~Chapter 2~
Warning: fem!Harry, child neglect, sexual abuse, offensive language, descriptions of torture, and bloody violence.
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[Flashback]
Several police cars and an ambulance arrived in front of the house of Pivet Drive, the air around the house gave off a feeling so foreboding and malevolent that it caused several police officers at the scene to gulp and break out into a cold sweat.
They bust down the door and the group of police officers stumbled upon a scene they would never forget as long as they would live.
A little girl was getting her tongue cut in half by Petunia with her son, Dudley restraining Elizabeth and Vernon jacking off to the torture scene.
[End of Flashback]
"Release her! Lady, drop the scissors! You fat kid! Release the girl right now!" The lead police officer screamed, shocking all of the four people in the room.
Petunia removed the scissors from Elizabeth's mouth and dropped them with a clatter and a police officer had to fire a warning shot at the fat kid who was still in shock and he dropped her with a yelp.
Elizabeth fell, her consciousness pulled away from her like the blood pouring from her mouth and soon everything went dark. A police officer that was the closest to her caught her before she could hit the floor. When he moved her gently to fit her more comfortably in his arms, she had blood on the seat of her pants and down her left leg.
The police officer glared at Vernon's disgusting form and said, "Arrest these... people. I will take the girl to the ambulance!" The officer then rushed out of the house, Elizabeth's limp and bloody form causing shocks among the crowd of neighbors on Pivet Drive.
The police officer stayed with the girl as the medics worked to save her life, the two medics that were stationed in the ambulance were horrified at the state of this young girl and they rushed to stabilize her until they could get to the hospital.
As the ambulance tore its way down the road, at the Dursley residence, three people were being led out in handcuffs.
Petunia was crying knowing her life was over and she could barely look at the people she had been neighbors with over the years as they looked at her as if she was a grotesque mixture between a cockroach and a slug.
Vernon and Dudley weren't better off, considering that Dudley tried to fight and it took several police officers to lug the overweight boy who was screaming and crying into the police car. Vernon was screaming, cursing, and spitting, but one of the irritated and disgusted police officers threatened to stun him if he tried to strike any of them, which shocked the obese abuser enough so they could get him into the police car and send the family down to the station.
However...there was one person missing that evening at Pivet Drive and it was Mrs. Figg, the weird, old cat lady who is actually a squib sent on Pivet Drive to keep an eye on Elizabeth Potter.
Considering that she was not there at the scene, Figg would never know that Elizabeth was taken away from what Albus planned for her and that this would be the first of Albus' many future mistakes.
(36 hours later)
In a lone hospital room, a young girl was resting alone in her bed and the nurse that was stationed to check up on her and was stunned to hear a muffled groan coming from the bed and walked up to see her patient slowly arriving into the plain of consciousness.
The nurse called the doctor and waited for the girl to wake up while thinking, 'How can see be awake? The medicine we placed her under should have knocked her out for at least several days and it has only been a day and a half.'
The doctor arrived, just as Elizabeth opened her eyes, before quickly shutting them again.
"Too bright..." She said, her voice muffled. Cotton was stuffed in her mouth and she started to panic as she felt that she couldn't move her body. The nurse calmed her down as the doctor dimmed the lights.
"Miss Potter, please calm down! You are in a hospital, so please relax," The doctor said, calmly
The red head relented in her struggles and stared at the two adults and gave a slight nod. She wanted to spit the cotton that was in her mouth, but the nurse stopped her. "I'm sorry, Elizabeth, but you can't have the cotton out of your mouth just yet. It's to seal the wound your attacker gave you."
Then everything came back in a flash behind Elizabeth's eyes, after saving Emily, she was dragged into Vernon's 'special' room where he keep whipping her until her back bled and then he raped her and was choking her, making her fade in and out of consciousness, and then she was dragged into the kitchen. The burning pain in her mouth and then nothing.
"My Aunt..." Elizabeth said softly, causing the doctor and nurse to wince
"Yes..., but you are safe now," The doctor said with a smile, staring down at the poor girl.
She nodded back to him and then she saw the nurse come and tuck her into her hospital bed.
"You need to sleep more. I promise no one will harm you while we are here," The nurse said, softly
Elizabeth wanted to stay awake, but she felt the medicine in her IV doing their job and she was put to sleep and would wake up several days later.
