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Warning: Has some graphic fighting scenes, more like beat up scenes but either way BE WARNED! On with the story.

Harry was really not looking forward to returning to the Dursleys household, especially since they would have had to of paid the medical expenses. Somehow they would make it his fault that they made him need to go to the hospital. Still, he knew he would just have to bear through it, because the only way out was to tell Sirius, and that was not an option. So there they were Harry Potter and Sirius Black waiting for the cab that would take Harry back to hell.

Sirius was the one who chose to take the cab, he said it would give him and Harry a little more time together before Harry had to go back to the muggles. Harry was glad, more time with Sirius and less with Vernon made Harry a happy boy. It was because of this that the ride in the cab seemed far too short and Sirius wasn't really helping. The whole time he was reminding Harry of how much he cared, or that if anything happened he wanted to know right away so that he could help him, and there was nothing; nothing at all that he couldn't tell him.

'If only you knew how wrong you are,' Harry thought about his Grandfatherscomments 'I can't tell you about them you'll overreact and give the ministry a reason to take you back to Azkaban, and I can't have that.'

To soon the time came when the cab pulled up in front of number four and Harry stared at the place in horror. 'I can't go in there, I can't, and Sirius what will Vernon say to him? I can't let Sirius get hurt, but what am I going to do?' Harry's thoughts were frantic and running together when suddenly his eyes stumbled upon an interesting sight. In the driveway where there should have been the Dursley's prized car sat…nothing. Nothing at all. 'They're not here. They left. They went on vacation while I was in the hospital.' He was roughly pulled from his thoughts as his door was pulled open by an impatient Sirius.

"Are you coming or not?"Sirius asked looking down at Harry questioningly. Harry looked up to meet Sirius' eyes before he gave a shaky nod and reach down to unbuckle his seatbelt.

'What am I going to tell him?' He asked himself as he got out of the car and started walking towards the door. A few steps later he had come up with the perfect plan and just as they were coming up to the porch he put it into action.

He ran ahead of Sirius and quickly tried the door; it was locked as he had guessed it'd be. After getting this information he took the few steps to the right of the door and put his hand up under the casing for the porch light the Dursleys had left in case Dudley lost his key; he had found it another time he had been locked out.

By this time Sirius was standing beside him and looking at him questioningly."Harry, what are you doing?"He asked him.

"Oh," Harry feigned surprise as he turned towards Sirius "I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you. They're not here right now they go out about this time every day, normally I go along with them but I was late getting back so they had to leave without me." Harry turned back to the door as if it were no big deal.

"Harry?" Sirius was beginning to get angry."Does this happen often?" How could they leave his Godson all alone, especially after being hurt so recently?

Harry heard the edge to his voice and turned back to Sirius. "No…this hardly ever happens," Harry paused for a moment to come up with the rest of his lie. "It's just that they've had this day marked on their calendar for months, they're er….they're meeting with a lot of family and having dinner they couldn't just cancel. I mean, who know when they'll get this chance again?" Harry was surprised at how much sense he was making.

"Yeah but Harry you just got out of the hospital they shouldn't have just left you here." You could still hear the edge to his voice as he reasoned with Harry.

"Sirius, its okay, I really don't mind, I can take care of myself."

"At least let me wait here with you until they come back." Sirius said, not liking the prospect of just leaving Harry.

"Sirius there's no reason to." Harry said as he thought of what he could say to make him leave. "Hey, what's going on? Do you think I can't take care of myself? So what, a couple of kids catch me off guard and all of the sudden I'm some sort of weakling?!" Harry finished off yelling.

"Harry, that's not what I meant, I don't think your weak and off course you can care for yourself. I just worry about you is all." Sirius was trying his best to explain things to Harry but feelings just weren't his thing, and Harry's sudden outburst left him unsure of what to do.

"Yeah well, I don't need you to worry about me." Harry mumbled back at him.

Sirius looked slightly hurt. "Sorry, but whether you need it or not I'm always going to worry about you. All right, have it your way."Sirius said seeing the stubborn look on his Godsons face." I'll leave you alone, but you have to promise to be careful, okay?"Sirius looked at Harry with concern and he couldn't bear to pull this out any longer.

