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    Tommy has never thought of himself as particularly unlucky. He’s always had everything he needs: a place to sleep (even if it was barely big enough for two), food on the table (even if he had to skip a meal or two every once in a while), and, most importantly, his older brother.

    It’s been just the two of them for as long as Tommy can remember. When he was little, he thought Technoblade was the coolest person in the world. He still does. And as much as he argues against it when Techno calls him “kid”, Tommy doesn’t think he’ll ever stop needing him.

    As he stumbles toward their tiny apartment in the dark of night, trembling hands pressed painfully against his stomach and sticky with blood, he’s never needed his brother more.

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    Tommy gets hurt and hides it from his brother.

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    20 Jul 2024

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    “Will? What time is it?"

    Wilbur takes a second to peer at his watch before turning right back to the page in front of him. “12:58.”

    Oh, wow. Tommy’s not sure exactly, but he thinks that means he’s probably gone without sleep for…somewhere in the sixties? Sixty-five hours? Sixty-six?

    He thinks he would give anything to sleep, at this point. He’d do all the chores in the tower for the rest of the week – the month, even. He’d let Wilbur put the news on whenever he wants. He’d even let them all insist that he stay home during their next family outing.

    But of course, the curse the witch placed on him doesn’t care for negotiations. He’s forced to stay wide awake, whether he likes it or not.

    ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆

    or, Tommy loses the ability to sleep. Completely. It presents a considerable amount of problems - but his family will be damned if they can't find a way to fix it.

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    20 Aug 2023

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    Wilbur was never supposed to come back. He was supposed to leave and be done forever and ever. That’s what happens when people leave—they stay gone. Maybe it was a trick of Tommy’s mind? He moves his eye up against the peephole, sucking in a harsh breath when the brown, shaggy hair doesn’t transform into something different. When the eyes and nose that they share don’t change.

    It’s Wilbur. It’s undeniably Wilbur.

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    11 Aug 2023

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    The woman started rocking her child, still singing a lullaby as she placed a basket down and started lowering the child inside, wrapping them up in blankets.

    Wilbur turned to see what the building was. Oh! He recognized this one. It’s the... the orphanage here.

    Oh...

    Or, Wilbur sees a woman give her child to an orphanage and then yelled,
    “5 SECOND RULE!”
    And now that child is his.

    If any CCs state they are uncomfortable with this kind of fic I will take it down!

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    29 Jul 2023

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    Technoblade picked up the phone without pause, a motion he repeated more than eight or nine times an hour. He wouldn't say he disliked getting calls, it was a break from his grading, but he wasn't the fondest of talking to confused students.
    Techno recited his little speech into the receiver, telling the caller that they'd reached his professor's office and that they were speaking to a TA.
    Through the phone, where Techno normally expected to be told of an issue, there was shuffling. A curt clack and the ring of a bell in the distance.
    After a few moments of silence, Techno went to speak, but closed his mouth as music started to play through the phone. It was strange and uneven, shaky piano notes that sounded live, and it was no melody he had ever heard before. It was nothing more than six notes and a panicked breath before the phone began to hum as the line was cut off.
    Techno pulled the phone away from his ear.
    "What the hell?"

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    Technoblade was found four years after going missing at age eight. His younger brother never was. Ten years later, Techno started getting phone calls.

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    12 Mar 2023