My Salvation
AUTHORS NOTE: A special thanks to xdninja05 for helping me out with some ideas and opinions! And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... Harry FINALLY gets rescued! Yay! ^w^ *!~
CHAPTER 4: A Mothers Anger
When the door of Number 4 Private Drive finally opened Remus nearly passed out as the scent that been so horrifyingly strong to him before magnified at least 10 times assaulting his senses. Remus could feel the wolf inside him trying to force its way out before he forced it down...
Vernon Dursley was NOT going to leave this encounter unharmed...
Fear gripped at Lily's heart when she noticed that Remus had stopped with a look of horror on his face at whatever it was his heightened senses had picked up.
Was it Harry? Did something happen to him?
As her panick began to increase with each passing moment, Remus suddenly snapped out of his trance and darted across the yard and instantly pounded on the door, a look of fury on his face.
Lily, James, and Sirius raced after him and just as they came to a stop beside him the door knob began to turn... finally... finally the door opened to reveal none other than Vernon Dursley.
He was as fat as ever with multiple chins and the same blond hair that layed down flat on his enormously pudgy head and that same large mustache that made him look remarkably similar to a walrus. His face was flushed with exertion and his beady little eyes narrowed the second he noticed their robes.
"The boy's fine! I refuse to have you in my house, you'll be able to collect him when it's time for him to go back to that infernal school! Now go away!" He snapped at them quickly before attempting to close the door. He nearly succeeded too until Remus' hand shot out and pushed the door open completely...
Blood... There was blood everywhere...
Why was there blood? Oh yes, breakfast he had... been punished...
His head was spinning... What happened again?
Aunt Petunia had... What? What did Aunt Petunia do?
She... stood up... and- what? What did she do?
Just as he was about to look around and determine the damage he heard voices...
"I will see my godson!" He could hear Sirius shout...
Wait... Sirius... Sirius!?
No, not Sirius, it couldn't be...
There was an impostor trying to come in, more than likely a Death Eater...
Harry forced himself to stand... Grabbed the bloody kitchen knife that lay next to him... Wished that he still had his wand which was locked in his old cupboard with the rest of his school things...
Ignoring the pain he slowly made his way down the hall and towards where the voices were coming from... He would do anything for his aunt and he was going to protect her now no matter what happened!
James felt as though he would vomit at the sight in front of him, it was like looking in a mirror that showed what he would look like if he had been tortured nonstop for a full year by the cruelest Death Eaters and Voldemort himself...
His son, his Harry stood in front of him looking as though he were on the verge of death... Which he hated to admit he probably was.
He was wearing rags that even the most cruel wouldn't give to their house elves, blood was gushing out of multiple open wounds that covered the small skeleton like body... His skin was completely covered in cuts, bruises, burns, words were carved into his skin- some still bleeding, scars, bruises, so many injuries that James wasn't sure how it was he was still alive yet alone standing... But yet here he stood, a bloody kitchen knife (that was probably covered in his own blood) in his hands, obviously forcing himself to stand... And what disgusted him the most was that despite the fact that those wounds were obviously caused by this monster who dared to call himself Vernon Dursley, he was standing there and willing to risk his own life for these monsters...
No... This can't be Harry... It has to be a Boggart! It just has to be!
Her little baby just can't be this bloody skeleton struggling to even stand!
As if in a daze Lily looked around her, there was no sound, everything seemed to move in slow motion... What was happening?
As Lily's gaze rested on her husband and friends she wished that they would do something... anything but instead they just stood there...
James was just staring... wide-eyed and horrified, mouth gaping like a fish... Sirius was no better...
Remus however was shaking in cold hard fury, his hands were fisted so hard that his knuckles appeared white, his face was in a snarl and his eyes were the same glowing amber that they had all associated with the wolf inside...
Lily however couldn't find it in her to try to calm him down... She turned again in that strange slow motion and looked yet again at the horror that was her son and her heart nearly broke...
