Hey y'all! Sorry this took so long! As you all know, Hurricane Sandy has hit New York, and even though I was not in the center of it, my school had lost power and therefore wifi. Here ya go!
Hope's POV
It's been a while since Cragen told me that CPS wanted to take Wyatt and he made sure he stayed with me while they were looking for some foster parents. Cragen told me they found some parents for Wyatt but I really just don't trust them. I keep background checking them though and I never find anything wrong with them. I still don't believe they haven't done anything so I refresh the check again. And again. And again…
"Hey," I hear behind me. I jump for a second when I realize it's just Fin.
"Hey…" I sigh, refreshing the page again. There has to be SOMETHING they did…
"Hope, that's definitely a clean one," Fin tells me. I just don't believe it. Somebody always has something they did… it just doesn't want to show up. I refresh it again when he puts his hand over the mouse. "Hope, it's okay. You don't have to run it five hundred times when they come up clean."
"I just don't trust them," I sigh, looking up at him. Maybe I'm actually wrong, though. I was never able to trust anyone for such a long time, maybe it's just me.
"I've heard of this guy," Fin tells me, "He'd make a great dad. He's a teacher, and his wife is a really nice lady"
I just look at him like he's crazy. Since when have people from the system actually been nice? I know some try but what always happens is somebody is still going to end up ignored or hurt and nobody ever ends up doing anything about it
"I think you'd like them, give them a call," Fin suggests after a short silence.
I sigh. "Fine."
"I think Wyatt would be happy with them."
"He doesn't trust anyone…" I say, looking back at the computer.
"Robin is a really nice and patient lady, shed be good to help Wyatt learn to trust somebody," my partner says encouragingly. He really trusts him.
"You know I just wanna find really good people for Wyatt," I finally say, looking back at him.
"I know you do," Fin says, "I really think Patrick and Robin would be great for him"
"Do you want me to call Patrick and have them come down here to meet Wyatt?" he offers.
"Yeah," I say. I really wanna see these people before I just let them take Wyatt.
"Alright. And I want you to stop running the background check, theyre both clean. Not even a speeding ticket."
I just sigh and look at the computer again.
"I'm about to call him, go get some fresh air," Fin says, his hand on my shoulder.
"Mmk…"
Wyatt's POV
I'm sitting on my bed when Hope comes in. I hope I'm not in trouble again. "hi…" I mumble.
"Hey" she says, smiling. I don't get it, why is she smiling?
"am I in trouble?" I ask her, normally when adults come to talk to me I'm usually in trouble, so I guess I did something.
"No but we found ya a new home..." she says. why did she find me a new home? I actually like it here. Hope is nice to me.
"why?" I ask, I'm kinda scared now.
"You can't stay with me for too much longer... they won't let me do that" she tells me, I don't get it. who won't let me stay here. She hasn't hurt me and I actually have toys here.
"did I do somethin bad?" I ask, I just wanna know why she's making me leave her.
"You didn't do anything hon" she tells me. I still don't get it, I wanna stay here.
"I don't wanna go somewhere new" I tell her. I really like her, and I want her to be my mommy.
She sighs, "I know but it's one of the rules here... I had to talk to them a lot just to get them to let you live with me to begin with..."
I think I look scared now, I dunno. I still don't get this whole thing about feelings my teacher talked about… "where am I gonna go?"
"We found these really nice people that can take good care of you sweetie" she tells me. does this mean I have a foster family now? some kid at school told me I would have one.
"how do you know they're nice?" I ask her, I'm kinda scared. People said Hope was nice, but she actually is. but I dunnoabout these new people.
"I've been makin sure they're good people" she tells me. She's a cop, I guess she can do that.
I just kinda look at her, "do I get to see them before I have to live with them?"
"Yeah you do hon. I'll go with ya too if you want" she tells me, at least she's not gonna just force me to go with them if I don't like them.
I just nod. I think I'm really scared, so I decide to tell her and see what she says."s... scared"
She starts to rub my back, which she's done before when I'm scared. "These people are gonna be nice to you, 're gonna act more like how I've beentreatin ya"
I sigh, "they won't like me... I've been bad.." no one wants me because I'm bad. I just don't get it.
"Yeah they will. Remember what I told you? You're not bad" she tells me. She says this all the time but it's because I don't do anything.
"do any of the other cops know about these people?" I ask, I know she has some cop friends, I wonder if they know about these new people.
"Yeah hon they do..." She's still rubbing my back, I guess it's okay for me to go with them if she thinks they're nice.
I sigh, I don't really know how to tell people no, "I guess I'll meet them"
"I'll go with you okay..." she tells me. I don't even know their names. If they have the same names as my parents did I don't wanna go with them.
"mmk, what are their names?" I ask her.
"Patrick and Robin" she tells me. I think they sound like nice names. So I guess they'll be nice to me but I dunno if that's true.
I sigh, "mmk" I don't know what else to tell her, so I just hang my head and squeeze a stuffed animal that's been on my bed lately.
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