FAKE Quadruple Drabble: Foster Parent
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badly_knittedTitle: Foster Parent
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Setting: Vol. 1.
Summary: Before Bikky, Ryo had never considered becoming a foster parent.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Foster’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
Ryo had never given a thought towards becoming a foster parent until he’d encountered Bikky. He’d had some vague ideas of maybe someday getting married and having a kid or two, but it had never seemed a priority; he was only twenty-seven, there was plenty of time for parenthood, and right now his career was what mattered. He’d worked hard to become a cop, with ambitions to work his way up to detective; he needed to get established before he even considered relationships and settling down.
But the moment he’d seen that small, vulnerable ten-year-old boy trying so hard to be brave in the face of his only parent’s death, he’d know he couldn’t simply turn his back and move on. If ever a child had needed a better option than the state could provide, it had been at that moment.
Foster care was far from perfect, and Ryo wasn’t even a registered foster parent, he hadn’t gone through all the checks and training. But he was a police officer, a detective even if it WAS only his first day on the job, and he understood better than most people his age what it felt like to lose your closest family members to violent crime.
Both of his parents had been murdered when he was eighteen, and technically old enough to take care of himself, but he remembered how the bottom had simply dropped out of his world when his aunt had broken the news to him. How much worse must it be for a ten-year-old whose only living family had been his father, and who had no relatives who could take him in?
Some strings had needed pulling with social services, it was a bit irregular for a single man to want to foster a child, but Ryo was determined, and willingly submitted to checks, interviews, and the filling in of forms, because the boy needed someone who could help him deal with his loss. Bikky already liked and trusted him, which was half the battle.
So here he was, foster parent to a small boy, with absolutely no prior experience of being a parent. Ryo knew it wouldn’t be easy, he had so much to learn about parenthood, while he was still learning to ropes when it came to being a detective. It didn’t matter. However difficult it might be, he knew he was doing the right thing.
The End
But the moment he’d seen that small, vulnerable ten-year-old boy trying so hard to be brave in the face of his only parent’s death, he’d know he couldn’t simply turn his back and move on. If ever a child had needed a better option than the state could provide, it had been at that moment.
Foster care was far from perfect, and Ryo wasn’t even a registered foster parent, he hadn’t gone through all the checks and training. But he was a police officer, a detective even if it WAS only his first day on the job, and he understood better than most people his age what it felt like to lose your closest family members to violent crime.
Both of his parents had been murdered when he was eighteen, and technically old enough to take care of himself, but he remembered how the bottom had simply dropped out of his world when his aunt had broken the news to him. How much worse must it be for a ten-year-old whose only living family had been his father, and who had no relatives who could take him in?
Some strings had needed pulling with social services, it was a bit irregular for a single man to want to foster a child, but Ryo was determined, and willingly submitted to checks, interviews, and the filling in of forms, because the boy needed someone who could help him deal with his loss. Bikky already liked and trusted him, which was half the battle.
So here he was, foster parent to a small boy, with absolutely no prior experience of being a parent. Ryo knew it wouldn’t be easy, he had so much to learn about parenthood, while he was still learning to ropes when it came to being a detective. It didn’t matter. However difficult it might be, he knew he was doing the right thing.
The End
