Archive of Our Own ^beta

Chapter Text

"Phil is a really nice man, I'm sure you're going to have a good time there. He already has two adopted sons, I believe they're a little bit older than you." His social worker spoke with her usual uninterested voice. Tommy knew that she didn't actually care for him, but it still hurt.

"Oh please, it's gonna be another asshole who'll be absent the whole time or even better, abusive! I bet his sons hate me because I'm trying to get their fathers attention or something like that. Wouldn't be the first time." He wasn't happy about this and made that very clear with his tone.

"Why can't I just stay in the group home where I have friends like Ranboo and Purpled?" Tommy asked.

"It's not that bad, alright? Phil's house is also in L'manburg and not even far from the group home." She tried to convince him but he won't be having that.

"What if they don't like me because of the weird things that happen around me?" Tommy said. "Many of my other foster families already gave me away when those 'incidents' messed with their lifes. I don't want that happening again." Tommy really tried everything to not have to leave again.

"Now come on, it's not as terrible as you're trying to make it. You're just a little unlucky, Thomas."

"It's Tommy." He muttered.

"Yeah of course. But you're still going to Mr. Watson whether you like it or not. It's not going to be longer than four months, we just don't have space in the group home right now." The social worker tried to reason with him but Tommy really didn't want another awful foster family.

That conversation was a few hours ago and now they were sitting in the car outside of Tommy's new 'home'.

"And remember that you don't need to tell them about the 'incidents' today or any time soon. We don't want to risk anything." Tommy hated how everyone, even himself, just referred to them as 'incidents' as if it'd be to much to call them by what they were: Weird things like Harry Potter experienced before he knew, that he was a wizard.

But Tommy didn't want to be some kind of wizard, he had enough problems already.

"I know, okay? I'm not completely dumb even if you think that." Tommy was really annoyed right now and just wanted to sleep.

"Watch your tone young man. Now get out of the car, I still need to talk to Mr. Watson to make sure everything will be alright."

Tommy stared at his nearly ruined backpack, which contained an old laptop, he got that one maybe seven years prior. Back then he was still a cute and little boy. He'd been taken from his parents at 8 and now he was already 16. Tommy was never like the innocent foster children, whose parents died in tragic accidents and things like that. He had been abused for his entire life because his parents thought, they could handle a small child even with alcohol and drug addictions. Well, they obviously couldn't.

In that backpack he also had his little cow stuffie, which he got from his really nice grandma before she died when he was probably five years old. Then there are a few clothes and his broken headphones. He should really throw those away because they just took to much space in his backpack, but he felt nostalgic when wearing them, so he kept the headphones.

Tommy grabbed his backpack and scrambled out of the car. He finally took in the sight of the building before him. It was a pretty big house and looked a bit like cottage core to him. You could see that people lived there, it just had some kind of comforting aura, Tommy couldn't really describe it.

They made their way to the front door and his social worker knocked loudly on the wood. You could hear whisper behind the door and Tommy wondered what the hell took them so long.

There was a loud crash and suddenly the door swinged open with a tall as fuck brunette standing there and grinning at them like a maniac.

"You must be Tommy! Come on in, both of you!" The tall guy was kinda scary staring down at him like that.

So Tommy snapped."What the fuck?!"

Chapter Text

"Wilbur! You were supposed to stop scaring people when they arrive here!" A voice sounded out of the house.

A man with blonde hair pushed the tall guy (that's probably Wilbur) out of the door frame and put on an apologetic smile.

"Sorry for that, Wilbur is always a bit energetic" The man chuckled. "I'm guessing you're Tommy?"

Tommy tried to stay calm and collected, so they would have a good first impression of him. Or atleast not a bad first impression. "Yeah, that's me."

Then the social worker took over. "We're really happy that this could work so fast, we absolutely need to make space for new children in the group home."

"I'm happy too. Now come in, we can talk about everything and the boys can show Tommy the house." Phil looked nice but Tommy knew this procedure. Everyone was nice and lovely at first, but the moment the social worker was gone, they all showed their true self.

They both walked in and Tommy was greeted by the smell of fresh made biscuits. Wilbur was there and behind him stood another guy with long, pink hair. He looked pretty awkward and obviously didn't know what to do with himself. They just stared at each other.

Wilbur seemed to notice the weird tension and started speaking. "Hi again! As you may have noticed already, I'm Wilbur and that pink guy there is my brother Technoblade. You're 16, right?" After a short nod from Tommy he continued. "Well I'm 17 and Techno had his 18th birthday a few days ago. We're both still going to high school, so you should have no problems with getting there. Techno has a car and can drive us. You've been going to Essempi High already, haven't you?"

And then Tommy recogniced him. That was THE Technoblade, a legend in his school. They always said, he was really smart but also very dangerous because he could fight like a god. And now Tommy lived in a house with him, he was so unlucky, wasn't he?

"Eh yeah, my group home is also in L'manburg, so I've been here for years already. Could you show me the house now?" He wanted to get this over with as fast as possible.

"Of course! That room, where Phil and your social worker are right now, is the kitchen. Next to it is the living room and when you go down the hall the door on the right is Phil's room and the door on the left is his office. We also have a small bathroom next to the front door. We can go upstairs now, where our rooms are."

When they were all there, Tommy was shocked. Would he get his own room? "The first door is my room, you can always come to me if you got problems. The room next to mine is Techno's, you should definitely knock before going in."

"Before you ask, I have pretty bad anxiety and that could make me shut down and have a panic attack." Techno explained to him. That was the first time he spoke since Tommy got here.

"Wouldn't be so nice, trust me. Anyways, the last room on this side is the bathroom, which you have to share with us. If you didn't notice already, I have ADHD and I need to take my medication, so please leave the pills in the bathroom and do not take them." Wilbur sounded serious now.

"I wasn't planning on stealing your medicine, dickhead." He was a little offended now.

"I was just making sure. The room opposite to mine is yours by the way." Wilbur opened the door to Tommy's room and smiled sheepishly.

"There is not much stuff, Dad said that we should wait until you're here, so you could decide yourself, how you want to decorate it. We're gonna go shopping tomorrow I think. Then you can get all the things you need and Dad pays." Tommy wasn't sure why they tried so hard. He was here for just four months and they were spending so much money and time on him.

"That's nice of you all." They should think he was actually thankful for that. "I'm really tired, can I go and sleep now?" They wished him good night and he was gone.

The door even had a lock and key from inside and he quickly locked it. He didn't trust them, his foster siblings normally stole his stuff in the first few days already.

Tommy finally looked at his room and determined it as the best room he had in maybe the last five years. It wasn't big or fancy, just a normal bedroom with bed, closet and a desk. He put his backpack in the closet under a few blankets, which he found there. It wasn't the best hiding spot but it would do for the moment.

He was actually tired now and the bed looked really comfortable, so he decided that a bit sleep wouldn't be that bad.

Tommy was asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Chapter Text

A knock woke Tommy up. He went to unlock the door and opened it. Phil stood there and smiled at him. He had a plate with pizza in his hands, which explained the smell.

"Hey mate, thought you might like something to eat. I wasn't sure what you like, so I just ordered pizza. You were asleep for a few hours, I hope it's okay that I woke you up." He was really good at putting on this facade of a caring, loving father. But Tommy wouldn't fall for that, he wasn't so naive anymore.

"Pizza sounds nice and it's totally fine that you woke me up, I still have homework to do" Tommy was really behind on that, he didn't have any motivation for school.

"I actually wanted to talk with you for a bit, we didn't really have the chance earlier." Phil was probably going to tell him about his chores and what he wasn't allowed to do. "We just have a few rules and boundaries, when I'm done you can tell me your boundaries too and I'll let the boys know." Huh, that was something new.

"First of all, please knock and wait for an answer before you just go into the room of anyone here. Especially for Techno, he has problems with things like that, but I'm sure he already told you this. Your curfew is at ten and if something takes you longer, just send me a message." Everything sounded a bit too good right now to Tommy.

"I don't think that'll work because I have no phone." Tommy's curfew would stay ten then, even if something happened, he couldn't text anyone. He only had discord on his laptop, but he couldn't always take it with him.

"Not a problem, tomorrow after school we're gonna go shopping, we can buy you a phone then." Phil said that as if it wasn't a big thing.

"Wait, actually? I never had a phone, that'd be so cool! I could text Ranboo... oh no he doesn't have a phone himself. But I could text my other friends like Dream and Sapnap." Even he could tell that he started rambling about it.

Phil laughed. "Woah, calm down. One thing at a time. You'll get a phone tomorrow, I promise. By the way, you don't need an alarm for the morning. I already stand up at 5 am for work and before I leave, I usually wake everyone up. Techno drives you and I'm gonna pick you up for shopping, Techno and Will have places to be, so they're not going with us. Now that we got that, you wanna tell me your boundaries?" He really wanted to know those for some reason.

"I'm not quite sure 'cause nobody ever asked for them, you know? But I sometimes have panic attacks, so be warned. I don't even know what triggers them, they just come every now and then. I don't really like loud noises like yelling and stuff, but I think that's it. Thanks for asking though." Tommy even tried smiling at him and it was kinda genuine.

"Okay, good. If you find something else, let me know. I'll now leave you to your pizza, just come down and put the plate in the kitchen sink when you're done, Wilbur usually makes the dishes. Good night, Tommy." Maybe Phil wasn't that bad, he seemed so kind.

"Good night." Then Phil was gone and Tommy was left to stare at the food in his hands. He couldn't even remember the last time he had pizza, so he didn't know if this tasted good, but everyone always said that it was their favourite food, so it should be alright.

It was really good, Tommy was kinda sad when the plate was empty. When he made his way to the door, of course he had to trip. He already cursed himself and was ready to go again because a broken plate is never good, especially not on your first day.

But then the wooden floor just bended a bit, so the plate and Tommy only fell a few centrimetres. After that, the floor got back to his original place and it was like nothing ever happened. Except that Tommy and the plate were now on the floor and he wanted to cry.

