Between Black and Blue, the path of Harry Potter.

Partie 8 : become a family.

5 years was a big amount of time. So many things could happen in 5 years and that was exactly the case of the Jackson family.

After the adoption of Harry, that was the time of change. They decorated the third room as Harry wanted : a beautiful dark green with some touch of brown woods. They past time in it, filling the library with children books that Harry likes even if he wasn't the biggest lover of reading, they put on his desk some photos of them : one was with Percy, Harry and the penguins, another was Nico and Harry making blue cookies with flour everywhere on them and the last was the three of them : a selfie take by Percy when they were at Camden to buy new clothes for Harry and they stopped to take a Chinese-food : Harry had food everywhere except in his mouth, Nico was laughing and Percy had this happy smile, looking at the camera with the funniest look.

The curtains were the favorite Harry's anime, something with Ninja, Kunai and weird haired characters. The bed was full of cuddly toy : one was a penguin gave by the zoo at their second visit, there was a seahorse bough by Sally when the Bolfis family visited for the first time, a black dog bought by Nico and others given to Harry by Percy's colleagues when they heard the new.

The wardrobe had clothes of Camden typical look with some white shirts and black pants for when they needed to meet Percy's superiors or colleagues at special events. Even if in five years, Percy became was one of the "superior" : promotion after promotion, faster than everyone have already seen, the ex-demigod was now the head of his own department.

With that, Percy wasn't too much here, he past his time on of the ocean or in a little island in the middle of nowhere. Nico knew that was Percy's dream since a long time but the first time Percy leaved, it was hard for Harry. But when the little boy understood that Percy will always come back, he felt immediately better. The souvenir that Percy always brought was just a bonus.

As every family, there were happy and sad moments. Harry's nightmares, his complicated return to school and his shyness was just some of them. But, even if sometimes it was complicated, it was a path full of surprise and they will never regret it.

The first surprise was the puppy they received some days after Harry's adoption. She was waiting at their door, black except the little white mark on her nose and a piece of paper under her paw. That was Percy who saw her first because he left for his job. They didn't keep the paper but Nico remembered well, it was write by Hades himself : "I heard the new. You always wanted a dog when you were child. So I give her to your family, it's a normal dog, maybe smarter that the others but nothing else. She hasn't a name. Your father, H."

Harry named her Orphée, the French name of Orpheus, he never wanted to believe Nico and Percy when they said that was a male name. That was so ironic that they lost it and laugh for a very long time. But the child always decides and their female dog, gift of Hades, was named Orphée.

One of their next moment was certainly their first holiday during summer. Percy wanted go to the sea, Nico wanted somewhere with the less tourists possible and Harry only looked at them with excitement. A colleague of Percy advised them the west French coast and they choose a place called Île d'Oléron. They let Orphée with the Bolfis family who choose to go on holiday in England and they were gone.

It was a beautiful place, with beautiful beaches and they didn't even need to take a car as it was easy to circulate and make the tour of the island in bike. It was Harry's first holiday and it was one of his happiest times at which he could think.

5 years was long, they make ski, get cold in Norway, get too hot in Barcelona, see the most beautiful city as Verona and Berlin, visited the Bolfis in New-York and make a road trip of two weeks across Scotland.

It was during this time that they became a real family, they couldn't say exactly when or how, it just happens. Percy was "dad" and Nico too. Harry wasn't "Harry" but "son". And Nico or Percy wasn't just "Percy" or "Nico" but "my love".

Percy's room was a guest room now and their apartment was always full of laugh.

5 years was a long time, and now, Harry was 11.

And this morning, Percy waked up with an owl hitting at the kitchen's window.

It's short, sorry, I didn't have the inspiration to write this passage. Will be better next.

Ohand check on google if you don't know the places I mention or if you want tosee it.