Hello! I’ve scrolled onto your blog and have fallen head over heels for it!!! I was wondering if this idea tickled ur brain the same way it tickled mine:
Any of the guys getting full custody of their daughter/child after mom backs out and the kid being a bit of a psycho out of fear of being ditched again
I didn’t forget about this!!! I will definitely write a second part!! Hope you like it!!
Rising a child wasn’t easy. Leading a task force was far more easier. That was John thought and preferred anyway.
He arrived late at his small flat, whistling to himself with his huge bag. The sight in front of the 4b door made him stop. A figure was sitting, haunched on the phone, a suitcase and several bags around them. His eyes squinted.
He hadn’t think of her for… several months to be honest. John Price was a busy man, and unfortunately, while remaining married to a wife that didn’t appreciate him, he didn’t find the time to care for his teenage daughter.
“What are you doing here?” John questioned, the same way he would question a young private.
“What?” He squinted his eyes at her.
“Mom left with her new boyfriend somewhere. She left you some papers.” The daughter handed him the papers, slightly crumpled.
She was giving him all the parental rights.
To avoid any further odd glances thrown their way by the neighbours, John ushered the kid inside the two bedrooms flat. The kid had a lot of things and he put the suitcase and bags in what he considered his office. The child didn’t seem to care, sitting down on the sofa.
Finally, he read the paperwork.
Linda was resigning all the parental rights and responsibilities to him, and the bonus was the divorce papers. John was beyond pissed, not about the divorce. She knew the life he had, the kind of work he did. He was always busy, always away. That was why their mariage was just a farce.
He called her. Several times until she sleepily picked up.
“Linda? What the fuck is that?”
“Oh, so (Y/N)’s here, good. Well, John, we no longer live together, we hate each other guts so-“
“Not the divorce, the papers about guardianship!”
“John, I have put up with the kid for more years than necessary, it’s time I live for myself. And besides, I wasn’t alone in this. It is time you take care of your daughter.”
“I can’t, not with my job-“
“Fine, fine.” He groaned, eying his daughter warily, still on the damn phone. “Well thanks.” He spoke sarcastically before hanging up.
Swiftly, he grabbed a pen and signed the divorce papers. Then, he turned to face his daughter. He approached her, almost warily before sitting down next to her.
“So… now you will be living here with me.”
“Well. I have a few rules. First, you put that phone away when I speak to you. Second, I expect this living area to be clean and always in check. You will go to school, do what you’re told and will not go out without my express permission.” The captain spoke as if he was speaking to a new green private.
What followed what John’s nightmare. It had been a few months and well… the kid had been a terror. John was used to obedience, clear and simple. If he said “jump” to Ghost for example, the lieutenant jumped. His daughter? Not so much.
She was an absolute wild card. She got expelled from the expensive private school John enrolled her at, because the headmistress owed him a favor, and his daughter had nothing to do than to smoke indoors, and blowing off the ladies restrooms! Secondly, yes, the smoking. John was a smoker as well, but he had never smoked before entering the military path. He caught her stealing one of his cigars once. He nearly blew off.
Now, as he was disembarking from a mission, the number from his neighbours Gregory and Michele rung in his personal phone: for once, he answered, and he never should have.
The music was blaring, he could hear people laughing and talking loudly, Gregory begging Price to come and calm his daughter down. He did mention someone called the police. Obviously, when he arrived, police cars lights were lighting off the neighbourhood. John felt shame when his neighbours stared at him, as he talked with one officer.
Obviously, the party had been a x project. His daughter successfully managed to make 50 people enter their small living place, mostly smoking weed and drinking his alcohol. John was beyond furious but kept it under control.
“Where is she?” He questioned in an authoritative voice.
“In the car, we can make a statement and you can file a report. We arrested all the young ones who were involved.” The officer answered in a proud tone.
“No, no reports. Free everyone. I will take my daughter back with me.”
He stood in his ruined living room, feeling anger surging to his veins. He closed the doors, as his daughter stood there, with an uncaring expression on her face.
“Do you know how ashamed I am? I am a respected figure here. All the neighbours know me, I never, ever, put myself in such a humiliating position.” His eyes found hers and for a second, he saw fear. Worry. “I had been living here for years and you show up, and manage to make me feel hated by everyone in the span of a few months!”
“I am not finished, young lady!” Price yelled, and the walls shook. “You will clean this mess. I am getting your money to pay back for all the damage.”
“Then your first paycheque. Now, clean this up.”
More evenings spend in silence after that night. John was flabbergasted at the behaviour of his daughter, that he came to speak about it to Kate Laswell at work.
“It’s like having a conversation with a statue that reeks off weed and alcohol.” He complained finally. “I don’t know what to do. And I can’t even send her back to her mother!”
“Maybe that’s the issue. Maybe she knows she is a bother to you and your ex wife. Just saying, John, kids have a way to know and to blame themselves if their parents don’t love each other anymore.” Kate had then replied, while sipping her coffee.
And he thought about that. He thought about the fights and the countless arguments he had with Linda. He thought of her once, tearing eyes, just begging to be held and to be told it was going to be okay. And what had John done?
Push the little kid away.
In his office, late at night, John sighed, pinching the edge of his nose.