That's Not My Neighbor- One shots

Disquised Safety

Suggest by: EmoFoxGoBrrrrrrr

(Doppleganger POV)

It was a chilly evening as the sun had just just disappeared, and was then replaced with the glorious moon.

With that I walked throughout the town, wind blowing through my Imitation human hair. It was of course a copy of the town's milkman, even though the obvious difference is my long ass ears. While I try to tell everyone I stretch out to 'Hear' even though it is the truth.

As a doppelganger, I had a terrible hearing with normal 'Human' ears so I had expanded ears to improve my hearing, but it didn't improve my chances of getting into the apartments.

But still, I always tried every day or I guess night to get in. With a quick look around in the darkness around the road, making sure there were no DDD trucks nearby before I left for the apartments. My shoes tap against the hard concrete, the imitation of the 'Clothes' I wear rub against my Imitation human skin as I walk.

As I arrive in the apartments, I notice there's no line, "Where is everyone?" I mutter as I look around. When I walk towards the security window there's a massive crack in the glass with a doppelganger-sized hole.

My Imitation tired eyes widen a bit as I feel the broken glass pieces that make the hole. As a doppelganger myself I start crawling into the hole into the office of the doorman, as I land in the office I hear sobbing.

Normally a regular Dopple would have no mercy in a form or sign of vulnerability, normally a Dopple would attack and feed on the weak for a proper meal. But oddly I was different, even though I normally was in a group of other Dopples trying to get into the apartment. The sound of crying made me seem saddened by the situation.

I follow the sound and open the door in the back of the office. In the room is a long hallway with a couple of doors, an Exit, an emergency exit, And Apartment 3321. The doorman's apartment room. Since the doorman couldn't fully leave for this job.

I walk towards the door and gently open a crack to see inside. I see the doorman on the ground, in a sort of mental breakdown. I could hear the visible stress of this job in them crying, on the ground were neighbor files with stains of wetness on them. Probably from them crying.

My face softens as I watch them. Slowly I move the door to open more, the door is very squeaky as it opens. The crying stops, and the doorman turns their head to look at me. Their eyes are wide. As they started breathing heavily, I could tell how they were feeling. Scared that a doppelganger was in front of them.

They probably thought that I was there to kill them and end their stress harshly. But I don't, I walk slowly towards them, "S-Stay back!" The doorman tries to say but they end up quivering their lips as they move back against the wall.

I watch them and stop walking. Gently I go to my knees and say softly "I'm, not here to kill you" My face shows no other motives. "Y-your not?" The doorman spoke with tears dripping down their eyes. I nod and offer a hand to the doorman

They seem hesitant but eventually take my hand. Their palms are so sweaty, Possibly a sign of this poor doorman's stress. "I know your stress, having to watch everyone closely on appearance and information," I say softly, their breathing slowly calms down, "Y-you do?"

I nod and gently bring them closer to me. "Yes, it's kinda similar to being a doppelganger, always trying to be a perfect copy. But of course, one wrong act or move, and DDD's up my ass "The doorman allows me to bring them closer to me as I sit beside them.

"H-how do I know you're not gonna kill me?" The doorman asks, which is a reasonable question. "Well, it's kinda hard to answer that question" the doorman's ease doesn't fully die down but does partly.

"S-so why are you here if you're not gonna kill me?" They ask, "I heard you crying," I ask, and their eyes soften at my words.

Gently they lean into my arms, and I hold them. They sound like they're gonna cry again but they seem like they don't wanna.  "It's ok to drain your eyes" I say, and they start crying. Some tears drip onto my Imitation fabric, kinda becoming wet.

The doorman while still weary of me seems bad that they're wetting my clothes with their tears.
"It's alright if you cry on my clothes, it's the last thing I care about at this moment"

They start crying, hugging me tightly as they cry. "I-I.This job, I can't.." they sniffle. "It's Alright, I understand. We all have stress, even doppelgangers"

After a couple of sniffles, they wipe the tears from their eyes, and pant with a sigh. As they calm down I look at the place around us, and especially the files and papers surrounding the place.

"What's with all the files, huh?" I look at him, and with a final breath they reply, "I-I swear I let a doppelganger in, and..and I don't know who I let in!" They start panicking that they have let in a being that killed all the neighbors because of their stupidity.

"Oh.." I say as I look at them, then I look at him as he Hugs my arm. "Well, by how I walked in. I didn't hear any distress or roars" a good thing for having big ears for good hearing. "R-really?" I nod.

"S-so I didn't let a doppelganger in?" I nod, "Yes, you didn't let any doppelgangers in. You're just putting more stress on your human mind" I reply, the doorman wipes the final of the tears. Finally calming down.

I hold them and comfort them as they finish calming down. Gently my hands massage their sweating scalp, the doorman closes their eyes as they calm down. "I didn't think a doppelganger could be this gentle," the doorman says in a sigh of relief from the stress, with a small chuckle I say, "Well, and Dopples thought humans were just annoying creatures. Guess we were both wrong"

They chuckle and chill in my arms. They were like a child or an animal to my understanding of human life. Gently I feel their fingers fiddle with my huge ears as I hold them. Normally I hate when Dopples or when people speak harshly about my ears, never have I expected someone to fiddle with my huge earlobes.