Not Tommy Anymore

Chapter 5 - He Has Ender Pearls, And He Does Not

Trigger Warnings - 

Tommy had officially had at least 1 conversation with everyone there at the picnic, which included Tubbo, Fundy, Nihachu, JackManifold, Captain Puffy, and Awesamdude. Though he had longer conversations with Tubbo, Nihachu and Captain Puffy, he still had some conversations. Everyone else was calm and talked softly as not to scare Tommy, in return Tommy returned the conversation and even cracked a few smiles and laughs.

Ranboo didn't join in the conversations too much, so that Tommy talked to all of them, but when he did he noticed that Tommy quieted down a bit as if trying to leave the conversation, the reasoning behind it was unknown to Ranboo, but to Tommy he just wanted to let the others enjoy their time, he took up space, he took up their attention and time and he didn't deserve any of that.

Everyone was enjoying their time, Eret even came over with Ghostbur, and when Ghostbur joined Tommy and Ghostbur talked for quite some time, it seemed that Tommy enjoyed talking with Ghostbur more than the others but it didn't really matter did it? Eret exchanged a few words with the broken blonde boy too but it was clear Tommy remembered what Eret had done and was ever so slightly backing away towards Ranboo. Eret felt his heart strings tug, what happened to that happy go lucky kid?

"Ghostbur!" Tommy started apple in hand, a smile in play. Ghostbur smiled and acknowledged his name being called by giving Tommy his unwavering attention and bubbly attitude. "What's your favorite color?" He asked, taking a small bite of the sweet red apple.

"Oh! Mine?" He asked, he seemed to think for a moment, smile never once leaving his face, if anything it grew wider. "Mine would half to be Blue! Or teal! I like them both! Oh oh! Do you like blue Tommy?" He started searching for something in his pockets.

"I do, the color reminds me of the ocean!" Tommy froze, memories of exile playing through his mind, how many times he would sit in the sand and watch the waves roll in and out, the blue sea looked like it would never end, but he knew somewhere that it came up on to the DreamSMP. Tears started threatening to fall gaining a worried look from Ghostbur. "I don't like the beach..." he whispered, specifically this one beach but others would think he just meant all together.

Ghostbur frowned and brought out a handful of grey, also known as Blue, which he quickly placed in Tommy's hands watching as it quickly turned into a deep dark blue that threatened to turn purple or black. "Oh! Are you okay Toms?" His echoey voice was softer than usual, though it nearly was always soft. Tommy shook his head softly and flinched when he felt Ranboo put a hand on his back rubbing small circles.

Tommy wiped his tears away and smiled, though he didn't put in enough effort to make it look real. "Thanks for the Blue, Ghostbur, it helped." It really barely put a scratch in all the bottled up emotions he had.

Ghostbur nodded the smile returning to his face. "Anytime Tommy! I'm going to go see Tubbo! I wonder what his favorite color is, I don't remember." He started to float over to Tubbo not needing to stand up. Tommy could hear Ghostbur asked Tubbo and the boys bubbly laugh at the question.

"Tommy." Broke the blonde out of his trance and he turned to see Ranboo giving him a caring and concerned look. "What's wrong? Why don't you like the beach?" He asked softly.

If Tommy was ever going to answer the question, he didn't get too, because an enderpearl shattered in the grass and a cloud of purple particles gave way to a tall green hooded man with a white mask and an engraved smile on it.

Tommy's eyes widened, it became way too hard to breathe so he resorted to shallow breaths as not to suffocate. His eyes glossed over but still held the storm of emotions that had been awaken in him. Tommy barely registered anything happening around him, panic ambushing him like a fox diving into the snow for its prey. He registered that Dream had brought out a netherite axe but the ringing in his ears was too loud to hear what anyone was saying.

When the enderpearl hit everyone looked over immediately, what they did not expect was to see Dream appearing from the pearl. He stared right at Tommy, and Tommy right back at him. "Tommy is coming back with me." He growled, voice low and threatening, everyone just sat there frozen in panic and fear, or maybe obedience and respect? One couldn't tell.

Ranboo spoke up though, he was fuming with Dream, this monster who tortured Tommy for who knows how long. "No he's not." The anger in Ranboos voice surpassed the threatening tone in Dreams by a lot, and everyone could tell. "He's gone through enough already Dream, he's staying with us now." Ranboo could feel his voice stutter with anger, anyone who had felt such a rage knew how speaking could feel so hard like your spitting out the words.

"What's the point! You all hate him." That broke through the ringing in Tommy's ears, tears actually falling now. "Plus, he disobeyed me..." Tommy shuddered in fear, Ranboo instinctively resting a hand on Tommy's shoulder before shooting up to his feet.

"That's not true, I care about Tommy, we do! And so what if he did?" Ranboo growled, he hated the fact he hadn't brought his sword, no one had, as a cation for the Blonde that now needed protecting.

"He has to be punished for that, Ranboo, so you either hand him to me, or I'll get him myself." Dream threatened, holding up his axe. He had his enderpearls out, armor on, potions and weapons ready, there was no way anyone here could take him even if they all ganged up on him. No one made a move so Dream started walking forward towards Ranboo.

Tommy's chest got heavier and a sob shook his body, he knew this wouldn't last, it never did. He was already imagining the pain he would be in and flinched each time Dream took a step ready to at least try and dodge an oncoming flying axe.

"If you lay..." a very familiar voice... "one finger..." monotone as ever... "on my brother..." Dream froze in his spot remembering the time he had lost in a duel against the Blade. "Then I will put a sword through your stomach."

Dream looked back to see Technoblade, amor on, potions ready, and sword held up. "Technoblade..." He snarled, turning back around rooted to the ground for a split second he acted quickly and lunged forward at Tommy.

Technoblade jumped forward after him, but Dream had enderpearl, Techno did not.