The three children sat on the couch watching T.V. quietly. The show wasn't appealing and none of them felt like watching T.V. at all. Gumball grabbed the remote and shut the program off and sighed, leaning back on the couch. There sadly wasn't much to do as their parents went out shopping, and to pick up Gumball's pain killers. He placed a hand over the bandage on his right eye, still not used to seeing half as normal.

"...I don't know what to do..."

"We could... play a game or something," said Anais.

"I think I wanna take a nap." Gumball rubbed his only working eye.

"Um, mom said she doesn't want you sleeping all day," pointed out Darwin.

"...Wait, why?"

"Gumball, you've been sleeping in for the past two weeks ever since you got back from the hospital." Anais raised an eyebrow. "I think you're getting too much sleep."

"I'm depressed, okay? I haven't been feeling good lately..."

"Gumball, it's just what mom says," said Darwin, jumping off the couch.

"Didn't she say I should get some rest in the first place?"

"Well, it's just that she says you've been having ni-"

"I haven't," said Gumball bluntly.

"We never said you were." Anais jumped off the couch.

"It's just a small nap, it's not like its gonna kill me or something." Gumball crossed his arms.

"We're just worried about you," said Darwin.

"I know." Gumball looked away. "But you two have been acting strange lately..."

"What do you mean, 'strange'?" asked Anais.

"Like, you keep watching me whenever I do something now..."

"Okay, that is not true." Darwin had a stern look on his face.

"My bath last night? You guys checked on me eight times," said Gumball.

"We thought you might h-... We just wanted to make sure if you needed help," said Anais.

"I was perfectly fine. Another thing is when you guys eyed me earlier this morning."

"Again, we just wanted to make sure you were okay," said Darwin.

"I was making a sandwich, how could that affect me in any negative way?"

"Well..." Neither of Gumball's siblings had a response.

"...Hold on a second..." Gumball stepped forward and eyed the two. "Do you two think I'm gonna... kill myself or something?"

"...I mean, no, not right..." Darwin and Anais looked at the ground.

"No...no, no, no, what? No! I'm not gonna do that!" yelled Gumball. He got up from the couch.

"Gumball, we're just worried about you." Darwin stepped forward.

"I said I'm fine! Why the heck do you two think I would kill myself?!"

"You said you were depressed," said Anais. "That's not really an okay thing."

"That's something else, it's not the same thing!" Gumball crossed his arms.

"Gumball, we just said-"

"Did mom tell you something? Tell me what she said!"

"Gumball, she didn't say any-"

"That's a load of crap!" yelled Gumball.

"Gumball!" Darwin stepped forward. "Don't say that!"

"Why shouldn't I? You guys are the ones who should be saying something!"

"Gumball, calm down!" Anais showed some anger. "We're just worried about you! Geez!"

"And I told you that I was fine! Why is that so hard to accept?"

"Gumball, you're shouting. That is not fine at all," said Darwin.

"I don't even care anymore!" Gumball turned around. Darwin and Anais sighed. He had been acting this way ever since he got back. Always angry at every little thing and every person. Their mother explained it to them but Gumball denied everything. It was getting on everyone's nerves now.

Closing his eyes, Darwin thought he should start at a different approach.

"...Gumball," started Darwin. "We know you're still feeling bad over the whole thing."

"..."

"We know you're still hurting on the outside, and on the inside." Anais walked up to him and grabbed his hand. "We're not trying to hurt you. We're just here for you."

"...I-I said I'm fine..." Gumball looked away.

"Dude, you're angry all the time. You're never calm anymore and we're afraid you might hurt yourself."

"W-what part of fine do you two not understand?" Gumball pulled his hand away, facing the two with tears in his eyes.

"'Fine' is a one syllable word, so I guess nothing," said Anais. "but 'Caring' is two, however. and so is 'Brother'."

Darwin walked up and hugged Gumball. He shoved his face in his chest and rubbed his back gently. Anais joined in next to Darwin. They all stood there motionless in their little moment.

"You can hug us back if you want. They do it on T.V. all the time."

Gumball broke down and grabbed them both tightly, falling to his knees on the floor. His tears fell down on his siblings and he choked up a few sobs every now and then.

"W-Why?" Gumball looked upward. "Why?!"

Every painful memory of Jamie flashed in his mind. From the moment it all started to the very end, when she killed herself. He could clearly remember when she stabbed him multiple times and nearly killed both him and Darwin. He remember seeing her body on the ground as they left the room. It was all burned in his mind forever.