Why did he believe that it wouldn't happen here too? Tommy just wanted a normal life, where such strange things never happened. He didn't have an explanation for them, it kinda just was like this sometimes.

If his foster family found out, he'd be so screwed. They would send him away again, because who wanted to do something with a freak like him?

Tommy had already forgotten about the empty plate and decided to do his homework now to distract his brain.

After maybe two hours of work, he found it late enough to go to sleep. He was surprisingly tired again, although he slept for like four hours before Phil woke him up.

He didn't mind the extra sleep, but he still needed to dm Ranboo through discord, so he could tell him what happened and because he didn't want his friend to be concerned.

Tommy convinced Ranboo that everything was alright, but that he was still wary of the new people. When they finally wished each other a good night, Tommy could barely keep his eyes open and immediately went to sleep.

Chapter Text

The next day started pretty shitty. Phil woke him up and he had cornflakes for breakfast, which was alright. But then Wilbur was running through the entire house, seemingly searching for something important. When Tommy asked him what his problem was, he didn't exactly get a response, more like a mumbling about how dumb this was.

Technoblade was just standing in the kitchen and was drinking a black coffee like it actually tasted good. He didn't look like he was ready to leave the house.

"You do realize that we need to go in a few minutes?" Tommy asked because he wasn't sure that Techno was aware of that fact.

"I know, I'll be ready in two, just need to finish my coffee. We're not gonna be leaving in time though. Wilbur is always searching for something he lost and today is not an exception." That guy really didn't care at all about anything, did he?

"Oh, that's great. I bet my teacher will be totally happy 'bout that." Tommy tried to sound as sarcastic as possible but Techno only let out an amused huff in response.

When they were finally in the car, school was almost beginning and Tommy nearly lost his nerves. What a great first morning. He just hoped it wouldn't be always like this because then his teachers would surely hate him.

They arrived at school five minutes late and Tommy rushed to his first class. He opened the door and his teacher stared at him, she looked pretty angry.

"You are late, Thomas! What's your dumb excuse today?" She wasn't really one of the understanding teachers.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Johnson. I'm in a new foster family and my foster siblings aren't exactly fast in the morning, I should've really taken the bus, it's my fault." He tried to sound a bit remorseful atleast.

His teacher calmed down a bit and told him to go to his table. But then he saw that a new guy was sitting there and looked at Ms. Johnson inquiringly.

"Oh, right. That's Tubbo, his family moved to L'manburg recently and he's now in this class. I said that he could sit next to you, you're the only one with free space." She told him.

Tommy sat down next to Tubbo and was immediately greeted with a whispering voice. "Hi! I'm Tubbo and your Thomas, right?" Tommy absolutely hated his real name and his face probably showed that.

"It's Tommy actually. I saw the bee on your backpack, do you play minecraft?" He asked.

"Yeah, I do. I'm sure we could play together sometime." Tubbo seemed really nice.

When they had their short break, Tommy heard his name behind him. He turned around and was greeted with the concerned face of his best friend.

"Tommy! Are you okay? What took you so long? Did your new foster brothers do something? I thought you said, they're okay? Do I need to-" Tommy cut him off. "Hey Ranboo, everything is alright, okay? You don't need to worry so much. I'm fine, Wilbur just took too long this morning, that's why I'm late."

That seemed to kinda ease Ranboo's worries. "Okay, that's good. Sorry, I'm very tired, couldn't really sleep that much last night. It's super weird to sleep without you, not even Purpled was there because he also got fostered."

"Oh really? I hope he finally got a good family. So you're completely alone now? That's strange, Ms. Dumbass told me, we don't have space in the group anymore."

"Yeah, we really don't. But the new kids only arrived this morning, so I'll probably have new roommates this night. But I miss you both already." Ranboo was sad and Tommy couldn't stand that.

But when he wanted to reassure Ranboo, that everything was alright, another voice spoke up.

"Eh, sorry to interrupt, but what's going on right now?" He completely forgot Tubbo's presence.

"Oh yeah, my bad. Tubbo, that's Ranboo. He's been my best friend since we were ten and were first put in the same room in the group home. And he's always worrying too much about my well being." He earned himself a scoff from Ranboo and a short laugh from Tubbo.

"Okay, that's cool. Well I'm Tubbo! So you're both orphans? Sorry if that's rude to ask."

"Not exactly. You see, Tommy's and my parents aren't that good people, so the government decided at some point, that we couldn't live there anymore. But it's okay, we're certainly more happy in the group home than we were back then." Ranboo explained.

"But we're not really lucky when getting fostered. Most times those families are also assholes or they just don't care. So the best for us would be to stay in the group home, but it's too full right now, that's why I got fostered. We're just hoping that the family is as nice as they're giving themselves to be." Tommy hoped, he didn't scare Tubbo off with this now.

"Now I got it. Thank you for explaining that to me." Tubbo could really be a new friend to both of them, Tommy realized.

They chatted a bit more and decided to hang out tomorrow after school because Tommy and Tubbo were both busy today.

When school finally ended, Tommy sprinted outside and he was so glad, that Phil was standing beside his car because he never would've found him otherwise.

"Hey Tommy, how was your day?" Phil asked him.

"Yeah, it was pretty good. We have a new guy and he's in a few of my classes. His name is Tubbo and I wanted to ask you if I could hang out with him and my best friend Ranboo tomorrow afternoon?" He was really hoping for a yes right now.

"Of course, I'm happy that you got a new friend and we don't have anything to do tomorrow. Now get in the car, we're gonna go shopping."

Chapter Text

"And you're really sure I can just have this phone, and I don't have to pay for it?" Tommy asked with clear disbelief in his voice.

Phil had the actual audacity to laugh at him. "Yes, Tommy. For the tenth time, you don't have to pay for any of this stuff. I know that you don't have the money and I'm also responsible for you, so I should pay for the things you need." He held a certain finality to his voice.

"Okay okay, I got it. No paying for me. But I could atleast buy ice cream for us two after this." Tommy wanted to give Phil something back. He was pretty sure that the man didn't have any bad intentions, Phil was just too nice for this world.

"Nope, you're not paying for anything. I know that you don't get pocket money from the foster system, so you probably don't have much. Please don't waste your money like this." Tommy knew that he wouldn't get past this, so why not enjoy it?

"Can you buy us ice cream then? That would be really nice, I can't even remember the last time an adult bought me something like that." Now he was putting out the pity card and it seemed to work.

"Alright, why not? A bit of ice cream wouldn't hurt. But now hurry up, please. We need to pick up the boys on our way home." Tommy was kinda wondering where they were, but he respected their privacy, so he chose not to ask.

"Hey Dad, Hi Tommy! Sorry that we're late, we met Eret and then obviously needed to talk with them for a bit." Wilbur apologized when he and Techno finally got in the car.

"No problem, we didn't wait for to long. Was everything good at your session, Techno?" Tommy had no clue, what Phil was talking about.

"Yeah, it was okay. I felt better, knowing that Will was just outside." Tommy came to the conclusion, that it was probably therapy they were talking about.

And don't get him wrong, he absolutely respected people going to therapy. But everything spoken in Techno's monotone voice was really something else. He was trying so much not to laugh right now.

When they arrived at the house, Phil quickly pulled him to the side. "Tommy? I thought you would maybe like to try out therapy too? It might help with your panic attacks and stuff." Tommy really appreciated the thought, but he didn't actually need therapy, as long as his weird powers left him alone, he was all good.

"Thanks for asking, but I don't need that." "You sure? You could just try it out, and if you don't like it, we can just leave it." Phil tried to convince him.

"No, I really don't need it." Tommy remained where he stood.

"Okay. But if you change your opinion, you can just tell me and we can get that sorted out." Phil gave him a reassuring smile.

"Can we go inside now? I really need to do my homework." Tommy asked.

Phil excused himself because he still needed to do something and Tommy went into his room. He did everything on homework he had and decided he could go to bed without dinner.

Not his best idea, he thought, as he was now lying awake at like 3 am and was just so hungry.

Despite the feeling that wouldn't end good, he snuck out of his room and the hallway along. Under Wilbur's door you could still see light and Tommy tried to be even more quiet.

When he eventually got to the kitchen, he wasn't sure if he could risk it to flick the light switch. In the end, he decided not to.

As he was making his way to the fridge, he bumped against the table and the vase with the pretty flowers rolled down. But of course, two centrimetres over the floor, it stopped. After that it just flew back to its usual spot.

Tommy wanted to cry. This wasn't something that should happen everyday, it shouldn't even happen at all.

His hunger was now gone too, so he just crept back to bed and tried to sleep a little more.

Chapter Text

Tommy felt like shit.

Because of the 'incident' in the night, he was really tired and weak. In the morning, he was an asshole to everyone and they argued pretty much the whole time. His teachers yelled at him because he wasn't paying attention at all and he ignored Ranboo and Tubbo in favor of sleeping the whole of lunch break.

After that, he felt a little bit better though. He apologized to his friends and promised to buy all of them ice cream in the afternoon.

"You sure about that, Tommy? You don't need to waste your money like that, we know that you don't have much." Ranboo tried to convince him.

"It's okay, bossman! I'd love to buy ice cream for you two and it's not even that expensive." Tommy wasn't going to let them change his mind, he already made his decision.

"Alright, I still don't like you spending your money on us, but if you really want to, I guess I can't do anything about it." Ranboo finally gave in.

After school ended, the three of them made their way to the park. Tommy bought them their ice cream and they went to Ranboo and his favourite bench in the park.

"Hey, Ranboo? You know Wilbur, don't you? Does that guy look like him to you?" Tommy asked his friend.

"Yeah, I guess? Why are you so confused because of this? I mean, he probably has friends and likes to spend time with them too. There's even Niki! We should go greet them." Ranboo suggested.

"Niki is our older 'sister' by the way. She's also in the foster system and took Ranboo in, when he first got to the group home." Tommy explained to Tubbo.

