A/N: This is a remake of 'An Unexpected Assailant'. As most of you know, I was planning on redoing it and making it more dramatic. This is the prologue. Please review and please nothing negative.
Main Characters
DELLA DUCK: The boys' abusive, drug addicted mother. Since the age of fourteen, she's been addicted to alcohol, heroin, pills, and tobacco. She dropped out of high school before her senior year. She never wanted children, yet her boyfriend from high school got her pregnant not long after she turned eighteen, forcing her to stop some of the drugs. When he found out about the pregnancy three months later, he broke up with Della because, like her, he didn't want anything to do with children. Due to this, Della became frustrated and depressed and her drug use soon got worse. She began to take her frustrations out on the kids. It wasn't until the boys were six that she got arrested for child endangerment, child neglect, drug possession, and drug use in front of minors. She was sentenced to ten years, but only served five.
SCROOGE MCDUCK: The richest Duck in the world, Donald and Della's uncle, and the boys' great-uncle. Donald had joined the Navy and turned the boys over to him not long after they turned ten. Scrooge took care of them for a year and still has them to this day. He doesn't yet know about the abuse and neglect the boys suffered, nor the drugs that Della is addicted to.
HUEY, DEWEY, and LOUIE: Della's triplet sons, Donald's nephews, and Scrooge's grandnephews. Though they don't show the signs, they've had a tough life. When they were six-years-old, Della caught them pouring wine down the kitchen sink and had beat them for it. Afterward, she put them out in the rain. Cold and wet, the boys wandered into another neighborhood, where an elderly couple came to their aid. Despite the abuse and neglect they suffered, they're three loving eleven-year-olds who love to have fun.
Minor Characters
WEBBY: The boys' cousin and Mrs. Beakley's granddaughter.
ELVIRA 'GRANDMA DUCK' COOT: Donald and Della's grandmother and the boys' great-grandmother. She helped Donald raise the boys while he worked to provide them with food and shelter.
HORTENSE AND MATILDA MCDUCK: Scrooge's sisters.
RICK JAMESON: Della's drug-dealing boyfriend whom she met during her time in prison. He also dropped out of high school before his senior year. He had been imprisoned for not only drugs, but for child molestation as well. He's addicted to alcohol and tobacco.
DONALD DUCK: Huey, Dewey, and Louie's uncle and Della's twin brother. With an elderly couple's help, child services was able to hand the boys over to Donald when Della was sentenced. Since the day they were born, Donald did everything he could to provide for his nephews and protect them from their abusive mother, who threatened to take the boys back after she got out of prison. Before joining the Navy, Donald worked as much as he could to provide the boys with the food and shelter that their mother never gave them.
DAISY DUCK: Donald's girlfriend, whom Donald plans on marrying very soon.