Godly Struggles

Pumpkin Carving With Death

Chapter: 8

"Give me the child,"

Kristen had only arrived a few seconds ago and she was already trying to steal Tommy from them. Literally, moments before this Philza had been freaking out over a stain in the carpet and now all three gods were standing awkwardly in the doorway to greet Kristen. She was wearing a long elegant black gown embroidered with flowers and skulls with a matching large sun hat that covered the majority of her face. And Phil just hoped his face wasn't as red as he thought it was.

"Hey, Kristen!" Phil chirped happily as he led Kristen inside and to the living room, "Tommy is taking a nap right now but he should wake up soon enough!"

They all sat down around the living room. Phil and Kristen, were on the couch while Techno sat comfortably on a recliner with a book. Wilbur however decided to sit in the middle of the floor for whatever reason. And it wasn't like they didn't have any more chairs in the room he just wanted to sit in the middle of the floor. But Phil decided to ignore it in exchange for some small talk until Tommy woke up and they could start their activities.

"Would you like anything while we wait?"

"Well I would like-" Wilbur starts saying before getting cut off by Phil

"Will I'm not talking to you,"

"To be fair you didn't say who you were talking to," Techno defended looking up from his book

Phil then started to die internally as Kristen and Wilbur laughed their heads off at Phil's dread. Even Techno barely kept in his laugh as he tried to continue reading his book.

"I'm fine, you don't need to get me anything," Kristen managed to say in between laughs

"Are you sure?"

"Yea don't worry I'm fine!" Kristen assured Phil as they continued with their conversion

Minutes felt like seconds as contagious laughter filled the room. After a while, Phil brought out tea and cookies for everyone to share. They sat like that for a while exchanging stories upon stories from their never-ending lives. Until it was inevitably ended by Tommy's screams from the other room.  

Phil quickly excused himself and headed to Tommy's room. And like magic as soon as Phil entered the room Tommy's screams turned into giggles. Tommy this point was sitting up in his crib (Tommy started to be able to sit up on his own recently) staring at Phil with wide eyes and a huge smile. Phil quickly scooped Tommy up and then reached back into his crib to grab Henry. He then left Tommy's room and headed back to the living room.

"Oh my god he's adorable," Kristen exclaimed as she quickly got up from the couch to immediately steal Tommy from Phil's arms. Tommy at this point looked externally confused but overall content with the attention he was receiving, "Hi Tommy," Kristen said softly as she walked back to the couch and sat down with Tommy cradled in her arms

"He's only known death for a few minutes and has already won her over," Techno remarked as he got up to help Phil set up a pumpkin carving

"Where did you guys find Tommy anyways?" Kristen asked as she brushed Tommy's golden hair out of his face

"Well Techno found him in the wood because XD kinda forgot to tell us he was sending a child our way," Wilbur explained as he waved to Tommy from where he was sitting on the ground

"How does someone just forget that they left a child a literal child in the woods?" Kristen said clearly flabbergasted at the idea, "You know I haven't visited XD in a while-"

"Don't worry he already apologized. Anyways all that matters is that Tommy is safe and happy," Phil assured Kristen as Techno and him continued setting everything up