Disclaimer: I do not own Lily, James, Sirius or any of the characters from the books. I only own Lily's dad, Lily's dog future OC's and the plot.
All the thoughts are in italics, but if it's only a word in italics it means it's emphasized.
The inspiration for this chapter kinda came from the second Stravaganza book. (The main character's step-brother verbally abuses her). So really, I don't own that idea either…
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Careful not to make a sound Lily silently pushed open the dark coloured oak door.
Wincing when the door clicked shut, the red-head hoped that her sister didn't hear.
To the girl's dismay, her older sister bounded down the stairs with a look as if to say why-the-hell-are-you-here.
Of course, Petunia would never dare say or think that while their mother was in the house. But now that their mother was… 'deceased' and their father was never home, Petunia had all the opportunity in the world to torment Lily.
Quickly Lily hid the strange letter behind her back and, with a scowl, pushed past her sister and ran up the many stairs leading to her room.
In a similar way to Sirius, lily sighed and crouched at the base of her poster-covered door with her legs pulled up to her chest.
Now, if you looked closely and squinted your eyes, a person could make out the form of a dog under the covers of Lily's dark doona.
If you were very familiar with dogs, you would be able to tell that this dog was a Siberian husky.
But you wouldn't be able to tell that this dog was a pale gray colour with white fore-legs unless you pulled back the covers and looked.
You wouldn't be able to tell that the Husky's name was Madden, unless you very politely enquired Lily.
And this would be very unlikely, as it would be very doubtful that you would ever find out about this dog as only two people in this world knew about Madden, and one of them could not be asked anymore.
The other person was Lily.
Now, even if you knew this dog, and its name, it was be almost impossible that you knew where this dog came from, it's sad, unfortunate past and how it managed to wind up in Lily's room, sleeping in the warm protective cocoon under the read-head's black doona.
And the reason it would be almost impossible would be because only two people ever knew. One of them could not be asked anymore and the other one was obviously the owner of this dog, which of course happened to be Lily.
You're probably asking; how did Madden get there, what was his sad and unfortunate past and why was he sleeping under Lily's black doona?
But I could not answer that, because I am not one of the two people, so I cannot tell you.
And as Lily sighed and continued leaning against her poster-covered door, Madden slowly rose out of the protective cocoon of the black doona to slowly walk his weary legs so that he could go over to the obviously depressed girl.
So he did this.
The action was welcomed warmly by Lily, with appreciative pats on Madden's rough but soft thick coat.
As if to ask what the strange letter his owner was holding in her hands, Madden jammed his nose towards the letter.
Breaking out of her daze, Lily stared down at the strange letter residing in her lap.
Madden nudged the letter again with a soft but frustrated growl.
Sighing Lily broke the seal on the back of the envelope and pulled out the letter.
Even thought she knew what the letter contained, she was still wary about it and had some kind of doubt that Hogwarts actually existed, despite the incident with Sirius.
Quickly she skimmed through the letter and contemplated it. How the hell was she supposed to pay for the train ticket when she had no money, let alone pay for school equipment?
That thought was pushed out of Lily's mind as another one formed.
How could she go if her dad didn't know?
She then realised that her dad wouldn't even be home, but then came to another depressing realisation.
How could she go without Petunia realising.
The thought of actually confiding in Petunia and asking her for something sickened Lily to the stomach.
Yet another thought popped into her head.
How could Madden come.
It was clear that no dogs in the letter. 'Students may also bring an owl OR cat OR toad'.
Dogs were not stated.
Her brain practically exploded at the thought of leaving her beloved Husky with Petunia, or worse, giving him to the pound.
One thing in common between Lily and Madden was that they didn't like other people. The only exception was Sirius, but the reasons for that were simple; they had many things in common.
Lily and Madden both had sad, unfortunate pasts and very little trust to strangers. Both had been betrayed and broken into millions of people.
If Lily left Madden, it would be like betraying him. So she came up with a conclusion; Madden would come with her.
She was very aware that it wasn't really the best idea, considering she could face expulsion, but what else could she do? Petunia didn't even know Madden existed.
Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door, jolting the sullen girl out of her thoughts.
"OPEN UP FREAK" screamed the horrendous beast otherwise know as her sister.
Hurriedly she grabbed Madden and hid him under her bed, along with the Hogwarts letter.
"I'm sorry" she whispered "but Petunia can't find you". With one last sorry glance at Madden she flicked open the door and faced her sister.
Scowling she muttered "What the hell do you want" spitefully.
Petunia spat back with "I just wanted to say that I hope you die just like the piece of shit that you call our mother" she moved to go away but then turned back with an evil smirk.
"Oops, I mean called our mother. She's dead now isn't she? Stabbed herself in the heart. Wasn't much of a loss, can't say I'm sad."
Petunia spat out the last bit with disgust and spun on her heal, but not before throwing over her shoulder "And I hope you do the same too!".
Slamming the door shut Lily returned to her crouching position against her bedroom door.
Even though the insults and taunts hurt Lily couldn't let them show. After all, that was what Petunia wanted.
"Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never hurt you" she muttered the saying over and over.
Still muttering the saying Lily rose from the position against the door and turned the lock, making sure that Petunia couldn't enter.
It doesn't really matter, does it? She'll probably get me on my way out.
Slowly she wandered over to her bed and nudged Madden softy to tell him that he could get out from under there now.
Eagerly he bounded out and jumped on-top of the bed, quickly burrowing under the covers.
Sighing she lifted the covers and slid under the covers beside Madden.
Silently she slipped into the realm of slumber.
And if you had been there you would have noticed that for once, Lily Marie Evans had a look of contentment on her usually sad face.
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A/N: Wow, I wrote that in like, an hour or two. That was five pages and 1250 words or something. My longest chappy yet.
Thanks to all my reviewers. (Amiee-Rose, Claire, hotblacknesss, Alaskan Chick, Robster639, Hilaryjojo, Chelsea and Millz) You guys rock!
I'll probably update soon because I'm on school hols now. R&R please it keeps me writing! If I get 10 reviews I'll post on the 25th of April. Kay?
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