Harry was not the average boy of six, most would say that he was able to understand what was going on around him from the time he was born. Harry was a wizard and yes, he knew, his relatives secret but Harry had no power over them for some reason his gift would not work. Harry was punished for the tiniest of things and if he so much as looked a certain way he was punished.
One would think that well all kids need to be punished in some way when they do not follow the rules, but Harry was punished to the point of no food for a week or having his entire body scream in pain from his uncles beating him inside and out. That is where our story begins with a little boy no bigger than a three old living in a cupboard under the stairs contemplating death.
"Today I will find away to end myself, I cannot live in this retched house another moment." Harry thought as he laid on his small baby mattress. "I just have to get through the whole day and then when they leave with Duddley for his birthday, I'll end it then." Harry said to himself, this was never his home or even felt like a home so why should he stay.
Just as he thought those words a loud crackling noise happened around the house. "I wonder what that was, can't be good for me though I'm sure to be beaten for this." Harry thought just as his cupboard door opened to the face of his Uncle Vernon.
"What Have you done now BOY!? You think you can make all this noise and us not think it was you?" Vernon asked while he grabbed Harry out of is safe place and dragged him upstairs.
"No Uncle V-Vernon I d-didn't do it, I d-don't know what that noise was, I only thought that this wasn't home this was a prison." Harry said hoping that little comment would really get him killed then he wouldn't have to go it himself.
"A PRISON! BOY you have it easy here if you think this place is a prison." Vernon yelled as he through Harry onto the bed in the spare room. "Now get undressed I have need for you and you are going to comply." Vernon said with a ugly smile.
"NOO! Beat me, stab me but anything but that, you'll have to kill me first." Harry yelled and glared at his Uncle who got red in the face.
"You think I care what you want, I am going to have my fill of you, and you are going to comply other wise it will be 100 times worse." Vernon said with a knowing look suggesting that he knew I wanted to die.
Having no other choice Harry got undressed and onto the bed, he prayed he would die today or that someone would save him.
Vernon got on the bed and the proceeded to punched him in the stomach, face and then Harry's most sensitive spot. "P-P-P-Please, Uncle s-s-s-stop." Harry cried out but his uncle was not listening he strapped Harry's arms, legs and neck that were connected to the bed. Harry could not take it his uncles beating much longer, but his uncle continued to pound into him. "So, you like it rough well then how about this?" his uncle said as he grabs a small two-inch pen knife and stick into Harry's hands, feet, and just as he was climaxing, he grabbed the knife and stuck it until his nephew's chest. "Maybe if you live you will have learned from this." His uncle said as he picked Harry up and walked down stair and tossed him into the cupboard.
Harry could hardly breath, he knew he was not going to live through this, he could already feel himself getting cold. "HELP ME PLEASE SOMEONE, JUST HELP ME!" A voice cried in Severus Snape's head while he sat reading his favorite potions book making him look around "Who's there? Who are you?" Severus asked the voice which he thought was quite stupid not like the voice could answer back, or so he thought.
"I-I-I'm Harry P-P-Potter, or t-t-that's what my aunt petunia t-t-told m-me." Said the voice Severus all but jumped in shock how was Harry able to project his thoughts this far? He then remembered that Harry was calling out for help, only someone in major distress could project like that.
"Hello Harry, my name is Severus why do you sound like you're in trouble?" Severus asked though he had a feel that he was not going to like the answer the way Harry was talking it sounded strained. "I t-t-think I'm d-d-dying, my u-u-uncle d-did b-bad t-t-things to m-me and I'm s-s-so c-c-cold." Harry said with a cry Severus was in a panic this child sounded like he was in massive pain but there was not anything he could do unless he figured out where the child was.
"Harry? Do you know where you live?" Severus hoped that he understood what he was asking. "I l-l-live at n-n-number f-f-four private d-d-drive in s-s-surrey the c-c-cupboard u-u-under the s-s-s-stairs." Harry said but then said, "But w-w-why do y-y-you want t-t-to k-k-know, I d-d-don't t-think y-y-you can g-g-get here in t-t-t-time if t-t-that's what y-y-you are t-t-trying to do." He said but his voice sounded ragged like it was getting harder for him to breath.
