yo so sorry this took so long but i swear i aint forget bout this story, promise chapter 3 wont take as long to be put out. also sorry if my pshcyological knowlegde completely sucks here i really dont know shit also pandys bad day omg thats my new favorite ep it was like a show friendly version of this fic, but i started writing this chapter before season 9 was even anmouced so i couldnt include any references... yet! (god this is so corny i dont even know what to put here ima just get to the chapter)
Life. Something that's supposed to be a beautiful thing. But right now, Pandy just couldn't see that. They said everyone who lived in this world had a special purpose. Well, Pandy felt like he was watching his quickly melt away before his eyes.
That good mood Pandy was in eariler that day completely faded as a deep depression quickly took over him. He tried so hard to push all the negative thoughts out his mind, but those thoughts were just far too strong and kept flooding in far too much for him to try and fight. Who was he kidding anyway? He wasn't a "cat of many talents" like he always self-proclaimed. He honestly felt like those "talents" were just a bunch of random worthless stuff that litterally anybody could easily do. He wasn't actually good at anything that was useful to the Dollhouse or the world, unlike all of the other Gabby Cats who lived in this Dollhouse with him.
Now he sat there, watching as the one thing that gave him any purpose in life, which was being with Gabby, just get completely destroyed to bits. What was he gonna do? Try and do everything that he possibly could so that maybe Gabby's surgery would end up being a sucess? Pretend and act like he was fine and that everything would be ok, when it clearly isn't going to be ok? Or just let all of the sadness and worthlessness consume him until he just couldn't take it anymore? At that moment Pandy felt like that 3rd option was what was most likely going to end up happening...
He wanted to stay right where he was, sitting in that Treehouse for the whole rest of the day, he even felt like he wanted to stay there for a whole week at least. But he just couldn't worry Gabby or anyone else. He couldn't possibly tell Gabby about how he was truly feeling at all, as that would just worry and stress her out even more than he assumed she already was. So after a long 45 minutes, which to him had felt like a whole day of sitting there alone, he finally got up, climbed down the Treehouse, and left the Fariytale Garden to meet with Gabby in the bathroom like she had said that's where she would be eariler. And once he had met up with Gabby, he had to try and hide the true sadness that he was feeling as much as possible. Thankfully she didn't seem to notice anything, although she probably did expect him to still be sad afterwards. Pandy now just had to get through, well, however long this might possibly last, and he was starting to get worried that it might be forever...
A few hours have passed. The sun outside was currently setting with the sky quickly turning dark. It was time for Gabby to do the next hardest part of this whole thing, breaking the news to the rest of the Gabby Cats.
She called for all the Gabby Cats to meet her in the Kitchen, telling them she had something very important to say. Quickly enough all the Gabby Cats huddled togheter sitting in and atop of the dining table on the right side of the Kitchen, with Gabby sitting and facing them on the middle edge of the center table and Pandy sitting right next to her. Whenever Gabby had previously called all the Gabby Cats to a meeting like this when she had an "important annoucement", it was almost always never good news. So everyone was rightfully a bit nervous when Gabby called for them to all gather in the Kitchen. However, nobody (except for Pandy) could of ever expected just how bad the news this time around would be...
Gabby really didn't want to do this. It already hurt her bad enough telling Pandy eariler, she was still heartbroken seeing him react with such sadness, and there was no way she wanted to poteintially feel that way even more. But, she knew this had to be done...
"So. Gabby Cats. I- I have some, well really bad news..." Gabby started. All the Gabby Cats immediently started feeling anxious upon hearing those words, as they just stayed completly silent.
"Well, all of you obviously know about my car accident from eariler this year, right? And you all might remember one of the injuries that I had from it were some fractured bones inside of my chest and stuff?" She continued. The Gabby Cats just remained slient, a few nodding there heads in response.
