Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

A/N: This is my first shot at MWPP and abuse, so, yeah. No flames please. Insults, yes, mild ones. Burning roaring flames, no. Oh, italics are thoughts, for the most part.

Rating for abuse, violence, and Sirius's mouth.

*--The type of bruises I mean are black-and-blues, you know, those purplish-bluish ones that are sometimes yellowish too?

"No! Please…not again Father…please!!"

"You will learn to behave properly and obey your mother and me, or you will get out!"

"I will! I will…if you please stop…for now."

Corvus smiled sadistically. "How I love to hear you beg…but it will not save you tonight." With those words, he brought the leather strap down on his son's bare chest.

Ursa looked down on her son without pity. "Why couldn't you do as we asked?"

"Mum…I did all you asked…but I was delayed a little…at the store…there was a long line…of people," he choked out.

Corvus flipped his son over and whipped his bare back. "Do not backtalk your mother! We asked you to go to the store, cook dinner, then wash dishes in an hour's time because we had a meeting. It took you an hour and ten minutes. You must be punished."

Lyra skipped down the stairs. "Was Sirius bad again?" she asked her mother.

"Yes Lyra dear," said Ursa matter-of-factly.

Lyra's eyes lit up. "Ooh, can I kick the bad doggy?"

Corvus gestured to Sirius. "Go ahead. Oh, but first…" He rummaged around in a shopping bag. "Put these new boots on."

Steel toes? thought Sirius, God, no! I'm only seventeen years old, I shouldn't have to put up with this shit! I'm sure at least two of my damn ribs are broken because of Lyra!

Lyra giggled. While she was only ten years old, her parents had already corrupted her. She tied on the steel-toed boots, then kicked Sirius in the sides, chest, back, and head. When she finished, Corvus hefted Sirius up, kicked him out of the room, and sent him to his bedroom.

God…I wish I could tell James about this…but then he would doubt I was telling the truth. 'Hey, James, I get abused all summer long, but I don't have a mark on my bloody body come September first!' Well, James might believe me, and possibly Remus and Peter too, but no one else will. Damn, damn, damn! Go to hell, Corvus Black!

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For another week, Corvus whipped, slapped, and generally mistreated Sirius, Ursa watched, and Lyra kicked 'the bad doggy'. Finally, there was only one week left in the summer and Ursa was taking Sirius to Diagon Alley. Corvus had to mend the wounds so he wouldn't get arrested, though he wasn't adept enough to hide the bruises*.

Finally, I get a damn break from the pain! Sirius thought happily. And I'll get to see James and Remus and Peter. God, I wish I had normal parents.

"I am going to give you until dark to get all your things. Meet me at the Leaky Cauldron at six." Ursa lowered her voice. "You know what your Father will do if you are late."

Sirius nodded, then turned and went into Diagon Alley.

"Sirius!" called the voice of James Potter.

Sirius spun around. "James, Remus, Peter! Hey, it's good to see all of you guys!"

"What happened to you?" Remus asked. "You're covered in bruises."

Sirius shrugged. "You know…I fell down, I was fooling around with Lyra, and playing Quidditch. Usual me."

James nodded. "Padfoot, you really should have come with us this summer."

"I was…busy. You know, with Father and Mum and Lyra. Bloody family," Sirius said, trying to sound light.

Peter still hadn't said a word.

Sirius looked at him. "What's up with him?"

James sniggered. "Oh, on the way here, we saw a tabby cat killing a rat. Traumatized him, I guess."

"It was awful! Maybe I should've been something else!" Peter squeaked.

"Can't change now," Remus said, sounding a little sad. "See, if it hadn't been for me, you wouldn't have become Animagus and then you wouldn't care what you were."

James clapped a hand on Remus's shoulder. "Come on Rem, it's fun!"

"Yeah," said Sirius halfheartedly.

Remus shot Sirius a look. "Sirius? Can I have a word?" He dragged Sirius over to an alleyway leading out of Diagon Alley.

"What?" Sirius asked, irritated.

"Sirius, something's bothering you. What is it?"

Sirius snorted. "Oh yes, something's bothering me all right. Since James can't see it, there must not be anything at all!" He wrenched out of Remus's grasp and stalked back to James and Peter.

"Hey, I didn't mean to insult you, oh high and mighty one," Remus said to Sirius when he caught up with him.

Sirius raised one eyebrow. "Insult me? As if! Nothing in the whole damn world could insult me!"

Sirius finished getting school supplies at five o'clock. Then he had to buy Marauder supplies. Fortunately, he finished at quarter to six, and made it to Ursa at six on the dot.

"Close shave, Sirius Black," she said. "Too close. I will inform your father and he will give you a… close shave."

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