False and her father were in the waiting room of a hospital. Her mother was giving birth. Excited about finally having a younger sibling, most of her friends had siblings and for the longest time she wanted one. So she waited excitedly next to her father.

Every time a doctor walked bye she flinched, she may have been excited, but she was still afraid of doctors. She hugged her fathers arm as a doctor approached them. The doctor gestured for the two to follow him.

He led them into a room where her mother was. She excitedly tugged on her fathers sleeve, and he nodded signaling she was allowed to go see her new sibling.

False excitedly ran up to her mother, she knew she needed to whisper.
"May I see it?" She asked softly.

"False, meet your new baby brother, Tango." Her mother told her smiling softly, holding out a blond baby boy who hadn't yet opened his eyes but also had a red tail.

"Honey? Why? Why does he have a uhh a tail?" Falses father gulped, taking a step back upon seeing tango.

"He may have gotten the gene my grandmother had." He mother smiled warmly.

One week later

False having been ecstatic about having a baby brother didn't realize how strange her father had been acting until it was too late.

She was in Tango nursery at home, wanting to be as helpful as could be offered to help feed him. And that's exactly what she was doing. Until she suddenly heard a loud scream. She poked her head out the room to see her father stabbing her mother.

She started panicking, so she grabbed tango and his dipper bag. Locked the door to the nursery. And crawled out the window.
Running away at ten years old with a newborn, was something she thought she'd never
have to do.

She ran for probably an hour before she finally decided to rest.
Luckily the movement from the running helped tango fall asleep.

She sat on a bus stop bench, holding the very small tango gently to her chest. She looked at the ground seeing to necklaces.
She leaned over to pick them up.

One had a very intricately carved sword surrounded by flowers, the other was that of a sun.
She took a liking to the first one and put it on, and when she did it glowed a faint blue.
Curious she put the other one on tango, only to find it glowed a soft red.

A few minutes later a firetruck passed, there were no sirens so she thought it must have been heading back to the station. She took note of where it turned and followed it, still holding tango.

After a few more minutes she found the fire station.
She didn't dare go to the police as they may have brought her back to her father, whom she just saw murder her mother.

Not knowing what to do she just walked in. She knew fire men/women were kind people and thought that maybe they'd be able to help.

But she didn't see anyone in the room she just entered. So she sat down against the wall, finally realizing the gravity of the situation and broke down crying.
Her crying awoke tango who promptly also started crying.

This alarmed the people in the station and they went to investigate.
One of them kneeled down next to her. Only in response held tango closer to her. She didn't know who to trust anymore.

"Hey- hey it's okay. Could you tell me your name please, we would like to help you." A firewomen spoke softly.

False nodded.
"My— my name is False." She said with tears still falling.

"Ok false, why don't we go into the break room and you can sit down and talk us?" The kind lady offered. Before gently picking up the small tango. And offered false her hand.

She led false to the break room, where a few others were situated.

After a few more minutes, False calmed down enough.

"So false who is this little guy." She asked kindly

"That's my newborn baby brother, Tango."

"Would it be ok if we knew what happened how you got here?"

"My father stabbed my mother... so I took tango and ran. I was gonna keep walking further away but then I saw a fire truck and thought you guys could help me..."

"Oh I'm so sorry false, that must be really difficult for you. May I ask how old you are false?"

"I'm 10"

"Thank you false, i need to go make a few calls ok? I'll send someone in here so your not alone ok?"

False nodded. And a few minutes later she cane back.

"False I'm gonna need you to listen alright?"
"The foster house that kids like you and Tango would normally go to is full and can't take anymore kids. Another person will be here in a bit to talk to you as well as a few police officers.  And don't worry about tango ok I'll be holding on to him while we wait. I'll make sure nothing separates you two. But while we wait would you like a snack or some water bye chance I can tell you've had a long day."

False just nodded sniffling her nose.

A few hours later.

The police came to file a report, and a social worker came to ask false a few questions.
One of the firemen at the station had been trusted to take care of false and tango for the time being. He went by the name of TinFoilChef or TFC for short.
And a few weeks later ended up permanently adopting the two.

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