Chapter 13

The great escape

The rest of the train journey flew by, Lilly came back just as she promised but soon left again after James started declaring his undying love for her once more. The train pulled in and we all said our goodbyes for now but we all knew it wouldn't be long before we all saw each other again. I spotted our little brother stood with our parents, all three of them scowling at me and Sirius secretly wishing we'd both get hit by a train or just suddenly drop dead probably. "Well come on, hell waits for no witch or wizard," I grumbled as I tugged on Sirius's sleeve and we quickly left the group and made our way over to the other people who were unfortunately related to us. "Hurry up you two we haven't got all day, look at this filth that they let into here, it's a disgrace," snapped our mother as she grabbed my arm and marched me off the platform to the floo networks. This was going to be one hell of a summer, we quickly flooed back to the Black home and me and Sirius disappeared immediately upstairs only to be called back down. There stoop our so called parents not looking too pleased. "You two are to stay in the house at all times you hear me, Regulus has told us all about your school antics, the detentions, the fights, the downright rudeness of you two. You will not be getting away with it any longer, we have had about enough of this, you two will learn to be noble purebloods and not embarrass and disgrace us any longer, it that clear?" spat our Father, I use father as a loose term here, no way in hell do either of us actually consider this man to be our dad. Just as I was about to opened my mouth and shout back some snide comment Sirius stamped on my foot and shook his head at me.

We trudged back upstairs and I headed straight for Sirius's room that was still covered in Gryffindor banners and colours, oh the anger this room brought our parents, they tried everything to get rid of the posters and change the room but no matter what they did it always remained how Sirius liked it and it drove them both nuts. I collapsed on my brother's bed and he quietly closed the door, "this is going to be the worst summer yet, I can feel it. They've got something horrible planned I just know it. If I even see Avery's face over summer I think I might just go and kill myself," I grumbled already feeling all depressed and fed up. "Cheer up Sin, we never do what they say, we can just go and crash at James's house all summer you know his parents love us," he said half smiling trying to cheer me up. I groaned, "how on earth am I going to bust out of here though to go and see Lilly, I feel bad that every summer I can't even owl her or see her because of dictator one and two," I muttered in despair. "Don't worry we'll think of something."

We didn't even last a week before one of us was hexed and badly hurt, Sirius had been caught sneaking around and our farther thought it would be a befitting punishment for him to receive the Cruciatus Curse just for that petty little thing. I couldn't do anything to help Sirius once our father got a hold of him but I could help him out afterwards. I didn't hold out much longer than my twin and got a few nasty hexes from our abusive mother for talking out of turn and refusing to do as I was told, she even took my wand away from me in hope to make me more compliant but, taking my wand only angered me further meaning I let loose and shouted all the profanities I could think of at her and threw inanimate objects at her in hopes to maybe kill her with one of her precious family heirlooms which, she clearly cared for more than me and Sirius. She didn't appreciate that in the slightest and I received a nasty burning curse that blistered all my back and left arm. The downfall to summer was that I was limited to what I could do to heal both me and Sirius and the marks and things were starting to show more clearly every day without the appropriate potions and lotions to treat them. By the end of the third week I was covered in gashes and semi healed cuts which were slowly leaving scars all over my body, Sirius was no better with a bruised face and several cuts from some nasty Sectumsempra spells that had been fired our way.

"Enough is enough Sin we can't stay any longer, look at us, were barely holding together here give it another week and I think one of us will be dead," hissed Sirius through gritted teeth as I dabbed a cleansing potion onto a cut on his back. "Sirius we have nowhere else to go, we have no money and no one willing to take us both in, were stuck here until term starts," I whispered hoping no one was listening in. "We go to James's he'll understand, we just can't stay here," he hissed back. "We can't expect James's parents to just be able to look after us, they have James to deal with and he's more than a handful for them, it's not fair to impose on them, were just going to have to deal with this ourselves and hope we struggle through and make it back to Hogwarts alive for the next year where we can be safe from them." I dropped what I was doing as I heard a creak come from outside the room and my blood ran cold, I jumped to my feet and burst through the door to find our younger brother running down the corridor to where our parents were sat. "Sirius grab our stuff, screw it we're leaving now, don't ask questions just do it as quick as you can!" I yelled as I ran after our brother and tackled him to the floor just before he reached the door. "You little snitch, you're going to get one of us killed, how can you hate me and Sirius this much that you'd go running to the two death eaters?" I growled as Regulus squirmed around. "You two deserve everything you get, you're no brother and sister of mine," he hissed at me as he tried to swing at me. I moved my head just in time and swung my fist down smashing it straight into his nose; blood sprayed everywhere as he screamed out in pain. I heard chairs scrapping from behind the door and I jumped to me feet. I spat at Regulus, "as if were even related to you," and with that I took off running just as the doors were thrown open and our Father came marching out to find Regulus bloody and on the floor clutching his clearly broken nose. I skidded down the corridor narrowly avoiding a spell that skimmed my arm and made one of the vases on the table explode. I burst through the living room where I knew my wand sat abandoned by my mother and made a mad dive for it as my Father crashed after me firing more spells at me. My fingers barely grazed the wood when I was sent flying back as a spell finally hit me and knocked me off course, I went hurtling into a chair and smashed my elbow off the marble fireplace. "Fuck," I hissed as I clutched it as a throbbing pain shot through it and made me spasm, I didn't sit still for long to nurse my arm as another spell was sent at me and I dived out of the way and snatched my fallen wand. I then did something that was either very stupid or ingenious and ran head first at our Farther and shoulder barged him out of the way, he didn't know what had hit him as I went barrel rolling down the corridor only to crash into Sirius who quickly grabbed me and pulled me into a room locking the door and magically moving the furniture to block it. Luckily for us there was a fireplace in the second living room and a bag of floo powder, Sirius gently pulled me to the fire place threw the powder in and shouted out James's house and off he went with our stuff. Just as I'd thrown the green powder into the fireplace the door splintered open showering me in wood and splinters, I dived for the fireplace and barely made it as a spell hit me and I vanished into the floo network.

I was thrown from the fireplace and skidded across a smooth wooden floor on my back with my bust elbow and arm cradled against my chest, something warm and wet was dripping down my head into my eyes. I cringed as I felt someone try to grab my arm and help me up, "Charlus I need your help in here," I heard the familiar voice of Mrs Potter yell. With my good arm I whipped away what was dripping into my eye to find it was my blood; I must have hit my head at some point, maybe when I jumped into the fireplace. "Sirius, Orsina what happened?" she asked as she finally got me to my feet and over to sit on a wooden chair where she started to fuss over some of my minor injuries, Sirius came and sat beside me. "To be honest Mrs P it's a very long story, let's just say I don't think we're welcome at home any longer." Mrs P looked horrified, "your parents did this to you? How could anyone do such a thing, especially to their own children?" she gasped. I hissed in pain as Mrs P peeled away my long sleeved top to reveal my arm, why was it always my left arm that got bust up all the time? "This doesn't look good, I think you might have shattered your elbow but don't worry I use to work at St Mungos so I can heal this up in no time now let's have a look at the other injures," she said as Mr P came in with the medical supplies. "Hey where's James?" asked Sirius remembering that he hadn't seen him. "Oh he went out to the shops for something with Remus, why don't you go with Charlus whilst I deal with your Sister Sirius, James and Remus will be back shortly, I expect you have a lot to discuss."