[BACKDATED] He didn't see me watching

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Characters: Ryotaro Dojima (smokersona) and Matilda Wormwood (nailsandglass)
Location: Various places?
Rating: G
Time: July 14 (BACKDATED)
Description: Dojima comes to pick up Matilda to the Clinic as a potential for Matilda's guardian, and the two bond



As nice as all the people she had met were, she was glad to be out of the clinic. Being stuck in that room for five days had made her feel so claustrophobic. She wanted to get out, stretch her legs, see more of Death City.

Before that, however, she had to find a permanent place. Though she did know how to take care of herself a little, she had exaggerated her ability a little since she didn't want to
seem like a burden. It was also nice...the idea to stay with someone who might actually want her.

She waited patiently outside the clinic, a backpack strapped on and full on the books that Alphonse had bought for her. Germany had told her that someone by the name of Ryotaro Dojima would be picking her up, and it was hard for her not to shift from foot to foot in impatient excitement.

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It was an odd thing, to him, standing up to take care of a child he'd never met before. He could understand the reasoning behind it, the reasoning for it, but it didn't stop the nervousness from settling around his shoulders like it did. The child may have been no older than Nanako, but that didn't mean she was. What to say, when he met her?

He didn't expect the blow when he approached the clinic. That little form, backpack at the ready. Hadn't she looked like that, when she went off to school in the morning?

"Mat-- Matilda?" he asked, as he approached, stumbling over the foreign name, careful and clumsy and he wondered if all men his age felt that sense of awkward with children.