Midnight (Percy, G)
Title: Midnight
Character: Percy
Rating: G
Word Count: 190
Warnings: Utter lack of commas.
Disclaimer: Not mine. JKR's.
Summary: Five midnights.
Notes: For zephre, who requested Percy, "intervention".

Percy is seventeen and he's going to start work at the Ministry in the morning and he knows he needs his sleep but he can't quite find it.

Percy is eighteen and he should be sleeping under his mother's roof but instead he's spending every night alone in a shabby London flat and it's hot and something is tapping at the window and he doesn't think it's an owl and he bites his lip and swears he won't cry.

Percy is nineteen and it's Christmas and his flat is nicer but he's still alone and he curls onto his side in his nice new striped pyjamas that he bought for himself and wishes an owl would come tapping at his window.

Percy is twenty and he lies awake and he knows there will be dark circles under his eyes come morning.

Percy is twenty-one and he dreams of coming home to a room full of redheads who are all determined to intervene in his life in the best and most excruciating possible way and when he wakes and gasps and reaches for his glass of water he knows it's time.