They all went to Wilbur and his friend group, Niki saw them first and a bright smile enlightened her face.

"Ranboo! And Tommy! I didn't know you wanted to go here today, what a nice surprise." She was obviously really happy to see them.

"Wait, what? You know Tommy and his friends? You could've said something when I told you about him!" Wilbur spoke. Tommy didn't know what to feel, Wilbur told his friends about him? He didn't want to be weird, so he threw that thought to a far place in his mind.

"Hey Wilbur!" Tommy greeted him with a little wave. "Niki has known us for many years already, she is kinda like the big sister we never had." He told Wilbur.

"I didn't really think of the possibility those two Tommy's could be the same person. Sorry for that, but now you know it!" Niki apologized even when nobody thought she needed to, like she always did.

A few more people came over to them, Tommy supposed that were Wilbur's other friends.

"Hey guys! That are my foster brother Tommy, and his friends Ranboo and-" "Tubbo! Hey, I didn't knew that you moved here. And already best friends with the new Watson kid! That's good, you're finally not alone anymore." One of the group interrupted Wilbur.

"Hi Schlatt! Yeah, Mum and Dad suddenly decided we needed a new start, so we came here." Tubbo said.

"You know guys, Tubbo's my little cousin! We haven't seen each other in ages though. Kinda sad if you ask me." Schlatt stated.

"Okay, cool that you know each other already! So that's Schlatt, the furry over there is Fundy, my son, and the pretty person behind them is Eret!" Wilbur explained as if that didn't sound completely insane.

"Your son?! And a furry? What the hell is wrong with you?!" Tommy asked with clear concern in his voice.

"Trust me, I'm not a fan either, but Will insists that that's the truth." Fundy told him. He really looked like a furry with the orange hair.

"I'm gonna change the topic to not confuse those kids more. Hi, I'm Eret! Just for your info, I use all pronouns so you can change between them if you want to. I don't really identify as a guy, so please refer to me as a person or other gender neutral terms. That's it." Eret told them and smiled kindly.

Wilbur hummed a nice sounding song. "Now everyone knows each other, we're gonna just chill now." He told them. Tommy felt kinda weird, like he needed to do exactly what he was told.

"Of course, Wilbur. What else would we do on such a fine summer evening?" Niki asked, trying to hold back her laugh.

Huh, he was probably the only one to feel that.

Chapter Text

Wilbur and Tommy were walking home together and talking about their lifes, a little bit of bonding didn't hurt, did it?

"Are there any more friends of mine you already know?" Wilbur asked then, probably meaning it ironically.

"Well, I don't know if you know Dream and his friends, but we're good friends. They're sadly all in foster families in other towns right now. But we still dm each other everyday over discord and we also have a group chat with everyone that has access to a laptop or something like that." Tommy told him.

"Oh, I do know Dream! He's a kind of rival to Techno, even though they've been friends for years. Yeah, I remember, Techno told me that he was fostered a few towns away. But it's not that far away, isn't it?" Wilbur questioned.

"No, it's maybe half an hour. George is also in that town, at a different family though. And Sapnap is in their neighbour town, he told us that he's very happy there, so I'm not really worried about him." Tommy noticed that he missed them all.

"Perhaps you could all meet up? I bet, Phil would be more than happy to drive you and maybe Techno there." Wilbur suggested, and it wasn't even a bad idea.

"Yeah... I think we could actually do that, now that I even have a phone! Thanks for that idea!" Tommy said clearly excited.

"No problem, Tommy. We should walk a bit faster though, I told dad we would be home by seven, and that's in three minutes." Wilbur sounded far to casually for such a big thing. Missing a curfew never ended good and Tommy had such a great afternoon, he wouldn't let anything destroy that.

"Then run, Wilbur! We could still make it, it's not even that far till home!" Tommy spoke anxious.

"Calm down. Phil won't kill us for being a few minutes late, I just don't want him to worry gratuitously." Wilbur soothed Tommy's fear.

They actually made it back exactly on time and Phil had already made dinner for everyone, so Tommy was quite happy.

"You sure, you don't want a second serving? Would be no problem at all, I know that school lunch isn't that much." Phil tried. But Tommy didn't want to seem intrusive, so he said no.

After dinner, he offered to help Wilbur with the dishes. They were chatting and it was really peaceful.

"Yeah, I don't think this is-fuck!" The glass slipped out of his wet hands. Of course, it just got back in his hands before it could hit something.

Wilbur turned to him with a concerned look on his face. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, sorry. The glass just nearly fell and I got panicked. Everything is alright." He didn't know who he tried to convince with those words.

"Well, I think you should head to bed then, you look really tired. I'll just finish the rest alone." Wilbur told him.

When Tommy was lying in his bed, he couldn't sleep because his mind was just to filled with thoughts.

Suddenly he heard steps and voices, but it was already short before midnight, so he didn't know  what they would still be doing. The front door opened and Wilbur, Techno and Phil all got out as Tommy saw from his window.

He didn't want to stalk them, so he just went back to bed and was asleep within the next few minutes.

Chapter Text

The next days passed by in a blur. Wilbur, Techno and Phil went out at night a few more times and Tommy slowly became suspicious of them.

He asked his friends what it could be, that they were doing nearly every night.

"Maybe they're in a cult and don't want you to know." Tubbo suggested, already laughing about his own joke.

"Haha. Tubs, I don't think you know how serious this is. They should tell me where they're going, I'm also a member of this household. What if I worry, when they always disappear?" Tommy asked.

"Since when do you care so much about them? You've only been there for a week and a half, you don't even know them good." Ranboo said, careful as always.

"I don't know, okay? You guys are not helpful, I'll ask the group chat after school. Maybe they'll know, what to do." Tommy told them.

Ranboo nodded, but Tubbo just looked confused. "What group chat are you talking about?" He questioned.

"Oh, that's our discord group, where everyone from the group home, who has any access to the internet, is in." Ranboo explained patient.

"I see, what a cool idea!" Tubbo exclaimed.

Tommy was explaining the whole story right now. They were all in a discord call and he hoped, they had any good suggestions.

"What about just asking them? I know Techno, and I don't think he'd be hiding something bad from you, Toms." Dream said, voice calm as ever.

"But Dreammm, that'd be so cringe! Like, they would know that I heard them going out and I would feel like a stalker." Tommy complained.

"Well, then don't ask. Maybe you could follow them when they go again." Sapnap proposed.

"Wait, that's actually a good idea! I'll do that, thanks Sap!" Tommy was really happy that Sapnap found a solution for his problem.

"That is not a good idea, Tommy. But I know, I can't change your mind anymore, so good luck with that plan." Dream submitted.

Later that evening, Tommy heard the well-known whisper and the steps to the front door. He was already fully dressed and just waited till they all got out of the house, so he could follow them quietly.

When he finally saw them again on the road, after five minutes just running behind them (they were really fast!), he quickly slowed down his pace.

They were walking for maybe twenty minutes now and Tommy was getting tired, so he just stopped for 30 seconds. When he looked up again, his foster family was gone.

He searched them for perhaps ten minutes, and then he saw something strange. A few green particles behind an old house, so he snuck back there.

And then Tommy saw them. Phil, Wilbur and Techno just casually standing there, while a few sticks flew around them. Wilbur was the first one to see him.

"Oh, shit! We can explain that, Tommy!"

Chapter Text

"Before we start all of this, I think we should go home where it's a bit more private." Phil quickly spoke.

Tommy reluctantly agreed and they all went back to the house, where he waited in the living room, while the others talked in the kitchen.

They all came to him then. "Hey Tommy. We decided that we need to tell you about this because you deserve to know. But, you can't tell anyone about this, not even your best friends. You understand?" Phil stated.

"I promise not to tell another soul what I saw." Tommy snickered. Wilbur just groaned. "A Hamilton reference? Please, this is serious."

So no jokes then? Alright, he could work with that. "Sorry, but I actually promise, I don't think it's a necessarily bad thing, so I won't tell anyone." He said honestly.

"Okay, thank you. It's really complicated to explain but basically we have superpowers or something like that." Phil was joking, right?

"You what now? Superpowers like in Spiderman? That's not possible." Tommy didn't believe them, even though the 'incidents' that happened around or to him, where probably also some kind of powers.

"Yeah, it is though." Wilbur said. "We know it doesn't make sense, we're not even related, but it's the truth. I guess it's just completely random, why we all have them." He explained.

"So if you actually have powers, what can you do?" Tommy asked. "I'm really curious now."

"Well, I've got wings and I have telekinesis, which means I can move things with my thoughts. That's what you saw earlier with the green particles." Phil told him.

"But I can't see your wings?" Tommy was confused. "That's because I can hide them for whatever reason." With those words Phil stilled for a moment and then a pair of beautiful, majestic black wings appeared behind his back and it was like they were always there.

"Those are really pretty! They fit you, you know?" Tommy exclaimed. "Thank you, Toms." Phil smiled and Tommy didn't even mind the nickname, which usually only his closest friends were allowed to use.

"Yeah, and if I sing or even just hum, after that I can control people with my words for a short time. It's basically mind control." Wilbur added and now it all made sense to Tommy.

"So that was the weird feeling I got, when you said that we should just all chill in the park? You controlled your friends?" Tommy was pretty shocked.

"Will! You know that you're not allowed to do that!" Phil angrily said. "Yeah, but I knew that Schlatt would start a fight with someone, he was in the mood that day, I just wanted to have fun with my friends. I didn't have any bad intentions." Wilbur protested.

"Still, you can't just force your friends to do something! That's not a good thing to do! Don't ever do that again." Phil was scarily calm now.

"Okay, okay. Sorry, I'm sorry, yeah? I won't do it again." Wilbur profusely apologized.

Then Techno spoke up and Tommy realized, he didn't say a single word the whole evening. "To interrupt that, I'll tell you of my powers, which are so much better than both of theirs. I'm really strong and my wounds heal way faster than normally." 

