#rabit writes

It was a damp day in the rotting remains of joey drew Studios, sammy was walking around in the old creaky halls, ink dripping down upon him as he walked with his axe, a whistle and hum in his step, he wanted to go make another shrine for his lord, well, thats til he heard a-

Crack

looking down under his foot, he saw a picture frame with a photo inside of it, which was odd, picking it up, he saw three people, a teen girl, a woman and a man, must've Been one of the old employees family, how sweet...though something about this picture looked fairly familiar, he just couldn't put his finger on it...

" hmm... "

After some consideration, he decided to go show it to his fellow believer, Aurelia! Maybe she will recognize this photo, the little lamb always had a better Memory than him that one

With a turn of his heel, sammy went down the hall to the right, where Aurelia was currently resting peacefully, or at least as peaceful as she could get

" aurelia my little lamb, sorry to interrupt but can you look at this? "

The sheep's eye lids fluttered open, inside of the eyes being hollow except for the very small white dots that sometimes appeared when she needed to see, being given the picture frame she grazed a finger across it, something in her expression shifting to look more..sad

" you.... Don't remember this don't you? Sammy... "

sammy shook his head gently, feeling a tad clueless of the topic, that's why he wanted her help

" no I don't believe I do dear, that's why I'm asking you, you're very handy when it comes to these things yes? "

" you could say... "

Aurelia mumbled quietly, before signing and taking sammys hand softly, using his finger to point out the past

" that's.. Ms Campbell see? Then there's me over there...and you're right there..."

" it's us.. "

Something..shifted In sammys features below his mask, but aurelia couldn't tell what, his chest ached as had his hand over the picture frame, Aurelias ontop his

" ah, yes...silly me, my dear sheep, my memory isn't what it used to be..."

The man gently lifted to picture up to get a better look at it, mentally squinting to gaze upon all the little details, the crinkle in his eyes, how Aurelia looked so cheerful, Ms campbells smile...

" maybe we should look for a place for it? It'll look quite charming on the wall or at a desk somewhere don't you think? "

Aurelia spoke, eyes going back to being dim once more but a ghost of a smile in her expression

" I uh...yes, but...let me ponder where to put it first, I'll hold onto it...for safe keeping "

" uhh...alrighty, I'll be here if you need me..."

Aurelia said, slightly worried but decided to shrug it off, going back to resting in her little corner

Sammy stared at the picture again, gently tracing his fingers across the cracks, walked onto to go somewhere to try to think, his head feeling a bit ached right now at the sudden realization

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" ms Campbell.... S...susie....yes..."

Sammy was seen in a old creaky chair placed in the music department, leaned against the light of a old projector and dust of the near by instruments, he had the frame held up as he was leaning on the legs of the old chair, being careful not to slip

" what...happened... I...what happened to us all... "

He looked at his hand, flesh replaced with dark sticky ink, a tired and slightly stern expression of his old self replaced with Almost no expression at all, you could see his bones through the tar like substance he calls his body now, he knew he always looked different from his past but he hasn't realized... How different til now

It was like he wasn't even the same man anymore

And oh...aurelia, those eyes looked so cheery and hopeful, now there's almost nothing behind them, the words of sorrow pleas to their savior broke the poor girl in so many ways..

He felt the pain grow whenever looking at ms campbell, a gnawing guilt he couldn't understand, the only thing he can really remember was her laugh, her smile, why did it make him feel so awful...

Sammy tried to hold it back, take a breath, but he couldn't...

Thick inky tears ran down his cheeks from behind his mask, staining the glass on the picture frame, he frantically tried to wipe it away, but with his whole body being nothing but ink, each swipe made things worst and worst...

Out of fear of ruining the dear picture, he dropped it, it made a slight shatter sound while hitting the ground, and Sammy quickly sprung up from it

The glass was almost completely stained black, some ink leaked through the cracks, making it splotchy, but it was okay, his precious memories are okay..

Sammy picked up the broken frame in his palms, holding the photo like a injured bird, he looked around, before sighing, deciding he should just try to call it a night..

Mr Lawrence walked back to aurelias cozy corner with his head down, worried about damaging the photo anymore than he did, he was probably taking longer to get there because of that anxiety..

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Seeing Aurelia curled up in her corner asleep made Sammy feel a tad better about this predicament, he carefully set the broken picture down on a create, placing a rag around it for safe keeping, the man sat down on the floor a bit besides aurelia, watching her at rest til deciding he shoud get some sleep as well, he looked up to the ceiling, a old towel he just picked up getting tucked between the wall and his back, and started slowing his thoughts...

Laying there, counting sheep to try to sleep, maybe he'll have a pleasant dream, a dream that couldn't compare to any one he had in years, where him, ms campbell and Aurelia could have just been a happy family, going on picnics, having family dinners and Such, it seemed sweet, he never considered himself a family man but maybe he'll start...

But like all his dreams, he'll forget them, so maybe he should just stop trying...

A soft hum of the music box in the daycare subtly filled the room, glowing stars hanging from the roof of the daycare, though it was quiet and peaceful throughout, there was a playfully shuffle in the blankets and whisper of snicker through the slides, a little 8 year old girl in a periwinkle nightgown crawled in the tunnels, trying to contain her giggling to not be found by the threat lurking in the darkness, she looked to her left and right before sliding tummy first down a slide, landing in a pile of pillows, the girl suddenly stopped her giggling when she saw..

