All of the people who had been so excited - he knew now they were scientists running some kind of experiments on the kids- were getting less and less interested as time went by and nothing else happened. Not that everything was going perfectly at the camp either. They certainly had never pretended that they wanted him. Hard to watch Dudley being fussed over by people who should have cared for him but would rather forget he existed. But it was hard going from being the center of Soldat's world to being ignored. As he'd been promised, none of them had raised a hand - or anything else- to him since he'd started the program. Going back to the Dursleys' was the worst.
If nothing else, he really needed someone to train with so he could stop getting his arse kicked. Dudley wasn't sure if Harry could be a better friend than Piers, but he wanted to try to be friends with his cousin. That Harry would be the best friend and fiercest ally he could have, if Dudley just let him. He hadn't understood why they were happy about it, but he'd been told in no uncertain terms they he was to continue to ask Harry for help and to always stand by his cousin. The only thing about his escape plan he'd been praised for was going to his cousin for help. The amount of weight he'd lost just by being active had been shocking. What kid wouldn't? But he'd spent the last six weeks having it driven home they he wasn't any better than anyone else, and maybe he was worse off. His parents had always told him that he was treated so much better because he was so special, and of course he believed them. He'd always thought the way they were treated differently was strange, even after Harry had started going to the camp and his dad had stopped being so mean to him. As Harry slept, he thought about what was waiting for the two of them when they got home. Dudley just wrapped an arm around his shoulders, embracing him for the first time in their young lives. "Thanks, Dud," he said softly, letting his eyes fall closed. He'd faced consequences for the first time in his life, after all, and seemed to have come out the better for it. Maybe Dudley really wasn't so bad after all. "If what you were doing was harder than what I was doing, I'm surprised you could walk to the van." Harry snorted, amused, but let Dudley pull him closer until his head was resting on his cousin's shoulder. I'll wake you when we get home." Harry stared at him, unable to understand why his cousin was being so nice to him. Just exhausted." Dudley awkwardly tugged his arm to pull him closer.
They decided that since is gotten you that far, I needed special training." He'd been warned not to tell Dudley or anyone else about the bonding thing, and he didn't understand it well enough to explain it anyway. "Were you in lots of trouble?" he asked anxiously. They'd been at camp together all of two weeks, and Dudley had never seemed to like him before that. For once, he was happy, and it was all because of Soldat.ĭudley seemed happy to see him when Harry climbed into the van and took the open seat next to him. None of this was doing anything to help him get over his obsession with the man of course, but Harry didn't care. Granted, he always had to ask, but Soldat was almost always willing to stop and hug him, and he would have been willing to swear the man had kissed his hair during a hug once, totally unprompted. To Harry, it was amazing.Īnd he could finally get a little bit of affection for himself, too. Every word he said was listened to and contemplated, even if he didn't respond except to direct questions. Every motion was observed, evaluated, and usually corrected. If he wasn't on patrol -during which time Harry was clinging to Soldat's back 'to observe'- or in class, he had the supersoldier's complete attention. The stretching and fight training took enough time that Harry was pretty sure he'd changed his entire routine for him.
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Soldat had a fixed schedule, but it was about a ten-hour loop that he kept repeating rather than a full days worth of activity.Īnd yet, Harry loved it. If it weren't for the daily language lessons and meals, he wouldn't have any way to keep track of time. If Harry thought he'd been tired at the end of the day before, training with Soldat was a thousand times worse. Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 12798 Chapters: 8/? Comments: 137 Kudos: 858 Bookmarks: 297 Hits: 10104 Winter Soldier Cares About his Trainee Even When He Can't RememberĪ collection to keep my faves I'm following, Talia's List of Books to Read,, dmaryniadd's guilty pleasures - what I was reading when I should have been sleeping.
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