"Yeah, we always say 'Technoblade never dies' because of that." Wilbur giggled, having seemingly recovered from the fear of Phil.

Tommy was stunned. He thought that he was the only one and now he learned that his whole family also got powers, which was a really creepy coincidence. He decided, he still wouldn't tell them, he was really scared of their reaction.

"Okay, that was much for one evening. We're all gonna go to bed now, tomorrow is a saturday so no one gets up before atleast eight. After that we can all talk and clear up any remaining questions on your side, Tommy." Phil stated.

"I just have one last question before we all go. What were you always doing outside?" Tommy asked.

"Well, we need to train, so we have full control over our powers." Phil explained to him. "Good night now."

When Tommy laid in his bed, he thought about that last remark of Phil. It explained so much to him, those weird things happened because he never trained and didn't have any control over his powers. He decided that he would need a fake hobby, so he could train without them noticing.

With that plan in mind, he fell asleep.

Chapter Text

After a sleepless night, they all sat at breakfast the next morning. When Tommy had finished his food, he got ready to ask all of his questions.

"Wait, I need to ask something. Are there other people like u- eh you?" Hopefully his slip up had gone unnoticed, that'd be an awful lot to explain and they probably wouldn't even like him anymore.

Techno carefully swallowed his cereal and began to talk. "Not ones that we know of, but of course, there could be other humans who also have some kind of special ability."

"Oh, okay. And since when do you have your powers?" Tommy asked.

"We all got them when we were around ten years old, and after Phil adopted us two, he quickly realized that we also have powers, so he trained us." Wilbur explained.

Another question came to his mind. "Hey Techno, did you have any serious injuries already, and what do they look like now?"

"Well, you can see my scars, don't you? For example, one time I spilled boiling water all over my hand, it healed pretty fast, but my whole hand is now scarred. And when I was in a fight, a few years ago, some dude pulled a knife and now I have this big scar across my face." Techno answered.

"Oh, that's a shitty move. Did he atleast get a good punishment?" Tommy hoped so.

"I'm not sure if you'll find that the fairest, but he did get expelled from the school for a week. In my opinion, he deserved a more severe punishment." Wilbur explained.

"I hate things that are as unfair as this. Why can't they just expell such people forever?" Tommy complained.

"I don't know, that's just the school system for you, I guess." Techno spoke.

"I hate that. Anyways, I still have one more, really important question for Phil." Phil's head piped up at the mention of his name, he didn't really paid attention until now. "Can you actually fly with those wings, or are they just there for aesthetic purposes?"

"Mate, why would I have wings, that aren't usable? Of course, I can fly with them." He laughed.

"Oh, sorry! How would I know that?" Tommy defended himself.

"It's alright, Tommy. No need to get so defensive. I was just making a little bit fun of you." Phil still continued laughing.

"Yeah, Tommy. Don't get angry over the old man, he doesn't know what he's doing anymore. He'll forget this conversation in an hour, or so." Wilbur started joking.

"Yup, it's gonna be so sad when Dad... you know." That was the first time, Tommy saw Techno actually laughing and making a joke.

"Oh, come on now! I'm not old, you're just all teens!"

Chapter Text

"Where are we even going?" Tommy asked, having been guided the whole time they were walking since he got woken up at 8 am.

"That's a surprise, Toms! You're gonna love it, I bet!" Wilbur excitedly told him.

"Yeah, it's gonna be great! Just wait and see." Phil added. Tommy really didn't know what they were doing outside on a sunday morning.

After five more minutes, they got to a little, lovely bakery. Tommy could see Niki standing behind the counter, probably working there. Why didn't he know that, was he listening so badly to her?

"Let's go in, shall we?" Phil offered to them.

When they were inside, Niki immediately came up to them and greeted everyone. Tommy quickly hugged her, she was Niki after all.

"Hey guys! Nice to see all of you finally in one place again! Are you doing a family day? Because that'd be awesome, I'm so happy that Tommy found a good family in the end. I was really worried about him, since he never stuck at one family for long." Niki said, voice going a little sad at the end.

"Hi Niki! I didn't know you worked here, couldn't you have told us? And to the family day thing, I don't know myself, they didn't tell me anything on the way here." Tommy answered, he was really glad that Niki was here, he missed seeing her everyday.

"Yes, sorry. I haven't been working here for too long, but I did plan on inviting Ranboo and you here. Anyways, what can I bring you today?" She asked, suddenly sounding way more cheerful.

"Well, since we're here for breakfast, I'm gonna take a coffee and a croissant, please." Phil ordered. "And yes, Tommy, this is a family day."

He never had a family day, what do you do on those days? He began slightly panicking, and started to ramble. "Well, what do I do then? What am I supposed to do? Should I even do anything, or should I just leave it? What if I can't even do that right? I never do anything right! Oh, fuck fuck fuck-"

"-my, Toms. Hey Tommy, calm down, okay?" That was the voice of Niki. "Could you please tell me five things you see, love?" So he was probably having a panik attack, which he didn't even notice.

"I see you and-" He blinked away the tears, he didn't know streamed down his face. "And I see T-Techno and Wilbur, and I see Phil? And... I don't know!" He gave up, unsure of the last thing.

"It's okay, that was still good! You're doing great, Toms. Can you try and tell me four things you can touch right now?" She asked in her sweet voice.

Tommy tried to slow his breath down. "I can feel the tears on my face, and the fabric of my hoodie, the chair and your touch on my arm."

"That's perfect, you can do it! Now, please tell me three things you hear." He knew that he could do it, he only needed to hold on a bit longer, so Niki would be satisfied with his well being.

"I hear my voice, the other people in here and the buzzing of the lights." Tommy answered, already feeling much more like himself. Shit, he just had a panic attack in a bakery, why was he so difficult? And that only because they were talking about a family day, which he would probably mess up, like he proved only mere seconds after that thought with embarassing his family in the public. They weren't going to like him now, were they?

"-zoning out again. Tommy, can you hear me?" Niki asked, clearly more concerned now if that was even possible. "Yeah, sorry. I think, I'm good now, but thanks for helping, Niki. I really don't deserve you." Tommy said honestly.

"That's not true, Tommy. You're a great kid and I'm sure, Niki knows that as good as I do. You're really okay?" Phil asked, Tommy completely forgot about their existence in the past few minutes.

"Yes, everything alright. Where are Techno and Wilbur now? Weren't they still here, like five seconds ago?" Tommy really questioned his sense of time.

"They've been gone for about five minutes already, but I guess you didn't really process that. They wanted to get you something sweet, so you would be happy, I think?" Phil said, not sounding that sure himself.

Thankfully, in that moment, his older brothers got out of the lane before the counter and made their way to the table.

"Guys, you do know that I was supposed to take your order, and that you should not have to do this?" Niki pointedly asked, not seeming to happy about this whole thing.

Wilbur scratched his head sheepishly. "But you were occupied with soothing Tommy, which was really nice from you, by the way. We couldn't have handled that as good as you did, so thank you." Phil and Techno nodded to that.

"You know, I'm still here, right? It's not that dramatic, I've had panic attacks for years now and I can normally deal with them myself." Tommy told them.

"If you say so. But I really think you should see a therapist, I offered that to you already, but now you're really gonna try that out, okay? No excuses anymore." Phil stated.

"Okay, I'll try it." Tommy gave in, this panic attack was much worse, than the ones he normally had.

"Alright. Now, that that's sorted, you wanna start eating, or do I have to eat the food all by myself?" Phil sarcastically asked.

The table erupted into laughter and Tommy felt happy again.

Chapter Text

"So, everyone is ready to go now?" Phil asked, when they all had finished their breakfast. Tommy and his brothers made their way to the counter, so they could say goodbye to Niki.

"Bye Will, bye Techno! Have a great day and don't forget to do your homework tonight!" She really was like an older sister.

"And you, Tommy, should really talk to them, okay? I know, that you know most of your triggers, you don't have to be embarassed about them. If you won't tell them, things like today will happen more often, and I don't want that for you." Niki suggested, although it sounded more like a friendly worded command.

"Yeah... okay, I'll try to. Thanks for helping again and I'm gonna see you tomorrow, at lunch maybe? Bye Niki!" Tommy said.

"Alright, we can do that. See you then!" Niki called after Tommy, who was already following his family outside.

"Where are we going now?" Tommy asked Phil, being his normal, curious self.

"We're not telling you, you'll have to see it yourself, I guess." Wilbur said, already laughing again.

"Please tell me already, I wanna knowww." Tommy whined.

"Nope, not happening, just wait you impatient child!" Techno told him, even he was laughing now.

When Phil suddenly stopped, Tommy knew that they probably arrived at their destination.

It was a huge, empty field and Tommy was completely confused as to what they wanted to do here.

The field was in the middle of some random forest, so no people anywhere near. "You sure we're right here?" He asked in disbelief.

"Yes, Tommy. We thought, maybe you wanted to see our powers in action sometime and this field is the perfect place to show them to you." Phil explained, while the other two nodded along.

"Actually? That's so cool, I bet it's gonna be amazing!" Tommy was very happy with this. The best was that he wasn't expected to do anything, besides complimenting their abilities, so he couldn't really do much wrong.

"Nice to see that you're excited about this. I think, I could maybe start?" Techno spoke up. When no one said anything against it, he continued. "As you know, I'm really strong and I heal fast. But I don't wanna hurt myself for this, so you'll only see the stong part." With those words, he lifted Phil and Wilbur without any problems of the ground, which was really impressive.

Wilbur instantly started complaining about that. "I did not agree to this! Put me down again!" Everyone but him started laughing.

"Okay, that's enough. My turn!" Wilbur started humming a song. "Put me down, Techno! And Phil too, then start dancing." Techno's eyes became really weird, and he fullfilled all his orders.

"Boys! Stop teasing each other, this is for Tommy!" Phil scolded them lightly. "Well, it only leaves me now, I guess." He then let a little stick fly, which was pretty cool. After that, his wings appeared and Phil himself started to fly. Tommy's mouth flew open and he couldn't seem to close it.