(10:32 AM) Several days later
Elizabeth Alica Potter slowly awoke to her dim surroundings, her mouth felt dry, but she didn't feel the cotton stuffing her mouth like it did the last time she woke up. She slowly sat up in her bed and wanted to stretch her arms, but couldn't.
She tossed the covers off of her body and saw her current state.
Bandages were wrapped around her arms and legs and she felt stiff padding wrapped around her back, waist, and front chest. She saw she had several IV drips attached to her arms. that she was going to have to stay in bed for awhile.
The young red-head sighed knowing that she was going to have to stay in bed for awhile.
She grabbed the covers and just waited for a doctor or a nurse to come around to check on her. She didn't have to wait long, considering the doctor came to check her charts and found Elizabeth sitting up and staring at him.
"Miss Potter! You are awake!" He said, in shock
"Yes-*cough!cough!*" Elizabeth coughed and hacked in her hand.
"Wait here," The doctor said, leaving the room, before coming back with a cup of water and handed it to her.
"Thank you," She said, drinking it, but then she spat it out, the water ran down her chin and she looked at the doctor in shock.
"I'm sorry, Miss Potter, I should have warned you about your tongue. You see, your aunt cut into it with a pair of rusty scissors we had to rush you into surgery in order for you not to get an infection and stop the blood loss."
The doctor pulled out a mirror and Elizabeth stuck out her tongue and saw that her tongue was indeed split down the middle.
"Do you want us to make your tongue whole again? Because we can, if you want us too?" The doctor, staring sadly at the young girl whose been through so much.
Elizabeth placed her tongue back into her mouth and said, "No...It's fine."
"Are you sure?" He questioned
"Yes, besides you went through the trouble of patching me up and preventing me from getting an infection. My tongue will be a reminder for me to always be grateful," She smiled, making the doctor's heart clench in his chest.
"Yes, well. You must be hungry, correct?" He asked
A loud stomach growl from Elizabeth was her response, much to her embarrassment.
"Do not worry, I will send a nurse to bring up your meals shortly." He waved off her embarrassment
"Thank you, doctor," Elizabeth said
He nodded and then left the room, a tear falling from his face as he thought of the damage the girl went through. He silently said a prayer for the little girl as he went to go get the nurse to bring Elizabeth her meal.
For the next three months, Elizabeth was kept in a hospital, healing from the damage she had taken from the Dursleys.
The damage made even the most jaded of nurses want to cry from the list of injuries. Elizabeth had suffered severe rectal trauma from years of heavy sexual abuse, cuts, bruises, and early stages of infection that were treated immediately. Most of her baby teeth are gone, but through force or by pulling, the mixture of both of her baby and adult teeth are rotten and she had cavities along with white tongue. Her hair was ratty with knots, lice, and dandruff and they managed to avoid shaving her head completely as a hair specialist that lived on Pivet Drive vigorously washed her hair with many treatment shampoos and conditioners.
Bruises along the jaw, cheekbones, and back of the head, consistent with punches, stomps by someone of a heavy body weight and hits with a blunt object. The bones in her arms, legs, and ribs have been repeatedly broken, cracked, and misplaced and they looked as if they have been reset back into a normal place by a novice. Heavy malnutrition and the start of anorexia nervosa, apparently her body went through a self-devouring stage in which it would reject food in order to stop being hungry. Excessive scarring on all the regions of the back and buttocks and lower thighs, signs of infection and puss on opening wounds.
Overall, the list of medical issues was so long and severe that chief of police, ordered the entire unit of special victims to be in the case of Elizabeth Alica Potter and they accepted it gladly.
The list of injuries wasn't even the worst part, apparently, the Dursleys were well-paid to take care of Elizabeth but they used her as a slave and fuck toy instead. The records of her parents were that in the muggle world Lily Potter and her husband James Potter was dead and in their will, they wanted whoever took care of their daughter to be paid 1,000 pounds monthly for the care of their daughter. This just made police on her abuse case filled with rage and wanted their prosecutor to send the abusive family to lowest prison for the longest time. Especially that miserable fat oaf who raped Elizabeth.
