Disclaimer: I own nothing other than my OC's.

A/N: This is an AU fanfic, with some differences between canon and my take characters, and some characters might be OOC at times.

"GET THE BLOODY MAIL YOU LITTLE RUNT!" Screamed a very overweight man to Freak.

Freak, who was cowed into submission since what seemed like birth, replied with a simple and monotone, "Yes, Uncle Vernon."

As Freak was walking through the hall to get to the door his less overweight, but that isn't by much, cousin shoved him into the door of his cupboard, which caused Freak to wince in pain once his bruised arm made contact with the small door. Freak didn't make a sound though. He couldn't, no, wouldn't make a sound and give the extraordinarily normal family the pleasure of knowing that they hurt him.

His overweight cousin looked back at him and smirked. "Not gonna say anything, huh, Freak?"

Freak picked himself off of the door to the cupboard and walked towards the mail that was lying down on the door.

He saw a stamp of the sea on one of the pieces of mail was mesmerized. The child had never left the vicinity of Number 4 Privet Drive before, other than for school and the library (the Dursleys needed to keep up appearances after all), and had always wanted to visit the sea.

Freak shook himself out of his little daydream, picked up the mail and quickly walked back to Uncle Vernon to give him the mail. He silently did this and after dropping the mail in front of the man he went into the kitchen to make his "family" some food.

As he entered the kitchen, he immediately heard another, and thankfully the last, member of the house screech, "I SWEAR FREAK IF YOU BREAK EVEN A SINGLE DISH YOU WILL GET A PUNISHMENT THAT YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!"

Freak sighed inwardly at that statement. She said something of the sort every day although he had never broken any dish before in his life.

Of course, he responded, "Yes, Aunt Petunia."

Freak had been washing the dishes for a little over 15 minutes when Dudley, a name fitting for his overweight cousin, walked into the kitchen and decided to get himself a cup of water. Freak was, of course, very confused as he had never before in his life seen Dudley get himself a cup of water. He had always called upon him to get the water for him.

Freak realized what Dudley was going to do just a moment too late.

Freak's eyes widened as the thought ran through his head and Dudley's smirk confirmed his thought. He was too slow though. Dudley shoved his cousin into the refrigerator, which caused him to feel immediate pain from the bruises. He relaxed his arm for a moment, and accidently released his grip on the glass cup.

The glass cup seemed like it was falling in slow motion as Freak tracked the cup's movements with it's eyes.

Time seemed to return back to normal as the sound of shattering glass was heard throughout the entire house.

He slowly heard stomps from his skinny aunt that traveled from the stairs. He saw her as she went into the kitchen, slowly looked down at the ground, and glared back up at him.

If someone other than his aunt was looking directly at his eyes, they would've seen reluctant acceptance in Freak's eyes.

Sighing inwardly once more, he picked himself off of the refrigerator and walked towards the loudest member of the household.

She nodded, happy that the freak knew what was coming to him. Aunt Petunia didn't even spare another glance at Dudley.

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Freak groaned in his cupboard after he finished making dinner. He didn't get any. He was sure that the marks given to him by Aunt Petunia wouldn't go away for a long time, if at all. Freak moaned in pain and just as he did every night, wished for the pain to go away.

As Freak uncomfortably fell asleep, he dreamed. He dreamed of a place that seemed to come right out of a fairy tale, with magic, great guilds, many mages, merciless monsters, rich green forests, multiple mountains, expansive oceans, and graceful dragons.

If Freak could smile in his dream, he would. He was glad that, even if it was only when he slept, the pain went away.

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When Freak woke up, the first thing he saw was one of the very things he had dreamt about.

A dragon.

A dragon?

Freak fainted.