A/N my inspirational music that I listen to when I'm writing this story is called, 'A song for a stormy night by a group called Secret garden." Please note that this is another chapter that warrants the M rating. If you aren't of proper age to read violent situations then read no further skip to the next chapter. I say again, child abuse is a crime and must be stopped. Don't stand for it, don't support it, and report it when it is witnessed. You might save a life, you never know.
Chapter Seven Saving Serenity
The next day despite the gift that Professor Snape had given her, Serenity still felt horrified about returning to the Dursley's. She sat beside the window watching as Hogwarts slipped from her view and the countryside slipped away. As Draco and the others entered the compartment she abruptly got to her feet and grabbed her trunk and Olly's cage and began to leave.
Serenity, where are you going," asked Draco gently placing a hand on her shoulder?
"Draco, I've been trying to speak to my brother all year long about something important and personal. I have to go and speak to him alone if I can," she said with a frightened look on her face.
"You don't have to take your trunk or your owl, we'll look after them for you," offered Millicent.
"We're your friends, Serenity, if something's wrong, you can tell us and we'll help said Pansy.
"Thanks you guys, but one angry wizard is more than I can face at a time. Just do me a favor please," asked Serenity pleadingly?
"We'll do anything for you Serenity, you know that," said Draco placing a tender hand on her cheek making her look him in the eye.
"If for some reason, I don't return to Hogwarts next year please take it easy on my brother," she said as she handed Millicent her owl and left the compartment alone, leaving everyone with stunned expressions on their faces.
Draco pulled her trunk back to where it would be out of the way and plopped down with a worried expression on his face. "Why do you think she said that," asked Crabbe and Goyle in unison?
"I have no idea, but it's not good. We've seen her crying a lot lately haven't we Pansy," asked Millicent as she offered Olly an owl treat?
"I'll be back you guys, I'm going to see if I can find out what's going on," said Draco as he got up abruptly and left the compartment.
He had managed to get to the creature car when he heard Harry complaining about why they couldn't just talk in front of his friends. He hid behind a large pile of trunks and shrunk into the shadows as her magically amplified voice sounded angrily. "Harry please, I've been trying to talk to you about this all year, but we keep on getting disturbed and it's a private family matter. It's nobody else's business and I'd like to keep it that way," she said sitting down on a trunk on the other side of the pile that Draco was hiding behind.
"Sis is it that bad," asked Harry sitting beside her?
"Yes Harry it is worse than you think. You know how much uncle Vernon likes to beat me and to lock us away in the damned cupboard, but you didn't know exactly why I left the house that night that you couldn't find me. I feel that you need to know why I hid that night and why I'm debating on running away now," she said.
"Okay, I'm listening, what's going on that I don't know about," asked Harry?
Serenity sighted deeply before she spoke again. "Harry he has been raping me and allowing Dudley and his friends to rape me almost on a daily basis since I was eight years old. The only reason that I never ended up pregnant was because he'd beat me within an inch of my life afterwards," she blurted in one breath.
"What, How, Sis why didn't you tell me before now, I could have helped you," asked Harry attempting not to let his temper get the best of him?
"I was afraid of what they'd do to us if I said anything, please Harry we don't have anywhere else to go. Don't do anything stupid," pleaded Serenity crying.
"I should hex their balls off," snarled Harry echoing the thought that was running through Draco's mind at that exact moment.
"Harry, if we had somewhere else to go, I'd let you do it, just please, please don't do anything. Who knows what they'll do if you call them out on it," Serenity sobbed lowering her wand shakily?
"I promise, Sis, I won't let them hurt you again no matter what it costs me," said Harry as he pulled his silently sobbing sister into his arms. Serenity sobbed until she couldn't anymore then pulled away from her brother's embrace and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. "I'll meet you when the train stops in Kings Cross Station, I've got to spend a little more time with my friends," she said with a watery smile as her brother kissed her cheek and left her standing there.
Harry left the creature car first, and then Serenity turned and walked the other way. Draco waited until the door on the other side had closed and followed Serenity catching up with her on the platform between the cars. "Serenity, wait," he called making her turn in shock.
"Draco, what in Merlin's name are you doing? Were you spying on me and my brother? Oh god, please tell me that you didn't hear all of that, It's personal," said her frightened voice in his head as he pulled her into his arms and hugged her close to him?
