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Chapter 1: Awakening

In an overly pink bedroom slept, quite fitfully, the daughter of Petunia and Vernon Dursley, a perfectly normal couple with a perfectly normal life, if you had asked them. That day had been twins Gladiolus and Dudley Dursley's birthday. And despite all the presents (36 to be exact) and the sugar eaten (plenty), little Gladiolus and (not so little) Dudley felt quite unwell. The twins' skin was hot to the touch, and if you had asked them, they would have said the feeling was like something inside was trying to get out.

Something was.

When the twins were old enough to understand, they had both realized their parents hated anything unusual. Saying the word "magic" in their parents' presence produced a worse reaction than any foul curse word. So, in an attempt to please their normalcy-loving parents, the children repressed their magic to the best of their ability. They managed it quite well, the punishments of their strange cousin only reinforcing their efforts. However, you cannot truly ignore something that is part of your very being for long.

It is well known that magic will do all it can to protect young witches and wizards, manifesting as the answer to their current need. Constant and continual suppression and repression of innate magic, though, will eventually result in explosive reactions. However, much like one's immune system, one's magical capacity has a safety valve to reduce the size of the eventual explosion and any possible injuries incurred in the process. The feeling the Dursley twins shared was the release of raw, unordered magic. The pressure was so great that the children fell into a coma for a week, much to the distress of Mr. and Mrs. Dursley.

The hospital staff couldn't explain what was happening. Gladiolus, who had always been much too thin for her age, began to gain weight; while Dudley, who had always been heavyset, was rapidly approaching an appropriate weight. The fever remained, and at no point did either child make a sound or respond to outside stimulation. The doctors were quite shocked and baffled; whatever the Dursley children had, it seemed to be improving their bodies physically. The children were (outwardly, at least) the healthiest they had ever been, apart from the fever and coma.

At exactly 7:13 am, both Dursley children woke from dreams they couldn't remember. It appeared to the hospital staff as though they were glowing, which their parents attributed to the light coming in through the window. After many tests confirming, that yes, the children were perfectly healthy, the hospital finally let the twins go home with their parents.

It wasn't until a week after returning home did their cousin Harry approach them, head bowed, skinnier than ever. (It seems the week the twins were at the hospital wasn't kind to Harry.)

All he said was, "I'm glad you're ok." The twins were surprised to say the least; they had never been kind to harry, or done anything to earn his concern.

"Harry…" Gladiolus began, and then fell silent, unsure how to continue, how to say what she had never said before.

Harry raised his head hesitantly, curiously. Gladiolus swallowed thickly when her eyes met Harry's, her mouth suddenly dry. Harry's eyes widened behind his broken glasses.

"Your eyes….," he began,

"...Are just like mine." Gladiolus finished.

Neither spoke for a moment. Gladiolus' eyes before the coma had been grey with hints of blue and green. Somehow, after the coma, they had become the same vibrant shade of green as Harry's. Dudley's eyes had also changed. His previously pale azure eyes had become a much more intense shade of blue, almost cobalt or sapphire blue.

Gladiolus shook her head slightly to clear it before giving Harry a small smile.

"Do you want to go to the park with us?"

Harry blanched in surprise, then brightened, barely concealing the hope in his emerald eyes. He was aware that, for the first time, the Dursleys were extending a branch of peace and friendship.

"Y-Yeah, I would like that," Harry murmured shyly. Dudley smiled awkwardly in return.

Unfelt and unseen, the blood wards around the Dursley residence strengthened in response to the sudden acceptance of Harry Potter by Gladiolus and Dudley Dursley.

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