A/N: Hey, guys! In the previous chapter, we saw the story from Grumpy's POV. He's full of guilt and shame for not admitting that he cares about his brothers and Snow White until the last moment, when it was already too late to save the princess. Now we will see Happy's point of view. Before we start, I'll give you some bad news for Disney fans: Marge Champion, a dancer and actress used by Disney as a model for the movements of Snow White in the movie, the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio and the dancing hippo in Fantasia, died four days ago at the age of 101. For this reason, this fanfic is a tribute to her. Let's begin.

Chapter 4: Happy: Welcome, Depression

-Happy's POV-

(''Ventus's Theme- Kingdom Hearts III OST'')

How depressing... When we found out that Snow White had died after eating the poisoned apple, I was the first to burst into tears. Since I'm the glue that holds us together and keeps my brothers' morale up, my emotions tended to be contagious, so when I started crying, the others started crying too. I can't believe such a thing happened to an innocent girl, but we had to live with it. After some time crying, I noticed that Grumpy was gone, and, a little worried, I went downstairs to look for him. I found him in the kitchen, sobbing at the table, which had a gooseberry pie with his name on it, and I felt bad for him. He felt very guilty about what had happened to Snow White, and I reassured him that it wasn't his fault, then, I hugged him, and to my surprise, he fell to his knees and began to cry on my chest. I had never seen him like this before, and my brothers, concerned about him, caught up with us and joined us in our embrace.

I tried to emotionally support at least the others, all too disconsolate and unable to think about anything else, but after less than a week, I couldn't take it anymore. I had completely lost my optimism and my cheerfulness, to the point that my name seemed to no longer make sense, and when it came to Snow White, the topic was always spontaneous, especially after we gave up mining completely a week after the tragedy. We were now victims of the events, and we didn't care if our boss would have fired if he didn't see us working from the morning to 5:00 PM(1), our work was not our priority at the moment, and as Grumpy said, we didn't even know why we were even digging diamonds for. I had fallen into depression, changing so drastically that I seemed to be a complete 180 of what my name suggested, that I wanted to change it into something like ''Sappy'', and often, attempting not to cry, I gritted my teeth, but the tears came out anyway. To pass the time, I would hum and play the guitar as usual(2), and the others listened too, but these songs were sad, as if to symbolize the mourning that the whole forest was still experiencing. Normally, when I'm unable to help the others with their morale, Sneezy and Bashful do it, but in that horrible period, there was nothing we could do. The only thing that kept us from going crazy was the fact that we and the animals lived together, so we could console each other.

On Saturday of the second week, we heard Doc cry out in frustration. Grumpy had told him the apple was poisoned, so he was looking for any antidotes or ways to help us with all the books we had, but to no avail. Doc told us that with all the pressure he had put on himself, he had tried to keep everything hidden from us, and didn't say anything to us to not deceive us, feeling he had let us down. Besides, it would have been the worst time in the world to do it, anyway. At this point, I said a sentence that left everyone speechless. ''Seriously, my name is Happy, and I'm usually the glue that holds the group together and raises your spirits, guys, but now I'm so depressed that I can't help you guys anymore and I'm not even myself anymore. Bashful and Sneezy sometimes take my role when I can't, but we are all too devastated by our pain. This is a hard lesson I learned about life when we found Snow White's body. Sometimes, life is cruel, and there are things that no matter how hard we try, we can't change, so we have to face the facts.'' All my brothers were really sad to hear that sentence, but they knew I was right, and myself, as much as it broke my heart to say it, I had to. It was a reality that I didn't want to believe in, until it happened to us. The next day, we decided to place Snow White in a coffin of glass and gold adorned with gems we had taken from the mine and took her to a clearing in the woods not far from our home.

(''Ventus's Theme- Kingdom Hearts III OST-s'')

(''Warmth Is Gone - Fire Emblem Fates OST'')

As the weeks went by, we felt worse and worse, and there was nothing we could do about it. Sometimes, I isolated myself from the others and stayed outside watching the animals, who helped us with the housework in groups. I remembered that they had helped her to clean our cottage from the neglect in which she had found it the first time she had entered there, and to think that back then, there were cobwebs everywhere on the walls. Occasionally, little birds stood on my shoulder or arm and rabbits and squirrels jumped on my lap, feeling sad and sorry for me. Autumn had come, and the leaves were turning yellow. Sometimes, while I was sleeping, I cried in my sleep, as for my brothers, and when I burst into tears, the others either began to cry too or they felt bad, unable to help me because they did not know what to do, especially Doc, who was no longer the confident and somewhat pompous leader we all knew, and he had instead become terribly quiet, sometimes going to cry alone. A month after what happened to Snow White and two weeks after Doc's nervous breakdown, Grumpy had one too, as he tried to strangle himself with his own hands in the bathroom, and once we came here, it took the combined efforts of Doc, Dopey and I to force him to stop. After that, he started sobbing, saying that for what he had done before Snow White's death, he'll be sentenced to live the rest of his life in regret, but as he bit his lips so hard that they bled, we said that it wasn't his fault, and that we and the princess would forgive him.

