Welcome to the Black Bird Part 14: Flynn the Bittersweet
Summary: Introducing Gauche as Flynn, the Black Bird's butler with a soft center hidden by a prickly outside. Genre: general Word count: A/N: The art for Gauche was done by @cringeyvanillamilk
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[can kids live without adults?]. [leaving foster care early]. [can i adopt my sibling?].
Gauche opened link after link. He scanned each page to find an answer to his predicament. All the legal terminology and procedures made his head spin in confusion. Eventually, he gave up. Gauche stood up with a huff and stomped away from the computer he’d been using. Or he tried to before a hand on his shoulder made him pause.
“Be decent enough to push the chair in after you’ve used it,” Ms. Theresa Rapual, the CPS worker accompanying Gauche, said flatly. “You must respect the library and the other people who use it.”
Grunting, Gauche shrugged off Theresa’s hand and shoved the chair back under the desk. Then he grumpily made his way out of the Tech Rent Lab. Theresa followed after him without a word.
As he walked, Gauche flipped his phone open and stared at his wallpaper. The image depicted him sitting beside his mother and holding Marie, his then infant sister. Marie, both of them really, had been small, innocent, and safe at the time. Gauche shut his phone with a snap. He glanced over his shoulder at Theresa, who raised a brow at him, then hurriedly looked away.
“You look like you have something to ask.” For an old hag, she was sharp. “Well? Don’t just stand there.”
“Tch. You’re only paid to put up with me,” retorted Gauche. However, he couldn’t keep up his rigid grumpiness under Theresa’s strong gaze. “Is there still… something I can do for Marie?”
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