What it means to become a family...

Chapter 6

Hello! I'm finally back with a new chapter :)

I apologize for taking so long, but my life has been really hectic lately. In a good way, but hectic nevertheless.

Also my motivation for writing has been running low so that doesn't help at all hahaha.

But, anyways, hope y'all enjoy this new chapter :)

After another day of patrolling Green Hills (with, once again, a duck stealing a bagel being the highlight of his day), Tom came home.

He was greeted by an incredibly messy kitchen from Sonic's attempt to make dinner for him, with a 'sorry ' on Sonic and Tails' lips. The whole reason they even tried to make dinner was because Maddie was going to work late. And since Tom also had work, they wanted to thank him (and Maddie) for the hospitality they have been giving by letting them stay at their place.

Tom really didn't see any need for that (and her wife probably wouldn't either). Both kids were great people-erm- aliens . And Tom would be lying if he hadn't started seeing Sonic and Tails in a way that wasn't only through a friendship lens.

Something more... paternal-like.

Nevertheless, he thanked them for their good intentions. And after cleaning the whole kitchen, (which really was more Sonic cleaning it in mere seconds with a very excited Tails than anything else. Sonic having super speed had its perks.) he made dinner for himself and them.

And then, after giving a brief, 'I'm going to be in my office for a while. Have fun and don't do anything reckless. ' speech (Sonic was somewhat responsible, mostly because of Tails, but he did have his reckless and adventurous tendencies), he went to his home computer in his office and decided to do some research regarding how to help Sonic and Tails heal their trauma.

Which made Tom's search history look something like this:

'How to help a traumatized 4 year old child '

'How to help a child whose parents abandoned him '

'How to help a child whose parents abandoned him without it being therapy'

'Does online therapy exist? '

'Do online therapists require kids to be with their cameras on? '

'How to parent a kid that has a kid '

'How to parent a teenager who has a child '

'Do therapists treat teenagers who have a kid of their own? '

'Hedgehogs wikipedia '

'Fox wikipedia '

'Aliens wikipedia '

After an hour of... that, Tom was still unsure of what to do exactly, maybe they could-

Someone screamed.

But that scream wasn't just by anyone.