Hello again fellow readers it is I. I'm soooooo sorry I could not update any sooner but you know how it is when you're in college. I have to stay focus and improve my grades. They were not so hot last semester so… Anyways I hope you keep reading my story even if I'm not consistent I will finish all of my stories at one point or another.; )Thank you so much for the reviews I really appreciate them.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. But if I did…you guys wouldn't read it since I'm too poor to get it published lol.

Title: Hope in Dark Corners

Rating: M (for child abuse & Language)

Warning: English is not my first language and I don't have a beta for this story. Some characters may be a OOC even if its not on purpose, I might include slash later on in the story but I'm not sure yet. "There will be attempts at comic relief which is something I'm not good at hehe" umm ignore this on the following chapter.

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"…" talking

'…' thought

#...# Change of Point of view

- Flashback- Flash back

(a/n…) - author's notes

Chapter 3: The rescue!
 # Harry #

He couldn't breath. His chest was in pain from the broken rib. He became aware that he was being drag up the stairs while his head hit every step that was ascended. He opened his eyes and saw that everything was a blur. 'Great my glasses are missing.' Now, not only was his whole body hurt, but he was getting a monster headache. That's when he remembered 'oh shit I didn't finish my shores' and he started to tremble. He knew what was coming next. He knew there had been no way he would be able to finish all his shore but he had still hope. The beating that was bound to happen plagued his thoughts until he realize they had stopped in the entrance to his room.

"Who the hell are you! You must be one of those freaks get the hell out of my house!"

At this his heart somersaulted and grew with hope 'there is a god'

"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU STUPID MUGGLE! Now let go of my son!"

And as soon as the hope had come, it came crashing down. 'No…my dad is death…oh NO!.. IT'S A DEATH EATER'

"HA! If that were true I wouldn't have this burden on me now would I?"

That only seemed to anger the other man more and he lunged towards Uncle Vernon.

Through his haze of pain many things went through his mind. He needed to get away from the imposter but how? His uncle had let go of him but the excruciating pain was still very much present.

Currently the man was pretty much winning the fight wish only cause him to panic more. With Uncle Vernon he already knew what was coming but this stranger was unpredictable. This was all the motivation he needed to start crawling down the hall towards the stairs.

He was about to try his luck at standing up at the base of the stairs when he was startle by a loud bang of closing doors in the house. This caused him to loose his balance and proceed to fall down the stairs and gaining a deep cut on his head as he finally made it to the bottom.

It was then that he was granted with some mercy and his world went black. The last though that crossed his mind, 'Well I guess it's over'.

# Severus #

This was just great. Not only had he found out in a very shocking way that James Potter was alive that day but now he had to go save the son of the man to top it all off.

They had made it to Mrs. Figgs house but left right away to reached the 'delinquent's' house and see what was happening with him. He was not stupid. The whole situation was surreal. Come on, the pamper Harry Potter being dragged like a doll by his own uncle into the house? Not likely.

"We should go in through the back doors where Mrs. Figgs saw Harry", said Remus.

"Right", he sneered.

They walk to the back of house and saw the door. Nothing seems out of place but he open the door delicately and walked inside to see a kitchen. The wolf idiot, though, let the door close with a bang shaking the whole house. It had seemed like it was going to fall to pieces for a moment with all the noise that came after that.

"You incompetent moron now everyone knows we are here!" he whispered harshly.

"I'm sorry" answered the wolf with a bemuse look.

He looked around the house and notice many things like how clean it looked.

'Heh they must have a maid'

The pictures on the wall, though, only held a woman with a horse neck and two overly fat 'things' that could have passed as men at one point. Where was Potter? 'Are we even in the right house?'

"Are you sure this is Potter's house?"

"Completely. I know it looks like he does not live here but that's because is relatives don't like him much, putting it lightly." The wolf looked somewhat sad while saying this. Still there was a strange glint in his eye that showed deeper conflict and anger. He tried to ignore it for now.

They walked through the hallway passing a cupboard on their way. He looked at it for just a second when he heard the commotion going on upstairs.

"Lupin do you hear that?"

"Yes, hurry"

They both ran to go up the stairs only to be met with the sight of Harry lying in a small pool of blood.

He didn't know what to think. The boy looked like he was dead. He knew that the wolf would not be able to deal with him.

"Lupin go up the stairs I have a few potions that could fix him up. Check who else is in the house"

That's when the wolf unfroze from where he had been. "Harry..."

"Lupin Go! I'll deal with him."

# Remus #

Remus took two steps at a time till he reached the top of the stairs. His mind was reeling at the scene he had met at the bottom of the stairs. Still, something had to be done and he knew he could not handle Harry in that state.

The person making that ruckus had to be James. He could hear his friend in a fierce hand combat with, who he assumed was, the inflictor of all the injuries Harry had obtain.

The sight that met him when he got to the remains of Harry's room was unbelievable.

There was James in all his glory beating the crap out of Harry's uncle.

James let the now unconscious fat man fall to the floor and suddenly looked towards him.

"Remus! When did you get here? Where's..."

"There's no time come quickly, Harry felt down the stairs!"

# Severus #

He saw from where the blood was coming and closed the wound on the boys head.

It was really swollen like he had been hit repeatedly there. Looking at the rest of the boy he could see that not all the wounds the boy had were acquired on his fall. Some of the bruises looked very old like they were almost done healing. Others were dark purple with greenish coloring; the impressions of the marks looked like big fists. He would have never believed the boy was Harry Potter if it had not been for the scar on the forehead. He could hear the shallow raspy breathing and investigated only to find that the boy also had a broken rib. Judging by the raspy ness of the breathing it had to have punctured one of his lungs. 'What the hell did they do to you?' Suddenly there was a flickering of eyelids. For a second he could not believe that the boy was conscious but his shock wore off and he jumped into action.

"Pott..Harry I need you to drink some potions to stop any kind of internal bleeding. Don't move." He administered the potions just in time before the boy gave him a bloody smile and fell unconscious again. 'shit he must be bleeding internally the potions should be working already'

He heard running from upstairs so he cleaned the pool of blood. He conjured a stretcher, placed Harry in a body bind in case of spinal injuries, and then moved him in top of it.

"HARRY!"

The wolf and Potter senior came strutting down the stairs almost falling themselves. In truth he had not wanted to see Potter's face once the man saw the damage on his son. The man was about to lose the little control he had left and start crying.

'For Merlin's sake!'

"Potter there's not time for the waterworks we need to get him to Poppy to check for internal injuries"

Taking out a pockey he grabbed the stretcher by a corner and waited for the other two to grab the object. Saying the activation word they were transfer to the Infirmary at Hogwarts.

TBC...

Author's corner:

Aaaaaah I hated how the ending seemed rushed. Hopefully you guys won't hate me so much. Sorry for the lack of faster updates in all my stories and also for how short the chapters are. I have been working hard and doing good in college yay for me! For those of you that read my other stories I 've already started next chapters for them. I'm not sure how long it will take me to post them. If you prefer I write longer chapters then that will mean a lot a lot of waiting since I don't have much free time. Well gtg Please don't forget to REVIEW I really love to here your opinions.