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Memories swim and haunt you

Anonymous

Summary:

`But look into the lake, shimmering like smoke, rises the moon.`

Recovery isn't easy, but at least it's not being done alone.

Chapter 1: Breath, breath, breath

Summary:

`Days pull you down just like a sinking ship,
floating is getting harder,
but tread the water child, and know that meanwhile,
rises the moon`

-Rises the Moon, Liana Flores

Notes:

Work & Chapter title, & summaries are from the song Rises The Moon by Liana Flores

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Ranboo doesn't know if.. any of this still feels real.

He'd been so sure they were never going to be saved, that they'd be trapped forever, that Dream would mold him and Tommy however he wanted to, and eventually kill Tubbo for good once he got bored.

But here he is, sitting at the table with Michael as the piglin practically inhales his oatmeal.

The child had been estatic when he came home, and was still asking about Tubbo, who he hadn't been able to see yet due to his injuries.

Tommy comes hobbling down the stairs, and they don't speak as he moves around the kitchen and throws himself together a breakfast of whatever health infested cereal Phil's been keeping around.

Phil, Tommy, Foolish, and Puffy are all staying at the mansion with them to help along Tubbo's recovery, and they're often visited by a multitude of other smp members.

Tommy settles down heavily, curling his arms around his bowl of cereal almost protectively. Michael perks up, patting his hands on the table.

Tommy reaches over and ruffles the fluff on top of the piglins head, amd Michael, satisfied for the time being, goes back to eating his oatmeal.

Ranboo allows a moment of silence before asking, "How did you sleep?"

Tommy hums noncomitaly around his mouthfull of food and swallows it down. "Well enough," He says, "No nightmares."

And Ranboo knows that is true, because he and Tommy sleep on beds pushed together, always touching in some way after becoming dependant on each other for support.

If they could sleep with Tubbo they could, but the chance up upsetting his injuries were too great.

"That's good," He hums, and nothing more is said.

He looks down at his memory book copy he'd been skimming through. He's been doing that a lot, losing everything had been.. terrifying. He'd lost count of the times he'd completely read through it the first day they'd been back.

That was three days ago.

God.

Puffy comes down the stairs shortly afterwards. She picks up Michael and spins him around at his instistance, and sets him on the counter as she begins to make herself eggs, and warms up a can of chicken broth in a pan.

"Tubbo?" Ranboo asks.

There's no need to specify. "Phil's caring for him now," She says, scrambling the eggs. "The infections are slowly starting to go down."

Tubbo had.. a lot of infected injuries, most prominintly his lash wounds and stumpy remains of his fingers, and there was a high risk of him.. dying from them, but under proper care and with the help of regen and health pots, they'd gotten him stable.

"That's good," Tommy mumbles, getting up to dump the remains of his cereal down the drain.

"You need to eat more," Puffy comments, sliding most of the finished eggs on one plate, and some on another, pushing it towards Michael, who glady digs in despite already eating oatmeal, which Ranboo picks up the bowl for and sets it, carefully, in the sink.

"I would if we didn't have such shit cereal," Tommy snarks back. "Phil choses the nastiest shit."

"It's healthy," Puffy says patiently, eating her eggs with the speed of someone who's raised children and hadn't had the luxury of taking their time with it. "But I'll keep that in mind if it means you eat a proper amount."

"Can you take this up?" Puffy asks, handing Ranboo a bowl of now warm chicken broth.

He hurries up the stairs without any prompting. They'd hardly gotten see Tubbo, as most of his time was taken up either sleeping or being cared for by Phil or Puffy.

He gently raps on the door and then steps in, and in a sudden, alarming thought, he remembers that he left his memory book downstairs at the table, but the fear disapaits quickly. He trusts Tommy, and he trusts Puffy.

"Hey, mate," Phil says warmly, "Tubbo, look who came to see you,"

Tubbo's sitting up on bed, slouched forwards slightly so his back doesn't touch the headrest. He looks tired, but his eyes light up when they meet Ranboo's.

"Hi, bee," He smiles, and settles down on the bed in front of the ram hybrid.

"Boo," Tubbo says back. His voice is scratchy and raw, but it makes Ranboo undeniably happy. He hasn't heard it since.. he doesn't know. Phil had relayed the whereabouts of his current memory book.

There's bandages wrapped around his entire torso, and his arms. His hair is scattered with white, Ranboo thinks about half of it has lost it's color.

Tubbo reaches out, taking the broth with his unbroken fingered hand and settling it in his lap and then grabbing the spoon.

Ranboo is content to sit and watch Tubbo eat, and eventually Phil leaves to get him water.

Tubbo finishes about half of it, and asks, "H- how's Michael? An' Tom- Tommy?"

"They're good," Ranboo responds easily, scooting closer to run his fingers through Tubbo's brown and white hair. "They miss you a lot, Michael especially."

Tubbo makes a soft, almost whining sound. "Miss 'im too," He says softly. "Don't w- want him to see- to see this," He makes a vague, weak gesture at himself, spoon in hand.

"Yeah," Ranboo agrees. He doesn't think Michael would react well to that at all. "Just means you gotta get better for him."

"Mm," Tubbo hums, eyes slipping closed. "Doin' my b- best," He mumbles.

Ranboo gently takes the bowl and the spoon, setting them on the bedside table and helping Tubbo to settle down on his side, tucking him in and brushing the hair out of his face.

Tubbo's asleep by the time Phil comes back.

Ranboo heads downstairs and heads the dishes over to Tommy to wash, who grumbles loudly, but does do them.

He kisses Michael's head as the piglin crawls over on the counter to him, clamering to be in his arms. "Bee said he misses you," Ranboo relays gently.

"See?" Michael asks excitedly, placing his hooves on Ranboo's cheeks. "Me? See Bee?"

"Soon," Ranboo presses their foreheads together. "Not yet, but soon, I promise."

Michael seems slightly disapointed, but then Tommy turns to them quickly, spreading his arms slighly as he asks, in whats almost his usual, loud Tommy-ness, "Michael, do you want to watch Moana?"

Notes:

kind of a lame chapter to get us started, but here we are! i don't have much to say other than thank you for reading, and I dearly hope you enjoyed <3

Chapter 2: Notice<3

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Hello! Itchas been quite a while now, hasn't it? Now.. I typically refrain from posting chapters about updates and notices, yada yada.. but I feel it's warranted in this situation.

So, I currently am working on a rewrite of this fic, even if it is only one chapter long. The beginning of a fic means a lot, and the second I finished this I was very unhappy, and consequently never even started on another chapter.

Despite that, this is a story I'd like to tell. After thinking about it for almost two years, I've decided to rewrite it.

Now, I don't know how much of an audience I'll have anymore, as I've said it's been about two years.. but I hope some of you will see this and stick around for when the new one is published. I'll make another chapter here when it's done, so anyone who wants to find it can.

 

-<3 robin/bo.

Chapter 3: ;)

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EXPLDOES.

new fic dropped!???!

i dont habe much to say here, just.... yk. take the new fic!! i like it a lot more than i liked this one. much of the same ideas will still go into that, just.. better. lol.

new fic here :)

if the link doesnt work.. its in the series, go find it.

anyways, enjoy<3