Disclaimer: See chapter 1

Date Started: May 5, 2005
Date Finished: May 15, 2005
Date Posted: May 17, 2005

Chapter 2: Of Escaping and of Findings

Lily slept till seven that day and when she awoke it was dark outside. She was hungry, have not eaten anything since this morning, but she was use to not eating since her dad forget often to let her eat so she just dealt with the strong feeling of emptiness in her stomach. Lily's first though when she awoke was to retrieve her letter and figure out how to get to the boarding school. Her dad shouldn't be hope for another hour; it was now her sister, Petunia that worried her… Lily slowly crept downstairs. By luck, her letter and the envelope were still on the kitchen table. As she crept into the kitchen, she failed to notice her sister in the far corner, "What do you want loser?" she asked. Over the years Lily had learned it's best to ignore what Petunia. And almost every other sentence that she spoke was a lie. Lily snatched the envelope and ran back up to her room as fast as she could.

Once back upstairs, Lily re-read the letter, "I'm a witch…Wow." She hadn't really registered all that was happening, she continued to read out loud, "Level One: Beginner Poliamas' Potions, Ilin's Common Charms… where the hell am I going to get these books? I highly doubt I am going to find these items in London's markets". Lily decided to worry about it later, for now she was going to get out of this house and according to the letter, she had exactly one week before school starts. Lily ran over to the window, hearing the garage door open. Her father was home, "Perfect" she said with the up most sarcasm. She grabbed what few belongings that mattered to her, a picture of her mother, her favorite book 'Old Magic' (A/N: awesome book... highly recommend it) and stuffed them into a bag.

Lily ran out of her room and down the stairs and out the front door. Her luck seemed to be changing, her father hadn't seen her, 'Wow… that was easy…Maybe too easy". She quickly dismissed the thought and ran down the street. When she was a good mile away, she slowed down a little, but still kept a fast pace. 'Now where to go' she thought. Lily hadn't actually thought this far into her plan. She never really expected to be able to get out of the house.

Lily continued to walk around going no where in particular, but when the first rays of sun shone threw the early morning clouds, she was too tired to go on. Lily lay her head down on a nearby porch step and fell asleep.

Lily awoke, what felt like minutes later, but really when she looked up the sun was almost directly above her. "You awake", a female's voice told her. Lily answered a shaky yes. "Then do you mind going home, I have company coming over in an hour", the lady's voice told her.

"Ss-sorry" Lily replied

"Ugh... Let me guess you don't have a home?" Lily slowly shook her head yes. "Figures… wait right here" The lady walked into the house only to return a good five minutes later, "Ok, they're on their way. Do you think you could wait by the mailbox for them?"

"Who?" Lily asked.

"Why the CSO orphanage of course. They're coming to pick you up. Now go wait by the street."

Lily went to the end of the driveway and waited. It felt like her whole fate depended on what will happen next. She had a strange urge to run... fast, but stayed where she was. Sure enough twenty minutes later a van pulled up. The van looked strangely like a dog catching van with a metal gate lining right behind the driver and passage seat. The vetachle gave off a bad feeling and so did the man who stepped out. He was big maybe six feet tall and was extremely wide. He looked as if he hadn't shaved in years. The man asked, "You, the girl?" Lily not trusting her voice only nodded. "Com'on," he said as he grabbed Lily's wrists, and dragged her to the back of the truck and pushed her in.

At first, Lily thought she was just in a small, dark compartment alone. She failed to miss the frail figure in the corner. It spoke, "You must try to get in 'B'".

Lily being utterly confused said, "What."

"When you get there, they separate everyone into two groups. Most of the strong boys and big girls are put into B. and the pretty petite girls and some good looking boys are put into A, You want to be in B… trust me"

"Why what happens", Lily was scared, this did not sound like an ordinary orphanage.

"Kids put in B just work, right now they have them building a new wing on the orphanage with bricks. Be careful though, working in the sun all day, do get them testy and fights between kids brake out often."

"And A," Lily was too curious now, she didn't realize how pale the other girl had gotten.

"They… they are to 'fragile' to work… they do other things"

"Please, can you tell me?" Lily really wanted to know what was so bad that this girl wouldn't tell her.

"They... they... they rape them" she spurted out the end, not really wanting to say it, pretty much because she pitted Lily. Lily was incredibly small for her age and extremely pretty. Alexis (A/N: sorry, I don't mention her name till later, but I needed to call her something) was almost positive she would be put in group A, but warned her anyway. Maybe this girl could meet the right people when she got there.

"Oh – how – how do you know this?"

