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WARNING: THIS CHAPTER HAS A REALLY BAD ABUSE SCENE I WILL TELL YOU WHEN IT COMES UP. (Poor Harry. T.T)

Ch.9: Ouch

Dudley had a new bounce in his step as he walked towards the phone booth. This was going to be fun for him. He now had the perfect way to get Harry back for the pigtail incident. His mother and father had been to scared that someone would check up on him after he got his acceptance letter that they had never punished him 'properly'.

But add the fact that in the 12 and a half years that Harry had lived with them no one bothered to check on him to him blowing up Aunt Marge last summer gave them perfect reason to start some mild punishments this summer. But Dudley was sure that this would be just the shove his dad needed to start in with some real punishments like what it was before that freaks school came into the picture. Things would finally be normal again.

Dudley slipped a few coins into the red machine and dialed his fathers cell phone. He peeled off the flaking paint chips while waiting for his dad to answer.

"Hello?" a voice on the other end of the line asked.

"Dad! Oh dad, you must come home right away!" Dudley put on the best panicked voice he could.

"Dudley?! Dudley what's wrong?" Vernon's voice took on a slightly concerned edge to it.

"Oh it's horrible!" Dudley whined to his father. "It's 'him' he's gone mad! I don't know what's gotten into him! I was just washing dishes when I heard the doorbell ring, so I went to answer it and- and this girl was there. She was one of 'them'.

Vernon let out a growl and Dudley smiled as his voice grew angry. "Dudley, I want you to tell me exactly what she did and him to."

"Well…Okay, as I was saying, she was one of 'them' and she pulled that stick thing on me! Then 'he' came over and they threatened to kill me if I didn't leave! S-so I had to. I feel so ashamed I-I just left them there with poor Elizabeth." Dudley couldn't help but smile at how smoothly his lie was going.

"I'll be there as fast as I can Dudley don't you worry. I want you to go back by the house and wait for me stay out of sight I don't want that freak to get a heads up." Vernon told him just before he slammed the phone down.

Dudley smirked and hung the phone back on the stand before heading back to the house to watch the show.

Vernon was furious. How dare that freak threaten his son! And now he had his daughter, God only knows what they could be doing to her! Plus he brought one of 'his' kind into his home! It was bad enough having the boy there, but now there was two of them!

He ran around his large hotel room collecting items and shoving them into the waiting bags.

"Vernon? What's going on?" Petunia asked as she watched him from the bathroom doorway. "Why are you packing?"

"It's the boy." Vernon growled out between clenched teeth as he forced an armload of clothes into the already stuff. "He's attacked Dudley and brought a freak into our home not to mention kidnapping Lizzy!"

"What!" Petunia looked Horrified. "Oh my poor Dudley, and Lizzy! She's just a baby Vernon; she can't defend herself against them! What are we going to do?"

"We will do nothing. I will handle the boy and his friend."

"What will I do?"

"You will take Lizzy and Dudley and wait in the driveway until I am done. We'll need to go to the store and get some 'cleaning' supplies." Petunia nodded.

Harry Smiled down at the laughing baby, He loved it when she laughed, and she was so easily pleased to. She wasn't a very fussy baby, once Hermione took care of the teething problem, which apparently you could also solve by letting them chew on frozen waffles. Apparently the cold soothes the pain.

Hermione came over and sat down beside him. "Hey Harry, do you realize what time it

Is don't you?"

Harry looked up confused and shook his head no.

"It's after eight and therefore it's time for a certain baby to go to bed." She said as she picked up Elizabeth and headed up the stairs. Harry stood and followed behind her.

Hermione sat in the rocking chair and sang softly to Elizabeth as Harry sat on the bed waiting patiently as he swung his feet.

Harry's brow furrowed in confusion a few minutes later when he heard a car door slam in the …. driveway.

He stood and walked over to the window as Hermione placed the baby into the crib. "Oh no." Harry whispered.

Vernon was fuming as he slammed the car door shut and rushed up to the house, nearly ripping the unlocked door off of its hinges as he flung it open.

Petunia ushered Dudley off the lawn where he had seated himself into the car before following her husband into their house.

"Hermione!" Harry shouted as he turned on his heel and grabbed her shoulders. "Stay in here, and whatever happens do Not make a sound." Harry said shoving her into the closet. "If you do you'll only make things worse."

"Harry what's going on?! What are you talking about?" She asked as Harry shut the door and pulled out his wand. "Signum proprius." He muttered and watched as the door of the closet joined with the wall. "I'm sorry." He whispered before placing a charm on the door to make it look as if he hadn't done anything.

"Harry what's going on?" Hermione shouted through the slats in the door.

"No noise." Harry told her before turning to walk out the door, only to run straight into his enraged uncle knocking the wand from his hand.

"Boy!" Vernon said roughly shoving Harry into the room.

