Human AU, Alan x Carmen, somewhat depressing.

"What did you do that for?!" Carmen yelled, pulling her cactus green spiky hair out the way of her face, angry and stern. "I thought you loved me Alan!"

"C-Carmen, I d-"

"Save it!" And with that, she stormed out, leaving a hole in her pretty obviously ex-boyfriend.

"Fine then," He shouted, rage seeming unnatural in his eyes. "I don't need you!" He glared at Gumball, tears filling his teal eyes. "Well done." And with that, he left, arm over his eyes, his feet thudding against the floor as he ran.

"Alan! Wait!" Gumball and Darwin followed, running just as quickly, pushing past the other students.

Desperation filled Alan as he paused at the fence that held him prisoner. With a huff, he placed a foot on it, pulled himself up, placed the other foot in a different hole and continued this routine, climbing the fence. He heard other students murmuring, and as he jumped down from the other side, he heard Miss Simian yelling at him angrily. The jump was more like a fall, and he fell onto his front, ignoring the pain as he scrambled up.

Gumball and Darwin were unable to follow – neither dared to climb with Miss Simian watching – and watched as he began to limp-run across the road. A crowd gathered as he fell to the ground. Mr Robinson's car came driving along, and as he pulled himself up…

Smack.

The car hit him hard, for the cars were going at a fast pace, and the ex-boyfriend of Carmen flew backwards into the road. Miss Simian ran to the locked gate, produced a key, unlocked it and ran out of the playground, a flock of concerned students following. Carmen was not present.

As Miss Simian checked Alan's pulse, she practically ordered Tobias to call the ambulance.

That was when Carmen came out.

"ALAN!" She screamed, forest green eyes widening. "What happened?!"

"He got upset when you dumped him so he did a runner but he fell from the fence and got injured and fell over in the road and Mr Robinson hit him with his car!" Darwin explained, gesturing with his arms and hands what had gone on and ignoring the tears that journeyed Carmen's face.

"Is he…?"

"Alive, but in serious condition." Miss Simian stood and turned, her coffee brown eyes not glaring at them – for once. "Tobias, have you called the ambulance?"

The dark skinned boy gave a quick nod. "Yup. Said they'd be here soon." He gave a lopsided grin to her.

"Okay, everyone back off." She ordered, her black hair escaping its bun as she pushed the kids back.

It was then Darwin got a look at Alan.

He had a pool of blood underneath him, soaking his clothes, and his pale skin was littered with bruises and cuts, presumably from the hit. The only signs of life were his rising chest, beating heart and the occasional twitch or groan. The dark skinned boy kept comparing a smiling, bruise-less and cut-less Alan to the Alan that looked so weak laying there. A wave of sickness overtook him to the point he almost threw up. Teri, Leslie, Penny and a few others did. Even the six foot tall Tina looked weak and queasy, something Darwin never would have imagined. She had her shorter friend, Jamie, by her side, an arm around her and vice versa.

The ambulance arrived as quickly as it took for the situation to spiral out of control; Alan was taken away in the ambulance and no one spoke about the incident for the rest of the day.

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That day turned into a week. That week turned into a month. That single month turned into multiple.

Then there came the news of the tragic death of Alan Rickman, who'd been hit by a car. Whilst they'd checked him out in the hospital, they'd discovered a tumour. Within weeks of the diagnosis, he'd died.

The school was silent, the students were obedient and it seemed everyone had fallen into a deep depression, especially Carmen.

It'd been their fault, Gumball and Darwin acknowledged that.

Well, not the tumour bit, but the car…

They returned home and slumped down on the couch, turning on the TV.

There was something that upset yet intrigued them.

"Before his death, Alan Rickman recorded a message titled, 'My Dear Students'." They then showed the recording.

"My dear students," Alan began, looking into the camera. He looked weak, lifeless and, worse of all, saddened. "I know there is a chance I am to die, so if I do, I wish for someone to find this and show it to you. This is a message to all those who attended or at least went to Elmore Junior High with me. But, even if you are in no way affiliated with the school I attend, perhaps attended, do not feel you cannot watch.

"I am known to be the optimist of the school, often called out on my politeness, kindness, honesty, loyalty and generosity – not to brag. Some are sickened by my 'perfect' nature; I'm looking at you Gumball Watterson,"

"He mentioned me!" Gumball chuckled for the first time in what seemed to be forever.

"However, what if I told you I am not perfect?"

"LIES!" Darwin cried, pointing at the screen.

"You see, I try to uplift, inspire, others, without paying much attention to myself. When I tried to convince Clayton that dieting wasn't all too bad – he was convinced he was fat, but thought dieting was bad – I ended up almost starving myself.

"I have been rushed to hospital many a time, which may explain my absences, for reasons such as the one I just told you. Only my parents knew of this, for I wished not to burden my girlfriend Carmen of this."

Jaws dropped.

"The charity I donate to supports children like I – for although my attitude may be perfect, my life is anything but. As you may later find out, I have a tumour in my brain. I also got hit by a car when my girlfriend dumped me, Gumball caused it – I hold no grudges – yada, yada, yada. I also live on the streets, because my family gave so much money to charity, we couldn't pay the rent, and got kicked out."

The Watterson household went silent as that was said.

"I was threatened to be put in foster care because of my hunger, and I was arrested for stealing groceries off a family. It is something I deeply regret, and I have learnt my lessons. I savour the food at lunch, and sometimes will store some food for my parents in a carrier bag.

"However, my hunger grew, and I had to keep up the happy act at school. You all bought it though, didn't you…? Please…" His voice was barely a whisper as tears filled his eyes. "Move on…" And with that, as he started convulsing, the camera dropped to the floor, landing on the 'stop recording' button, thus ending the video.

"The message was recorded five days prior his death." The newsman added as silence filled the studios, the houses watching mimicking it.

It was no longer as quiet at the school – after the message, they seemed to obey Alan's request and moved on. There was still a silence whenever his name was meant to be called out, and they heard the teacher's voice asking his name, and his own replying happily, "Yes ma'am/sir."

Gumball shut his locker. It'd been a year since the incident, and he was thirteen. Darwin stood beside him, and they spoke quietly.

Carmen had broken, fallen into a severe state of depression, and had killed herself months after the message was given. Now there were two silences on the register, two memories of the name-asking and the reply.

The lockers of the two who'd died remained untouched – every book, every photograph, everything they'd kept in there stayed inside. The keys were stored safely away with Principal Brown. Sometimes, and as weird as this sounded, they would light candles and place them in front of the locker.

Strange thing was, it was always in the shape of a smile.

A smile that wanted to be a grin no more.

A lonely, lost and isolated smile.

A forced and artificial smile.

A silent and quiet smile.

A depressed smile.

A sorrowful smile.

A breaking smile.

A fake smile.

Yet a smile nonetheless.

Alan's smile.

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A/N: This came to me randomly. The second chapter is the one I thought up first, and then this one and I wanted this one done first.

Did I make you upset?

YOU LEAVE YOUR EMOTIONS AT THE DOOR; THIS IS CHEER-LEADING NOT DRAMA CLUB!

If anyone gets that, phew. It's a reference. Don't actually take offence. Please.

Anyway, so yeah.

The next one will be a Tina and Jamie fic, and the next one will be about Tobias and Gumball.

You can request, okay? Any character, any scenario.

See ya in the next chapter!