(A/N): So this chapter wasn't quite finished so I had to do a little work on it, and I'm sort of moving back and forth between a few different chapters, trying to place them between the last old chapter I uploaded, and the most recent one I have written. It's a little bit hard, since every time I used to try to write something I would get blocked about 200 words in so I have a bunch of snippets of chapters that now I have to try to remember what my original plan was, or make up a completely new one to fill in the gaps.

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Leo

I didn't mention the additional contents of the letter to Elaine, who I could tell was the one who had decided to leave it on my pillow, but it brought up two main emotions.

The first being touched- Lisbet had called me 'her little boy', which was a big thing, considering she wasn't the most obviously maternal person in the world- the second was an overwhelming fear.

What kind of whacked out world had I stepped into, where my dad was dead, Lisbet was calling me her little boy, and Shari was nowhere to be found?

It was, of course, Elaine who found me, curled up under a blanket on of the couches in the room of requirement. I could smell her coming from a mile away, but didn't bother trying to hide, and by the time she arrived, it only half looked like I had recently been crying.

"Hey." I murmured as she entered, and I felt her heartbeat quicken.

"Hi, Leo..." It wasn't pity in her voice, more of a hopeless sorrow, and she moved to sit by my feet on the end of the couch. I went to sit up, but she gently pushed me back down. "You can stay there, Leo, I just thought... maybe you'd want some company?" She couldn't see me through the blanket, so I reached other and pulled her down next to me, readjusing so we could both fit comfortably under the blanket, and laid my head on her shoulder.

It was silent for a moment, where we just laid there, her fingers drumming against my bicep, mine playing with her hair, before she inevitably spoke up.

"You've been crying... haven't you?" I nodded, mentally preparing for the pleading to tell her what had happened that was certain to follow, but it never came. "Oh." I winced at just how heartbroken she sounded. "Okay." She pressed a kiss to my temple, and that was that.

"Is that it?" I asked timidly, and she shrugged.

"You know I'm here if you want to talk, Leo, what more could I possibly say?" I sat there for a second, mulling it over.

"I love you." I murmured, not giving her time to reply before I pressed my lips to hers firmly, for only a second. "You will never understand how much you mean to me, Ghislaine... I have to thank you for giving me some space with this." She looked kind of shell shocked, so I pressed on. "I haven't come to terms with it yet, and that's probably because I don't want to admit that its real, so uh... yeah." I trailed off lamely. "Thank you." I repeated, pressing a kiss to her cheek and relaxing back into our earlier position.

"You know, I honestly think your kisses have been laced with a stunning spell or something." She confessed about a minute later, and I snorted.

"Your face has been laced with a stunning spell." I teased, kissing her under the chin and delighting in the blush I felt spreading across her skin a second after.

"Okay, you don't get to be that cute and then scare the crap out of me, pick one." I pouted for a second, then pulled on a lopsided smile.

"I'll just make you happy all the time-" She cut me off with an almost outraged look.

"No, Leo. You wanting to make me happy- everyone happy- is what's scaring the crap out of me." My eyebrows drew together in confusion.

"Isn't wanting to make people happy a good thing?" I asked, honestly curious, and she rolled her eyes at me.

"It is, Leo, but you take it too far. You don't think about your own happiness, and anyone who would want you to put their happiness in front of your own clearly doesn't deserve you." I bit my lip, and she reached out with one hand, brushing there with the pad of her thumb.

"You're honestly the best person in the world, you know that?" She seemed a little surprised, not by the sentiment, but by the weight behind it.

"Oh?" She asked shyly, and I couldn't but grin, taking a second to rub my cheek against hers.

"Yeah. You're sweet, and insightful, and cute- no, adorable! You're tough and brace, and just absolutely amazing." I started peppering kisses all around her face, but after a second she pulled back, her eyes starting to tear up, and I froze, not wanting to upset her further.

"What- Elaine?" She brought her hands up, cupping my cheeks and brushing the skin there with the pads of her thumbs.

"Listen to me, and listen good, Leo." Internally, I think my entire being started paying attention acutely, keyed into Elaine, because she really wanted it, and especially because she was upset. "I'm not the best person in the world- no don't even think about talking- you're the best person in the world. You don't get to debate this, okay? You're literally the nicest person ever- you're the kind of guy who always wishes people happy birthday just in case they don't have anyone else to say it to them. You're fiercely loyal, and protective- oddly mothering- funny and goofy, but also ridiculously clever when you want to be." I started to shake my head, but she tightened her grip on my face and continued.

"You're utterly selfless and compassionate and loving- and I just don't get why you have to be so modest that you can't even see it. You may have built in binoculars, and xray specs, but you're still blind to it, Leo."

(A/N): So I named this chapter before I finished writing it, which is why its a reference to Navi from Zelda, and not called 'Binoculars and Xray Specs or something similar. I'm sorry if it ended a bit abruptly, I just couldn't find a way to either continue it, or mesh it with the next chapter- mostly because I'm not sure exactly which one is going to be the next chapter.