Chapter 2: Legally, Deliberately and Unconditionally Kidnapped and Enslaved

A story I didn't think would be so popular. I guess I have a lot of Harry Potter fans here. Another story I didn’t think would be as popular was Finding Eden, but I get multiple requests a week for that to continue. I don’t know, maybe one day.

Chapter 2: Legally, Deliberately and Unconditionally Kidnapped and Enslaved

Needless to say, neither of the Jacksons were very happy when the air cleared and they found they were no longer in their own living room. The mellow cream walls of the mundane New York apartment were replaced by gloomy green crusty planks as the two of them hit the ground.

More and more traumatic memories flooded through the twins’ heads as Percy entered a PTSD-like state, unable to breathe, feeling like he was about to have a heart attack. On the other hand, Cali shot up immediately and backed up against a wall, clutching her head. “You- you… bastards! Sick fucks! You fucking cunts!” She wailed, shocking Remus and Sirius.

Remus stepped towards her but Cali lashed out, swinging at him and crying, to which the werewolf sadly backed up and dodged the attacks. Sirius tried to help Percy to his feet, but his godson angrily shook him off.

Remus nodded to his friend to go get the others, and so Sirius marched off down the hall yelling people's names. As she recognized some of the names Cali began to cry with the influx of buried memories.

It didn't take long for more than a dozen footsteps to start pounding all over the house, several coming down the stairs while more came from the direction Sirius had left. A group of people paused on the steps, all young looking, while many middle-aged people poured in the door. The twins recognized several of the adult faces quickly, especially two in particular.

James and Lily stepped out from the crowd, and saw the twins. They recognized Cali immediately, but not Harry. The boy on the floor looked nothing like their old son, but from what Sirius had said, it was them. "H-Harry? Cal?" James asked shakily.

Remus placed an arm on James

 "I don't think they're happy to see you." He warned, but Lily had already zoomed forward.

"My babies!" She cried out in a cliche way as she charged the two, intent on hugging them. She reached Harry first and slid to her knees, engulfing him in her arms. Percy hissed at this and cried out in frustration, throwing her off and crawling Reptilian-like towards his twin. He latched onto her knees for comfort as he was now away from that woman.

Lily had tears in her eyes, both from relief and distress. "Harry~" She whimpered, and the boy in question snarled at her. "My name… is not that. No." He breathed brokenly, and her gaze turned towards Cali. 

"Caligula~" She cried, tears streaming down her face and took a step forward. Cali reacted violently, grabbing a pot and launching it at her old mother. The ceramic halted in mid air and dropped to the floor in front of Lily with a smash. "No! Shut up! What a stupid fucking name! That's the most retarded fucking name and you know it!" She wailed.

"Cal, don't speak like that to your mother." He scolded instinctively as though he were talking to Nero, forgetting for a moment that he hadn't seen his daughter in almost a decade. In a fit of utter rage and demigod strength, Percy, still seated on the ground, grabbed a metal broom handle, snapped it in half and flung the hurled end at James. That too was frozen in the air, and it was only then people noticed such.

The man who froze the items was standing behind the group, hands behind his back as his curious eyes studied the two teenagers. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore stepped through the crowd, who parted for the old headmaster, and he approached Lily and the twins. "Lily, dear. I think it might be best to allow our new arrivals a moment of breath." He advised.

Upon seeing the familiar bearded wizard, Percy shot up. "You!" He cried, launching forward and unsheathing Riptide, going for the Pazzian slice to the neck. 

Dumbledore quickly flicked his wand to create a barrier, which Percy then tried to stab. The impact of his blade on the hard-as-rock magical barrier meant that Riptide flipped out, bending Percy's wrist at a very painful angle, so painful that it went crack in fact.

"Perce!" Cali screamed for her twin, who also cried out but in pain as he dropped his sword and fell to the ground clutching his wrist. She slid to her knees beside him much like Lily but began to cradle him as she checked for burn marks of impalement or anything serious. Of course, something was seriously wrong, he broke his wrist.

