War for Genius

31.- Reaching a diagnosis

Hello everyone! Well, I know the previous chapter was hard for the Duckfam, but I really thought it was necessary for them to know all what Huey had been trough, all what Graves told him, all that he suffered... in order to help him in the best way possible to heal.

For this next chapter, this one starts where the last Huey's chapter finished, it is, Huey hugging his uncles. Also, in this chapter I've put an unexpected encounter. I hope you all will like how this encounter goes 😊 (I've to admit this was an idea that suddenly came to my mind and I just had to write it. I hope you'll like it!

As always, I'd like to thank Empro-8 for helping me editing this story. Honestly, without her help this wouldn't be as good as it is, so thank you very much Empro-8 you're amazing!

Welp, I'll stop talking and let you read the chapter, enjoy it! 😉

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Scrooge was amazed, to say it lightly. Considering how everyone had seen Huey's reaction when Donald hugged him a few days ago, the fact that now it was the lad who had voluntarily run into their arms was for Scrooge something... unexpected, but deeply wonderful.

A grateful smile appeared on the old miser's beak. After almost a month since his great-nephew was kidnapped, he was finally able to have some physical contact with him. That was more than he had expected from that visit.

While they were still in the middle of that embrace, someone suddenly knocked on the door, interrupting their brief moment of mutual comfort. Huey was the first to break the embrace, staring at the door with apprehension. Scrooge wasn't surprised that his nephew was afraid of who would be on the other side of the door. As they saw in the video, a door was the only thing that separated him from his freedom, but, every time the door was opened was for someone to appear who would hurt him. It was logical to think the boy distrusted who might be on the other side.

To be honest, when they entered the room shortly after the boy woke up, his facial expression also showed features like the current one he was wearing.

Yes, surely his nephew would never look at closed doors the same way again.

While Scrooge was distracted analyzing Huey's behavior, Fenton had responded to the knocks. The door opened to reveal Dr. Owlfang behind it, Scrooge instantly noticed that Huey was relieved when he saw the doctor. That made the older duck happy, the boy trusted the owl, that was good.

The doctor, seeing the two adult ducks and Huey standing next to him, was slightly surprised and quickly rushed to say:

"Sorry, am I interrupting something?"

Scrooge looked at Donald, who with an understanding look told him to be the one to answer. So, the older duck raised his arms and said:

"No, no, ye didn't interrupt anything doctor, don't worry."

Then the duck in the top hat cleared his throat and added:

"Did ye want to tell us something?"

The doctor – who seemed to have been momentarily distracted – focused his attention on the rich Duck and answered:

"What? Oh well, I was actually coming to see my favorite patient."

There was a slight giggle from Huey. The older triplet said looking at the doctor:

"Surely you tell all your patients that."

The doctor smiled tenderly, leaned over to the duckling, and replied cheerfully:

"Maybe, but in your case Huey, it's true."

Scrooge smiled too, from the way that owl treated his nephew, it was easy to see why the lad trusted him. Huey was clearly in good hands. Scrooge noticed movement out of the corner of his eye, and saw it was his nephew who had stepped toward Dr. Owlfang. The sailor-dressed duck asked: