Eburnean Tommy Au

V - Cold

"Hey Theseus, you seem cold"

He shakes his head, confused as to why Techno thought that.

"No you're definitely cold, Tommy, you're out in the snow wearing a t-shirt, your nose is bleeding from the dryness, not to mention you're shaking a lot more than normal, so get the fuck inside"

It becomes clear that he's unable to walk, so Techno throws his cloak onto the boy in order to warm him up, but he collapses from the sudden weight.

"Shit, I'm so sorry" Techno carries him into his cabin and gently puts the cape back onto him. He throws a few logs into the fireplace that he put Tom in front of, and lights it.

"Okay, just warm up, and uh, come get me if you need anything"

Tommy tries to reach for him to stay inside with him, but Techno is already out the door by the time he could find the strength to do so.

He starts to panic, the cold and the loneliness finally beginning to dawn on him. He finds it increasingly harder and more painful to breathe, and Steve isn't able to cheer him up.

"Do you know where Tommy is?" Phil asks the blade.

"Oh, yeah he's in my house warming up"

"And you left him alone? Okay, I'm going to check on him but we're going to have a long talk about this later, young man!"

With that, he rushes off and finds his son in the middle of a bad anxiety attack

"Oh my gods Tommy, are you okay?"

Tommy shakes his head and starts to cry.

"What's wrong mate?" Phil asks and gets the book and quill out of the kid's pocket to urge him to write.

After about half an hour later, he is handed the book to see the word 'scared' scribbled across the page.

"Are you scared because Techno left?"

He nods,

"Awh mate, I can go get hi-"

He shakes his head vigorously and hugs Phil as tight as he could muster while being so injured, and starts to sob.

"Woah, alright, alright, I'm not going to leave you alone. Shh, just try to take deep breaths, okay? Can you do that for me?"

Through the hug, Phil writes a message for Techno and hands it to a crow.

The blade feels a crow peck at his mask, he finds the unfriendly gesture pointless; he already understands Phil's anger towards him from the voices and common sense.

He reads the note the bird has for him, which says, 'Come apologize to Tommy, NOW'

Techno groans knowing he has no choice, and makes his way inside.

He opens the door and sees his brother crying, which makes for quite a grim sight because the tears soak the blood from the bandages on his face.

He kneels down next to the boy, "Hey, Theseus"

Tommy looks up from Phil's shoulder.

"Look I'm very sorr- oh- oh dear"

He pauses when the youngest starts to cough violently, and Phil pats his back in order to help him.

Seeing him look at Tom with such tired, worried eyes just gives the voices more to yell about.

He eventually calms down enough for Techno to continue his apology.

"As I was saying-"

The boy grabs his mask.

"No, Tommy jus-"

Phil gives a mean look to the piglin to remind him that he is on paper-thin ice.

"Fine," he concedes and removes it, then sighs and starts over again, putting his hand on Tommy's shoulder.

"Theseus, I am so sorry that I left you all alone in here, I was being an idiot and forgot that you can't exactly walk, it will never happen again, I swear," he says more emotionally than he wanted to.

He leans to give Techno a hug.

"What? Why the hell are you- what's wrong with you? I was being a dick"

He put his hand over the other's mouth to get him to shut up and eventually falls asleep.

"Well, I'm going to help Tubbo pack up his things" Phil mentions as he leaves.

"Wait, are you just going to leave me here to take care of a crippled kid? I'm a berserker, not a babysitter! Heh???"