DHMIS Who Are We? Fanfiction (Includes Red × Duck)

Chapter 4, Pt 1: The Real Them ❤️‍🔥👿

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TW: This part contains hints of alcohol, fighting, and lead up to stabbing.)

3rd POV

Doi takes the batteries from Duck and unbuttons his overalls. He looks at Red, looking for his help. Red understands and wordlessly takes the old batteries out. Doi goes limp and Red clenches his teeth, putting in the fresh batteries.

Within an instant, Doi is no longer Doi. His eyes gain his green color and Iod sits up. He looks at Red who's lap he sits in and gets up quickly, embarrassed. "Sorry--" Iod mumbles. "Let's go inside, to the bathroom, they can't hear us in there."

Duck and Red look at each other and Red gets up and then follow Iod to the bathroom. Iod shuts and locks the door. He looks to the mirror and takes down the towel covering it. There on the other side is Doi, standing where Iod usually does, very anxious.

"Are you okay, Doi?" Duck asks him.

Doi nervously nods and looks to Iod. Iod nods to him and looks to Duck. He begins to explain things to him, breaking it down a little more so he would understand. Red nervously watches Duck, knowing he wouldn't react well. Iod comes to a stopping point seeing if Duck had questions.

Duck stares blankly at Iod and then moves his wings to his stomach. He unbuttons his suit and shows Iod the scar on his stomach. "Did. . . Someone here do this?" Duck whispers. Red notices he's taking it a lot better than he thought but he continued to hold his breath, knowing it wasn't done yet.

Iod nods. "Yes. . . But I'm not sure you would Like to know what happened."

"Was it Doi? Is that why I feel so. . . Scared around him? Why my stomach turns when I get too close to him?"

Red looks to Doi in the mirror and watches him pull his hair for a moment and then looks back to Duck. Iod frowns. "It wasn't his fault, Roy made him. He had no choice."

"What did he do?" Duck whispers. He puts a wing over his scar and clutches his feathers.

"He ate you."

Duck stops thinking for a moment. His mind freezes. "Wh-what?"

"Robin. . . You have died. . . More than once," Iods whispers.

"That-- That's impossible! Then how am I here! There's no--"

"Each time, one of you dies, you are quickly fixed in the mind and replaced. You are not the same from the first episode."

"Episode?" Red asks confused.

"You know how your words used to come out naturally, but they just don't feel. . . quite right to you. When this first started, the two of you were like computers, programed to say certain things, and it just felt natural to you because you didn't know. Once you two dies a few times, you were better, more real."

"We're. . . Not real?" Duck asks.

"In this place, no one is real. Nothing here is real. It may look all bright and happy but everything here is dangerous. It's to make Doi learn how to survive. How dangerous things can be in the real world."

"Real world?" Red asks.

"When you were humans. When you were real." Iod motions to the mirror and suddenly Doi is gone, the whole bathroom in the mirror is gone. It shows a dull colored house but. . . It looked real. Not made of fabric and foam.

A little boy runs around in the yellow dead grass, chasing a taller man in a red sweatshirt and sweatpants. His long dreaded black hair swings around his face as he runs behind a tree to confuse the little boy. The little boy has bright Red hair and his body is covered in freckles. He has a yellow sweater under his bright blue overalls with a big D on the pocket.

Another smaller man and a woman sit on the porch of the Dull colored house, watching the man and child run around. The smaller man wears a light colored brown short sleeve suit with a green long sleeve shirt under the suit. He wears fancy shoes and Yellow striped socks that go up to his knees.

The woman dresses in a brightly colored dress (Think of her in Ms Frizzle type of clothes from The Magic School Bus) She has light brown hair and freckles covering her face like the little boy. She talks to the shorter man, still watching the little boy and other man run around.

Suddenly the front door behind the woman and smaller man flings open. The little boy and taller man stop running and watch a man with Dark Brown hair come out of the house. He wears a dirty white T-Shirt and dark jean shorts, holding a dark brown bottle in his hand. He says something that Red and Duck can't hear and points at The little boy. The little boy quickly runs behind the tall man, clutching his sweatpants.

The man that just came out of the house pushes past the woman and short man to get down the stares. The short man stands up, stopping the rude man. The short man says something unaudioable and the rude man pushes the shorter one. That makes the one in Red mad so he rushes to The rude man. The taller one yells something to the rude ones and he throws a punch at the taller man with the hand he doesn't have the beer in.

The woman rushes up and goes to The little boy, hiding him behind her. The rude bashes the glass bottle on top of The man in red and he drops to the ground in a daze. The shorter man looks between The man in red and the rude man. He gets up quickly and flings himself in front of the one in red, saying something to the rude man calmly. The rude man takes a step back and drops the bottle that he shattered. Then he shakes his head and looks back to the short man. The short man jumps on top of the rude man and yells something to the woman and suddenly the woman is running to the car with the little boy.

The rude man struggles, trying to get up. He kicks his legs and thrashes his body while The short man sits on top of him, holding his arms down to his side. The woman and child pull out in the car and speed down the road away from the house. The short man sighs deeply and gets off the rude man and he jumps up, grabbing the throat of the shattered bottle and jumping on top of the short man.

The mirror fades back to Doi, who watched the image from the other side of the mirror, along with Red and Ducks reflections. Reds reflection wraps his arm around the other Duck, pulling him close to him and holding him tightly.

Red looks at the other him and the other Duck. Duck looks down at his scar and then buttons up his suit. "I think you've learned enough for right now," Iod says. I'll Doi back in a bit, the two of you should go talk alone."

Red takes an deep breath and looks to Duck. Duck nods and they walk to their room together.

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