Harry Potter and The Archivist [HP X TMA Fic]

Chapter 2

TW: some homophobia and a quick slur

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Jon stumbles a bit with opening the door with one hand before Harry lets go of his one free hand, Jon walks Harry to Tim's car and Jon can see Tim was leaning against it instead of waiting for them inside. 

Tim sees Jon and Harry walk outside, pushing himself off of his car, meets them halfway and Tim grins at Harry.

“Hey there, I'm Tim!” Tim introduces himself excitedly.

Harry hide behind Jon's leg when Tim walked up to them, he grasps Jon's slacks tightly in his hands as he looks up at Tim, he sees the colorful shirt and jean jacket covered in pins that made noise when he walked, his jeans also had a few patches that had pink, purple and blue colors on them. Harry was nervous to be around someone that dressed like the dark haired man since aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon said only freaks dressed like that.

Tim tilts his head at Harry's behavior upset that he scared the kid, his chin length black hair moving with his movement. Tim looks at Jon and sees anger and sadness in Jon's eyes, Tim then moves his gaze to the stuff in Jon's arm, he sees the hole cover clothes and the broken toys. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Harry didn't have good guardians and that made Tim angry.

Jon sees Tim start getting angry and quickly starts to introduce Harry to Tim so the man wouldn't lose his head in front of the child.

“Harry, this is Tim, my assistant at my job.” Jon says gesturing to Tim with the arm that was full of Harry's belongings “He's going to drive us to the store to pick you up some things before taking us to my apartment 

Harry looks up at Jon and then looks back at Tim, Harry slowly comes out from behind Jon's legs still holding Jon's hand in a tight hold.

“Hello.” Harry says softly, the soft shy tone makes Tim smile at Harry again.

“Hello,” Tim says back before looking at Jon, “You ready to go or do you have…” 

Tim's words drift off as Jon shakes his head quickly so Harry doesn't see.

“We're ready.” Jon says quickly 

Tim just nods and opens the back door to his car and Jon puts Harry's belongings in the back and pushes them closer to the other seat next to the other back door before helping Harry in and buckling him up, Jon closes the door and before he can walk to the passenger door Tim stops him.

“They treated him awful, right?” 

Jon nods, “I'll tell you more when Harry's asleep.” Jon says in a soft tone.

Tim nods and gets into the driver's side, Jon walks to the passenger side and gets in, both men buckle up and Tim pulls out of the driveway.

Harry turns around in the back seat and watches the house he was being raised in for most of the life he can remember grow smaller and smaller as the car drives away, Harry waves at the house one last time before Tim turns a corner and Harry can't see the house anymore.

Harry turns back around and looks at Jon's head from behind, the man's hair was long and slightly messy, it had random streaks of gray running through it and Harry wonders if he's really old, Harry's gaze turns to Tim, his hair was long but not as long as Jon's, both had dark black hair, Harry likes their hair and wonders if Jon would let him grow his hair out like his. 

Tim glances at Jon and sees him lean his head back against the headrest and close his eyes, Tim can see the dark circles under Jon's eyes seem to get darker after going into Petunia's, Tim wonders how bad it was and if Jon knows.