𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦? ⇢𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

⇢thats still impossible⇢

~Vance's POV~
"Nah- your not him"
He sighs and crosses his arms
"I mean you don't have to believe me, but if you don't why does all my stuff say alec hopper"
I look down at the letter in my hand
It does indeed say alec hopper
"Just let me talk to you ok?"
He reaches his hand out
"I really did miss you"
I look at his hand
"What?"
"Is it ok if I hug you? You might not remember me as well as I do you but, is it ok?"
Well shit-
I know it's him- well atleast I think it is
I slowly nod and grab his hand
He then tugs me into a hug and he holds me against him for a second then let's go.
"Sorry, it's just the last time I saw you, you were like 12"
"How hood are you now again? 17?"
"Yea a month or two ago I turned 17"
He smiles
"I called your friends too, Robin right?"
"How did you get robins number?"
He shrugs
"Called your school-"
"How did you get my damn school?"
He lifts an eye brow
"Dad..?" He says
"Oh"
That was obvious as hell
"Would you wanna come inside and meet your niece?"
I stare at him
"Wait you have a kid"
He nods
"Yea her names Gwen"
I chuckle
"What's funny?"
"Finn's sisters names Gwen"
He looks at me confused
"Who's Finn?"
Oooh
"Oh he's robins uh- friends sister"
He nods
"Makes since"
He turns around and I see a few tattoos on his arms
I jog closer and grab his arm
"What the hel-"
I hold onto his wrist as I read what his arm says
"Vance- dude ask to touch my arm"
I let go of it
"Shit sorry"
He smiles
"Your fine"
We walk up to the door and as he walks inside I just look.
"You can come in"
I nod
"I know- I just, it's weird" I say stepping in
"Yea oh also, what's the house like now?" He says turning to me
"Still looks like shit"
He sighs
"I'm sorry I left you there"
No way alec would say that
"Ok ok I'm sorry but you are not the alec I remember" I say crossing my arms
"I know I changed a lot and I'm sorry about that, what's gonna prove to you that I am?"
I think for a second
I know only something our family knows.
"What day and how old was I when you got a concussion at the house?"
"Which one?"
"The first one"
He thinks for a second
"You were 8, and I think it was around August? Yea August 17"
I stare at him
Well shit that's right
"What did-"
"Vance, just believe me, I know and remember most of what the house was like or what life was like"
I sigh
"Yea- I know but if-"
He points to my pocket
"That"
I tap my pocket
"What my knife?"
"Yea pull it out real quick" he says crossing his arms
I shrug and take it out and flip the knife open.
"So?"
He smiles and looks at me
"I gave that to ya"
I flick it back
"No, I bought this when I was 13"
He shakes his head
"I gave that to you, my names carved into the inside"
I've never seen a damn carving on this thing
I lift it up and look inside the side of It
"Holy shit"
"I was right wasnt i?"
I put it down and nod
"So you believe me now?"
"Sorta?"
He laughs as we here a knock on the door

~Robins POV~
We stand outside the door with that Fucking cop standing right behind me.
He said he didn't believe where I was going.
The door opens and I see Vance standing there
"Holy shit- Vance tell him you know me" I say pointing to the cop
Vance just cracks out laughing and kneels down
"Come on Vance" I say crossing my arms
"Do you know this kid?" The cop says to who I'm guessing is his brother-
Wait
Holy shit Vance cut his hair
Damn
He looks a lot different
"Yea- yea I know him" vance says grabbing mine then Finn's arms and tugging us into a hug.
"Uhm- sorry" the cop says walking away as vance lets go
"Gross, I had to hug you" he says pushing me
I scoff
"Yea and I had to touch you"
I look behind vance and see what looks like an older version of him, just less- muscle.
"Sooo your alec?"
He nods
"Yea"
Vance looks down
"I can't stay for long, I'm waiting on a call back at the house"
"Ooo from bru-"
Vance shoves me harshly and I laugh as he does
"For your information, yea it's Bruce so shut your damn-"
"Who's Bruce?"
I grin as vance starts to shake his head
"He's Vance's-"
Then I feel a hand slap on my face and one on the back of my head
"He's a friend from school." Vance says glaring down at me
I laugh through his hand and he pushes his hand harder onto my face.
I hear finn laughing too
"Yea, definitely from school" finn says as vance lets go of me and slaps the back of Finn's head
"Anyways. You said you had a kid?" Vance says
"You have a kid?!" Finn says smiling
"Mhm, I heard she shares a name with your sister"
Finn's smile grows
"It's a girl and her names Gwen?!"
Alex nods and waves for us to follow.
Vance glares at us then follows
I poke finn and chuckle as we walk into the living room where a crib is laid next to the couch.
I'm pretty sure the only reason that kid didn't wake up is because he has doors to the living room, this is probably why.
"She's over there, just be quiet" he says walking up to the crib.
I make finn stay next to me by holding my arm out because vance is next to alec staring at the baby that Alex's holding.
Wait
I tap Finn's shoulder and he looks at me, mentally saying 'what?'
I lean in
"Vance looks like he's gonna cry- look at his eyes" I whisper into Finn's ear
Once i lean away finn looks at Vance and back at me with a surprised look.
I nod as in saying 'I know'

