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Emergent Darkness

Summary:

Harry Potter has finished his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry... only to learn that he and the Dursleys have been invited to America to meet his uncle...

Notes:

Teach me to think I can put it off for a few days...

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Chapter 1: Of Skeletons and Freaks

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Freak lay curled on the floor of the closet, hand tucked beneath his shirt, tightly grasping the trunk which held all the reminders of Hogwarts he’d been able to bring with him, kept awake by the loud snoring echoing from the jetlagged forms of Uncle and Cousin. Poisonous eyes stared through the slats as the heard the main door creak open, revealing a tall form clad in a plastic covering.

 


 

Hannibal stepped into the room, a sneer on his lips as he took in the number of suitcases and toys casually discarded in one corner. The two pigs lay entwined on the queensize bed, while their obese son had the two single beds ppushed together, but no sign of the boy for whom he was truly here lay within the room. ‘Disgusting.’ Lightfooted, he stepped through the room under the cover of the loud snores emanating from the two males. He quickly jabbed the epipen in his grasp (preloaded with a sedative in place of the usual adrenaline) into the neck of the boy laying on the single beds, before moving closer to the larger. A pair of quick injections to the two lying there, and he was sure of their silence.  He felt a sneer pulling at his lips when he spotted the subtle hints of movement from within the closet barricaded with suitcases and moved slightly so the boy could see his actions as he began his work, the flesh on the larger of the two pigs parting easily under his scalpel.

 


 

Officer Lyon gagged in horror as he entered the room, his partner having remained in the hallway with the boy who’s screaming exit had been the initial cause for their presence. ‘Fucking Hell.’ Stepping closer to the two fleshless skeletons, he stared in shock at the sight of so much blood… and so little flesh… only to freeze at the sound of a faint whimper coming from the closet.

 


 

Freak cringed back at the sound of the suitcases being moved away from his closet, screaming in wordless terror at the sight of the tall yellow man staring down at him. He darted past him, skidding through the blood that coated the room and darting down the hallway outside, leaving his snapped ‘wand’ in the cupboard from which he’d erupted. Spotting Cousin being held by another Copper, he swiftly dodged past her and threw himself out of the door with the glowing green man on it… swiftly losing his pursuers as he vanished into the streets outside.