"What?" James asked, still eyeing Vernon angrily.
"They sold my parents' house," Lily cried. "I don't... I don't have a home."
"Yes, you do," Mia said loudly as she approached, casting a scathing look at Vernon
and Petunia. "You'll come and live with the rest of us at the manor."
"Manor." Vernon snorted and rolled his eyes.
Mia glared in response, a part of her wanting to take him to Potter Manor just then
to show him. She wanted to kidnap the large Muggle and drag him through the Wizarding
world by his neck rolls, show him Hogwarts and Gringotts, let him piss himself at the sight
of Sirius's vault. Then, just for the hell of it, she would leave him to rot inside the drawing
room of Malfoy Manor.
"No." Lily shook her head. "I couldn't impose."
"Lily, you belong with us."
"That's for certain," Vernon muttered under his breath.
"Sirius," James called over his shoulder.
Sirius approached, looking imposing as ever with his hands stuffed into the pockets
of his leather jacket and a cigarette hanging from his lips. He inhaled and then blew smoke
into Vernon's face without a care to the way the man choked in front of him.
"You and Mia take Lily back to Hogwarts," James instructed, keeping his eye on
Vernon the entire time. "Remus and I will collect her things and have them sent home. I'll
expect an address to where they're being kept," he insisted before turning back to Mia. "I'll
let Dad know everything."
"Merlin!" Sirius exclaimed in exasperation as the large group Apparated just outside
of the school gates, waiting until one of the professors or Hagrid came to let them inside.
Mia flicked her wand, letting a silvery fox rush away to alert the headmaster to their return.
"Did we just meet the Malfoys of Muggles? That Dursley is a right cunt."
"They're awful," Mia agreed, snatching the new cigarette from Sirius's mouth, taking
a drag from it before vanishing it with the wand that Mary returned to her. "Lily, I am so
sorry you had to go through all that on top of everything else."