Two glowing red eyes, coming right towards her-

" rahhhhgh!- "

A burst of laughter was unleashed, the nap time day care attendant, moon, threw the small child up in the air, holding her upside down by the leg, the moon man sat down on the soft pillows and taunted

" naughty child~ you should know better, it's past your bed time~ "

" d'awhhh nooo! I wanna stay upp, pleaseee "

" nuh uh, it's time for you to count some sheep, my little marie "

Moon replied to the child's resistance, scooping her up more comfortably in their arms, they began walking this 'marie' back to her sleeping bag, with her dangling her arms off of moons shoulder, pouting the young girl argued

" nuh uh to youuuu- I wanna go see mama! "

" your mama is working hard right now, but for you it's naptime, starlight "

" ughhh I'm too old for naptime! "

Little marie tried to wiggle out of the daycare attendants hold, her sentence amused them, kneeling down on the patted floor they placed her down and tucked her in, booping the little girls button noise, moon told

" oh dear you're never to old for naptime, you'll learn that when you get older "

Marie groaned, picking at the split ends of her long dark hair, she muttered

" that's a bunch a...buncha hogwash.. I've never seen mama take a nap "

" well she needs one, she should come to the daycare for naptime too "

" should she? "

" yes she should "

The two conversed, marie looking to moon with wide eyes then nodding her head when moon confirmed, she placed her head down on her pillow, moon hovered over the child, giving their head a tilt

" you're comfortable? "

" ye, cozy comfy "

" ready to sleep? "

".....yes "

Little marie hesitated, turning her gaze away before quickly adding, so moon didn't turn away yet to patrol around

" wait! Uhm...can you stay? For a little bit...til I go to sleep? "

Moon looked to the young one, his animatronic features creaking into a softer expression

" hmm.. well of course... "

Marie smiled a bit at moons response, he leaned down and laid besides the girl and she scooted closer, after a solid moment of silence, marie spoke in a hushed whisper

" moon...moondrop.. wanna hear a secret? Promise not to rat on me tho..."

This caught moons attention

" sure, I won't tell a soul "

Marie curled herself up in a blanket, looking around before continuing

" okay so- I used to be scared of the dark.. "

" oh really? "

" yeah! Really really.. well it kinda scares me a little now but I have nightlights for that.. and the glowy stars! "

Marie points up at the hanging stars up on the ceiling of the daycare, moon notices this and looks up to them as well

" ahh yes, well the stars are meant to help if little ones like you sleep.. I'm glad "

" yayyy...."

Marie mumbled, sounding like she was slowly drifting off, with heavy eyes she rested her head onto moons shoulder, a sleepy yawn leaving their mouth, moon was satisfied to see the child finally beginning to rest her eyes, in a more gentle tone he spoke

" goodnight, my little star..."

What a peaceful sleep..

4 years later

A blaring alarm filled the silence of a early morning, we shifted to see a messy room with little tinkers and mechanic knicknacks all over a few cuddly stuffed animals spread around with a stack of plastic cups on the night stand next to a pair of glasses, a hand from the covers felt around for awhile til it picked up the alarm clock, shutting it off with a rattle, the hand tore off the blanket, sitting up from the bed, a 12 year old marie awakes, rubbing her eyes while setting the clock down on her night stand, taking her glasses and standing up with a big stretch, marie slipped on some bunny slippers then began to walk out of the room, the girl was still sort of half asleep, she almost tripped on something, letting out a startled ' ahh! ' she looked down on the floor, seeing a old daycare attendant doll, the moon, the doll let out a jingle from the jingle bell on the dolls night cap, marie bended down and carefully put it back on the shelf it was once on, marie didn't pay much more mind as she walked on over to the bathroom to get ready for the day..

A sizzle from the skillet and fresh smell of pancakes filled the kitchen, a woman with blonde hair with a partly shaved head haircut could be seen making some pancakes, a bright smile planted on her face and a cheery glint in their eyes, flipping a cinnamon flap jack, she turned to gaze over to her partner cutting some fruit besides her, jewl, the gaze might have lasted longer than it should have because jewly noticed, she looked over with her expressions forming into a soft smile

" whatcha looking at kitty? "

Kitty froze at her question, stumbling over her words they said while rubbing the back of their neck

" oh um- i-i just..- I just saw something on your face- ahah there it is "

The woman pointed kittts face, going to rub something that wasn't there away from jewls cheek, she cressed her hand across her face slowly by it, which caused jewl to heavily roll her eyes with a teasing smile, grabbing kitties hand jewl said in a chuckle

" oh how smooth, sweetheart "

" jeez, guess you got me.."

The small hue of pink on kitties face spread to a bright red on her ears and nose, holding onto jewlys hand for a moment longer, kitty asked

" so..how has job hunting been going? "

" since fazbears went down in flames? Not good, sadly, what about you hon? "

" oh well..- uhhh- "

" goodmorning mom! morning kitty "

Marie's voice carried through the kitchen, the kid came in with a but of pep in her step, wearing a pair of violet overalls and a star clip in their hair, she slid over to the fridge and grabbed a box of cereal then continued to search for a bowl and spoon, kitty shook her head to compose themselves from getting startled by Marie's sudden entrance, then greeted the girl along with jewly

" ah hey marmar! How'd ya sleep? "

" eh, kinda rough but okay "

" were you up messing with those doodads all night again? Marie sweetie I told you- "

Jewly spoke in a motherly scolding tone, sweet but stern, marie had to resist the urge to roll her eyes at her mother's (not wrong) accusation

" mom it was fine, I only stayed up for like- 30 extra minutes "

Kitty shook her head, putting a hand on jewls shoulder she spoke in a similar tone

" listen to your mother kid, just try not to do that next time "

" alright.. "