"It's okay, buddy," whispered Darwin.

"S-she..."

Gumball fell over, clenching his chest. He quietly sobbed on the floor as Anais and Darwin stood by him, holding his hands.

"It's okay..."

"I-I... I can't go on like t-this... I don't wanna..."

"Gumball, you have to be strong," said Anais.

"I-I have been for months. I-I can't go on anymore..."

"Please, Gumball." Darwin picked him up and brought him on his knees. "You can get through this. We know you can."

"I-I just don't know a-anymore..."

Gumball sat back down and quietly cried. Darwin and Anais simply sat next to him, holding his hands and trying to calm him down.

Eventually after ten minutes, Gumball stopped crying. He wiped the tears away from his face and looked at Darwin.

"C-can I please sleep for a bit?"

Darwin didn't know how to respond. His mother said he shouldn't be sleeping all the time, but after a breakdown, she would have usually made an acceptation.

"I guess... just till mom and dad get back, okay?" Darwin looked over at Anais. She nodded.

"We'll wake you up when they get back."

"T-thank you..." said Gumball. He slowly stood up and walked over to the staircase. He had to drag his legs up the entire way slowly. He went down the hall and into his room, closing the door behind him and crawling under the sheets. He curled up into a ball and closed his eyes.

For a moment, he thought about everything up to this point. He thought about Jamie. Why she did the things she did and where she was now. He thought about her parents. How did they felt about him? What were they doing?

Was Gumball a killer? He didn't think he was. Did the other kids at school think he was? Did they want to talk to him after the news came out? Did Penny want anything to do with him?

His mind assaulted his emotions with another question; What did Darwin think of all this? Was he mad at Gumball? Did he still have feelings for Jamie and was he mad with Gumball when he killed her?

Should he kill himself?

Gumball didn't know what was going to happen. In what seemed like seconds, his whole life changed completely by one person. He could still feel the metal cuffs keeping him hung up on a wall and being violently beaten and violated every night. He could remember her face, voice and her anger so clearly. It was all burned in his mind.

Forever.

'I should have said something to her... I should have, and none of this would have happened... but now...it did.'

Stray tears slipped past his eyes and onto his blanket, as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

It was the end, but in no way, was it a happy ending for Gumball.

A/N With nearly 30,000 words, more than 100 reviews on FanFiction alone and nearly 3 months after posting the first chapter, Chained is finally complete. Not only is this the end of a very long journey, but this is also the very first story I've ever completed. Really, god, looking back from chapter 1 all the way to writing this note, it really is quite strange.

Think I should clear some things up first, there is another ending to this. That will be posted on my "Plastic Box" story on FanFiction later on. It'll also have some other things as well.

Now, what the heck am I gonna do now?

Actually, I'm already starting to write out another story for the archive. Been buffing out some details and just now started writing the first chapter. However, it will not be posted until it is done completely. But it'll be a good one. But you know, I'll post some short one-shots every now and then just to stay on the archive and give an update on it. It's sad though, I doubt I'll ever write anything with as much hype or support as this for like, a long time now.

Anyway, time for the last thanks. So thank you to:

Falconfox8 – rasmus-the-drawartist – ai-wa-yume-zdesu – killer2924 - daxe12 - lexboss - trey and ethan – zombienutjob – princessanastasia434 – Kippas##t – rasmuslikestodraw – luismendoza15 – XxKoGWolfBloodxH3X - Mickey The Luxray – SorceriesOfOld - Edward Serjo – BlackAcez - Terrence Orson - Ender McAuthor – Josef27 – Daxe-a-rooni-mcheese – DemonSin – EpikDoesRoblox – RileyChu - Frost 69 - Sachiko Ever After – CreeperKiller55 – IlikeCheeseBurgerLOL – DistortionDaxe – soulparties – Kelstar159 – omar – guest – Flighter – Olaf53 - TomasMascinskas - Pup – ydoc124 – BalladofTime – 2bdragonwise – WhitchDoctorGuy – side-fish - Dante Watterson – KyroDaHero

For the reviews, favorites, follows, likes, reblogs, comments, and views and everything about that stuff, yo.

One final note, and this is posted on multiple sites, You can find me on deviantArt, Tumblr, Fanfiction for all that stuff, and I also have a wikia accoun udner 'WaterDemoBaku' and a YouTube account under "Waterfront3000"

Welp, that's the end of this story, and the start of another one. Adios, Dubz.

- Water