"Well... Yesterday, I was at the doctors for another checkup, and they did another X-ray o- on my chest. And well, basically, they found out that one of those bones isn't healing properly. Now that bone is moving closer and closer to my heart, and in about a month that bone is basically gonna.. Make my heart stop working..." Gabby finished the hardest part of what she had to tell them.
The Gabby Cats were just left in total shock, all just staying completely silent. They didn't feel as hurt as did Pandy from hearing that news for the first time, but they were still all absolutely in disbelief and sadness after hearing those last 5 words that Gabby had said.
"Wait, so Gabby, You're gonna die?" Baby Box was first to speak up, with a very worried sounding voice.
"Please tell us you're gonna be ok..." Cakey responded in a sad tone.
"Well... It's not certain that I'm gonna die... You see, there's this surgery that can fix that bone to stop it from moving closer to my heart, which would save my life. But, the thing is that the surgery only has a 20% sucess rate. But at the same time this surgery is the only chance that I have at saving my life. So as much as I hate to tell all of you, chances are that I'm probably gonna die in about a month..." Gabby awnsered the two poor worried cats, telling everyone about the one chance she has at survival.
"N- No Gabs... Th- This can't be!" MerCat dramatically responded. "You cant die on us y- you're too young!"
"No, NO! Please tell us you're joking... This is all just a really horrible joke right Gabby?" CatRat told her, sounding sarcastic as he usually did towards the end, but you could tell that his emotions had quickly turned to worry.
"Y- Yeah, p- please say you are..." Baby Box added, now sounding like she was holding back tears.
"Do you Gabby Cats think I would ever lie or joke about something very serious like that? I'm sorry everyone, I wish there was something better out there that could possibly save me from dying. I really don't wanna have to leave you Cats here without me... But I'm afraid I just have no other choice..." Gabby continued, watching as the other Gabby Cats all reacted to the news, and as Gabby expected, she just felt even more horrible than she did before having to see them looking this hurt, just like Pandy. But again, this just had to be done...
"Oh Gabby, I'm soooo sorry that has to happen to you..." Kitty Fairy told the poor girl, also sounding very hurt by what she had just told them.
"This is a horrible nightmare that I'm going to wake up from any second now... Oh please just wake me up now..." CatRat said, now looking more depressed than anyone had ever seen him before.
"Oh I wish it was CatRat... But this is something that not even the worst of dreams could possibly make up..." Pillow Cat responded to him. She never liked it when the harshness of reality hit her like it did every now and then. But this... This was just too goddamn much...
Gabby just sat there for a minute, letting everyone get all there emotions out. One thing she couldn't help but notice was that Baby Box was now tearing up, almost looking like she was just barely holding back a whole waterfall of tears, just seeing her like that really broke Gabby's endangered heart.
In fact, in that moment every one of the Gabby Cats felt like they could cry if they really wanted to. Gabby just meant so much to all of them, Nobody could of ever imagined the horrible thought of losing her. Sure, her absence from thr car accident was a pretty close call, but at least everyone knew that she would be back eventually. This time around however, if she was gone, then it was going to be for good... Even worse was the fact that Gabby was only 15, and was probably about to get her life taken from her before she would even be an adult, before she even graduated High School, the world just wasn't being fair to her. The kindest hearts are just the ones that seem to get taken the quickest...
Gabby waited for everyone to calm down a bit before continuing with what she had to say.
"So, I feel like I need to help everyone prepare to live life without me being here, as I of course know that's not gonna be, or well feel so easy for y'all. But I know life in the Dollhouse will be able to go on without me, I promise you Gabby Cats that." She continued, before turning to face Pandy, who the whole time had just been sitting there, silent and with a clearly depressed look on his face.
"Pandy, you've been my best friend for life, and you know I love you very much. It really broke me seeing you cry so hard when I first told you eariler..." Gabby told the stuffing filled white cat, placing her hand on his right shoulder. "Pandy, I want you to take my place as the leader of the Dollhouse when I'm gone."
Pandy didn't speak. But inside his mind, it felt like she had just dropped yet another weight of stress on him. He was afraid that she was going to ask him, well... That exactly.
