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Tommy knows that biting his nails is bad habit. He also knows it’s fucking gross and unsanitary. But it’s something he does when he’s nervous and it’s not an active fucking choice. So when his parents tell him they’re going to order some polish for his nails that tastes bad to derail his nail biting he’s slightly pissed. But still he pushes down his rage and tries to get over it. He makes sure though that they pick out though is an absolutely 𝘰𝘣𝘯𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 color.
There was one problem though when it arrived in the mail. Tommy stared blankly at the two bottles of neon bright blue polish. He doesn’t exactly 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 how to fucking do this. Surely he doesn’t just slap it on? After groaning dramatically for a few minutes he lit up. Karl!! Karl would know what the fuck to do. So with quick moving fingers he typed a message to Karl.
TommyInnit: hey boss man! I was wondering if you could hop into a call real quick. I need your help with something
As Tommy waited for a reply he glared at the bottles. The ping of a notification drew his attention back to the screen.
Karl: yeah sure! Me and Quackity are in a call chilling. You can hop in!
Tommy’s lips quirked upwards as he maneuvered his computer mouse. After a few clicks he joined the call. Karl and Quackity stopped talking briefly to greet him.
“Heeey Tommy! What’s up man!,” Quackity greeted smiling.
“Hey Tommy,” Karl greeted while waving a hand with chipped nail polish,” what’s up?You said you need help with something?,”he questioned looking at the teen warmly.
Tommy hesitated briefly thinking they might tease him before he decided fuck it ,”so you know how I bite my nails a lot right?,”he slowly started and once seeing their nods of acknowledgment he continued,”well I’ve been doing it a lot more and my parents decided to try and kick my habit of it. So they bought me this 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘭 tasting nail polish to put on my nails. But the only problem is I don’t exactly know 𝘩𝘰𝘸 to do that though?,”Tommy admitted before adding hesitantly,” but I thought ‘hey Karl paints his nails and maybe he can’t help’ so here I am.”
It was silent for a minute before Karl burst out into giggles causing Tommy and Quackity to look at him. Before Tommy could even 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 offended Karl spoke.
“I’m sorry,” Karl got out after smothering his giggles,” that just wasn’t what I was expecting at all. I can help you yeah,” he confirmed while beaming.
“That great big man.Thanks,”Tommy said after exhaling in relief.
“What color did you get?,” Quackity questioned raising an eyebrow curiously at the teenager.
Tommy scooped up the bottle of absolutely 𝘰𝘣𝘯𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 blue he got and held it up,” I picked out this bitch.”
“Oooooh that’s a cool color!,”Karl replied while smiling before looking down at his own chipped yellow nails,” I think I’m gonna repaint my nails while you do yours,” Karl said with a thoughtful look on his face as he looked at his hands.
“Poggers!,” Tommy cheered as he held his own bottle.
Karl held up a finger,” give me a second,” before he took of his headphones and ran out of camera.
He returned with his own bottle of nail polish. Once he sat down and put his headphones on Karl held up the bottle of blueish purple nail polish.
“Fuck yeah we can match,” Tommy beamed.
“Awe you guys are gonna match how cute,” Quackity teased with a smile.
Karl and Tommy both turned to give each other a look. After a few minutes of wordless conversation they both turned to look at Quackity.
“You know Quackity there’s three of us in this call and only two of us are gonna be matching,” Tommy began with a small smirk.
“It would be so much better if all three of us were matching. Wouldn’t you agree ?,” Karl finished while smirking.
“That was fucking creepy,” Quackity muttered while fake shuddering before holding up his hands in surrender,” I don’t have nail polish though. So I can’t,” he proclaimed.
Tommy and Karl shared another look before Karl drawled out,”doesn’t your mom have a ton of bottles of nail polish lying around the house?” and seeing Quackity’s look of ‘oh shit’ he continued,”so I don’t see why you can just leave your room and grab one.”
Immediately after speaking Karl sent Tommy a DM.
Karl:use your puppy dog eyes
TommyInnit: I’m sorry- 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵??
Karl: trust me! It’ll work :)
Tommy sighed before looking up,” I think it would pretty pogchamp if we all matched. Please Quackity,” Tommy sorta begged looking at his computer while making eyes go wide.
Listen Tommy had 𝘯𝘰 fucking clue if he was doing this shit right. But seeing the way both men melted at his look made him think he was 𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 this shit.
“Yeah I- yeah I could go and grab one,”Quackity uttered while staring wide eyed at the teen.
