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Honestly, it wasn’t his fault that Dream kicked him out of the house again. It hurt, sure, that his own brother would betray him so often and so much, but he wouldn’t actually hurt Tommy!
Brothers can’t hurt each other. That’s what Tubbo said. And Schlatt was nice to Tubbo, so Tommy thinks that’s true.
He kicks a pebble on the path.
He had ventured to the forest nearby out of boredom. He’d already explored the park and the town and he knew every alleyway and who owned which house. He’d seen every inch of this boring town.
And it was almost night time now, so it wasn’t like Tommy could go hang out with his friends to kill his boredom.
Dream told him he couldn’t come back until tomorrow at lunchtime.
Maybe him and Dream aren’t brothers. That would explain why Dream is so mean.
“I wanna go home,” he complains to the tree nearby. “I wanna sleep in a bed and not the ground!”
He kicks another pebble.
He hears a yip from nearby. He whips his head toward the sound.
It sounded like a puppy! Like the one that Tubbo has at his house!
“Here, puppy!” Tommy goes toward the sound. He pushes past the tight bushes that seem to be trying to keep him from finding the puppy.
Which is silly. Why wouldn’t he want to find the puppy?
He gasps as he finds two puppies.
“Puppies!” He giggles. The two puppies turn to look at him from where they’d been playing. They looked different than the puppy that Tubbo had, but that’s okay. Tommy looked different than Tubbo and they were still humans.
Or that’s what Schlatt said anyway.
“Here puppies!” Tommy makes the kissy sound that Tubbo used to call his puppy. “I’ll be your friend!”
One of the puppies was brown, and the other was a reddish brown. They looked so fluffy and Tommy just wanted to hold them!
The brown puppy sniffs Tommy’s hand and its tail starts wagging. It yips and jumps on Tommy. Tommy giggles as he falls down. The reddish brown puppy also jumps on Tommy.
“Play! I wanna play!” Tommy giggles, chasing the reddish brown puppy. They run around for a long time before Tommy starts to get tired.
“I’m tired,” he tells the puppies, “but I gotta go home tomorrow. I don’t wanna go home.” He yawns.
The brown puppy nudges Tommy’s leg gently. Tommy giggles sleepily.
“I don’t wanna go home cus Dream’s mean. He’s my brother but he doesn’t like me. Secretly, I think he’s a fake brother! Cus Schlatt said real brothers aren’t mean.”
Tommy giggles as the brown puppy licks his cheek.
“I can stay with you guys tonight… but it’s kinda cold…” Tommy shivers. The puppies crawl into his lap, snuggling as close to him as they could.
Tommy whines and shivers again.
“‘S really cold…” His eyes droop. The reddish brown puppy lets out a growl. Tommy blearily opens his eyes to see a big, white puppy with red eyes entering the clearing.
“That puppy doesn’t look nice…” Tommy whines, trying to get up.
The brown puppy uses its front paws to push Tommy down.
“Mkay… I’ll stay here…” Tommy yawns, shivering as the two puppies growl in front of him. The big puppy is a lot bigger than his puppies.
His eyes snap open when the big puppy grabs the brown puppy with its teeth and throws it into a tree.
“Puppy!” Tommy smacks the big puppy. “Don’t hurt my puppies! Bad puppy!”
The big puppy snarls and-
Tommy screams.
The big puppy was biting Tommy’s neck.
Tommy doesn’t see much of what happens next, but he hears the sound of something moving and then a tree branch whacks the big puppy. There’s a kid that looks like he’s Schlatt’s age with long, pink hair.
“Kid, hey, stay with me!” The kid with pink hair whacks the big puppy again and jabs one end of the stick into the big puppy’s eye. The big puppy yelps and runs away.
“Tech… I’m here!” A kid with brown curly hair limps into view.
“Wilbur… frick, we have to turn him.”
“But he’s just a baby!”
“No’ b’by” Tommy whines.
The pink hair kid picks Tommy up. “How old are you then, kid?”
“‘M five,” Tommy mumbles, lifting up his hand to show on his fingers. Just like Schlatt taught him to. “My name’s not kid… it’s T’mmy…”
“Tommy…”
“Wilbur…” the pink hair kid points to something on Tommy’s neck. “He’s turning… trying to anyway.”
“You need to- well… we need to override that sire bond. Can’t let some rogue be a pup’s sire.”
