The Standish Saloon

Hi all,

I'm new to this community. Figured I'd ask here to see if anyone new the fic that I read a while back but can't remember the title of. I think I read it on the Blackraptor Mag7 Fic page but am not sure. Here is what I remember of the fic (it might have been a short series of fics):

This is a modern day AU (might be ATF later in the story). Starts off with Vin as a child with his mother in Texas. His mother takes Vin and runs from her abusive boyfriend from one side of Texas to the other side of Texas. They live in a motel. One day Vin's mother's boyfriend finds them and comes to the motel. Vin's mother tells Vin to go to the park across the street and not to come back until she comes to get him. He sits there all day and into the night and his mother never comes. The police and EMS are called to the motel and find her body. For whatever reason, one of the police officers finds Vin in the park and links him to the woman in the motel room. His mother had been killed by the boyfriend. The police officer is married and takes Vin home with him. The police officer and wife are foster parents and take Vin in for a while. Vin starts going to school while living with them and they find out he has dislexia and doesn't like school. The officer helps Vin a lot with his studies and is very good at dealing with Vin. Then Vin's grandfather is found and comes to take Vin. Vin goes with his grandfather to Colorado and his grandfather is not as understanding about Vin's difficulties in school. However, he does his best to raise Vin. The grandfather dies when Vin is in middle school. Vin gets put into the foster care system in Colorado and runs away from it after a while. Lives on the streets of Denver (Purgatorio). Things happen and a social worker (Nettie) is fond of Vin but can't take him. Vin goes to HS graduation and happens to run into the police officer and his wife again at the graduation. The police officer & wife had moved to Colorado and were there because they'd seen Vin's name in the paper listed in the graduates. Vin goes off to the army. Then the next part of the story (or series) I can remember, is after the officer dies but his widow still has foster kids. Child services takes to foster kids from her on the day of the funeral. Vin is there when it happens, trying to comfort the widow. Vin is with ATF Team 7 in this part of the story. Vin & Team 7 help to get the kids back for the widow (name starts with B but can't remember what it is).

Sorry for being so long winded. Hope someone knows where to find it.

Hope everyone had a pleasant New Year's!

Edit (Jan 5 2007): Found a story that was similar but doesn't have the police officer taking Vin home for fostering. I don't know if I mixed up two different stories or what. The story that I found is titled "Surpises" by Kim over at Blackraptor (http://www.blackraptor.net/m7fic4/surprises.htm). I know that there is a set of stories that follows Vin from childhood to his time as an ATF agent with Team 7, I just have yet to find it.