Tommy runs from exile and starts a new life in a new village, ready to start over away from the family that abandoned him. That is until someone he loves falls ill and the only cure is back in the place he left all those years ago... What will he do? ~~~ HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 in dreamsmpfanfiction #1 in hurtcomfort (and hurt-comfort) #1 in jackmanifold #1 in ghostbur #2 in dreamsmp #3 in tommyinnit #3 in philza #4 in angst ~~~ STARTED: 2/12/21 DICONTINUED: 3/03/24 ~~~ see A/N (part 33) for info regarding discontinuation. shout out to everyone who read and voted over the years. I couldn't have made it this far without you all <3

"I understand. You heard the place you loved was in trouble, so you came back, but I don't-I just-why didn't you take me?" Here it was, at last. Catharsis, or something close to it. "I would have hunted them down with you, Philza, the people who did that to your town. I would have given you your vengeance on a silver platter. I would have given you the world." Philza didn't look guilty. He just looked tired. "I didn't hunt them down, though." // Or, that fic where Techno and Phil are old immortals, and Tommy and Wilbur are decidedly... not. Angst ensues. //