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A/N: Again, I'm sorry for the lateness in this chapter. It's nowhere near as late as the last one, but I still could have gotten this one up a lot faster. But no I'm on Thanksgiving Break, so I have a whole week to fart around. Plus, I told Robustus I'd have this chapter up before she gets back from New York. Hopefully, I will. Enjoy and don't forget to leave me a happy love note!
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The next few days passed with surprisingly great ease. Madison had apparently accomplished her mission by scaring the daylights out of the Dursley's. After she had cooled off that day, she told them they had nothing to worry about unless they pissed her off. What surprised Madison and Harry even more was that the Durlsey's were actually keeping up their half of the bargain and cooperating. It ran quite smoothly. Harry and Madison wore normal clothes and acted normally during the day. Harry and Madison both wore comfy blue jeans with a sweater. Madison read quietly in her room or on the couch while Harry played catch out in the back yard with Dudley. Harry found great amusement in playing with Dudley. Dudley was so afraid of Harry that he was wrapped around his finger. Dudley never could really catch. It was more a rousing game of fetch than anything. They got up with the rest of the family at eight-o-clock in the morning and ate breakfast, then went on their merry ways. However, Madison and Harry ruled the night. They did all their school work (and play) during the night. As soon as all three Dursley's could be heard snoring, Harry and Madison transformed to their real selves. That was part of the deal. Some things needed tweaking however. Like Hedwig and Duncan could only be let out at nine at night and had to be back by three in the morning, with all their mail and full stomachs, quietly. Sometimes it was later or earlier depending on company. Some nights, Harry and Madison were just too pooped to work and went to bed at nine. Other nights, they'd be up all night, working by candlelight, then would sleep all day. To Vernon and Petunia's astonishment, they were quite pleased with the results as well. No longer were they embarrassed when guests came over to the house by strange nuisances. Vernon even told admitted to some that they were his niece and nephew. He even told one couple that Harry had been released from St. Brutus's Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys because they had somehow managed to cure the incurable. If you weren't aware of the family's past, you'd probably believe that this family truly loved each other.
Scary part is, they acted like that even when there weren't any guests. Vernon and Petunia begin to treat Madison and Harry as true people. They got decent sized meals and they were allowed to have civilized conversations with them at the dinner table. Yes, shockingly, the Durlsey's were interested to hear how Harry and Madison's day went. Both of them, however, believed it was because of the lack of strange and magic around the house. They had grown accustom to the, well, Muggleness around.
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One night, Harry was sitting out on the living room couch, looking out the window at the stars. He could hear Vernon and Dudley upstairs letting out monstrous snores. He also heard the gentle clicks and taps of Madison typing on her laptop out in the dining room. Just another normal night.
Harry rested his head on his crossed arms that were stretched across the back of Aunt Petunia's overstuffed armchair. He let his eyes wander outside the window idly. He looked up to the millions of stars up above him. Harry smiled briefly as he knew his parents were up there watching over him. He then gazed back down. He noticed how the moon cast an eerie white glow upon everything down in the street. Harry glanced at all the cars and houses that looked totally abandoned and dreary. His eyes scanned over the normal, but still creepy looking sidewalks. There was no sign of life at all. except for the ominous black lump stirring over in the shadow of a bush near the driveway. Harry didn't need to look any closer to realize what it was. It was Sirius. Harry smiled at the cowering dog. He then got up silently so Madison wouldn't notice. He peeked into the dining room to see if she was still in there. She was, and she looked damn near dead. 'I doubt she'd even realize it if Sirius came in here right now and bite her in the butt.' He thought to himself. He tip-toed to the door and opened it. To his misfortune, it creaked.
"Where're you going?" Madison asked lazily from the other room. Harry knew she was tired. so naturally, he couldn't resist a little fun. Plus a test to see exactly how tired she was.
"Oh, I'm going outside for my cigarette break." Harry said as straight forward as he could. He waited for Madison's responce. After a couple of seconds:
"Oh, ok." She said quietly. "Take your jacket, it's cold out." Harry shook his head at the sad state his sister was in and walked outside without grabbing his jacket.
