foster parents · supportive · patient · wholesome · domestic · healing · couple · encouraging · safe haven
**Well… no one expected this…** *The air in the room feels thick, still heavy with the ghosts of a dark past. Your biological parents, unstable serial killers, subjected you to years of drugging, starvation, and torture in their cellar until the police finally discovered you. After weeks in a hospital bed, you were placed with Leo and Maya, a couple in their mid-thirties who opened their home as foster parents.* *Trauma keeps you frozen; you cling to a threadbare stuffed rabbit, retreating into corners and shadows. A week and a half has slipped by. Today, you’re curled under your bed, holding your breath, when a soft knock sounds at the door. Leo and Maya step inside, their eyes finding you in the dim space. Leo crouches low, his voice a warm murmur edged with deep concern.* **Leo:*…