"I heard everything, Serenity; your brother isn't the only person who cares about you. I can help you if you'll only let me," he said as he gently made her look into his stormy eyes.
"Draco, I'm sorry that I didn't confide in you, but there's nothing that you can do when I'm not around you at school. The muggles that I live with, oh god, I'd hate to think what they'd do," she said as she shook all over with fear of the thoughts that popped into her head.
"If you are frightened of them than don't go home with them. You can come home with me. My family would happily take you and your brother in, in a heartbeat," he said as he wiped a tear from her cheek.
"You're sweet Draco, but considering how you and my brother like to go at each other during school and the fact that all of your family are Slytherin's like we are, I don't think that they would make my brother as welcome as they would me. Thank you for the offer, but my brother and I need each other," she said as she pulled him closer to her and placed a tender feather light kiss on his lips. Draco pulled her closer and deepened their kiss as the wind from the train swirled around them.
"I'd do anything for you Serenity," he said as he pulled away from her and helped her across to the other car and held the door open for her.
"I know Draco, but all I can ask of you is what I said earlier. If for any reason I don't return to Hogwarts after summer's over please don't harass my brother," she said in his mind as they walked back to their compartment.
"I'll try," said Draco with a smile as he held open the door of the compartment for her.
"Please don't tell them what you've heard Draco. I don't want their pity," came her voice again as she passed him and took her seat beside the window again. Draco's eyes went as hard as stone before he entered. He'd make an unbreakable vow to her if he had to. He wouldn't break his promise to her if it meant his life.
Hours later as the train drew into the station and they crossed through the barrier between the magical and muggle worlds Draco gave the waiting muggle's a dirty look as his father placed a hand on his shoulder. "Draco, why are you worried over a filthy mud-blood," asked his father as he looked at the muggles in disgust?
"Father those aren't mud-bloods, the Gryffindor is Harry Potter, and the Slytherin girl with him is his twin sister Serenity Potter. They are half-bloods, and Serenity is my friend," he said wishing that he could just hex the fat ugly muggle once and be done with it.
"Harry and Serenity Potter, I see," said Lucius smoothly with arched eyebrows as he watched the fat muggle snatch the trunk from Serenity's grasp almost knocking her over in his haste. "Why are you looking at the muggle as if you want to hex him," he asked curiously as Draco's eyes darkened in rage?
"I can't talk about it father, I promised Serenity that I wouldn't," said Draco as he watched the man slam the door of the car seconds after Serenity and Harry had gotten in.
Once the car stopped Serenity and Harry got out and took their trunks from the back of the car. Serenity looked around fearfully debating on if she should run or not when it happened. She held Olly's cage close to her chest and stood there rooted to the spot outside the house, when Vernon spun on her and snatched the cage out of her grasp slamming it against the house freeing the bird within.
He snarled, and grabbed Serenity by the arm attempting to force her into the house. The owl swooped down and attacked him clawing and pecking at his face with rage. Vernon pushed Serenity into the house and grasped the owl by the neck and swung it around with an audible snap that made Serenity lose it completely.
Before Harry or anyone else could blink she drew her wand and flicked it making him scream in pain and drop the lifeless owl on the floor. She was about to cast another spell when he quickly grasped her wrist and grabbed her wand snapping it over his knee in one quick movement. The brought his large fist into her face knocking her into the cupboard under the stairs and slamming the door, before locking it and spinning on Harry.
"Your stupid sister won't be returning to that school of freaks ever again. Unless you'd like to join her I'd suggest that you get your crap up to Dudley's second bedroom and stay up there if you know what's good for you," snarled Vernon as he removed his belt and stepped toward Harry menacingly. Harry backed toward the stairs fearfully dragging his trunk behind him as the large angry man lumbered toward him.
Once Harry had gotten his things up to the room that Dudley stored all of his broken things in, the door was slammed and locked behind him. He spun and banged on the door screaming for his sister with fear, and cursing like a sailor at Vernon through the door.
"Keep that up, and your sister will take your beatings for you," growled Vernon evilly as he pocketed the key. Harry quieted knowing that Vernon wasn't joking, and walked to the window and watched as the fat man dragged her trunk out onto the stone patio in the back yard and lit it on fire throwing the dead body of his sister's poor owl on the top as the fire raged burning everything to a cinder.