After closing the door behind him, he called out to Sirius. As if on queue, the dog came trotting up to Harry. Harry smiled and sat down on the cold stone step and patted the dog, who licked him on the face in return.
"Hey. I told her about you." Harry started. The Sirius looked up at him curiously. "She didn't seem to happy about it, in fact, she seemed rather scared. But she was ok with it, and she's even going to help hide you from the Ministry. Oh, speaking of which, look what we got for you." Harry reached inside his pocket and pulled out a red dog collar, with tags, and a key attached to it. "Madison and I went ahead and registered you as someone's pet. You now belong to the Dursley's neighbor. Well, sort of. They're never home. They used to live there, but now they spend all their time in the Bahamas. They just couldn't bare to sell that house though. So if a Muggle dog-catcher ever catches you, you'll just be brought to this house."
The dog looked up at him and his eyes twinkled. He motioned for Harry to follow him over to the darkness of a bush. That's where he turned to his normal self.
"Harry, I wasn't planning on transforming but I have to ask." Sirius whispered. "Where did you get the key to that house and how can you be sure I won't get caught?"
Harry smiled slyly.
"I was just playing around in their yard. well, on their front porch on day and I just stumbled upon the spare key hidden in the plant that's next to the door. I decided to just go in to have a look around and the owners of the house have a system where the lights and the television come on every night at eight and go off at ten, except for the upstairs light which go off at eleven."
Sirius shook his head and smiled.
"I won't ask nor scold." Sirius whispered through his grin. "But you are immensely strange and I thank you for being such a snoop."
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The next morning, Harry rolled out of bed a bit earlier to watch the sunrise. As he walked downstairs, he noticed a very dim light coming from the dining room. Harry cocked his head to one side curiously. Was Petunia up already? He crept quietly and very cautiously towards the dining room door and peeked his head in. It wasn't Petunia. It was Madison. She was still awake and working on her laptop. She couldn't have looked worse. It looked as though she hadn't even blinked since the owls came home earlier that morning. Harry was about to walk in to console her, when her eyes suddenly popped wide open. Madison was practically drooling in anticipation as she leapt up from her chair and bounded past Harry. Madison came to a sudden hault at the door to grab her long black robe. Harry was still standing by the dining room when he decided to speak up. "Erm, Madison, where are you going?" Harry asked hesitantly. Madison turned toward him with a mad gleam in her eye and smiled wickedly. Without another word, she dashed out the door. Harry ran to the door after her, but she was already in her car and gone. 'Shit.' Harry thought to himself. 'She's gone mad.'
Harry rushed to the phone and did the only thing he could think of. He called the Muggle Police. He gave them her license plate number and description and told them she's a mentally ill relative who could be a potential hazard to strangers. It was the only thing he knew to do. God only knew what was flowing through Madison right now. She was sleep deprived and caffeine high. The last thing she needed was to be seen in public wearing her black robe waving a wand around in the air. She probably would end up hurting someone, she was so tired. Madison probably didn't know what she was doing. Hopefully the police would find her and bring her home before anything did happen.
Harry had waited at the breakfast table with the Dursleys for nearly an hour before there was a knock at the door. Harry jumped up and ran to the door. He opened it and saw to police men behind a fuming Madison in cuffs.
"Thank you so much, officers." Harry pretended to be overly worried. "She's quite sick you see; doesn't know what she's doing."
Vernon walked over and began to talk to the police. Harry watched from behind as Madison mouthed to Harry, "Get my wand, NOW" In two seconds flat, Harry was back with Madison's wand, which he stealthy handed over to her.
"Alohomora" Madison whispered into her wand without Vernon or the cops noticing. She then jumped out and pushed Vernon away and faced the police. She raised her wand to the both of them
"What do you think you think you're." one had tried to ask.
"OBLIVIATE!" Madison bellowed. An great white light burst from the end of her wand and flew at the two men and threw them a bit off balance. She then added rather calmly while rubbing her forhead: "You two gentlemen only stopped by to inquire about the neighbors missing cat, Snowball." She paused for a moment for a reaction.