Him? The leader of the Dollhouse? There was no way in hell he could ever handle it. Gabby was smart, helpful, skilled at many things and she deeply loved and cared about every single one of the Gabby Cats. And him? Sure he also really loves and cares about all of his friends, but he feels like that's litterally it, and to him, just being a loving cat was not nearly enough to be a good leader. He felt that everything in the Dollhouse would just completely go to ruin if he stepped in to replace Gabby's role.
"It's only right for you to take my place Pandy. You've always been by my side our whole life in the Dollhouse, I've taught you so much, and I know you're gonna be a great leader!" If only Pandy had agreed with her..
"But, I think there's still a lot that you gotta be prepared for. I want you to spend some one on one time with all the Gabby Cats in the next month, that will really help you to become a leader here without me."
Some voices in Pandy's head were really starting to tell him that all of his other "friends" weren't being honest about him, saying that the way he thinks of himself right now is the exact same way the other Gabby Cats actually think about him, they're all just too afraid to hurt poor little Pandy's feelings... But he desprately blocked those voices out as much as he could, just as he had been doing for the past several hours at that point, just trying to save what he could of his already destroyed mental state.
"You got this, Pandy. I believe in you." Gabby finished as she tightly hugged her best friend just as she did eariler. He knew that was probably among one of the last of her sweet hugs that he will ever be reciving.
"And everyone else, there's still a lot I wanna discuss over with you Cats, but I'm just feeling way too tired tonight... There's gonna be more of these meetings, or whatever you wanna call them, throught this month. For now, I just needa head out and get some sleep." She walked over to Cat-A-Vator to go and transport herself out of the Dollhouse. "Goodnight everyone..."
"Goodnight Gabby..." The Gabby Cats, except for Pandy, all emotionally said in unison as Gabby entered Cat-A-Vator to exit the Dollhouse in an area by herself.
The rest of the Gabby Cats slowly went back to their home rooms after that, all still super shocked at what Gabby just told them.
MerCat, who was the second to last Gabby Cat to leave the Kitchen couldn't help but notice that the entire time, Pandy pretty much just sat there, all sad and silent. She knew from the beginning that she clearly told him first before the rest of them (And she easily understood why). And she also remembered just eariler when he joined Gabby in the Bathroom, he looked a lot more down than usual. Although MerCat didnt say anything, she had just assumed that he was feeling tired, which would make sense considering she knew that he had been dealing with on and off Insomia issues ever since Gabby got into that accident. But now with everything coming together, she realized that really wasn't a look of tiredness on his face eariler at all. While she, of course was really hurt by Gabby's horrible news as well, she now just started feeling even worse thinking about what mental hell that Pandy had to be going through right now.
Before MerCat left to go back up to the Bathroom, she turned and looked at him in his sad eyes. "Are you feelin okay Pandy?" She asked him, clearly sounding very concernced about the white & gray cat. She knew that wasn't the best way to ask him, because, clearly, he wasn't okay, just her mind couldn't think of anything better to say at that moment.
Pandy, who hadn't spoken a single word in hours at that point, decided to give her the completely honest awnser. "N- Not at all..."
"Well, if you ever need to talk, then I'm always right here for you." MerCat told him before she finally made her way out of the Kitchen.
Even as everyone se left and Cakey immediently headed for bed, Pandy just continued to sit right there on top of the center table, with all of his terrible thoughts just continuing to eat him up, and he still felt like there was just no way he could stop them.
It was now just past 12AM, several hours after Gabby told everyone the news, and while most of the Gabby Cats were in their rooms already fast asleep, Pandy stayed wide awake. Laying down in his special spot under the rainbow tent in the Bedroom's mini Treehouse, where he had mostly been sleeping since he started staying in the Dollhouse full time, he felt it was obvious there was no way he was gonna be getting any rest tonight. Another night right back to him not being able to get any sleep at all, just when Pandy thought he would be able to regularly get a good nights sleep again. He thought to himself there was no point in trying to fall asleep tonight, and he felt like his bed was just making his body hurt worse than it had already been for the past few hours.
