The Kitten's Limit Remastered

Chapter 9- Aftermath

The following scene was written by The Primordial Clok Roo, with small tweaks and edits by me, and was taken from his oneshot "The Aftermath"

Penny sat on a bench in the schoolyard, looking down solemnly at the ground, completely disinterested in the world around her.

Earlier she had gotten into an argument with Gumball. She had been trying to help him while he was in a bad mood, but it ended with him lashing out and striking her. In the moment she was absolutely furious and shouted back, calling him a jerk and breaking up with him on the spot.

Now she felt awful with herself.

Was breaking up with Gumball the right thing? It should have seemed like the answer was obvious, given what happened, but she loved him too much to just end their relationship. Especially like this. 

The person who attacked her before? That wasn't Gumball, or at least the Gumball that she knew. Gumball was usually kind and caring to the people he loved, and that included her.

The person she broke up with was angry.

There had never been a time when Penny had known Gumball to get angry. Sure he got a little irritated and grouchy sometimes, but never outright angry. Even when things were going bad, he always managed to push his way through and put on a brave face.

She didn't know how to feel about it all...

Penny suddenly felt as though everyone in the school was looking at her. She turned to see her friends – Leslie, Masami, and Carrie – all staring at her with weird looks on their faces.

"What are you looking at?!" She said, her own voice not sounding like how it usually does and perhaps more harshly than she intended.

"Errrr, what happened to you?" Masami asked.

They don't what happened? Penny thought to herself. They must've been elsewhere during recess...

"Yeah, you look like you were run over by a cement truck and then fused with a goblin," Carrie described.

Wait, look?

"I told you that diet you were on wasn't good for you," Leslie said.

Confused, Penny looked down at a puddle of water that was nearby to see her reflection. She was surprised to see that she had shapeshifted to resemble four different creatures all at once – each one representing the conflicting emotions she was feeling over what happened with Gumball.

Angry, scared, sad...

Alone.

I had no idea I could do that She thought to herself as she poked her tongue out at her ugly appearance.

"Penny?" Masami called again, reminding the fairy that they were still there googling at her, probably in disgust.

"Go away! Leave me alone!" She shouted. "And don't look at me!"

Not wanting to upset their friend further, the group just walked (or in Carrie's case floated) away and left her be. Now alone, Penny took a deep breath and emptied her mind – reverting back to her normal self in the process.

It was best for her to just not think about the incident with Gumball and just act like it never happened...

...

"Hey, Penny," Darwin said as he approached.

Penny sighed. Of course it wouldn't be that easy to just forget about Gumball...