Alyx sighed peacefully and fell back onto her bed. School was a blessing for her, a chance to get away from her mother. Freedom was one thing Alyx cherished. Sirius could get away with running off to James's sure he got in trouble but if Alyx tried that............well she'd never try it. She was too afraid of her mum and everything she had done to Alyx. Slowly the young girl drifted into sleep.
"You useless wench!" Her mother screamed at Alyx, smacking the girl to the ground. Alyx knew better than to get up, so instead she just curled up on the floor avoiding eye contact with her mother. "Can't you do anything right?! I ask you to do one simple task and you fail! You're more useless than a house elf!" She continued to yell at Alyx throwing in a few hard kicks to the ribs to help prove her point. Alyx flinched but kept her mouth shut and her eyes down. Angered by the younger girls actions the older woman pulled out a knife. "Can you not do anything? Are you too simple mined?" She bellowed. "Answer me!" Alyx nodded slowly, trembling as the knife glinted in her eyes. "Get out of my site!"
Alyx rose slowly careful to not look at her mother and limped to the stairs and up to her room, which was nothing more than a crappy old mattress and a think blanket crammed into what was probably the smallest room in the house. Painfully the injured young girl curled up on her bed and fell into a painful sleep.
Alyx awoke from the dream with a start. Her shimmery blonde hair clung to her face in clumps and sweat trickled down her back. "Great, just when I think I've gotten away from all of this." Alyx sighed realizing she was safe at Hogwarts, not trapped in the prison she called home.
((the dream is a private thought so no one but Sirius knows what happens to Alyx))