"Woah! That's so pogchamp!" He was mesmerized by the flying and suddenly, the ground under his feet disappeared and he was flying too. Which was not good at all.

Suddenly, he was on the ground again and everything was like before again. Thankfully, Techno and Wilbur were talking among themselves, so they didn't notice and Phil was still in the air.

Fuck, that were so many close calls in the last time, he was getting anxious. Tommy really needed to train.

Chapter Text

After a nice afternoon, everyone went to their own rooms to do homework and study. Tommy finished after only an hour because he did most things on friday already. He decided it wouldn't hurt to look if his brothers were still doing their work.

He knocked on Techno's door first and got permission to enter. "Hey Techno, have you done everything already?" He asked. "Yes, wasn't that much, I'll only need to revision a little and then I can chill for the rest of today."

"That's good, maybe we could all watch a movie after dinner?" "Of course, why not? That'd be pretty cool. Well, bye then Tommy, I still need to study."

Then he went to Wilbur's room, but he didn't answer to his knock. "Will? You in there, bud?" Still no answer.

"I'll come in now, yeah?" When he entered the room, Wilbur was sitting on the ground, desperately tucking at his curls.

"Hey Will, Wilbur! Are you okay?" Tommy tried to get through to his older brother. Will looked up to him with tearful eyes. "I can't do this, Tommy! I just can't concentrate enough to do this shitty work!" "I don't know why, but please calm down!" Tommy wanted to soothe him. "It doesn't work, okay? I just can't!"

Tommy thought about it for a few seconds, then he had an idea why Wilbur had this problem. "Did you take your meds today?" Wilbur seemed to realize something. "Oh shit! I didn't, that could be the reason. Could you grab them for me from the bathroom real quick? Then I can do my homework now." Wilbur said.

"Yeah, and when you're done,we can all watch Up, okay?" Tommy asked. "Cool, we can do that."

"Phil, you wanna watch with us? Then the family day can end with my favourite movie, Up."

"Up is your favourite movie? You really are a child" Wilbur cackled, now in a good mood again.

"There's nothing wrong with that, Mr. I-eat-sand. And yeah, I can watch with you. I'll go and make Popcorn, alright?" Phil went to the kitchen and came back three minutes later with two big bowls of popcorn and a few other snacks.

They then watched Up and Tommy felt happier than he did the last months. This day had been a great sucess.

Chapter Text

"Will! We're gonna be late again, please hurry up!" Tommy called through the house.

"Yes, sorry! I can't find my phone, do you know where it is?" Wilbur asked, while running down the stairs.

Techno came out of the kitchen. "Here, it was still beside your coffee on the table." He handed the phone over to Wilbur. "Thanks, Tech!"

"Good, now that that's settled, can we please go? I have Ms. Johnson now, and I can't be late to her lesson again, she'll kill me!" Tommy groaned.

"We could always just skip or call in sick." Wilbur suggested innocently.

"You're forgetting about Dad, he'd never let us home alone again if he found out." Techno countered.

"Okay, I get it. You don't wanna go to school and everything, but I have to be there. Today is gonna be the first day of our group project, and when I'm not there, Ranboo and Tubbo will have to do it with somebody else. They wouldn't talk to me for the next weeks if that happened!" Tommy said.

"But-" Wilbur tried to reply. "Can you just stop the drama already? We need to get going now, Will." Techno interrupted him.

"Alright, okay. Then let's go, guys." Wilbur gave in.

They weren't late in the end, although Tommy had to practically run to his class.

"Hi! Tommy, why do you sweat so much? Did you run the whole way or something?" Tubbo laughed and even Ranboo giggled a bit.

"Good morning, class! Be quiet now, I want to start the lesson." Ms. Johnson interrupted their conversation.

"I'll tell you after class, I need to listen to this." Tommy put his friends off.

"Tubbo? Where are you?" Ranboo and Tommy were searching for him because he wasn't at lunch.

They found him sitting under a tree, not looking like he heard their calls. "Hey, Tubs! What are you doing here? You were gone as soon as the bell rang." Tommy said concerned about his friend. "Yeah, and we couldn't find you anymore, we were really worried." Ranboo mentioned.

"What? Oh, yes, sorry. I just zoned out, I didn't even notice that I walked away." Tubbo answered.

"No problem, big man! But please tell us next time. Oh god, I sound like Phil. Thank you, Tubbo, for bringing out that side in me." Tommy remarked sarcastically.

"You're absolutely welcome, Tommy!" Tubbo replied.

"Uhh, not to disrupt your fun, but could we maybe go to lunch now?" Ranboo asked. "I'm actually pretty hungry."

"Of course, I'm hungry too." Tommy agreed. They started walking towards the cafeteria, but he noticed, that Tubbo wasn't coming along.

"You coming, Tubso?" Tubbo seemed to tear himself away from his thoughts. "Yeah, sorry."

Chapter Text

"Don't you think that was a bit weird earlier?" Tommy looked at Ranboo, searching for approval. They were waiting for Tubbo to come back from his locker after school.

"Uhh- I mean, it's still Tubbo, who we're talking about. Not that weird for him, I think. We haven't known him for that long, we don't really know every facet of him, and maybe it's completely normal for him to just zone out for a short time." Ranboo said, sounding unsure of his words.

"Whatever, I'll still look out for other things like that, maybe Tubbo has a few dark secrets." Tommy said, knowing he was making a ridiculous suggestion.

Ranboo snorted at his words. "Oh, of course, Tommy! And I can fly! As if!" Tommy knew, that his idea was absurd and he was barely holding in the laughter himself.

"What are we laughing about? Also sorry for being late, some parent asked me for the way to the principal's office and as nice as I am, I explained it to them." Tubbo was suddenly standing beside his friends. "Now, come on! We still need to do our homework before we can play minecraft, and you know how I struggle with english." They recently found out that he was dyslexic. But not because Tubbo told them, no, Tommy and Ranboo had done research because they noticed Tubbo's problems and then confronted him about it. He then told them, that he knew of his dyslexia and just didn't want to tell them.

Now, Tubbo and Ranboo were already walking a few steps ahead of him because he was deep in his thoughts. He scrambled to catch up to them, before he was completely alone.

"Guys! Why aren't you waiting for me?" He called out. His friends both came to a quick stop. "Sorry Tommy! We thought, you were right behind us." Ranboo explained, while Tubbo was just quietly giggling.

"S' okay. Not that I wanted to spend time with you anyways." Tommy feigned indifference.

"Don't act like your actually hurt, I know that you're just tryna be cool." Ranboo saw right through him.

Tubbo bursted out laughing at Tommy's betrayed expression and they both joined him quickly.

"Can we please just go now? I have loads of work waiting for me, and I wanted to still play a little with you, before I have to go home later." Tommy said, now genuinly.

"Yeah, we'll hurry now, so Tommy won't be sad when he lies in his bed tonight." Tubbo was clearly mocking him, but Tommy didn't care, since they still both walked faster.

Suddenly, Ranboo tripped and Tommy saw, that his head would hit the pavement, which could not end good. But the grass seemed to grow over the hard floor, until it was probably much more soft.

Ranboo hit exactly that part, and even though he still let out a short 'ow!', it didn't look to bad.

"What was that? I'm pretty sure, there was stone just a second ago, but now there's only dirt and grass." Ranboo wondered, after he sat up again. Tubbo was already by his side, checking for possible injuries.

"I don't know, big man. But I'm sure, you just saw something, that wasn't there. What you described, wouldn't make sense at all." Tubbo reassured him. "Atleast you don't look like you have anything more serious than a few bruises."

Tommy made sure to keep quiet through that conversation, only nodding his head when it felt fitting.

They continued their way after that, and surely as Tommy turned his head a last time, he saw the grass retreating again, leaving behind the pavement that was there before.

Shit, it was getting harder to hide his powers, he really needed a space to train.

Chapter Text

"So you wanna play basketball? I mean, I don't have anything against it, but you don't really seem like the person to do sports, and then not even with your friends." Phil said,  probably wary of his weird request.

"Yes, I actually want to play, maybe I'll even find some more friends! Also, what do you mean, I don't seem like a person to do sports? I'm the biggest man, and so I have to love sports, which I obviously do!" Tommy exclaimed, although he really hated anything that contained a little more moving than walking.

Phil only laughed at that. "Okay, so you'll be at practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30pm to 7pm, right?" After Tommy's affirmation, he continued. "Good, then you can still eat with us and it's not too late." Phil seemed pretty satisfied with him.

"Cool, I'll just go and tell Ranboo and Tubbo, bye!"

He didn't think, Phil would be so easy to lie to, but he hadn't even asked about any more details, he just believed, that Tommy was telling the truth. Well, why shouldn't he, his family thought he was just a normal kid. They didn't know about his ability.

The next day was a Tuesday, and Tommy left the house maybe half an hour before his 'practice started. He had already found a place where he could train, an abandoned house, which wasn't too old or creepy, it was still pretty comfortable to stay in, and he also planned to make it a lot more nice with blankets, pillows and everything.

Getting there wasn't too much of a pain, it took him like 20 minutes. "Soo, what am I supposed to do now that I'm here?" He asked into the empty house.

"Right, houses don't speak. How do I even activate my powers?" Why was he talking to himself?

"I would say, you need to concentrate and imagine, maybe? I'm not sure though, my ability is always there." Came suddenly a voice from somewhere. "Who said that?!" Tommy yelled.

A man with green hair and a big gas mask over the mouth stepped out of the shadows. "Sorry for scaring you. My name is Sam, and I happened to see your friend falling the other day. I saw the grass growing and knew, there's another kid with untrained powers here." The strange man, Sam, explained.

"Okayyy, not creepy at all. But what powers are you talking about? I'm just a normal person." He couldn't tell the other that his suspects were right, that'd be too dangerous for him.

