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It was about one in the morning when Nosedive woke up in his brother's bed. He quickly checked to make sure his brother was there, which he was and then soon realized he was quite thirsty.

Nosedive got out of bed and went into the kitchen looking for glasses, he was soon accompanied by Duke.

"Nosedive", asked Duke, "That you?"

"Yeah", said Nosedive, "Where do you people keep the glasses?"

Duke's eyes had now adjusted to the darkness and walked over to help the teen.

"Right here, I'll get you one, go sit down."

"Thanks, okay."

"So Nosedive you hungry, I mean you haven't ate in some time huh, and you didn't have dinner."

"Yeah I guess I am hungry now that you mention it."

"Hang on I'll heat something up for ya, go sit down."

"Thanks."

"No prob."

Nosedive walked over to the counter and jumped on a stool. He slumped his head down, it was quiet apparent that he was tired.

"So Dive", said Duke, "Remember that whole conversation we had in the car?"

"Huh?"

"Dive stay awake, you know that whole conversation about you fighting for money?"

"Uh-huh."

"You stopped fighting right?"

"Yeah huh."

"Okay good, but you needed the money for the subway right?"

"Yeah."

"Why didn't you tell me that?"

"I didn't want to hear the whole responsibility speech again."

"What responsibility speech?"

"My grandparents told me that the money wasn't mine because I would use it on stupid stuff like comics and whatnot and I had to save my money instead of spending it. So they took it and they saved it for me, or that's what they said and planned to anyway. But they started using the leftovers for their own use."

"So why didn't you tell me that?"

"Because than you would have said, Nosedive you have get your own money and work for it, instead of having a paycheck come to you, because that money you did not work for."

"I wouldn't have said that!"

"Well how would I know? I was just sick of hearing that, and at that risk of hearing it I decided it was better not to take the risk. Get it?"

"Sort of. Yeah I guess so. But next time-"

"I'll tell you."

"Thank you."

"Welcome."

"So how did you get the money to keep coming in?"

"I got a job."

Duke gagged on the water he was drinking.

"You, hA!"

"It's not funny! I can work!"

"Okay I believe you, where?"

"Some restaurant. Nice amount of money to do whatever with."

"Not as much as that weekly paycheck you get from the government."

"Yeah, but I couldn't do anything about that. Besides I like working, despite the work part. I mean you make a lot of friends, and then the customers were really nice."

"Really?"

"Well after they got to know me. I was there a lot, I mean I didn't fancy going home so I found other things to do, so that was one of them. Plus it's kind of fun, you make a lot of friends, girls like you and stuff, and stuff like that."

"That's pretty neat kid. You do any other things?"

"Yeah hockey, and speed skating, tried as many sports as I could."

"You, speed skating?"

"Yup, got real fast too."

"Wow Nosedive how come you didn't tell any of us this?"

"Because it always came back to talking about my grandparents in my mind."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"So are you going to get a job here, since you seem to like it so much?"

"Yeah, I mean I want to but it was more than working I had friends back there. But yeah I'll get a job working somewhere, I sincerely doubt WildWing will be easygoing on giving out cash."

The microwave beeped and Duke pulled out Nosedive's dinner, which Nosedive consumed in record time.

"Dive relax it's just left overs."

"To you! To me this is gourmet! You try eating your grandmother's cooking."

"I take her cooking was bad?"

"Can you say ew?"

Duke laughed, and stayed with Nosedive until he finished.

When Nosedive was done his consumption, he went off to bed, followed by Duke. Duke put him to bed, and then went back to the kitchen to clean up. When he returned back to check on Nosedive he found him still up.

He was cuddled into his brother squeezing his hand.

"Dive you okay?"

"Yeah I guess so."

"You look sick."

"I feel fine."

"No I mean scared-sick."

"Oh. Yeah kind of."

"Why?"

"I don't even know. Out there everything is so scary, in here's its…"

"Safe?"

"Yeah. And I don't want to go back out there. I'm going to have to start school over, get another job, sports, make new friends and everything."

WildWing had awakened to hear the last part of the conversation. He also found his brother squeezing the daylights out of his hand.

"Hey, hey Nosedive you okay?"

"No!"

"Okay calm down."

WildWing sat up grabbed his little brother.

"Listen Dive, I was going to tell you this later, and surprise you but I guess it's better if I tell you now. You can get a job working at our place, you know with the police and everything."

"Really? Oh my gosh this is so cool!"

"It gets better."

"It does?"

"Yeah you know some kids that go to your new school."

"Who?"

"Johnson, Randy, and Racer."

"Oh my gosh that's right! I completely forgot about them!"

"Yeah you did. Now you get a week off from school to get situated here, but then it's back to school, okay?"

"Yeah okay."

"Nosedive is there anything else you want to talk about?"