Marie shrugged and sat down on the kitchen table with her cereal, leaning back and munching away, kitty said

" aren't you gonna have some some pancakes? They have cinnamon sugar on themm~ "

" oh uh- no it's fine ma, I'm gonna meet up with my friend after breakfast "

" ah alright then "

Kitties shoulders slumbed a tad, yet jewl put a hand on kits hip and spoke light heartly

" don't worry, we have some leftovers for later, you know brunch is my favorite~ "

" oh ah-! "

Kitty left out a collection of flustered stutters but ended up giggling them off, marie let out a exaggerated gag at their sweetness, now rolling her eyes at it, jokingly of course

" can you two get a room with that? I'm trying to eat here! "

Jewly shushed her daughters wenching, flicking a piece of fruit at the girl playfully, marie giggled at the motion, she shrugged, beginning to slurp down the rest of her cereal in a flash, clearing wanting to hurry this breakfast up, having friends to meet and places to be, jewl shook her head at this, she swooped the bowl away as the last drop was finished

" careful, you'll choke Hon "

" I haven't yet! Ahah- welp I gotta go mums byeee- "

" be back before lunch! "

Kitty yelled as marie dashed out of the kitchens back door, snickering a tad at her hurry

the girl hopped onto her bike and began to peddle down the street, she stopped at a normal two floor suburban home, slightly out of breath, and digged a walkie talkie out of the bikes basket, it was green with a multi colored peteled flower on it, it hummed and glitched with a thick static, turning the dial and giving it a shake, a voice came through

" ay marn! You Here? "

" yeah? Are you coming? I don't want your dad to throw stuff at me againnn, hurry up! "

" yeah yeah I'm coming "

Suddenly, a body flopped down from the second floors window on the side of the house, said body stood up with a small ' whoop! ' as this kid slung their backpack over their shoulder, running over to the bike in their driveway, they road over and waved to marie

" hi dude! Ready to go? "

" I've been ready forever Stacey, now let's go! I really wanna see if we can find something cool! "

" jeez marn, it's a junkyard full of a bunch of scrape metal scrapes not a loaded gamestop "

" when have you ever been in a loaded gamestop? "

" Shhhhhhhhhhhh-SHut up nerd "

Marie sighed heavily at this, shaking her head at her friend's behavior, but smiling at it, finding it goofy, almost cute..

The two biked down the road, away from the houses around the shops and to the edge of town, where the old scrape yard was, the two liked to go here often, marie liked finding new pieces of metal to tinker with while stacey liked the vibe of it all, on the fact it made her parents super angry, the parked their bikes inside of a old storage shed they hung out in, walking out marie began to climb a big pile of junk to get a good look at the place, stacey leaned against a old car, snickering a tad at her friend's behavior, finding it goofy, maybe even cute as well

" you see anything marmar? "

" hmm..not yet, but there's a new big pile of junk over there! We should check it out "

The girl slided down the pile on her stomach with a trashlid, making a few cans and old ball pit balls come loose and thrash down with her, stacey looked unimpressed, she picked up a dirty ball from the crusty floor, throwing it up in the air a few times, little ms tomboy said nonchalantly

" -OOooorr, we can play some ball for a bit then do the heavy lifting stuff, we don't have to spend all of our time here just collecting buttons n stuff "

" what? Come on stace! From the looks of these ball pit balls there could be some things dumped here from the pizza plex! Maybe we can find a old animatronic voice box or- OOO even a endo! So so many possibilities!! "

Marie rambled passionately, flaring her arms around like a giddy child, which she technically was, stace sighed, rolling her eyes she motioned her hands in a pushing motion

" alright alright, fine, I don't know what any of those words mean but why not, let's go dig in some garbage "

" yes! Let's get em done!! "

Marie snatched Stacey's jersey and booked it to though out the maze of garbage piles, stacey just let it happen, letting her body just drag on the floor without a care in the world

The duo stopped at the new pile of trash, formed a cave-like area near the bottom of it, a few broken pieces of colorful tunnel bits and huge hunks of metal spread, marie almost squealed at the sight, like she hit the holy grail, stacey was less enthusiastic about this but still clapped with a ball still in their hand, standing back up with a slouched posture, stacey spoke

" ahhh cool cool... junk, like every Sunday "

" new FRESH junk! Junk good for dismantling! "

" peachy "

Marie dived straight in, rummaging through everything and being careful not to cut herself on any stray pieces of glass, stacey dragged her feet but went to help her friend, she hummed a little tune under her breath as she did, Rocking their shoulders with the melody

Marie seem to notice this, copying Stacey's hum and the rock of their shoulders, the two being fully in sync

Stacey began to mutter some lyrics of the little jingle after seeing marie also intertwine herself

" boogie down.. "

" uh huh "

" boogie down "

" uh huh "

Marie followed along, even bumping her shoulder playfully against stacey as well

Stacey felt this bump, so decided to bump back, a little harder because of her competitive nature

" hey! Cut it out ahaha! "

Marie laughed, shoving stacey back at her rougher shoulder bump, which made stacey let out a cackle, cracking her knuckles and giving a sly smirk, stacey tackled Marie down, holding her hands down

" no way you little nerd! Ahah! "

The two laughed, continuing their friendly cat fight amongst the trash, but eventually the friendly thrashing got rougher and- knocked off Marie's glasses got knocked off into the little cave area of this trash, stacey immediately stopped at this, getting off of her buddy she spoke apologetically

" oh shit- sorry marn, want me to go get your glasses? "

" oh uhh- no it's fine, I'll go get it! Give me a sec "

" uhh..okay, careful.. "

Stacey hesitated but let marie go down..

