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Ok that wasn’t SO bad.
Jack wasn’t as good of a story teller as Wilbur but he did tell Tommy storys so.
He still missed Wilbur, luckily he was in camp when he woke up.
Tommy bounded up to him excitedly he had so many questions although Wilbur wouldn’t answer them last time, maybe he will now though.
“Wilbur Where'd you go!”
“I told you don’t worry about it Tommy” Wilbur half grinned
“Please?”
“What makes you think I’ll tell you now?”
“PLEAAAAASE.”
Wilbur laughed “no.”
“Niki! Wilbur’s being mean to me!”
“Aaaw Tommy why don’t you just come have breakfast with us, we got your favorite, blackberries!
Hmmm…this felt like a…distraction.
“Toooommmy.”
Niki held out a bowl of blackberries and Tommy got a whiff of their scent.
They smelled sweet today.
He trotted over to her and took the bowl out of her hands.
What were they talking about again?
It was a very good morning, everything was relatively normal again and Tommy was content.
The only surprise was a good one Tommy thought, one one of Wilbur’s crows came back it glided down gracefully landed in front of Wilbur.
Wilbur did not look happy to see it which worried Tommy a little but he was probably just sad that Tommy had to go soon.
He could still visit him Tommy thought or at least hoped.
“Hey Tommy why don’t we let Wilbur and the uh bird talk and you can come uh help me weave or something.”
This confused them. Why didn’t Niki want him here?”
“Why?”
“Um well uh I just really need you help with this right now!”
Tommy scrunched his nose a bit.
“But you weren’t doing it a second ago?”
“I just remembered.”
“Oh ok…”
This seemed a bit off but Tommy followed Niki he had never weaved baskets before it sounded like it could be fun.
Still Tommy didn’t know what needed to be talked about wasn’t the bird just going to show them the way home?
****
“Niki I’m bored I wanna talk to Wilbur I need to know when I’m going home.”
Niki sighed which Tommy didn’t understand.
“Alright Tommy.”
It took a minute to find Wilbur he had moved from the spot he was before and Tommy had to ask around to find where he went.
Eventually he found him little ways away from camp at the stream.
“Wilbur?”
“Oh hi Tommy.”
Something was wrong, he could feel it.
“Wilbur are you mad at me? Did I do something wrong?”
“Oh no of course not Tommy.”
“Ok.”
Tommy paused
“When can I go home? The crow came back and told you where it was but…
“Tommy I don’t think- I don’t think you can go home.”
It felt like the whole world had slowed around him he didn’t even understand what Wilbur had said before words were leaving his mouth.
“What?”
“Tommy it’s-it’s gone, I’m sorry.”
“No no your wrong!”
Tommy felt his face burning everything felt like it was moving faster like time was trying to catch up.
“Tommy-
“No shut up! Your lying!”
Tommy felt hot tears fall on his cheeks
“Your just like those men! You just want to keep me trapped here!”
“You promised!”
Wilbur had stood up now he said something and reached out for Tommy but it was to late he flinched
Blood was rushing so fast in his ears he couldn’t even be bothered to hear him; his heart was thundering in his chest.
Tommy turned and ran
He knew Wilbur was calling after him but he couldn’t understand what he was saying, he didn’t care.
Branches snapped in his face and everywhere else cutting him.
Tommy didn’t know where he was going; he just wanted to get away.
****
Tommys legs ached he didn’t know how long he had been running, finally he collapsed on the ground chest heaving.
He could really feel the scratches on his skin they stung now worse than before.
His mouth and throat were so dry he was so thirsty but he couldn't get up to find water he didn’t feel like he could get up at all.
Tommy laid there listening to the drone of the insects and birdsong, it reminded him of the way his mama would hum to him.
His head was swimming and the world seemed all faded now, Tommy could feel the sun beaming down from the trees onto him, it felt nice and familiar.
Mama always said that the sun loved mooblooms and he believed her.
Tommy heard a loud buzzing and saw a shadow passing over him although he couldn’t make out what it was, suddenly he felt a weight on his lower torso, he was only vaguely aware of it and didn’t really care all that much.
Tommy’s eyelids began to close and he could feel whatever that thing that landed on him move around.
Suddenly the weight was off him and he heard the buzzing again.
As quickly as it started it ended and Tommy sensed a much larger presence next to him.
Something or someone poked his face but Tommy didn’t open his eyes, Instead his world went black.
****
When Tommy woke up the first thing he thought was ooooow.
