Chapter 3: "Can I keep him, Aunt Mika?"
"Petunia, who is this?" Vernon asked roughfully, still sour about being thrown half-way down his own walk-way, and by a girl no less.
Mika looked back to the couple and smirked at Petunia as she answered. "She never told you? I am her half-sister and sister to Lily." Mika almost laughed at the look of horror that crossed her sisters face. Apparently she had gone to great lenghts to keep this from her family.
"I was told not to tell anyone of you when that boy came to us," Petunia said crossly. "It was in the letter from Bumbledore, or how ever you say his name." Petunia finished, placed an arm around Vernon and glared at her other family.
"Why would Professor Dumbledore not what me to know about you, Mika?" He asked softly, looking at his aunt.
He had always thought Dumbledore was only trying to protect him, but why would he keep someone that seemed to care about him.
When he had first opened the door, Harry had thought his mother was at the door, then he had remembered his mother was dead. The woman had tan skin and was taller then Lily. Her hair was a darker red and her eyes were more a blue-green, with sliver flecks around the rim of the iris. She wore a short navy shirt that show a thin scar and tight black jeans. Later, after he had learned she was his aunt, he discovered her hair was much longer then his mothers, thigh lenght in fact. Harry decided then and there, that she was one of the most beautiful people he had ever seen.
The woman that held him, from what he remembered before being pulled out of the way, had long brown hair and deep brown eyes. She was drassed in a simple shirt and jeans. She was quite pretty, but Harry was uneasy with anyone holding him. Vernon had made sure Harry would feel uneasy in anyones arms.
Mika looked to Harry and opened her mouth to answer, noticeing as she did so the way Harry was standing in Elektra's arms. 'That is not normal,' she thought angerily, thinking of what the Dursleys had done to her nephew, but she was going to find out. But before she could answer a new voice sounded behind her.
"Vernon, what is all this nosie?" Marge Asked, looking from Mika to the grounded couple half-way down the walk-way. She had been telling Dudley about a new family that had bought a house two miles from her home. Dudley wasn't listen to her, but she don't know that. She had Vernon call out and more voices, so had went to investagate, only to find Vernon and Petunia on the ground, her brothers trouble causeing nephew, and two strange women.
Mika turned to the newcomer and glared. 'One of Vernon's relatives,' she thought. She looked down at the bulldog at the womans feet and growled at the creature. It whimpered and hid behind its misteress legs, shaking.
Marge had found the red-head woman quite lovely, with her dark red hair and aquamarine eyes. That lasted about two seconds, before the woman glared to her and then growled at Ripper. She decided she didn't these two women.
She looked past the glareing woman and asked her brother, "You alright, Vernon, Petunia?"
"Yes, we are fine." Petunia said, as she helped Vernon to his feet.
Mika turned and said loudly. "I'll be back tommorrw and Harry had best be ready to leave." She glared at the Dursleys as they hurried past her and into the house.
"I'm leaveing the Dursleys?" Harry asked, looking at Mika in wonder. Hope swam in the thirteen year olds green eyes.
Mika smiled at him and said gently, "Yes, you are. Tell me, do you go to Lily's old school?"
"Yes, Dumbledore is headmaster there," Harry replied, stepping away from Elektra, who released him and went to the truck. "Why?" Harry asked frowning at Mika.
"Just asking, Dumbledore and I have a lot to talk about," Mika said smiling at Harry.
Elektra returned a moment later and handed Mika a silver cellphone. "Lara gave us three. It may be a good idea for Harry to have one, just in case he needs us," she explained, smirking as Mika looked at her then shook her head.
Before Mika and Elektra left, they told Harry how to use the cellphone and gave him both their numbers. Mika wasn't to pleased with leaving Harry, but she had to find a place to stay for the three of them. It turned out to be easier then she had thought. After three hours of searching, Mika recognized a small pub, and with a smile found a small flat a block away.
After everything was unpacked, Mika ha djust sat down when she received a call from Harry asking if they could come and get him tonight. Something in his voice sounded off, so Mika and Elektra found themselves back in the truck and after a two hour ride, two blocks from #4 Privet Drive.
Something Mika had not expected to see, was Harry limping down the sidewalk dragging a trunk with one hand and carrying a golden cage in the other.
He looked up when he heard the truck and Mika had just left the cab when Harry ran to her and hugged her tightly. "Don't leave me again, please," he said in a trembleing voice.
Mika put her arm around him and asked softly what had happened to him, when they had left the house. To which Harry just lifted his head to show her the new bruise on his cheek. Mika smiled saddly at him and then pulled him into her arms again. "Never again, my little one. Never again"
"Mika, we have a guest," Elektra called from the drivers seat. She had flashlight in one hand and was looking across the street.
Mika looked at her friend oddly, when her eyes widened as she heard the soft growl. She went around the truck and smirked at the large black dog standing in the alley. She went and went to one knee by Elektra's door. "Come here, love," She whispered softly, holding out her hand.
The dog stopped growling, lifted its ears and cocked its head to the side. But, after a few more words, the dog slowly came to Mika, lowly to it belly.
Harry smiled from his side of the truck. "Can I keep him, Aunt Mika?" He asked, looking at the kneeling woman, who looked at Harry in shock. She smiled and nodded closing her eyes. "If he wishes to stay, you can keep him," she said lightly. She looked to the dog, only to find the creature gone. Mika blinked and saw a black tail go around the front of the truck.
A door opened and Elektra churkled as Mika stood and watch Harry let the dog in the back of the truck, before getting in himself, and closing the door. The boy had already put his trunk and birds cage in the bed of the truck, so, Mika shook her head once again before get in herself and makeing the comment that Harry would need to name the dog.
Ok, guys. I got to stop for the night. But on a closing note, pick a name for Sirius's dog form.
Lena