Tommy & Tubbo || Platonic Oneshots

Miss You In Winter

This AU is set in an IRL small town with everyone from the Dream SMP as neighbours. The SBI Family + Adopted Tubbo is a thing and Fundy is Wilbur's son (only adopted this time and the same age as Tubbo).

                        
Tommy

      "It's getting close to winter." I said to Tubbo, tearing my eyes away from the stars above us to look at him.

      "I know. It's almost time for me to go again." He sat up and looked down at his shaking hands.

      "Why don't you just stay? We can turn up the heat for you, I'm sure nobody will mind." I propped myself up on my elbows, a sad tone in my voice that I didn't intend to be there. Tubbo shook his head slowly.

      "You know that doesn't work. I can't escape what I am. Remember, it isn't the cold that changes me, it's the time of year. I don't even understand how it works."

      I was silent for a moment. "This isn't fair." I eventually spoke up, sitting up properly beside Tubbo.

      "It's as fair as my body will allow. I'm not a human and I never have been, but I want to be with you and the others. So, if it means giving up winter to return to my old body, I'll take it."

      I clenched my fists, digging my nails into my palms, allowing the small pain to distract me from crying. I had to be strong for my best friend. "Are you sure you don't just want to just go back to permanently being a willow?"

      Tubbo looked at me like I'd just kicked a puppy. "No! Why would I ever go back and leave you guys?! You're all my family!"

      "Not your actual family." I pointed out, turning away.

      He scoffed. "You did not just say that. My 'actual family'? Are you joking?" I heard him move around a little, then I suddenly felt his hands on my shoulders, instantly gaining my attention. I turned back to see his face. "Tommy, you're my actual family. Sure, we aren't related by blood, but that doesn't change anything. My blood relatives don't care about me. They don't care about anything. Willows are emotionless creatures that survive just for the sake of surviving. So don't you dare say that they are my family, because you know damn well that it's a lie." His tone was hard and his expression was intense as he glared at me. I couldn't hold back the tears anymore, so I pulled him in for a tight hug and hid my face against his shoulder.

      "I just.. I don't want you to leave again. I promise that you will be human one Christmas Day, Big Man. I swear it."

      He chuckled a little. "I'll be looking forward to that."

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Tubbo

      Tommy is my best friend. Remember Tommy.

      I was standing out in the garden while everyone else was asleep. It was the nineteenth of December, only two days until winter, but my body was already starting to change. The dull ache that had been building up inside my bones over the seasons was evolving, burning my muscles. The boiling pain spread all over my human body, changing me into what I was supposed to be.

      Tommy is my friend. Remember.

      I felt my teeth become longer and sharper like my faded-grey tongue. My skin was being pulled to fit over my stretching bones, turning snow-white as it clung desperately to my body. The trees of the forest ahead that had towered over me as a human slowly became my height, welcoming me, showing me that they weren't a threat.