Chapter Sixty-Six - Joke

"Oh my God, it's Audrey Wong!" exclaimed the pregnant Miko as she entered the room. George looked at her, his face not betraying his confusion. Fred was also not understanding the reason for such outburst. "The only female on American National League of Legends Team. She has, I don't know, a million followers on YouTube."

"Reaching the second million," corrected Audrey.

League of Legends, George remembered the thousands of times his brother in law mentioned the game and how much it was a fever around the world and how much DoTA sucked in comparison - though he, particularly, preferred the latter.

" The LoL-litha, George. Souta will go crazy when he sees you. I lost the count of times he spent his afternoon watching your videos. I bet he will tell all of his friends we are family now." To George, it seemed Kagome was just as much excited.

"Percy is marrying a YouTube celebrity. That's... great," whispered Fred in George's ear. "What's YouTube?" George promised to explain later.

Along the dinner, they found that Audrey simply completed Percy. Any awkwardness vanished as soon she opened her mouth. She was open minded, outspoken, a bit of tomboy, talked a lot - she probably said more words in two hours than Perce in a year and the fact said Weasley wasn't showing any drop of irritation said how much he cared for her.

"My mom doesn't like magic, she insists if you can't reproduce it on a computer, it's not safe. She's more into technology, working as a programmer since she finished high school. She wanted me to marry a Korean genius from MIT. I'm not sure what she will think about Perce."

"I wasn't aware of that." Percy was soundly offended. "What have you told her about me?"

"I said you were half British."

"She'll be very surprised to find the other half is British too." Percy. Making a joke. The Hell weather just dropped a few degrees.

"I think she won't mind that much now that there's a Miko in the family. She believed all wizards are atheists. Father was a Shaman back in South Korea and now teaches Religious Studies at the community college in my hometown. They tend to like people with a religious past."

As Kagome and Audrey engaged in a conversation about religion, technology, YouTube and other things muggles had interest, George saw Fred going to the baby's room and saw it as the perfect opportunity to talk with Perce. Kagome winked at him when he stood up. He asked Percy to follow him using a random excuse. They had it planned and rehearsed it several times, but Percy's reaction was always the incognita. As soon they entered, George used the Imperturbable Charm, just in case things get loud.

Percy eyed his brother and the disguised Fred suspiciously. "Is this some kind of joke?"

"I promise it's not," answered George. They agreed earlier to let him make the speech and Fred would follow his lead. Percy gave them a hard glare and nodded very slightly. George took the hint and resumed his talk. "I know we were never the, hmm, best of brothers. Fred and I used every opportunity to pick on you."

"Make fun of your good grades."

"Tease your achievements."

"Shame your academic choices."

"Critic your professional goals."

"Anyway, what we wanted for you to know is that we are very proud of you and under all the teasing, or bullying, that's the word muggles use, and now I know it's not nice and you deserve years of apologies, your determination inspired us to follow our dreams."

"'We'? Who are 'we'? Who are YOU? You talk like we are lifelong acquaintances but I've never seen your before, mate." Percy's face showed confusion, tension, uncertainty, maybe hope. He seemed to be connecting the dots but wasn't jumping to conclusions. "I don't know what prank you tried to pull, George, but I thought you were better than this. I'm leaving."

"Wait, Perce-!"

"Percy Ignatius Weasley! It's rude to give your back to the dead! I'll make you eat a dozen puking pastilles if you touch that knob."

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