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Chapter Two, Leaving Home

Mrs. Potter's POV

"How could they treat her like that! James was right (if this is that Lily girl). I have to get her out of here tonight! She doesn't deserve any of this!"

"Who was that Dawn?" Mrs. Potter asked innocently.

"Our niece, Lily." Mr. Evans spat.

"We are very sorry for how she acted, we have told her time and time again how to act in front of guests but well, she doesn't seem to want to listen." Mrs. Evans said.

"That is quite alright. I'm sorry that we came without any notice but it was a matter great importance…" Mrs. Potter started to explain.

"For her anyway, come John let the women talk here, why don't we go somewhere else." Mr. Potter said. He had no idea what Mrs. Potter had in mind and he did not want to get caught in the middle of it. Whatever it was, it was probably very complicated.

John and Harry walked away chuckling at the women and starting in their own conversation already.

"Dawn," Mrs. Potter started, "this may seem strange to ask but, well anyway, here goes nothing. I must ask anyway. One of our servants died recently and well, umm, I was wondering if you knew anywhere that I could hire one from? A good one, NOT one that would run away or do anything foolish like that…"

"Hmmm. I don't know of any particular place but… Well… hmmm… What about Lily? She has been extremely disobedient to us lately, and we have had to punish her several times. We are getting quite sick of having to punish her frankly, and this would be the ultimate lesson for her…. But I can't, no, I don't think that I can… she is family! I can't let her go I would have no reassurance that she would be safe! Anyway, how would she be cough, sorry I have a bit of a cold, paid? I don't want her to suffer that much; she IS after all, my niece. She was placed in my care at the age of four, when her parents died, I don't want any harm to come to her…"

"Lily? Was she that girl who answered the door? She seemed rather… umm…" Mrs. Potter had no idea how to word it so that she could have Lily come home with her. That girl just couldn't stay here! She was mistreated so badly! She had to leave…

"I know what you mean, well if you do want to take her she could be ready to leave tonight. I must warn you though; she can be very disobedient. You can't let her wander about without a close eye on her and well umm. Well this one boy that she hangs around with, he is in a gang, does drugs, etc… and he just won't leave her alone! We have had to punish her a number of times because of him. But she normally keeps to herself and is very obedient."

"Well if you're sure that she can… I don't want to break up family…"

"Oh, it's no trouble at all. Really! I'll go up now and tell her to pack and tell her a few things…"

Lily carefully laid herself down on her bed; she didn't want to break open any of the sores that had formed. She heard lots of muffled conversation. She was quite shocked to hear her name come up several times. She heard the words died… disobedient… family… niece… gang. Must be talking about me, how my parents "died" when I was 4, how disobedient I am but I am their family, their niece. And how unfortunately I'm in a gang, doing drugs… WHAT A BUNCH OF LIES! I hate it when they do that, I just hate it!! Then Lily heard the scrapping of chairs and someone say "I'll go… tell her."

Dawn Evans opened Lily's door and barged into the room with an evil smirk on her face. "Looks like we're finally going to get you out of this house, for good!" What! Oh no! Please don't say it! NO!! "It seems that one of Mrs. Potter's servants died," Oh please no! NO! NO! "And they need another one, I told them that you would be more than happy to and that you would be packed and ready to go with them tonight. So start pack-"

"THIS IS JAMES POTTER'S DOING!!!! Why oh why!!" Lily started to sob uncontrollably. Staying here and getting beaten all the time was much, MUCH better than going to the Potters, near gulp James!

"SHUT UP YOU STUPID GIRL!!! And don't talk back or interrupt me!" Mrs. Evans shouted as she slapped Lily hard across the face. Mrs. Evans left and went downstairs leaving Lily sobbing sprawled across the floor.

"Dawn," Mrs. Potter started, "would you mind if I went up to go speak to, oh what was her name again, oh yes, Lily?"

"Nah, go ahead, upstairs, first door on the left."

Mrs. Potter walked up the stairs and opened the door preparing for the worst. There was Lily, sobbing into her hands, sprawled on the floor with tears like blood pouring down her face.