"Harry, I want you to close your eyes and just focus on your breathing okay and yes I am coming to get you, but I need you to do all you can to stay awake for me ok?" Severus said in a slight panic he got up and yelled for Tom and Lucius.
"Severus what is the meaning of all the yelling?" said Tom and Lucius together but Severus wasn't listening "Harry me and my friends are coming to get you please hold on okay." Severus said in his head praying that Harry could still hear him. "I-I-I'll t-t-try." Harry said in a labored breath.
Severus looked back as his family "come with me now and I will explain everything once we get there but we need to hurry we don't have much time." Severus explained to his Husband and best friend by grabbing both their hands and dragging them outside before apparating to private drive.
"Damnit Severus! A little warning next time, now tell me why you took us to a muggle village, and why you look like you just saw a ghost." Tom asked worried about his husband "Tom I found him?" Severus said as he all but ran towards a house knowing who Severus meant Tom looked at Lucius and both were just as shocked on how Severus found Harry it had been almost seven years.
Severus did not have time to explain so he just looked at them and said, "if we do not get him away from his aunt and uncle right now and to Narcissa he is going to die." Still looking panicked he turned towards the door and not even waiting he blasted the door down. Tom and Lucius ran over to Severus and walked into the house.
Just as they walked into the house a woman with a face like a horse ran out from the living area and screamed. "HOW DARE YOU, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" but then she stopped and investigated the face of the man who turned her sister against her, blood running cold she knew somehow that freak told them where he was. "YOU! I HATE YOU, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE MY SISTER HATE ME! YOU ARE A FREAK GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" she screamed again
"Ahh Tunie, you will shut your face and get out of the way of the door." Severus said as he pointed his wand at her face, he did not have time to do anything but glare at her. Petunia did not realize she had walked over to the cupboard door, but she was not going to move her nephew wasn't going to leave he was her slave.
"Pet what is going on why are these Freaks in our house?" Her husband asked looking ready to kill them. "They want to take our slave away from us, somehow the freak told them were he was." Petunia said with distaste, but she made a mistake a grave one, by calling Harry a slave she just signed hers and her husband's gravestones.
"Oh, Tunie you really shouldn't have said that now I really must do something about this but first you are going to step away from that door or your punishment won't be quick." Severus said with such discussed that he wanted to kill her right then but then he saw the fear in her eyes, and she step away.
"Tom? Lucius? Keep an eye on them also make sure their son is down here as well." Severus said as he walked to the cupboard door and opened it. Severus looked inside the cupboard and what he said turned his blood to ice, how could anyone do this to a child. He looked down at Harry who was still breathing but very shallow, Severus knew he could take him like this it would kill him if he apparated him. "Harry can you look at me?" Severus asked trying to keep his voice as soothing as possible, as bright emerald eyes looked up at him.
Severus gasped and all he wanted to do was grab this child into his arms and beg to be forgiven. "I k-k-know t-t-that voice y-y-you're Sevrus r-r-right?" Harry said with strain "Yes Harry I'm Severus, but Harry I need you to tell me what hurts so I can help as much as I can, before I can take you to get healed the rest of the way." Severus explained to Harry hoping Harry understood at least somewhat of what he was asking.
"My c-c-chest and h-h-head hurt the m-m-most" Harry said his voice being more strained, looking more panicked he thought about what to do.
After a few seconds he turned to his best friend "Lucius you are better at healing, I need you to do all you can to help fix Harry's breathing, just enough for us to apparate him to Cissa." Said Severus as he kept looking at Harry.
"Of, Course Sev but what will you do while I'm doing this?" Lucius asked fearing that these muggles were about to learn that what they did to Harry was going to be the last thing they ever did. "I will be teaching these pieces of scum what true power really is and how badly of a mistake they made." Severus said with such cold malice that Lucius saw them cringe as Severus got up and walked over to them Lucius walked over to Harry to start healing him.
