Between Black and Blue, the path of Harry Potter.

Partie 4 : Night and Dawn.

Percy arrived home faster than usual.

Well, nothing was normal tonight.

Nico was sit in front of the TV, looking at a stupid show. This was extremely normal... until Percy Jackson kicks down the door. If he remembers correctly, he was the guy with resentment as a fatal fault... Destroy the door was one of the thing he did not forgive. Absolutely not.

He was already prepared to scream when he saw a little figure in Percy's arm.

He took a breath and calms himself before acting.

"Percy, what is that?"

Green-blue eyes meet his owns dark brown.

"Who is better, do you not think? Well, I don't know, I found this little guy in a back alley. He's so cold, I think he needs a bath. A very hot one."

Unsure, Nico went to the bathroom, letting hot water takes the place in the bath until mist creates on mirrors.

Percy was next to him, the child always in his arm. They get the clothes out of the little guy and the taller man took a paper which was as a necklace ant let the tattoo artist put the boy in the bath. Maybe that with a little chance, he will not catch a fever.

The biologist returned into the living room, in his hand was a paper that children have when they get a travel with their school. Sadly, all the writing on this one was erased because of the snow. He couldn't even see the name of the boy.

Taking his phone, he called the police.

"Police, how can we help you?"

Nico come across the living room to enter in his room. Percy blinked.

"Well, I have found a child."

The tattooed return back in the bath room with one big grey sweatshirt.

"You have found a child?"

The woman police ask.

"Yes. In the snow, alone and very cold. I took him with me, gave him a hot bath. I also found a paper from his school, but I can't see anything, the ink had disappeared."

Nico had the child in his arms and sit him on the couch then wrapped him in a blue blanket.

"Do you think he will be ill? Because of the tempest, we are very busy and we can't move everywhere. Do you can take care of him until tomorrow?"

Percy looked as Nico make a hot chocolate and broiled some slice of bread and spread Nutella on it.

"Yeah. I do not think it will be a problem."

The little guy takes it with hesitation but with a nice smile of Nico, he ate.

"If you have an emergency, please call the ambulance. We will take contact with you tomorrow."

With that, the woman hung up.

*

Nico started a Disney film when the little guy never answered to their questions. The child was on the white couch and they were on the blue one.

Percy wanted to paint the entire apartment in blue and buy every blue furniture item he could find. Sadly, his best friend said no. So with two walls in the living room in blue, the others were decorated by white wood. The open kitchen was in the same tone of color.

As hours passed, it was now 7PM and Nico, the best cooker Percy knows –even better than his mother –, prepared the meal.

The dinner passed in silence and it wasn't even 9PM when the boy fell asleep.

There was a third room but it wasn't equipped so they let him sleep in Percy's room.

"What say the Police?"

Nico finally ask when they were sur that the child would not listen.

"Busy, come tomorrow."

They started another film, a science fiction.

"Did you tell them that he have malnutrition ? "

The sound was low, to not wake up the boy.

"Nop."

The silence wasn't embarrassing, but it wasn't an enjoyable too.

When the film finished, Percy looks at Nico, blue-green eyes meets dark brown eyes again.

"You can sleep in my bed. But if you snore, I'm going to kill you."

They smile.

*

Night could have been calm if it wasn't for the screaming of a child who wakes them up.

At first, it was terrifying. Then they acted with old reflexes, they run in Percy's room. The little guy was having a nightmare. He was troubled bellow the blue blanket, his little arms hunted something which wasn't here and sweat and tears run his cheeks.

Nico was the first to sit down on the bed, touching the burning forehead.

"Percy, please, go seek a damp washcloths"

Once the other man left, he tries to wake up the little guy but with no success.

They were stupid to think that the boy will not catch a fever. Seriously stupid.

So, he did the only thing he knows to calm someone unconscious, something his mother did for him a long time ago.

He sang.

When Percy comes back, the little guy became calmer, his arms and his legs didn't move anymore and no more tears run out of his eyes.

They stayed here all the night and when the dawn rose and that the sunbeams break the blue curtains to illuminate the room, the little boy wakes, healthier than never.

"Harry. My name is Harry."

End for today! Again, I had fun during the translation. So many words I think will tell something and finally say completely another thing. Conclusion : very complicated to learn English. But it's always better than to be English and learn French. Myself I can't write French without make a mistake.

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