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Bob ships in single dad AU. Who's the single dad? How old is their kiddo? Is it a boy or a girl? How do they meet? How the other gets along with the kiddo?

WINNIX

lew doesn’t quite know what he’s going to do when his ex-wife ships their daughter, madeline, off to live with him for an entire summer.

she’s going to tahiti, because of course she is. with her new beau. and lew’s money.

his only consolation is that maddie seems just as disgruntled about the whole thing as he does. he knows what to do with her about as much as she knows what to do with him. they’re both at a loss… so they come to a mutual agreement of tolerance.

lew goes out in the daytime; maddie is left to amuse herself in lew’s penthouse however she likes. lew comes home; they have dinner together, and don’t talk about anything. then, they go to bed, and the day repeats.

it’s not a life for an eight year old, but lew… just doesn’t know what else to do.

this goes on for about a week before something happens that really shakes lew up – his father hires a new company manager.

richard winters is the polar opposite of lew in every way. maybe there’s some truth to the saying “opposites attract”, because lew finds himself inexplicably drawn to the serious man who he can’t quite understand.

at first he’s convinced dick has a stick up his ass larger than new york state – but then he actually talks to him.

lew, who’s made himself comfortable in his father’s office (while his father’s not there) is spinning around in the chair like a little kid and musing to himself how this whole set up wouldn’t be so bad, were it not for the whole work aspect of the gig, when –

“i don’t think you’re the mr. nixon i’m looking for.’

lew looks up at his father’s newest employee and smirks. “what, you’ve never seen the old man do this?”

“not this early in the afternoon,” dick replies. nix’s eyes drift to the empty brandy glass on his father’s desk (by the end of the day, he’s usually put away a bottle) and grins.

it turns out dick winter does have a sense of humor after all.

that’s the start of an unconventional and kind of beautiful friendship. lew hangs around dick any chance he gets. rather than being annoyed, dick tolerates his presence gladly. he isn’t just grateful to have the company – he finds lew wicked smart, and a companion who understands him better than anyone else he’s ever met.

lew finds himself coming home in a great mood every night. he brings maddie back gifts, takes her out on surprise trips to the movies and amusement parks, teaches her how to dance. dick makes him happier than he’s been in a long time. for the first time, maddie gets a chance to know her dad.

he and dick hit it off so well that it’s only natural that dick meets maddie too. lew is nervous about introducing them at first, but maddie approaches dick with her usual fearlessness. dick, in classic dick style, is a perfect gentleman.

“madeline nixon. nice to meet you.”

dick takes her proffered handshake and smiles into that dark-eyed face, such a perfect echo of lew’s own. “richard winters,” he says. “it’s lovely to meet you too.”

SPEIRTON

losing his wife came as an incredible blow to lipton. this was the woman he expected to spend his entire life with. now, he’s suddenly left alone, a mourning father with a five year old son.

cliff doesn’t understand what’s happened to his mommy. he keeps asking and asking. lip doesn’t know how he’s going to make him understand.every time he sees his baby boy’s big, sad brown eyes, his heart breaks a little more.

lip does his best to be both father and mother for cliff, but it’s hard. he still has to keep up with work, and he’s grieving too, so sometimes he gets overwhelmed. he’s good at dealing with it – but on the days where everything seems a little too much, he takes cliff to the park.

there’s something so calming about watching his kid play. he gets to see cliff smile and be happy, be everything a little boy should be, and it reminds him why he’s still here. it reminds him that he needs to give this precious little boy the best life he can.

on a particularly rough day, lip takes cliff to the park, and enjoys the sight of him playing as always. he swears that he looks away for one second – just long enough to blink – and suddenly cliff is no longer on top of the jungle gym, but pinwheeling to the ground.

lip is on his feet and running in a split second – but he doesn’t get there first.

he almost has a heart attack when a strange pair of arms snatch cliff out of the air. he is settled safely on the ground a second later, but the little boy is wide eyed and breathing hard. lip recognizes signs of a breakdown when he sees them, because he knows his son.

“it’s okay, baby,” he coaches, kneeling by his boy’s side. “it’s alright. i’m right here. you’re okay. i’ve got you.”

it takes him a good few minutes to talk cliff down. by the time he finally looks up, small child clutched to his chest, he only sees a dark-clad back retreating across the playground.

that won’t do. he’s got to thank his savior, at least. if he hadn’t been in the right place at the right time, cliff could have gotten really hurt. lip picks up his boy and sprints after the stranger.

he looks surprised to be caught up to, but lip doesn’t give himself a chance to overthink what he’s doing. “thank you. for catching my kid. you’re pretty quick.”

a beat passes, and then the man smiles – and carwood feels like he’s seeing the sun for the first time since his wife died. “i was just close by, that’s all.”

