Adam leaned on the doorbell, waiting for Petunia to answer the door. He wondered if she would be as much of a bitch now as she had been when he had come to train Lily. God, she'd been a jealous, spiteful little thing when she found out that not only was Lily a witch who got to go to a special school while Petunia had to attend Stonewall, but Lily was also going to get to travel around the world for the next few summers with her "uncle," Adam. But his descendant, Jarrod, and Rose had each had children from a previous marriage before they married each other: Petunia was Rose's daughter, while Lily was Jarrod's. The two girls shared no blood, even though Rose had become Lily's legal guardian when she married Jarrod. Adam could not take Petunia on those summer trips and still teach Lily the secrets she had needed to learn to survive. Besides, Petunia's behavior towards Lily in those days had been unforgivable. The nasty comments and purposeful destruction of anything Lily left at home when she was away was enough that Adam had to fight the urge to transfigure the brat into a stinkweed.
"Sure to be one of those freaks, leaning on the door buzzer like that. No manners at all." Petunia mumbled as she hurried through the house to answer the door.
"What!" Petunia snapped as she swung the door open. She took one look at the man standing on her front porch, grinning at her, and started to slam the door shut. Adam quickly shoved at the door, causing it to swing back in.
"I'm here for Harry."
"Oh no," Petunia shook her head back and forth. "Absolutely NOT! I will not have you rewarding that little freak by taking him around the world like you did my sister. It wasn't fair that I was left behind and I won't have my son left behind just because you prefer green-eyed freaks to normal people!"
"Mom?" Dudley questioned, stepping out of his bedroom and into the hallway to look down at his mother. Dudley had changed a lot over the school year. He had stopped bullying the other kids, paid more attention to school and stuck to his diet -- well, mostly stuck to it, it was really hard not to have a burger and chips with his friends once in a while -- but despite sticking to the diet, he was still quite obese. The nurse at school had told his parents that he needed to see a doctor, but his parents hadn't taken him. They said he was just big boned and had lost too much weight as it was. Dudley didn't agree but he kept his mouth shut and waited for his cousin to come home from his school, hoping that maybe there was a magical answer to his weight problem. But every time he tried to talk to Harry, one of his parents would show up and make it impossible. Dudley had figured out that being a wizard didn't really make Harry any different, it just meant that he could do stuff other people couldn't. Like his friend Anton speaking a different language or Millie singing her songs. Neither of which were things he could do.
Adam cocked his head to the side and looked at the boy Petunia wanted him to include. Well, well, well… that was certainly a surprise. Petunia must have married a pre-Immortal. While only someone with magic could father a child after their first death, a pre-Immortal could father a child before their first death, though doing that usually meant their Quickening passed on to their child, leaving them mortal and the child a pre-Immortal.
"Alright, Pet. I'll take your son as well." Adam gave Dudley a wink before grinning wolfishly at the woman in front of him.
Petunia was startled. She had begged to go with every summer that Adam had come for Lily and he had always refused with a quiet 'Sorry, Pet,' and off he went with her sister. Lily always sent postcards but never once had she received a souvenir from Adam.
"Take me where, Mom?" Dudley asked, walking down the stairs towards them.
"I'm taking you and Harry to America for the summer." Adam replied to the overly large boy standing in front of him.
"Who are you?"
"You can call me Adam."
"You aren't taking Harry anywhere. That boy has to stay here in the house for his own protection." Petunia interrupted the conversation.
"Yeah, I noticed the blood wards. We can take care of that easily enough." Adam responded before turning back to Dudley. "Go pack for the rest of the summer… Mind you, not too much stuff. We can buy you new clothes as you lose weight and trust me, boy, you are going to lose weight. You're a heart attack waiting to happen at that size." Adam said.
"Yes, sir." Dudley mumbled with a blush before heading back up there stairs.
"Y-you! You bastard! How dare you! That's my son and he's already lost more then enough weight. Too much if you ask me. Need to put some meat on those bones!"
"You're the one who needs meat on your bones, Petunia." Adam stated as he began walking up the stairs to where he felt the magical presence. "A little more meat and maybe people wouldn't notice your striking resemblance to a horse with a baby giraffe neck."
Petunia sputtered and fumed as Adam knocked on the door to Harry's room.