"Oh yes, that's right." said the officer on the left. "Has there been any sitings of Snowball?"
"Nope, sorry, can't say that there have been." replied Madison lazily, still rubbing her forehead, then her eyes.
"Alright madam." said the other officer on the right as he tipped his hat. "Thank you for your time." And with that, the police walked back to their car and drove off, still looking slightly puzzled. Just as Madison slammed the door and turned around, Vernon was on her already.
"WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?" he roared furiously. "YOU PROBABLY WOKE THE WHOLE DAMN NEIGHBORHOOD! GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT'LL HAPPEN IF PEOPLE FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF FREAKS YOU REALLY ARE!!"
Madison raised her wand right at her uncles forehead.
"Look, now is not the time to be in the mood to fuck around with me. You want me to just kill you right now? Because I swear upon everything holy that I will." She hissed quietly. Vernon shrunk back as all the blood ran out of his face. "I didn't think so. Now if you want to be yelling and screeching at someone, it should be Harry. It's because of him that the police brought me home. However, you touch my brother, you will undoubtedly get the butt end of my rage. Let me deal with him on my own."
She then turned and pointed her wand at her brother. "You." Madison hissed. Just then, Vernon began to bark again.
"What about the neighbors? What will they think?"
Madison whipped her wand back at her Uncle. "I will take care of them. Now go and eat breakfast and let me deal with Harry." Vernon obeyed and harried Petunia back into the kitchen. "You too, Porky." She snapped at Dudley.
"Upstairs." Madison pointed.
Once upstairs, Harry met the ultimate pissed Madison. She pushed him down onto the bed and took his wand before he even had the chance to make a snatch for it.
"Do you have any idea what you just did?" She said calmly, but with bitter poison in her voice. "Or better put, do you have any idea what you just RUINED?" Harry remained silent. He didn't know whether to answer or not. "ANSWER ME!"
"I didn't know what to do, Madison." Harry blurted out. "You just took off like a bat out of hell. You were really sleep deprived and running on caffeine. God only knows what you were doing! I called the police to get you before you hurt someone."
"Oh, you thought I went raving mad, did you? Well, do you really want to know what I was doing?!" Harry nodded. Madison strode over to the desk and picked up her laptop then turned and tossed it down on the bed. "Look at that. Do you recognize that?"
It was a miniture map of Privet Drive and other roads around the neighbor hood. Harry nodded his head. Madison then pointed her finger to a small square that was labeled "Dursley".
"That's where we are. Now guess who I saw over here." Madison asked, pointed to a square about to blocks away. "Come on. guess."
Harry just shook his head.
"Peter Pettigrew." Madison slammed the top of the laptop shut. She put her hand to her mouth and began to pace over by the window. "I went out to try to catch him. I was just outside the house he was in when the cops came and hauled me off. I put up a good fight, mind you. I probably even caused a scene, but all I wanted to do was to just surprise and capture Peter. If I had, then I could turn him into the Ministry and get Sirius's name cleared and once that would happen, then we could move in with him and we'd be through with this Dursley bullshit. There'd be no more pretending. We could just be who we are and be loved for it. This nightmare was about to come to an end until you took it and smashed it to pieces by calling the cops. It's all gone now all because you mistrusted me. Peter's gone now. I had him right there and you ruined it. Why can't you just mind your own business, Harry? Why can't you trust me?" Madison pushed her back up to the wall then sank down to the floor where she held her head in her hands.
Harry sat with his mouth agape. Part of him wanted to fight back and blame her for just not telling him, but a bigger part just wanted to apologize. Harry got up and slowly walked over to his sister.
"I'm sorry." He said honestly. "If I had known."
"Harry, there's no use in it now." Madison crocked sadly as she looked up at him. "Just leave"
She put her head back down. Harry just did the only thing that made sense. He left. ~*~*~
A/N: OOO. *dun dun dunnnn* Dramatic, eh? I'd be pretty pissed off too. Wow, I'm really pleased with this chapter. It turned out better than I thought it would. What do you think? *hint hint* Tell me. by.. a. REVIEW! . I'd really like you to. ^_^
A/N: Again, I'm sorry for the lateness in this chapter. It's nowhere near as late as the last one, but I still could have gotten this one up a lot faster. But no I'm on Thanksgiving Break, so I have a whole week to fart around. Plus, I told Robustus I'd have this chapter up before she gets back from New York. Hopefully, I will. Enjoy and don't forget to leave me a happy love note!