"Please, you don't have to pretend to be dumber than you are. I also have an ability, and a few other people I know have one too. You're not alone, okay?" Sam sounded really nice right now, but Tommy couldn't let his guard down.

"I really don't know. Are you like a big marvel fan or something?" He tried his best to sound unsure of himself.

"You don't need to lie, kid. I know that I'm right." This guy was far too confident for Tommy's liking.

"Okay, okay, yeah, you're right, jeez!" Tommy admitted, and regretted it already the second after. "It's been happening for years now and it just makes everything harder. Yes, it prevents some accidents from being too painful, but whenever a family noticed it, they dropped me."

Sam looked at him with pity. "So you're a foster kid? Well, I guess I have to train you now, my partner would never forgive me not helping you."

Chapter Text

"To help you, I need to know what you've experienced with your ability until now. Could you tell me that?" Sam asked.

Tommy was still hesitant. "Yeah, I can try. So it started a few years ago, I think? Uhh- pretty sure when I was like 8 or 9, the first 'incident' happened. It's really something completely weird, always happens when I'm tripping or an important thing falls down, then sometimes the ground just rises up, so the fall isn't too long, I guess? Or it's like when my friend fell, the ground changes it's texture to make sure, it doesn't hurt too much." He tried explaining it to his best ability.

"Okay, with what you said now, I think I know what your powers could maybe be. It sounds like the earth just does everything so you are comfortable, or so you don't get in trouble." Sam suggested.

Maybe that could actually be it. "Wait! That makes so much sense! The countless times where a vase nearly got destroyed because of me, but then something happened to save it... Thank you, Sam! You're already helping me so much!" Tommy was really excited, they've met 5 minutes ago and yet he has already learned much about his ability.

"Yeah, happy to help you, kiddo. But that's not the end, even though you now know your ability, you still don't know how to control it. And that is why I'm actually here, you're just doing damage to yourself and us others with powers when your ability only does what it wants. Someone could notice it and suddenly you're being experimented on by the government." Sam obviously tried frightening him and it sadly worked.

"Yes, I know. But I don't know how I could learn to control it, you know? Like it just happens sometimes and that's about it." Tommy said.

"I'm gonna help you with that one, uhh- what's even your name?" Right, he hadn't told Sam his name yet. But he still didn't really trust the man, completely understandable if you'd ask him. So he tried to quickly think of another name, and then he remembered Techno's love for greek mythology, how he compared him to a well known figure of it. "It's Theseus."

"Oh, your parents were nerds then, I assume?" Sam laughed.

"Yeahh, they kinda were." They absolutely weren't, they hated everything that wasn't proven by science. "Now that you know something about me, you should tell me a little about yourself." Tommy suggested or more like ordered, although that wasn't something that would work, with Sam being an adult and all that.

"Alright, just so you don't think I'm a creep. I'm Sam and 25 years old. My ability is kinda like the one creepers in minecraft have, I bet you play minecraft, right? Anyways, if I get irritated with someone or something, a thing close to me will blow up or atleast start smoking."

"And what's the mask for?" Tommy asked.

"The normal air isn't that good for my lungs, yeah? I mean, I can survive, but it's not really comfortable for me, so I wear this mask, which filters the air." Sam explained.

"Oh, that's sad. I wanna know more facts about you now!" Tommy didn't hide his curiousity anymore.

"Ehh, I'm not that interesting." Sam rejected his request.

"And the partner you talked about earlier? That sounds interesting to me!" Tommy offered.

Sam's face immediately became much more softer. "Yeah, that's Ponk. The best partner you could imagine." Tommy started to smile, looking at the man, who was obviously in love. "But that's enough, you still need to train. Maybe you'll meet Ponk one day, I know they're probably not gonna leave me any other choice. Now go, stand there in the middle of the room."

Tommy made his way to the free space with enough room to move. He tried remembering what Sam had already told him, but the man apparently decided to tell him another time.

"So, please close your eyes and imagine the feeling you get when your powers get activated. Now, just let yourself fall forward, your powers should activate to save you." Tommy decided to just trust the man now, so he did as he was told.

"Ouch."

Well, that didn't work at all.

"Okay, sorry about that, Theseus. You good?" After a weak nod, he continued. "Again, sorry. I really thought that would work, I guess you can't just pretend. It's getting pretty late already, we can meet again in a few days, I'll have a solution until then. Here's my phone number, just text." Sam put a small paper on the drawer next to the door and was gone as suddenly as he appeared.

Tommy tried to lift himself up, and promptly groaned at the pain everywhere. That would be a hard walk home.

"What the fuck happened to you, Tommy?"

Chapter Text

"Hey Phil... You know, we were just playing basketball and having fun, nothing explicitly bad happened, I just tripped a few times. Don't worry about it, that was my first time and I'll hopefully get better." Tommy sheepishly explained.

"So, no one mugged you or beat you up? 'Cause you sure as hell look like it. But actually, are you okay, Tommy?"

Was it really that bad? He didn't think Phil's reaction would sound so caring (was that how parents were supposed to react?).

"Yeah, I'm totally fine. Can we eat dinner now or am I too late? I'm fucking hungry, Philza Minecraft." He stated, already back with his usual behaviour.

"How did you come up with this name for me? You know what? I don't wanna know. And yes, we're gonna eat dinner soon, I got us pizza." Phil said.

Tommy's stomach rumbled at those words and Phil had the audacity to laugh. What a prick. (Tommy wasn't grinning, not at all.)

"Are you gonna come or...? I mean, we can eat the whole pizza alone, but I thought you also wanted something." Wilbur called from the kitchen.

"Dickhead! Of course we're coming, why would I willingly miss pizza? You two don't get to eat my food!" Tommy screamed back.

"Why do you have a bloody nose, Toms? Did something happen at practice?" Wilbur asked, obviously concerned for him.

Why did they all care so much about him?

"I didn't even realize... I can go and clean it right now, be right back!" Tommy replied and went to the bathroom.

"Wait! I'll go and help you, I've got experience with such things!" Techno said and followed him without waiting for an answer.

Once Techno closed the door behind them, Tommy spoke up. "I don't need your help, Techno. I can do this myself."

"I know, every foster kid needs to be able to do that. I just have a question. Are you sure that this was an accident? You can tell me if someone doesn't like you and bullies you. They'll regret it." Techno said, a dangerous tone underlying his voice.

Tommy felt bad. Techno obviously cared for him and wanted to help, but Tommy lied to all of them.

"No, you don't need to kill someone for me." He let out a little forced laugh, but the older seemed to buy it. "Seriously, there's no one hurting me, I'm just really clumsy and also, but don't tell anybody 'bout it, I'm not that athletic."

Techno looked pretty relieved after he said that and even huffed out something similar to a laugh. He wordlessly started to help Tommy, cleaned his nose and all.

Someone knocked on the door. "Boys? Are you done now? The pizza's gettin' cold." Phil called.

Techno questionly looked at his little brother and after a nod of approval, he opened the door. "Yeah, we're coming."

"Don't want you to miss your bedtime, old man." Tommy added, snickering.

"Stop that! I am not old, you're just all really young!" Phil countered as they walked to the living room, where Will was just on his phone, waiting for them.

"Oh, wow! You're finally here! Phil, you sure that you're not getting old? Took you a long time for that short walk." Wilbur said, trying and failing to hide his laugh.

"Honestly Phil, you can tell us if you have problems because of your age. We all know you're not the youngest anymore." Even Techno had joined in the bickering now.

"Okay, I get it. I'm old and you're all babies. Can we eat now?" Phil replied, a defeated look on his face.

"Yes, but only 'cause I'm also hungry." The others agreed with Tommy's answer.

"Could we maybe watch Up?"

Techno and Wilbur groaned at that, but Phil just put the movie on.

"Thank you!"

Chapter Text

"Are you guys free this saturday? I wanted to see you again, it's been so long already." Tommy asked during the weekly discord call.

"I think I've got time. Let me look to be sure though." Dream said. "Oh wait, I've got a date with my boyfriend on saturday, could I bring him?"

"Ooohhh, a boyfriend? Interesting..." Tommy teased, laughter from the others in the call following his remark. "But yeah, why not? I wanna know the mysterious boy."

"Okay, if Dream gets to bring George, I wanna bring Karl and Quackity too!" Sapnap stated.

"They're your boyfriends? How come all of you are in a relationship before me?" Tommy whined.

"That's just not the truth. I'm still as lonely as I was when you last saw me."

"Of course, you're Purpled. I didn't expect anything else." He answered, already texting Techno to ask if he could drive him and Ranboo to their meet up.

"Hey! Now you're being a dickhead!" "I am no such thi-"

"Boys! Could you please stop arguing about such dumb things like this? Besides, I'm also single and to my knowledge Ranboo is aswell. Not that it matters, just be happy for your friends." Niki's stern voice cut through their playful fight.

"Oh right! Ranboo is the loneliest of all of us... let's bully him for that!" The only response on Ranboo's side was a tired groan.

"Enough of that, to get back to the original topic, are we all good for saturday?" After Dream's question various noises of agreement could be heard. "Perfect. Where do we even wanna meet?"

"Maybe the beach? I know that in my town there's a pretty good one." Sapnap suggested.

"Doesn't sound like a bad idea, I like that. Yeah, just send the location." Tommy said. "I think we could meet after lunch, so like at 3 pm or something."

"Good, now that that's settled, I do have a question." Ranboo piped up. "Tommy, you didn't tell us how stalking your family went. Are they secretly criminals?"

Fuck, now he had to lie again. What could he say? It's not like they would believe him any dumb excuse. After a short pause to think, he had a believable story. It really came in clutch that he was such a great liar.

"Ughh- it turned out that they planned a sort of welcome for me. A family day... I sorta had a panic attack because of it, but Niki was there and helped! In the end it all went pretty well though." He explained.

Dream's concerned voice came through his headphones. "You sure you're okay? I mean, it's good that Niki was there, but why did that even happen? I thought you were feeling safe with them?"

