Cass sighed, trying to fight the head ache and the aches of his body while still thinking straight. He didn't want this to reflect on Percy, he'd tried to make sure it didn't, yet he knew that there was no real way of keeping it from doing just that.
'I do.' he said weakly, trying to gather his strength enough to think. 'Why do I need to say why I was chosen? I nearly caught Bellatrix twice, the last encounter ending in her threatening me before escaping. Add to that Rodolphus finding out I have a Muggle mother and me being an Auror who often gets trusted with harder cases - wouldn't that be more than enough for him to go after me?'
His voice was hoarse, and he wasn't sure he made any sense, but whatever happened, he needed to work out a way for this not to reflect poorly on Percy. Even if it meant the world finding out about his mother. She was dead now, so really that didn't matter as much. So what if the society he was raised in shunned him afterwards, would it really make that much of a difference? Hadn't they done that since he became an Auror anyway? Did he even care?
Yes he did. But he cared more about Percy and would do anything that needed to be done to get him out of the mess he created.