He quietly got out of the tent, climbed down the Treehouse's ladder and stepped onto the Bedroom's floor, trying his best not to wake up Pillow Cat who, unsuprisingly, was fast asleep. He then slowly walked over to the upper right corner, right next to where Pillow was sleeping, and just sat down there, with no choice but to let his thoughts consume him even more.
12 hours. It's now been over 12 hours since Pandy had been like this, just continuing to let the emotional storm rage on inside his brain, while he just sits there, feeling unable to do anything about it.
To Pandy, those 12 hours felt like it had been a whole week since this mess began, and he didn't feel like it would ever end either. He felt trapped. Trapped inside a box that was just completely, in every way impossible to escape from, and the key had been long, long thrown away.
Pandy had enough, he couldn't deal with the mental torture he was experiencing any longer. Despite how horrible he was feeling, he wasn't suicidal, he knew his friends loved him way too much despite what his mind tried to tell him, and he thought that would just dissapoint Gabby anyway. He didn't want to die, but he didn't feel like fighting either.
The only way he thought he could maybe at least slow down the ongoing storm would be to tell someone about all the horrible thoughts and feelings that he had been failing to push out of his mind since Gabby basically told him that she had only a month to live, like how he remembered being frequently told if he ever had troubling thoughts, he should talk about them with someone he trusted. He really just wanted to be reassured that he wasn't just a stupid, worthless cat like his mind had been constantly telling him, or maybe that would all just be confirmed to him. Either way he just needed to somehow try and help escape this internal torture chamber that was currently taking him alive.
But who would he talk to? He knew he couldn't tell Gabby about how he was truly feeling, as not only would he not be able to wait several hours for her to come back inside the Dollhouse in the morning, but he didn't wanna worry Gabby any more than she probably already had been. But the problem with that is Pandy pretty much always went to Gabby when he needed someone to talk to, so now Pandy needed to find someone else who was smart, kind and helpful, like Gabby, to talk about these hard feelings with.
It took Pandy a good second to think about it, but he finally remembered eariler that evening after Gabby got done telling the rest of the Gabby Cats the news, MerCat asked him if he was okay, which in the moment kinda shocked him to see someone else who cared about him like that, then she told him that if he ever needed to talk that she would be right there for him. Pandy knew MerCat would be the perfect cat to talk to, she was smart, kind, helpful and she showed how caring she was when she told him that she was there if he needed someone to talk with, he thought she was almost just like Gabby. Except Pandy worried that MerCat was already asleep. He didn't wanna wake her up at all, but at this point he didn't care, right now he just really needed to talk to somebody. And besides, she probably wouldn't mind at all if he woke her up because he needed to talk to her, she litterally promised him that she was always there whenever he needed her.
Pandy wasted no time standing up and walking quietly over to Cat-A-Vator, who silently opened both doors to go across from the Bedroom into the Bathroom, where MerCat thankfully was still awake with the Bathroom light still turned on. Pandy quickly noticed she had an assortment of Gabby's favorite nail polish colors laid out on her spa desk, while she looked to just be standing there, quietly staring at what was sitting on said desk in front of her, not even noticing Cat-A-Vator's door opening at first.
"M- MerCat?" Pandy called out to get her attention.
MerCat quickly turned around to face the white and gray cat "Oh hey Pandy! Are you feeling any better?"
"No, I'm actually not." He responded. "I jus- I just really need to talk to you right now..."
"Oh of course Pandy! Just sit down wherever you feel comfortable." MerCat told him, still with her high energy voice. Pandy just sat down in a spa chair that was opposite to another spa chair where MerCat would take a seat.
