We could be immortals (SBI found family fic)

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Tommy blinks slowly, adjusting to the bright rays of sun behind his eyelids. He ignores his persistent dreams as they talk in hushed voices.

He groans and they helpfully silence, allowing him to burrow deeper into the blanket that rises and falls with each- Tommy pauses, and the surface does too.

"Theseus? Are you awake?" The voice sounds husky, like it were forcing patience into itself. Tommy whines and the surface continues to rise and fall soothingly

"...Is he awake?"

"I think so- Wil, be careful"

Someone makes an affirmative noise before his shirt shifts, the three sets of heavy breathing pausing as though switched off.

"Oh my-"

Tommy finally opens his eyes to understand their silence, immediately meeting a set of broken red eyes staring straight into his own blue pair

"Techno?"

"Hi kid"

Tommy rolls his eyes

"Bitch I am not a ki- ah!"

He winces as he twists his back a fraction, tears springing to his eyes as he curls back into the warm chest, a protective set of hands settling into his hair as he breathes through his mouth.

Quiet- safe- mortal- protected

"Hey hey don't move too much mate" Tommy opens his eyes again, searching for- Philza. Tommy exhales in relief as he spots the Angel of Death.

But the Angel looked wrong. He looked... furious.

Tommy recoils at the stare and tries to sit up, immediately feeling two pairs of hands guide him to lay back down.

"Wil? Is Wil here too? Am I-" Tommy stops, watching as Wilbur pops into view smiling sadly. He too looks different- more disheveled, like his world had recently betrayed him.

"I'm here sunshine, you're okay" he murmurs and Tommy nods.

"I wanna sit up"

They pause but help him as he eases up, wincing with him as he reacts to every painful twinge. But he needed to see them, needed to know they were real.

Phil crouches in front of him, Wilbur at his side as Techno still supports him from the waist. They all three stare at him with something akin to pain in their eyes that Tommy does not yet understand.

Tommy looks down, surprised when a hand reaches out to lift his face, Philza's warmth sending shivers all over his body at just the contact

"Fledgling... what happened?"

Tommy rasises his eyebrows

"I know I know, you guys deserved a proper goodbye after everything you did for me and-"

Technoblade grumbles in his chest and Tommy jumps slightly

"We mean what happened to your back, Theseus" he growls and Tommy pauses

"Oh" he fidgets, not really wanting to tell three powerful Gods that he got his ass kicked by a regular bunch of rich pricks. "It's really not that bad, I can still move and everything-"

"Who did this to you?"

Tommy silences again. "It doesn't matter"

Philza's wings suddenly flap and he glares at them accusingly. Wilbur makes a disgruntled noise and Techno huffs