Sleepy Bois Inc. Angst Oneshots

The Bet

TW: breaking a bone, taunting, mentions of blood, bone, and extreme pain
AN: thanks for 8.8k reads and over 320 votes 🥰
Also, enjoy the video :] It makes me s o b like a baby every time I watch it; it's just *chef's kiss*
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Tommy stood at the base of the tallest tree in the park. He looked up and saw his older brothers, Wilbur and Techno, already halfway up. The twin brunettes watched smugly as he paced around the tree trunk.

"If I win the bet, you both have to dye your hair pink for a month," Tommy said before sizing up the tree once more. "All I have to do is climb the tree?"

"Yeah, all you have to do is climb the tree," Techno repeated, rolling his eyes at Tommy. Tommy took a deep breath in before he stepped closer to the tree. He jumped up to reach a branch before pausing. He dropped back down to the ground and looked at how high his brothers were.

"Come on, Toms. You don't really think you could climb all the way up here, now do you?" Wilbur challenged the ten year old. The twelve year olds laughed.

"Bet he won't. He's too much of a chicken," Techno chimed in. He clucked like a chicken, and they dissolved into giggles. Tommy needed to prove that he wasn't scared. He gulped and reached for the first branch again. He starting climbing with shaky hands.

Every time he got closer to the branches his brothers sat in, they climbed higher. He was over halfway up the tree when he looked down. The ground seemed to stretch out away from him. The wind blew through the branches, and the tree swayed. Techno and Wilbur hooted and laughed. Tommy clung to the tree, suddenly aware of how high they were.

The ground moved below him. It looked thousands of miles away. Techno and Wilbur must have noticed his fear because they began making chicken noises again.

Tommy yelled at them to shut up. He made it up four more feet before he had to stop. He held onto the tree trunk for dear life.

"Aren't you gonna come up here?" Techno said in between clucks and giggles. Tommy shakily removed his arm from the tree to flip them off. The wind shook the tree again, causing him to grab on once more.

"Wimp!" Wilbur called. Tommy growled and scrambled up two more branches before a branch cracked beneath him.

His brothers' joy quickly turned to horror. Tommy fell a few feet but luckily landed on another branch. He looked down at the ground some twenty feet below, heart racing as he realized how close he had come to falling entirely. He looked up to Techno and Wilbur and gave them a quivering thumbs up.

"Tommy, it's not safe. Don't climb up any higher; we're coming down now." Techno picked his way downwards. Tommy rolled his eyes and began to climb down as well.

Another branch snapped.

Tommy shrieked.

Branches tore at him as he fell, but none caught him. Leaves and twigs stung as they cut his face and bare arms. His arm clipped a branch, and pain tore through Tommy's body. He cried out.

He landed face down nearly sixteen feet beneath the broken branch. Techno and Wilbur easily maneuvered their way down to him. They swarmed over him and checked for wounds.

Tommy sobbed. His arm felt like it was on fire, and he hated it. He cradled the arm, scared of the bone peaking out and the blood leaking out.

"Where does it hurt?" Techno asked, as if he was blind to the arm bent the wrong way. If Tommy wasn't in such pain, he would've slapped Techno upside the head for being so oblivious.

"Arm," Tommy gasped, white spots flooding his vision. Techno saw it and froze, panic clouding his movements. Wilbur finally hopped out of the tree; he fainted as soon as he looked at Tommy's arm.

Tommy shifted his arm, shrieking as the pain multiplied. Techno looked between him and the unconscious Wilbur, unsure of what to do.

"I'll get Dad," he yelled and ran off before Tommy could say anything. Tommy lay on the park's ground, sobbing and screaming from the pain he was in. Eventually, it grew to be too much, and he blacked out.

Tommy woke up laying in the hospital bed with a white cast on his right arm. He yawned and blinked hard, reminding himself where he was and why he was there. Phil sat in the chair next to him, fretting over everything.

As soon as he saw Tommy was awake, Phil started bombarding him with questions. "Are you sure you're feeling okay? Do I need to get the doctor? Are you hungry? Are you-"

"Dad, I'm okay," the ten year old said, pulling the hospital blanket up higher with his good arm. Phil sucked in a breath and jumped up to help him. Tommy slapped him away absentmindedly. "I want to talk to Wilbur and Techno."

Phil swung the door open and called Tommy's
older brothers in from the hallway. Techno walked in quietly with his eyes down. Tommy noticed his pink hair rather quickly.

"You did it?" he asked incredulously. "But I lost the bet."

"We felt bad about making you climb that tree, so we dyed our hair like you asked." Techno stood awkwardly at the foot of Tommy's hospital bed. He drummed his fingers on the footboard; he twirled a lock of his new pink hair around a finger on his other hand.

Excitedly, Tommy asked, "We?" He squirmed in his bed, trying to spot his other brother. Soon enough, Wilbur stepped in with magenta hair. It looked horrible. Tommy laughed until there were tears in his eyes. Wilbur glared at him before bursting out into laughter, too. Eventually, even Phil and Techno were laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.

Tommy smiled wide. He was happy, despite the broken arm, because his family was happy. He had managed to get Phil, Wilbur, and Techno to let go of their worries for at least a little bit, long enough for them to laugh.
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AN: I've never broken a bone before, so the whole pain part might not be 100% accurate. Other than that, I kinda like this story because I feel like this is definitely something that could've happened to Tommy, and if it did, he'd never let it go.

I can imagine him just going, "Hey, remember that time you made me break my arm," whenever he needed to guilt trip Techno and Wilbur into doing something.

Also, I like to think that Techno keeps dyeing his hair after he dyed it pink for Tommy. He says it's to remind himself that his actions have an effect on others, but he also really likes the aesthetic.

Goodnight, lovelies. Take care of yourselves, and remember to drink water, eat good food, and all that jazz. Love you all lots <3