“But we don’t even have a sire anymore! She died-”
“And let Tommy suffer? We’ll figure it out! We always do!”
Tommy’s eyes droop.
“Shit! Wil-”
“Tommy? Do you want new brothers?” the brown haired kid asks, poking Tommy’s shoulder.
“Mhm… my brother is mean… you… seem nice…” Tommy yawns.
Two growls bounce on the trees.
“We’ll be so nice. We’ll give you the best we can do, promise,” the pink hair kid says.
“Mk…”
Tommy watches as the two kids turn into the puppies from earlier.
“Puppies…?” Tommy was too tired to think about that though.
Then they bite his neck. But it doesn’t hurt as bad as the big puppy’s bite did. He lets his eyes close.
“Nini…”
He wakes up warm. That doesn’t happen a lot. Or ever.
He whines and tries to push the weight off of him, but he finds his hands gone. Instead there’s two paws. He yelps in surprise.
He had puppy paws!
The weight on him shifts and he sees the reddish brown puppy looking down at him.
“Awake-awake-pup?”
Tommy nods and whines, wanting the other to come back.
“Technoblade-Techno-brother-brother” the puppy- Techno barks.
If he was human, Tommy would’ve giggled. How cool is it that he’s a puppy now and can talk to his puppies?!
“Techno-brother!”
“Good-pup-good”
Tommy feels something move behind him. He cranes his neck to see a golden tail wagging. He tries to bite it, something about it moving making him want to catch it. He growls when the tail slips away.
An amused huff from above him distracts him.
“Wilbur-otherbrother-back-soon-food-hunt” Techno tells him.
Tommy nods and gives a little yip. He feels his tongue hang out of his mouth as he pants softly. This is fun!
He likes being a puppy!
Tommy yips and jumps forward. But all of a sudden, his butt comes too fast with him and he tips over. He yelps and begins whining.
Techno huffs and licks Tommy’s face gently. Tommy’s tail starts wagging again.
“Careful-careful-pup”
Tommy nods and moves a bit more carefully, trying to figure out how his new body worked. Then he hears something coming toward them. He yips excitedly to see his other brother.
A brown puppy comes back carrying a baby bunny.
Tommy licks his lips. Normally he wouldn’t eat a baby bunny, but he was so hungry! He is going to starve!
“Here-pup-here-Wilbur-brought-food” Techno rumbles.
Tommy’s tail wags harder and he waits patiently for Wilbur to bring him the food. He looks confusedly at the bunny. Then up at his brothers.
How does he eat it?
They look down at him and nudge the bunny to him. He puts his paws on it and tries to tear it open. His brothers growl softly and use their teeth to rip tiny pieces of the bunny off to feed to Tommy.
Tommy yips happily and eats what his brothers give him.
His brothers are so cool!
His brothers’ tails start wagging as Tommy happily eats.
“Shift-try-shift?” Wilbur asks after Tommy finishes eating.
“Confused-confused-help!” Tommy whines, pawing at Wilbur’s face.
It took him a while to figure it out, but once he did, it was fun! He was going to shift again when Techno picked him up.
“That’s enough shifting for today, pup.”
“B-But Tech!” Tommy pouts, pushing on his brother’s chest.
“It’s going to get cold tonight, so let’s go find a hideout, okay?”
Tommy nods. “I know the bestest hideouts! Super secret hideouts!”
Techno lifts a brow. “Oh yeah?”
Wilbur peeks over Techno’s shoulder at Tommy. “Where, pup?”
“That way!” Tommy points to where he remembers his hideout being. It was a little root cavern in a big twisty tree by a little pond. He’s so good at finding cool spots. His brothers are going to be so proud!
Techno and Wilbur walk, taking turns carrying Tommy. Eventually they get to Tommy’s super secret hideout. He giggles and squirms to get down. He runs to a big dripping leaf tree and pushes aside the leaf vines.
“Look!” He points.
“Wow…”
Fireflies were starting to pop up because of the sun starting to go down, and there were some flowers popping up under the big tree’s roof. Butterflies and bees were scattered around the flowers, some flying up to rest in the tree. Some birds had made a nest in the tree since the last time Tommy had been here.
The little pond on the other side of the tree had frogs and fish jumping out of it.
Tommy giggles and runs to his hideout.