He opened his eyes and found he was in a bush?
Or maybe several bushes with a space hollowed out like a nest.
The floor was padded out with moss which Tommy thought was quit nice.
“Oh your awake! Are you gonna stay awake this time?”
Tommy flipped over on his stomach and sat up very quickly, and realized there was a boy about his age next to him.
This made Tommy calm down a little at least it wasn’t another grown up.
“What?” Was the only thing Tommy could think to say.
“Well you woke up a few times and I gave you water cause you seemed really thirsty but you just went back to sleep after that.”
“Oh…”
“Uh so what’s your name?”
“Oh im Tubbo!”
“ hi um im Tommy.”
Tubbos antenna twitched
“So Tubbo…
Tommy looked around fully taking everything in
“How did I get here?”
“Oh well I found you and I brought you here cause I didn’t want to just leave you there, why were you by yourself laying in the woods?”
“Cause I ran away.”
“Why?”
“Well… Tommy took a deep breath he felt like he was going to cry.
“It’s ok! We don't have to talk about it.”
Tommy looked up at Tubbo.
It had been a while since he talked to another kid.
“Do you wanna go play?”
Tubbos eyes lit up.
“Yes!”
Tubbo stood up and reached his hand out, Tommy grasped it and hoisted himself up.
It was a little awkward but they made it work.
They stood still for a moment staring at one another when suddenly Tubbo reached up and poked Tommy in the face.
“Your it!” Tubbo shrieked with laughter and ran out of the bush through a small tunnel of branches.
Tommy stood frozen for a moment before feeling a smile tug on his lips and chasing after him.
Tubbo had a head start but Tommy caught up to him quickly but as soon as Tommy reached out to tag him Tubbo changed and flew up out of Tommy’s reach.
“Hey! No fair!”
Tubbo flew far enough away from Tommy to have a decent head start again then turned back.
They did this a few times Tommy would get close and He would change and fly away, till finally he tripped.
Tubbo hadn’t been looking where he was going; he had looked back at Tommy and didn’t see the tree root at his feet.
Tommy raced up to him before he could get away again and tagged him.
“You're it!”
Tommy was a lot faster than tubbo both in his bee form and 2 legged form so he knew Tubbo would have a lot of trouble catching him.
Tommy giggled and looked back at Tubbo who was still getting off the ground.
Then he ran into a tree.
Or atleast what he thought was a tree.
Tommy looked up.
It wasn’t a tree.
“Tommy are you-
Tommy scrambled up and backed away.
“Hey, hey I know you're scared but you can’t just run off like that, I promise I’m not going to hurt you,Tommy.”
Suddenly Tommy saw something small sail through the air and hit Wilbur in the face.
“Wilbur didn’t even flinch but he looked up away from Tommy.”
“Leave him alone!”
Tommy ran over to Tubbo and grabbed onto his arm.
“Oh hello who are you?”
“Tommy isn’t going to go with you!”
“Ok. Where’s your hive? Can you take me to them?”
Tubbo picked up another rock and threw it at Wilbur’s face.
Wilbur didn’t even try to move and the rock just plopped uselessly on his face.
“Leave us alone!”
Tubbo had tears in his eyes which Tommy didn’t quite understand.
“Ok… ok I’m sorry, Tommy I shouldn’t have made that promise that wasn’t right of me, I can’t make you come with me but it’s not safe out here all by yourself and I really don’t want you to get hurt, so if you do come with me we’ll give you a home, but you have to want to come with me, you have to trust me.”
Tommy believed him, against all better judgement,
He believed Wilbur.
It almost was like something was pulling him to Wilbur, something in his head that screamed trust him!
Tommy took a step towards Wilbur letting go of Tubbos arm then another and before he knew it he was running over to Wilbur hugging him and sobbing into his shirt.
“I-im-hic- sorry Wilbur.”
“It’s ok Tommy it’s ok.”
Wilbur rubbed Tommy’s back, soothing him but then he stopped which Tommy didn’t appreciate.
“I see you’ve made a friend.”
“Yeah.”
“Hey are you ok kid?”
Tommy looked back at Tubbo.
He was standing there shifting his feet and staring.
“Do you have anywhere to go?”
Tubbo pointed over to his bush.
Wilbur let out a sigh and Tommy had a great idea.
“Tubbo, you should come with us!”
He paused
“Really?”
“Of course! What do you think Wilbur?”
“I think that’s a great idea Tommy.”