Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Forty Five

(I HATE THIS CHAPTER BUT I'M LEAVING IT UP BECAUSE I LOVE ALL OF YOU)

Harry's POV

As we were walking down to Hagrid's hut for class, Percy broke into a sprint.

"Percy!" I yelled after him. "Where are you going?" He ignored me and kept running.

That's when I saw it. It was a black Pegasus and Percy was running at it head on. He hit it square in the chest, causing both of them to go crashing to the ground. He was yelling something like, 'Flapjack!'

I looked at Nico who was smiling and laughing at his friend's weirdness.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked and Nico just kept laughing, not answering the question.

He composed himself by the time we reached Percy and the horse. Perce was standing in front of the large black creature with his arms around its neck.

"Percy!" Hermione yelled. "That's a wild animal! It could hurt you!"

"Nah," Percy replied as he rubbed his face into the animal's mane.

"What do you mean by 'nah?' It could trample you to death!"

Percy looked over at us and nodded. "Yeah, he could, but he's not going. Are you?" He said the last part to the horse before chuckling.

"Uh, mate, are you talking to that Pegasus?" Ron asked and Percy looked shocked.

I saw Nico frantically shaking his head in the corner of my eye.

"Uh, no?" Percy said, not at all convincing us of anything. I saw Nico shake his head and face palm, basically saying, 'Smooth, Percy. Smooth.'

Hagrid still hadn't come out of his hut, or wherever he was, and the whole class was waiting. Sadly Draco hadn't dropped the class after his unfortunate accident last year that sadly left him alive.

All of a sudden, Percy stopped petting the Pegasus and walked over to the group of Slytherins.

"The fuck did you say about Pegasi?" Percy said, getting up into Malfoy's face. "They are beautiful, majestic creatures that could trample you to death, so I'll set them on you if you don't shut the fuck up."

"Could you get any gayer?" Malfoy said and his group of friend 'ohhhhh'ed. "Not only are you a dick sucking faggot, you love Pegasi?"

Percy stared at Draco and I was afraid he was going to deck him them and there. To my shock, he started laughing.

"You know, for your insult to have any effect on me, I have to somewhat value your existence."

"So, you are gay," Malfoy said, taunting Percy, which is never a good idea. "Are you fucking di Angelo too? Is he you're fag boyfriend?" Di Angelo? Nico?

Wait... so that meant Percy and Nico...

Nah, probably not true.

Percy looked at Nico. "Oh my gods! Draco's a dude bro!" He laughed and Nico burst out laughing. What's a dude bro?

Draco paled, and in not knowing what to say or do, he punched Percy, causing his head to snap to the side.

Percy moved his hand to his mouth, and as he pulled away, seeing blood on her fingers, he let out a dry chuckled, surprising the small crowd that had gathered to watch the exchange.

"You really shouldn't done that," Percy said and his fist was in motion. The right hook knocked Draco to the floor.

"My father will hear about this!" Malfoy said as he tried to get up, but Percy pushed him down onto the grass with his foot.

"Yeah, he will, and he'll hear how you got your ass beat by a Pegasus loving gay boy," Percy said, mocking Draco.

He kneeled on top of Malfoy and punched him across the face, but he didn't stop there. He grabbed his collar, pulling him up and punching him again and again and again.

Ron, Hermione and I were in the crowd, watching in shock. We'd never seen Percy like this. I looked over at Nico and he had a worried expression. I guess he's never seen Percy like this either.

Percy kept punching him and didn't stop. It started to worry me. I'd seen Percy fight and I knew that he'd killed people, so I didn't know how hard it would be to kill Draco.

Nico's POV

Malfoy was getting his ass beat, and as much as I was enjoying it, I was worried about my boyfriend.

Percy had a good reason to punch him, but not like this. Not beating him. Not causing his own aura to turn red with anger.

Some of Malfoy's friends seemed to get brave after the fourth punch or so, but when they went to stop Percy, I stepped up to defend him.

"What, are you going to protect your boyfriend?" One of them asked, mocking me.

I chuckled and shook my head. "No, I'm protecting you from him, actually."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Another asked.

"Just trust me on the fact that you'd much rather face me than him." I ended the conversation by dropping down, swiping my leg across the ground, knocking them of their feet.

"Percy," I said as I faced my cousin. Draco was out cold and I could see his life aura fading. "Percy, you need to stop," but he didn't. That was concerning. "Percy! Stop!" I yelled, using the voice I used to command ghosts around.

As Percy's fist faltered, I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and yanked him off of the blonde boy who was barely recognizable. I pulled Percy away from the crowd, which had grown substantially since the fight had started, consisting of the whole class.

I had gotten him about twenty feet away when he got back to his feet, heading back towards the crowd to finish off Draco.

I stepped in front of him.

"Nico," he said sternly, "Get out of my way."

"No, Percy, you were going to kill him," I said, not moving.

He tried to go around me as I talked but I kept stepping him his way.

"Then good riddance. The world would be better off without him." He tried to get around me again, but I wasn't going to let that happen.

"Nico, move."

"No," I stated simply, crossing my arms.

"Percy, why are you doing this? It's stupid. Stop."

"I can't. It's about honor!" That's when I noticed the tears in his eyes.

"Whose?"

"Yours." I gave him a confused look and the tears started to spill. "You heard what he said! I can't just let him say that! He needs to be taught a lesson!"

I didn't know what to say. All this was happening because he was defending me.

I walked up to Percy and wrapped my arms around him. The moment I did, I felt his anger leave and saw the glow around him start change from red back to its normal golden color.

"I don't care what he said," I told him softly, not letting anyone else hear, "It's not going to change how I feel about you."

"But-." I cut him off.

"No buts. Now tell Blackjack bye so we can go and I can clean your hand."

"Okay," he said before looking at his Pegasus, giving him a nod, which was returned, and we headed up to the castle.