First Meeting -- locked to enterthe_abyss

[justabitfuzzy]

The sun was setting on New York City when Remus finally managed to get off work. With no money for a cab he started walking down the street toward his tiny apartment building. He was looking forward to curling up with some soup and a book after a long days work but as he turned down Fourth Street he noticed a kid. A kid who was totally alone on the

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[enterthe_abyss]

Night and day had absolutely no meaning to the young boy. All he knew was to sleep when he was tired and remain awake when he could in order to find food and search out warmth before the next time he got tired again. It hadn't always been like this, but he didn't know how long it had been for now. Long enough that his clothes were crumpled and dirty. Scratches littered what skin was visible, and there were bruises around his hands and knees, and down the length of his right arm. The little boy seemed unbothered by any of this. Nothing seemed to bother him, in fact. He stood with all the trust of someone who had no clue the dangerous situation he had put himself in

[justabitfuzzy]

As he came closer he noticed what shape the boy was in. Remus was taken aback by this and had to hold back a gasping sound of shock as he noted all the injuries this kid had and how young he was. Crouching down he looked at the kid, touching him very lightly on the shoulder.

"Hello?" he asked his voice thick with concern. "Kid...are you okay? Can you hear me?"

[enterthe_abyss]

It seemed that the boy couldn't, because the touch appeared to be the first realization he had that he wasn't alone. The boy recoiled in surprise, but not from fear. Almost instantly his little hand was extended, and dirty fingers groped in the air for the figure who had touched him. The boy located a shoulder first, and all at once he tucked himself into the body he had found.

With one hand gripping the man's arm, the other began its exploration. Little fingers touched along the man's jawline and towards his chin, then over his lips and towards his nose. With a confused expression, he reached up and carefully raked his small fingers into the man's hair. Finally deciding that he was a stranger, the boy's lips opened and he made a few wet gurgling sounds before clinging even more tightly.

[justabitfuzzy]

It was perhaps the strangest and scariest thing to ever happen to Remus and there were a lot of strange and scary things that happened in his life. As the boy felt out and latched onto him he stayed perfectly still. Moving may scare or jar unseen injuries. The first thing he infers is that the boy is either blind or has very bad sight and secondly bad hearing or no hearing. Once he's finished feeling Remus relaxes a little. For a moment he stayed where they were but then he tried speaking again.

"I'm going to pick you up," he spoke clearly into the boys ear but still wasn't sure he had heard him. So Remus goes through with the statement, easily lifting the boy from the street.