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His first meeting with Dr weir had been a little nerve wracking. Tom didn’t know what to expect. He’d met the woman a few times but he’d never actually had time alone with her. Sheppard had brought him to her office and told Tom that he had work to do and he’ll see him after his meeting. Tom had thought Sheppard was gonna stay with him. He waited for Dr weir to invite him in and sat in one of the chairs in front of her desk. Tom is so small he’s feet were no where near the ground.
“Hello Tom. There’s no need to be nervous. I’m not going to hurt you.”
“Kay.”
“I just want to get to know you better so we can be friends kind of like the friendship you have with Sheppard.”
“Frens.”
“Yeah. I know you’ve had a rough life so far and I want to make sure that we can make you as comfortable and welcome as possible.”
“Kay?”
“So. How has you’re day been so far? Has Sheppard shown you any of the movies on base yet?”
“Movies?”
“I’ll take that as a no.”
“Play cars”
“The remote controlled ones or the small ones in the floor?”
“Ones on floor”
“That sounds like fun. Do you like the cars?”
“Yea”
“Maybe we can get you some more toys to play with.”
“Toys?”
“That’s what the cars are they are toys for you to play with and have fun.”
“Oh”
“We have toys you can build with and ones you can pretend to fly. We have soft ones you can sleep with.”
“Sleep toys?”
“Yes they are called stuffed animals. They can look like any animal on our home world”
“I see them?”
“The animals or the toys?”
“Yes”
Elizabeth laughs. “I can see about getting you some animal books so you can see some of the animals on our planet but it might take a little while ok?”
“Oh... ok.”
“I wish I could make those shipments come faster but the Daedalus only moves so fast and our home world is so far away.”
“I see it?”
“You want to see earth?”
Tom nods.
“I don’t have any pictures.... I’ll see if I can find you some pictures of earth that I can show you next time we are together does that sound good?”
“Kay”
“I have a feeling you are going to like the dogs of my world. They look similar to you except they don’t have spikes and their tails are shorter.”
Tom tries to imagine such a creature. They look weird in his mind. No spikes short tails long teeth. Are all the teeth long or just the ones that Tom has?
“Cats are very similar but the are smaller and tend to be a little bit meaner.”
Small mean creatures? Tom needs to see these animals. He needs to meet them.
“Tom?”
Tom looks at weir “sorry was tryin imagine...”
“Oh. Well I’ll see about those animal books and some other stuff so you can learn about the animals of earth if you’d like.”
Tom nods “yes peez”
“Ok. In the meantime I have to get back to work and I’m sure you want to go get lunch with Sheppard?”
Tom turns to see Sheppard at the door. “Ok” he climbs off his chair and heads to Sheppard.
“Hey bud how was the meeting?”
“We talk bout toys an aminals. What’s a movie?”
Sheppard leads Tom to the cafeteria. Where they continue to talk about toys and animals and movies. His meetings with weir after that were nothing for Tom to fear he started looking forward to them and how much he can learn from her.