"Oh, I'm so glad that you came up here to talk to me, Because... I'm a little concerned about you Pandy..." MerCat began. "I expected that you would take this whole thing hard, but it seems to me like you're doing way worse than I woulda thought... Of course I didn't exactly realize it at first when you were in the bathroom with Gabby yesterday, but after she told the rest of us the really horrible news that she will probably... You know, I realized that you must be mentally going through absolute hell right now. I can just tell when somebody isn't doing fine on the inside at all, a- and you just straight up told me you weren't feeling okay, usually about anyone would just lie and say they were okay, but I know you would never lie about anything, I- I just really care about you Pandy... I dont wanna see you like this at all...,"
"Absolute hell, you got that right..." Pandy responded to the blue mermaid cat. "Well, look, i- it's not just because I'm sad about Gabby probably dying..."
"Well how come?"
"M- M- My mind has been constantly trying to tell me that without Gabby, I- I'm nothing... That I'm worthless, an- and stupid, and that while everyone in this Dollhouse has something special that there good at, that makes them important, the only thing that I have here is to tag along with whatever Gabby is doing, I- I just feel like I'm a total failure at everything... I'm not actually talented at anything, it feels like my brain is like too stupid to absorb any of the advice that Gabby gives me, I always keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over again, an- and even worse my mind has also been telling me that th- the other Gabby Cats secretly think all those things about me, they just don't wanna upset me with the truth, but I know, I'm trying to tell myself that part can't be true, my friends would never keep anything from me no matter what... I- I just feel like a complete fucking idiot who isn't good or special at anything, without Gabby I have no place in this Dollhouse, I- I'm just nothing. Nothing but a failure at everything... Wh- What the fuck is wrong with me? I just can't take feeling like this anymore..." Pandy now had tears in his eyes as he finished.
MerCat was heartbroken. Heartbroken that Pandy now thought all those horrible things about himself, when she knew that none of them were true at all, and she also knew that Pandy just really needed to be reassured that none of those horrible thoughts were true as well. The way he sounded when telling her how he was feeling, and the fact that he dropped 2 F-bombs while doing so, which really shocked MerCat hearing him say it, that just confirmed to her that the mental pain he was going through was already far too much to take. And he really needed her now more than ever to help ease that pain.
MerCat paused for a moment, put her left paw on Pandy's shoulder, and was ready to help him through this.
"Pandy... You're not a failure at everything. You're not worthless, you're not an idiot, you're none of that. You're mind might not realize any of that now, but I promise you that I'm telling the truth."
"R- Really?"
"Of course! See Pandy, I think what you're experiencing right now is a pretty severe mental reaction to finding out that you're probably gonna lose someone that you have been super, super close to throughout your whole life, in this case of course that someone is Gabby, in a month from now. Just to be clear you haven't had any of those thoughts up until after Gabby first told you that news yesterday right?"
"No. I was sad before when she was away after she first got into that car accident, but at least then I knew that she was gonna be back..."
"Well, I think the reason that you're feeling what you're feeling and thinking right now is because you have always been right beside Gabby, doing pretty much everything with her for basically your entire life. Sure, you haven't been with Gabby 100% of the time but still, I think you get what I'm saying. Obviously being that close to someone isn't a bad thing at all, but emotionally you've become so dependant on almost always having Gabby right beside you, your mind basically just doesn't see anything thats worth living for by yourself after being faced with the likelyhood that you're gonna lose Gabby forever in about a month. Most people when they lose, or, in this case, find out that they're gonna lose they're best friend or someone else that they're really close to go through a more general but usually more brief depression or sadness, one would probably go through the 5 stages of grief, but that usually gets better as they accept the loss and move on with life as normal. But some people, usually depending on the circumstances, may fall into a worse depression after a loss than what is typical. In your case Pandy, you just don't know a normal life without Gabby being right beside you. All the thoughts and sadness you have been feeling in just the past day look to me like basically the same as someone who is already deep in a battle with depression.
"So y- you're basically saying that I'm depressed?"
