Tyne showed up at the buearu sitting in the living room surrounded by people either talking real loudly or on their phones. She looked down at her phone to find out that she had been waiting for at least an hour. She sighed getting to her feet, she walked to the front of the line cutting the person in front off. " I need to know how long I need to wait before I get helped." She snapped. The receptionist looked at her. " ma'am we are working as fast we can." Tyne looked past her to find that the office staff were only standing around. " oh really? Then how come everyone in there is taking an extended coffee break while the rest of us who need help are having to wait? Now you either help me now or I will go to the next person above you to deal with the problem." The receptionist rolled her eyes. " You may go to the back now."
Tyne walked into the office of one of the keepers. The guy was a black man with hardly any hair left on his head. " Taya..Taya..oh here is it Taya Tsukiyuma." He handed her a small file that barely had any papers in it. Tyne looked at it. "this it?" she asked. The man nodded. " yep there's hardly anything on the poor girl except maybe a few court records and her health information. She's been in and out of foster care and in between families but that's as much as we know." Tyne flipped through it. " Did she have a family before she was put in foster care?" " yep, the father was a pimp and a heavy drinker. The guy could barely keep track of all the girls he had dated. The mother was a drug addict. Child protective services came a took her away. I think after all the drama she's been through the foster families no longer wanted her." Tyne felt her stomach drop to her feet. " geez poor girl. Well thanks for your help. Does this file have an address to her late parents?" she asked. The man nodded. " yep it's on the court records. It also indicates that none of the parents showed up for the court date." Tyne nodded tucking the folder into her jacket pocket.
She plugged the coordinates into her GPS deciding to tell Fletch about what she had found out later. The address lead her to a torn up part of Chuggington. She saw guys hanging out on the porches of homes glaring at her shiny Challenger. She pulled up to a broken and rundown apartment. The sides of the building had graffhiti on it. She went up to the door ignoring the two men on the porch throwing comments at her. " is that the police?" came a rough voice on the other end of the door. " no it's Tyne I'm the one that's taking care of your daughter." The door opened revealing a white face with brown hair. His eyes were the same shade of red as Taya's. " which daughter?" " Taya." She replied. The door opened all the way to reveal a male figure standing there. His skin real pale. " well come in." Tyne looked around the living room finding it even more of a mess than hers was. " well now it ain't often that I get visitors here. Sorry bout the mess." He said in a really rough tone. " no..problem." she sat on the cleanest edge of the couch. Taya's dad: John as he was called, sat on the recliner in front of her. " how is Taya doing?" Tyne kept the stern look on her face. " fine apart from not being able to walk on her own." John nodded. " right..right…right and you feed her? Put clothes on her?" Tyne nodded. " yes I do in fact she's one of the family now." John chuckled. " so your keeping a disabled sheep am I correct?" Tyne glared at him. " No she has a lot of potential. She is getting stronger and stronger everyday." John laughed shaking his head. His wine shaking slightly in his hand as he poured it. " I want to find out why you abandoned her." Murmured Tyne keeping her voice even. " You know your job as a father is to love and care for her even when she can't take care of herself." John took a sip of his wine placing the shaking glass on the table. " don't tell me." He growled. " that thing has been nothing but trouble even from birth. Wasn't suppose to be born anyway." Tyne raised an eyebrow clenching her fist. " don't you ever say something like that about her!" she snapped standing up. John laughed he looked at Tyne. " you have no idea what trouble you have gotten yourself into girl! That thing is useless you can't even restore her back to normal!" Tyne lifted him up by his shirt collar. " I can and I will." She dropped him.
She left the apartment hearing some whistling coming from the two shady figures on the porch. She ignored them and went out to her car slamming her door and locking all four of them. She just sat there glaring a hole through the windshield.
I'm starting to finally understand why Taya left him to begin with. I can't even imagine her living in this kinda neighborhood anyway. I never even knew this part of Chuggington existed until today. I still have a lot of questions but not a lot of answers.
Tyne started the car up pulling away from the old apartment and taking off down the highway back up torwards her place. It was late in the afternoon before Tyne came back. Fletch opened the door greeting her. " did you find what you were looking for?" he asked. Tyne nodded pulling out the barely filled folder. " this was all that they could find of her." Replied Tyne in a weird broken voice. Fletch nodded hugging her. " don't worry we'll figure all this out." Tyne nodded. " the place there was terrible." Explained Tyne once her and Fletch were alone in their room. She was getting changed. " Have you been near the worse parts of Chuggington lately Fletch?" questioned Tyne. " When I was theif I spent most of my time there yeah but that was long ago." Tyne turned around. " Tyne don't tell me you went all the way there and found her father." Whined Fletch. Tyne nodded. " yeah I did Fletch and it wasn't what I was expecting." She shook her head. " I'm going to help Taya in anyway I can." Fletch left Tyne alone to finish getting changed. He got to work cooking dinner. Taya sat at the table drawing something in her sketchbook. She didn't explain what it was or hardly explained at all what she was drawing. Fletch put his casserole in the oven and sat at the edge. " what are you doing baby girl?" he asked. Taya looked at him. She wrote. " drawing." Fletch smiled. " well at least it's keeping your hands busy."
To be honest with you guys I've never noticed Fletch could cook until he started coming over more. I didn't call him out on it guessing that was his hobby beforehand.
Taya wrote again: " have you always been a good cook?" she asked. Fletch placed a hand behind his forehead. " um wellll not exactly there have been a few moments where I have burnt stuff." Tyne chuckled loudly at him from the living room. " A few times? I once recalled you nearly burning my kitchen to the ground." Fletch's head smacked itself on the table. " come on it was that one time." Taya chuckled a little. The timer went off and Fletch's head shot up. He ran over taking the casserole out of the oven. " Fletch do you mind if I take some of that to Zack?" asked Tyne. Fletch nodded. " of course." He put some in a tuberware dish and handed it to her. Tyne took it. " I'll be back just go ahead and eat without me." Tyne went out to her car. The outside was quiet apart from the crickets chirping softly. She put the tuber ware dish down in the passenger's seat and climbed into the driver's side. She started her car up leaving the driveway.
The drive from hers to Zack's was about a half an hour. He lived in a small neighborhood in west Chuggington another Ghetto side of town. Tyne pulled into the driveway of Zack's house cutting the engine to her car. She heard barking coming from the garage part of his house. " what's going on Gracie!?" called a voice. Zack opened up the garage door to find Tyne outside. " hi Zack." She greeted softly. " Hi Tyne what brings you by this late hm?" he asked. Gracie woofed at Tyne. " aw hi there." Cooed Tyne as she bent down to pet the dog. Gracie was a white dog with brown splotches with some grey in her fur. " I see you've met Gracie." Murmured Zack. Tyne looked up. " oh I brought you dinner." She murmured. Zack chuckled. " there was no need to do that." Tyne smiled. " Zack I wanted to and your family." She went back out to the car and got the tuber ware dish from it. Zack clipped Gracie's leash on. " come on let's go inside eh?" suggested Zack.
