The next part to the story of Daniels life flashbacks will be in italics I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 2 – Danny goes into foster care

The social worker grabbed the small boys hand neighbours had reported that they believed the now 4 year old was not safe in his home environment and that his father had become an even worse alcoholic then what he was after the child's mother passed away.

Flashbacks

The Messers brought home the small child that they had just taken from the hospital Leo Messer looked at the small boy in disgust he never wanted another child the one he had was perfect he didn't need another but Sarah was insistent to have another child she became obsessed until she finally got her wish but they found out that she couldn't conceive and with his record they wouldn't be able to adopt so they had taken this child from the hospital he thought that he had to get back at the boys father anyway so why not take his child.

"Louie come and meet your brother" Sarah Messer shouted up the stairs to her 10 year old son who trudged down the stairs hating the idea of having a brother he liked being an only child.

"eww, what's that?" he said making his father laugh his mother glared at both of them a look of shock on her face.

"Leo James Messer and Louie Harrison Messer you will love this child and you will treat him like he is family do I make my self clear" she shouted at them and they both sighed and nodded.

"fine what's his name?" Louie asked.

"Daniel Jason Messer" she said smiling down at the boy who smiled up at her not realizing what was going on around him.

End of flashback

Social Services brought the small boy to the hospital to be checked over the doctor sighed looking down at the sleeping child "I'm afraid there are signs of abuse on this child" the doctor told the social worker who sighed looking down at the 4 year old boy.

"guess I should find a family willing to take him then" she said "i will be back shortly please do not allow anyone other than yourself in this room" she told the doctor who nodded his consent.

The social worker left to go to her office, she arrived logging on to her computer she searched for families who are looking for a child that will take on the boy who they had found. After 2 long hours searching she finally found a family for the child the Middleton's would be perfect for her new charge she got their contact information and dialled their number.

"Middleton residence" the phone was answered by a female.

"Hello, Mrs Middleton this is child services" the social worker greeted.

"Oh hello" Marie Middleton replied.

"I'm sorry to call so late Mrs Middleton but I have a young boy waiting on a home, I was wondering if you would like to take him in" the social worker replied getting straight to the point.

"That would be wonderful what do I need to know about this little boy" Mrs Middleton asked happily.

"His name is Daniel, he is 4 years old, Mrs Middleton I want to be sure you can handle him first he has just come into social services custody after being removed from his fathers custody" the social worker started to explain.

"So he may be a little upset" Mrs Middleton interrupted "we can handle that" she added

"That is not what I mean Mrs Middleton, look the boy's mother passed away a year ago and his farther is an alcoholic, we checked the boy over there's signs of abuse that what I want to know if you can handle that" the social explained.

"Oh dear, well yes we'll do our best, bring him over when you can, we'll love to meet him" Mrs Middleton replied.

"Okay Mrs Middleton, let me go and pick him up and we will be on our way, we will be an hour" the social worker sighed in relieve.

"Okay, well I'll see you then bye bye" Mrs Middleton finished hanging up the phone.

At the hospital.

Daniel slowly woke up in the unfamiliar room and started to panic, he was scared he held back his tears as best he could worried his daddy will hurt him again the doctor came in at the sound of the alarms "hey there, I'm your doctor, can you tell me if it hurts anywhere buddy" the doctor asked and the young child looked up at him fearfully he didn't like doctors they were mean. "don't worry buddy, I won't hurt you I promise" he said hoping the child would believe him when the child didn't calm down he sighed 'why would someone hurt their own child this much' the doctor thought to himself as the child's social worker walked into the room.

"How is he" she asked the doctor.

"he's just woke up, I can't get him to calm down" the doctor told her, she walked up to the child's bed.

"Hey buddy my name's Sophie and I'm going to be your new friend, how does that sound" she asked the boy who slowly started to calm down "that's it buddy now how about we get you out of here would you like that" she asked the child who nodded his small head "okay I have some friends who really want to meet you, there names are Marie and Steven they are going to look after you for me they are really nice people" she told the child who lifted his arms and she lifted him up at the unspoken request and carried him to her car putting him in the booster seat she started the long drive to the child's new home.

At the Middleton's

"Hey honey, child services phoned earlier" Marie said as her husband came in from work.

"yea, what they say" he asked smiling.

"they are bringing us a new foster child." she smiled at her husband looking forward to a child being in the house.

He smiled back "and" he prompted her to finish of what she knew about the child.

"it's a boy, his name is Daniel, he's 4 but we have to be careful he's just entered the system, his mum dies a year ago and there's signs of abuse" she explained sadly.

"WHAT! we want a child to love so much and then people who don't deserve children hurt them, it's wrong were gonna love this boy like he were our own" he sighed angrily 'why would anyone hurt their own child' he thought to him self.

"i knew baby, but don't show that anger in front of him it'll scare him" she told him as the doorbell rang "that will be them" she said walking to the door to answer it she smiled at the social worker "hello come on in, hello there little guy, my names Marie, are you hungry" she asked the small child who looked up at his social worker who nodded in approval before he nodded himself "well come on then lets get you something to eat" she took the child's hand and led him into the kitchen where her husband was "hey kiddo this is my husband Steven can you say hi" she asked and he gave a small wave

"hey there bud, it's nice to finally meet you" he got down to the boy's level, the child backed away a little "hey now, I'm not gonna hurt you, I want to tell you a secret" he leaned in next to the boy's ear "I've got some cookies in my pocket, do you want one" the little boy gave him a small smile and nodded "shush, Lets not tell Marie, comon lets go and watch some TV bud" he said taking the child's hand and leading him into the living room where he turned the TV on and put some cartoons on to entertain the child and gave him a cookie the young boy looked at the cookie wearily before slowly taking it "that's it bud, your safe here" he whispered to the child.

Sorry I have not updated in a while been too busy, but now that I am on my summer holidays and there's no more college I should update my stories more.

Next chapter will be about the Middleton's trying to adopt young Danny.