"Everything alright, Dream. I am feeling safe with them, I just didn't know how to act on a family day, it was a new occurrence to me." Tommy soothed the worries of his pseudo brother.

He then heard something coming from downstairs, sounded like Phil called him.

"Guys, I gotta go now! Was nice talking to you, but Phil wants something from me and I don't want to leave him waiting. Bye! See you on saturday!" And without waiting for their responses, he left the call.

"On my way, Phil!"

Chapter Text

I'm really sorry about this but I have to take a break from writing :( haven't been in the best place mentally recently. I don't know when I'll be back but I hope I can post the next chapter in not too long? Anyways, stay safe out there while I'm gone please <33

Chapter Text

"Tommy!" Huh, looked like their friends were already there. Sapnap was waving frantically for them to see him.

"Thanks for driving us, Techno. I don't know if you wanna say hi to Dream, but you can just drive again if you want to." He told his brother.

"Eh, I'm fine. I'll see him in a week anyways, don't bother. Just text me when you need a ride home." And Techno was gone again.

"Sometimes he's kinda weird... You wanna go and greet the others now?" Ranboo asked.

"I'm just gonna ignore that , by the way true, comment you made about my brother. But yeah, let's go to them." He answered.

There were a few people he didn't know, but they were probably the partners from his friends.

Suddenly they were both pulled into a bone crushing hug. "Good to see you two again." Sapnap said softly. "Hey Sap, missed you." Tommy replied, smiling to himself. Ranboo also greeted him and then they stepped to the side because there was Dream. Dream, who was one of the first to feel like real family to him, Dream, who he loved like a brother. Dream, who just held him and didn't let go.

He probably would have done so for a very long time if there hadn't been another voice. "If you don't let me hug Tommy, I'll fucking tackle you. Out of the way Dream, here I come!"

Dream practically jumped away from Tommy before Purpled completely body slammed him. "Hiya Tommy! Nice to finally see you again!"

"Hi Purpled... I'm really glad too. But could you please get off? You're still on me." His friend grumbled in protest but did stand up to greet Ranboo.

Niki then walked over to him. "You okay? You seem pretty tired, is something keeping you up? You know that you can talk to me."

"Everything is totally fine Niki! I've just started playing basketball and it's really exhausting, still fun though." He hated lying to his friends but he also couldn't exactly tell them the thruth.

"Why are you two whispering to each other? You can do that later, for now you have to meet a few people Tommy!" Sapnap interrupted them.

"Totally!" Dream chimed in to the conversation. He then pulled a brunette guy with big goggles into his arms. "That's George! He's colorblind so please don't be mean!"

"And I'm also your boyfriend! You always seem to forget that when I met your friends or family, like with your foster parents-" Dream elbowed him in the side. "Yeah, anyways... Hey Tommy, I'm really happy that I get to finally meet you! I've already heard so much about you from Dream, he always talks about 'Tommy, who is like a brother to him' and so on." Tommy was slightly overwhelmed by the type of guy George was but he seemed nice enough. Also, Dream talked about him? Since when?

"Uhh okayyy, I'll just ignore that? But hi George, it's pretty poggers to meet you too!"

"Okay, you're done with getting to know each other. Karl! Big Q! Could you come over please?" Sapnap shouted across the beach.

Two boys looked up and jogged to their little group. Both weren't the tallest, one had light brown hair and a colorful hoodie on, while the other was wearing a beanie over his black hair.

"Hello! I'm Karl and that's Quackity. We're Sapnap's boyfriends and you must be Tommy! So cool to finally see you in person and not just on photos from Sap." The one with the light brown hair -Karl- enthusiastically said.

"Hey dude! It's great to see that you're real and not just some guy Sapnap made up to pretend he's got friends other than Dream." Quackity laughed but soon stopped when Sapnap shot him a warning glance. Tommy wasn't too sure if it was out of actual fear or just for the joke's sake, but he chose to believe that Sapnap didn't mean any actual harm to his own boyfriend.

"You know what? I'll just ignore that for now... how have you all been in the last few weeks?" Tommy asked.

"Well, I was pretty good until you decided to only talk to me every few days... But it's okay, I get it, you have a real family now." Purpled said, and although he tried to sound like he didn't care, Tommy knew that this actually bothered him.

"Look, I'm really sorry, ok? I know that was pretty shitty, but I've been so busy since I got fostered, it's just really hard to keep up with everything." He apologized and it wasn't even a lie, with his 'powers' (still weird to call them that) and all the secrets, the last few weeks had been exhausting.

The others looked a bit more understanding after that and even like they were sorry for him. Which he definitely didn't want! Why did they all just always have to pity him? It's not like their lifes were any easier.

"But you're the youngest, Toms." Oh fuck, he said that outloud, didn't he?. "We all just care for you, understand? And you shouldn't feel bad because of that and you also can't really do anything about it. We will always care." Dream explained. (And no, Tommy didn't tear up, why would you believe that?)

After that, they just chilled and had fun for the rest of the afternoon. They got to know George, Karl and Quackity better and turns out, those guys are absolutely perfect for their friend group! Sadly, all good things must come to an end eventually, so when Niki said that it had gotten really late, they all started to say their goodbyes and Tommy quickly texted Techno, so he could pick them up.

When they had dropped Ranboo off at the group home, Techno turned to Tommy. "Did you have fun today?"

"Yeah, it was good seeing them all again." Tommy smiled to himself.

Chapter Text

"Hey, Tubso! How are you doing?" Were the first words that Tommy greeted his friend with. They had wanted to hang out a little today, sadly Ranboo couldn't make it, so it'd just be them.

"Tommy!" Tubbo screamed back, he looked pretty excited to see him. "I'm doing perfect! How about we buy some ice cream to celebrate the good weather?"

Oh, how he loved ice cream. Of course, he had to say yes to that proposal, so now they were sitting on their bench in the park and eating the best ice cream of the town.

At some point, Tubbo turned to him. "I've been wanting to ask, how was your meet up with your friends last weekend? Ranboo said that you guys had fun, but what did you think?" He asked curiously.

Tommy instantly lightened up. "It was soo much fun, especially 'cause I hadn't seen most of them for quite a bit. And I missed them so much, it felt like it's been years!"

Tubbo chuckled a little to himself and then something really weird happened. Next to the bench, a little daisy grew. Just out of nowhere!

They both discovered it at the same time and just stared at it in silence for a few moments until Tommy found his voice again.

"What the fuck?! You have magic powers! Wha-"

"Be quiet! Other people might hear you... And you can't tell anyone, okay?" Tubbo interrupted, now whispering.

"Of course, I hadn't planned to. You're one of my bestfriends after all." He replied and Tubbo began to smile. "But now you have to tell me what you can do! I hope it's not just growing flowers, even tho that's pretty cool already."

"Okay. I mean, I am confused how you so quickly got to the conclusion that I have powers, but I'll tell you anyways." Tubbo began. "It all started a few years back, when I noticed that the plants in my room were growing too fast. I mean, a cactus that's supposed to take a while, should not grow completely in under a day, you know? At some point I thought, this could maybe be because of me, and not 'cause the plants are weird.

After that, I started to experiment with those powers for a while, until I was fully sure that I can grow any plant on this planet. Even under water!"

"Wow, that is so cool! Now it makes sense, that there are so many plants in your house. It's so you don't get bad at this shit!" They both started laughing and couldn't seem to stop for a few minutes. After Tommy finally stopped, he started thinking. Should he tell him? Tubbo had powers himself, and he probably wouldn't be as angry, that Tommy hadn't told him before. Wait, why was he thinking about that? He knew that everybody would hate him if they knew about those things, that Tommy could do. Tubbo's powers are harmless and nice, while the earth moves stuff for him and he didn't even have any control over it!

Nope, not happening, he didn't want to lose a good friend.

"Hey, Ranboo? You would tell me if you had magic powers, right?"

"What? Magic powers? Tommy, what are you talking about?" Ranboo spluttered. "But yeah, I guess I would tell you... I mean, I'd need to tell someone and you're the first person that comes to mind." Tommy cooed at that, hopefully Ranboo didn't notice.

"Whew, now I'm relieved." He replied. Ranboo's confusion only seemed to grow at that, which, yeah fair.

Chapter Text

It had been getting harder to hide his powers from his family. Training with Sam helped, but it wasn't enough. There had been way too many close calls in the last week. But today was especially bad. He already had met up with Sam, so he was just feeling sore after falling so much.

"Tommy, were you even listening to me?" Wilbur was talking to him, he realized.

"No, sorry. I zoned out for a bit, could you repeat that, please?"

"Yes, of course. Can you help me prepare dinner?" Wilbur asked, concern obvious in his voice.

"Yeah, I can do that." Tommy said, knowing he didn't sound normal, but being too tired to care.

"Good. You sure, you're okay? You seem a little exhausted, Toms." He continued pressing, but Tommy didn't plan on telling him.

"I'm fine, Will. Honestly, you don't have to worry that much about me. Let's just start preparing the food."

After dinner, Tommy was extremely exhausted and he needed to go to sleep, but the others wanted to watch a movie. He really didn't want to dissapoint them, so he caved in.

When trying to sit down in the living room, the couch moved on itself, so Tommy could fall on it. Shit, did they see that?

"Hey, Phil! Why are you so nice to Tommy and not to us? You could move the couch for me too!" Wilbur called to Phil, who was still in the kitchen.

"Uh no, mate. I didn't move the couch for anyone, what are you talking about?" Phil asked, walking in with a frown on his face.

"But the couch just moved for Tommy, I know that I saw that!" Wilbur said. Three heads turned to Tommy.

There was silence. His eyes widened, they knew now. Oh fuck, they knew now. They hated him, obviously. What would they do other than that? Who would love a weirdo like him? Fuck, he was alone now, he would have to go back to the group home, right when he started feeling comfortable in here. His social worker would be so mad at him-

"-me on, breath with me, Tommy. Yeah, you're doing good, just breath. Follow my voice, good." Phil was kneeling in front of him, looking concerned. Not hateful.

