Author's notes: I'm very new to this I attempted a story before though I was attempting a smutty story and I just never brought myself to writing the smutty bits, it was turning into a serious story from the start. So here I am attempting a serious story, I know it's probably pretty bad but all thoughts and tips are appreciated :)

Chapter 1 - Life with Muggles

A young boy of eleven sat in his room alone, hoping he'd stay that way. He always preferred to be alone rather than put up with his parents. They always argued, shouted and fought, and it was his fathers fault. His father was a muggle. Severus knew he shouldn't hate his father for what he was, but he did. It was his fault they lived among the muggles, the ones who bullied him for being poor, for dressing strangely. It wasn't Severus' fault, but the muggles didn't care, mainly because the muggles didn't know what he really was. His father told him a long time ago, that if he ever heard him mention his "abnormality" outside of the house there'd be war to pay. There was often war to pay for mentioning it inside the house, Severus had the marks to prove it.

Of course he wouldn't have these marks if his mother wasn't such a coward, if she hadn't let his father take her wand she'd be able heal him. Hell, she'd be able to stop it from happening in the first place. But she didn't and he hated her for it, hated them both. He never asked to be born into this.

Soon though, he'd be rid of this place, rid of them both. The moment he'd been waiting for his entire life was finally growing nearer, this year he'd get his Hogwarts letter and come September he'd be a long way away from this place, learning how to become far more powerful than his father, his bullies and all the other idiotic muggles could ever dream of being. Then nobody would be able to push him around, people would respect him for his power and intelligence, and he'd finally have a place he truly belonged.

He just knew he'd be powerful one day and it would feel great. Like all wizards do, there'd already been a few times where he used accidental magic and those days were some of his happiest. Though ironically, they were also the times he'd been his angriest. His favourite memory was of one of the many nights his father came home drunk, even angrier then he usually was at Severus and started beating him, first with his belt until he got carried away and starts using his fists. On one of these occasions things didn't go the way they usually did, Severus had been eight at the time and of course his father would never have gotten him a pet, but he'd recently found a stray dog down by the river. The dog was huge, easily bigger than Severus himself and jet black in color. Of course he took to the dog immediately, he named him Prince after his mother's maiden name and decided to bring him home, eight year old him had thought they surely couldn't complain if he got the dog himself. But of course they did, the second his mother saw it she started screaming, telling him to get that grim out of her house. Surprisingly his father was actually in a good mood and put his foot down, saying every young boy should have a dog but if he stepped out of line one bit that it was going.

All went well for a little while, well... a very little while, well... until however long it was til his father had decided to come home drunk again. He'd been so much happier, Prince had even been allowed to sleep in his room til then, but when his father came home drunk, smelling of whiskey, thumped his way up the stairs to Severus' room and then thumped Severus with his fist things changed. Prince immediately jumped into action to protect him and locked on to his father's leg with a bite. His father swore in anger, and started punching prince in the face and trying to pull him off, which he eventually did and quickly followed it up by kicking Prince til he was unconscious.

Then he'd turned back on Severus an evil smile on his face, eyes full of anger.

"You think you're better than me boy? You're worthless scum and I warned you! How dare you sick your fowl mutt on me!? Did you really think that'd get you anywhere? Hahaha as if! Well I told you the dog would go, so here he goes." He picked up Princes unconscious form by the head and pulled it up, then he quickly twisted. Severus heard every bone in his poor dogs neck snap and that's when he himself snapped. He doesn't even know how it happened, it just did. His father's body started to rise from the ground hovering in the air and his ears were soon filled with more cracking sounds as both of his father's arms and legs twisted into grotesque positions, breaking many bones. His screams filled the house and his mother had soon arrived on the scene.

No surprises that his father allowed her his wand back to heal him, even so Severus can still see a glimmer of fear in his father's eyes every now and then. That never stopped the beatings though, his father was much too stubborn to back down.

Those fond memories were suddenly interrupted by the thumping sound of someone coming up the stairs. "Here we go again." he sighed to himself.