"Yes Uncle Vernon?" Vernon asked as politely as h could hoping to lessen the punishment that apparently Hermione would witness.

"Where is she?" He growled stepping further into the room.

"Who sir?"

"Don't play dumb with me! Dudley told me he saw another one of your kind in here!"

(A/N WARNING ABUSE STARTS HERE IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM I SUGGEST YOU DO NOT READ THE REST OF THE CHAPTER HOWEVER THIS MAY MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND!)

Harry took a sharp intake of breath as he was slapped across the face. "She left." He said simply as he raised his hand to his bleeding lip, he looked over towards Elizabeth and saw Petunia carrying her out of the room.

"Left?" Vernon smiled cruelly. "Good. I wouldn't want to have to take care of both of you at once." Vernon said shaking his head. "I am just surprised, it's a bit of a coincidence that she left right as we were coming home."

"She couldn't stay long her parents called and told her to go home." Harry said looking straight ahead not daring to glance at the closet.

Vernon's face turned to one of disgust as he raised his fist and punched Harry hard in the causing him to fall to the ground. "You let that 'filth' use our phone?!" He shouted as he aimed a kick towards Harry's head and he just barely managed to dodge it. He scrambled back trying to reach his wand.

"No way in Hell! Vernon yelled as he hurried past Harry and grabbed the wand up grasping it firmly between each hand.

"NO!" Harry yelled as he lunged forward and bit his uncles leg as hard as he could causing him to yell and fling the wand into the hall.

"Why you little." Vernon growled reaching down and grabbing a fistful of Harry's hair and yanking up hard. With a yelp Harry released his leg and felt himself being lifted to his feet by his hair, he used both his hands and clawed at the fist in his hair.

"Stop that!" Vernon yelled and used his other hand to punch Harry in the nose sending blood streaming down his face.

Harry let out a strangled cry and began kicking fiercely at his Uncle, who growled and continued punching Harry until the kicks stopped. However two hands still remained clenched on the fat hand fisted into his hair.

Vernon held his hair for a few more seconds before releasing his hold allowing Harry to fall in a heap to the ground. He sneered and slammed his large foot into Harry's midsection bringing a scream from the boy's lips.

Vernon reached down and grabbed harry roughly by his collar yanking him from the ground once more, before slamming him into the wall and wrapping a meaty hand around his thin throat.

Squeezing tightly he leaned forward to whisper in his ear."You really did it this time. You won't ever see those freaky friends of yours again. No I don't think you'll be seeing 'anything' ever again."

Vernon's harsh whispers chilled Harry to the bone and as the blackness started to blur the edges of his vision he began to believe him. This was the end. He would miss Sirius that was certain and all of his friends…his friends, Hermione. No one but him knew she was there and Harry had locked her in! Who would save her? He couldn't allow his best friend to die!

Harry gathered all the strength he could and kicked in the direction he believed to be his uncle. His foot connected with Vernon's groin causing him to groan and fall over releasing Harry.

Harry gasped for breath and crawled painfully past his uncle towards the door.

"Oh no you don't." Harry heard his uncle's growl just before he felt the hands wrap around his ankle and pull sharply. "You won't get away with that!"

Harry clawed desperately at the ground as he was dragged back towards his uncle. He felt the hand release his leg and he tried to stand but instead a horrible pain ripped through his shoulder as his arm was yanked behind his back.

He let out a scream as he was pulled up by his arm and it twisted and popped under the pressure.

"Thought you were going to get away did you?" Vernon asked Harry menacingly as he twisted Harry's already pained arm. He screamed again and tried to pull away only to send horrible pain shooting through his entire arm and back.

Vernon grasped Harry's other arm and threw him head first into the wall where he hit with a sickening crack. Hermione had her hand tight over her mouth to keep her from screaming as she watched through the slats. If only she had gotten her wand!

Vernon smiled evilly walked closer and bent over Harry. He grabbed his hair roughly and yanked his head up. "Had enough yet?"

Harry wearily opened his eyes. "Please, no more." Harry begged but Vernon only laughed and threw his head down.

"Sorry." Vernon told him sarcastically. "I can't do that." He stood and began repeatedly kicking Harry as hard as he could not stopping until Harry's whimpers and moans of pain had, and the blood had pooled around half a foot out from his body.

Vernon smiled cruelly and with one last kick he turned and walked out of the room.

Hermione waited until she heard the front door slam before she began calling Harry. Trying to get him to move or say something. But Harry's broken body didn't budge and tears streamed down Hermione's face as she came to the realization he might be dead.

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I know its not really long but the next part I wanted to be a separate chapter…I think I might change the rating to M so tell me what you think. Review! Also some of you are concerned about this being a Harry/Hermione and I would like to tell you that NO it is not. I prefer them as just friends and that is what they are.

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