Her little baby Harry had begun to sway, his arms trembling from the effort of holding up a single kitchen knife.
His eyes however were alive, full of a single-minded determination that both made her heart swell with pride but also ache with the knowledge that that look should never enter the eyes of a fifteen almost sixteen year old boy!
Harry was glaring at Remus with that fierce gaze and spoke with a weak, wavering but also strong, determined and demanding voice...
"What creature sat in the corner of your office at Hogwarts the first time I visited?"
"I believe Harry, that it was a grindylow in a tank if I'm not mistaken?" Remus replied obviously trying to keep his temper under control.
Harry gave one hard nod obviously still on edge about the three others who, to his eyes were supposed to be dead.
"Harry, this is most definitely a shock but these are who they look like... It is Sirius and your parents," Remus said kindly his temper under control for now as he obviously tried to keep Harry from performing any rash actions with that bloody knife in his hands...
Harry stood still, his body going stiff in shock and then... in the blink of an eye, he passed out his body crumpling lifelessly to the floor...
The second Harry collapsed Sirius broke out of his shock and rushed to his young godson to make sure he was still alive... Gently pressing his fingers to Harry's wrist he breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the faint but still steady pulse of his godsons blood keeping him alive...
Turning to the others who were still stunned and watching Vernon Dursley from the corner of his eye Sirius began to assess who would be the best of them to help Harry and contact Dumbledore...
One look at Remus and Sirius knew he would definitely have to be one of the two to help Harry, if he were to be set on Vernon now there would be nothing left of the tub of lard... Lily would definitely be one of the two to attack Vernon first, it was her little Harry after all, and Merlin help the poor sop who stood in her way... That just left himself and James... If he were being honest with himself he knew that James should have the first crack at Vernon as well...
"Remus, we need to get help for Harry, come on. James, Lily, go ahead and restrain the pig so that he doesn't get away."
As he stooped to pick Harry up gently the others nodded, Remus then followed behind him as James and Lily pulled out their wands and stalked towards a now terrified Vernon Dursley...
Lily felt a certain... pleasure as she drew her wand and began to stalk after Vernon Dursley who was currently attempting to flee up the stairs...
She and James quickly took off after him just as he managed to disappear around the corner, soon they reached the top of the flight of stairs and quickly took in the five doors, four closed one open... Vernon was hiding in one of these rooms and they would find him!
Going to the closest door, the one that was open, they looked in and saw a spotless bathroom and quickly moved to the next door... Blowing the door off its hinges they were met with what was obviously a guest bedroom, after quickly making sure Vernon hadn't tried to hide in here they moved on and stopped dead in their tracks at the next door... Several heavy locks were bolted onto it with a cat flap was fixed onto the bottom of the door...
With a growl James blasted down the door and they entered before stopping yet again in shock... There was a bed bolted down in the middle of the floor with nothing but a ragged sheet on it, both the sheet and mattress were covered in stains; some that were obviously blood and others that they were afraid to know what they were... In the corner they saw a pile of objects that were obviously used to torture their son... Both however turned away quickly without examining the objects further, too afraid of what they might find and instead began to search for Vernon Dursley with a whole new intensity.
With tears running down their faces and heavy hearts they quickly made their way to the next door which led into the room of an obviously spoiled child- their sons no doubt... The two then went to the last door... This is where they would find that monster!
With sadistic grins firmly placed they blasted the bedroom door off of its hinges and began to stalk towards the closet where they could clearly hear sobs...
Vernon Dursley was NOT a coward! Yet here he was, driven to cowering in his bloody closet sobbing like a baby!
However, Vernon also had a good reason for his predicament. Four freaks had suddenly shown up on his doorstep, one that had already threatened to kill him if the boy was mistreated in his care, one that he knew for a fact was dead, and two more he would swear were the boys parents but it couldn't possibly be... Could it?
Still, those freaks were after him, and trying to avenge the boy no less... Why they would care about the boy Vernon had no idea, all he was good for was to be a whore and a good way to let out some stress... Just a little entertainment, nothing more, nothing less...
