NOTE: Well, I posted this fic a couple months ago in the Misc Cartoons section and it got positive reviews. I did a couple oneshots about Dade that were connected to each other (Patching Things Up was a sequel to Bitter Rain) but this time, I'm going to make both oneshots into one thing and call it "Dade's Dilemma". Basically, it's about Dade developing control freak and bullying tendencies cause he feels sad that Harvey barely hangs with him. After being rejected by Harvey, Dade is heartbroken and cries himself to sleep in the rain. This is the Bitter Rain segment which will set up as a prelude to the Patching Things Up segment. I wrote this because Dade is my favorite Harvey Beaks character and I really wanted to put some emphasis on his Jerkass Woobie personality (I was the one who actually listed Dade as a Jerkass Woobie on Tvtropes). I mean, sure he can be mean and rude at times but at the same time, I feel sorry for him and just wanna hug the poor bunny. Feel free to read and review.
Dade breathed a deep sigh as he sat at the swingset alone. Another lonely day passed by for the rabbit. It seemed the closer the kids had gotten to Foo and Fee, the further they drifted apart from him. Pain welled in his heart as the imps mocked him for being way too serious. Kratz and Claire had started accusing him of being too bossy. Technobear told him with his sort of attitude, he'd never score a girl. Rooter accused him of being a sissy while Piri Piri outright called him a jerk. Princess of course said she hated his guts but she hated everyone equally. But Harvey, he felt so betrayed by him. Every chance the two of them could've spent together, Harvey would throw it away to hang out with the imps.
As the days passed, Dade grew meaner, nastier and even more controlling than before. Recently, Dade overheard Kratz confessing to Claire and Piri Piri that he stole a cookie from his grandmother's cookie jar. The bunny blew his stack and yelled at the skunk, shoving him to the ground and calling him a "shameless, sugar-addicted criminal" who should be "locked up til he learned his lesson." The skunk was terrified of the angry outburst and stormed off crying. The girls were very mad at Dade and Claire even pulled some martial arts moves on him, chucking him into a tree. The fox girl could hit as hard as Fee, if not even harder when angry. As the girls walked away, the hurt bunny looked completely shocked and confused as if what he did wasn't wrong at all. After all, it was only his upbringing. To add insult to injury, Harvey learned what happened and even yelled at Dade for what he did to Kratz, telling him that he's nothing but a big bully and that if he treated friends that way, he didn't want to be Dade's friend anymore. Those words pierced the rabbit's heart like a dagger. It was his worst nightmare come to life.
The rabbit pulled a piece of paper from his hammerspace fur. On it was a drawing of him and Harvey holding hands with text that read, "Best friends forever, Harvey and Dade." A drop hit the paper, smudging the ink. Then another, then another. Dade was crying.
"I'm so sorry..." Dade choked out, a river of salty tears rolling down his nose as he hung his head, sobs shaking his body like an earthquake. He now knew what it was like to be the outcast kid, hated by the rest of Bigbark Woods. A loser. A bully. A control freak. A monster.
Anger surging inside him, Dade swiped the tears from his muzzle and nose, crumpled the paper up, ripping it into shreds when he felt a sudden drop of moisture hit his fur. He looked up and dark clouds gathered in the sky. The pudgy, golden bunny got up off the swing and waddled over to a trash can, tossing away the scraps of what could have been.
The image of Harvey playing and laughing with Fee and Foo in the rain played in Dade's mind like a broken record. He squeezed his eyes shut, feeling scalding hot tears stream down his face, mixing with the icy cold rain that lashed violently on his tearful visage. He made a mad dash in the general direction of his house but it wasn't long before he slipped in a mud puddle and fell flat on his face. With a mixture of rain, tears and mud matting his baby soft fur, Dade lay defeated and broken.
He squeezed his eyes shut and quietly sobbed himself to sleep. He didn't even care if he made it to the warmth and comfort of his own home. Harvey was dead to him, his sweet desert rose withered away by the cruel sands of time. All was lost, all that remained was a distant fantasy, a destroyed dream of a bitter soul.