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Ranboo was sitting at the lava pool in the nether, alone, just like he liked it most of the time. He didn't know what else to do, what else to use to pass the time. He already wrote, he wrote like he was running out of time. Hell what even is time? It's weird, a weird concept and-
His thoughts got cut short by hearing someone approaching, Tubbo to be exact, he sat down next to him. He smiled softly, oh, that soft smile that Ranboo loved seeing on Tubbo's face
"what were you thinking about, bossman?" the brown haired boy asked
"Stuff..." the black white haired boy replied
"Tell me! Pleaseeee!" Tubbo pressed on
Ranboo sighed then mumbled so very softly "Time..."
"Time? What about time?"
"Well it's always been... Weird to me." Ranboo pauses before continuing "It progresses so fast yet so slow, it can pass like the ocean or stay in the same time like a bad thought. I know time never stops, but it feels like it and it's always been weird. I know I shouldn't overthink about Time, I mean who would think about time this much? It's just... I can't explain it"
The little boy listened, he didn't interrupt, when Ranboo stopped taking he thought before he starting talking "Well... Yeah, but time is something we can't control. There are different things that can make it go by faster or slower, Time is weird yes I'll admit that but it isn't worth your time, okay bossman?"
"Hm.. Thanks tubs, but I still feel weird thinking about it, I mean I am weird when it comes to this stuff..." he looked away
"Am I allowed not to believe that?" Tubbo awnsered
"What do you mean?"
"You're not weird for thinking, you just took it in a different way, time isn't your typical thing to focus on" The goat boy reassured
"Thank you, again. You always somehow know how to calm me down..." Ranboo gave him a slight smile as he turned to gaze at him again
"We should head back home, Techno probably has had enough of Micheal" Tubbo pointed out "But we can stay here if you need more time without anyone bothering us."
"I'd like to stay here if that's okay with you" The taller boy muttered
"Of course it's okay, why wouldn't it be?" The older boy replied
"Well I thought it wouldn't be kind to Techno"
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Techno and Micheal were having a snowball fight, Micheal was winning by a mile, throwing three snowballs at the pigs face
"Easy there, orphan, I still need my face" Techno scolded
"Orphan? But I'm not an orphan?" The little toddler asked confused
"You aren't yet." Techno replied, leaving the implication in the air
Micheal stared at Techno, he didn't want his parents to leave him! He teared up
"Hey hey kiddo I was kidding please don't Cry-"
Well it was too late for Micheal as he started crying
"Wait wait no Child stop crying!"
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Tubbo thought, well They weren't wrong, that was a memory of the past. Tubbo remembers how when they both came home Micheal was a crying mess. It took a damn while to calm him down. It was... Certainly a memory
"You, you are very kind though and techno knows a bit better now" The short goat boy giggled as he said the last part, he remembered the memory and it was as said something indeed
"You really think so?" The taller oreo looked at him with softened eyes, a gaze that could make even the flowers melt (I had no better way of describing Ranboo)
"Yes of course! You're the most amazing husband"
"You really do treat me so nicely, I wonder what I did to have such an amazing husband..." Ranboo's voice softened as he said that
"You didn't do anything, fate, fate did it's thing..."
Fate, a something that can be more soft and sweet but also cruel and horrible