★~Vintage Soul~★ (Welcome Home AU)

Chapter 3 - Reminiscence

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Gently sitting him down on the couch in the living room, I grabbed my grandmother's old sewing kit and kneeled down in front of him. "Can you feel pain?" his eyes widened a bit, a worried expression on his face. "Yes... why?" I took out a needle and thread, "I'm gonna sew shut where your eye used to be" I look at them, a soft and gentle look of concern on my face "Is that okay with you?" he starts shaking again, gently nodding as he fidgets with his hands "I-It will be quick right?..." I nod, grabbing a cloth from the kit, and holding it up to his mouth. "Can you bite down on this?" nodding, he holds the cloth with his mouth, biting down hard on it in fear. I gently bring the needle up to his eye, and look at him, his black soulless eyes filled with worry. This would've been so much easier with a numbing agent...

"You know that song you liked from earlier? Can you hum it to me?" his eyes widened a little, and he gently nodded, starting to sing the melody of the song from earlier. That was my cue, I quickly and gently started to sew the hole shut, Wally hissing in pain and biting down harder on the cloth "Just keep humming that song, Wally" He hummed understanding, before continuing to hum the song, his notes where off, and stressed as I continued to sew, trying to be as fast and as precise as I could be. After a few seconds, it was done, and I tied a knot at the end.

"And done!" He was now whimpering in pain, biting down as hard as he could on the cloth. it hurt me to see him like this, but I didn't understand why, after all, he's just a puppet right? I gently grabbed his hand, and rubbed it softly, trying to soothe him. "I know it hurts, but the worst part is done!" he nods, and I take out to cloth from his mouth,

"I knew I shouldn't have done that all those years ago..." My eyes widened, a confused expression on my face. After a few seconds, I replied, "What? What do you mean by that?" He looks away. clearly, it's a touchy subject, but he takes a deep breath "It's... a long story..." A sympathetic look shows on my face as he continued "Let's just say that being locked in a room for 50 years, it does stuff to you..." I nod, listening carefully. He gently traces the stitching now on his right eye, takes a deep breath, and takes a second to look around, seemingly getting used to the new view.

I take a deep breath and put away the sewing kit. Still gently caressing his hand with mine. "I'm sorry you had to go through that pain..." I still didn't understand why I felt such a deep connection to this... thing, but I tried to comfort him, not the best at it. He simply just smiled weakly.

Quickly thinking of something, I get up and put on my shoes, hearing Wally's footsteps behind me. "Where are you going?" a worried look on his face as he spoke. I smiled softly, "I need to go back to my home, you can come with me if you'd like" He nodded frantically, walking up to me as I put on my shoes, and gently grasped onto my shirt. "I would like that, just don't leave me here alone..." I nodded, smiling softly as I gently picked him up in my arms "Alright, but you gotta promise not to bring any eldritch demons into my house or anything like that" I laughed at my own joke, as Wally smiled softly "I promise!"

I quickly grab one last thing, as well as my bag, and opened the door outside. I look around the neighborhood, making sure no one was watching as I gently picked up Wally and headed to my car, putting him in the passenger seat, not thinking much about it. "This neighborhood is so... gray." He looks around, inspecting the place around him, his eyes slightly squinting at the light. "Yeah, it's not like your neighborhood huh? The real world is a lot less colorful sadly." I smile as I start up the car, the touchpad screen lighting up, Wally looks on in amazement "Woah! It's another one of those boxes!" I laugh softly, amused by his amazement at the tablet "You mean a phone? Not exactly, but it's close to one"

He immediately starts asking questions, curious about the piece of tech. "How is it attached to the car? What does it do? Can it play music too?" I giggle softly, clicking a few buttons on the tablet to show the view behind the car so I can back out of the parking lot "It helps me to drive, but yes, it can also play music." his eyes widen even more, which makes me laugh, I press a few more options, playing the playlist from earlier. Wally freezes in shock as he hears the music through the speakers of the car

"Woah!!" He smiles widely, amazed by the technology as he listens to the music, reaching for a button on the tablet, changing the song to one he recognized "How does it do that?" I laugh softly as we drive away from the small house, his eyes watching as the house gets farther and farther away, "as I said, tech has gotten a lot more advanced in the past 50 years, there are even robots who do our jobs for us now" thinking of something, I slowly take my hands off the wheel, making sure that there are no cars around as I set the car to auto-pilot. His expression quickly turns to one of concern and fear, before he sees that the car is now driving itself.

"Cool right?" he seems to be out of words and nods in agreement. Changing the setting back to normal, and continuing to drive. "It's kinda scary" he laughs once again, smiling as he looks out the window, seemingly trying to process the new information as I drive back to my house. he seemed so intrigued by the world around him.

"I wish the others could've seen this..." he quietly mutters under his breath, making it so I barely heard him. The others? Right, there were other characters in the show he was in, he probably misses them a lot. "Do you know where they went?" he jumps a slight bit, surprised that I heard him before his face darkened a little bit "I don't want to think about it..." as he looks out the car window, he started to fidget with his hands "If I was trapped up there for over 50 years..."

I nod, understanding his concern for his friends, before thinking a bit "Well, can you tell me about them? I don't remember much of them" He nods gently, smiling as he seems to be remembering the old memories, and starts to explain the characters to me. Explaining the characters like they were real, pulling slightly at my heartstrings as he explained some of the memories he had with each of them.

What exactly happened to the other characters though? Not to mention the show itself, why did it get canceled?

Hopefully, nothing bad happened... right?

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