Looking for a fic!
At the time I read this one it wasn’t finished, and I
think I started it before I made my account so it’s not in my history.
*warning for sexual assault/rape in description*
It’s an AU where Neil is a trans man being sent to Wymack’s foster home (I think Neil got into some type of trouble and I think it was running). Neil is determined to make Wymack’s home last bc Neil and his daughter are together and they’re hiding in the system. Neil is a teenager here, maybe 15/16 in the current timeline.
Neil tells the people around him that the girl is his sister, but she’s actually his daughter. Neil was assaulted while on the run (possibly by his father’s men but maybe not?) and got pregnant, resulting in his daughter. I cannot remember her name but she only calls Neil dad/something similar in German, which I think Andrew overheard and that led to him pining Neil to the wall of the house in the middle of the night while sneaking out to ask him what he did/was doing to the little girl, and I believe also asked about the “bad man/men” she mentioned.
Before the encounter with Andrew, Neil panic and tells Abby that he’s trans and the girl is his daughter. Neil knew the other people in the house were weirded out by how close Neil and the girl were. I think it has to do with bathing (Neil doesn’t want Abby to do it bc he’s worried his daughter will be hurt the same way he was, he DOES NOT actually believe Abby will hurt her if I recall right), changing the girls clothes, and Neil wanting to sleep with the girl in what was supposed to be her own room. Neil begs Abby not to tell anyone that he is trans or that the girl is his daughter. He is desperate not to get separated from her and I believe Neil’s social worker/case worker makes him aware Wymack’s is his last chance for them to remain together.
I don’t know if it’s been expanded beyond what I read, but I would love to find it.
Thank you in advance!