Sibling Oneshots

The Pet

It was late afternoon and Darwin was in the living room sitting on the couch and watching TV.

He was in a good mood, and, though he nearly always was, something about today just put him in an even better mood than usual. He wasn't sure what it was, he just felt really happy, and to be honest he didn't really care why.

That however was all about to change as Gumball and Anais walked up to him, looking at him unusually angry. In fact, it almost looked like they were...disgusted by him?

"Hey loser, get up, you're being evicted."

Darwin froze, unable to believe what he'd just heard. S-Surely...surely he must have misheard, right?

"W-w-what?!" He asked, hoping, no praying Gumball hadn't actually said what he thought he had.

"You heard, we're getting rid of you! We don't want you anymore. Honestly, we never did. You're nothing but an extra burden that we all know we'd be better off without."

His eyes widened as he teared up and felt his heart begin to crack. They...they were getting rid of him...his worst nightmare was coming true...

"That...t-that's not...that's n-not t-true!" He argued

"Oh, please! Don't lie to yourself, you know it is. You're nothing to us. We don't care about you, we never have. You've done nothing but get in the way and ruin our lives."

Darwin felt tears begin to trick down his face as a pit opened up in his stomach.

"The only reason I even let you hang around with me is that you're so gullible, so stupid, that you just went along with whatever I told you, like the obedient little pet you are."

"P-Pet...?" He felt his heart cracking even further. He was very sensitive about that topic, and hated anyone, even Gumball, calling him a pet, even as a joke, and to hear him calling him such a name now, and genuinely mean it...it hurt, it hurt so, so much...

"That's right, pet! That's all you've ever been, it's all you ever will be. Sure, you were useful, but I just can't be bothered to put up with you anymore! I can't keep pretending to love you, I can't keep acting as if I care, it's just too much hassle. It'll be way easier to just get rid of you as we should have years ago!"

Anais nodded in agreement and spoke up, her voice filled with genuine spite and disgust, "You're such a useless and pathetic pet, you know that, right? You're so naïve and stupid, You actually believed me when I told you that you were my favorite brother! I mean, how could I ever love a freak like you?!"

She and Gumball both began to laugh as Darwin's heart cracked even further, barely holding together, and he began to cry softly.

"Shut up!" He cried out, but they just ignored him and continued laughing.

"As if we would ever even consider him our brother in the first place! He could never be anything more to us than a pet! An ugly, unwanted, mutated freak!" Gumball managed to say through his tears of laughter.