[Closed] The earth shakes and the city's burning, but it feels like the tide is turning

[goingbythebook]

WHO: Huey, Dewey, and Louie
WHERE: Whatever quiet corner they can find
WHEN: Late evening, third week of August
WHAT: Someone's a little late to catching up to his brothers' canonpoint


It had been such a strange compulsion, the mirror drawing him in... One moment he was here, then next he- wasn't? It was hard to describe, and even now the memories of what he'd seen were fading. All he knew was that now he'd been spat back out onto the "proper" side, and his head was swimming with all new memories. Experiences. Home. Had he lived them-? He felt like he had, but he also felt like he'd only been gone a few seconds.

Standing there in the room, hand on his chest as if to try and still his fluttering heart, Huey stared ahead with open eyes. The memories were all new ones, ones he could hardly process, especially... especially...! Swallowing thickly, he quickly swept a hand across his eyes and then took off, two names easily jumping to the top of his throat.

"DEWWWEEEEYYY!!! LOOUUUIIIEEEEE!!!"

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[talkyourwayout]

Louie watched Huey carefully, even as Dewey spoke up again. He knew the eldest Duck triplet had quite the temper, and he while he wasn't scared of Huey - not really - he was scared of knowing he'd hurt Huey to the point of anger.

But then came the hug, and with that, Louie couldn't hold his own emotional mess together anymore. He started to cry. "We've got our mom," he echoed, with a little nod and a sniffle.

"It's so crazy, right? But like... It's good. It's really good."

[couldabeenturbo]

"It's better than good," Dewey countered, sniffling as he wrapped his arms around both of their shoulders. "It's ... it's like sledding down Mount Neverrest on a piece of wall from Atlantis while wearing stuff from Uncle Scrooge's attic and cutting down anything in the way with that crazy awesome khopesh Louie found in the pyramids only we don't have to do any of that because we're all just riding in the back of the plane because MOM'S FLYING IT."

[goingbythebook]

Huey let out a little laugh that he couldn't quite help, whether at the rush of emotions he was still trying to process, or in the wake of Dewey's word salad that still somehow made sense. Wonderful, wonderful sense.

"It's incredible! And- Sure we're still stuck here for now, but we went back once somehow, it can happen again. Right back to where we came from, if my memories I have now are correct!" The gears are turning now, helping clear up and straighten out whatever else he's feeling. "I can't believe it... Getting to see Mom is the most unlikely thing I ever thought would happen, by a wide margin."

Huey paused, then half-shrugged. "'Course, I didn't know we were related to Uncle Scrooge either, but I feel like between the murder ponies, the Terra-Firmians, and a ghostly other-dimension butler, I think that needs its on 'Unlikely Occurrences' category..."

[talkyourwayout]

Louie had laughed, as well, and even seen fit to not worry about his image for long enough to ruffle Dewey's hair, getting his sticking-up feathers to swoop down like Louie's own bangs.

"Not a bad look for you, bro," he pointed out cheekily, before sighing a relieved sigh. "Yeah. We're going to go home, eventually, and we have a mom to look forward to seeing there."

He leaned over and turned Huey's cap backwards. Even that was unusually affectionate for Louie, but this was a very... Extremely special moment.

"Way unlikely. But it happened."

[couldabeenturbo]

The fact that even Louie was getting in on the moment made his heart feel fit to burst with joy. It wasn't often that his younger brother got mushy,and he was so happy that Louie was letting himself feel like this. Saying so would spoil it, though, so he kept it to himself like a treasure all its own.

"What about subcategories? We could have Unlikely Adventure Stuff and Unlikely Family Stuff."

[goingbythebook]

Huey straightened his cap with a soft chuckle, and when he came up his face was practically glowing. It was rare Louie got so affectionate, and between the three of them, that made this very special indeed.

"I do like the idea of separate categories. It could help us keep Uncle Scrooge's stories straight, if nothing else."

[talkyourwayout]

"You guys are nerds," Louie said, but there was fondness in his tone. "Oh, and just so you guys know, Webby knows about Mom, too. She actually said Dewey might have told her, but it seems like she was too excited about finding out Lena's okay to really let anything else get through."

[couldabeenturbo]

"Where's the fun in keeping them straight?" Dewey snickered. "My favorite story to tell people is how we fought off the money shark deep in the treasure pit of the tomb of Toth-Ra."

He winked at Louie. Okay, maybe he wasn't actually fond of telling that story, just seeing how Huey would react.