Several weeks later, Elizabeth finally started to put on some weight and she was allowed to walk around the hospital and she was given a surprise. The nurse stationed to take care of her placed her in a wheelchair and wheeled her down to the main floor.
Elizabeth asked where they were going and her nurse said that it was a surprise.
When she arrived at the main lobby, Elizabeth's eyes widened and saw people from her class, Dudley's friends, several teachers, and neighborhood moms with their husbands crowding around the lobby of the hospital and they all stopped and stared at the girl in the wheelchair.
Then loud clapping thundered throughout the room and Emily came, her perky looks have dulled from the time Elizabeth was stuck in the hospital. She looked older and a bit haunted, but she came up to Elizabeth first and said, "Hi, Elizabeth."
"Hi..." She replied, a little breathless
"I want to thank you..." Emily said, digging her sandals into the polished hospital floor
"What for?" Elizabeth asked confused
"For you saving me...You could've left me there with *gulp* him, but you didn't...why? I've been nothing but mean to you, but you nearly died protecting me," Emily said, dying to know her answer
"I didn't want anyone else going through what I went through..." She replied softly, shocking the crowd of adults and making them feel worse about ignoring her abuse.
"I know you don't have to but, can we start over?" Emily asked, wanting to make it up to her
Elizabeth smiled back and said, "I would like that."
Emily and the nurse then helped her out of the chair and she went to chat with all the other girls and several boys. She was given presents and stuffed toys as well as heartfelt apologies from all the adults who thought she was just a troublemaker instead of just an abused child.
Elizabeth forgave them but told them she would never forget, which many adults took as a bitter pill to swallow, but they did.
After the party in which, Elizabeth got to experience what it was like to be liked and not tolerated. It was a warming experience and Elizabeth fell asleep surrounded by the gifts of her new friends gave her and she held the stuffed black dog that reminded her of a black scruffy hound from so long ago.
As she went off to sleep, a final word slipped from her lips, "Paddy..."
A year has passed since the Dursleys have been exposed as the foul creatures that they are, Elizabeth receiving life-saving treatment and it was now time for justice.
...August 23rd, 1987...
The trial of the Century... Elizabeth Potter vs. Dursley Family
Police officers, journalists, and news reporters from all over Britain have come to witness one of the worst heaviest child abuse cases in Britain.
The judge intoned, "We are here for the trial of Elizabeth Alica Potter vs. The Dursley Family."
"Will Elizabeth Alica Potter, please come to the witness stand?" The judge asked
A nurse came forward with Elizabeth in a wheelchair and everyone got to see the same girl who looked like she could be blown away with a strong gust of wind. Her bandages still covered her arms and her legs and she was wearing a yellow sundress that Emily's mother bought for her.
The nurse managed to get her into the witness stand and the nurse returned to her seat. A man stood up from the table he was sitting at and made his way to stand in front of Elizabeth.
It was the Dursleys lawyer, he stood tall but had a portly look to him with three strands of hair brushed over his head and a sweaty complexion.
He started off, "Ladies and gentlemen, are you really going to arrest these good people?" He said, gesturing to the Dursleys in their fine clothes.
Several barely noticeable, but disgusted snorts rang out in the courtroom, but the attorney ignored that and focused on Elizabeth sitting on the witness stand.
"Miss Elizabeth, is it?" He asked
"Yes?" She replied
"When were you given to the Dursley family?" He questioned
"When I was two, I guess." She replied, her hands, on her lap
"You guess? How do you know that?" He questioned
"I once asked Petunia if she was my mom...she then hit me with a frying pan and screamed at me that she would never be the mother of a freak and that I was dumped on them and to go to my cupboard," Elizabeth explained
The jury aimed hard glares at the Dursley family, Dudley whimpered at the hard and heavy glares of disgust people gave him along with Petunia as she comforted him as she felt two inches tall and Vernon just sneered.
"I see...how old were you?" The man said
"Three," She replied simply
"My dear, there was no way you were three if you got hit with a frying pan. Are you sure you are not overreacting?" The man said, dreading her answer
"Sir, I'm pretty sure you do not forget the person who takes a whack at you with a frying pan," She replied with a deadpan look on her face.
The defense coughed into his hand and continued, "You said, you were sent to your cupboard, don't you mean bedroom?"