Marie stepped down the steep path, she almost fell over! digresses, sliding down on her knees and then going around to feel for her glasses, marie could almost make out a dim flickering red light in the short distance...how strange

The young girl continued her searching, til she felt the familiar plastic feel of her glasses, huffing a steady sigh of relief, marie placed them back on her head, blinking her eyes a few time to adjust her sight, she now saw...

The broken superstar daycare attendants upper half-

Marie let out a scream, feeling as if she was about to jump out of her skin, this alerted stacey, quickly calling to marie with concern

" marn? Are you okay? What's going on over there! "

The rowdy tween slid down the steep way down in a hurry, dusting her hands off on her jorts, looking up to where marie was, she spotted the broken daycare attendant, and yelped

" aah! What the HELL?? What is that!! "

Marie took a deep breath, the shocked horror turning into something unreadabley baffled, kneeling down to the animatronic corpse, she hovered a hand over it cautiously

" i....i-uh...think it's t-the daycare attendant? Or at least what's left of it.. "

Marie's hand shook, tracing her fingers gently over the attendants busted up moon textured face, moving down, she gently opened up the animatronics chest to see if there was anything in there, yet that was apparently a mistake because it suddenly perked on with a cruel mechanical screech, the voice box sputtered with a thick layer of painful static as the attendant tried to claw for marie

" N-nAughTy chILDRen..-! MUst BE pUNishED-!! AACK- "

Marie took her hand back in a dash, the two girls let out a startled sreek, on instinct stacey began to aggressively stomp on the busted bot, it's gears grinding sounding reminiscent to grunts of pure agony, marie stood up to hold stacey back from possibly damaging the android more

" get! Away! From! My! Friend! You busted up bucket of bolts!! "

" wait wait no-! Don't break him! Don't- "

" I am going to slap you silly, moon man! "

" stacey! Back off!! "

The girls tripped over themselves, Stacey's stomping caused the moon to stop it's aggressive behavior, the two huffed, collecting themselves for a moment before speaking in panicked whispers

" why did it try to kill us?? "

" man that's a little harsh, they're probably just stuck on security mode- or some sort of bug "

" yeah I still don't like the fact it tried to CLAW YOUR EYES OUT- "

" SHHHHHH- "

Stacey lowered her tone, taking a deep breath she spoke to marie

" so what are we going do with it? We're not keeping it are we?... "

" uhh..well- "

" ARE WE?? "

" come on stacey! This is a big deal for me, I could try to fix them! "

" marie- be realistic for a sec, this thing is basically a feral dog foaming at the mouth with no legs "

Stacey gestured at the broken bot, trying to reason with marie

" let's just give it a chance, please bud? If I can't fix it, we'll dump it back, I promise.. "

" ...marn- "

" please?? "

" .... "

" UGH fine "

" YES!! thankyou thankyou! "

Marie jumped stacey in a nuzzling hug, which caused the rowdy tween to blush a tad, smirking nervously stacey said

" yeah yeahh, don't mention it, so what do we do with Mr creepy robot, boss? "

" ahah okay, so first we need to get him out of this ditch first, then figure out where to put em "

" hmm, alright then, help me pull "

Stacey nods marie over to help her pull moons arms, the two began to pull the daycare attendant out of this trash pile, his gears grinding and sparking

As the two dragged him out, the Sunlight hitting the bot made his dirty broken Sunrays popped out with a springy spuck

" ayyy forgot that happened with em "

" yeahh, usually the change from moon to sun should be more noticeable, being cold and broken probably stops that tho "

The two girls conversed, continuing their struggle of dragging the animatronics top half away

...

The two where back near the shed of the junkyard, resting themselves and the attendant onto the old car, catching their breath, stacey leaned her elbow onto the android

" heh, so what do we do now? Should we just shove him in the shed and come back later or..? "

" hmm, I don't think that's a good idea... what if a worker found him then scraped them when we're gone? "

Marie sounded worried, nudging staces shoulder odd of the sub

" augh, okay where do we put him then? Kinda hard to hide a giant robot "

" hmmm....oh! I have a idea!! "

A bit later

Marie and stacey shoved the daycare attendants upper half through Marie's windows, a heavy thud hitting the floor, the girls jumped through the window, marie began to prop the daycare attendant up on her desk, moving all her tinkers and knicknacks out of the way and grabbing her tools, beginning to dig into the animatronics limp body and look for wires to piece back together

" you.. have a plan for that right? "

" i...well, technically no, not yet, I'm just expecting the damage right now, I'll figure something out, maybe we can go to the library in a bit? "

" hell yeah!! I heard there's a new comic installment I wanted to get there so we can kill two birds with one stone! "

" yeah-! "

" heh yeah..."

...

" hey, do you think there's any more animatronics in that trashheep? "

" well...there could be, but it'll be strange, does animatronics are super high tech and why would fazbears waste that money by dumping them all? "

" maybe they'll beyond repair? Old sun and moon did look pretty rough "

" yeah but still functioning, sorta, fazbears has WAYYY more materials then us, they probably could have fixed them just fine, it's odd- "

" Marie! Kiddo you there? "

The sound of kitties footsteps and voice coming closer made the kids shudder, looking around frantically for things to hide the moon, stacey found a pile of clothes on the floor, shoving them all onto the animatronic with a nice jumper blocking their face with a nice looking sweater in a hurry, the two posed extremely naturally, you have never seen someone pose more nature, nope never

" yyeahh come in! "

The young girls voice was a tad strained, she anxiously fiddled with her hands behind her back, stacey punched Marie's shoulder at the voice crack near the end, beads of sweat almost dripping down her brow