Two and a half months after the tragedy, on Monday, I was in front of the river outside our house, crying. How much I missed Snow White... the thing I missed the most about her was when we played, sang and danced songs after dinner. That girl always gave a cheerful atmosphere in the house that infected us, and reminded me a little of myself. Even though we had only known her for a couple of weeks, we felt we had known her for much longer. Death is horrendous, there's nothing beautiful about dying, just leaving the people you care about in mourning, with their memories with you filled only with sadness. As I sobbed desperately and looked at my now unrecognizable reflection, I heard the door open. I looked back and there was Sleepy. ''Happy? You OK?'' he asked, sitting down next to me.

''No... I don't know what to do anymore...'' I murmured, wiping my eyes with my sleeve. ''What are you doing here?''

''Bashful, Sneezy and Doc were a bit worried. They haven't seen you since you finished doing the dusting.'' said Sleepy.

''Have you ever questioned everything you thought?'' I asked.

My brother thought about it for a while. ''Good question. But if you want the answer, it never happened to me. You know, while Doc was keeping Dopey company, he noticed for some time that you were trying hard not to cry, and we haven't seen you for three hours.'' he replied, after a yawn.

''I am the most optimistic of you guys, but with what has happened, I can no longer help you, and Bashful and Sneezy are too in distress to take my place. Sleepy, look at me! I'm not even who I am anymore, I don't recognize myself anymore, and I feel like changing my name into ''Sappy'' or something like that!'' I exclaimed, covering my face with my hands.

''You're not the only one questioning yourself, Happy. It's happening to the others too: for over a month, Grumpy has questioned his morality, Doc has questioned his leadership and Bashful has questioned many things, including the fact of living with this torment.'' said Sleepy. Shortly after, Bashful joined us.

''I can't believe that monster of a witch did such a thing. If she were still alive, I would have beaten her!'' I snapped, suddenly standing up and slamming my fist to the ground in a brief moment of anger. Despite my cheerful and optimistic personality (which I had now lost), I hate it when my brothers or Snow White are in danger, and this is something that makes me angry.

''Happy, we understand how you feel, but does it seem appropriate to explode like this?'' Bashful asked, taken aback.

I sighed and sat down again. ''Sleepy, Bashful, I'm sorry. The truth is, I'm frustrated. I know there's nothing we can do about it, and I told you that myself, but I can't even help you guys anymore. I can't do anything for you anymore.'' I murmured, clutching my hat in my hands.

''We all feel that way, Happy. We are all affected, no one excluded, and Doc feels exactly like you.'' Bashful said.

''Happy, you have done a lot for us, but it seems that you are keeping everything inside. You can't just ignore yourself.'' Sleepy added.

''Guys, I appreciate the thought, but if Doc and Grumpy can't help us, who will?'' I asked. ''Don't you understand that without me, you don't-'' I couldn't finish, as I suddenly started sobbing on Bashful's shoulder. Sleepy and Bashful hugged me, feeling sorry for me.

''Come on, let's go inside. Doc would get worried.'' said Sleepy. We stayed outside for a couple of minutes, then, once I calmed down, I got up.

''There is nothing wrong with accepting help from others, Happy. I'm sure Doc will help you, you'll see.'' Bashful told me. After that, we went back into the house.

(''Warmth Is Gone- Fire Emblem Fates OST-s'')

A/N: Oh, poor Happy. He is unrecognizable, unable to psycologically support his brothers, and is depressed, but also frustrated by his inability to help them. What will happen in the dwarfs' heads? In the next chapter, we will move on to Sleepy's point of view, so keep following this story to know everything. See you soon!

(1): According to the film, the dwarfs work in the mine until 5 PM, and since the mine is quite far from home, they return during the evening.

(2): During the ''Silly Song'', Happy is shown to be a good singer and jodeler. Also, in the animated series The 7D, in which he is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, known for voicing characters such as Gantu from Lilo & Stitch, Crunch Bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Crash Nitro Kart, Terrador in The Legend of Spyro trilogy and several other characters, he is shown to be musically inclined to the point that there is a recurring gag where he wants to create a new song in every situation, and he is often seen playing his guitar.