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The next few days passed with surprisingly great ease. Madison had apparently accomplished her mission by scaring the daylights out of the Dursley's. After she had cooled off that day, she told them they had nothing to worry about unless they pissed her off. What surprised Madison and Harry even more was that the Durlsey's were actually keeping up their half of the bargain and cooperating. It ran quite smoothly. Harry and Madison wore normal clothes and acted normally during the day. Harry and Madison both wore comfy blue jeans with a sweater. Madison read quietly in her room or on the couch while Harry played catch out in the back yard with Dudley. Harry found great amusement in playing with Dudley. Dudley was so afraid of Harry that he was wrapped around his finger. Dudley never could really catch. It was more a rousing game of fetch than anything. They got up with the rest of the family at eight-o-clock in the morning and ate breakfast, then went on their merry ways. However, Madison and Harry ruled the night. They did all their school work (and play) during the night. As soon as all three Dursley's could be heard snoring, Harry and Madison transformed to their real selves. That was part of the deal. Some things needed tweaking however. Like Hedwig and Duncan could only be let out at nine at night and had to be back by three in the morning, with all their mail and full stomachs, quietly. Sometimes it was later or earlier depending on company. Some nights, Harry and Madison were just too pooped to work and went to bed at nine. Other nights, they'd be up all night, working by candlelight, then would sleep all day. To Vernon and Petunia's astonishment, they were quite pleased with the results as well. No longer were they embarrassed when guests came over to the house by strange nuisances. Vernon even told admitted to some that they were his niece and nephew. He even told one couple that Harry had been released from St. Brutus's Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys because they had somehow managed to cure the incurable. If you weren't aware of the family's past, you'd probably believe that this family truly loved each other.
Scary part is, they acted like that even when there weren't any guests. Vernon and Petunia begin to treat Madison and Harry as true people. They got decent sized meals and they were allowed to have civilized conversations with them at the dinner table. Yes, shockingly, the Durlsey's were interested to hear how Harry and Madison's day went. Both of them, however, believed it was because of the lack of strange and magic around the house. They had grown accustom to the, well, Muggleness around.
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One night, Harry was sitting out on the living room couch, looking out the window at the stars. He could hear Vernon and Dudley upstairs letting out monstrous snores. He also heard the gentle clicks and taps of Madison typing on her laptop out in the dining room. Just another normal night.
Harry rested his head on his crossed arms that were stretched across the back of Aunt Petunia's overstuffed armchair. He let his eyes wander outside the window idly. He looked up to the millions of stars up above him. Harry smiled briefly as he knew his parents were up there watching over him. He then gazed back down. He noticed how the moon cast an eerie white glow upon everything down in the street. Harry glanced at all the cars and houses that looked totally abandoned and dreary. His eyes scanned over the normal, but still creepy looking sidewalks. There was no sign of life at all. except for the ominous black lump stirring over in the shadow of a bush near the driveway. Harry didn't need to look any closer to realize what it was. It was Sirius. Harry smiled at the cowering dog. He then got up silently so Madison wouldn't notice. He peeked into the dining room to see if she was still in there. She was, and she looked damn near dead. 'I doubt she'd even realize it if Sirius came in here right now and bite her in the butt.' He thought to himself. He tip-toed to the door and opened it. To his misfortune, it creaked.
"Where're you going?" Madison asked lazily from the other room. Harry knew she was tired. so naturally, he couldn't resist a little fun. Plus a test to see exactly how tired she was.
"Oh, I'm going outside for my cigarette break." Harry said as straight forward as he could. He waited for Madison's responce. After a couple of seconds:
"Oh, ok." She said quietly. "Take your jacket, it's cold out." Harry shook his head at the sad state his sister was in and walked outside without grabbing his jacket.