"No."

"Liar."

"No I'm fine really."

"I know you to well to know that there is something on your mind."

Duke sat on the end of the brother's bed feeling that tonight was not over yet.

"Nosedive talk to me", said WildWing.

There was a pause of silence.

"It wasn't supposed to be like that", said Nosedive quietly. "I was so mad at him Wing, I almost hit him! That's not right."

"You almost hit who? Grandpa?"

"Yeah."

"What? Really?"

"Well I just shoved him off. I don't know, that's not supposed to be me. Those cars showed up and then it was like I'm getting arrested, I'm supposed to be a good kid, Wing. You know carefree and all. And then that whole gun thing, it was like something else took over. I never even thought of something like that! Geez he just got me so mad. And he wouldn't stop hitting me! And no matter what I said he had an answer for it! I mean it wasn't right! They were always yelling at me, like I was a criminal!"

WildWing had heard enough to know what was going on. Nosedive was able to absorb everything and therefore he was confused and unable to shake off the guilty feeling.

"Nosedive", said WildWing, "That's enough for tonight. Let's try having you sleep this off, you must be beat so you're not making clear judgments. What happened, happened, and now its over, I'm right here and I won't let anything happen to you, or let you do anything. Okay?"

"Wing I-"

"Sleep."

"Oh fine. Just one more thing."

"Yeah?"

"Don't fall asleep until I fall off okay?"

"Sure I can do that."

Nosedive laid down, as did WildWing.

Duke and WildWing silently high-fived each other and wished one another good night. Duke walked over to his bed, although he didn't sleep. He wished to remain awake with the teenager as well. The brothers started to talk. They always talked at night, when they moved into the apartment the others were surprised to know that they talked to one another at night.

But even on Earth the brothers talked at night, and when they were kids they talked at night, and now again they were doing this. That was one of the reasons Nosedive hated his room at his grandparents, so lonely and no one to talk to until he fell off.

As for the other ducks that shared a room with them, well they didn't mind. Grin could block out anything and that included their light conversations.

Canard was used to the brothers talking at for the many sleepovers they had as kids. Nosedive was always brought along regardless of the situation, and at night they would talk.

As for Duke well he didn't mind. Personally he loved their conversations, it was like watching a T.V. show. They talked about everything, and Duke found it funny on how both brothers felt on certain topics.

When he had told Canard how he felt about their talking at night, Canard had told him that the conversations were even funnier when Nosedive was twelve and thirteen and needed to know about the world around him, on such topics of reproducing and girls. Apparently WildWing would answer all of his questions, and Nosedive would usually end up screaming out of the room. WildWing after a few minutes would fetch his brother and then go back to bed. Nosedive still had conversations like that, but he didn't go screaming out of the room, on account he knew the answers. But they still talked about that stuff.

So nonetheless everyone enjoyed their conversations, as for the brothers they didn't even realize they were doing it.

"Feel better?"

"Yeah, kind of."

"Listen tomorrow we can go get you some clothes and whatnot okay?"

"How about a bed?"

"What's the matter this bed too small?"

"Yup."

"Okay fine, I guess we can afford a bed."

"Hey!"

"Sorry. Just kidding. There isn't much more room in here though."

It was true, although it was the biggest room, for all of the men to sleep in, (they changed the room system, Phil got his own room, and they extended this room), there still wasn't enough room.

"So where do you want me to sleep?"

"The couch?"

"Hey!"

"You're right, the couch is too good for you, maybe the floor."

"WildWing!"

"Okay I'm done, what about bunk beds?"

"Yeah! I call tops."

"Of course you do."

"Well I'm actually doing you a favor."

"Oh?"

"Well on account of you being scared of heights and all."

"I'm not scared of heights!"

"Are too!"

"Are not!"

"Too!"

"Not"

"Too, too, too with a cherry on top!"

"That makes no sense!"

"But I win!"

"You are a piece of work you know that?"

No response.

"Nosedive?"

Again no response.

"Nosedive?"

"Wing I think he's sleeping", said Duke.

Sure enough Nosedive was asleep.

"Funny how he can just run out of energy like that", commented Duke.

"Yeah well that's Nosedive for you. He uses up all of his energy, and not a drop less, he keeps using it and using it, until he drops sleeping."

"Hehe."

"Yeah."

"Wing you okay?"

"I'm worried about him."

"It'll be okay, everything is just new, just give it some time okay?"

"Okay. That makes sense, night Duke, and thanks."

"Night Wing, and your welcome."

The two awake ducks finally drifted off, knowing that tomorrow was going to be one crazy day, which it was.



Author's Note- This is far from over! I have so many ideas about this! I was thinking of making this like a never-ending thing you know? Like keep adding a chapter on about how they live up on PuckWorld, what do you think? Yes or No?