~Vance's POV~
I don't know what the hell to do
Alec puts this- baby into my arms
"I can't hold a-"
"Just try" he says
I stare down at- Gwen? I already forgot
She's asleep but I feel like im gonna drop her
"Alec take her, I'm gonna drop her"
He chuckles and grabs her
"You tried- hey are you ok?" He says looking at me
"What? Yea im fine"
He lifts his hand and I close one of my eyes as he lifts it to me face
"Just"
He wipes off my face
"Your crying"
I touch my face
Holy shit I am
"I- shit" I say walking away and pushing past Robin and finn.
I have zero clue where I'm going but I'll just go sit wherever there's a door and I'm alone.

~Third POV~
Vance pushes past them and Alec quickly puts down Gwen
"Wait Vance" he says taking a step
"Just give him a minute, then go find him" Robin says
They both watch as Alec states in defeat at the door.
"Is he ok? Did I do something?"
Robin shakes his head
"No he's just like that, it's something that happened around 5 months or something ago"
Alec sighs
"Is he mad?"
"He has an inferiority complex" Finn says
Alec looks at him
"He does?"
Finn nods
"Something he would rather not talk about"
Alec sits on the couch as the other two boys follow
"So, if I can ask"
Robin looks at him
"What happened? If something did"
Robin looks at finn then back at Alec
"You know that kidnapper that was going around till he was finally found?"
Alec nods
"Vance was the last one to be taken and had a lot happen to him"
"Like what?" Alex says
Robin sighs
"That's more of him telling you but he was beat the shit out of"
Once Robin finishes talking, they hear a door shut from upstairs.
Alec looks up
"Now you can go find him" finn says
He gets up and walks to the doors
"Thank you two, I know I haven't been around-"
"Go be a brother" Robin says smiling as alec sorta smiles back and walks up the stairs.
He peeks into the rooms before trying and failing to open a door.
The door to his bedroom
"Hey Vance? Can I come in?"
He dosent get an answer so he sighs and grabs one of the keys from his pocket and uses the end of it to open the lock.
Alec walks in and sees vance sitting next to his bed on the floor.
Alec shuts the door and sits next to vance.
"So your friends told me sorta about what happened a few months ago"
Vance looks up
"This has nothing to do with that"
Alec nods and pats Vance's head
"When did you cut your hair?"
"Yesterday"
"It looks nice, who took ya?"
"..Bruce"
Alec stops for a second
"Your around bruce a lot, aren't you?"
Vance slowly nods
"I can tell"
It goes quiet for a minute then when alec looks over vance has his head laid on his lap with his eyes closed
"I've gone so damn soft in the past few months"
Alec puts his hand on Vance's back
"That's good thing though, being angry all the time is boring and your just mad so nothings ever fun"
Vance looks up
"You felt like this too?"
"Well yea, around a year after I left, I got into a lot of trouble"
"Like what?" Vance says
"Well I got a charge for..." Alec slowly stops
"Come on tell me" Vance says
"I was driving drunk once, and I hit a women"
Vance stares at him
"Your kidding"
Alec shakes his head
"Spent 3 years in jail, met a nice girl,had Gwen then she left me"
Vance just watches
"So, I know what you feel, it's shitty and it sucks but when you feel like you do now, don't go back to what you used to be"
"I know I wasn't there when you were always angry but I know what it's like"
Vance looks into Alec's eyes
"I killed the guy who took me because he took bruce"
Alec's eyes go wide
"You what"
"Yea"
"I- how?"
Vance shrugs
"Well did you get caught?"
"No" Vance says
"That's a good thing-"
Then they both hear crying from down the stairs.
"That's probably Gwen, you should come back down with me"
Alec stands up and sticks his hand out to Vance
He stays on the floor then grabs Alec's hand and is hoisted up onto his feet
"Come on, And don't worry, you'll be the best uncle to her and I know it" Alec walks out after saying this leaving Vance just standing
"I couldn't be a good uncle" he mumbles
Then he slowly walks out of the room.
He makes it downstairs as the crying stops and he walks into the living room.
"You good?" Robin says turning to him
"I'm good"
He nods as Vance walks back to Gwen
"You wanna try again-"
Vance grabs her from Alec and looks down at her
Alec chuckles and walks to the couch to sit down.
Vance does the same not long after.

(A few hours later, it's now dark out)

Alec,Robin and finn were talking in the kitchen when Finn wanted to see what vance was doing since the living room was silent even with the doors open.
The two followed finn to the room and Alec smiled at what he saw.
Vance was passed out while Gwen was securely in his arms, practically stuck to his chest.
"You two ever see him do that?" Alec whispers
"He fuckin hates kids" Robin whispers
"Like- awfully hates them" Finn says
Robin had never seen vance like this.
Nobody had.
Alec knew what he was doing though
He wanted to give that kid what he never had when he was little
Love.

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