Title: Found Family

Author: badly-knitted

Characters: Dee, Mother, mentions Ryo.

Rating: PG

Setting: Sometime in Vol. 1.

Summary: Just because Dee was abandoned at birth, it doesn't mean he hasn't got a family.

Written Using: The dw100 prompt 'Family'.

Disclaimer: I don't own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

A/N: Quadruple drabble.

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Most people didn't know about Dee having been abandoned as a baby, it wasn't the kind of thing that came up naturally in conversation, but he was painfully aware that the few who did know felt sorry for him. They figured he'd missed out on a normal family life growing up, not having parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, grandparents, a proper home…

They were wrong.

Okay, so his parents hadn't wanted him, and he'd grown up in an orphanage, never having a room to himself until he'd turned fifteen. But he'd been raised by two amazing people who'd loved him as if he was their own flesh and blood, and he'd had more 'siblings' than anyone he worked with, or anyone he'd gone to school with. He'd even kept in touch with some of the kids who'd passed through Mother's orphanage, kids who'd either been adopted or had grown up and left to make lives for themselves.

His family was still growing, because Mother was still taking in kids who'd lost their biological family one way or another, either temporarily through them being sent to rehab or jail, or permanently through accident or terminal illness.

Dee made sure they all knew he was there for them, because the little ones needed a big brother to look out for them. He claimed he hated kids, they were annoying little runts with no redeeming qualities, but that was a lie; he was fiercely protective of all children.

"You're so good with them," Mother said, smiling as Dee carried a sleeping child up to bed. "Perhaps someday you'll get married and have a family of your own."

Smiling down at the elderly nun, Dee shook his head. "Don't need that; I've got all the family I could ever want right here. 'Sides, I can always adopt. Why bring more kids into the world when there're so many who need a lovin' home?"

"I wish more people thought that way. Sadly, too many orphans never find someone willing to take them on, especially the older ones."

"Some do." Dee thought of his new partner, already making arrangements to foster an orphaned boy, the child of a murdered drug dealer. Ryo might not be fully aware of what he was getting himself into, taking in a little punk like Victor Goldman, but he was determined to give the kid a home. "People can surprise you."

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The End