Karl after managing to pull his eyes away from the blue eyed teen shot a smug look towards Quackity,”make sure it’s blue,” he reminded with a smirk.
Quackity shot Karl a weak glare before he took of his headphones to hunt down some nail polish. It took him like 2 minutes to find a color of blue he liked before he returned.
Once Quackity sat down and out his headphones on he sighed out,” I fucking hate you guys,” while showing his navy blue nail polish.
Tommy beamed,” I highly doubt that big man,” he teased before looking at Karl,”so how exactly 𝘥𝘰 we do this?,”he inquired.
Karl laughed slightly,”it’s really not that hard,” he assured,”you just open the bottle and carefully paint your nails,”after speaking he opened the bottle and painted two of his nails carefully before holding them in front of his camera.
Both Tommy and Quackity nodded before cracking their bottles open and getting started. Soon all three of them were painting their nails together. One of them turned on a playlist so a weird mixture of upbeat music played in the background.
Quackity immediately started to paint his really fast before he realized it looked messy and swore in Spanish before trying to fix it. Karl was calmly humming while carefully painting his nails. Tommy was slowly trying to paint his nails with exact precision. He bit his lip as he tried to still his slightly shaking hands.
“I’m fucking amazing at this,” Quackity muttered while finishing one hand and going to the next.
“I think I’m rather shit at this to be honest,” Tommy admitted while he slowly finished one hand.
Karl paused before looking up,”Here - why don’t you show me what you have done so far ?,” he offered.
Tommy sighed before holding up his painted hand. On his left hand his nails were painted with only a few splotches of blue on his fingers.
“That’s not so bad,” Quackity reassured while showing his own,” nothing compared to mine though,” he beamed.
Quackity’s hand was 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 painted. His fingers were covered to say the least but it had polish outside of the nail.
Without missing a beat Karl teased,” uh huh sureee Quackity,” causing the beanie clad man to splutter.
“I- oh shut the fuck,” Quackity whined,”my nails look perfect.”
Tommy relaxed slightly at their little “fued”. Their banter was making him feel less nervous. Tommy took a deep breath before calmly starting his other hand. While he was focusing he missed the proud grins the other two shot each other.
As they jammed out to bops from Tally Hall, Lemon Demon, and a few other artists all three of them slowly finished their nails.
“After I paint my nails I like to wave them in the air as they dry,”Karl explained while doing slow jazz hands.
Tommy without wasting a second started doing 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 aggressive jazz hands. Before Quackity could laugh and do the same gesture a weird kinda sexual song from tik tok started playing. Karl and Quackity panicked as they tried to shut the music off. They couldn’t play a song promoting sex in front of a 17 year old.
Karl accidentally hit the button to his fairy lights causing them to go into strobe mode. He waved his arms while screeching as he tried to fix the lights and music with wet nails.Quackity screeched with him as he tried to stop the music but ended up smearing his nail polish. Tommy just zoned out watching with amusement as they panicked as he shook his hands aggressively.
This was what Dream saw when he entered the call. He saw they were in one for a bit and got curious so he joined to say hello. After a minute of staring at the screen he shook his head while laughing slightly. He paused the song playing causing them all to freeze and look at him.
“What the fuck are you guys doing?,” Dream questioned.
Tommy shrugged before resuming his aggressive jazz hands,” wouldn’t you like to know weather boy,” he said dryly.
Dream stared at Tommy,” okaaay?,” he drawled while looking at his younger brother before turning towards the other two in the call ,”I’m gonna go. You have fun doing ..... whatever this is,” he dismissed before exiting the call.
They sat in silence for a few seconds after Dream left before Karl burst into loud giggles. Tommy and Quackity soon followed him. The three of them wheezed as they processed what just happened.
“Well that sure was fucking something eh lads,”Tommy choked out between laughter causing them all to wheeze louder.
“That poor bastard,” Quackity cackled,” he had no clue what he walked into.”
“Rip Dream,” Karl giggled out.
After a few minutes of calming down and a few more quips Tommy sighed,” I think I should go soon. It’s getting late and I have a stream for tomorrow planned.”
“Completely understandable,” Karl confirmed before he tilted his head and asked,” before you go can you show us your nails?”
Tommy rolled his eyes with a smile before holding the up in front of his camera,”they don’t look 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 bad,” he admitted.
Quackity snorted,”’they look better than mine do. Yours look great,” he responded while holding up his own messy hands.
Karl nodded in agreement,” you did a great job for your first time,” he beamed.
Tommy paused as he lowered his hands,”really?,” he asked looking through his bangs.
