A Place To Call Home // MCYT x OC

Chapter 35: Catching Up

After a long and extremely profane conversation between the three siblings, Wilbur turned to the cloaked figure, who was still standing there. "Thanks for finding her." Wilbur said. The figure nodded. "No problem." Nessa stepped forward. "Not to be rude, but who the fuck are you?" she asked the figure. they pulled back their hood, and Nessa gasped.

"Techno?" she said, startled. After staring in shock for a few moments, she ran forward and tackled her brother with a hug. "I haven't seen you in years!" Techno looked like he wasn't quite sure how to respond to this, so he just stood there awkwardly until Nessa let go of him. "I'm gonna go check on my potatoes." he said, walking out of the room.

Nessa turned to her two other brothers. "I have so many questions!" she said. Wilbur smiled at her. "And we'll try to answer them. But first, you need rest. You look like you haven't slept properly in days." Nessa nodded. She was only just beginning to realize how tired she felt. Even though she'd just slept for a really long time,  she hadn't had a peaceful sleep in weeks, or even months.

Wilbur and Tommy led her to a level of the ravine that had four doors. They went through the fourth door to the right. It was a small room, with nothing in it but a bed with purple sheets and a bedside table. "When we heard you left Manberg, we made another bedroom in case Techno found you." Tommy explained. Nessa nodded, too tired to ask how they had known she was coming. Without another word, she flopped down onto her bed and fell asleep.

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Nessa woke up, feeling better than she had in months. She hopped out of bed and walked out the door. It looked like it was late-morning, if the light filtering in through the top of the ravine could be trusted. Nessa knocked on the doors to her brother's rooms. No answer. Hell with it, she thought, I can explore by myself.  Wandering through the ravine, she found:

-The stream, which she learned had a small pool about halfway down

-Some rooms, a few of which were empty and a few of which had stuff inside

-A very, very, VERY large potato farm

After about an hour of wandering around, Nessa finally found Tommy and Wilbur. They were sitting at a table in a large room, eating potatoes. "Does this place just operate off of potatoes?" she asked jokingly. Her brothers looked at her. "Yep." said Tommy. Nessa laughed a little at this.

Wilbur motioned for her to join them at the table. "You're finally awake!" he said as Nessa sat down. "I've never seen someone sleep for 36 hours straight before." Nessa's eyes widened. Had she really been sleeping for 36 hours? Wow, she was more tired than she had thought. She took a baked potato and started eating it. "Alright, first of all, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry." she said, her mouth full of potato.

Tommy looked confused. "For what?" Putting the potato down and staring at it intensely, Nessa continued. (Does anyone else do this? Stare intensely at inanimate objects when you're talking about serious stuff because you can't make eye contact?) "For the night you got exiled. I didn't want to shoot, but Schlatt wanted me to, and I was scared of him, but I never meant to hit you, and-"

Wilbur cut her off. "Nessa, it's fine. really. We know that you didn't want to side with Manberg. And even though you took one of my lives-" This time, it was Nessa's turn to cut him off. "I killed you? But this means you're on your last life!" she exclaimed.

Wilbur nodded. "But I still forgive you. Anyway, last night you said you have a lot of questions. Do you want to ask them now?"Nessa nodded eagerly. "Okay, first of all, how did you know I was coming?" Wilbur smiled secretively. "You'll find out eventually."

"What is this place?"

"Well, it's a ravine, duh. but if you want the name of it, we've been calling it Pogtopia."

"Did you guys make it?"

"We didn't make the ravine, but we built everything else."

After an hour or so of this, Tommy stood up. Nessa, do you want a tour?" he asked. Nessa nodded. "Sure, I've already walked around a little bit, but I don't know what everything is." She stood up and followed Tommy out of the room, humming happily.

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