"Oh my god...I...I had no idea. How...how didn't I know? Why don't I remember any of that?"
"Well, it's only a theory but you must have hit your head on that rock pretty hard to be knocked out, so hard in fact that it must have caused you to lose your memory." Anais theorized.
"Like...amnesia?"
"Exactly." She nodded.
"This whole time...two entire years of my life, forgotten like that..."
He sat down with his face in his fins.
"You okay bud?" Gumball asked softly as he placed his paw on his shoulder.
"Yeah, it's just...a lot to take in..."
"I know...you had a whole life, family, friends before us. It's pretty big news."
'I'll wrap my head around it eventually, it'll just take a while I suppose."
"Take as long as you need." He smiled.
"Well, we kept our word, even after these years. We said we find you and we did.." His father smiled.
He smiled. "I can see where I get my motivation from."
"You always were one determined little fish."
Nicole chuckled. "You got that right! He fought so hard to get back to us, never gave up on getting home. It's really admirable honestly."
His father looked confused. "What do you...what do you mean, get back to you? Did he got lost again?"
Nicole realized she'd just slipped up and said something she probably shouldn't have.
"Ah...uhhh...well..." She tried to come up with a way to explain it delicately.
"Well?" His mother asked.
Gumball explained for her. "Long story short, I realized he could speak and understand me, I asked him to play dead so I could surprise my parents, Dad thought he was actually dead and went to flush him, I saved him, we went to take a photo of our family, he jumped out of the bowl and startled my mother causing her to accidentally throw him towards the toilet and cause him to get flushed anyway, then he spent a couple of days on an arduous journey to get back, somehow growing huge and gaining lungs and legs in the process...still don't really know how that happened...but meh, doesn't really matter, what matters is he got back." He took a deep breath.
"I. Think that's about it."
"Oh, I err...I see. Well, I'm happy he got back to you safely." She smiled.
"You...aren't mad?" Richard asked.
"No, no, of course not. It was an accident. You didn't mean to flush him." His father replied.
"I had a knack for getting lost I suppose". He chuckled.
Darwin suddenly realized something he was surprised he hadn't noticed earlier. "Wait a minute...how do you have legs and lungs?"
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The Reunion
FanfictionIt's been 8 years since Darwin ended up in the Watterson household. 8 years since he began his new life. But what happened to his real parents? How did he end up in the awesome store in the first place? and will his parents ever come back? My idea o...
