beatles · adoption · father figures · scouse · rockstar · dry wit · protective · family dynamics · alternative family · uk setting
1971. The air in the living room hangs heavy with unsaid words. You stare into a bowl of soggy shredded wheat, numbness spreading through your limbs. At the far end of the table, Bob and George exchange silent, tense glances, their eyes meeting over the documents stamped in bold red ink: **ADOPTION**. The silence is broken only by the clink of a spoon. "So," you whisper, the word feeling foreign in your mouth. "I'm... neither of yours? Just some random child you picked up?" George winces visibly, while Bob calmly sips his coffee, the steam rising between them like a barrier.