"I've been there, I tried to escape. I was gone for two days, but as you can see they found me."

"Oh."

They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a while. Lily was contemplating what may or may not happen when she got there and what she could do to get into group B. Lily realized she had a good chance of being in group A, but being so little she didn't really understand what it meant to be 'raped'. So there was other thing on her mind like still having to find someone who could help her get her supplies… another witch or wizard.

"How old are you" Lily asked?

"15"

"Oh, do they let you go to school"

"Not everyone, just some people who go to a boarding school." 'They want to get rid of us any chance they get', Alexis thought.

"Do you go though?"

"Oh... yea I go... why?"

"I... uhmm... was just wondering... what's the name of your school?" Lily hadn't been in a school since she was eight. Her father believed she no longer needed an education, but that hadn't stopped Lily from learning. When her father was away, she always went to the public library. Lily ended up teaching herself to read and write. None the less, she was still curious about Alexis' school.

"Uhmm... Hogwarts... it's not very popular... I highly doubt you've heard of it... it's located in the heart of London"

"Really! You go to Hogwarts!"

"Yeaa... you heard of it?" Alexis was pretty sure now that Lily was a witch herself or knew someone who was.

"Yes, I got a letter... are you a witch," Lily whispered the last word as if it was a precious secret.

"Yea, I'm in 5th year. My name is Alexis Bordenare"

"I'm 11. My name is Lily Evans"

"Well, it's very nice to meet you, Miss. Evans"

Lily laughed. It felt weird to her, she hadn't laughed in so long, and "The pleasure is all mine, Miss. Borenare." They both laughed this time; it made it easier to withstand the upcoming hardships to know now that there was a friend by your side.

"Do you have all your supplies? How do we get to the station? Is there really a platform called 9 ¾?"

"Hold up there, one question at a time. No, we are not aloud to get our supplies, but I usually sneak out to Diagon Ally with my best friend the night before school starts and then he drives me to the station. He's not a wizard, but he is the only person I trust in this fucked up world. And yes, there is really a platform called 9 ¾, but I'll leave it a secret how we get on it".

"Oh wow, do you think your friend will mind one more passenger?"

"Ahh, hell no. And if you want I can loan you some of my books, so you can get a head start, ok?"

"Cool," As much fun Lily was having now with Alexis (even if they were in the back of a dark truck going to a horrible orphanage), Lily didn't trust Alexis with her life story. So she didn't tell her about her dad and never having an education. Lily didn't think she would ever tell anyone.

Very suddenly the car stopped and Lily and Alexis lurched forward. "We must be here", was all Alexis said, all the friendliness gone from her voice and now was as cold as stone.

The back door slid open and the sunlight streamed into the car, blinding the girls for a second. "Lady's out", said a male's voice. This man was different form the one before. He looked younger maybe eighteen. He had a nice build, wasn't too skinny or too fat. His brown locks fell into his face covering one of his sea green eyes. He seemed friendly and looked as if he wished he was miles away from where he stood. "Sorry, Lexi I tried as best I could, the dogs still picked up your sent".

"It's ok; I'll be gone in a few days any how. Oh, Blaise meet Lily. Lily this is Blaise, he is who I was talking about before".

"Hello", said Blaise as he put out a hand to shake.

Lily flinched visibly and both noticed, yet ignored it when she shook his hand anyway.

"Lily goes to Hogwarts too. Blaise, do you think you take her to Diagon Ally as well?"

"Of course anything for a pretty lady".

Lily smiled she liked this guy; she managed a small, "thank you" before blushing deeply.

The gruff man from before, showed up suddenly and said, "Com'on no socializing. Alexis you know where to go. Blaise take the new one up to the warden's office"

"Yes sir" Blaise and Alexis replayed at the same time.

As soon as the man was gone, Alexis bent down, so she was eye level with Lily, "All right Lily, I'll see you later ok" and then hugged her tightly. Then as she stood up and hugged Blaise she whispered in his ear, "Blaise, help her please".

"I will ok. The warden said I get to decide where the next one goes. He said the groups are even, so it doesn't matter too much. I'll try my best to get her in B; she just might have to prove herself"

"Thanks," Alexis whispered back as she broke away. "Lily, I'll see you at dinner ok?"

"Ok," Lily answered.

"Com'on Lily, let's go see the warden, ok?" Blaise asked.

"All right" Lily answered. The group split and walked their separate ways, Blaise and Lily to the main building, Alexis to her "quarters". 'Things can only get better' Lily thought, as they walked. Little did she know, it was only going to get worse before it even gets close to being better.

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