Chapter 2
Merlin´s POV.
The food was good, would probably have been even better if I had eaten since three days ago. The water was soothing my burning throat. Suddenly I hear someone come through the outer door.
"Hello I´m home!" A masculine voice shout.
"We are in the kitchen Arthur!" Molly shouts back and then gives me a kind smile.
"Mervin this is my husband Arthur" she introduces as her man comes into the room. His gaze goes right to me. He looks a bit confused. Not that I can blame him. Why must this man have that name? I wonder if I always will be reminded of my Arthur by everything and everyone.
"Arthur this is Mervin, Fred and George brought him to dinner with us. How did you like the food dear?" she says and turns to me again. Arthur and I shake hands and I turn to Molly.
"It was great just not that hungry" I say.
"That´s fine dear and thank you" she smiles. She´s a great woman and probably also a great mother.
"So Mervin how do you know our sons? I have never seen you before I believe" Arthur asks. What should I say?
"Actually we met Mervin just today and we began to talk and we asked him to come and eat with us" Fred tells his father. Well that´s the truth.
"Have you just moved here or where did you go in school?" Arthur continue. Please don´t make me lie more to you. But I can´t tell the truth.
"Ehm I´m originally from here around actually but I didn´t go in school here in England"
"So your parents lives here too?" Molly asks. The twins looks down but I can see their sympathy in their eyes.
"No, they both died long time ago" I say softly. Molly´s eyes fills of sympathy and sorrow, I swear I can see tears in her eyes.
"Oh we really utter our condolences. But please stay for the night, the sun has already gone down and we have several empty beds for the moment. Our two youngest are at Hogwarts our three eldest doesn´t live with us anymore but as often as they can come by and still has their rooms in the house" Arthur says also with the sympathy shining in his eyes. I can´t help but ask.
"Which house?"
"Gryffindor, as were we" Fred says with a smile. It really doesn´t surprise me.
"So please say you are going to stay at least for the night?" George pleads. Why do they want me here?
"Okay if you all are sure that´s okay and I won´t intrude or anything?" I say uncertain. Immediately everyone shakes their heads.
"No please stay, Fred, George show him Percy´s room" Molly says and then begins to clean of the table.
"Come on then" Fred jumps up and reach out his hand to help me up. My left foot is probably dislocated. The truth is that I´m more than thankful for the warm bed, the food and everything. But I´m still afraid. Afraid that I can´t leave and it will end with I loose people I really care about again. Because that´s what´s going to happen. I´m immortal time stands still for me.
Molly´s POV.
My heart is breaking for the boy. He can´t be older than the twins and he has lost his parents and I have a feeling he doesn´t have anyone else. I can it´s something about all this I miss, we miss. Something big that we don´t understand yet or know about.
But one thing I know, that boy won´t be as lonely after this day. My twins who always have been good to just be the two of them, they have always just needed the each other but they brought Merlin here. They have always been kind and nice and of course full of mischief, they are some big troublemakers and have other friends but why do I have a feeling that they won´t let this one go. Maybe they have the same feeling as I.
I wonder how it come, how you just can meet someone and immediately know you won´t let go of that person. What makes this boy so different? Is it his slender and thin body or the thin tatty clothes or his blue eyes that holds so much? Or his so polite and careful way. I don´t know how can I be so sure when I just have met him?
George´s POV.
"Fred why do you think he was in that cave, I mean it looked like he was living there but how can anyone live in a cave like that? How could he survive?"
"I don´t know George, I honestly don´t know"
"Do you thing we can make him stay?" Fred continues.
"I don´t know but I hope, I really do" I say truthfully.
"Me too"
"At least we have mum to make him stay. I swear she won´t let him leave before she has fatten him up" she will no doubt.
"He needs it, I think I never have seen someone look so thin, tired and so young but still so old. I mean he looks worse than Harry did that summer when we brought him here from his evil aunt. But Mervin is still different. But I´m happy we found him" Fred says and I nod, he´s right.
"Yeah me to Fred" we lie silently in our beds for a long time just thinking.
"Goodnight George"
"Goodnight Fred"