After closing the door behind him, he called out to Sirius. As if on queue, the dog came trotting up to Harry. Harry smiled and sat down on the cold stone step and patted the dog, who licked him on the face in return.
"Hey. I told her about you." Harry started. The Sirius looked up at him curiously. "She didn't seem to happy about it, in fact, she seemed rather scared. But she was ok with it, and she's even going to help hide you from the Ministry. Oh, speaking of which, look what we got for you." Harry reached inside his pocket and pulled out a red dog collar, with tags, and a key attached to it. "Madison and I went ahead and registered you as someone's pet. You now belong to the Dursley's neighbor. Well, sort of. They're never home. They used to live there, but now they spend all their time in the Bahamas. They just couldn't bare to sell that house though. So if a Muggle dog-catcher ever catches you, you'll just be brought to this house."
The dog looked up at him and his eyes twinkled. He motioned for Harry to follow him over to the darkness of a bush. That's where he turned to his normal self.
"Harry, I wasn't planning on transforming but I have to ask." Sirius whispered. "Where did you get the key to that house and how can you be sure I won't get caught?"
Harry smiled slyly.
"I was just playing around in their yard. well, on their front porch on day and I just stumbled upon the spare key hidden in the plant that's next to the door. I decided to just go in to have a look around and the owners of the house have a system where the lights and the television come on every night at eight and go off at ten, except for the upstairs light which go off at eleven."
Sirius shook his head and smiled.
"I won't ask nor scold." Sirius whispered through his grin. "But you are immensely strange and I thank you for being such a snoop."
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The next morning, Harry rolled out of bed a bit earlier to watch the sunrise. As he walked downstairs, he noticed a very dim light coming from the dining room. Harry cocked his head to one side curiously. Was Petunia up already? He crept quietly and very cautiously towards the dining room door and peeked his head in. It wasn't Petunia. It was Madison. She was still awake and working on her laptop. She couldn't have looked worse. It looked as though she hadn't even blinked since the owls came home earlier that morning. Harry was about to walk in to console her, when her eyes suddenly popped wide open. Madison was practically drooling in anticipation as she leapt up from her chair and bounded past Harry. Madison came to a sudden hault at the door to grab her long black robe. Harry was still standing by the dining room when he decided to speak up. "Erm, Madison, where are you going?" Harry asked hesitantly. Madison turned toward him with a mad gleam in her eye and smiled wickedly. Without another word, she dashed out the door. Harry ran to the door after her, but she was already in her car and gone. 'Shit.' Harry thought to himself. 'She's gone mad.'
Harry rushed to the phone and did the only thing he could think of. He called the Muggle Police. He gave them her license plate number and description and told them she's a mentally ill relative who could be a potential hazard to strangers. It was the only thing he knew to do. God only knew what was flowing through Madison right now. She was sleep deprived and caffeine high. The last thing she needed was to be seen in public wearing her black robe waving a wand around in the air. She probably would end up hurting someone, she was so tired. Madison probably didn't know what she was doing. Hopefully the police would find her and bring her home before anything did happen.
Harry had waited at the breakfast table with the Dursleys for nearly an hour before there was a knock at the door. Harry jumped up and ran to the door. He opened it and saw to police men behind a fuming Madison in cuffs.
"Thank you so much, officers." Harry pretended to be overly worried. "She's quite sick you see; doesn't know what she's doing."
Vernon walked over and began to talk to the police. Harry watched from behind as Madison mouthed to Harry, "Get my wand, NOW" In two seconds flat, Harry was back with Madison's wand, which he stealthy handed over to her.
"Alohomora" Madison whispered into her wand without Vernon or the cops noticing. She then jumped out and pushed Vernon away and faced the police. She raised her wand to the both of them
"What do you think you think you're." one had tried to ask.
"OBLIVIATE!" Madison bellowed. An great white light burst from the end of her wand and flew at the two men and threw them a bit off balance. She then added rather calmly while rubbing her forhead: "You two gentlemen only stopped by to inquire about the neighbors missing cat, Snowball." She paused for a moment for a reaction.
