Adopted by Hamilton

Chapter 165 - Reassess

A/N: Racism in chapter.
Obviously I don't agree with it...

Abi's POV

I woke up to someone shaking me frantically.

"Abi, baby, please wake up." I rolled over a little to see Lin looking distraught, and tearing up.

"What? What happened? Is everyone alright? Is Seb okay? Is Mom okay?"

"Yeah, everyone's fine." He quickly embraced me tightly. "Everyone's okay." He added, breathing.

"Dad? What happened?" I asked, confused.

"It's, its stupid, it's embarrassing, it's not a big deal." He pulled away from the hug.

"No, you're crying, tell me what happened." I said, and felt us switching places.

"I've just, I've been dreaming about the car crash, I've been dreaming about what would of happened if you were in it." He admitted.

"Wait, you had nightmares about me dying?" I asked, concerned.

"Yeah Peanut." He light kissed my forehead, "I know it's stupid."

"In some odd way, I'm incredibly touched, but, also, I'm not going to die Dad!" I smiled at him.

"In April you got drunk and swallowed a bottle of pills. Later you were kidnapped, there was a gun to your neck, a couple days ago, your bio father wanted you to get in a car that he drove off a roof."

"Okay. From now on, I won't leave the house alone, and at the theater I will either stay right offstage or locked in your room." I announced.

"Look, I'm sorry about this, after you've seen your daughter die 4 or 5 times in your dreams, you decide to take better care of her." He brushed my hair behind my ear. "Go back to bed darling." He gave me a light kiss on the head, and I laid down in my bed. He pulled the blankets up to my chin, and smiled at me before leaving, tousling my hair.

•••

Lin told me about the social workers and let's just say I wasn't happy about it. I was outright terrified, if Lin is ruled an unfit father, I don't know what I'll do, I mean, I know I'll go back into the system, but, I started calling him dad.

"Abi?" I heard him come into the living room, I looked up to see him and Vanessa standing by the couch.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"We just want you to know, if they take you away," they came over to the couch and sat on either side of me, "I still want to be your dad." Lin lightly rubbed my arm.

"We still want to be your parents." Vanessa explained, "you can always call us, find time to be together, see the show, spend holidays with us." She gave a few examples, "and then when you're eighteen we want you to move back in with us. Obviously you don't have to do that, but, we want you to know that if you have to leave us, you can always come home. I want this to always be your home."

"You guys will always be my parents." I whimpered, tearing up.

"Now, chances are," Lin started, "they'll come over and see that we're not unfit parents and you'll stay, we just wanted to tell you that." He gave me a quick kiss on the temple, and then the doorbell rang. He hopped up, and opened the door, "¡Hola!" He exclaimed, "¿cómo estás?