Safe Space

Chapter One

          Daniel works at Wal-mart, like a normal teenager.
One day a family walks in, does their shopping, but Daniel notices something. The parents kept hitting the small child whenever he acted out, which was often. Eventually the dad had hit the kid so hard he started screaming and cry, then he stood up in the cart and fell out of it falling and hitting his head. All the dad did was yell at the kid for being stupid enough to stand up in the cart. Daniel quickly ran over and picked up the boy, he tried to calm him, the kid was clinging onto Daniel like his life depended on it.

"What the hell do you think you're doing," The kids dad growled some. Daniel sighed and rubbed the kids back.

"I'm helping him, he hit his head, sir.," Daniel held the kid close as the dad got closer, he looked angry. Daniel grabbed his walkie talkie.
"Security!," Daniel walked backwards. Soon enough security was there, then the police, the man was arrested. Now the cops were trying to take the kid so that they could take him to a family members house. The kid just screamed at them and held tightly onto Daniel.

-

"So, if no one calls or comes to get him in the next week, I can adopt him?," Daniel was sitting on a bench holding the now sleeping kid. Turns out his name was Neil. He was wearing a shirt with a big spaceship on it and he wore a pair of shorts.

"That is correct, we'll need to do a background check, but come to the station at the end of the week and we'll tell you if you can adopt him or not," The officer picked up the boy making him squirm some.

This was going to be a long week.

-

"Hey buddy, welcome home," Daniel smiled as the kids face lit up. He had gotten to adopt the kid, no one wanted to go and pick him up.

          Neil was six, according the the background check he had no 'issues' on record. Daniel would like to disagree, his friend had a kid with...well he couldn't remember, he just knows that Neil acts the exact same way as the kid when he was younger.

"Want me to show you your room?," Daniel chuckled as Neil nodded quickly.

"Yes!," Neil grinned and poked Daniel's cheek. Daniel smiled and ruffled his hair. He carried the boy into his room, the ceiling had a galaxy on it and the walls had glow in the dark star and planet stickers. Neil squealed and hugged Daniel tightly.

"Mine?!," He pointed at the wall. Daniel nodded and smiled.

"It sure is, and we can go buy some stuff for you so that you're comfortable here," Daniel chuckled some as he watched the boy run over to his bed.

"Wow! Awesome!!," Neil jumped on the bed then slammed himself onto it. Daniel ran over and picked him up.

"Let's not do that," Daniel kissed the boys cheek. Neil whined and slapped him.
"Hey, don't hit people," Daniel spoke sternly. Neil started punching as hard as he could, which wasn't very hard. Daniel sighed.
"Stop it," Daniel held the boys hands. He started screaming and squirming.

"Fuck you!! Fuck you!!," Neil screamed as loud as he could. Daniel already knew that he learned these words from his actual father.

"Stop it or you're getting a timeout!," Daniel didn't mean to raise his voice but this boy was really making him angry. Neil quickly stopped and whined.

"Sowwy," He didn't pronounce the word right, he was trying to be cute. Daniel sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"It's okay buddy, I need to do something so my friend David is gonna come over with his son so that you two can hang out,"  Daniel smiled some as Neil grinned.

"I got friend?," Neil grinned happily. Daniel nodded some.

"Yeah, they should be here soon,"

-

"Okay, just be careful David, he likes to throw tantrums and he likes to hit and is pretty sensitive," Daniel was going over rules.

"Danny, I think I know what I'm doing, my son is autistic," David chuckled some and looked at Max and Neil messing with toy cars. Max was 14 but had the mindset of a child.

"Alright, just call me if something happens,"

-

"FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING BROKE IT YOU IDIOT!," Max threw some of the cars at Neil. David was trying to get him to stop but Max was pretty strong. Neil was holding a broken toy train, he was also screaming right back at Max.

"YOU TOOKS MY SHIP!," Neil was sobbing.

          Soon enough, David pulled Max away and put him in the corner for timeout. Neil was quick to calm himself down and went to the kitchen. He started looking around and found a cookie jar, jack pot. He climbed up onto the counter and started eating the cookies, he was in heaven. When Max was out of timeout he walked into the kitchen as well ane joined Neil, they sat eating cookies for a little while longer until David found them.

"Max, you are supposed to be a role model for Neil," David picked up the teen making him laugh some, he was only ninety pounds so even David could pick him up.
"And Neil, you need to ask before getting into stuff," David picked up the other boy as well.

-(lots of timeskips)

"Thank you so much David, I'm sorry I was so late, there was a ton of trafic and the doctor was taking a while with a patient so I had to wait to talk with him, but Neil has an appointment next week to make sure that he has nothing 'wrong'," Daniel looked pretty stressed.

          After a small talk, David when to go get Max, he wouldn't leave. Neil giggled as he watched Max hold onto the bed like his life depended on it.

"I'M STAYING HERE, ASSHOLE," Max kicked David. He just sighed and shook his head.

"Fine, just for tonight, we leave in the morning,"