Harry put on his best annoyed voice, mumbled out a 'yeah, sure' and turned to open the door. Sirius stood there for a moment longer not knowing what to say when the cab horn honked and it was time for Sirius to leave but not before he gave Harry a large hug from behind.

The first thing Harry noticed was the sound of a baby crying, the second was the very large form of Dudley rushing towards him fists raised. He was yelling and screaming at Harry for taking so long, that Harry was the reason he had had to watch the stupid screaming monster all day

Somewhere during that screaming one of Dudley's fists connected with Harry's stomach hard enough to throw him up against the door. Then the other one slammed into his right shoulder. Again and again fist fists hit Harry's arms and stomach; slamming into the soft flesh, skin tearing upon impact, blood running from his wounds.

A dark blur was seeping into the edges of Harry's vision, pulling at him, wanting to take him away, but he pushed it back. He didn't want the darkness to overcome him, didn't want Dudley to beat him, he wanted to stay awake, he wanted to help Elizabeth. The beating continued for several more minutes before Dudley finally stopped and began to walk away when he seemed to change his mind. He turned quickly and slammed his fist into Harry's cheek as if he had to make sure Harry remembered it was him.

With that blow the darkness that Harry had been fighting back got the better of him.

Apparently Dudley wasn't a fan of the whole Harry's allowed too lay in the entry way and sleep idea because he decided to wake him up, the not-so-nice way. He decided that a cannon ball onto the much smaller boy would be the best way to wake him up.

So Dudley took several steps back until he was next to the staircase and got a running start towards Harry. If Dudley hadn't jumped when he did he would have trampled him, but as it was he did jump, and as we all know, what goes up must come down and down he went.

A horrible resounding snap was heard throughout the room as Dudley's knees connected with Harry's chest. The force and pain that the blow caused woke Harry up but not only was he awake, he was screaming in agony until he realized that only made him hurt worse then he slammed his mouth shut as hard as he could, only to cause shooting pains in his gums.

It seemed the cannonball was an all around bad idea because not only did Harry get hurt but Dudley did to. His landing was off so instead of being able to stand right up he rolled forward and banged his head into the front door, hard, so hard that the skin tore and blood poured down the side of his face.

"Y-you did this! You used that Freak stuff of yours! You pushed me with it!" Dudley yelled at Harry trying to cover his mistake while pushing his fat hand to his forehead."Well, I'm going to call my dad he'll show you!"

Harry tried to respond he didn't want his uncle called while on vacation, but every breath felt like daggers were being plunged into his chest. By the time he was able to speak Dudley was already dialing the number on the kitchen phone. "D-don't call, vacation." He pleaded.

What! Oh you idiot they aren't on vacation yet! And what gives you the right to tell me what to do?!" He paused in the middle of his dialing to look at Harry

"Not…gone…where…then?"Harry's words were choppy and spread out.

"They went to the store; they're picking up some stuff for their trip. They left the screaming monster with me said it would- Why am I explain this to you? He asked himself "Not like it's any of your business any way." Dudley turned back around and finished his number.

"Please…no…he…mad."Harry was begging he didn't want to feel any more pain, but Dudley wasn't listening. He was waiting for his father to pick up."Please…no….NO!"With Harry's yelled plea the phone in Dudley's hand burst into flames causing a burnt Dudley to scream and throw the phone into the air, where the flames were extinguished and the phone fell back into its holder.

Dudley ran to the freezer and shoved his hand in the ice tray while Harry stared amazed at the phone. "Boy am I glad the ministry doesn't get mad at accidental magic." He had found that out during the whole balloon aunt fiasco.

"y-you, you" You could almost see the gears turning in Dudley's head as he searched his small vocabulary for a word that would accurately describe Harry."You freak! Wait till dad gets home, he'll show you!"Dudley pulled his hand out of the freezer with a handful of ice and ran out the back door just as the baby let out another high-pitched scream.

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