Floral&Fading(PTV fanfic)*Completed*

Six

Scarlett's POV

Walking into my new room. I fell onto the bed and then sat upright bringing my knees to my chest and just thought everything over. How badly I wanted to cry because everything that's happened this past week has been so much to take in. My mom passing, staying with Maria, living with my dad who I found out was actually alive all these years. Not to mention I had to switch schools and make new friends but that was the least of my worries. I've been so rude to my dad and he never did anything wrong, I just had to take it out on someone. I didn't target my father, it just happened.

I hushed my whimpers as I heard footsteps but they didn't come up to my door. I then heard a door shut and I realized one of them must've gone to the bathroom or Vic is doing something in his room. I took deep breaths to calm myself down and that's when Mike appeared at my door.
"Wanna go for a tour of the apartment" he asked. I looked up at him and nodded smiling.
"Okay I'll be over there. Come out where you're ready" he said leaving my door. I got up and walked to the dresser which had a mirror on it and looked at myself. I wonder what Vic thinks of me.
'He probably thinks you're a bitch' the voice in my head said. It wasn't wrong. I wouldn't blame him if he did anyway, I'd be shocked if he didn't.
I set my thoughts aside and walked out of my bedroom to see Vic's bedroom door was open and he was sleeping in his bed. He looked so dead, tired, something like that. I looked away from my fathers sleeping form and walked down the hall to the living room where Mike was sitting at the kitchen table drinking a beer scrolling through his phone and when he saw me, he closed the beer bottle and got up walking towards me.
"Let's go. Maybe after we'll go get ice cream or something" he said. I nodded and put on my shows heading out the door.

"So tell me something kid" Mike said as we walked down the hallway of the building towards the double doors.
"What's your favourite ice cream?"
"Uh i don't know. Gold medal ribbon is pretty good. But so is mint chocolate chip" I told him.
"When your dad was younger, him and his first girlfriend would go get gold medal ribbon together. Once in a while I would go with them and third wheel but that was on a rare occasion. Don't tell him I told you that though. He doesn't like talking about Amber much now" I'm assuming Amber was his ex. I just nodded. I haven't spoken much since we left the apartment so I've basically been responding to him with nods and shaking my head.
"What's on your mind?" He asked.
"You haven't spoken much? Am I talking too much? Are you still tired?" He added.
"Nothing's wrong I'm just thinking that's all"
"About?" He asked holding the door for me.
"Everything that's happened this week that's all. It doesn't matter anyways" I told him walking down the steps towards the side walk.
"Hey. It does matter. Tell good ole uncle mike what up" he said catching up to me.
"It's nothing Mike. Trust me" I reassured him. I heard him sigh and that's when he dropped the subject and changed it.
"So uh. How would you feel about going to Jaime's tonight with us. After each tour we go to someone's house as an end of tour party. You can meet our parents too and everything"
"Sure" I said pressing the button of the crosswalk.

Vic's POV

I woke up to an empty apartment and knew right away Mike had taken Scarlett out for a few hours. It gave me enough time to think everything over. Enough time to think about how I can improve my 'father skills' or whatever you wanna call it.
I got out of bed and walked into my daughter's bedroom to see she had made it look like her own room. On her bedside table there was a photo of her a Cara when she was young on a swing and it made me smile. How well Cara raised her when I wasn't in her life. How even though she didn't have a father, Cara played both parts and did a good job at it. I just wish I could thank her for it.
Scarlett didn't have much in her room but the things she did have were mainly bought from the girls. She wasn't able to bring a lot of her belongings so she didn't have much of her personal items in here.

I walked out to the kitchen/living room and there was the file. The file I haven't yet looked at. I have to at some point though. Maybe it'll give me some sort of idea of my daughter. That's when I sat down in front of it and opened the first page to see the basic information I already looked at so I flipped the next page which gave me her house address back in San Fran, the hospital she was born in, the time of birth and all that crap. It was useless right now.

As I continued to flip through pages, I found out my daughter didn't have the Barbie life I thought Cara gave her. She had a terrible childhood and all these papers are telling me what's happened in the past 12 years but one caught my eye. It was an unfinished adoption paper. It had Cara's signature along with another couple's signature. Apparently they wanted to adopt her and take her to Seattle at age 8. Now it makes sense. The previews pages. They explained why she was almost taken away from Cara at 7 then when she turned 8 she would've been taken away. But I wonder why the form was incomplete. I wonder if Scarlett even knows about this since she was so young.

I heard a knock on my door so I went to go open it to see my brother and Scarlett were standing there with ice cream.
"Here" Scarlett said handing me a tub of gold medal ribbon which surprised me. I looked at Mike to see he was smiling.
"It's her favourite ice cream too" he said. I looked down at my daughter and smiled. She returned one. She had Cara's smile and I just noticed it now. It was beautiful just like her.
"Thank you" I told her. I stepped aside and both of them walked in sitting on the couch but Mike noticed I wasn't with them so he came to the kitchen.
"What's that?" He asked taking the paper.
"No way. You're not doing this" he hissed at me so I took it away.
"It's not mine. It's Cara's. She was gonna do it" I said placing the adoption paper in the file and closing it.
"Why it is in there?" He asked.
"Cara was going to do it. It's a long story but basically what happened is Cara's ex was like, abusive and all this crap, Cara would drink so often and leave Scarlett at school forgetting to pick her up and the school caught onto what was happening and it led to that. Mike" I said sitting down. My little brother did the same.
"I have to do everything I can to protect her. She's apparently under watch until she turns 14 and I wanna do everything I can to make sure she has a good life. Not one that her mother gave her" I whispered.
"How are you gonna do that?"
"I don't know but it's gonna start with her actually liking and trusting me" I told him.

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So now we know how Scarlett really feels about Vic. Are you guys beginning to like her now or not yet?
How do you think Vic will protect/make Scarlett like him?
Let me know what you guys think so far!