My House is Where the Hurt Is. [HTF Grimdark]

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Hours of sawing, gluing, screwing and painting led up to this very moment. Petunia uncovered Giggles' eyes to present her with the fruits of their labor. A beautiful pink living room decorated with pink and lavender. It was put together in a way to show how much her friends cared about her. Almost every part of the room was put together with love and care. It warmed Giggles' heart in a special way. The moment they saw her smile, the other tree friends cheered, knowing that their mission was successful. Handy, the brains behind it all, seemed the proudest. Not just of their contributions, but his ability to put all this together with his limited abilities. Given that...no hands and all. He too was so happy that he didn't notice Cuddles' sudden absence either.

This house truly was a home.

The other tree friends beckoned Giggles towards the hallway entrance, eager to show off more of the house's interior, with Handy not too far behind. However, he abruptly stopped when he felt something peck at his hard hat. The little bird from the cage in the corner had managed to slip out, now keen on tormenting Handy. Groaning, the beaver waved his nubs to try and shoo the bird back to its cage. But despite his best efforts, his stumps could only reach so far. It wasn't until he bent over and let his hat fall to the ground that the bird finally flew back to its cage, squawking at him as if to say "screw you" before shutting its cage with a huff. The beaver hummed in triumph. Thankfully putting his hat back on wasn't as much of a struggle as shooing the bird away. Now he just had to reconvene with the group-

*Wham!*

Handy stumbled backwards dizzily, shaking his head to come back to his senses. This was supposed to be the hall to the lobby. But once Handy finally got a look at what hit him, all he could muster up was just a "what the?" Where the hallway once stood was now just a blank wall, like it was never there to begin with. That was weird, Handy thought, there's supposed to be a hallway here. Handy chalked it up to confusion from hitting the wall and shrugged, turning to the doorway on the other side of the room. That entrance too, somehow, had vanished. The only other entrance left was the front door that led outside.

"I can't be going crazy..." Handy thought, "I saw those hallways a minute ago...Is it something in the air?"

Handy glanced over at the ventilation grate in the top right corner of the room. Perhaps there was something wrong with the house's air? It couldn't have been carbon monoxide cause he had detectors installed. Perhaps it was best to check the ventilation system to determine what was going on. Thus, Handy made his way to the front door and, through a bit of struggle, pried it open with his nubs. The sight confused him more than he already was. The door had a heart-shaped window on top that clearly displayed the yellow skies outside. So...how in the world did he end up in the dining room?!

"Ooh! Hey, Handy!" Lumpy called out to the beaver with a wave. Seemed he completely disregarded the fact Handy came in through the front door...Or rather...the pantry? Because where he was standing, this was definitely the pantry door. Looking out over the dining room, he noticed the faces of the other tree friends, all of them sharing brief glimpses of confusion unlike Lumpy. Handy's head whipped around from the pantry door to the dining room. Was he going insane? Giggles broke the silence with a giggle,

"You guys even added secret hallways? Ooh, heehee! It's gonna be fun finding them all!"

"Uh...we...didn't," Handy said bluntly.

"Yeah, we didn't build anything like that," Petunia added on.

"We didn't?" Lumpy turned his head.

By that point, Giggles' face matched the confusion everyone else had, "So then...how'd you get in the pantry?" She asked. Handy stumbled on his words a bit,