Sorry for trolling y'all yesterday night. Anyhow, here's Chapter 3 of the Writer's Cut! :D

(Writer's Cut and main story will always be updated on the same day, at least until Chapter 9)

Chapter 3: Not the Same

Joy started dreaming pretty fast. First, she saw herself fading away in the dump.

"No...no..."

Then, she envisioned that Riley's mind started to crumble, crashing into Headquarters, and destroying everyone.

"NO!" Joy muttered to herself.

Finally...she saw herself in the dump again. The third attempt had failed, and the wagon was broken.

"Joy...have you fulfilled your promise?" Bing Bong asked her in her nightmare.

The dream Joy couldn't answer. Instead, she just stood there, crying. "I can't..." the dream Joy muttered, tears running down her cheeks, as she watched the forgotten memories again, knowing that it would be her last action. Suddenly, she began to fade away, crying hysterically. Her final words were "Riley..."

That's when the real Joy woke up. Her heart was hammering, her legs trembling. So much for sleeping, she thought to herself as she made herself walk.

Joy's movements were slow and careful as she made herself walk to the control panel, where the others were. Her legs hadn't stopped trembling in five minutes, and she could feel the tears coming.

What's wrong with me, she wondered. This was what Sadness did, not her! Alright, the episode in the dump was different. She just hadn't been thinking straight. Either that, or she had gone crazy.

Joy hoped that it was the first of the two.

As soon as she reached the panel, the other emotions looked at her.

"Joy...Sadness told us that you were...crying at the panel! Are you okay?"

Joy looked at Sadness. "You told them?"

"I think something's wrong with you. You haven't been the same since you caught me on the cloud."

"Sadness is right," Disgust added. "You're not the same as you were."

"I'm fine," Joy responded, hiding the tears that had started forming.

However, she wasn't fast enough for Sadness. "You're about to cry again, Joy. I think that we should have you checked, to make sure you're okay."

"No way! I'm fine!" Joy responded, trying to think of something positive.

However, all that came up was the Bing Bong song, and it was too much for her.

Joy tried to block it out as she said, "Let's look outside. I love looking at the islands! Especially since they're back!"

"Okay," Sadness replied, and all of the emotions went over to look at the new isles of personality. All of them were back, with Family Island being bigger than ever.

Joy tried to look away from that island, as that was where everything in the dump had happened, and she couldn't risk a breakdown in front of everyone. Instead, she looked at Goofball Island, which always cheered her up. Immediately, a memory of controlling Riley after a bath came up, and she smiled a little bit.

A little bit.

Woah...what, Joy thought to herself. That memory always made her laugh, but now it was making her smile a LITTLE BIT?

Joy couldn't bear it. Something was clearly wrong with her.

Immediately, she tried to look at Friendship Island, but that didn't make her feel any better.

"Agh!" Joy yelled in frustration at herself, and without thinking...she looked at the memory dump.

Her frustrated yell became a heartbroken scream, and she collapsed to the floor, crying, in front of everybody.

The others stopped looking at the islands, and gasped as they saw Joy crying on the floor.

"I knew it," Disgust said in a heartfelt tone.

"Joy...?" Sadness asked, putting her hand on Joy's shoulder.

"Are you alright?"

Joy shook her head no.

"I'll never...b...be okay again."

The others stared.

"I'll take you to a doctor. Okay?" Sadness asked gently.

Joy looked up, trying to look happy. "Oka...y," Joy cried.

Hope you enjoyed! Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye!

-AnnaTheMockingjay