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| Entry tags: | !2013, #gen, *magnetic_pole, ^petunia dursley, ^severus snape, ^vernon, rating: pg |
Halloween Treat for the Mods
Gift for: lore, shadowycat, and starduchess
From: magnetic_pole
Title: Red Sky at Morning
Characters: Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Severus Snape
Rating: PG for adult themes
Summary: November 1, 1981. Some are celebrating. Petunia Dursley is terrified.
Notes: A thank you drabble for our mods! Congrats on ten years and thank you for a great fandom event.
Petunia saw the blood even before she saw the baby.
It was a ragged cut, still wet and raw. Two inches down the forehead, a lightning bolt. What kind of person would hurt a baby? Leave it on a doorstep?
She should have picked it up, comforted it. Instead, she saw only danger.
*
Vernon brought it inside. “Petunia,” he said in an odd voice. “There’s a baby. And a letter.”
On the front, her name. On the back, an ominous, misshapen crimson wax seal. The wax was still warm.
She should have known. Only yesterday Vernon had seen them in town.
*
Vernon said it was a case for the local authority. She went the Snape boy’s house instead.
He was ashen, disoriented. The baby wailed.
“What is the meaning of this?” she demanded, waving the letter.
“What’s happened? Is that Lily’s--” He reached out, trembling.
“Don’t touch!”
Ten minutes ago, she wanted to be rid of it. Now she pulled back.
“I could help. I could...” His bloodshot eyes were desperate. “...take him.”
She shuddered. “I think not.”
*
Vernon was in the car, waiting at the kerb.
“Go,” she said. “Go!” They drove away though an amber light turning red.