"WAIT! Don't hurt Dudley, h-h-h-he doesn't know better a-a-and d-d-don't m-m-make h-h-him w-w-watch P-p-p-please Sevvy, h-h-he needs h-h-help m-m-m-mentally n-n-not f-f-functioning r-r-right." Said Harry with such strain Severus knew Harry didn't his cousin to be hurt. "I won't hurt him Harry, but he can no longer have parents like this." Severus hoped that he explained that lightly enough "is t-t-there a-a-away t-t-to t-t-take a-a-away h-h-his t-t-thoughts of t-them?" Harry asked looking like was confused by his question.
Severus understood what Harry was asking and did just that but first put his cousin under a sleeping spell before obliviating him of all his memories of his parents and of Harry. "He will be better now Harry I promise, but now I hope you understand I can't let these people off with such a light punishment as your cousin." Severus said with such anger that Harry just nodded and said, "Give them the same punishment I would have gotten had you not been able to find me." Looking not at all worried that he just asked Severus to kill his aunt and uncle before he finally passed out from lack of oxygen.
Severus panicked until Lucius looked at him and said, "its okay he, just passed out from the pain and lack of air to his brain." He continued to heal Harry as best he could, hoping he could repair his lungs enough to stop the bleeding.
Severus looked at the people responsible for the near death of their nephew "Now you, pieces of garbage, who is the one who did this to Harry?" Severus asked already knowing it was the uncle thinking that they would say that Harry did it to himself.
"I did, the freak needed to learn that by disobeying his betters he was going to get punished." Said the man who resembled a walrus Severus was about to say something, but the horse said something first "what have you done to my son? I demand to know right this minute."
Glaring at Severus "if you must know your nephew saved your son by asking me not to kill him for what you've done to him, so I erased his memories of his useless parents and any of Harry." Severus said with a cold glare but of course they don't know how to be quiet, so they continued. "We didn't do anything to that freak that he didn't want for himself."
Said the Walrus looking like he knew better than anyone how to treat Harry. Severus had enough of that man he did not even want to torture him anymore he just wanted him to stop breathing already. "Well seeing as I am in no mood for torture, I am just going to end things now." Severus said with a small smirk which cause both to go pale.
they started to plead and beg to be spared saying just take the freak and go, having heard enough he raised his wand and was about to say the spell when Tom turned to them and said "you don't deserve to live, and because I love my husband to much to allow him to blacken his soul AVADA KADVA" he said pointing his wand at the horse and walrus not giving them a chance to do anything else.
Then turned to Severus, looking sorry for taking his pray away but knowing he could not allow Severus to kill. "Sev, I am sorry I know you wanted to do it, but I just couldn't let you Lily wouldn't have wanted you to destroy yourself for them." Tom said as he walked up to Severus and hugged him hoping that Severus was not too mad.
Lucius was quite proud of himself; he not only stopped the bleeding but was able repair Harry's lungs enough that his breathing was back to a normal state. "Sev, Harry should be healed enough to get him to Cissa at least but based on the injuries he is going to be out of it for a couple of days." Lucius said looking up at his friend praying that Harry would live, because he did not think that Severus could live with himself after finally finding him.
"Lucius thank you but I have one more favor to ask of you, can you take the cousin to an orphanage the best money can buy, also let them know he will need a mind healer when I was taking away his memories I saw that Dudley is also a wizard but he has a block." Severus said nodding at him Lucius went over and picked up the boy and apparated to St. Mungo's Orphanage for the damaged and gifted.
Severus looked down at Harry who was still naked and slightly blue but was breathing at a normal rate that color was starting to come back. He picked Harry up and wrapped him in a large blanket, looking at Tom he nodded and they both walked out of the house and apparated to the Malfoy Manor to get Harry the treatment he truly deserved.