Artemis, Artemis! If you can hear us, Percy's hurt! I don't know where they took us but if I had to guess I'd say England. Please come get us, I don't wanna be here. I wanna go home. She closed her eyes and prayed to her probable future sister-in-law.

"Harry!" James and Lily exclaimed, rushing to check their son's health. Once again, their attempts to approach were met with feral snarls and threats of violence. "Just leave us the fuck alone!" She howled, hugging her twin protectively.

"Harry, Cali?" Another, much more younger voice spoke from the other end of the hall. Everyone in the room went dead quiet and turned to look. There on the stairs were a group of teens, some about their age and some a bit older. One in particular stuck out, as he looked almost like an exact clone of James Potter. Nero Potter looked at his long lost siblings with mixed feelings brewing in his stomach.

Cali couldn't even spare him a glance while the pained Percy just mustered all his energies to scowl at his brother. "Fuck you." He said quietly.

Meanwhile in the overworld Artemis had received the message and flashed into Piccadilly. A good start, at least. "England. That fucking helps." She complained to herself as she looked over the crowds flooding past.

Back in Grimmauld Place, the twins had been seated at the dining table while Molly attempted to usher the children out, but Nero's insistence was on the verge of reaching its boiling point and eventually Sirius frustratingly relented and told the Weasley matriarch to let them in.

The Jacksons were constantly eyeing the room around them, clearly looking for an escape route. Unfortunately for them, the only doors were guarded by a huge black guy and a monstrous man with an eyeball nearly popped out of its socket, seemingly convulsing from the affected nerves.

Lily Potter was sitting 90 degrees to their right, trying not to cry but failing miserably as James comforted her. Every time she tried to reach out to her children they’d lash out like wild animals. Her children she had missed so dearly for almost 10 years wished nothing more than to slash her throat from what she could tell.

As Nero and his friends stormed in he paused and looked at his older siblings, who had only disdain on their faces at the sight of him. He wanted to say something but couldn’t find the words. His friends all stood off to the side by Molly and Arthur Weasley - two people Percy and Cali remembered vividly. He, however, stood there choking on words. Percy, perhaps out of nerve damage in his wrist, slammed his arm up into the underside of the table. “Just sit down.” He told his younger twin, who swallowed and obliged, pulling a chair over between James and Dumbledore.

The grand old headmaster in question was oddly calm, scarily calm, as he sat there with his hands crossed on the table, staring them down. Cali actually felt vulnerable under his gaze, like this was some sort of psychological torture.

Percy was the one to fall into the old man's trap, and he spoke first. "Can you, like, stop staring at us? I'll fucking put you on the registry." He threatened, earning a chuckle from his twin sister. Much of the Order, most prominently Molly, looked like they wanted to speak up in outrage at the lack of respect, but knew to let Dumbledore's plan play out.

"Would you like some tea, either of you? Biscuits, perhaps?" Percy was very vocal tonight, scoffing. "Oh right, we're in Britain. Godsdamn I wish I was born in the USA. It's pronounced coffee and cookies, at least in the East. I think up North they call it cocoa and crumpets." He said almost-wistfully, to which Cali gave her two cents. "Oorah."

Dumbledore sighed, proceeding with the questioning. Attempting to gain trust had obviously failed. "Well then, care to tell us where you've been for the past decade?" He inquired, and at first both twins agreed not to answer any real questions, but Percy once again couldn't resist disrespecting authority. "Looking for Sprite in that shop where the dogs found us." He nodded to Sirius and Remus, who couldn't tell if dogs was an insult.

"Harry, please. We're just trying to help." James pleaded as he comforted Lily. The kid with the still-broken hand snapped to the man he used to claim as a father. "That's not my name. Its a dumb name. I hate that name. I mean, Caligula is dumb but at least she only gets called Cali. But Harry? Ugh." He gagged.

Cali snickered. "Yeah cause Percy's so much better." She mocked, and Percy glared at her. "Don't make fun of mom for thinking up the name Perseus." He scolded his sister, confusing Lily.

