Louie laid in his bed and let out a deep breath. The last week had been extremely overwhelming, first he almost destroyed the world and made his mom angry with him, and then the next thing he knew he was helping to save it from a moon invasion of all things. It was too much, he hadn't realized how exhausted all these events had made him.

He thought about how nice it would be to just lay in bed for a little while, and let things calm down. It had only been a few hours since Lunaris's plan to destroy the Earth had backfired and most of the town, as well as the remaining Moonlanders were helping clean things up.

Everything should go back to normal now, he thought to himself, back to when things weren't so complicated. Or at least that was how it was supposed to be, so why couldn't he shake this sickening feeling that something wasn't back to normal at all. It was like his insides were all twisted, but he couldn't put his finger on why.

"It's nothing, stop freaking out over nothing." He said aloud to himself hoping it would somehow convince him that was the truth.

It didn't feel like the truth…

Huey suddenly opened the door, though Louie only half paid attention to him, too lost in his thoughts to listen.

"Hey Louie, Mom's gonna take us all out for ice cream to celebrate us saving the world…"

"Uh-huh yeah, that's cool…"

Huey raised an eyebrow. "You okay? You seem distracted."

Louie rolled over lazily to face his older brother, snapping out of his daze. "I dunno, I've got a weird feeling that won't go away, like something isn't quite right."

"What couldn't be right, Lunaris is gone Louie, we saved the world. It's time to celebrate!" Huey yelled, punching a fist into the air.

Typical, no one really cares if something's bothering me, Louie thought. They all ask, but they don't really listen.

"Whatever, ice cream sounds okay I guess."

"Awesome, meet us downstairs, Uncle Donald is coming too!" Huey said excitedly as he bounced out of the room.

Suddenly Louie was struck with realization. "Uncle Donald." He whispered to himself. Mom hadn't been back a month yet and Huey had stopped calling him Dad… That was this weird feeling he had inside. He didn't want Donald to go back to being their Uncle, it was too late for that, he was their Dad in every sense of the word.

But they had Mom now too, their biological parent, and he didn't want that to change either. They'd had their ups and downs so far, but she loved them, and he felt like he loved her too. He wanted to call both of them his parents. He hadn't even thought about what the dynamic would be once their Dad returned, what if they get in a fight about who gets to raise us from now on.

Louie started to panic a little, he hated change, normality was safe… change was just scary. A million scenarios played through his head, including a few that were so bad they ended up with him and his brothers getting separated from each other, in different households.

Before he knew what was happening, tears spilled from his eyes. They just saved the whole world, it should be a happy day. Now it was filled with anxiety and worry.

He heard footsteps coming up the stairs towards his room. Quickly he tried to wipe his tears away, and put on a fake smile.

It was his Mom.

"Honey, what's taking so long, don't you want a delicious triple decker sundae supreme…" Her words stopped short when she saw her youngest crying. He may have been trying to conceal it, but nothing got past her, not when it came to her babies being hurt.

She took a seat next to her son on the bed and place her hand gently upon his shoulder. He always looked so fragile, and so far she figured she'd seen him crying more than not. He was very much like her brother when Donald was young.

"What's the matter Louie, I know when you're upset, and you can't hide it from me it's one of my numerous Mom powers."

"I'm fine, let's just go get ice cream okay?"

Della shook her head. "You tell me what's going on with you first."

Louie folded his arms and looked away from his mom. He wasn't sure what the right words were for this situation, the last thing he needed was for more people to be mad at him again. Finally he gathered the courage to speak what was on his mind.

"What's gonna happen with Uncle Donald now that you're back?"

"What do you mean sweetie?"

Louie took a deep breath in. "Well I mean, he's our Dad and everything, well not our real Dad but, ughh, you know what I mean. He sang to us when we were scared, helped us with school, fed us and played with us for our whole lives. He's earned that title. And you, you're our real Mom, but you weren't there for us like one."

Della recoiled a little, she wished they wouldn't keep reminding her. Louie saw her pull back and then he said something that brought her smile back.

