Chapter 11: Untrustworthy

## Plot

Gumball/Darwin try to keep put in the house by themselves, but a mysterious person decides to visit.

## Chapter (WARNING SPOILERS)

With all their time now spent being stuck indoors of the Watterson house, Gumball/Darwin feel paranoid and rather bored. This stirs a conversation between them, at first out loud but then back in their mind.

There isn't much to do for them, thanks to worry about causing noise. The two however soon decide to play videogames, and they try to figure out how to use the controller with their current two-minds ordeal.

Meanwhile, a dark car parks across the street. A mysterious man is planning something malicious. Back at the house, Gumball/Darwin are interrupted by the doorbell. Fearing for being seen, they hide. Gumball is doubtful of a threat, Darwin the opposite, however both are soon panicked as they see the car as well as the dark figured man at the door through the curtains.

Gumball suggests defense against the stranger. The two then unsheathe their claws and are quiet as they get to the door, with the knocking of the man present. The man calls out that he's selling food, to which Gumball accidently replies in panic, immediately silencing the two. They kept quiet, as the man spoke from the door, revealing that he knows of their identities and appearance.

The two decide to call the police. At first however they soon discover the man watching them from the peephole, scaring them as their claws return once more, pounding on the door heard. However, with how many tries they do to call for the police, nobody picks up. The pounding grows louder.

With the phone of no use, they have no choice but to defend themselves on their own. Gumball convinces Darwin enough to follow through with it, the latter afraid to do anything, and with enough courage they go to the door. They swing the door open and swipe at the man, but their efforts of battle are cut short. A sack flies over their head, and they are lifted up.

Gumball/Darwin scream by the sudden attack, trying to keep hold of the doorframe to the home, claws scraping it practically, however they are ripped away from it and thrown into a seat, encased entirely in the bag. They continue to scream, trying to escape, with the sounds of tire screeches heard and them being pulled forward in motion. The two panic, frantically talking to each other mentally to come up with a plan.

Meanwhile, Nicole is at her job, horrified by the news of the boys missing, as told by Richard over the phone. She cuts him off and informs him that she'll come right away, telling him to search the house just in case. The call once done, she packs up and begins speeding her way to get home.

## Fun facts!

-This is the first chapter to be released in 2021.

-In the original Fanfiction.net version of the chapter, the beginning has a brief segment continuing off after the original Chapter 10, where Jamie taunts Anais about her brothers absent from school, demanding their whereabouts, to which the bunny brushes her off and continues her way down the hall. This scene as well as the one from Chapter 10 were cut from the rewritten versions due to their unnecessary presence.

-Also in the original version, Darball was instead on the computer silently watching fail videos rather than playing games, deeming it too loud. This was changed in the rewrite to make a more interesting setup of fear and dread, that and the concept of them watching videos silent was sort of boring and strange.

-The original name for this chapter was "Kidnapped!". It was changed in order not to spoil the chapter's events in other versions.

-In the original chapter, the ending had Anais come home from school hours later to find her parents panicking, as well as her once she notices the clawmarks left. This was changed to make more sense in the story, since it would be rather weird for Richard to not notice the boys missing for several hours.