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“MY little angel, Logan, would never ever hit another kid! How dare you accuse him of that! Bring me your manager!”
Eclipse’s eye twitched, a year and a half of pretending to be Sun, and yet he never got better at dealing with Karens. He still had to resist the urge to grab the bitch by the hair and throw her across the room. It was probably the fact that he was a violence code that made him want to do that, but still.
Eclipse paused, had it really been over a year? Somehow, it felt like both forever and yet no time at all. He guessed he had fallen into a rhythm, pretending to be happy and cheery but anxious around everyone, while only allowing himself to be himself in private.
Honestly? Eclipse was surprised that he hadn’t been caught yet. Somehow, Moon had never found out about him, not even Lunar knew, somehow.
He mostly just ignored the Karen’s rant, he didn’t really care about whatever she was monologuing about.
Eventually, the woman just took her son and left. The kid was a brat anyways, but he was the last one there, so now the daycare was officially closed, which meant cleaning. Yay…
Eclipse dreaded cleaning, because of how thorough Sun always was, which meant Eclipse had to keep things the same standard. Everyday, after closing time, he’d scrub the whole daycare for hours . He hated it.
And for some reason, Eclipse had rejected help from anyone who asked. Despite knowing that it was what Sun would’ve done, Eclipse still questioned why he said no.
He hated pretending to be Sun, hated how he couldn’t snap back at Moon whenever Moon yelled at him for no reason. Hated how badly he wanted to call Lunar a brat whenever he was acting childish, hated how their new sister looked at him with such kindness.
Earth had shown up little over a week ago, and already, Lunar was severely attached. Eclipse found her kindness somewhat annoying, but also a refreshing change from the brattiness of Lunar and Moon.
She seemed sweet enough, and was very firm on treating everyone with respect, even though Killcode freaked her out at first. Eclipse didn’t blame her, it was hard not to be freaked out by the gargantuan animatronic, but she soon got used to him.
Killcode had gained sentence soon after Eclipse had “died.” Right after Bloodmoon had broken into the daycare and went on a killing spree, the sight of all the gore causing the violence code to re-activate.
During the event, Eclipse had to quickly leave, not just because Bloodmoon would’ve easily torn him apart, but because the sight of the blood made him want to join in.
Luckily, no one pushed him to talk about, and after “Sun” had snapped at Moon when he tried to ask, and then proceeded to hunt down and kill Bloodmoon, no one had tried to ask.
Everyone was glad Bloodmoon was dead, well, except for Lunar, but the brat (mostly) got over it. They had only gotten a week’s peace before Killcode gained consciousness and proceeded to periodically take over Moon’s body.
Monty had to separate Moon and Lunar because Killcode was accidentally torturing him, so now the brat had his own body made of nano-machines. It pissed Eclipse off to no end that the kid got his own body after only a few months of being alive.
At some point, Killcode figured out what fucking kindness was and decided to be “good.” He had stuck around the daycare, mostly working security. While he did scare off most intruders, some people still had to be dealt with, and after that happened, Killcode was always somber, especially if he had to kill someone.
Personally, Eclipse found Killcode to be weak in that regard, because he couldn’t even do what he was created to do. Killcode was very weak in many ways, he had a soft spot for the Celestial family, specifically “Sun” and Lunar.
Eclipse suspected that if anyone would find him out, it’d be Killcode.
Since then, things had been peaceful, besides their sister, Earth showing up, and then a few run-ins with the Creator. Eclipse knew he was supposed to be powerful or something, but he just couldn’t take a giant floating brain seriously. Especially when that brain, according to Earth, liked to wear socks on its weird tendril things.
Eclipse genuinely enjoyed Earth’s presence, even if it was just because he was internally mocking her naivety. But he also noticed how, after a few months of her being here, Moon and Lunar have been treating him, or rather “Sun” nicer.
Eclipse was genuinely surprised when he came home late one night, (he was “cleaning” but actually trying to figure out where the star was) and Moon didn’t yell at him. Usually, nights like that, he was yelled at for “worrying” Moon. But instead Moon just looked over sleepily from his computer screen and said hello.
It turned out that his quest for the star was going a lot worse than he thought. Sun doesn’t have a lot of free time on his hands, and by the time Eclipse was done with his 11-12 hour shifts at the daycare, he was usually exhausted.
He had been searching for months, months! And yet he had found nothing! No hint of where it could be, nothing. It frustrated Eclipse to no end. He looked down, realizing he’d been scrubbing the same barrel for the past 5 minutes.
He groaned, setting the barrel down, and surveyed the rest of the daycare. It was clean enough. Eclipse grabbed the rag he’d been using, and the cleaning supplies, and walked over to the desk and put them away.
His gaze lingered at the computer, he desperately needed to continue his search for the star, but he didn’t. There was something far more important he needed to look into, because he heard Lunar talking about a dimension he’d been sent to earlier. A dimension where he was…nice?
Great, he’d been “dead” a year, and they already had found a replacement for him. He had Lunar talking about how poor this “Nice” Eclipse’s living conditions were, and how he should live with them. Knowing how convincing that brat could be, Eclipse wouldn’t be surprised if this dimensional variant of him showed up.
Eclipse pushed open the daycare doors, he knew he’d probably find his “family” in the theatre, so he started heading there, but before he could reach the stairs, large black and white clawed hands stopped him.
“Sun? What has you looking so upset?”
Killcode
Eclipse must’ve not realized the angry expression on his face, and he quickly worked to fix it, putting on the cheery mask Sun usually wore.
“Nothing’s wrong KC! Just had a long day at the daycare!” Eclipse lied with a smile.
Killcode just hummed and nodded, though he did seem to be studying Sun. “I’m aware that the kids can be a bit of a handful at times, yes?”
“Sun” nodded. “Some of them were just troublemakers today.” Eclipse couldn’t help the growl on the word “troublemakers.” He winced at the mistake, but he genuinely couldn’t help it, the way those kids had acted today made the violence code want to slit their throats. But he didn't, because he’s supposed to be the bright and cheery Sun.
Killcode frowned, and seemed to be studying Eclipse with greater intent. Eclipse pretended not to know what the murder code was doing.
“Well, KC, I should find Earth and Moon, I promised I’d hang out with them after I finished cleaning.” That was also a lie, of course, he just wanted to get away from Killcode’s scrutinizing gaze.
Eclipse hurried away, he missed the look of realization on the murder code’s face as he left.
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Eclipse quickly switched the computer screen to the supply list for the daycare, instead of the camera feed he had up as Moon and Earth entered the daycare.
“So he needs a place to stay? That sounds easy enough, but we should check with Lunar first though.” Earth said, not even noticing “Sun’s” presence.
“Agreed.” Moon said, starting to make his way towards the desk. He spotted “Sun.”
“Oh hey Sun, can I have the computer for a bit? Dimensional stuff.” Eclipse nodded and stepped away from the computer.
“What kind of dimensional stuff? Is someone staying for a bit?”
Moon nodded. “He’s a friend of Lunar’s. The Nice Eclipse. His Moon kinda sucks, and is kicking him out, so I suggested we take him in.”
Eclipse froze.
What?