First of all I'd love to thank our first reviewer-bluefire-elemental ! Thank you for your good review! Yes the story progresses after the 1st and 2nd chapter, the abuse ties with the plot later on.
Disclaimer: We own none of the characters in the books or anything other then the plot and the new characters we created. Everything else is credit to the authors of the books.
Authors note: this is a story written by two totally different authors. Any questions will be answered in a post note at the bottom of every chapter with questions from the previous. Read, Review, and Enjoy!
Chapter two: Broken Summer.
The next day was horribly similar. The abused boy got up and grimaced from the pain of unsticking his over large shirt from his open wounds. Making his relatives breakfast was harder then ever with the pain of lifting his arms too high. In order to rescue the bacon he had to pick up the sizzling food in the grease just to prevent burning it. Instead he burned his fingers deeply and had several grease burns on his arms and face from the spattering fat.
" Boy! " His portly uncle growled. " Get on with your chores or you will have your punishment early. " He leered and the raven-haired teen rushed out of the kitchen with a large list in hand. " Clean gutters, wash windows... inside and out, clean the fireplace? " The boy said in a hoarse voice from screaming. " He has an electric fireplace! How do you clean something that has nothing to clean? " He argued with himself. Deciding to get a move on he took a garbage bag from the garden shed and figured how to get on the roof without a ladder. " If I climb that tree..." He thought and began pulling himself up painfully.
The gutters were hard and slow work but he finished in a reasonable time for someone with cuts on their small back. Continuing on to the windows he did the outside and then the inside, working with a mechanical pace... Spray, wipe, spray, wipe. Eventually every single window was done, even the tall attic window that Harry had to climb the side of the house to get to. After he wiped away some dust and grime from the fireplace and even had time to scrape away burnt food remnants from the inside of the stove before his Uncle came home.
The abnormally large man waddled over to inspect the list that his nephew handed over with a trembling hand. " That's it? " He hissed and brought out a cane from seemingly nowhere. " You realize what your actions will cost you? " He said in a deadly calm. The fearful boy whimpered as the cane came down on his side. The large man beat the boy about for a bit before going on with the daily lashings. It was less then before but Harry's head was still reeling from getting knocked about and didn't even begin to count before he was out of it.
The horrible treatment lasted for days and with every passing beating Harry got weaker and weaker from lack of food and the constant abuse. His small growth spurt had stopped completely and He was sure that he would never grow much taller then he was from all those years in the small cupboard along with the usual malnutrition. The whippings got less and less but with every time that bastard came home drunk or angry Harry paid. He was sure that his index finger of his left hand was broken, and his ankle sprained. He also thought he had one broken rib because it hurt to take deep breaths.
So that's how you found him, sitting in his small cupboard nursing his many wounds. At least he was able to stay semi-conscious now throughout the whippings. 'At least Vernon hasn't tried to do something worse, like stab me or rape me or anything. ' was Harry's comforting thought. " I probably won't make it to my birthday, let alone Hogwarts. " He mused. After the first couple days he realized that the order had taken up his offer of letting him be... good god how he wished they hadn't.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well that's it, chapter 2! We have a huge series planned out (Yes I'm saying this again) but we need to know if we should continue. Please read and review to tell us of any suggestions, questions, or comments you have. No reviews-No more chapters, simple, eh? (Yes we're Canadian) A warning ahead of time that this story may contain elements of other fanfictions or books and may turn into a crossover later on in the series. I'll try to direct the disclaimer for those books and ask for use of elements in other fanfictions before using them. Thanks,
SaA