"No, it was a cupboard. The cupboard under the stairs."
"They made you sleep in a cupboard under the stairs? Because with the floorplan of your home, there are four rooms to live in, you did inhabit any of those rooms?" He asked
"No. The main bedroom was for Vernon and Petunia, the second one is for Dudley, the third one is Dudley's second bedroom and-"
"Wait a minute. Second bedroom?" He interrupted
"Yes, it was where he kept all his toys and broken stuff."
"Okay, continue." He said, motioning her to continue
"The last bedroom..."
"The last bedroom?" The man repeated
"...was Vernon's private room." Elizabeth finished, softly
"What would your uncle..." the defense attorney trailed off as the heavy silence filled the room as Elizabeth felt very uncomfortable sitting down.
"No further questions," The man then sat down as he realized he took on a losing case.
The prosecutor from beside the defensive table stood up and walked towards Elizabeth. Her black heels clicking on the tiled floor which led up to her black pants and white button-up underneath a black blazer.
"Miss Potter, you told the defense that the last room was Vernon Dursley's private room. What did he use that private room for?"
"He used that room to privately punish me, whenever Dudley was out and he used me."
"When was the first time?"
Elizabeth closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "When I was five..."
Silence filled the courtroom for five seconds before outrage filled the jury and audience before several hard slams of a gavel brought the court back to silence.
"Order, order! Order or I will clear the courtroom."
"Did he ever hurt you, Miss Potter?"
"Yes, he whipped at me with his belt. He even bought a spiked one so he could do it worse on my birthdays..."
"Evidence #12, the photo of Elizabeth Potter's back injuries and scarring. I am warning everyone now, that is graphic, so if you do not wish to see, please leave the room."
"Wait!" Elizabeth yelled, shocking the room and Vernon smirked thinking she was going to stand down and the trial would crumble from there.
"Please don't show them my back...please...I-I don't want people to see that," Elizabeth said, barely holding herself back from crying.
"Very well. Then Evidence #23, all the listed injuries that Elizabeth Alica Potter had suffered from during her stay at the Dursley residence. Would this be okay for me to read out loud, Miss Potter?"
"Y-yes. I-I already know what it says," She said, wiping her eyes.
The defense attorney then read out loud all the injuries that Elizabeth suffered through, but when she was finished. Vernon stood up.
"You little bitch!" He roared, causing Elizabeth to violently flinch
"Mr. Dursley, sit down!" The judge yelled
"After everything we've done for you, this is how you repay us!" Vernon yelled, moving towards Elizabeth who started to tremble.
"Mr. Dursley, sit down or I will have you removed!" The judge ordered
"You miserable little freak!" He roared, taking off his belt and Elizabeth screamed, falling out of her chair as she curled against the witness stand, "No! Please, not the belt! Not the belt! I don't do anything! I'll be quiet! I-I won't have my stomach growl anymore! I won't burn Dudley's bacon, I won't cry with Aunt Petunia hits me just not the belt!" She screamed and wept with tears running rivers down her face.
Elizabeth screamed, falling out of her chair as she curled against the witness stand, "No! Please, not the belt! Not the belt! I don't do anything! I'll be quiet! I-I won't have my stomach growl anymore! I won't burn Dudley's bacon, I won't cry with Aunt Petunia hits me just not the belt!" She screamed and wept with tears running rivers down her face.
That was everything everyone needed to hear and the case was over. Vernon was tackled when he barely undid his belt buckle. Vernon was dragged out of the courtroom and the judge called for a two-hour recess.
The nurse and the defense attorney made to comfort Elizabeth as they tried to get her to calm down. The officer who helped her escape the Dursleys was there and she reached out to him and he carried her out of the courtroom.
Two hours passed and Elizabeth calmed down and she was sleeping, her grip was on the officer's suit jacket as he carried her to the front and the judge asked both the defense and the prosecutor, "Do you two need to question that little girl anymore?"
"No, your honor," the prosecutor said, knowing she had this case on lockdown
"No, your honor," the defense said, knowing who he was defending deserved everything they would receive.
"Very well, then. Officer Stabler, can please watch over Miss Potter until she awakens?"
"Yes, your honor," He then made his way back to his seat with his partner and made space so Elizabeth could sit on the both of them as they watched the trial play out.