He was slowly calming down, but his breaths were still a bit shakey.

"You doing better now?" After Tommy's nod of affirmation, Phil continued talking. "Okay, now would you please tell us what that just was? I obviously didn't move the couch and your reaction seemed like you knew who did."

He really didn't want to tell them, but it didn't exactly look like he had a choice.

Tommy took a last deep breath. "Please don't hate me for what I'm about to tell you... I kinda also have powers, which like move the earth for me, so I don't fall when I trip and stuff-"

"You what?! What the fuck were you thinking? That's far too dangerous for just you to know! You should've atleast told one of us... I mean, you could've hurt yourself or others!" Wilbur instantly started yelling.

Phil and Techno looked far too shocked to say anything, so Tommy was completely alone. He immediately shut down while being shouted at and his fight or flight response activated.

Tommy ran out of the front door.

Chapter Text

He ran for what felt like hours.

At some point he found himself before the group home, where he stayed waiting for just anything.

Suddenly one of the windows of the house opened and Tommy could see his oldest friend looking at him.

"Toms? What are you doing here?" Ranboo asked. Tommy thought he seemed concerned, but he wasn't sure that he didn't just imagine it, due to the state he was in at the moment.

"Can I- could I come up? I don't really have anywhere to go right now..." He hated how small his voice sounded.

"Oh yeah, of course. Just be quiet, please? I now have a few roommates and they're all sleeping already." Was the last thing he heard before the window shut quietly again.

Tommy obviously knew all the secret and silent ways to get to his old room and when he finally got there, he knocked three times and Ranboo let him in.

After they both got settled on the bed, Ranboo was staring at him expectantly, clearly waiting for an explenation on why he was here in the middle of the night.

Tommy wanted to get it over with, so he just started talking. "Look, I kinda got into a fight with my foster family and now I bet they hate me and I'll probably live here again in a bit anyway." Once started, he couldn't seem to stop again. "But I really like them and it's my fault all this happened in the first place and-"

"Tommy, please calm down. I don't believe that it's solely your fault and also I don't think they would abandon you that easily... they really like you, alright? Don't worry that much, I bet it's all going to work itself out fine." Ranboo spoke and his words did soothe some of Tommy's concerns.

"Okay, yeah... I'm calm and fine, they don't hate me and everything is good." He repeated his friend's words.

They stayed there for a while and Ranboo was still whispering little reassurances to him.

"Hey, Tommy? How 'bout you go to sleep now and we'll try to fix this tomorrow, when we're both not that tired." Ranboo suggested.

Tommy only nodded and was just trying to make himself comfortable on the floor, when Ranboo stopped him. "You can forget that again, I'm sleeping on the floor, you're going to take my bed." He said, in a voice that didn't allow any objections.

"Okay, I guess... Well then good night, Ranboo." Tommy spoke softly to not disturb the others.

A few minutes later he heard Ranboo's breathing even out and he started snoring lightly. But Tommy lied awake for another two hours until sleep finally catched up to him.

Chapter Text

"Tommy? You have to wake up!" Somebody said. Tommy was too tired though, so he didn't bother opening his eyes. "Come on, man... The others are gonna wake up soon and I don't want them to ask questions, okay?" Tommy now identified the voice as Ranboo's and finally got up.

"Don't talk to me or I will bite you." He mumbled under his breath.

Ranboo was staring at him, looking mildly concerned and amused at the same time. "Okay, come on. We can go for a walk or something and you could tell me what happened yesterday?"

"Right, I'll do that. But you have to buy me breakfast or I won't say a word." He treathened after realizing that he was quite hungry.

"Really? I let you sleep in my bed and that's how you thank me? Alright, I see how it is... Yeah, not happening. You can buy your own food." Tommy knew though that Ranboo would definitely buy them both something later.

Walking around so early in the morning was actually pretty refreshing. A few minutes in Tommy even found himself slowly waking up and ready to finally tell Ranboo what had been going on the last weeks.

"Okay, I know you really wanna be 'let in on the secret', but you've got to know that you can't talk to anyone else about this, yeah?" Tommy had to clarify that, it'd probably not end good if any scientists would hear about their powers.

Ranboo slowly nodded, which was enough confirmation for Tommy, so he began. "This will sound weird to you, but everything I'm gonna tell you is the truth. So... I have magic powers and so do Phil, Techno and Wilbur. And please, let me speak and wait until I'm finished." With that, Tommy started his explanation and it only took him half an hour.

"Tommy, you are the weirdest person on this planet. Like, the earth does stuff for you? What is going on in your life?" Those were really the first sentences Ranboo said, after Tommy finally finished talking.

"Wait, you believe me? I thought you'd atleast need some proof from my side." Tommy had never been that confused in his life.

"I mean, why would you lie? You're my bestfriend and I trust you. Although now that you've mentioned it, I do wanna see your powers!"

Tommy groaned but quickly caved in. "Alright, you're lucky I've had enough training with Sam, so I can kinda control it now, especially since I'm not so tired anymore."

Tommy closed his eyes and imagined the grass next to Ranboo also growing under him. When he opened them, his friend was standing on a little patch of grass.

"Wait... That's how I didn't hit the pavement when we were outside a few weeks ago! You saved me, Tommy! You're so sweet." Tommy, even when trying really hard not to, started blushing.

"Eww, no I'm not! I just didn't want you to die, dickhead!" Ranboo was laughing at him now, even though his face was so soft.

He could stay exactly in this moment, Tommy decided.

Chapter Text

They were sitting on their bench, when Ranboo suddenly spoke up. "Well, what do you plan to do now? I mean, you've gotta go back at some point..."

And yeah, he did. But that didn't mean he wanted to. Tommy was perfectly content staying in Ranboo's room forever.

"But they hate me now! How am I supposed to talk to them, when all they do is scream at me? I couldn't even explain the first time because Wilbur was so mad."

"Maybe that was just in the heat of the moment? I bet Wilbur really worries about you, but you suddenly dropped these big news on them. I would probably also don't know how to react correctly." Ranboo tried to reassure him.

"Alright, I guess I'll have to talk to them. I don't want to be searched by the police because they think I'm missing." And so that was settled.

Tommy was walking extra slow all the way home, but when he stood directly in front of the door, he knew that he had to go in. After realizing he left his keys in the house, Tommy rang the bell.

A few seconds later he heard some shuffling behind the door, until it finally opened to reveal none other than Wilbur, who looked like he hadn't slept in years.

"Tommy?... Wait, Tommy! You're back, oh my god!" He was quickly pulled into a hug. "I'm so glad you're safe, you had us all worried so much! Dad drove the whole night in search of you, but he couldn't find you. Oh Toms, I'm so sorry, you didn't deserve the yelling... I'm so happy to have you back." The last part he muttered into Tommy's shoulder.

"Hey, Will... I'm sorry, too. I shouldn't have run just because of a little shouting, I know you were just worried 'bout me."

"Sunshine, no- That doesn't excuse my actions. I was an asshole to you, it's not very big brother-like to make you run away from home. I'm sorry." Wilbur apologized over and over again until there was a shadow on the stairs and Techno came down.

"Will, why are you standing outsi- Tommy?! You're home!" Wilbur stepped back to let Techno hug him (wow, he's normally not that affectionate).

After sitting down in the living room and explaining the rest to them, Phil finally woke up and came right through the door when Tommy looked in that direction. His until then disoriented look quickly focused on Tommy and... he started crying?

He closed their distance and pulled him in the biggest hug. "Toms, you're home! Oh god, I thought I'd have to go to the police, but you're here again and you don't look like you hate us and-"

"Woah, calm down, Dad! Yeah, I'm back and I don't hate you, why would I? I thought you guys would hate me 'cause I've been lying the whole time!"

That's when they all started prostesting at once.

"We could never hate you!"

"We also lied to you, so it's only fair!"

Tommy had enough. "Okay, I get it! Nobody's at fault, so can we just stop now? I'm really fucking tired right now, so I just wanna sleep."

And thankfully they all agreed, so Tommy could finally, for once in his life, go to sleep happy and without any dumb secrets to care about.

Chapter Text

Tommy was woken up by the doorbell and after hating his life for a little, he finally decided to get up. Nobody else seemed to care about the door, so he had to go and open it.

"Can I help y- oof!" Something -or someone- crashed into him at full speed. Oh... Tubbo.

"You're so fucking stupid! How could you just disappear for over two days? You didn't tell me anything, I was worried sick! Why didn't you text me?" Tubbo sounded like he was on the edge of crying.

"And then you don't even tell me when your back, no. I had to message fucking Technoblade and he told me that you're home again!" He continued muttering insults under his breath, while crushing Tommy's ribs with a never ending hug.

"Look, I'm sorry, okay? There was just so much going on, my family found out about my powers..." He trailed off, realizing that Tubbo knew now, too.

"You have powers?!" He spluttered. "What the heck, why didn't you tell me? I told you about mine! Asshole, I bet Ranboo knows!"

"Uhh, yeah... But only since yesterday! I didn't tell anyone before, except for Sam. Well, I did not really tell him... He just kinda knew. He's extremely weird."

Tubbo's confusion only seemed to grow. "Wait, who's Sam?" Oh, he still had to explain that story to his family, too. Great.

"How about I get Phil, Techno and Will, so I only have to tell everyone about him once." After Tubbo's nod, he quickly added. "Just go to the living room, make yourself right at home. I'll be only one second!"

He found them all sitting in the kitchen, which was pretty beneficial for him. "Can you please come to the living room? I gotta tell you one last thing about my ability." They all agreed, though visibly confused.

"So, now that we're all here, I have to confess that I never went to basketball practice..."

Chapter Text

i decided to not write an epilogue anymore, you probably already saw the video and I don't think its right to write about Techno right now

He was one of the people i really fixated on for the past year and i don't really know what to do now

everytime i see his name i start crying again and i really can't write anything with him in it rn

i really hope you understand

please stay safe <3