"Don't get me wrong, I mean you were gone from our lives for a long time… But I want you in it now, I want you as my Mom and I know Huey and Dewey want that too."

"I guess I'm not seeing why you're upset honey, you have both of us and we're not going anywhere." Della assured him. Running a hand through his hair. "I'm not going to force Donald out of your lives, or make him stop parenting you. Three kids is a lot to handle and your Uncle has the experience dealing with you all, trust me I'm going to need him here."

"So you're not gonna argue over who gets to keep us and split the family up?" Louie asked her, unsure of the whole situation. Suddenly he found himself being pulled into Della's embrace.

"No Louie we're not, Donald and I haven't had much time to talk about it, but we'd like to parent you boys together. I know that's not exactly a normal family dynamic, but I think we can make it work. What do you say?"

"Well can we still call him Dad?" Louie asked breaking the hug.

"Of course sweetheart, like you said, he earned that title by taking care of you for eleven years, I won't take that away from him. Nothing has to change Louie, other than now I get to be a part of your lives as well."

"I guess that makes sense, so I was worried for nothing then?"

"Of course, we're gonna be one happy family together, the way it should have been all along."

Louie nodded. As they sat there a moment, together, he suddenly had another thought pop into his head, and he figured now was a good a time as any to ask about it.

"If you don't mind talking about it." Louie started, nervously. "Uncle Donald will always be our Dad, but we've all kinda wondered… whatever did happen to our biological Dad?"

Della couldn't help but look away at the floor when her son asked that.

"I mean, you don't have to if it's too sad or something?" Louie quickly added.

"No, no, it's not that. It actually makes me mad to think about him. You don't need to know anything about him except that the only thing good that came from being with him was you boys. He didn't want to accept the responsibility of being your father when he found out I was having three of you, he couldn't handle it so he left."

"Oh…"

"Trust me, don't give him another thought, Donald is a better father to you kids than that man could have ever been, no mystery there." Della assured him.

Louie nodded before wrapping his arms around his Mom's neck. "Thanks Mom, you really did make me feel a lot better. I just wasn't sure how you'd both fit into our lives now."

The two of them stayed like that for what seemed like an eternity, and Della could have kept holding him forever if that's how long Louie needed. Finally she pulled Louie away and planted a kiss on his cheek.

"Eww, Mom Germs!" Louie whined.

"I love you Louie, I always will, and I know Donald would say the same. So if you're feeling up to it now, let's go get some ice cream huh? All this world saving and family problems has been too heavy. You need to be a kid and eat ice cream until you're sick!"

Louie wiped his cheek off on the sleeve of his hoodie. He secretly liked the affection, even if he would never say that out loud. "Okay, I guess I could go for one of those supreme sundae thingies you were talking about!" He said, trying to play cool, but he couldn't hide his smirk.

"What could possibly be taking so long?!" Donald asked as he peered into the boy's bedroom. "Della, I sent you in here to get Louie to come down, you've been up here for fifteen minutes."

Louie and Della exchanged looks. "Sorry Don, we just needed to have a little mother son time first, we're ready to get our triple decker sundae supreme now!"

"Oh, no. No way are the boys eating that much sugar, they can each get one small cone!"

Della got up and put on her best serious look before saying in a low tone. "Donald, my boys just got back from saving the world, they'll have any delicious ice cream treat they want…"

Louie closed one eye, barely able to look and expecting a fight to ensue, just as he'd thought. But to his surprise his Mom and Dad started laughing. Man this family dynamic was gonna be weird, but at least he and his brother's had both of them now. A complete family.

The three of them headed for the door.

"Alright, but you get to wrangle Huey when he starts bouncing off the walls, he does not handle sugar well!" Donald laughed.

"Wait what?" Della asked. She guessed she still had a lot to learn about her kids, and she couldn't wait to learn it all, with her brother's help.

Thank you for reading another drabble of mine. I can't wait until next season when we actually get to see some of this family dynamic unfold. The show just gets better and better. As always please leave your comments if you have time, I love hearing from you all and I try to respond to them all. Have a beautiful day, let the hopefully not painful wait for season 3 commence!

~ Aura