A/n: I'm still holding votes for this to be slash or non-slash. I'm not talking about this part but about the sequel, I will be writing for this fic.

Disclaimer: I do not Harry Potter. I will never own Harry Potter. I will always wish I owned Harry Potter, but I do not.

Warning: Child Abuse, flashbacks, evil people, and other things seem to be running rampant throughout this fic. Take heed and leave if you do not like this type of things.

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The little boy looked up as a big brutish man entered his room. He had been trying to read one of Dudley's books when his room. As he gazed up, he noticed that the man had a belt in his hand and he looked ticked off. "Steal Dudley's things, will you? I'll teach you to respect your betters," the man said in a murderous tone of voice. The boy felt like cowering in fright, but something inside him wouldn't let him.

The man growled at the thing's impertinence, and struck him across the face. It hurt, but he was used to it, so he didn't cry out. The blows continued until the man decided to use the belt. The first strike of the whip hurt. It felt as if a trail of fire was running up his back, and he couldn't get away from it.

It went on and on, the blows never stopping. Soon the child was tittering on the edge of conscience, and than his first words were spoken. "Please, Uncle, stop it. I didn't steal it, please stop," he whispered but the blows didn't stop. He soon fell into a blackness that enveloped his senses.

Bill stared worriedly at Harry. He had watched as the child had twist and thrashed around; nearly waken the sleeping passengers in their shared sleeper car. They had been traveling for three days now, switching from train to train, trying to stay ahead of the Ministry. They were now in Sweden, having crossed over from Denmark and were heading towards Finland. Ultimately, Bill had it planned so that they would arrive in Romania at the Dragon Reserve Charlie worked out.

No matter what, Charlie would do what he could to help Bill, as they were family, but Bill wanted to lay a false trail and hope that Harry would regain conscious. It had been over four or five days, yet not once had the child awakened.

As they had traveled on the train, Bill had read the report of Poppy's and had realized that he would have difficulties caring for Harry by himself if he did have a spinal injury or was blind from all the abuse lavished on him.

Bill smoothed Harry's hair back, and whispered to him that he was safe and that nothing else was going to happen to him, but he needed to wake up. The sleeping child never stirred. Bill sighed and went out into the main car where Draco was still sitting, this time reading a Quidditch magazine Bill had been carrying in his pockets. Not for the first time, Bill was thankful that he had upgraded to First Class Tickets when they had switched trains in France. The food was often and plentiful and no one had said anything about Harry, even though it was obvious something was wrong with him.

"Draco, you really should go to bed soon," Bill quietly spoke.

Draco slowly replied, "I know Bill, but I really don't want to disturb Harry and I really don't feel all that tired." As soon as he said that, Draco yawned, his body refuting his claims of non-tiredness.

Bill smiled and sent Draco into the sleeper car, knowing that the child just had not wanted to go to sleep because of his own bad dreams. He didn't know that the silencing charm was around both Harry's and Draco's bunks and that they would draw comfort from each other.

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Harry opened his eyes, carefully. He was startledthat he couldn't see anything, but figured that it must be night time. It was obvious he was on a train, since he could hear the whistle every now and than. He didn't know if he should feel relieved at the fact that he wasn't in his cupboard or not, but he felt it was safer to stay awake. This way, he would know when the blows were coming and he would be able to get away from his abusers. All he had to do was owl Hagrid and he would be safe at Hogwarts. He felt a strange warm feeling when he thought of Hogwarts. Hogwarts would be his safe haven, his place to escape all the abuse in his life.

However, since Harry's body was still in need of rest and he couldn't force his body to stay awake, the child soon feel a sleep. This time his dreams were of a man soothing away his nightmares and of a boy his age who would protect him in the future.

Reviewers:

Shinigami: The boys will be in Hogwarts eventually, I don't know about bringing in Sirius, and I can't tell you what will happen.

Prophetess Of Hearts: Most definitely. The ministry people have a purpose in future chapters though.

Lady FoxFire: yes, the ministry will go after him. You will find out the extent of Harry's brain damage in future chapters.

Acacia Jules: I'm sorry I didn't update sooner. I was planning too and than I had to a term paper and some other projects and by than I was in this suicide!streak and posted a bunch of one shots for that instead.

Lei Dumbledore: thank-you. See, I got around to it.