Finding my way in life

Meeting the little boy

It had been a month and Harry was still missing, the people were calming down now, and the Potters were once again the heroes. They hated that, they only wanted to have Harry back; Sirius and James were doing everything they could on the ministry, and Lily and Remus on the muggle world.

Things in their lives changed a lot, now they hated all the parties they needed to attend, they remembered they loved to be center of attention because of Alex, and they remembered they never brought Harry along.

Alex closed himself off, he didn't want to have people in his house, or talking to him just because he is 'the boy who lived'. He hated that stupid name. And he hated Dumbledore, it was because of him all the world forgot Harry.

Harry opened his eyes, he felt weird, he remembered what had happened and why he was here, but he was thinking who put him in a hospital? Did his parents find him? Of course not, they won't even realize he's gone. So, if it wasn't his parents how would he pay for this? He doesn't have money; he wasn't Alex, of course he never received pocket money...

"Oh!" exclaimed a nurse "you are awake, how are you feeling"

"I'm good" whispered Harry.

"Can you tell me your name?" asked the nurse.

"Harry..." he whispered.

"Hello Harry, can you tell me if you have a family?" asked the nurse.

Can he? Why would he? They didn't want him, and to be honest, he doesn't want them either. Maybe he likes Alex sometimes... but other times he couldn't help but feel jealous about him. Why couldn't he be good enough like him?

"Why?" asked Harry.

"So we could contact them and..."

"They are not coming," interrupted Harry.

"What?" asked the nurse.

"They don't love me" said Harry with a tear "I'm not Alex, I'm just Harry, they would never come for me"

The nurse didn't understand him and left to inform Tony and Happy about Harry. After some minutes Harry heard a gentle knock on his door, and then two men entered his room.

"Hello!" said the first one with a grin.

"Hi" whispered Harry.

"I'm Tony"

"Harry..."

"I'm Happy"

"I'm happy too, sir" said Harry.

Tony started to laugh and Happy gave him a gentle smile "That's my name kiddo, Happy"

"Oh" Harry looked at his lap in shame "sorry, sir"

"It's alright" said Happy, and Harry smiled at him.

"Are you alright?" asked Harry.

"We are, thanks to you" said Tony.

"Good" said Harry in relief.

"And you?" asked Happy.

"I'm good" said Harry.

"Can I ask you something?" asked Tony and Harry nodded his head "what were you doing so late out of your house?"

Harry looked for a second at the two men, they looked friendly; the one with the name Happy looked a little more friendly, because he thought this Tony man was faking his smile. But he decided he could trust them.

"I ran away from home..." Harry whispered.

"You what?" asked Tony "how old are you kid?"

"I'm five" said Harry "that day I turned five" and Harry told them everything, about his brother, his parents, and the neglect. During his story he let slip the words 'wizard' 'dark' and other ones, Harry didn't seem to be aware of his mistake, because he really needed someone with whom to vent.

"Hap..." said Tony "can you give me a minute with Harry?"

"Sure boss" Happy left the room.

"Harry, are you a wizard?" asked Tony, Harry looked up at him ready to run away from him too "hey, hey, easy" Tony tried to calm him down "I'm not going to bring you back to them if you don't want to, not after what you told me, but are you?"

"Yes, sir" Harry whispered.

"It's Tony, kid. As you can see, I know about 'our world'. I have a proposal for you" said Tony "Want to hear it?"

"Yes..."

"Look, if the people at the hospital don't find your family, and they won't because they live in the wizarding world, they will most likely send you to an orphanage and I don't want that for you" Tony took his time for ask the next question "Would you let me adopt you?"

"What?" Harry looked at him.

"Look Harry..."

"You want me..." Harry had tears in his eyes and so much hope.

"Yes kid, of course..." Tony was interrupted by a little boy who threw himself into his arms, he was frozen for a second until he hugged him too "you are safe kid, I promise."