Dead Man's Revelation (Harry Potter & Percy Jackson Crossover)

PRANKING DUO

They were an unlikely trio: a Ravenclaw, a Slytherin and a Gryffindor.

Juliette could feel everyone's stares boring into the back of her head as the three of them entered the Great Hall for dinner but she just ignored them. Nico was just as used to it as she was so it was easy for him but Wyett kept flinching every time a a sound goes above a murmur.

They're going to have to work on that.

"What's the plan now?" Wyett asked. "And you still haven't told me about why you're the ones who're chosen to do this thing."

Nico waved it away. "I'm pretty sure we'll get there soon enough." He answered. "Our main problem now is to look for this shortcut and get to our second challenge. We still have six to go through after this one."

"Chill, di Angelo." Juliette said softly so only they could hear. "Don't be so paranoid. We still have a few months to be paranoid on and our OWLs to worry about besides this thing."

He glared at her. "Whatever." He mumbled. "We should go back to our tables. I don't want another group of people snooping around on my business."

"Another?"

"Yeah," Wyett said, grinning. "He meant besides the girls who're always trying to throw themselves at him."

Juliette laughed as Nico pointed his glare at him and Wyett practically wilted underneath it, flinching before he went over to his table where he was ambushed by his housemates. She waited for a while before turning at him. She could sense that he still had another question on the tip of his tongue...or, at least, a snarky retort.

He scowled at her. "I don't need to pass these tests of yours." He answered as if to remind her.

"Yes, you do." She answered. "If this doesn't all blow on our faces, I have a feeling you'd need to come back. This isn't just the wizards' problem. You know that, right?"

His shoulders slumped and he developed an exhausted expression on his face that made Juliette wonder again what he'd been through. His eyes seemed to finally get rid of its barriers that she could almost see their real color: brown, not black like they always seemed to be. It was the shadows that made it that way but his eyes were brown...they might have been carefree and innocent once but now, they were shattered.

But the vulnerable look disappeared the second it came but Juliette knew it was there though she didn't know why he showed his human side to her in the first place. She would have pitied him too if she knew that he wouldn't appreciate it.

"Unfortunately," He muttered before stalking off towards the Slytherin side of the hall.

She headed to her own table.

Her housemates' stares were worse, closer. Even Albus and Rose seemed to be suspicious of her. Not that she could blame them. There always seemed to be that side of her that was a complete Slytherin and acted like one. It was almost her reflex to put on a bored, indifferent face whenever that happened but she pushed it back. Despite the fact that her housemates already knew how she didn't care about blood prejudice, she always knew that they were against befriending anyone from the snake house. She tried to fix it...but it wasn't easy to erase centuries of hatred.

She slid in beside Rose who was multitasking (again). She had three different types of homework spread out on her lap and beside her plate and was trying to eat, as well. Juliette doubted that the homework was only hers, as much as Rose hated people who depended on someone for homework, she couldn't just let her cousins fail school so easily.

She was already digging in into the feast, still ignoring her other housemates who were still staring at her - gods, that's annoying - when she glimpsed a word in Rose's Ancient Runes homework which was marked blank. Juliette allowed a small smile on her face.