Kitty opened the door, looking mildly surprised that they both came through the window, after a sharp hum of silence hung, kitty spoke, suspiciously

" uhhh...hi kids, what cha doing with all those clothes? "

" oh uhm you see we really just- "

" FOLding Laundry! "

" what? "

Kitty and marie said in unison, varying levels of shock in their tones, stacey put her hands on her hips, and besides being a sweaty mess, sold it relatively well

" yep! Folding laundry, the stiffing filth really help them keep their shape "

" ew...Don't...Don't say it like that "

Spoke marie, cringing at her bud's descriptive lie, kitty found this very odd, but decided to try to ignore it

" just wanted to tell y'all it's lunch time.. we're having pancakes, would you like to come stace? "

" I WOULD LOVE TO- "

Stacey threw her arms up in excitement, thuding her arm against the hudden animatronic body and making a loud bang sound, marie kicked a can to cover the noise, kitty shrugged, motioning them over

" okay c'mon slow pokes! "

" coming! "

Marie called, looking back at the clothes pile before going off, a tad anxious..

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A young della swung on the swings of a empty park, it was nearing sunset and scrooge decided to take her out just so she can get some extra energy out before bed, she was jumping on and off the swings then climbing back on over and over again, scrooge thought this behavior was unusual but then again he wasn't completely sure what usual was for children, especially this child, it hasn't been too long since he's been spending more time with them, but he'll digress, folding his newspaper down to take a look at Dalla's antics

" della lass, careful you might break something when throwing yourself around like that "

" oh c'mon uncle scrooge! I gotta practice! "

" practice? "

" yeah practice! " della exclaimed, jumping off the swing again with a 'hup!,' noise, leaning forward and putting his hands on his knees, the old duck asked

" what in the world are you even practicing for that inquiries this? I suppose you never know but still i don't want you with scraped knees when we get home "

Says scrooge, he stood up, walking over with a click of his cane near the swing set, he stood next to della as she swung with a hint of amusement in his eyes, perhaps affection too

" ya know when we go on one of those awsome adventures again! Gotta stay sharp, I even aced my ace in out runner simulator! "

Mr mcduck chuckled at the young lasses determined tone, she jumped off the swing once more, doing a little duck and roll this time

" ahh i see, well don't wear yourself out dear, we still need to walk a few blocks on home "

" why don't you just call duckworth to drive us back?? There's a phonebooth over there! "

Della suggested, pointing over at the phone booth on the sidewalk that was a few steps away, yet scrooge shook his head, telling the young duck

" duckworth hasn't been feeling well, unfortunately, plus walking will do ya some good "

Della slumbed her shoulders, she looked down and thought for a second, before perking up and hurrying on over next to scrooge, she asked

" can we go get him some candy? I bet that would make him feel better! "

Scrooge put a hand on his chin, stroking it he says

" are you just saying this so you can get some candy? "

" whaattt?? Nooooo...okay maybe "

Della smiled sheepishly, kicking a rock away with one flippered foot, scrooge shook his head at this but couldn't resist to smile

" maybe you should just make him a card "

" aw alright, it was worth a shot "

Della duck shrugged her shoulders, scrooge scoffed playfully at this, dusting himself off the old man asked the duckling

" so are we done here? We don't want to be late for dinner now do we "

" oh alright! Just give me a sec "

passing scrooge to climb up the play pins latter, she ran over to the slide, preparing herself with little huffs and fake outs, it appears she was planning to jump off the slide

" della no "

Scrooge interrupted, unamused

" come on "

Della sighed, going down the slide like a freaking normal person, scrooge met her at the bottom, holding out his hand out to the wee whipper snapper, old mr mcduck said

" let's go home lass.. "

And they walked on home, della rambling about going on another adventure or just her interests in general, as scrooge occasionally responded and listened..

It was a quiet rainy night in Saint canard, which was rare, not the rainy part but the quiet part, usually some new foe would be driving darkwing up the wall by now, but when the masked mallard went out on patrol there wasn't a dang thing! If that didn't annoy him enough he was out in the rain long enough to start coming down with someone ugh

At the moment, darkwing duck, or drake mallard, was at home, sitting on a chair with a warm drink in his feathered hands and a blanket rapped around himself to fight off the freezing wet cold outside that door, his head had a slight slit of a feverish headache and the back of his throat felt dry and scratchy, most likely early signs of some kind of cold

He didn't have time to think about it right now, for he heard the sound of wheels skurting though out the house, the clink and hicker of a hockey stick down the hall and dash of a hockey puck down in the distance, it must've been-

Gosalyn roller skated into the living room, tumbling over on the edge of the carpet with a subtle oof, sitting down on carpeted floor the drake spoke up

" how Many times have I told you not to skate around in the house, goss? "

Gossyln perked up at the sound of the old mallards voice, rubbing the back of her head with a light snicker she responded

" uhh.. five? "

" Gosalyn "

" okay okay! Jeez "

Goss stood up and walked over carefully to the couch as she sat next to her dear dad. Pealing off her roller skates, with a small flick in her tail feather she asked with curiosity

" hey dad, where's launchpad? "

Drake hummed, resting his eyes for a moment while peaking with a sigh

" he said he'll be out renting a movie, something about a new action movie release he wanted to get his hands on "

The young girl perked up at this, jumping up on the couch cushion she bounced on her flippered feet

" ooo really? With ninjas and aliens? Or giant lava slug monsters! "

The so called terror who flaps in the night chuckled at the sound of his daughter's excitement, patting her head he spoke with amusement

