Same as the first chapter, read the trigger warnings there. :D
Im a bit rust with my writing so sorry if its not that good
Still, don't say I didn't warn you.
When Tommy Innit wakes up in the bed and in a house, he knew that he fucked up. What had he been thinking? He shouldn't have left. He should not even thought about leaving.
Panic starts to build up inside of his chest as he sits up and holds himself. He had no idea where he was, Which meant that dream could track him down. 'Actually,' he thought. 'He might be in Dream's base right now.' Dream was going to be pissed. He disobeyed his friend, and now he was going to suffer the consequences. Tears start to well in his eyes at the thought of punishment and his breath quickens. What will he do? He can't leave again. If he does he'll definitely be killed.
He starts crying, deciding that he was going to try to leave again. He couldn't stay and face the wrath of his only friend. Forgetting about his injured foot, Tommy falls off the bed with a loud thud. This only makes his sensitive state worse, causing him start breathing a lot faster to the point of hyperventilation. He shakes and tries to stand up again, stumbling back towards the wall as he hears footsteps coming up the ladder. His vision went blank as he pressed himself into the corner of the room, gripping at his chest wondering why he couldn't breathe. He stared at his knees and held his head with the other hand, trying and failing to hold back a choke to sob as who he assumed was Dream stood in front of him.
You were never allowed to cry in front of dream. If you did, you'd get punished.
Techno thought he had heard the sobbing before he heard the thud. He didn't mind when he heard a crying a bit, but he did mind when he heard the thud of something hitting the floor and then loud sobbing. Worry filling his chest, Technoblade walked up the ladder slowly, hoping not to disturb Tommy too much. By the time he had gone up the ladder and fully stepped on to the fourth floor of his bass, The former vice president was sitting in the corner, hugging himself with his face hidden as he had a panic attack.
Not exactly sure what to do in these types of situations, the emperors kneeled in front of Tommy and put his hand on his shoulders. He didn't pushed the thought of how worrying the sight of Tommy flinching when the pig put his hands on his shoulders to the back of his mind and spoke softly.
"Tommy," he said in a low voice. "Tommy I need you to calm down, alright? Everything is okay, you're safe," Techno rubbed the younger ones shoulder and coo'd, just like he would hear Philza do so when Wilbur would have one of these. His actions seemed to help the child calm down a bit. Starting slowly, Technoblade asked the teenager to copy him breathing. With a bit of exaggeration, the emperor started breathing slowly, counting to ten in his head. Surely enough, Tommy followed suit with a bit of encouragement, helping him to calm down a bit more.
After repeating this for nearly thirty minutes, Blade had managed to help Tommy calm down to the point where all you could hear were small whimpers and sobs. The pig hugged the fugitive as gentle as he could, still rubbing his shoulders and back for reassurance that he was going to be alright. During this period he had some time to think about what just happened.
Tommy woke up, started crying, fell off the bed, himself into the corner of the room, proceeded to have a severe panic attack, and is now crying in his arms while hugging him weakly. This was unnatural. No matter how many times Tommy had been beaten down, Techno didn't think that anyone had seen Tommy Innit cry. He feels the only exception to that rule would be Tubbo, but then still he wasn't sure. Innit also barely gave out hugs or admitted that he wanted one - unless there was Philza or Tubbo - for he was too prideful. Tommy also had never had a panic attack before, and that was something he knew for sure. The kid didn't seem like he was the type of person to even know what those were.
The self-proclaimed anarchist knew that something was wrong. That something had happened between the last time he saw the Gremlin child and now. While he held Innit in his arms, he examined his body, something that he couldn't do last night.
Tommy's clothes were tattered and worn for wear; they were covered in missing patches, dirt blotches, scrapes, faded out color, and ripped hems. The only two things that seemed to be still intact, where the hat that he held on his head - which seemed to be suspiciously hiding something- and neckerchief that he wore. The bandages that were around his forearms and his right shin were also very worrying to Technoblade. He noticed that Innit was wearing a pair of fingerless gloves with pads on the palms, something that he rememebered a certain dead man liked to wear. Another worrisome thing that his attentive eyes noticed were the amount of bruises and cuts all over the former's body.
The thought of what happened to the child still loomed over his head as he put the younger back into the bed and under the covers. Tell me was on the verge of falling asleep again, but it didn't seem like he would. Hoping for the best anyways, Technoblade looked at Tommy with a softened face and said quietly, "Do you want to eat something?"
He was surprised that Tommy nodded, mainly because the child looked dead inside and outside.
Techno wasn't sure if he should let Tommy sit at a table or something to eat but Tommy insisted that he would be fine very timidly. Shakily, Innit sat up under the covers to receive his plate, which he held close to himself very possessively. Techno sat at the front of the bed, holding his own plate while watching Tommy closely. The way Tommy tried to eat was very… odd, as he tried his best to put it lightly.
It seems like he had forgotten how to eat. Tommy would stare at his plate and pick at his food with the fork before dropping the fork and making a pitiful attempt to pick it back up. When you finally did manage to pick up the fork, he would stare at his food again before trying to take a bite. Then he would flinch like he realized he was doing something wrong and put his food down.
As he put the plate down he didn't make any contact with his older brother. He hadn't said a word since he had insisted that he would be okay to eat. "Is something wrong?" The emperor asked, pushing down his own plate to his lap. Tommy seemed to flinch at the question, but didn't respond as he hugged himself. "I'm not hungry," he said quietly, barely loud enough for Techno to hear.
"Why not? You seemed pretty eager to eat a few minutes ago," Techno commented with a bit of a louder tone. When Tommy didn't answer, the pig put his plate down and put his hand on Tommy's lap. "Innit, I need you to answer me alright?" He said with a gentle tone. From the teenager's reaction to that, Technoblade assumed that Tommy assumed the question was going to be bad.
"Tommy," a flinch. "What were you doing in the snow without anything on you? Nonetheless with a bunch of monsters all around while you were by yourself in the middle of the night?" He got straight to the point, wanting an answer. Tell me wasn't the type of person to go wandering off on his own, even less of the type of person to go without any of his stuff.
"I was running away," Tommy answered quietly again, starting to become nervous as he fidgeted.
"What were you running away from?" Techno questioned, cocking his head to the side slightly.
"I was running from… exile," Techno could sense that that wasn't the complete truth, but he didn't push any further on that.
"Why did you start running away from exile until now? Did something happen?" Tommy tensed at the question, obviously debating on whether or not to tell Techno.
"P-please… don't be mad, okay? He's my friend and he cares about me," Innit sounded shaky as he spoke, almost sounding like he was begging. Like he's done it before.
"Who's your friend? Why would I be mad?"
"D-Dream…" Technoblade can sense some confliction in the younger voice.
"I disobeyed what Dream said, he- he got mad at me for hiding something from him, and he destroyed everything," Tommy spoke with caution, which only added to the nervousness that Technoblade was feeling. "So I built this… I- I ran away, because I was sad."
Abruptly, Tommy stood up, or at least attempted to before saying, "but I- I- I need to go now, s-so I should leave." As he said this, Tommy stopped right before the ladder.
"I can't go back," He heard the child mumble.
"What was I thinking? I can't go back now. He knows by now that I'm gone. Oh, Dreams's going to be furious with me. He's going to kill me for good this time," The fear and Tommy's voice continued to unnerve Techno, making him wonder further what happened to Innit.
"T-Technob-blade?" Tommy asked timidly. "C-Can I please stay here?"
