@paintjars asked:
💭 for mickey :3
Hide him? Hide him from- His hands grasp the doorknob of the cottage. Doc knows he takes in strays but his relationship to Mickey was always professional other than a little ribbing in the commissary or some frustrated snapping about the merchandise being skewed towards Grimhilde (the cast needed to eat). It was Mickey and Oswald. He tried to rack his brain for just why the two of them would need to hide. No time to explain. Please, I don't have anyone else to turn to! Oswald was shaking. He kept staring at his hands. "Come in." Just what are you letting in? Mickey is a friend- Is he? He's more popular than you and that rabbit is hardly one of you. They stole him! He belonged with us. We're his family. Mickey is his family! How much can family do? Doc looked over his shoulder. He was in the business of taking in strays. What had happened for Mickey and Oswald to become strays? They were foundations of this company. But they were old... nearly forgotten. He slammed the door shut and locked it. "...We're old news, ain't we? We just don't well anymore?" Mickey gulped and pulled Oswald in. I didn't think- "Oh we can't stop it, Mickey. It's been comin' fer a long time..." Old. Washed up. No matter how much ink and reboots they tried, somehow the company just wanted to paint them as worthless. Doc... It's paint thinner. "...Don't let nobody or nothin' into this house."
(Still accepting here!)