Karl softened slightly,” really bug you did an amazing job,” he reassured.
Tommy beamed as Karl used the rare nickname he created for him ages ago before he sighed,” this was fun but I have to go guys.”
“Bye! We should do this again sometime!,” Karl offered.
“Sure big dubs !,”Tommy sighed while smiling ,” bye guys!”
“Bye Tommy,”Quackity said while waving.
Tommy exited the call with a huge smile on his face. He looked down at his freshly painted nails with pride. Tommy pulled out his phone and snapped a few pictures before his phone vibrated with a notification from Dream. He opened up Twitter before bursting out into laughter.
Dream tweeted the pizza meme from the show community. And he edited it to say “me when I entered a call with Tommy,Quackity, and Karl earlier.”
Tommy hummed thoughtfully before tweeting the gif of John Mulaney saying “ and we were like, we know but, hey” in response.
He hummed at some of the responses to his tweet as he scrolled down his Twitter feed. Tommy chuckled when he saw Karl posted a picture of his hands and laughed even louder at Quackity’s response.
Karl✅: lmao my hands are the best painted ones. Quackity’s sucks tho :)
Quackity✅: (( a picture of an uno reverse card)) 😌🖕
Tommy shook his head with a smile as he exited Twitter. He sighed as he got up and made his way downstairs for dinner.
The next week was spent with Tommy talking more with Quackity and Karl. Everyone watched curiously as the teen pulled the two into multiple games and streams. From playing among us to playing Geoguesser. Once Quackity called him affectionately “squirt” he considered giving the two gifts but he hesitated. What sold him on the idea was a clip of the two talking about how Tommy got them into the smp.
Tommy smiled at the clip as he mentally decided to get them gifts. He opened google and began to research.He scoured the internet for Quackity’s gift first. After ten minutes of searching he found the 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 thing. With a shit eating grin he ordered the stuffed animal . He also ordered a mini blue beanie for it.
After feeling so fucking pleased with Quackity’s gift he moved onto Karl’s. This one was little tricker. It took twenty minutes before Tommy found the most 𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 little fucker. He snorted as he decided to order a cute little bee headband for its head. Tommy set both purchases to arrive tomorrow before heading to bed.
Tommy woke up and anxiously waited until his shit arrived. He grabbed all the boxes and stacked them on top of each other before bringing them to his room. Once he arrived he dumped them on his floor before sitting criss cross next to them. He cued up his playlist before starting to assemble them.
Quackity’s and Karl’s gifts took the least amount of time out of all the gifts he made. It was only adding one accessory to each stuffed animal. Two heartfelt notes later and he sent those fuckers out trapped inside a sticker covered box. Tommy awaited nervously for his packages to arrive.
It took three days before Karl got his gift and four before Quackity got his. Tommy lurked online waiting for their responses. Right around midday Karl tweeted.
Karl✅: (image of Karl hugging the brown slumped bear from IKEA with a bee headband attacked to its head) look at me and my son :) thanks @tommyinnit I love him
Tommy smiled as tweeted back -
TommyInnit✅: it’s no problem big dubs ! Glad you like him
Not even thirteen minutes later Quackity tweeted.
Quackity✅: the bois getting to work ( a picture of Quackity and a big bear with a small head wearing a small blue beanie surrounded by poker chips) I love him thanks Tommy
TommyInnit✅: you’re very welcome big man !
Tommy snorted as he added he two to the sibling groupchat. After looking at the chat he muttered a quick “oh shit” before he added Jack.
Tommy:Jack was technically supposed to be here ages ago. I just forgot. Whoops?
Jack: thanks for finally adding me prick
Tommy:oh shut up
Tommy smiled before let out a large sigh as he read what Quackity sent.
Quackity: ( image of the captain America meme with the words “so you thought you were safe from Karl and Quackity” edited on it )
Dream: I -
Tommy rolled his eyes with a fond look as he read what Karl sent.
Techno: lol I half called it . Sup Karl
Karl: hey guys :)
Wilbur: two? Again?
Minx: oh not you cunts
Niki: hi Karl ! Hi Quackity!
Karl: hey Niki!
Quackity: hi Niki!
Niki: just a reminder that I’m the favorite siblings :)
Puffy: yeah no
Ranboo: absolutely not
Techno: now hold on-
Tommy cackled as they all tore into each other. After a few minutes of reading their arguments he sent out a quick message.
Tommy: I don’t have a favorite
Tommy: or do I 🤔
Tommy lost it as he watched them yell at him. He exited out of the chat with a huge smile. He really does love those idiots.