Eburnean Tommy Au

XXXI - Awake

It's been a few days since Tommy first fell into a coma, and it's Techno's turn to watch over him. Steve followed him to Tommy's house, he seems to have grown attached to the boy.

Techno checks on Tommy, he seems a bit better than usual, less pale and a bit more squirmy, but still pretty lifeless. He sighs, why does he always get stuck with this kid?

He sits there entertaining himself with the voices and eventually decides to take a nap.

-🕗-

Tommy groggily sits up, it seems to be getting dark out, but he doesn't feel tired, so he gets out of bed and sees Steve sitting on the floor.

He sits down next to the large bear and puts a hand on his soft fur. He pets him for a while and eventually sinks into hugging him. Steve gently nuzzles the boy, causing him to smile a little bit.

He hears some rustling and looks around to see his oldest brother getting up.

"Heh? ...Oh shit you're awake!"

Tommy startles, drawing a sharp breath, and covering his ears with his eye shut.

"Oh, crap I'm sorry," he apologizes in a gentler tone, then kneels down to take his hands off his ears, "Are feeling alright?"

He slowly opens his eyes and then shrugs.

"Okay, can I go get Phil and Tubbo?"

He shakes his head, then looks around for his communication cards.

Techno grabs them and the book and hands them to Tommy, "Here,"

(overwhelmed)

Techno sighs, "Okay, so here's the deal, I'll tell them you want to be alone, but I do have to tell them you woke up," he has a bit more to say, but he pauses when he sees his brother looking through his cards.

(why?)

"Why do I have to tell them? Tommy, you've been in a coma for almost a week now." he explains, "Also someone, probably Phil actually, needs to check if it caused any problems"

Tom goes back to hugging Steve, hiding his face in the white fur.

"Tommy?" he asks, "can you give me some kind of response?"

He shakes his head, still buried in Steve's fur.

Technoblade sighs and leaves the room to get Phil to deal with him. He finds Tubbo, Michael, and him in the kitchen.

"Guys, he woke up, but he's overwhelmed and being kinda difficult"

Tubbo turns off the stove and rushes to go see him.

"Hey big man," he sits down next to him, speaking softly "You doing alright?"

Tommy doesn't seem to process his words, but he grabs Tubbo's hand and puts it on Steve.

"Oh, yeah he's really soft, but can you let me know if you're alright?"

Tommy looks at him and tilts his head.

"Are you okay?"

He responds with only a shrug before gently scratching Steve behind his ears.

Tubbo steps out of the room, "Phil," he calls, "You should probably come give Tommy a check-up,"

"Be right there mate," he calls back "Techno, watch Micheal,"

"Yeah, make me babysit even more, cause I'm great with kids" he complains

Micheal chortles in his booster chair.

"I don't know, I think you and Michael get along pretty well"

"Th- That's because I'm the only other piglin he knows!"

"Just watch him for a bit," he tells him.

Techno looks at the kid in silence for a bit, and he looks back.

Eventually, in piglish, Techno asks, *...you wanna see how long we can spar before they notice?*

*Yeah!*

He gets him out of the booster chair and they run to his house to get his sparring swords.

-👁️‍🗨️-

"Hey, Tommy," Phil says, "You can go back to petting Steve in a bit, but I gotta check how you're doing, alright?"

Tommy takes a second to process, then hesitantly nods.

"How do you feel?"

Tommy shrugs.

"Alright, can you try to walk across the room?"

Tommy slowly gets up, but struggles to take even a single step, and looks to Tubbo for help.

"Do you want to hold on to me, big man?"

He meekly nods and then Tubbo is right by his side. Supported more by his friend than himself, he can take a few steps, then stops, zoning out.

"Tom?"

He has to wave his hand in front of his bandaged up face before he comes back to reality.

"Are you able to walk any further?"

Tommy looks down, tries to move his leg to take another step, but doesn't manage to do so. He then looks back up at Tubbo and shakes his head.

"Okay, let's sit down then" he puts Tommy on his bed.

Tom looks around, then sees his cards on the wooden floor, and Tubbo immediately sees him looking at them and hands them to him.

When Tubbo hands him the cards, Tommy plays with Tubbo's hand, zoning out as he runs his fingers across the scarred skin.

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Sorry again for a short chapter. I managed to barely get to my 800 word minimum and just stopped.

Anyways 🕝 means time skip and 👁️‍🗨️ means POV switch. When characters speak in Piglish (made up piglin language), I'll use asterisks instead of quotation marks.

To answer Techno's question from the beginning it's because the author loves bedrock duo.

I really want to keep this book going but I'm so out of motivation and inspiration. If anyone has ideas please comment them literally anywhere.

I'm sorry this took so long, any creative types will understand how shitty art/writer's/whatever blocks are, and to explain to the others, it's like ideas won't come to your brain and if they do they can't get to your hands and into the world. That's the best I can describe it.