Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter! Enjoy the chapter anyway!
Harry was the Boy-Who-Lived, yes that was true, but it was Helen who had cheated death before Harry was even out of his mother's womb.
It all started in the fall of 1986 when Petunia packed her bags and took the first flight out of London to New York City. She was seventeen, freshly graduated with even two years of college on her belt from the local community college she took extra courses from in high school, and had been accepted with a full scholarship to NYU. She got a small apartment in the city, nothing fancy, and her own bank account though there wasn't much in it.
It was there in the winter of 1987 that she met her future husband.
He was an extremely handsome mixed Greek/Black man from Brooklyn who's rather large family owned a number of businesses there, including the restaurant where she met him at. It was love at first sight for them both, something Petunia never had with Vernon her ex fiancé who's cheap ring she angrily threw in the river before she left England. Vernon was an egotistical, narcissistic, racist, sexist, fat slob who only wanted her to be his personal brood mare and slave. Petunia felt no love for him and she couldn't imagine a life with him, it would of been nothing but misery. But this man she could imagine spending the rest of her life loving until she was old and grey. He loved her, he listened to her, he didn't cheat on her like she knew Vernon did. He did romantic things with her every week and he never pressured her into sex, respecting her decision to wait until she was married unlike Vernon who pestered her throughout their entire relationship. They were engaged within the year and the following year they married in the spring of 1989 after she graduated from college in an elaborate ceremony with hundreds of friends and family around them.
It was the greatest moment of her life, second to only when she found out she was going to have a baby! Her and her beloved husband were so excited, it was their first child after all, and they joyfully converted one of their empty bedrooms of the house her in laws brought her on her wedding day as a gift into a nursery. A few months later she found out Lily was in the same predicament, although a boy instead of a girl, and they happily talked over the two way mirror they both had about their future children, forgetting for the moment about the magical war raging that had cost so many lives including that of her own parents. In the summer of 1990, when Petunia was ready to burst with her daughter, her husband took her to see the The Little Mermaid along with their niece Agata who had been begging to see it again for days. It was rather good, Petunia had to admit, and after it was over they went to a Chinese restaurant down the block to get something to eat because Petunia was starving!
And it was there it happened.
Somehow the Death Eaters had found Petunia despite all her sister's precautions and attacked her husband, thinking to get to Petunia to use to get Lily out of hiding. Why in the world they were specifically after her sister she had no clue but apparently they were willing to make the war they created in England an international thing in the hopes of getting to her. Of course they were killed off by the Aurors assigned to protect them before they could harm her beloved but Petunia was hit by a stray curse, a very deadly one with no known counter-curse, from one of them before they were taken down.
Petunia was suppose to die that day, but all means she should of her and her daughter, but they were saved by something thought long extinct and long thought a myth.
And it was reborn in her daughter Helen.
Author's Note: I know the little mermaid came out fall of 1989 but it's summer 1990 here. Oh and this story is pushed a decade forward as you can see. So instead of it taking place in the 90's, it will take place 2001-2008. Reviews please!