He could hear them making their way towards him... room by room.
They were in the guest room... now they were at the boy's room, great! Vernon could feel his trembling increase at the prospect of their anger when they saw what was inside... Now they were in his Dudders' room...
Praying that they wouldn't find him he desperately tried to silence himself as he heard his bedroom door blown off its hinges... He could hear the muffled footsteps as the freaks walked towards his closet and... Just when the suspense was about to get the most of him...
The closet door opened...
Vernon looked up at the freaks who seemed to tower above him... One looked almost exactly like the boy but he was taller, older, his eyes were brown and he didn't have that infernal scar. The woman had long red hair, and the same eyes as the boy... And they both had those bloody sticks pointed straight at him, with twisted grins on their faces...
James and Lily Potter had come to avenge their son.
Lily was the first to attack, pointing her wand at the clothing that hung above his head, "Oppungo!" Suddenly every item that he kept in his closet came alive and began to attack him, his shoes kicked him, his ties attempted to strangle him, his shirts knickers and pants began to slam roughly into him...
"Make it stop you freaks! I will not stand any of your freakishness in my house!" Vernon said with an overwhelming mixture of terror and anger, he immediately knew that he had said the wrong thing when he saw James Potter brandish his wand and another jet of light hit him in the mouth as James said 'Densugeo!'.
When the light hit him Vernon could feel his mouth forced open as his teeth began to grow larger and larger.
James Potter was glaring at him, "Well if we're freaks then what does that make you?"
Pure fury erupted inside of Vernon, how dare they make him a freak!? How dare they!?
With a cry of pure fury Vernon launched himself at James only to be blown to the side as another spell hit him...
"Furnunculus!" Lily cried out and watched as Vernon was blasted back by the overpowered spell, boils erupting all over his face...
James was quickly bowled over as Vernon charged at her, in a moment of pure panic as she watched the much larger man barrel towards her Lily ran...
Just as she dove away from Vernon she could hear James shout the Jelly Legs Jinx and she watched as Vernon tumbled down the stairs...
A few seconds after his descent stopped James and Lily began to descend the stairs as well only for their anger to erupt as they listened to what Vernon had begun to say...
"What do you even care for that little freak for!? He's good for nothing other than to be a whore! This world is better off without him I say!"
Two spells hit Vernon simultaneously, Lily- who had merely wanted to shut him up- had performed the Langlock curse, and James- who had wanted nothing more than to kill him had instead settled on using Levicorpus.
James looked around for somewhere he could put this poor excuse for a human being when suddenly his eyes landed on a cupboard door situated just under the stair... This door had locks on it, just like the ones on his sons room...
James lifted his wand and undid the locks on the door before opening it...
Inside sat not only a Hogwarts school trunk but also a snowy owl that looked up at him with happiness, obviously thinking that he was Harry before it began to go nuts in its cage realising that this was not her master...
When the owls eyes landed on Lily it cocked its head to the side and began to consider something... They just stared at each other for a moment before the owl seemed to determine them worthy and nodded its head before pointedly looking between James' wand and the lock on her cage, leave it to his son to have such a brilliant owl!
James flicked his wand and the lock on the cage broke and the snowy owl swooped out spreading its wings for the first time in a while... James and Lily both watched with awe and amusement as the owl began to torment the still upside down and mute Vernon Dursley.
Looking back at the closet with disgust James quickly flicked his wand and his sons trunk floated out of the small closet and into the hallway making just enough room for the fat bastard to fit...
When James went to move Vernon into the small closet his sons owl swooped back into the small closet and grabbed an old ratty and bloodstained blanket from the corner before putting it into his outstretched hand...
After a few moments of just staring at the cloth recognition dawned on James and Lilys faces and they looked at each other, after a few seconds of silent communication they turned towards Vernon and Lily performed the counter spell so that he could speak.
"Did you force our son at any point in time to stay in this closet?" James growled through clenched teeth.
