The next morning the 2 went to Max's tent to talk to him and he was asleep, but the horrific part was his arms both sleeves rolled up littered in fresh cuts from the night before
When the 2 shook the boy up scared out of his life he went immediately into a panic attack he was screaming the Quartermaster ran in saw the scene and left to guard the tent year olds tent.
"Is Max ok what is happening" Neil and the rest of the kids ran up
"You don't know anything about that boy do you"
"No no we don't we don't know who his parents are either" Nikki said to the vague bus driver
"You'd like to keep it that way. But Max is fine just cant be woken up without doing this"
In the tent
"Max Max its not your parents it Gwen and I please calm" David said to the scared boy
As the boys breathing slowed he huge the 24 year old man and let him hug him back
"Im sorry im so so sorry I know I said i was going to stop but I got so overwhelmed yesterday I couldn't handle it" Max said talking almost too fast to understand
"Gwen do you known what he's talking about?"
"I caught him last week walking in without warning"
"Oh"
"Are you mad? Are you going to hit me? Please don't hit me" the boys panicking got worse his breathing got uneven and he coughed so much he couldn't talk when he trued
The 2 stayed there for another 2 hours calming him down and talking to him they eventually talked him into taking his shirt off to sending pictures to CPS to get him away from his parents
When CPS texted back they said that they sent a police cruiser to his parents house and that he was officially an orphan
And as of that he put his shirt off got in Davids arms and was carried to the mess hall though falling asleep almost as soon as he was carried
"Is he ok?" Nikki asked the councilers
"No he's not ok but he will be he just needs space," said the man holding the boy
"Lets refrain from asking him any questions because he might go back to the state he was in earlier this morning"
"Hey babe can I set him up a bed in your office"
"Sure Gwen but set me a bed in there up so I can watch him as well"
"Ok"
YOU ARE READING
The Tragedy of a Ten Year Old
FanfictionIt's a Max angst, With Dadvid and Momma Gwen, read to find anything out, the plot keeps changing so I'm not going to make this specific whatsoever