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Life hadn’t been fair for you. Your whole family had died in a car accident - leaving you all alone as an orphan. You remembered the funeral, you remembered laying your tiny hand on the coffins of your family, but not fully understanding that they were gone, and they would be never coming back.
You remembered the orphanage. A large house with a strong smell of musk filling the long hallway. Maybe it was coming from the lady leading you to your room, or maybe it was just how the house always smelled.
Sometimes a family came by to pick someone up - someone got a new family. You watched the kids smiling widely, and a wave of jealousy swept over you - you wanted a family too. You wanted someone who read you stories and who you could call your mama or dada. Most preferably, you would have wanted your own family back, but you had understood it wasn’t possible anymore - they had left this world too soon, and weren’t coming back.
But when on one, rainy day the orphanage lady told you that someone’s coming over to look for someone to adopt, you had an odd tingle in your stomach. A drop of excitement - something you hadn’t felt before. Maybe that was your new family.
They were a police couple. Detective Cooper and Fox, trying to make the world a better place by adopting a kid without a family. And when you met them, you bonded with them incredibly fast, and it was clear to everyone ever since the first meeting - you had found your family.
And it was a better one than you had ever wished for.