Different Faces: What if?

Red

The last time we saw Thomas he recently lost his father but gained control of his life and took care of his sisters and stepmom and even gained a little brother that Chilli had named Bandit after her late husband. But here we see things in a much darker turn of events... Emily had recently passed away just like in Sad Faces but what if she requested her son to live with her older brother Prince?

Red

After the Funeral Prince placed his hand on his nephew's shoulder. "Your mom would want you to live with me," Prince said, smiling with his gold tooth . "Yeah, I know she would have," Thomas said, then feeling his phone vibrate. Thomas looked at his phone and saw his father calling. Thomas then rolled his eyes and pressed the red button to pass the call. "Come on, let's get out of here," Prince said, guiding his nephew to his limo. Prince and Thomas got in the limo with Prince ordered to be taken to the airport. "You'll see that life is so much better in New York," Prince said with a smile, taking out a cigar and lighting up and smoking. "Well from visiting all the time it's going to be nice to actually live there," Thomas said with a chuckle. "Right! You gonna have so much more freedom," Prince said while smoking. "Didn't you tell mom you stopped smoking?" Thomas asked. Prince laughed continuously puffing the smoke.

"I told her many things but I kept those things to myself." Prince said with a laugh. Thomas chuckled while sitting back in his seat. "Want some champagne?" Prince asked. "What?" Thomas asked, looking at his uncle. "Come on! You're not going to get in trouble since you're living with me!" Prince said, smiling. "Oh, okay," Thomas said with a smile. "Besides, we're grieving over your mom and my sister. She would want us to have fun to get our minds off of her ," Prince said, getting a bottle of champagne and two glasses for them.

"Y-yeah your right," Thomas said, taking the glass of champagne from his uncle. Thomas then felt his phone ring again. "Is that your loser dad of yours?" Prince asked while drinking. "Yeah... I guess I should take this," Thomas said about to answer the phone. "Here, let me talk to him," Prince said, handing out his hand. "Okay," Thomas said, handing his uncle the phone. Prince grinned and then threw the phone out the window of the limo. "Hey!" Thomas shouted in anger. "Hey! Don't tell me you're going to get soft on me and take his call are you?" Prince asked. "But what if it was important?" Thomas asked, looking at Prince.

"Look kid, your dad moved on with his life, remember? He has a new wife and new kids... he does need you, but you know who does need you?" Prince asked while drinking. "You?" Thomas asked. "Yes! Look at it this way, you can focus on yourself for once! And you don't need him to put you down," Prince said while getting more champagne. Thomas looked at his glass of champagne and nodded. "You're right Uncle Prince!" Thomas said while drinking all of his glass of champagne. "Yeah!" Prince said while putting more champagne in his nephew's cup.

(6 months later...)

Thomas came home to Prince's penthouse looking on his phone. Thomas walked into the penthouse and kicked a pizza box to the side and grabbed a beer from the fridge and sat down on the couch. Thomas looked through his phone and saw his fathers instapaw seeing his fathers pictures of him and his family having room. Thomas rolled his eyes and placed his phone down and watched some TV. Suddenly Prince called his nephew. "Hey uncle Prince," Thomas said on the phone. "A package? Yeah I'll go get it," Thomas said standing up taking one last drink of his beer. "Are you coming home tonight?" Thomas asked while taking the private elevator down to the lobby. "Oh, yeah that's fine I'll just go hang out with some friends or something," Thomas said as he went down the elevator. "Right love you," Thomas said, hanging up the phone. Thomas then went to the lobby and picked up the package.

