Running away

The Enderman

"Hey, we should go"
"Why?" he says with a small smile
"I-I um- they-" his hands are shaking being cut off before explaining
"When are we going?" he says jumping up to his feet.
"Now?" he asks with a small smile
"I don't see why not".

Chapter 1 The Enderman

"Um excuse me?" (an enderman? No, it can't be why is he at the castle?)

"Excuse me?" the boy says a bit louder. A tall man bi cape and a crown turns around the cape swinging behind him as he adjusts his sunglasses perfectly hiding his eyes. "Yes? Oh Ranboo nice to see you again." A small pause, "Why are you here?" He says with a sweet tone (Ranboo huh I feel like I remember him).

"Do you have another book I can borrow"
"Oh, of course." the man starts walking to the back stairs of the castle. Ranboo stays at the entrance of the castle tightly holding the book he already has in his arms tapping anxiously.

"You coming?" looking back at him with a smile from the bottom of the stairs. Racing over to catch up, Ranboo realizes this is the first time he has been in the castle.

"Did you finish this one this time?" he says as he's shuffling through a couple of chests
"Yeah, lot of things to write about recently" he looks at the beat-up book with DO NOT READ scratched on the cover. "Well hope to see you soon." says the man while sliding a new book over the old one into Ranboo's hand. "Thanks again Eret''
"My pleasure, stay safe"
"I'll try, bye". Starting to run down the path running straight to the portal.

Standing in front of the portal hesitating to go in. taking another step towards it he hears something, a small whisper saying "i want to go home". Ranboo whips his head around frantically looking around him. "No" he whispers as he closes his eyes, head facing the ground "he won't be there". "Dad?" before he knows it he is running as fast as he can. Flying through the water to get to the abandoned Snowchester. On arrival Ranboo with a small step before heading in to look at the Monstrous building he continues running into the cobwebbed filled mansion running straight to what seems like a little boys room. "He's not here" Ranboo whispers to himself falling to his knees "Michel isn't coming back. None of them are"

(He really cares for whoever left) {yes, but we have other matters to attend to}

Whilst dragging his feet home exiting the portal to a snowy landscape with books in his arm getting closer to his house he can't hear anything. He can't hear the polar bear dozing off, he can't hear the dozens of dogs playing and barking around the houses, no steps in the snow, no fox tunneling in the ground. Strange as it is anywhere not to hear anything at all but everyone knows it wouldn't be silent here.

With a panic he looks up and starts sprinting as fast as possible. "Please, not again" running even faster. Breathing harder and harder a small trip whilst getting to the top of the hill turns into a hard fall down the other side dropping the book in the snow. With a shaky panicked breath tears streaming down his face burning his skin. Stumbling to get up continuing trying to run to the houses ignoring the books in the snow completely.

Barging through the door "Techno? Phil?" He yells with a desperate tone. "Ranboo?" Wiping around "Techno" Ranboo says with a sigh. He runs up hugging him, Techno with hesitation wraps his arms around Ranboo and calmly saying "hey hey, I know you miss them, you know Phil does too, hell I miss them as well, But it'll be ok eventually" he stops for a second to push Ranboo arms length away but still holding him by his shoulders "you'll be ok and they will too" Techno says then to pulls Ranboo back in to a hug
"It'll be ok" with one final push away and a grab of the shoulders "now go talk to Phil I don't want to deal with you right now."
"Thanks, Techno"
"What did I say"
"Ok, ok, I'll go" said with a small giggle as he walking out the door no longer in a panic.

Ranboo walks across the bridge knocking on the door he waits, and knocks, and waits just in case he'll wait some more. Slowly Ranboo opens the door to peek his head around the door "Phil?" this time said in a quiet and collected. Expecting to see a man sitting looking at his stuff he's surprised to see no one there. "Phil?" he says one last time as he walks in the house slowly closing the door slightly confused.

He turns around to go up the ladder to check the attic for Philza. At the top of the ladder he turns to see a distraught Man being comforted by Phil on the bed. Ranboo gingerly walks over to them gently sitting next to The man wrapping one arm around him as Techno did him leaning his head on his shoulder. With a moment of silence the man says "thanks Ranboo". Phil stands up and heads downstairs to let them talk. "I'm sorry Wilbur"  With guilt from their first meeting Wilbur pulls Ranboo into a full hug.

After a second Will putting his arms down saying "i know they meant a lot to you as well, especially Michel"
"I didn't realize how much you cared about them" responded Ranboo after a moment
"They believed in me when I didn't deserve it. I care for them because they cared for me".
They pause for a bit, both looking down. Ranboo stands up and takes a look at Wilbur and says "I'll leave you alone for a bit"
"Ok I'll see you later" responded Wilbur with a small glance at Ranboo. With that glance Ranboo just starting to walk off to the ladder.

Getting to the bottom of the ladder he finally sees Phil as he expected. He walks up to Phil with small hesitation until Phil looks up from his chests looking at Ranboo with a kind soft smile. A tear running down his face smoke coming from it. Philza with a slight tilted head carefully putting his hand on Ranboo's cheek wiping away the tear, holding his hand there for a little longer to say "you'll be ok". Ranboo holds Phil's hand to his cheek, closing his eyes with a small lean into it and a quiet smile.

"It's getting dark, you should go home mate". Ranboo nods and let's go of his hand trading smiles with Phil before leaving the door. With the click of the door Ranboo looks out to see the sun setting standing there for a moment more to watch the sun go down. Looking down with a small smile with a whisper he says "we'll be ok" taking a deep breath and starts walking home.

(will he?) {no, he's shattered, he won't find all the pieces unless he acts on what's happened}

<I just realized he never got his books>
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