"Oh my word…" Mrs. Potter whispered. "Lily, shhhh, it's ok, Lily Evans? Hogwarts right?"

"Y-y-yes, I-I go there," Lily managed to say between tears.

"Ah, good." Mrs. Potter took out her wand, "PACK!" she cried causing all of Lily's books, clothes, her telescope, scales, potion ingredients, quills, etc… to sour into Lily's trunk. Lily, not noticing anything going on around her, just sat there sobbing, not saying a word. Mrs. Potter went about the room grabbing everything that DIDN'T go into the trunk, the rest of her clothes, her muggle books, all the odds and ends, and placing them in the trunk which she had enlarged on the inside so that everything would fit. When she had finished, all that was left in the room was the bed, the dressers, a chair and the desk. After casting another spell to make the trunk light and easy to carry she walked over to Lily.

"Lily dear, you have to get up and bring your trunk downstairs, don't forget your wand now, I already packed everything for you. Go on now."

Lily got up slowly with a tear stained face and eyes brimmed with more tears ready to fall, lifted up her trunk and brought it downstairs. Mrs. Potter watched her go and sighed. What a poor girl! She deserved better that what she had. I am glad that James convinced us to go here tonight. I just hope I did the right thing in having her come with us home…

"Now Harry. On September 1st, she err, she has to catch her train at the Kings Cross-Station to go to school. Don't worry about going in to see if she gets on the right train, just drop her off at the entrance and she'll find it on her own. Don't forget to hand out punishments, if you go to easy on her she might slack off, therefore making her more disobedient. In late August, we always give her a days break so that she can make sure she has all of her school supplies. Just drop her off in the middle of London in the morning, and pick her up at oh 4:00 or so. That is all the time she takes, and if she takes longer, punish her…" Mr. Evans kept going on and on about certain "rules" that they had for Lily, and how they shouldn't feel bad about punishing her, she "needs to be punished often or she never learns". Lily could tell that the Potters were paying no attention to this little speech of his. James went to the same school as her so they know where the train was, when it left, where she needed to get her school supplies. Lily also knew that they wouldn't punish her, after all, if they did James would probably yell at them for doing so.

She just stood there crying, and sobbing. She was furious with James, HOW COULD HER DO THIS? I TOLD HIM TO LEAVE THE MATTER ALONE! I CAN HANDLE IT ON MY OWN; I DON'T NEED SOME STUPID PRAT'S HELP! Lily was also furious with her parents, How could they do this to her! It was one thing beating her THAT she could deal with, but well, basically selling her off to first bidder? That was unthinkable! Unheard of! Why do they do these things to her?

"LILLIAN EVANS!" This snapped Lily back to attention, especially the slap she received across the face. "GO NOW!"

Lily, unknowingly guided by Mrs. Potter, trudged out the door and to the Potter's waiting car. She put her trunk in the back of the car and climbed into the backseat.

On the way to the Potter's home, Mrs. Potter kept telling Lily, "Don't worry dear, we don't expect you to do any work. And we won't hurt you in anyway. We're going to treat you just as we treat our son and his friend Sirius. When we get – "

"I –I'm s-sorry for interrupting Mrs. P-Potter, but can err, can James not know that I'm here? Because well, um, well, yeah. OH I hope that you understand…"

"Of course I understand, of course. I have an idea that might work. You see, to keep James and Sirius out of trouble, we have put them on separate ends of the living quarters. Sirius is on the far right, and James the far left. I was thinking of having Sirius moved to the room across the hall from James and then you could move to where Sirius was staying and together you and I can redecorate the place! So then you and James (of course as well as Sirius) will be as far away from each other as you possibly can. And if you want, we could have the your meals sent up to you (through the house elf halls of course). How does that sound dear?"

"That sounds alright"

"Good, good. Now were almost there. Why don't you stay here in the car and we will move Sirius right away, alright dear?"

"Umm, ok." Lily was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't even see the Potter mansion. It was the biggest Mansion in the whole country, followed by of course the Malfoy mansion.

There is the second chapter! hope that you liked it!