My Best Friend's Family: Prologue
Christopher Herrmann x Teen!Fem!Reader, Herrmann Family x Teen!Reader
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Summary: When everything seems to be falling apart your best friend, Lee Henry and his family are there to help.
Warnings: Single parent, death of a parent, child abuse, physical and mental abuse, adoption
First day of 6th grade. You didn't have many friends from Elementary school and the ones you did have were going to a different middle school. So you were starting over in the department. Which was fine, you could do that easily. Maybe. So here you were climbing onto the bus looking for an empty seat. Your eyes locked with a boy as he moves his bag from the seat before waving you over to sit next to him.
"Hi! I'm Lee Henry." He grins at you.
"I'm y/n. Why do you have two names?" You asked him smiling.
"I don't know my mom and dad never told me why."
"Oh. That's okay, your cool can we be friends?"
"Yeah!"
—— 4 years later
Now four years later you spend most of your time at his house with his family. They're different than what you're used to. You love it at his house it's never quiet, and there's always something going on. While at your house it's usually just you by yourself since your mom works a lot to support two of you and your dad was in jail last time you heard.
"Good morning kids." Herrmann walks down the stairs with his work bag seeing you on his couch with his kids as he has for over 3 years.
"Good morning."
"Y/n where's rent huh? With you here so much you otta start paying."
"Oh come on im practically your sixth kid you can't get rid of me." You laugh looking back at him.
"Didn't say I was getting rid of you. Just charging you." He laughs setting his bag down behind the couch.
"Same difference." You glared at him playfully. He smiles ruffling your hair.
"Sure." He chuckled. "Where's you mom at?" He directs the question to his oldest son.
"Kitchen."
"Okay go back to your game." He says walking out of the room.
"When did your mom say you had to be home anyway?" Lee Henry asks you.
"You tired of me already?" You laugh.
"No just wanted to know how much time we have."
"Before 7, she wants to have a movie night." You say not taking your eyes off the TV.
"Eh, you get to spend most of the day with your favorite herrmann." Lee Henry jokes.
"For the first time your right. I love spending time with Kenny." You joke motioning to the 3-year-old who sat in front of you drawing.
"Don't worry I prefer his company over you too." Lee pushes you gently.
"As you should."
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My Best Friend's Family: Chapter 3
Christopher Herrmann x Teen!Fem!Reader, Herrmann Family x Teen!Reader
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Series Summary: When everything seems to be falling apart your best friend, Lee Henry and his family are there to help.
Chapter Summary: CPS comes to talk to you, Cindy, and Christopher.
Series Warnings: Single parent, death of a parent, foster care system, adoption
Chapter Warnings: Foster Care System, DCFS
Reader's Age: 16
This chapter is short but next one will be longer.
You were silent for the next hour. You sat there zoned out staring at the wall. You didn't want to talk you wanted to curl up in bed and cry. But you'll probably never get to go home, let alone to your own bed. Herrmann updated the firehouse before going back to sitting with you. Soon DCFS came and pulled Cindy and Christopher off to talk to them. Lee Henry stayed with you keeping a hand on yours
"My mom and dad will make sure you're safe." Lee Henry assures looking over at where his parents were. "I'm pretty sure they love you just as much if not more than their own kids." He says.
"Whatever you say Lee." You mutter following his eyes to the adults. Herrmann and Cindy both look a mix of relief and worry.
"" He tells you squeezing your hand. Before Herrmann waves you in. You and Lee both get up and go over.
"Y/n? Do you happen to know if your mother had a will?" The DCFS lady, Penny asks.
"Yeah she got it redone like two years ago."
"Do you happen to know if she put in the will what will happen you?"
"No she didnt tell me anything about her will. Just where to find it." You explain.
"Okay. So unless her will says otherwise the Herrmanns are filing for guardianship of you as long as you want that."
"Yeah thats what I want."
"Okay well grab your things. I have to bring you down to the office." You nod going to the chair and grabbing your bookbag.
"The will is in the top drawer of her desk it's in the living room." You say handing Christopher your keys to the apartment.
"Okay. Bye kiddo." He hugs you. You hug Cindy and Lee Henry before following Penny.
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Cindy picked up the 4 youngest kids and went home while Herrmann and Lee Henry went to your apartment. It was Herrmann's first time being there. It is a quaint little place. Just big enough for you and your mom.
"Hey go grab anything you think Y/n would want kept safe." Christopher says to Lee Henry as he walks over to the desk. Lee goes to your room. Chris opens the drawer, there's a binder labeled important documents sitting at the top of the drawer. He pulls it out before sitting in the desk chair.
He opens it skimming through before he makes it to the will. He reads through it, everything would be yours at 18. Then he sees the part regarding you. He reads it's over before putting it back in the binder.
"You get everything?" He asks walking into your room.
"No." Lee Henry says as he digs through your bedside table drawer. He pulls something out and shoves it into an old ratted suitcase. Herrmann looks around you room before his eyes fall onto your dresser. There's a few picture frames, one of you and your mom, one of you, your grandma, and your mom, one of you, him, and Cindy, then one of you and Lee Henry from middle school. He grabs the one of you, him and Cindy, it was at the middle school talent show. You and Lee Henry put on a dance together for it. You two didn't win but it was fun. He grabs the pictures and put them into the bag.
"I'm gonna go grab her mom's jewelry box." Henry says after putting the stuff bear from your bed.
"Okay kid I'll finish in here." He says as his phone dings. It's your asking him to grab the small girrafe trinket from the bookshelf in the living room. He goes out and grabs it fiddling with it. Lee Henry comes out with the bag. "Ready?" He asks putting the girrafe in the bag.
"Yep."
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