A/N: So, I realized there was more I wanted to do with this story, particularly after I became more immersed in the Sing universe. This story was originally written when I'd only seen the first film twice. But between then and now, I've found that there were some ideas that I had jotted down, but didn't add or ideas that came later and I kind of jumped the gun. But I'm not here to go on about that, I have some revisions to this story that I believe you lovely readers will enjoy. That said, thank you to all the readers, reviwers, and those who have otherwise read and enjoyed this story and also been part of the wonderful Sing fandom. Now, onto the revised story!

Disclaimer: I do not own Sing or any of the characers, Illumination does.

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"I love you, Johnny," Megan's eyes shone with un-shed tears as she gently squeezed her infant's hand. "Never forget that."

"I love you too, Mum," Johnny murmured.

The four-year old didn't know what was happening, but he could sense something was very wrong. His mother had been sick for a while now, and ever since she fell ill, everything with his family had changed. His parents didn't think he noticed the worried looks his father gave his mother, or the weak smiles she would give him in return in an effort to set the usually fearless gorilla patriarch. But he had.

Suddenly, he noticed his mother look at his father and the silverback let out a deep sigh, something he seemed to be doing a lot more of lately.

"C'mon, Johnny," he said softly, wrapping an arm around the infant's shoulders and leading him out of the room. "How 'bout you wait out there with your uncles, eh?"

Johnny nodded reluctantly, and let his father bring him out to the hall where his uncles, Stan and Barry, stood waiting.

Stan always seemed a bit grumpy at first glance, but Johnny never felt like he was in a bad mood. Not towards him anyway.

Barry on the other hand, always seemed very open with his emotions, and he was always quick with a joke and even quicker with a hug. Again, for Johnny at least.

But today, both younger adult gorillas stood with their arms folded over their chests and their expressions grimmer than their nephew had ever seen.

As the door to his mother's hospital room closed behind his father, Johnny, sensing something terrible either was happening or was about to, wrapped his tiny arms as far around Barry's waist as they would go and laid his head against the heavyset ape's massive stomach.

Bad things had happened before, and whenever Johnny had assumed this position in the past, Barry would wrap his great, hairy arms around Johnny's shoulders, cradling the tiny head in his palms, and reassuring him that everything would be alright. But today, Uncle Barry was silent.

Meanwhile, Uncle Stan's dark eyes seemed to be fixed on the door to his sister-in-law's room, his breath measured, as though anticipating something.

Then, out of nowhere, the door slowly opened, and Johnny's father staggered out of the room, his face an ashen gray and his jaw set in a straight, expressionless line. His usually piercing blue eyes had dulled significantly, and seemed to be staring off into space, staring at everything and seeing nothing.

It was as if time had stopped and yet still went on. As Marcus seemed to lose his bearing and leaned against the wall of the hospital's hallway, Stan hurried over to him, wrapping both arms around him, a look of unbridled anguish on his usually stern but calm face.

Johnny felt confused, and frightened. These feelings only increased as he felt Barry lift him into his arms and bring him against his huge chest, which was now shaking with stifled sobs as the blackback began to allow the grief to take him.

But the most haunting thing of all to Johnny was the never-before-seen glisten in his father's eyes. One minute they were brighter than he'd ever seen them, and then silent tears trickled from those blue irises and down his father's still unnervingly pale cheeks. Despite his attempts to blink them away, they continued to fall.

Johnny gasped and felt a shiver of fear work its way up his spine and to the base of his neck, where it seemed to spread throughout his shoulders and arms, ending at the tips of his fingers.

He had never seen his father cry before. The very idea of such an action was as foreign as it was frightening.

Aside from the muffled sounds of grief coming from all four members of the gorilla pack, there seemed to be an eerie silence around them. As if all other sounds had been wiped from existence. And yet, Johnny felt like he could hear the stability of the world he knew cracking, combined with that of his heart shattering as the realization sank in, filling his entire being with the truth he wished were not so…

His mother is gone.

He could see the bed where she had been laying just a few minutes ago. Someone, it must be her, was still lying there. Only now the pale pink hospital blanket that had been tucked over her from the chest down was now folded over her face and head as well, concealing her from view. Johnny couldn't tell if she was still smiling like she was when they said their goodbyes, or if she looked sad. Perhaps it would be better if he never knew. And yet, even with that knowledge, a part of the young gorilla felt like she had to have still been smiling. After all, his dad, her husband of over seven years, had been with her. And she'd had one last moment with the son and only child she had so adored.

Until he left her…

No! She and his dad had sent him out…but why? Didn't she want him there when she…?

Even as young as he was, even though he was still struggling to understand, in that moment Johnny had the faintest grasp on the reason his parents didn't want him there…

As he began to feel the agony emanating from his father and uncles, Johnny began to wonder how his little family would make it without her.

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So…that was heavy. Not gonna lie, I teared up a time or two while I was typing.

This is the first in a series of revisions to this story, and I hope you all will enjoy reading them as much as I have, and still do, enjoyed writing them. Until the next chapter, lovely readers!