10-41 | Lance + Keith + Poco
[ @instincts-over-mind / @poco-don ]
THIS WAS UNEXPECTED.
The day had been completely uneventful until now, abruptly put into motion when Lance found the kid wandering around alone in the crowded shopping district of Aurora. He’d been taught about how to deal with these kinds of cases before, but he never thought he’d actually be the one to deal with a lost child before this incident. Remembering the tips he learned, he crouched down until he was about eye-level with the boy, and tried to be as gentle as he could with him.
“Hey, kiddo,” he really wasn’t sure how to go about something like this. “Are you all alone out here? Do you know where your parents are?” That was probably too many questions for the tyke to understand, but he needed answers before he chose to bring him back to the station. If he had any information on his clothes or his backpack, it’d definitely be crucial to getting him home as soon as possible.
McClain was never good with kids, but he wasn’t going to be a jerk to them. Especially a lost one. Well, unless they were jerks to him, like that one twerpy kid who came into the station with a paintball gun and tried holding him hostage. Yeah, he was pretty sure that thing would be behind bars within the next fifteen years.