"Thomas? Mate?" Thomas heard his name being called. Thomas gasped hearing his name being called by the one dog he thought he'd never see. "Bandit?" Thomas said, looking at his father. "Bandit? Mate it's dad," Bandit said, taking a step forward to his son. "Don't! You don't get to do that!" Thomas said with a shaking voice. "Mate, I've tried to call you! And contact you! I even called your uncle!" Bandit said, trying to step forward. "Why do you care! I bet you'd rather just be with Chilli and your daughters!" Thomas shouted. Everyone in the lobby started looking at Bandit and Thomas. "They are your sisters! And they need you in their life!" Bandit shouted. "I don't want them in my life! I'm doing perfectly fine without them and without you!" Thomas shouted in anger. Bandit's heart broke hearing his son say that about him and his sisters. "I will never ever need you Bandit!" Thomas shouted.

"Mate y-you don't know what your talking about... it's Prince he's poisoned your mind mate," Bandit said, having tears fall from his muzzle. "Uncle Prince has been more of a dad than you'll ever be!" Thomas shot back as he took the package and went back to the elevator. "T-Thomas!" Bandit called out to his son. Elevator doors closed leaving Bandit in the lobby. Bandit starts crying as he leaves the lobby. Bandit started walking down the street until he bumped into Prince. "Watch it!" Prince shouted in anger. "Oh Brandy!" Prince said with a smirk. "What did you do to my son!" Bandit shouted. "Give him the life you couldn't!" Prince shouted. "You turned him into someone I don't even know! All he sees is red when he sees me!" Bandit shouted. "Funny, the last time I checked your fur color is blue and mine is red," Prince chuckled. "I'm serious!" Bandit growled, pinning Prince against the wall.

Dogs started to gather around and take their phones out and film the situation. "I'd be careful if I were you, I have great lawyers and what do you have? A sad little family with nothing on me, my sister was way too for you and you know it," Prince said with a dark grin. Bandit broke down crying. "Oh come on Brandy! stop being soft! You always were a sad little pup!" Prince said, egging it on. "Shut up!" Bandit said as he started punching Prince and beating him up. The police then got involved and grabbed Bandit. Prince smiled darkly spitting blood on the ground and the police took Bandit away.

Thomas was up in the penthouse drinking his feelings away until he heard his uncle enter the penthouse. "Uncle Prince? What happened to you?" Thomas asked, looking at Prince. "Just some crazy fan but you have nothing to worry about the police showed up and took him away," Prince said, putting ice on his muzzle. "Oh," Thomas said, looking away. "What's wrong with you?" Prince asked. "My dad showed up," Thomas answered. "Ew gross," Prince said, holding his ice on his muzzle. "Tell me about it," Thomas said, taking another drink of his beer. "God my head hurts," Thomas said, holding his head. "Here, take some of these," Prince said, handing his nephew some pills. "Are they safe to take?" Thomas asked. "Of course! I take them all the time when I throw out my shoulder while playing football. "Alright," Thomas said, taking the pills "good boy," Prince said with a smile.

(One year later...)

"Yeah, Yeah, I'll get to it later!" Prince shouted on the phone as he walked into his penthouse. It was dark in the penthouse and Prince just got home for the first time in six months. Prince then opened the currents and saw his nephew laying on the couch. "Hey sleepy head!" Prince said, looking at his nephew. Thomas didn't answer. "Hey! Softball!" Prince said, shaking Thomas. Thomas didn't wake up. "Thomas?" Prince said, shaking Thomas again. Prince then noticed a pill bottle next to his nephew. "No, no, no! Thomas!" Prince shouted trying to wake up his nephew. Prince started to tear up. "No! No!" Prince shouted now crying while holding his nephew. "NO!"

The End.

All Thomas saw was red when he saw his father and his fur was blue. Prince was under the influence of thinking he was invincible. That nothing bad would ever happen to him since he was the god of his own universe. If Prince were to just let Thømas work things out with his dad and hadn't given Thomas the tools to end his life early, maybe Thomas would have had a chance to live the rest of life normally. Our next short takes us to a place where what if Bandit and Emily both died when they wanted some alone time to themselves leaving Thomas with uncle Stripe as his only father figure. We'll see what Thomas's life would look like if Bandit and Emily had died in the next chapter.