"Yea Pandy. I'm afraid you've probably fallen into some of the worst possible depression that one could experience after finding out that you're probably gonna lose your best friend in just a month. Like I said, your mind just doesn't know what a normal life without basically always being with Gabby is, which is something that can be fixed! It's just gonna take a little longer to truly move on from the loss than normal."
"Y- You're gonna help me fix this MerCat?"
"Of course Pandy! It might seem impossible to you now, and it's probably gonna take a while, but I promise you you're gonna be able to live a normal life without Gabby being here."
"Yea, that still just seems impossible to me, I still cant help but feel so worthless..."
"Look Pandy, you know how all of our pawprints are special to us, with each pawprint representing who each one of us are right?" MerCat said before pointing to her pawprint on her left paw with her right paw. "Of course my pawprint is in the shape of a seahell, which represents both my origins and my love and knowledge for everything aquatic, which goes hand in hand with my love for spa stuff and my love for science! Then of course Cakey's pawprint represents him and sprinkles, DJ Catnip's pawprint represents him and his love for music, Kitty Fairy's pawprint represents her and her love for Flowers and gardening, you get the idea. Your pawprint of course, is in the shape of a heart! Do you know what that represents?"
"M- Me being a good friend?
"Exactly! You might not see it, because, well, it's not like a typical special talent to be good at, but you have a very special and important skill, friendship! You're not just really close with Gabby, but you have really good and close friendships with all of the Gabby Cats! Everyone deeply loves and cares about you just as much as you deeply love and care about them. You're Gabby Cat song is litterally about having a great time as long as your with your friends! Friendship is what keeps and what will keep this Dollhouse alive even without Gabby, that litterally makes you the most important cat in the Dollhouse other than Gabby! You just need to see that your skills at being a great friend are very valuble and are more important to us than you may think. You can definitely live a happy life by just spending time with your good friends in every Gabby Cat in this dollhouse! I think you need to take the advice Gabby gave you eariler to spend some good one on one time with all the Gabby Cats this month, you'll quickly see the true value in all the other friends that are still gonna be here for you! And I promise you nobody secretly thinks that you're a worthless idiot behind your back, everybody really loves you just like you really love them, just as your heart shaped pawprint represents!"
"I never thought of it like that..."
"Well Pandy, thats how you should think of it, I'm helping you through this because I'm one of your friends that really loves and cares about you, and I just hate to see you so depressed... And you know, are you feeling doubtful about being able to take Gabby's place at leader like she told you eariler?"
"Yea. I feel like too much of a mess to be able to handle it."
"Well, you and Gabby were better togheter as a team, so I wanna help you lead this Dollhouse by, well, basically becoming you're teammate."
"R- Really? What about everything you do here in the Bathroom?"
"I'll still have plenty of time for all of that, dont worry! I just really wanna help you with leading this Dollhouse because I care a whole lot about you."
"Thanks MerCat, th- that really means a whole lot to me."
"You're welcome Pandy! And also, speaking of special talents, I still think you very well could develop another special skill of your own! You know, you've always been so caught up spending all that time beside Gabby, that you've never really gotten to use that very smart brain of you'res to learn that new skill, your brain can absorb new knowledge, just because Gabby still has to occasionally give you motivation when you need it doesn't mean you are unable to learn anything. You're a lot smarter than you think you are Pandy. And I think if you really take the time to learn a new skill, you're gonna be great at it! There's lots of great ideas for new skills all around you, just think of something that you can truly get passionite in, I think learning a new skill would be something else that would really help you get through this Pandy!"
"Yea... I think you're right, I never took the oppritounity to try and learn something new like that."
"I believe in you Pandy. I can even share some of my knowledge with you if that helps!"
"I- I really appreciate you for telling me all that MerCat. I feel better than I've had since Gabby first told me the news, but, I feel like I'm still having some of those thoughts in my head..."
