If anyone picked on the reference to DBZ in the last chapter kudos. This story is not a cross over by any means but its going to pull from different fandoms because of 'Lily's' previous life and her imagination making her feel like all these ideas are her own.

Chapter 2

"I give up!" Petunia yelled her violet eyes luminous as they filled with unshed tears. She was frustrated beyond measure. They had been going at this for months! Months, and yet Petunia was no closer to finding the magic Lily believed was in her than the moon was to the sun. Flopping backwards onto her head Petunia tried her hardest to banish the tears from her eyes.

Turning her frustrated glare on to those sad emerald eyes only made Petunia's mood darker. She was angry and disappointed so much so that she felt like breaking something to make her feel better, but it was not lady like to do so and that piled on her frustration even more. For once she didn't want to be the big sister and be able to throw a temper tantrum like Lily was prone to doing. She didn't want to place so much control on herself but even at such a tender age of nine Petunia had willed herself to always be in control of herself. She didn't know where she acquired her maturity and neither did her parents all Petunia could pin it on was the fact that someone had to make up for Lily's immaturity and at times her parents' as well.

"I don't understand." Lily whispered to herself as she slumped down the pastel coloured wall of Petunia's room.

Petunia felt her simmering emotions lessen looking at her younger sisters dejected form curled into the far corner of the room between the wall and her white dresser. How Lily managed to squeeze herself into that tiny space Petunia would never know but Lily seemed to like cramped spaces. Sighing Petunia sat up it was time to be the big sister again. Picking herself up of her bed she made her to her sister and knelt in front of her.

"It's fine Lily, me not being able to do magic won't change anything." Petunia told her but even as the words left her mouth she knew it was not true, things would change and though she would not begrudge Lily for something that she tried so very hard to share with her but could not, she knew their relationship would be different if a bit strained because of her envy that she could not be magic like her sister but no matter what Petunia knew that she would always love Lily.

"Really Lily, I can't do it…" Petunia told her sister believing her words to be true. It was the tone in Petunia's voice that seemed to snap Lily into a realization.

"Lily?" Petunia questioned warily at her sister's intense gaze.

"Have you been doubting that you're magic?" Lily asked earnestly.

Petunia felt her eyebrows shoot up to her roots. What?

"What does that even mean?"

"Faith, trust and Pixie dust!" Lily yelled at her like it was an explanation in an of itself, which it was not, as she jumped up and catching her hip on the corner of Petunia's dresser making herself yelp in pain as Petunia winced at the phantom pain that she felt for her sister. Moving forward Petunia placed her hand on Lily's own as it rubbed her saw hip guiding the younger to sit at the edge of her bed, waiting patiently for the pain her sister felt to subside and allowing her expression to speak of her question, Petunia watched as realization dawned on Lily's face that not everyone lived in the little world that she'd crafted not that Petunia minded much that her sister was such an imaginative soul but Petunia herself was not as creative, so she needed, more often than not, an explanation for her sister's bizarreness.

"Well maybe faith, trust and magic but magic stems from faith and trust so maybe faith, trust ah well I'll think of something for that…" Lily muttered to herself before puffing up and making Petunia brace herself for a Lily explanation.

Feeling the shift that seemed to take place in her younger sister Petunia waited patiently for Lily to explain this magic that she believed in so terribly, a belief that Petunia herself was buying into more and more with each passing day but not enough it seemed.

"It's because you don't believe." Lily started holding up her palms when she realized that Petunia was very much ready to protest that.

Petunia believed in magic. She looked up at the same sky as Lily and pretended to see the same things as her sister and she looked for four-leaf clovers and looked for fairy rings like Lily and she would swear that she picked up a mermaid scale at the beach that one time when they had visited their grandmother.

"I'm not saying you don't believe, but you don't believe, believe." Lily said making Petunia's frown deepen.

"I don't understand." Petunia told her sister parroting Lily's earlier words.

"You don't believe you can do it. You don't think you're magic. You have to have faith that you're magic, and you have to trust in yourself that you can use it." Lily said to her in a tone that expressed her innocence in the way that she didn't understand how Petunia could not grasp the simplicity of it and yet Petunia couldn't, because if she truly believed that she could do magic only for it not to be true then that would truly be devastating for her.

"I don't think-" Petunia began trying to find a way out of this. She was taking the cowards way out and she knew it but better not to risk something than to risk everything and face disappointment, but it seemed Lily seemed to realize this.

"Petunia." Lily started cutting her sisters excuse short. "I won't fly without you, if you don't then I don't 'all for one and one for all' right?"

Petunia felt her eyes narrow, the sneaky little brat. She knew what Lily meant and as much as she felt angered at her sister's scratch at her scared-y cat tendency she felt her heart swell. Lily was telling her in her Lily like way that either she got over this and believed in it whole heartedly or Lily gave up magic and her giving up magic would be all Petunia's fault for being too scared to try and that was something that Petunia could never allow. Lily couldn't not have magic because Lily was magic. Sighing in defeat Petunia couldn't help the reassurance that settled on her chest and allowed her to breathe easy, Lily believed in her so Petunia needed to believe in herself and Petunia believed in lead by example. She didn't want Lily thinking her a coward and in turn unable to stand by her in the future because she got scared, she didn't want Lily to believe that her big sis wouldn't back her up no matter what and so she'd believe with all that she was that she was magic as much as Lily was.

"Okay." Petunia whispered with a small smile. She would believe. Believe for all she was worth for Lily.

It didn't happen right that instant when Petunia decided to give her all to it and she would never that she'd hoped that it did, but it did not and so she soldiered on by the time her tenth birthday rolled around the corner Petunia felt herself deflate. She'd been at it for almost a year and she didn't feel like she was any closer than when she first began this task that seemed to become with each passing day.

Okay magic. If you're in me at all this your last chance today's my birthday and I will not be sad because of you. Petunia thought to herself as she slipped out of her bed and onto fluffy carpet that adorned her floor the crisp morning air helping the haze of sleep clear. The rays of the sun barely showing. It was still a good few hours before any of her family woke. Petunia was the early riser in the family it would remain that way for years to come.

Closing her eyes Petunia kept her hands slightly apart as she pulled the golden light from her imagined stars to rung though her veins and to her finger tips. Something was different than the last thousand times that she had tried doing this, but Petunia was not going to lose her cool and get excited just yet. Focusing on her breathing Petunia kept pulling at the strands of light. Feeling her eyes snap open as her body became overcome by gravity Petunia did not miss the glowing sun in her hands fade away and with a tired triumphant smile Petunia allowed herself to fade just like her energy.

She had done. Petunia didn't know it, but she had become the first muggle to develop a magical core from a near non-existent core.

Chapter two is done and as you can see like I stated earlier another fandom reference there will be plenty more to come for the direction I'm heading with this story. Anyway Petunia's development will be explained later on in the story when it becomes more relevant.

I liked to say that I'm excited for the next few chapters, Severus Snape is going to enter soon and being a Snape fan I'm so excited. It might not be the next chapter but very soon. The next chapter should be before Christmas.

Please review. I'd really like to know your thoughts.