(SLIGHT DRAMA AND SWEAR WARNING AHEAD, ALSO THERES HEAVY THEMES, BEWARE!)

She was greeted by shouting. It was Brian and her dad. The girls ran at top speed downstairs, only stopping to take off her shoes, covered in ink. "It's all your fault, Brian! First Elisabeth, now Michael!" Alex froze halfway down the stairs. Something happened to Michael. She knew that Dad sometimes brought him to work even though he was terrified of the place, but nothing serious ever happened. "I didn't do anything! Chase did it, I swear! I would never-" "GET YOUR LYING ASS AWAY FROM ME!" Brian stepped back at this kind of rejection from his own father, then went upstairs. Dad was still fuming, Alex could see it. "What happened? She asked quietly. Her dad spun around to see her, and seemed to calm down a little. "We need to talk."

Alex was near crying. Due to an accident at Dad's workplace involving Brian and a couple of his friends, Michael was now hospitalized. He had pretty severe damage done to his head and partially his brain. Dad said he might not come out, but Alex didn't want to think about it. She just went up to her room and cried.

It had been four days since Alex had been in the studio. She used to see it as a getaway, but now she couldn't even stand up. Michael's condition worsened. He was in a coma, doctors believed that he might flatline at any moment. It had broken the girl to the point of physical weakness and damage.

Alex gathered the last of her strength and heaved herself up, changed and sat down. A wave of sadness came over her, again. She fought to hold back tears, and won. She took a deep breath and made a portal to the studio. I wonder if they miss me, she thought, before leaving.

The studio looked the same. Same walls, same rooms. Alex dragged herself around, desperately trying to find a conversation partner, finally spotting Boris in a room. He saw her and started wagging his tail, and ran over to her. He noticed that she was tired and drained out only close up, and immediately started asking questions. She told him everything, from what happened in the beginning to the health update they recently received and how it was tearing her family even more apart.

After Alex was done, the wolf stayed silent. The two sat there, and the silence was strangely calming to Alex. She thanked Boris and was about to head home when…

There was a voice from behind. "The hell? What's gone into you? Where've ya been? Ya look so dead inside, not like I care, but jeez!" Bendy stared at Alex, very confused. Boris stepped in: "Bendy, she's going through some tough times right now, I wouldn't-" Alex put her arm up, signaling silence. "It's ok, Boris, it's happened before." "Whaddya mean it's happened before?!?" "Why do you think I've never mentioned my Mom?" It was quiet for a moment, then Bendy spoke, even more thrown astray: "Can you please explain? It'd be kind of you!" Alex sighed. "Then stay quiet for the entire ride, I have close to no energy and sanity left. Also I might start crying, so beware."

(A/N) I'm working on a Wilford x reader oneshot rn-- also check out my art please