“Oh! There’s my blankie and stuffie!” He squirms into the root cavern and finds his blue blanket and chicken stuffed animal. “See? See?”
Tommy giggles.
Techno and Wilbur smile and crawl in next to him.
“This is nice, Toms,” Wilbur ruffles Tommy’s hair.
Tommy giggles again.
They spend a lot of time there. Techno and Wilbur take turns going hunting while the other one plays with Tommy. Tommy even got to go hunting sometimes with them!
But it was hard! The only animals they could catch were bunnies and squirrels, but they were too fast for them.
Tommy could hear his brothers’ stomachs make noise at night, when they tried to hide how hungry they were getting from trying to take care of Tommy.
He feels a little bad because they were all too little to hunt a big deer. Techno tried once, but it kicked him hard and now Techno has a limp.
Or that one farmer’s sheep. The mean farmer that hit his horses. Tommy didn’t like the farmer. Wilbur tried to take one of the sheep that had wandered to the forest, but the farmer shot an arrow into Wilbur’s shoulder. Now Wilbur’s arm doesn’t work very good.
Tommy licks his brothers’ faces. They were in their wolf forms at night to help keep the cold away. The nights were starting to get way colder, even the day too! That meant winter!
Animals didn’t like to come out as much in the winter time. That’s what Wilbur said anyway.
His brothers were starting to worry more about food.
Tommy whines when his brothers began sleeping more. Even more than he did!
He paws at their faces, wanting to play outside, but Wilbur just lifts a paw over Tommy’s back and holds him down. Techno’s face buries in Tommy’s stomach.
Tommy squirms, wanting to play. His brothers both growl softly at him. He huffs and settles back down. Whatever. He could play later.
He supposes that he has time for a little nap.
Tommy wakes up before his brothers do. So of course, he squirms out from under them to play under the big tree. They told him not to go past the dripping leaves that hang to the ground, but Tommy was bored.
And just a little ways wouldn’t hurt anyone.
So he sneaks out. He is going to catch the biggest deer ever for his brothers!
His tail wags as he finds a deer carcass nearby. He needs to take this back to his brothers! A deer! And he didn’t even have to try to kill it by himself!
He yips excitedly and bites on the deer’s antler. But it pops off. He yelps as he falls backward.
“Need help, mate?” A blond man with green eyes steps into the clearing.
Tommy tilts his head at the man. He looks kind of like Tommy when he’s a human. Tommy’s tail wags as the man pets his head.
“Aw, you’re a cute pup. Where’s your pack?”
Tommy paws at the man’s leg. He’s fun! And nice!
“Want me to shift? Alright, mate, hold on,” the man chuckles. “I’m Philza, what’s your name?”
“Tommy-me-Tommy!” He barks.
“Tommy? What a cute name for a cute pup.” Philza smiles.
Then he shifts into a black wolf with green eyes. He bites the dead deer’s neck and starts to follow Tommy back to where his brothers were.
His brothers were still sleeping when Tommy came back, so he nudges them awake.
“Food-brought-food-brothers!” He barks. He nips lightly at their ears until they wake up.
They grumble at being woken up and they crawl out. They freeze when they see Philza dragging the deer towards them.
Techno and Wilbur growl at Philza. Philza lets out a sharp bark that makes Tommy’s mind go blank and he lays down submissively.
He sees his brothers also lay down.
“My-pups-now-be-good-be-mine.”
Tommy’s tail wags as Philza scruffs him and tucks him back into the root cavern. He is so excited! He doesn’t know what’s happening, but that doesn’t matter! It’s so cool that he gets a packmate that can hunt the big deer!
His brothers aren’t brought into the den for a long time, but Tommy can vaguely hear Philza’s growls and his brothers’ whines. Eventually though, Tommy is pulled out of the den by Philza’s teeth and he’s between his brothers, who are both sweating a lot.
Philza shifts back into his human form.
“There we are. That wasn’t so bad, was it now? Let’s go back to my den where I can properly care for you pups.”
Tommy’s tail smacks against Wilbur’s nose. He lets out a disgruntled noise, but doesn’t nip at Tommy like usual. He looks pretty tired. He must need a nap!
Tommy also wants a nap.
He yawns.
Philza chuckles.
“Sleep, pups, when you wake up… you’ll be home. And you won’t have to go hungry ever again.”