" oh gosalyn, it'll probably just be some spy movie he picks up, don't get your hopes up too high kiddo "

Gosalyn sat back down and pouted with a puff, crossing her feathered arms

" just some cheesy spy movie? Man, and he calls that action? I could see every car chase a mile away in those "

" well, you can always be doing your homework insteadd~ "

Drake added, giving a boop to gosalyns beak with a knowing smile on his own, goss rubbed the back of her head and with a nervous chuckle and switch of her personality the girl responded with

" uhhhh on a second thought I sure it'll be great! What a action packed adventure heheh "

" that's what I thought "

Gosalyn playfully stuck out her tongue out at drakes teasing, shooing his hand away from her with squinted eyes, this made a flick of a laugh escape darkwings beak, it was genuine but short lived, for a uncomfortable scratch it his sore throat like a wave and he coughed hard at the feeling, burying his chin into his arm with a dry icky coughing fit, gosalyn paused her playful behavior at the sight, a small frown painting her beak now, gosalyn hopped off the couch with a patter

" jeez dad are you okay? You aren't looking too good "

" oh, dear- I am the pprr- perfect p-picture of h-hEALTH- AHCHEW- "

Dw couldn't help but sneeze into his arm, one or two times, gosalyn put her hands on her hips and shook her head, the girl spoke to him before running down the hall

" I'll call the babysitter "

" what!? "

Mr mallard tried to tell his daughter but she was already gone to make a call, gosalyn and her baby sitter, piper blu lynxley, were close, and drake was fond of them himself, but if goss thought some teenager would be helpful right now she was wrong... at least in drakes mind

Stopping at the end of the hall, gosalyn probed herself up on a fee books to reach the house phone, typing in blu's number and waiting for them to pick up with only the ring in the room being heard

Ringring

Ringri-

" hello? "

Blu picked up, their tone almosta bit exasperated, the hybrided lynx twirled the wire of the phone and held it close to their face with a tight hold, like this little phone call just interrupted something

" hi blu! Dad's been acting real sick lately and launchpad is out, can ya come over? "

" i- what? I Don't know... where's launchpad?? "

Blu sounded curious, if not a tad concerned but still annoyed

" he's out getting some dusty spy movie, and I doubt honker would want to go out in this rain, the guy can't risk getting sick I guess "

Gosalyn responded, sitting on the same table the phone was on

" well, I don't think I would want to risk that either, it's getting pretty stormy out there, kid "

" please blu? This rain is really dampening my spirit here, plus dad will be driving me up the wall denying hes sick! Please? "

Blu could almost feel gosalyns puppy eyes from here, she rolled her eyes and with a long sigh, she responded

" alright alright, I'll be there in a pinch goss, give me a second "

" hell yeah! See ya soon! "

" language young lady-! "

The lynx blurted out before gosalyn hung up, she probably didn't even hear them, rubbing her temples she punched in a number on her line and waited as it rung, her foot thumbed on the floor in a rush

When the phone was answered, blu put it close to her ear, taking a breath, ms lynxley spoke

" this is agent 61, I won't be able to go out tonight...something came up... "

Some talking was done on the other side, a almost harsh tone made her wrench, gripping her phone the feline replied, a vague bit of unease creeping into their tone

" it's uhh...personal, I just can't reschedule..."

" okay....yes sir, sorry for the inconvenience, director buzzard..."

" goodbye "

Click

The phone was hung up, blu went to grab her coat, umbrella, bag, and walked out of her small trashed hide out

Walking on the rain muddled road blu thought to herself, wondering why she even bothered to do so much for some family, cursing herself for going somewhat soft, she couldn't help it. But they still had a job to do..

...

She hasn't even noticed how long she's been walking til she bumped into- launchpad? He was holding a box of dvds, pop corns and soda, there was a small shiver in his spine by the chilly air and somewhat wildly rain, yet he looked to blu and a smile slipped to his beak, tilting his head he asked

" ah hey jb! What are ya doing out here in this weather? "

Blu looked quite caught off guard by this sight, shaking her head quick they almost stuttered out with a baffled yet concerned tone

" launchpad?? What are you still doing in this weather?? I thought you would have taken the rat catcher or something, not going out bare flippered! "

" oh jeez, well I went out when the rain was still light but then got caught up in this mess, just my luck "

Launchpad said, shaking this head with raindrops dripping down his face, the young hybrid took a breath relaxing her shoulders and smiled a bit, holding up her umbrella to go under launchpad as well they spoke

" well, goss called me over saying Mr mallard wasn't feeling well and asked if I could come over, so I decided to slip over "

" dawh that's sweet slugger, what about we go hurry home to check out on goss and dw? "

Launchpad suggested, giving a nudge to blus shoulder as they began walking

" heh, sure... "

-Meanwhile with gosalyn and drake

Gosalyn was in the kitchen on a stool near the stove top, a pot full of water and whatever salts and seasons gosalyn would throw in there, she's always getting souped shoved down her throat when she's sick so the kid thought she should make dw some soup, a attempt was being made but it wasn't looking good in all honesty

Mr mallard was curled up cold on his seat, more of a soreness in his throat and feverish sweat, his head was pounding and hands where almost trembling, calling out to gosalyn with a horse tone, drake spoke

" Gosalyn- ough..what are you doing in there?? It sounds like a wracket for God's sake "

" oh give me a second! I'm almost done, relaaxx "

Says gosalyn before a moment later bringing a large blue bowl of- practically a bowl of salted water and carrots. Darkwing peaked a eye at the concoction, groaning he placed a hand over his eyes

" ..what is that?? "

" soup! What else would it be? "

