if my heart was a compass you'd be north // sbi

- three

today the house was quiet, which was a rare occurrence, almost suspicious if you asked phil. usually the house was full of noise. although the silence did give phil some time to think.

sometimes phil wonders if he did something to displease the gods. why else would they give him children that radiate complete and utter chaos?

his cottage was never quiet, there was always some laughter bouncing off the walls, or some scheme being whispered about in the corner.

in fact, just the other day, phil had play peacemaker to a scene because wilbur and tommy were upset techno wouldn't let them call him "techie," only luna could call him that now apparently.

and again the other day had to stop tommy and luna from sending geese to puffy's house next door to mess with dream and his friends.

and while the chaos was loud and, well, chaotic, there was nothing in the world he would trade his children for.

phil was ripped from his thoughts as the door to the cottage burst open, phil stood up to reprimand whoever did it before noticing the scene at hand.

techno was bleeding, his arms having slashes up and down like he'd been in a sword fight, and he looked like he had multiple stab wounds. he couldn't stand on his own, as he was being supported by luna and wilbur. tommy was shaking like a leaf as he held something in his hands, a familiar golden crown with many jewels. phil's heart dropped, is that-? phil shook his head, he couldn't focus on that now, right now his son needed him.

phil quickly told wilbur to grab the first aid kid from the first aid kit from under the kitchen sink, and asked luna to start growing some herbs so that techno wouldn't be in much more pain. luna didn't respond until tommy nudged her, bringing her back from staring at techno, laying on the floor in pain.

using a mixture of herbs, luna made techno sleep so he wouldn't have to be awake while phil cleaned his wounds. wilbur hurried back into the room with the first aid kid, positioning himself at his brothers head and cradling it.

phil had half a mind to tell his kids to go to another room, knowing this was going to be a messy process, but he knew they wouldn't.

techno's hand twitched as he lie sleeping on the ground. phil would've thought he was awake if it wasn't for the somewhat even way his son's chest rose and lowered. he watched as his son's hand reached out and grabbed luna's, all while techno stayed asleep. it was odd, but phil would ponder on it later, right now the only thing on his mind was fixing up techno, everything else would come later.

ripping techno's shirt apart was easy due to the holes that were already there. techno wimpered as phil began to clean his wounds, but he never woke up, whatever luna gave him must've been too strong.

when phil pulled out the needle, tommy hid his face in luna's side, he was always squeamish with wounds. luna wrapped her growing wing around her baby brother, shielding him from having to see anything else.

wilbur sat and held his twin carefully, like if he moved the slightest way, techno would shatter into millions of pieces. he only moved when he told phil he wanted to help bandage his big brother, and doing a pretty good job at it after phil showed him how to.

when all was done, and techno was properly bandaged, phil picked up his eldest son and carried him to his and wilburs shared room. once he made sure techno wouldn't spontaneously combust, he turned to his children.

"kids, what the hell happened?"
wilbur fiddled with his hands, and luna couldn't take her eyes off techno. unsurprisingly, tommy was the first one to speak.

"we were hanging out with dream when he told us about this cool forest that was like, full of old buildings and stuff. and luna and wilby love that kinda stuff so we decided we'd check it out. luna started acting weird and walking away from us and we followed her to this cave that had a crown in it. techno said he wanted it so he grabbed it and put it on, and all the statues surrounding us in the cave came to life and started attacking us. then-"