15: Why.

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by BFDITK

by BFDITK

(THIS TAKES PLACE AFTER MY MOONFLOWER CHAPTER 4 FANFIC, GO READ NOW!!)

(This is a request from Buzzedup1, so enjoy reading this angst :D I don't know how to write angst lol)

~!! CONTAINS (MILD?) SWEARING AND (MILD?) GORE AND VIOLENCE !!~

Goob's POV:

"Goob, I have something to...talk about." Shrimpo says as I get in his room. It's very messy, with air horns scattered and a lot of holes in his walls. His desk is filled with papers that when I peer at, it basically states everything that he hates, which I guess is everything in his line of sight, or his trail of thoughts.

"Yeah? What is it?" I ask. He shifts uncomfortably.

"You know how Dandy killed me in Scraps' and your room?" He asks. I nod.

"What about it?" I ask again. What is Shrimpo leading to...

"Okay, so do you want the short and blunt answer, or do you want me to try to explain it nicely but I don't know how to word it." Shrimpo asks a rhetorical question to me.

"Uh..." I trail off. "I'm assuming you want me to say blunt?"

"Wow, great going sherlock. So when we started beating the living sh*t out of Dandy when he was choking, you suddenly pushed me aside, and tackled me to the ground. And then when you started telling me that you couldn't hurt Dandy, and you couldn't see me hurting him too, Dandy suddenly grabbed my ribs and crushed me to death." Shrimpo states.

"Uh..yeah...so what?" I nervously ask.

"So what you basically did was instead of disarming him and potentially making him revert to his toon form, you pushed me aside, giving Dandy some time to stop choking, and eventually kill me. Which means that if we still had been beating the living sh*t out of Dandy, Dandy would've never killed me." Shrimpo finishes. Oh. Oh no. Uh oh.

"I- uh..." I stammer. Shrimpo sits with his arms crossed. "I just didn't want to see Dandy suffer..."

"Even after he tried to kill us twice?" Shrimpo raises his eyebrow.

"No! I mean, if you phrase it like that, yeah, but-"

"So you're saying you saved the person who killed me." Shrimpo finishes. I shake my head in protest.

"I- No!! I didn't know he would kill you!" I protest. "If I did, I would've definitely helped you!"

"Well, even if you didn't know he tried to permanently kill me. You even saw that!" Shrimpo fired back in response. My hands quickly scrambled to cover my face.

"I'm just not used to violence! I've never fought before, and it looks like you have I guess." I gesture at Shrimpo's punching bags and the holes in the wall.

"That still doesn't excuse you." Shrimpo remarks. I rack my head for comebacks, and I finally find one.

"Okay, y'know what? It was partially my fault, but it was also Dandy's. Actually, mainly Dandy's. If he weren't here, we would be peacefully living our lives with the toon handlers! Who again, Dandy killed!" Shrimpo looks like he doesn't have a comeback for a moment. He sighs and looks at me.

"You can't just go blaming people, even though it's their fault." Shrimpo begins. "I get it, you thought Dandy was a good guy. Everyone thought it, at least once. But reality is, he's not. Some people just can't be changed." He looks thoughtful for a few seconds, and returns to lecturing me. "Actually, maybe he has changed... but he's still working on it."

"So... do you forgive me?" I swallow hard.

"...I guess. But don't make stupid mistakes again. I like your good heart, but you have to toughen up at some point." He flushes a little. I just nod and smile.

"Thanks." I hug him, and I feel him hug me back.

(SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN SO LONG, I GOT BANNED FROM ALL ELECTRONICS FOR THE ENTIRE WEEKEND)

(I'm actually writing this in secret, pretending I'm writing my history essay that I kinda completed)

(I was a bad girl, I did some bad things 😔)