How To Gain Another Parent

Chapter 4: Some Children Get Lectures, Others Eat Goldfish Crackers

When Techno woke up the next day, it was to Tommy grabbing his hand that was hanging off the bed. This gremlin made sure to crawl under from the other side of the bed to grab it too. Techno can't deny that he screamed and as he stood up, hoisting up his arm, he quickly realized that his son was holding onto it for dear life.

"Tommy, why." He sighed, lowering his arm, bringing his other hand to cover his face.

The kid frowned and gave his dad a glare, "I had a question."

Before Techno could ask what was so important, Tubbo came running in with a crying Ranboo behind him.

The little hoglin explained with a simple, "He thought you got murdered and started crying"

"And who told him that I got murdered?" He knew this game, it's happened before, several times before.

Tubbo smiled, "I did!"

He sighed and shook Tommy off his arm, who dropped to the floor, landing on his feet.

"Come here, Ranboo." He gestured his sobbing son over, "I haven't been murdered, now let's get you cleaned up before you scar."

His kid nodded as Techno stood up and lead him out of his bedroom, going to grab first aid kit before coming back to the living room. He made quick work of drying off his son's face, making sure to be careful.

"I'm going to have to have a talk with your other brothers about this." Techno sighed, as he finished, "You can go hang out with Philza while I do, though I promise not to yell."

Ranboo nodded then smiled, giving him a hopeful look, "Do you think I could convince him to give me some goldfish crackers?"

"Just tell him what happened, I'm sure he'll agree that you deserve at least a handful."

Ranboo looked up at him, "My handful or your handful?"

He thought for a moment before answering, "Probably Philza handful."

"The perfect amount." He said in awe.

Techno chuckled at his son's antics and lead him to the front door, "I think Tommy would disagree."

"He's like quantity, I like not a lot, not a little." Ranboo stated with a pout before waving and running over to the neighbours.

As he watched closed the door as he made sure his son made it in, he turned to face the other two with a frown.

"Fuck."

"Tommy," Techno scolded, "No cussing."

"That was directed at him so that means I can swear!" Tubbo exclaimed and before his dad could stop him, the little hoglin yelled, "FUCK!"

Now he had to scold them for two things. Completely forgetting that his son had woken him up to ask him something.

~

Dream woke up early that day and stumbled into the bathroom connected to his room, the river left him feeling uncomfortable. That left him wondering if there had been a creature nearby, axolotls are known to be a murderer of fish kind.

As he thought it over, he didn't realize someone had entered until he heard a scream muffled from him being submerged under the water. Quickly, he moved his head above water to see who screamed and was met with Philza and the little enderman hiding behind his leg, trying not cry.

"Huh?" Dream questioned, still a bit sleepy.

The kid then exclaimed with a sniffle, "You're not dead!"

"Why would I be..?"

He then took in the fact that he was laying on his stomach, head under the water with his feet sticking out. Not to mentioned that he was fully clothed still.

"Oh... I have gills, not to worry." He tilted his head to show them off, even going as far to point at them, "See they're external."

Ranboo was still sniffling, but his eyes shown in awe.

"I can't even touch water and you can breathe it?"

With a chuckle and a nod, he prepared for the barrage of questions, but got none.

Instead he got, "I'm glad you haven't been murdered! I don't think I could handle another murder today."

That caught him off guard, "Another murder?"

"Tubbo told him that Techno got murdered, but he hadn't been, so it's been a stressful day for him." Philza quickly explained, "He did get some goldfish crackers however."

Ranboo confirmed that with a nod and Dream felt the need to ask, "What are goldfish crackers?"

"You haven't had goldfish crackers?" Ranboo's eyes widened.

With a shake of his head, the enderman attempted to come over to probably drag him to the kitchen, but thankfully Philza managed to grab the kid before he could even try.

"Let's wait until he's done, then he can have some goldfish crackers, okay?"

With a pout, he thought for a moment before nodding in agreement. They both left and Dream took a moment to dunk his head back under for a bit longer before getting out to dry off and change clothes.

~

Once downstairs, he was quickly dragged over to the table by Ranboo who pushed a plate of what he assumed were goldfish shaped crackers.

"Try them!" He smiled.

Trusting him, he popped one in his mouth. Maybe it was because he had been travelling trying to find his friends and only eating fish, but it was actually pretty good. Smiling, he grabbed a few more much to the enderman's delight, proving such with a soft ender chirr.

"Aren't they great?" He asked before flapping his hands that were covered the sleeves of an oversized sweater.

Smiling, he nodded and as they both munched on the crackers, the door was swung open to reveal Tommy riding on the shoulders of Tubbo, following behind was a tired looking Techno.

"Would've been over sooner, but we had to have two talks." The pinkette sighed, "One once again about not telling Ranboo that I've been murdered and the other about cussing."

Tommy looked up from his perch on his brother and glared, "What's wrong with fucking cussing?"

"I see one of those didn't work." Philza laughed.

Dream, however, could only stare at the dad as he slumped down in chair. His pink hair despite the obvious bedhead still looked soft to the touch. As he stared, a blush rose to his face and jumped when Ranboo tugged on his sleeve.

"I want to show you something." He smiled and Dream took his small hand and allowed himself to be dragged away from what would surely be the most embarrassing situation for himself.

~

Surprisingly, the kid brought him over by the river. Even more surprisingly was when he leaned over the water.

"Purpled? I brought a friend, he's never had goldfish crackers until today."

This enderman kid was full of even more surprises that's for sure as Dream was not expecting a little drowned hybrid boy to pop his head out from under the water.

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Notes:

I really want goldfish crackers now :/ Other than that, I added Purpled! I thought he would be fun to add :3

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