"Well, you're not gonna fix all those depressive thoughts so easily Pandy. It's gonna take some time but I promise that you will truly feel better again eventually. And I'm gonna be here to help you with that every step of the way. I really, really care about you Pandy. It hurts me bad to see Gabby probably only living another month, but, it hurts me even worse to see you like this... I really value the friendship that you and I have... And I know that none of what I told you these past few minutes applies to the fact that you're really gonna miss Gabby either way. I know it really hurts to have to say goodbye to her, but as long as you have the best friends in the whole world here in this Dollhouse, I know you're gonna be just fine. And besides, Gabby is always gonna be there for you in your heart..."
MerCat reached out and gave Pandy the biggest, sweetest hug that she had ever given someone.
"It's gonna be okay Pandy, I promise..." She finally finished as she kept embracing Pandy. He felt so touched that MerCat really cared about him this much...
"Thank you so much MerCat... I really needed to hear all of that."
After about a minute, the two finally broke up their much needed hug. "If there is anything that you need at any time, I'll be right here for you." MerCat reassured him again.
Pandy, who was now at least finally feeling like he could get some sleep, just didn't wanna leave from MerCat's side just yet. "M- MerCat, do you think I could maybe sleep in here tonight?"
"Oh of course Pandy! You can sleep in here any night you need to! I'll get your bed ready for you."
MerCat re-folded the big seashell in the Bathroom back out into her bed, then reached to the right side of it to pull out a smaller bed right beside it, with a clean sheet, pillow and blanket already on it. "It's ready when you are!"
Pandy hopped up onto the bed and laid down under the blanket "Feels good to finally feel like I'm able to get some sleep..."
"You need to get as much rest as you can Pandy, especially with the current state that your mind is in. It'll help you out more than you think!" MerCat told him as she turned off the Bathroom's lights and hopped into her own bed. "Goodnight and sleep tight Pandy."
"G- Goodnight MerCat.."
Now that his mind, at least for right now, could finally think about something else other than those negative thoughts that consumed him for over half of the day, he thought back to what MerCat had told him about learning a new skill. She was right, he never took the time to learn and really get good at something. But what could he get good at that he felt was unique to him? Pandy thought about it for a minute, then, he remembered something special that he was making for Gabby, he was writing a pretty wholesome story about his and Gabby's friendship. He was planning on finishing it before she got out of the Hospital from her accident and giving it to her as a welcome back gift to show her just how much he loved her, but he never got to finish it before she got out of the Hospital and he hasn't gotten around to finishing it since. But of course, now he has all the motivation he needs to finally get the story finished and to give it to her before she would leave for her surgery. He felt really proud of himself with all the work he had done so far on that story, and thinking about how proud he was gave him the idea.
Writing! He could develop his talent as a writer! That's Purr-fect! He could start by finishing the story for Gabby, and then write even more fun stories from there! His friendship with all the Gabby Cats would be a great motivator to come up with meow-mazing story ideas, he just hopes they will love his stories just as much as he will.
"Hey, Pillow Cat's already an amazing storyteller, I know she'll be able to give me some good advice on becoming a writer!" He thought to himself as his plan was still coming togheter in his mind, deciding that Pillow would be the first Gabby Cat he would be spending the day with tommorrow.
He knew that the road to feeling better from his pain completely and becoming a good writer and leader would be very long and hard, even though he was feeling better right now, he knew that he would probably be feeling sad again tommorrow, like MerCat had basically suggested. But one thing that Gabby, his best friend in the whole wide world always told him was to never give up. And Pandy would make sure to keep that in mind throughout the whole journey, that's what Gabby would want, after all. He just has to believe that there could be a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel...
so the plan is to give every gabby cat (including gabby) 1 chapter each focusing on them with pandy, and there will be like probably 3 chapters in between all those throughout the story focused on more general things. as mentioned towards the end the first chapter will be focused on pillow cat. the later chapters should also all be longer than these first 2 (hopefully) but i promise this time the next chapter wont take 6 months to be publised, the 5 mfs reading this i hope yall are still prepared to be patient (pillow cat best gabby cat btw)