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Rain rain, go away
Come again another day
All the world is waiting for the sun
Leonard wishes he'd told the young man how he felt about him the first time he sees him. The boy is tiny and strong all at the same time, and he wants nothing more than to hug Harrison Black.
The first time Leonard meets Harry, he's not quite sure what to think. The boy is shorter than he thought, standing at perhaps 5'5". He is thin, ridiculously so, and has small delicate wrists. His hand is small enough to almost be engulfed by Leonard's own, but they are calloused and rough instead of soft like he had expected. He has a soft voice, that somehow commands attention, and Leonard doesn't even want to get started on his eyes. He could probably go for days on those pretty green gems. James stands behind the boy and grins, his blue eyes sparkling in something that could only be referred to as relief.
Taking another look at the boy, Leonard begins to study him in the way that only a doctor can. The boy needs to put on some weight. He can't be more than a hundred pounds, way below the recommended weight. The boy also needs some sleep if the dark bags under his eyes are anything to go by. Leonard is sure that there are a myriad of other things that need to be fixed, but those are the major ones. He also makes a mental note to ask how old the boy is. He looks no older than sixteen.
"Come, why don't you meet Joanna." Leonard smiles slightly and gestures for both young men to follow him. He led them down the hall of his new apartment, and down to Joanna's room. He was lucky. Captain Pike had managed to get him a three bedroom apartment just off campus, and he wasn't paying for it, the academy was. He really needs to decorate it too. Leonard figures that he'll take Jo, Jim and Harry with him when he goes to Georgia in a couple of weeks to help him pack stuff. He stops in front of his daughter's open door and just observes her. She is playing with a doctor set that James had gotten her (He had grinned at Leonard and said "So she can be just like her Daddy"). Joanna had taken immediate liking to it and played with it a lot. When he did walk into the room, Joanna looked up from where she was listening to her teddy bear's heart and grinned at him. Kneeling down he pointed at Harry. "Jo, this is Harrison Black. He's going to take care of you while Uncle Jim and I are in class or when I have to work at the hospital."
Joanna frowned briefly at her Dad, before getting up and toddling over to the short young man. She looked up into his eyes for a long moment, before putting her arms up in the universal 'I want to be held' pose. Harrison looked surprised before lifting her gently under her arms and settling her on his hip. Leonard was struck for a brief moment on how right it looked, for that man to be holding his daughter. He had to grin when his little girl stuck a plaster band-aid onto a scratch the young man had on his cheek.
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