Worthy Of Magic

Part 15 - Horror

Time Unknown

Why? What was he feeling? Why did it hurt so much? Why did it feel like someone was squeezing his heart. With fingers of long and sharp nails that dug in deep. Leaving scars and holes. Emotions that he had never felt before made him groan and clutch his head as if in agony. Ten years' worth desperation for attention, for love, for the need to be wanted churned inside him like tiny constant explosions.

"Please," Harry whimpered.

He didn't want to feel this. It took him back to a time, far back in the past, before the discovery of the void. A time after which those emotions had been shut away in a dark hole, forgotten until this moment.

"May I go to the park Aunty?" His young innocent voice echoed from within.

Slap! "Freaks don't show themselves!"

"Look! Miss Ariana gave me an A!"

"Mum!" Dudley sobbed. "Harry took my paper!"

Harry remembered his first lashing.

Freak! Vermin! Good for nothing! Your parents were drunkards! You don't deserve to live!

Every word was a stamp on his soul. Pushing it into the abyss inch by inch. Until the Void found Harry and Harry found the Void.

"Harry turned the teacher's hair blue mum! Everyone knows it was him!"

Whip! Lash! Kick!

The emotions in response to the horror Harry had endured had been buried deep to cope and survive. Now they were brought back to the surface. Emotions long forgotten. The Void was in turmoil. It was a creation of the desire to be empty of pain. Now all it felt was pain.

"Please!" Harry screamed. It hurt so much that he couldn't see. "Please stop this!"

Night was coming and the man was eating calmly, not bothered by Harry's pleas. Creatures of the night stayed away. They could feel the pain of the boy's magic and were scared away by its nature.

"Please," Harry begged. "Please," he whispered through tear stained eyes.

Exhaustion stretched his mind thin.

"Please," he cried.

And then he lost consciousness.

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Thirty first March Nineteen Ninety Three

"Beautiful wasn't it?"

"I've never seen anything like it," Remus said quietly. "I've never been outside England before. Even our history books are centered mostly on home. I've never thought what wonders could be outside home."

"Our country is beautiful to those who understand it. Once you understand it, you never want to leave. It's easy to start thinking of it as home no?"

Remus had made friends with Dopender Singh. The man he had met in the restaurant and who had kindly offered him a room in his home until he found Harry. Dopender was a car dealer and had generously offered to lend Remus a car and teach him how to drive once he realised the man couldn't .

The werewolf frowned. He realised he was getting too comfortable being away from responsibility. He had a job to do and that was to find Harry. He viewed it as salvation for all the bad decisions he had made in his life.

"Are you alright Remus?"

"It's going to be a full moon tomorrow," Remus muttered.

"So?'