She sat up and wiped some tears, giving them a puzzled look. "What? But I didn't give you that name?" She asked, and Dumbledore was about to cut her off so they continued until Cali responded. "Oh, not you. Our real mom, Sally." She said calmly.

Lily almost wailed at that comment if it weren't for James shushing her and cuddling her. Then the large black guy guarding one of the doors left his post to whisper something in Dumbledore's ear, allowing Cali and Percy a brief moment to consider making a run for it.

That moment passed however before the man stepped back into position as Dumbledore turned back to the twins. "Quite right, Kingsley, and if the young ones here have no wish to speak of their past or absence then I'm afraid we must address a more crucial matter. There will be time for questioning later." He said matter of factly.

Most of the people at the table, including the adults, were confused. "What is it, professor?" Remus asked, but before the grand wizard could speak he was cut off by Nero. "No, I'm tired of waiting!" He said angrily.

James snapped his head to his son. "Nero!" He hissed, but it did nothing as the boy in question was on the warpath to a rant. He stood up and looked at his siblings. "What's your deal! Why are you acting like this, like little shits!? You ran away but you won't even say why, you're refusing to even speak to any of us! You made our bloody mum cry and for what?! What's made you so bitter that you gotta act like this!? You're acting like brats, that's what it is! We're your family, you- you-" He trailed off, no words to insult them.

The twins were shocked. There was astonishment on their faces at their long lost brother's outburst, but there was also anger. That was ever so prominent on the face of Percy, who sat with his left hand gripping the table so hard his knuckles were white while his broken right hand was resting on top.

Cali was pissed, sure, but she was not going to physically lash out. The same could not be said for her brother, and she knew that. What she didn't think would happen was Percy suddenly leaping out of his seat to launch onto Nero. Dumbledore seemed to have expected this, and flew another one of those barrier spells, but in a major twist, he surprised the entire room by becoming seemingly translucent and just diving through the barrier. 

A scent of salt hit everyone's noses as Percy materialized back into a solid form and impacted with Nero, sending him to the ground. The two brothers were on the ground now, Percy on top as he set out to hurt him as much as he could before he would be apprehended.

Unfortunately one hit was all he could maintain as he felt a pair of arms wrap around and grab his wrists, holding him back as more people came over to contain him. Cali stood up to assist her twin and soon everyone was standing except for Nero and Dumbeldore, who once again was scarily calm as he sat and watched the violent encounter.

James and Sirius managed to yank Percy off of Nero and place him back in his chair, and it was only after Cali reassuringly placed her hand on her twin brother’s shoulder that he stopped squirming and the adults were able to let go of him. He panted as Nero got up and was hugged by Lily, the both of them staring at Percy with newfound wariness and even fear.

Dumbledore raised an eyebrow. “Now, are we ready to continue?” He said, soothing everyone back into their seats. Molly was pressured by a red-haired girl to step back from Nero after the boy was crushed by Lily, James and Molly all asking if he was alright.

Cali and her brother refused to answer the old man, who breathed deeply for a few seconds before leaning forward. “Perhaps a lemon drop would calm the matter?” He offered, and once again the twins just sat there in silence with scowls on their faces like children getting scolded.

“Who were those people at your house?” Sirius asked, remembering Artemis, Sally and Estelle, and though Percy was under the assumption that they weren’t saying shit about their personal lives, Cali answered for him. “Well the woman was our mom, the little girl was our baby sister and the girl was Percy’s girlfriend. Happy?”

The reminder of their second family seemed to outrage the twins’ former one. “What does that mean, your mum?” Lily asked, offended now. Sirius’ moustache furrowed and a faint smile appeared on his face. “That was your girlfriend?” He asked his godson with a hint of pride as he remembered the beautiful young woman… who was holding a bow and arrow?

