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Harley was mad at Pam. Pam said she wasn’t funny. How could she? Harley was hilarious! As she walked through the mess hall with her tray, she let out a little hiccup. Harley giggled to herself. Maybe it was because she hadn’t eaten yet, that sometimes happened to her.

She looked around the mess hall and didn’t know where to sit. Another hiccup. Dammit.

Then she spotted a bespectacled boy sitting by himself with a full lunch tray. Hiccup. He looks like the guy of guy that needed a little Harley in his life! Hiccup. Harley made a beeline for the man and sat right down across from him. Hiccup.

“Hiya! I’m Harley, nice to meetcha.” Hiccup. “What’s your name?” Hiccup.

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Harry was almost finished with his food, only had a few more bites and then he could run back to his quarters before heading down to his shift in security, when the blonde woman came and sat down across from him. For a brief moment, he wasn't sure she was even talking to him, but a glance around showed that she must be.

"Uh," he said, and then smiled, holding his hand out to shake hers. "I'm Harry."

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Harley balanced her tray in one hand and offered her other. She had a strong handshake and held on a little too long for it to be comfortable. Hiccup. “Can I sit here? Can you help me with something?” Harley assumed everyone was her friend.

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Harry squeezed her hand and then went back to eating. He shrugged. "Sure, you can. I'm almost done here too, if you were waiting for someone else or wanted a seat for them or something. I was just going to get some dessert."

He looked at her a little warily. "Help with what?" he asked.

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“Nope! I wanted to sit with you,” she said pointing at him. A little accusatory. Hiccup. She covered her mouth when she hiccuped suddenly and stopped pointing. Pushing her tray forward and away from her, she cleared her throat. And then hiccuped.

“You’re a wizard, right?”

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Harry nodded again. "Yes, I'm a wizard," he told her. That was something that was still taking some time to get used to. Everyone knowing exactly what and who he was. Well, maybe not the who he was bit considering that most everyone he met even back home always seemed to know who he was too. This was just a different kind of all that.

"Why?"

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Harley pointed at him excitedly, hiccuping in the process. “You! You! Help me get rid of these hiccups! Wave your wand and … make ‘em go away!” She pounded both palms on the table, “They can’t be scared away ‘cuz I ain’t scared of anything and I can’t hold my breath because .. I just can’t! Wizard them away!”

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He blinked at her then sat back and laughed lightly. "It doesn't always work that way," Harry told her. "How did you get the hiccups? Did someone hex them on you?"

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Harley tilted her head like a confused dog. “I got hiccups the way everyone gets hiccups. They just appear!” She waved her hand like it was magic.

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"Well, I can't really get rid of them with just waving my wand at you if they aren't magical hiccups," Harry said pointedly. "And I haven't got any hiccup-go-away elixir or anything to give you either. Because I haven't got any spider legs to mix into it." Only a little twitch of the corner of his mouth would give away that he was teasing her.

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Harley stuck her lip out and pouted. “I’ll find you a damn spider. I’ll find you two damn spiders!” She folded her arms over her chest and hiccuped again. “You can’t magic them away? What’s the point of being a wizard?” Her face contorted into anger.

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"Oh I could if I wanted to," Harry said, sitting back and crossing his arms. "I'm just trying to figure out why you came and found me out for it instead of going to someone else."

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“I looked around the mess hall and saw the kid with the glasses!” She failed a little bit like Kermit. “I figured a wizard could be powerful enough to defy nature!” Harley looked down at her tray and picked up her brownie. “Would you do it for a trade?”

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Harry tipped his head to the side and looked at her brownie. "You'll give me that brownie if I magic away your hiccups?" he asked, smiling a bit. He could go off and get his own brownie if he really wanted to, and he knew she could go and get another one too even if she gave this one to him. But he was having fun, for some reason, for one of the first times since he came on board this spaceship.

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Harley waved the brownie around and made sounds, ‘Vroom vroom, flying brownie! Yes, this special brownie could be yours if you--” hiccup “--help me get rid of these hiccups! I get them a lot, I don’t know what it is. My innards…” She clutched her stomach while still flying the brownie around in front of her.

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He shook his head and laughed. "You can keep your brownie," he said as he produced his wand from his pocket. Even though he didn't need it for his job at security - yet, at least - he definitely didn't feel comfortable leaving it back in his quarters. It would be like going to work with no pants, if he didn't have his wand on him. He gave it a wave, a silent incantation, and shrugged. "There. All fixed?"

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Harley opened her mouth to hiccup and nothing came out. She dropped the brownie to the tray and reached over to Harry. She put her arms around his neck, leaning over their trays, and gave him a squeeze. “Best Wizard Ever over here!” She pointed at him while having him in a headlock.

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He let her manhandle him for a moment longer than he really wanted to before he gently extracted himself from Harley's grip and pushed her away. "Yeah, that sounds about right," he mumbled, but he was grinning.

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Harley didn’t fight him pushing her away and she sat back down in her seat. She ate her meal and grinned up at him ever so often. She made a new friend today, everyone!