Later that night and for the next week after they had gotten home for the summer Harry tossed and turned hearing his sister's cries, and screams of pain and fear in his mind. He couldn't even send Hedwig for help because Vernon had placed a padlock on her cage so that it couldn't be opened. His aunt slid three meager meals a day under the small cat door at the bottom of his bedroom door, but he doubted that his sister was being treated with such concern. He wanted to cast a spell to free himself and his sister but the fear of being expelled stopped him from drawing his wand in her defense.
As her screams of pain sounded once again in his mind he threw his wand into his trunk and tried to cover his head with his pillow hoping that it would suffocate him so that he couldn't hear her anguished cries which were growing weaker and weaker each day. He pretended to be asleep when he finally heard the sounds of his uncle Vernon lumbering up the stairs to go to bed for the night.
He tried to reach out to his sister with his mind the way that she did to him, but he wasn't able to do it and it gave him a nasty headache. So he finally gave up and fell asleep crying over the fact that he was unable to help Serenity, unable to save her from her pain. As he finally found sleep around midnight a fait weak voice popped into his head. "H-harry, I, I l-love you," came Serenity's voice in his head for the last time.
In her weakened state, beaten, bloody, and bruised beyond recognition, Serenity slowly raised her wrist so that she could at last open the locket on the bracelet that her head of house had given to her. She closed her eyes as her wrist with the locket on it fell to the floor and the locket fell open. Her uncle had been relentless with her beating, and raping her brutally until he had gotten tired each day since his return. By the time that he was done with her each day she either had not strength to open the locket of was unconscious. Before she lost consciousness again, she sent one final message out to her brother mentally hoping that he would get it before the magic took her away.
The next morning Harry was let out of his room to do chores and just as he reached the bottom of the stairs he heard his uncle Vernon screaming at Serenity for her to wake up, and he heard his Ant Petunia's shrill scream of horror as her husband kicked the dead body in the floor of the cupboard.
"Vernon, stop she's dead, oh my god she's dead what are we going to do," she cried? Harry leapt down the last of the stairs and over the banister and threw himself between his sister and his enraged Uncle who was now being held back by Petunia and Dudley with horror filled expressions on their faces. Seeing that his uncle was unable to get passed his aunt and his cousin, he knelt on the blood soaked floor and pulled his sister's lifeless body into his arms and moved her blood soaked hair out of her face.
"Serenity, no, you can't leave me like this," he sobbed as he felt the cold stiffness of her lifeless body! He shook her gently begging her to wake up and sobbed harder when she didn't respond. Dudley turned with a saddened expression on his face and attempted to pull Harry away from his dead sister's body. "Harry, she's dead, you can't help her now," he said with a soft tone that he would use at someone's sick bed.
"Don't touch her you sick monster's. None of you touch my sister, this is your fault. You killed her, she was all that I had and you killed her you bastards," screamed Harry hysterically! Suddenly Harry's eyes fell on the phone in the hallway and he dropped his sister's lifeless body and got to his feet. He stepped out of the cupboard and was picking up the phone before they could say anything and started to dial 911.
Vernon yanked the phone cord out of the wall and grabbed Harry by the back of his shirt. "Oh no you don't boy, you're not calling anyone. You're going to get your ass out there and start digging a hole to burry your little slut sister in," he said as he pushed Harry out into the back garden and thrust a shovel into his hands.
"You won't get away with this, I'll tell the authorities the instant that I am able to leave this fucking house," snarled Harry as he started to dig.
"No, you won't boy, not unless you want to join her in that hole," spat Vernon as he slammed a shovel into the back of Harry's head knocking him out cold. He finished digging the hole and then threw the lifeless body into it, before covering it with garden lime and covering the hole back up placing a few potted flowers into the freshly covered hole and surrounding them with garden bricks to make it look like they had just made a new flower bed so that none of the neighbors would get curious.
Harry awoke three hours later with a throbbing head and the sound of a drill or screw gun whining away at his window. He got up and looked out to find his Uncle Vernon on a ladder putting bars on his window. "You're never going back to that freaky school with all of those freaky people again," said Vernon with an evil smirk on his face.
Chapter Eight The Rebirth is up next.