ron speirs, as it turns out, was only at the playground looking for his neighbor’s runaway dog. lip has never been more grateful for a missing animal, because it gave him the chance to meet someone who quickly becomes one of his closest friends.

ron is a good listener. he doesn’t get scared off by the whole “my wife is dead” thing, and is able to advise lip soundly when he confides about the anxiety issues cliff has been having since his mother’s death.

what’s more, ron is great with cliff. he gets the soft-spoken little boy to open up to him; though he’s very frank, and doesn’t act the way you’d expect an adult to around a child (he doesn’t baby cliff at all, and seems confused by the idea) it’s clear he adores him, and cliff loves ron right back.

ron integrates seamlessly into their lives. it would be very easy, lip thinks, to fall in love with ron speirs.

he’s not there yet – he’s still mourning his wife. but someday, maybe… the thought gives him a bit of hope for things to come. anytime he’s with ron, the future seems a whole lot brighter.

BABEROE

it takes a village to raise a child, and bayou chene is an extremely close-knit community. gene may have been left to raise his two twins after their mother ran off when they were just babies, but emeric and violette have never been starved for love.

they’re close with their grandmother, aunts, and uncles; their entire family adores them. the neighbors all know the roe twins, and love them like their own kids.

still, as the years pass, gene cannot ignore the building sensation of being trapped. the past weighs on his shoulders. staying in one place your entire life might suit some people, but gene cannot stand it. the swamp is no longer home to him; now he feels as if it’s drowning him.

his family may not understand, but no one blames him when he takes the twins and moves across the country – to the big city of philadelphia.

philly is a big city, and for a little while all three of them feel sort of lost. gene buys a nice little house, starts his residency at the local hospital, and enrolls the twins in the nearby school. he’s very hopeful that everything will work out -- but things don’t go as smoothly as he thought they’d be.

they come home with stories about getting picked on for their accents. gene’s neighbor keeps cutting the bushes between their yards smaller and smaller, there’s a stray cat that loves hanging out in their driveway (emeric has “adopted” her and named her missy), and sometimes he can’t understand half of what the locals are saying. what’s more, he’s stretched so thin with his residency that often he’s too tired to spend time with his kids.

he’s just starting to wonder if he made a mistake coming here. maybe they all would have been better off staying in louisiana after all.

that’s when he meets babe.

babe heffron rides into the hospital on an ambulance with a sprained ankle, a broken nose, a fractured wrist, and a large gash on his head. his friends aren’t in much better states, but babe winds up gene’s problem.

the most incredible thing is that babe doesn’t seem too fazed, even when he needs four stitches and a cast on his wrist. “ahh. this is nothing, doc. the way i fall down, i’ve had a lot worse.”

“how did this happen?” gene asks, not sure he really wants to know the answer.

“we were tryna see if we could roller skate in an empty swimming pool. we thought it’d work a lot better than it did.”

if he’s being honest, babe reminds him of his kids. he’s all enthusiasm, energy, fire, and puppy-dog determination that makes him impossible to ignore. perhaps that’s why gene can’t help saying yes when babe asks if he’d be willing to catch dinner sometime -- “after i’m all healed up, of course.”

it’s not long before babe becomes gene’s favorite person -- and, by extension, the twins’ favorite person as well. babe is a HIT with the kids. he’s great with children, because he’s essentially a big kid himself. he’s not afraid to get rowdy with them, wrestling and playing tag -- but he also knows fantastic stories, and can croon an enthralling lullaby when the need arises. most importantly, he understands the necessity of stuffed animals and finger paint -- he’s never afraid to buy the twins more of both when they tell him they’re running low.

babe doesn’t see himself as their father (”i’m too young to be a dad, gene!” he exclaims, even though he’s just three years younger than gene) but he loves the kids like they’re his own family. as he and gene grow more serious, it doesn’t take babe long to decide he’d do anything for emeric and violette.

he’s not sure how he stumbled into this little family, but he wouldn’t give them up for the world -- and they’re more than grateful to have him there.

WEBGOTT

web has no intention of ending up with a daughter – but an unfortunate one night stand leaves him in over his head. after his baby’s mother makes it clear that she wants no part of her kid’s life, web is left to raise a little girl all on his own.

it’s not a disaster. somehow.

jane ends up well-adjusted, all things considered. sure, they’ve had some nights of cereal for dinner, or having to help her dad look up hair braiding tutorials because they were both clueless, but everything worked out well.

by the time she’s ten, jane is happy, scary smart, and knows more about sharks than any little kid ought to.

when she hits fifth grade, her teacher retires two weeks into the school year. jane is dismayed at first, but quickly perks up again when she meets her new substitute teacher.

mr. liebgott is young, firey, and... not what you’d expect from an elementary school teacher. nevertheless, jane really likes him; he really likes jane; and two minutes into their first parent-teacher conference, web decides he HATES mr. liebgott.

liebgott seems to get a thrill out of teasing him, and argues about everything. there’s just something about him that rubs web the wrong way immediately, and the feeling is mutual. they both leave the meeting fuming.

unfortunately there’s no way to escape him, because jane is stuck with him for the rest of the year. she’s THRILLED about this, of course. as the school year progresses, she only grows more delighted with her teacher.

