Harry Potter flew into the wooden door, the wood split as he was punched in the ribs, standing up he was hit again by a blurring fist in the face, his glasses went askew and the next punch to the face knocked them off. Now everything was a blur but when he squinted he just managed to see a foot flying toward his chest, as it hit he fell backwards and this time he went through the wooden wall, his head snapped against the wall and he lay unconscious.

Relentless Vernon Dudely beat the skinny boy, only stopping when the blood stopped flowing and the loud snap of a leg as he was jumping on the boys kneecap. Hurling Harry's entire torso in to stairs he locked it, he then proceeded to board the entire side of the stairs up, cutting a small hole where fragments of bread could be placed every few days. His entire belongings were burnt, wand, broom, books, letters, invisibility cloak, letters, everything out of the trunk. He then took the cauldron and trunk. Keeping the money so he could punish his nephew for neglecting them of his money. He obviously had some somewhere and no matter how little it was he wanted it. He was ignorant of the fact that his wife Petunia had been getting a monthly payment into her account from the Headmaster of the freakish school.

This payment turned out to be a huge amount, in muggle terms anyway. The galleon to british sterling had been fluctuating as any economic market had but regardless the two thousand pounds was always in her account the last friday of every month ever since Harry had been at Number Four, Privet Drive. Also Vernon was blissfully unaware that the company Grunnings had been a Potter business currently owned by Headmaster Dumbledore. Initially it had been a favour to Petunia from Lily who had convinced James to help his sister-in-law as her husband (an uneducated, blithering fool) could earn some money for the family. Grunnings of course was a blip on the radar on the Potter Radius, many other companies were owned by The Potters (whose current illegally acting head was Mr.Dumbledore) he had duped his way into this position by proclaiming he was a distant relative of The Potters, a few confounding spells and he had the right to act until Mr.Potter became of age or otherwise.

Vernon returned to the distant moans and soon followed clambering against the now double wooden wall. Vernon became purple almost instantly and roared at "the freak" to be quiet or he would break his other leg. The noise died down.

Harry Potter was slipping in and out of consciousness, the blood that had spilled had in some places remained wet, others sticky and mostly dried. With just a shaft a dim light coming through the hole that had been cut through Harry opted for his face to be hidden in the shadows and gaze through the hole, he heard the door slam and Aunt Petunia's shrill voice came through, inquiring to Vernon where the freak was.

"Out." he muttered.

"Why is the cupboard under the stairs boarded up?" asked Petunia.

"To lock all his freakish stuff away, I cut a hole incase anything in their was alive and needed air" replied Vernon.

"How thoughtful of you dear..." Petunia went on talking about Number Seven. They had a new fence put up and she couldn't see over the top of it.

Harry lay their, if it weren't for his chest rising up and down you might have thought he were dead. Blood trickled down his face as he stretched, re-opening wounds. It seemed these cuts were not healing properly. He was certain his leg would never be the same again due to the odd angle, luckily or unluckily depending on how you see it the nerves had somehow severed, so he could not feel his leg only numbness. Several of the cuts were infected, with what though he did not know, his head pounded and his heartbeat could be felt in the more deeper cuts. He didn't know why Uncle Vernon had hit him, he stepped through the door of Number Four and was hit on the back of the head with something, from their the beating had continued, he remembered the clock in the car read 3PM as it switched off, and the last time he glanced at a clock in the lounge it was 3.30PM after that he could not remember anything. Uncle Vernon had been on his own when he had picked Harry up, his aunt was shopping with Dudely apparently for something for the house. Now that he thought about it Uncle Vernon hadn't seemed vicious in the car, he had even asked if Harry wanted to listen to the radio...

His train of thought was interrupted by Dudelys arrival, Harry saw his whale of a cousin and knew that his diet was not going well at all. He was complaining about having to empty out all the boxes in the freaks room.

"Why can't the freak do it?" whined Dudely.

"Because the ungrateful boy has gone brooding somewhere" replied Petunia.

"Why are we moving again?" asked Dudely.

"We'll talk about it later Dudely" said Vernon loudly. To loudly.

Moving... thought Harry, so thats why Vernon didn't tell Petunia he beat me, he's usually boasting how he made me pay. Wait won't the occupants notice the smell of my rotting corpse? Or inquire about the...

"Vernon are you sure we should continued to own this house and another? Can we afford it?" asked Petunia.

"We'll talk more when we're there" huffed Vernon

So I am being left alone, I am in a cupboard, with no food when they move, I have no wand, no way of contact and can't use anything to force me out. Great. Thought Harry.

Later that night Vernon sneaked down the stairs, the boy was asleep or unconscious or whatever they did. He could see the boys arm in the moonlight, he had asked a friend at the country club for a favour, a few brief explanations later he had a sedative strong enough to keep a horse out of it for two days. He forced the needle in and before the boy could shout he pushed his thumb down injecting him with the sedative. He could see the boy attempting to fight it but within seconds he was down. Doing all he could to push the boy down into the more shadowy bits of the cupboard he went back upstairs and slept soundly.

Sorry about how short the chapter is I know but I don't want to give everything away to early now do I? Read and Review!!