"Yes," Vernon squeaked eyes wide in fear.
"How long?" Lily growled just as if not even angrier than he was.
"Itusedtobehisbedroom," He murmured, obviously terrified if the slowly spreading stain in his trousers was any indication.
The earth seemed to stop momentarily as they processed his last mumble...
"WHAT!?" Lily screeched.
Remus hastily pulled a small bag of flu powder out of his robes while Sirius gently layed Harry down on the couch, hastily tossing the powder into the Dursleys' fireplace Remus floo called Dumbledore and demanded that he bring Madame Pomfrey immediately, It was life or death...
In mere moments the Headmaster of Hogwarts and the school nurse came spinning out of the fireplace and instantly looked around for whoever was injured... The second Poppy Pomfrey saw Harry she let out a shocked gasp before immediately setting to work...
She conjured bandages, and summoned a Hogwarts house elf to bring her all other items she would need; salves, creams, lotions, potions, so many different things were moving in her hands so quickly Remus couldn't keep track of it all when suddenly Poppy stopped...
Remus looked up and realised that fifteen minutes had passed with Poppy working at an inhuman speed...
When Poppy finally stood back up James and Lily entered the room causing Dumbledore to raise an eyebrow questioningly.
Lily still looked too angry to speak so it was James who explained...
"We bound the pig, and sealed the door."
Lily's eyes then moved to her son and all anger drained from her face, what had once been a bloody skeleton was now a mummy, Harry was covered virtually from head to toe in creams and bandages...
"Is he okay Poppy?" Lilly's voice was heartbroken and she was obviously fighting tears.
"Yes, I believe so. It will take a while for all of the damage that I saw to properly heal, I'll have to do a full injury scan to know if I have missed anything however," her own voice sounded defeated and hallow, how could she have not noticed before? Especially with the amount of times Harry had been in her infirmary.
"Do a past and present scan Poppy," Dumbledores voice was hallow as well, the normal twinkle gone from his eyes...
Poppy nodded once and began the full diagnostic charm causing a pale teal light to envelope Harry, after a minute the light faded and an extremely long piece of parchment appeared before her with a small 'pop' causing her eyes to water at the sheer length of it...
She unrolled the parchment and after only a few seconds of reading (with each second she grew increasingly pale and her eyes wider) she froze before dropping the roll of parchment and fell to the floor sobbing for this poor child.
"P-Poppy?" Lily asked terrified of what made her react like that, the only response she got however was for Poppy to point at the parchment with a shaking hand as she continued to sob...
She didn't need to watch as the other four in the room bent over the parchment to read what had caused her reaction Poppy knew exactly what it said... The words were now burned forever into her mind...
Following an extremely long list of violent injuries that had started the same night Harry Potter had come to the Dursleys came these terrible words...
Age 5: 12:02 on July 31, Harry James Potter was raped by one Vernon Dursley...
~*!END OF CHAPTER 4*~
AUTHORS NOTE: I feel so bad about leaving you guys hanging for so long! I'm sorry! This month is going to be/is pretty hectic so it's going to take a while to get the next chapter done. I had more planned for this chapter but I figured I had left you hanging for too long... Now here are some things to expect in the next chapter that you might have questions about so I'll just address them here...
1.) Where did Aunt Petunia go? -She's still there but now she's passed out since she cried herself to sleep before most if not all of this chapter happened. They'll find her in the next chapter so don't worry!
2.) What about Dudley? -He's coming back in the next chapter too! Don't worry, he's not going to get away with what he's done either!
3.) What's with the last line? -It's what Vernon did to Harry 2 minutes after midnight on his fifth birthday... So sad v.v but still necessary! I hope you forgive me!
4.)Is Harry going to be okay? -Physically yes, mentally yes but it'll take a while. He's been through some traumatic experiences without the addition of his godfather and parents coming back to life! That alone would take a while to get used to!
Now, I'll end it here so I can get this posted so you can read it!