(web will give him this: mr. liebgott encourages jane’s love of learning at every opportunity. he tolerates all her many questions, and answers as best as he can. he praises her love of reading and writing. he does all he can to help her excel in school, and that’s something web has to appreciate.)

they have numerous parent-teacher conferences throughout the year, and clash every time; but eventually, web has to admit that he doesn’t hate liebgott at all. he respects him -- almost likes him, in a weird way. not that he’ll admit that to liebgott, or, god forbid, himself.

by the end of the year, he’s both nervous and proud of his baby girl. she’s going off to middle school. how on earth is he going to cope? is jane ready?

at fifth grade graduation, mr. liebgott comes up to him. web is convinced he wants to talk about jane, and wheels around with wide eyes, ready for bad news. he’s surprised to find liebgott smirking at him.

“relax. you look like you’re gonna pass out. breathe, web, jesus,” he mutters, and shakes his head. the way his hair falls into his eyes is not fair, and he should really slick that back if he’s going to be working in an educational environment --

instead of bringing up anything about jane, liebgott says the last thing he expects. “so, since i’m no longer a teacher and your daughter’s no longer my student... what do you say if we go for drinks sometime?”

web just gapes at him. he can’t believe what he’s hearing.

jane is in the background cheering them on, of course -- she caught on to her father and teacher’s mutual crush on each other midway through the school year, and has been encouraging mr. liebgott to make his move ever since. she’s THRILLED.

web just exhales, and shakes his head in amazement at the whole situation. he’s got to be crazy for saying --

“yeah. i’d like that a lot.”

(jane winds up having to put up with TWO nerd dads, which makes middle and high school way more complicated -- and fun -- than she could have predicted.)

LUZTOYE

everything was really chaotic after george’s sister died. she was already seperated from her husband, who didn’t want anything to do with the kids. as a result, a six year old and a two year old were essentially orphans. the luz family is about as supportive as you can get, but they’re also huge, so there was a lot of confusion over what’s going to happen to these two kids.

luz’s parents were more than willing to take them in, but mama luz was recovering from surgery. it just wasn’t the right time; so luz volunteered to look after the kids until his parents were able.

it was a weird arrangement at first. he was a single guy living in an apartment, definitely not ready to look after two kids. but layla and jackson were already crazy about their uncle george, so they made it work.

(luz set up a tent in the middle of the living room, and the kids “camped out” for a week until he could move into a two bedroom apartment. they made s’mores, told ghost stories, and sat out on the balcony looking at the stars until the kids fell asleep and luz carried them inside.)

in the end, everything worked out pretty well – so well, in fact, that the family agreed the kids would be better off staying with luz for a while, just to have that stability. all three of them were, of course, fine with it.

living with two kids is an experience, and luz is discovering more every day. grocery shopping is a special sort of adventure – jackson wants fruit, all of the fruit, while layla has six boxes of the sugariest cereal luz has ever seen.

she’s so determined to get them all in the cart at once that luz has to keep her from overbalancing with the weight of them. he’s distracted by layla, so he doesn’t notice when jackson picks up an apple and lobs it clean across the store – into the head of some poor dude just looking for hummus.

that’s how george meets joe toye – a near concussion in the middle of stop&shop. toye is captivating, and grabs luz’s attention immediately. he’s a fitness instructor, veteran, smoking hot, and proud owner of a prosthetic leg.

you can guess what gets the kids most excited.

after the whole “sorry my kid almost killed you with an apple” incident, he and joe get along pretty well. luz invites him out to dinner as an apology, and that’s where he explains how he took his niece and nephew in. as much as he finds him kind of… overwhelming, toye can’t help but admire loyalty like that.

he and luz hang around each other more often, which of course leads to joe bonding with the kiddos. he’s a little amazed – how are luz’s kids both as annoying as he is?? layla is a ball of energy, jackson never stops blabbering, and somehow they’re experts at sucking joe into their games. it only takes joe an hour around the luz kids before he’s covered in marker drawings and is wearing glitter lip gloss, playing zombie barbies with layla’s dolls.

(luz walks in, takes one look, and throws himself into the fray. zombie barbies is his FAVORITE game.)

the kids love joe’s leg. he takes off his prostethic to let them look at it, and even gives them permission to touch his stump. layla eagerly declares that when she grows up, she wants TWO prosthetic legs. luz has to tell her that this is not a good idea.

overall, the kids get pretty close with joe. considering he’s never been much of a “dad” person, joe is surprised by how much he bonds with them as well.

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