The young duckling put her hands on her hips, pouting

" sorry goss but I don't feel like choking down a slurry of salty liquids at the moment ughn.."

dw placed the bowl on the near by coffee table, resting head into the armrest of his chair and shutting both heavy eyes

" man, I just wanted to help "

Grumbled gosalyn, shrugging with defeat yet her tone didn't change by much

Darkwing seemed to soften up a touch by his daughter's words, fluttering his eyes open he reached out a hand to ruffle her hair

" dawh I know sweetie, sorry, what about you go play on your gameduck for awhile instead? "

Gosalyn placed a hand on her chin, now shrugging she went

" huh well, if you insist "

And right before she could make a quick dash to her room, a knock at the door got her attention, waddling up to the door and opening it, she saw blu and launchpad! Just in time too, rubbing their feet on the door mat, blu was the first to waltz on in and speak

" we're here~ and- yikes you look worst than I thought "

said the lynx as she looked over to darkwing, walking on over to where he sat and leaned on his chair, dw argued, not liking blus tone

" h-hey! I have you know I am just- hughmn..peachy, just a...just a little tired "

" huh, alright then old man, I'll be in the kitchen cooking up these cornals then, maybe I'll fix ya some more tea too "

Blu took darkwings old mug from the coffee table, taking the pop corn cornals from launchpad in a short sweep of her tail she made her way to the kitchen, drakes eyes flicked straight open, speaking with some more annoyance he almost slurred out

" wh- who are you calling old young lady! "

" definitely not youuu- ahah! "

Blu's little cackle could be heard from the kitchen, walking in and sitting up on the couch aside from drake, launchpad spoke with a concerned hum

" boy dw, ya know they aren't wrong, you aren't looking to hot "

" oh I'm fine you big baboon, let's just all watch that movie together now, before you track in too much rain "

Launchpad shook his head silently, but overall began to get the dvd from the box and slip it into the dvd slot of the TV, as everyone seemed to be distracted on their own little things, gosalyn tried to sneak away upstairs, yet she only got half way up the stairs before her dear father spoke up

" Gosalyn.. "

The spirited girl snapped her head over her shoulder to look back to drake, slouching she cursed with a lowly raised fist

" dam "

" don't you dam me young lady-! "

-Small time skip to a bit later, the family was set up on the couch as the movie played In the dark living room, they had a bowl of pop corn blu brought in but no blu, apparently she was talking her sweet time with that tea, but it was fine and dandy, gosalyn was sat sinking lazily into the couch, fiddling with her fingers absent mindedly, while launchpad watched the movie with a invested gaze, drake was right besides launchpad as well, leaning on his side kicks side heavily, his head on lp's arm as he tried to keep whatever consciousness he had

Launchpad must've noticed this, he hovered a hand above drakes back before deciding to give him a gentle rub, it made the mallard let out a audible sound of relaxation, untensing his shook nerves, looking around, lp decided that the best thing to do would be to just put darkwing to bed, standing up while hanging dw up on his shoulder, the burly duck said to goss

" I'm gonna go put your dad to bed, kiddo! You go ahead and enjoy the movie, I'll be right back "

" okay lp "

The spirited duckling gave launchpad a thumbs up, still sunken pretty deep into the couch cousins, with that launchpad went ahead over and up the to the steps, drake being held onto his hand with droopy eyes while muttering incoherent things under his breath

Lp turned down the hall to drakes room, a pretty normal but cozy space, opening the door, it was relatively dark, but launchpad didn't mind to turn on a light since there was already some moon light glistening into the room via a open blind, plus he didn't want to wake his favorite crime fighter up, walking in and setting dw down on his bed, he went down with a flop, looking up to launchpad who sat down besides him on the bed, who was also looking down to him

With a tremble in his hands, darkwing felt around Lps arms and shoulders, he went up to the ducks face and cupped the sides of his bill, before his arms gave out and dropped gently down to his sides, the mallard continued to mutter to himself, almost coherently this time

Launchpads cheeks grew a faint hue of pink by the action, but he quickly shook it off, grabbing the covers fo tuck drake in, lp could hear him mumble out to him

" hey lp...? "

" yeah dw? "

A beat of silence passed, til drake continues

" am I...doing okay? "

" huh, well you're kinda under the weather right now but overall- "

" no not like that-! Ughnm...I mean as in...am I doing okay as a crime fighter, or parent, or partner... "

" oh... "

Another thick beat of silence went though the two, before launchpad responded while going drakes pillow a quick fluff

" well course ya are, drake, you can't help do your best heheh.. "

" uhh...y-yeah...just making sure..."

" yep, now get some rest dee, you probably need it "

Launchpad stood up with a small stretch, giving darkwings bed a good pat before beginning to walk out of the room, as he went drake just mumbled one more little thing as he went

" thanks, lp... "

....

Meanwhile, blu was in the kitchen, the very messing kitchen she had to admit, did a child go though here?? Nevermind, blu boiled a kettle for drakes tea, yet it sure has been boiling and hissing for a hot second, turning on the sinks water, they decided to snoop around, just to get a better read on this little family, they began to look though the drawers and cabinets, any loose papers or bills, maybe napping a thing or two she could use to help f.o.w.l, it wasn't personal, just business, that's why she was here afterall, nothing more nothing less, she had to remember that...

