You’d been an accident. Hesh had never meant to get his girlfriend pregnant and shortly after you, his son, were born she walked out leaving him as a single dad.

But he couldn’t give you up. You’re his baby. He stayed at home for a couple weeks on maternity leave learning how to be a dad and eventually got the hang of it and fell so in love with you.

Until the federation saw you with him when you were a toddler and knew losing you would tear Hesh apart. So that’s what they did, they took you from him.

He spent years chasing them desperately trying to get you back. Each birthday he missed the more guilt consumed him.

Years later Keegan called him having gone out to a town to get some weird snack Merrick forced him to go buy but instead he’d seen a boy who looked exactly like Hesh. He’d found you.

“Hey kid, you’re parents around? You’re pretty young to be in your own.” Keegan asked you when he got off the phone with Hesh and approached you so he didn’t lose you.