Ties that bind - Chapter one: Journey
Vernon Dursley thought nothing of the rain pelting down on his windscreen, as he and his family left for dinner at his wife's favourite restaurant. Before Dudley was born, he and Petunia had enjoyed this treat weekly. But Dudley was a troubled baby, often waking up at odd times to be fed, leaving them exhausted and unable to continue with the traditions started long before they had a son.
Now Dudley was a year and a half, and they had settled him into a three-hour feeding scheme. Thunder crackled overhead, catching Vernon's attention. No, nature would not stop him from having a nice dinner out with his wife and his boy. And neither would that Potter boy.
He turned his loving gaze towards Petunia. He hadn't wanted to keep the brat, but his wife's heart was just too big. She had told him that they could squash all the magic right out of the boy. They would use any means necessary, she said. He had let Petunia sweep out the cupboard under the stairs, and they had pushed Dudley's second cot into the open space. They only took the brat out twice a day to feed him and change him, and it was enough.
Dudley made a gurgling noise in the back seat of the Volvo. Petunia instantly turned around to make sure that everything was alright with her 'ditty dumpling', and was rewarded by Dudley's first word: 'car'. She squealed with delight. "Say it again for mummy, please darling?" Her attention was focused on her son. Vernon turned to look at his boy. Dudley pointed at the windshield and said, quite clearly: "Car". And there was a car. It was hurtling down the highway at one hundred miles per hour, on the wrong side of the road, and its driver hadn't seen the Dursley's car. Petunia screamed.
In a blinding flash of light, the one and only Harry Potter appeared next to Narcissa Malfoy as she sat in the library of Malfoy Manor. Her husband Lucius, seated opposite her, fell backwards off his chair.
I know that this chapter is short, but you'll have another two chapters before the day is out. Also, for those who have read my story connections... i updated with a pre-written chapter six... but i HATE the story. If someone would like to take over from me, i would be more than willing to let you take over all the credits for the story and you could change it any way you liked. Just let me know via a review, if that is what you want. :-) LadyMoontime