That seemed to click in Remus’ head too. “Why were you all possessing weapons? I can understand the pepper spray and the frying pan and I have a faint idea of how the states work but I wasn’t aware swords and spears were classed as home defence. Are they even legal in the states?” The werewolf asked, perplexing everyone else in the room. “What? You’re saying they had weapons, Remus?” Arthur Weasley asked his good friend.

Percy had to laugh at his comment about America. “What can I say, baby? Second Amendment, gotta love it.” He did a little salute, making Cali laugh next to him. Few others were quick to follow with her.

James looked sadly at his children, his eldest children, and sat forward so he was closer to them. "Please, son. Please tell us everything." He begged, so desperately wanting to know what his son and daughter had been doing for the past 9 or so years.

Percy shrugged. "What else is there to say? We ran away, found a new family, got hooked into some stuff you ain't ever gonna know about, I've got a girlfriend and she's an alcoholic. Now we've been kidnapped, end of story." He shrugged James off, laughing as Cali punched him in the shoulder.

Lily and Molly both looked horrified. "You're drinking alcohol?" The latter asked with a shriek, and Percy's eyes widened. Not because he was scared of Molly, but because he just realised he never replaced the missing bottle.

Cali almost sneered at the Weasley woman. "What does it matter? I'm fully grown, not breaking laws apart from the drinking age. Back in the olden days girls my age were married and pregnant and I'm not allowed to have an occasional sip?" She protested at their horror, making Percy scoff. "Pretty sure an occasional sip was not the driving force behind mom's 45 minute alcohol lectures." He reminded her.

Lily looked astounded. "Wh- you can't be- be drinking at fifteen! You're fifteen, for Merlin's sake!" She scolded the two. Percy rolled his eyes, turning to his sister and giving her that look.

James snapped his fingers. "Hey, hey! What was that?" He demanded, and Percy shrugged. James was scowling at his son now. "Don't give that look about your mother. Show some respect."

Percy was tempted to say Where's my mom? She still back in New York? But he held off on that, thankfully being saved by Dumbledore once again.

"Now, everyone, please. Mr and ms Potter, if you don'-" He was cut off by Percy. "It's Jackson."

Dumbledore gave him an incredulous look behind a calm exterior, but carried on. "Mr and Ms Potter, have you heard of the Upkeep Act of 991?" He inquired, and they shrugged. "Look, man. American history classes only go back like 300 years, maybe 500. I don't know what the hell an umpteenth act is." Cali told the headmaster bluntly, and Molly had to hold herself from getting the belt or something drastic.

Dumbledore leaned forward. "No doubt you remember Hogwarts? The school? I seem to recall you all visiting regularly." He checked, and the twins reluctantly nodded.

"Well you see, the school was founded 1000 years ago to provide a school- a sanctuary, for young witches and wizards to come and harness their magic skills without fear of muggle interference. But unfortunately, few trusted the castle at the time. Many called it a trap, a scam, and the like." 

"So to counter this, the four founders placed a powerful charm, or more accurately a curse, on the school and really all of British wizards. Any wizard or witch with one or more pureblood parents and who was born in Britain, must attend Hogwarts before they turn 18." He warned.

Percy scoffed. "Or what, we'll die?" He joked, and Dumbledore just nodded, making Percy's face fall. "And as you are James' son, who is by birth a pureblood, and you two were born in the British Isles, you are eligible and therefore cursed all the same as the hundreds of young magic students that reside in these here Isles." He clarified.

Cali wasn't buying it. "Bullshit. That has gotta be the lamest excuse I've heard yet. We'll die if we don't go? Yeah, right. We'll see-" The teen was cut off by the door behind her being blown open as everyone shot up in surprise.

Standing there in the doorway radiating silver energy like a feminist Chernobyl, Artemis was fuming as she caught sight of her boytoy and his kidnappers.

So I underestimated how much writing I would be doing for this chapter. This coulda been like 6k words but I understand yall need something for your fix. Shot to BearWarrior for the boytoy line at the end. Now for me to stay home today and play with my baby sisters duplos cause I'm sick and feel like puto.

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