Looking though a cabinet full of letters and notes, she digged for a tad bit, before suddenly hearing a voice coming from behind-

" hey blu- uhh..what are you doing there? "

She got jolted back up by the sound of launchpads voice, snapping her body around to face him, the hybrided lynx chuckled nervously, they had their hands hid behind their back, a crumbled old paper in one paw, chuckling with a forced grin the feline lied though her teeth

" uhhh welll...ya know I'm just uhh- looking for this! "

She pulled out a lime squeezer with her spare hand, with a slight spin of their wrist, blu continued

" gonna...squeeze some lemons! In uhh- Mr mallards tea, yeah, it helps with soreness, i think.. "

" ahh right-o kiddo, just wanted to tell ya I got drake to hit the sack, you're welcomed to stay with me and goss to finish the movie If you'll like "

Launchpad said, a shrug in his shoulders as he walked on into the kitchen

Blu hesitated for a second, she slipped the crumbled paper in her paw into her pocket, spinning stiffly on her heel, the lynx dismissed launchpads answer

" d'uhhh..I'll love to but I really got to get back home, I have a school assignment I gotta work on.. "

" oh okay, nice seeing ya Jb! "

" you too launchpad... "

Blu grabbed her bag and coat, making her way out of the kitchen and living room

" bye gosalyn, I'll see you later "

" oh- bye blu! Call me later! Maybe we can hang tomorrow "

" yeah maybe..."

Blu waved gosalyn goodbye and took their umbrella as they went out the door, standing in the cold windy rain, the feline paused, letting the damp rain drops drip onto her ears, before looking though her pocket, taking out the folded crumpled paper and seeing...it was just a coupon for some bowling alley

With a heavy sigh, blu went ahead and walked home with slouched shoulders...

---

It was a quiet evening in the newly located safe haven, Or at least it felt like a evening, it was hard to tell time all the way down here, but that didn't matter at the moment, doey was currently reading a book to all of the little toys happily, Matthew specifically taking the wheel, it was a old play time co branded book about huggy wuggy and kissy missy going camping, sure it wasn't anyone's favorite favorite book but it'll have to do, hopefully they'll find another one soon..

As he flipped to the last page, A familiar friendly face entered the room

Ms parr, other wise known as ms willbur! A old staff member who some how got spared during the hour of joy and needed to live through this hell for a decade, but even in a heartbreaking living situation for everyone, the two still tried to make the most of it, no matter how hard it was

Ms willbur put her large bobby bear hug pelt near the entrance of the haven, small boxes of berries and something else in her hold, she grew the berries in her own small survival garden and was willing to share, walking over willbur watched as the reading came to a close, giving a clap to draw some attention, ms willbur spoke with a certain warmth

" woah what a awesome story guys! I love the ending "

The small toys giggled, getting up and running over to their friend with excited little hops, ms willbur smiled gently at this, kneeling down to be at eye level, the older woman spoke as she began to pass out berries

" hey little ones, take some berries, y'all must be hungry "

The critters and wuggies munched down on these snacks, something sweet and refreshing is rare in this harsh environment, but it really brightened their spirits, and dim starvation

Doey stepped on over with a little bounce in his step as well, sitting down besides the critters eating out of ms parrs palms, he let his shoulders slouch, lowering his guard in the her presence, Ms willbur noticed this, cracking a welcoming smile with crinkled eyes, she greeted him

" hey doey, glad to see you "

Doey tilted his head, giving a toothless clay grin and tipping his dough hat

" hiya pal! How are you? Been awhile since the saw you, I was getting worried, believe it or not "

" oh I'm fine, you know me.. "

Willbur waved away his slight concern, Giving his hand a pat, Doey inhaled, He couldn't help but feel a tad upset by the vague answers ms Parr gives, but he pushed that down for now

" oh! And I have something for you, doughball "

This caught doeys attention, Seeing willbur take out another carton of blue berries

" these are for you kiddo! "

the doughman looked surprised, gently taking it in his hands like its a precious treasure, in a sense it was.

" w-woah, really?? You sure?? "

" yeah of course! You boys have been working so hard ever since...- the whole old safe haven accident, y'all deserve it "

Willbur responded, voice softer than before to bring a little ease, knowing that the old safe haven blowing up everyone has been on edge, especially doey

" w-wow thankyou! We..- really appreciate this.. "

" it's not a problem, also, Beatrice told me you were low on books right? Well, I found a little something you might enjoyy- "

" heheh, you're just full of surprises, aren't ya pal? "

Doey exclaimed, amused but cheery, a little kicken chicken plush pushed itself up on doeys knee as the two talked, wanting in on the conversation

" ahah! Well you know how much I love surprises "

Willbur spoke, sarcasm thinly coating her tone, dusting off her hands on her pants, ms parr then pulled out a book from her jumpers inner pocket, but not just any book, it was-

" look! The adventures of the word wizard! "

Doey Audibly gasped at the reveal, the surprise almost knocked off kicken, but doey caught them quickly, setting them down right next to him before almost choking

" you- you found it! My- ahh..how did- "

" found it in the rubble, Its a little teared up but I fixed it the best I could, I promise "

Willbur explained, giving a reassuring nod by the end, doey took the book and held it close to his chest, closing his eyes

" ahah oh...you're a miracle worker, really, I don't know how to thank you, for everything.. "

" you know you don't, I just want you guys to be safe, and somewhat comfortable, you're my family too ya know.. "

doey could feel his heart swell and eyes dampen just a tad, wiping a hand across his face, the doughman said

" yeah... Still, thankyou.. "

Willbur took a small composing breath, with a flick of her wrist she asked

" you want to do the honors? "

Doey almost squealed, shaking off all the excited chitters, he nodded, as he began, little toys turned their heads to him, blue berry and strawberry juices staining their little numby hands, they began to sit in a circle, wanting to listen in on a good story, just like old times..

" once upon a time.. "