"Oh yes, that's right." said the officer on the left. "Has there been any sitings of Snowball?"
"Nope, sorry, can't say that there have been." replied Madison lazily, still rubbing her forehead, then her eyes.
"Alright madam." said the other officer on the right as he tipped his hat. "Thank you for your time." And with that, the police walked back to their car and drove off, still looking slightly puzzled. Just as Madison slammed the door and turned around, Vernon was on her already.
"WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?" he roared furiously. "YOU PROBABLY WOKE THE WHOLE DAMN NEIGHBORHOOD! GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT'LL HAPPEN IF PEOPLE FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF FREAKS YOU REALLY ARE!!"
Madison raised her wand right at her uncles forehead.
"Look, now is not the time to be in the mood to fuck around with me. You want me to just kill you right now? Because I swear upon everything holy that I will." She hissed quietly. Vernon shrunk back as all the blood ran out of his face. "I didn't think so. Now if you want to be yelling and screeching at someone, it should be Harry. It's because of him that the police brought me home. However, you touch my brother, you will undoubtedly get the butt end of my rage. Let me deal with him on my own."
She then turned and pointed her wand at her brother. "You." Madison hissed. Just then, Vernon began to bark again.
"What about the neighbors? What will they think?"
Madison whipped her wand back at her Uncle. "I will take care of them. Now go and eat breakfast and let me deal with Harry." Vernon obeyed and harried Petunia back into the kitchen. "You too, Porky." She snapped at Dudley.
"Upstairs." Madison pointed.
Once upstairs, Harry met the ultimate pissed Madison. She pushed him down onto the bed and took his wand before he even had the chance to make a snatch for it.
"Do you have any idea what you just did?" She said calmly, but with bitter poison in her voice. "Or better put, do you have any idea what you just RUINED?" Harry remained silent. He didn't know whether to answer or not. "ANSWER ME!"
"I didn't know what to do, Madison." Harry blurted out. "You just took off like a bat out of hell. You were really sleep deprived and running on caffeine. God only knows what you were doing! I called the police to get you before you hurt someone."
"Oh, you thought I went raving mad, did you? Well, do you really want to know what I was doing?!" Harry nodded. Madison strode over to the desk and picked up her laptop then turned and tossed it down on the bed. "Look at that. Do you recognize that?"
It was a miniture map of Privet Drive and other roads around the neighbor hood. Harry nodded his head. Madison then pointed her finger to a small square that was labeled "Dursley".
"That's where we are. Now guess who I saw over here." Madison asked, pointed to a square about to blocks away. "Come on. guess."
Harry just shook his head.
"Peter Pettigrew." Madison slammed the top of the laptop shut. She put her hand to her mouth and began to pace over by the window. "I went out to try to catch him. I was just outside the house he was in when the cops came and hauled me off. I put up a good fight, mind you. I probably even caused a scene, but all I wanted to do was to just surprise and capture Peter. If I had, then I could turn him into the Ministry and get Sirius's name cleared and once that would happen, then we could move in with him and we'd be through with this Dursley bullshit. There'd be no more pretending. We could just be who we are and be loved for it. This nightmare was about to come to an end until you took it and smashed it to pieces by calling the cops. It's all gone now all because you mistrusted me. Peter's gone now. I had him right there and you ruined it. Why can't you just mind your own business, Harry? Why can't you trust me?" Madison pushed her back up to the wall then sank down to the floor where she held her head in her hands.
Harry sat with his mouth agape. Part of him wanted to fight back and blame her for just not telling him, but a bigger part just wanted to apologize. Harry got up and slowly walked over to his sister.
"I'm sorry." He said honestly. "If I had known."
"Harry, there's no use in it now." Madison crocked sadly as she looked up at him. "Just leave"
She put her head back down. Harry just did the only thing that made sense. He left. ~*~*~
A/N: OOO. *dun dun dunnnn* Dramatic, eh? I'd be pretty pissed off too. Wow, I'm really pleased with this chapter. It turned out better than I thought it would. What do you think? *hint hint* Tell me. by.. a. REVIEW! . I'd really like you to. ^_^