanted to be there.
Although I don't really blame them if the rumors about what happened to them were true. From within the classroom, Snape bellowed 'Enter!' The door Slamming open. We entered the dark room quickly finding all the desks were out of the way. We are doing something practical today, and it was easy to tell what. Just behind Professor Snape there was a larger chest. Very similar to the one Professor Lupin used in our 3rd year. Annabeth wrapped her right hand around Percy's left on and muttered something under her breath.
Professor Snape noticed this but didn't comment on it, instead waiting for another couple of minutes for the rest of the defense class to filter in…. Which was really most of our year but it was still only one class which made it very chaotic. Once everyone was here. The professor said 'alright Settle down, today we are going to be checking up on your skills against a bogart. I have all your notes on how you dealt with it in third year from Professor Lupin so this will be a check to see how you have improved… or in some cases got worse. Now. You aipp all line up in the order of where you sit in the class l. Left to right and it's the front of the class first and the back last.'
The entire class grumped and it was easy to tell Percy and Annabeth were not pleased about it as they held hands until one of them close to pulling their arms out of their sockets until Professor Snape said' apart From Mr Jackson and Miss Chase. According to your notes you both had very traumatic ones prior to kidnapping, so just to help both of you. You can go at the same time.' Snape was being kind? What kind of mirror world were we in?! However both of them looked relieved even if the rest of the class groaned harder. EVeryone got into Position apart from Percy and ANnabeth who were right at the front. Behind me I heard Draco say 'SO what do you think they are going to see' I knew he was talking to me by how close behind me he was and I replied simply 'honestly I'm not sure….things have changed so much over the past 3 or so years' He seemed to agree at that and said 'To think we used to fight over her 3 years ago' Putting my head in my hands I replied 'Please don't remind me'.
He chuckled as Professor Snape walked over to the Chest containing the Boggart. Both Percy and Annabeth were hunched up, tense. They were truly terrified. He had seen them be worried and not quite as confident as they normally were but this was different, they honestly looked like they wanted to leave the classroom right now and run away together. What the hell had happened to them while they were kidnapped.
We didn't have to wait long to find out. Professor Snpe kicked open his chest and mist poured out of the chest slowly getting darker and darker. 'Hello little Heroes, did you really think you escaped from me' then there was chirping like a spider making Nnabeth flinch away and Percy stand in front of her defensively before the Darkness started to take shape as a Giant and I heard Percy humble 'no don't be bob...please' But it seemed to not be it before changing shape becoming larger and larger, large purple body made of almost entirely muscle and what looked like armour made of hundreds of screaming faces. But whatever face we were looking at right now was much, much worse. there was no real face but rather a mess of swirls that felt like it was pulling you in. Percy and Annabeth seemed dazed at this point as the voice laughed 'you will never escape me! I will rise up and kill everyone you know and love little heroes. No one escapes me forever'
EVeryone in the class took a step back in fear, even Voldemort wasn't this terrifying when he spoke. 'You are less than nothing, you shall pay for killing Gaia!' Percy and Annabeth fell to their knees as Percy's eyes darkened 'we are still in the pit, we never escaped...we're still lost….we lost the war…' Annabeth said 'Percy, stay with me, we are home, we are preparing to go to university and we are set to be married. We escaped and we are living our life to the fullest, And as long as we are together' wait set to be married? When the devil did that happen?! Behind me I could tell Draco's was thinking the same thing.
Annabeth slowly stood up while Percy calmed his breathing, Annabeth pulled her wand out and said 'RId...Rid...Ridikku' Percy stood up and placed his hands onto hers 'together.' in unison they said 'Ridikkulous!' Suddenly the giant man turned into a small skeletal Sabertooth tiger. There were several screams across the classroom but Percy smiled slightly and said 'small bob' Professor Snape said alright, the two of you are dismissed for the day' while putting the Boggart away.
Percy and Annabeth made their way out of the room swiftly and for the rest of the day nobody saw them, according to Professor Flitfick the next day they had decided to head back to America for a couple days to spend a couple days with their family before coming back. When they returned the next weekend they looked different, both were a bit more tanned and both looked more relaxed than they had in years.
Ron, Hermione and I made our way up to them and Hemrione asked 'Are you guys doing better?' Annabeth nodded as Draco came over and said 'you're both wearing muggle clothes. Is something going on?' He raised a very good point, They both almost always wore robes to hide the scars on their bodies. Percy and Annabeth turned to face each other and spoke between themselves in greek before Annabeth said 'it's going to be announced tonight at dinner but the two of us have decided to transfer to Illvermony. Professor DUmbledore has already agreed to it and tonight we are heading back across the pond before starting school at Ilvermorny next week.'
We all started to cough and simultaneously yeled 'You're leaving?! In the middle of the war?!' They nodded and said 'we've been through so much in the past few months and we need to get away before we start to get worse. You saw how we were during defense. We can't deal with ANOTHER WAR, You can ask Neville and Susan what we mean by that. Look i'm sorry but we do need to get going. Thanks for being good friends over the years. The two walked off with a skip in their step. That was the lost time any of us saw them until after the war.