Emily was then questioned, where she explained that she was invited into the Dursley home by Dudley and then Vernon called her to follow him upstairs because he wanted to show her something. She followed him and when he closed the door he attacked her, tearing off her shirt and stuffing it into her mouth and her skirt was torn away from her and he pulled his pants down and that was when Elizabeth came into the room.
She slashed him with water and then beat him with the bucket a few times and then it broke before she grabbed my hand and rushed downstairs and out of the house. She pushed me into the shed and told her to wait and not make any noise. She was planning to close it but the door was heavy and old and she could see Vernon pissed off and wet from the dirty water come out and pulled her away from the shed. He ripped off her shirt and I puked when I saw the scars of Elizabeth's back and then he beat her with his spiked belt and saying that she was a freak and was only for his and his son's pleasure for when she was old enough.
The defense attorney asked, "What happened next?"
She took a deep breath and continued her story, she said, when he finished beating her with the belt, he grabbed her hair and then dragged her back inside and she could only watch in horror and shock as Elizabeth was pulled back into the house. She regained her senses when she heard Elizabeth scream and then she rushed back to her house to where her mother called the cops and everything you from there.
"I see, thank you, Miss Taylor, please take your seat," the prosecutor said.
Emily nodded and then ran back to her mom who hugged her and glared at the restrained Dursley family with loathing.
The trial then ended with all the evidence that is presented.
"Has the jury reached its' verdict?"
"Yes, your honor, We Have," the man said as he stood, holding a piece of paper.
"What is your verdict?"
"We find the defendants guilty," He said
Petunia let out a wail and burst into tears as Dudley threw a tantrum with crocodile tears and Vernon started to curse and holler in rage.
"Alright, thank you, everyone, for your time. This court is dismissed," The judge yelled, slamming his gavel down and ending the trial.
Elizabeth slept through the entire thing and woke up when the Dursleys were led out of the courtroom.
"Um, thank you, sir," She said, to the man she been sleeping on for over an hour and a half.
"It's fine, Elizabeth," He smiled at her
"I didn't get your name?"
"Elliot Stabler."
"Elliot, what a nice name. Were you the one that carried me to the hospital?"
"Yeah..."
Elizabeth gave him a smile and hugged him which he returned, "Thank you."
The nurse then brightly smiled at the police officer and his partner before carrying Elizabeth out of the courtroom. She waved to him and his partner, Olivia before the door shut.
"Those bastards are getting life sentences aren't they?"
"I hope so, I hope that fat bastard gets the death penalty."
The sentences for the Dursley family
Sentence for Dudley Dursley: He is to be transferred to St. Brutus Orphanage for troubled children. He is to be placed on a strict no fat, no salt, no sugar diet and take counseling to soothe the damage of entitlement his parents instilled in him at an early age. After that, if he still does not change or the counseling does not help him, he is to be sent to military school to straighten him out.
Sentence for Petunia Evans nee Dursley: She is to be sentenced to 20 years for the abuse, mistreatment, and ignoring the sexual abuse of one Elizabeth Alica Potter.
Sentence for Vernon Dursley: He is to serve a life sentence that barely managed to skim pass the death penalty, he is to be placed on a strict diet for him to lose weight and he is to be placed in solitary confinement for the rest of his years in jail with only one hour of daylight a day.
September 31st, 1988...
Most of her injuries were healed and Elizabeth had gained a healthy weight and grew several inches taller. She was now at the register waiting to be checked out and she got a ticket on the bus and said that she would be able to take care of herself.
She sighed out and actually when she was signing the emancipation papers, she chose to give herself a new name. She gave herself the name Lilith made from the version of her old name and Halestorm, of the band that one of her new friends introduced her to.
She walked out of the hospital, wearing a pair of green shorts with sneakers and a gray shirt. The wind picked up a bit, causing it to ruffle her a bit, but she stood her ground.
"Lilith Halestorm..." She whispered
'My new name... I am going to make my future my own,' She thought with conviction.
She then walked, walked until she was out of site at the hospital and their staff. The doctors, nurses, and the patients who got to know the little girl wished her well on her way, not knowing that she would be a part of events that would change the course of history and of magic herself.
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