Wilds # 1

Title: Orphaned Wilds

Summary: Leon's made multiple mistakes like most wilds and humans, but this one he regrets more than anything else. It was unlikely that he was ever going to get his infant daughter back after Sapphire Gleam of all people adopted her from a Wilds Orphanage. That doesn't mean Leon wasn't going to try, she was his daughter, and not even a worldwide known YouTuber would be able to stop him. Even when he came face to face with the YouTuber after many years and Lion demanded that he was her partner. A match made in heaven would be a rather realistic term in Leon's opinion.

Main Characters: Cynthia, Leon, Luke, Lixa

Orphaned Wilds

Cynthia cooed at the baby in her arms as she lifted her up to her eye level and brushed her nose against her own, "Good morning Pumpkin!" She smiled widely at the baby's laughter and babbling at her actions. "Rise and shine right?" She enjoyed taking care of this particular baby more than any of the other kids she took care of, probably because she was an orphan like herself. Cynthia had grown up in the foster system, with a rather terrible track record, and had been coming here for years to help teach and care for the infant and toddler wilds who didn't know anything about being a wild. Unlike most of the kids there who were there for only the morning and afternoon, Lixa, the baby in her arms, and Luke, a toddler she cared for, stayed there at the place twenty-four-seven with no family to take them home at night. Cynthia knew them both well, Luke was actually Lixa's half-brother, something that had taken her and everyone else by surprise, and she had been there when Lixa had been dropped off at hardly two and a half weeks old. So the Youtuber had done her best to care for them, taking them off of the other volunteers' hands and taking care of them herself.

Lixa giggled and grasped at Cynthia's cheeks, the now nine-month-old baby girl was strong and healthy, with thick golden blonde hair and hazel eyes that viewed the world with an innocence that Cynthia wished she could have again at her young age. Currently, the baby girl was wearing white flower patterned green fleece footies with a white onesie beneath it, and her small round bear ears on the top of her head from her being a wild were mostly hidden by her sleep messy blonde hair.

Cynthia's blue eyes softened and she smiled softly at her, she wished on many days that Lixa were her own daughter despite that she herself was only twenty and a half and hadn't met her partner yet despite her age. So finally, after months of working out paperwork and having to practically beg her friend and manager Lila to agree, she finally got to take the precious baby home with her along with Luke for a few weeks to make sure she could handle them both. Even though she had been taking care of them for a long time. "Today's a special day Lixa," she told the baby as she tucked her into her right arm and held her against her hip as she started to move around the room to gather all of the stuff she had gotten Lixa since her arrival. "You and Luke are gonna come home with me, isn't that great?"

Lixa squealed in response to the words and grasped Cynthia's shirt, hazel eyes roundening before she giggled and nestled her head into Cynthia's side.

"Mama!" Another voice exclaimed and Cynthia narrowly managed to not fall over when a rather clingy three-year-old threw himself at her and hugged her legs, "I go with you today!" He said in his adorable toddler way, "I stay with mama!"

Cynthia laughed, blue eyes twinkling softly as she reached down and ruffled the dirty blonde boy's hair, "yes Luke, you're finally coming home with me buddy." She could feel the innocent joy both Luke and Lixa were feeling through her parental bond with each of them, Lixa's was a little weaker due to her young age, but only barely.

Scene 2

Leon swore and ran one hand through his hair before he looked pleadingly at May, "Can I get an address? I haven't seen Lixa since after she was born."

May looked hesitant, "sure, but you have to remember sir that Lixa's legally Cynthia's now, Lixa's been cared for by Cynthia since she was brought here."

Leon nodded, "I know," he sighed, "I… I wasn't told that she was a wild till after Isa had given her up. I have terrible luck with women," he shoved his hands into his pockets, "never met my partner."

May nodded sympathetically as she wrote down Cynthia's address and home phone number, "I understand the feeling, and Cynthia would too, she's never met her partner either."

Leon nodded but felt too miserable to even react well to the news. He had lost his son years ago, and now his daughter. Plus now he couldn't have either of them, he couldn't even adopt them back from here, some woman had beat him to the punch.

"Here," May handed him the address, "I wish you luck sir, your daughter is a beautiful little girl."

Leon smiled sadly and nodded at her thankfully before he turned and left, looking at the address and immediately recognizing the name scrawled above the phone number. "Cynthia Lawson?" He breathed, the name caused his wild to perk up while at the same time he felt even more miserable. There was no way in the world he was going to be able to get his daughter back with a YouTube Star having adopted her. "This is hopeless," he sighed as he stuffed the paper into his pocket and stepped out into the rain, "it's not like she would let me see Lixa anyway." He had known Cynthia as a child, she had been one of the kids across the street for a few years before she transferred foster homes, and he had been one of the kids to tease, and admittedly, bully her. Then she turned out to grow up to be one of the most famous people he had heard of, with a total forty million subscriber count across four channels of about twelve million subscribers each and even had more than a few music albums of her own out in the world. As a kid, she had been one of the quiet seclusive kids in the neighborhood with rather nerdy tendencies and a habit of playfully singing in the rain with her foster siblings.