Home is where the heart isn’t.
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The walls are screaming, (dear god please let me out). by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
16 Nov 2021
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“Toms,” Wilbur turns his attention to him for the first time since being home. They’ve been here for hours. “How’s school? You still struggling with maths?” An innocent question, a stupidly innocent question that Wilbur asks to be nice, to be pleasant, to catch up with his baby brother.
“I haven’t had any calls from his teachers recently, so he must be.” A joke, he knows Phil is joking but it twists his heart in the wrong direction and shatters any shards of hope Tommy had left for his family.
“I’m in college, for video editing.” He says, because he is, and they don’t seem to know that. “I passed maths with an A.” He frowns, picking up his fork and using it to grab a piece of the garlic bread and dropping it on his plate. “Like two years ago.” He adds.
The silence is unpleasantly loud, it’s far more familiar than the laughing. He almost feels bad.
Almost.
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OR Tommy's relationship with his family told through the dinning room and the family dinner they have after his brothers finally come home after eight years.
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- Part 3 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 1 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
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I don’t know what to say to you (I can’t look you in the eye). by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
20 Nov 2021
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“What are you doing in here?” Tommy’s voice comes from behind him, it makes him jump and his cheeks redden in embarrassment for getting caught. He knows Tommy hadn’t wanted him in here, this space was his own and here Wilbur was, in all his glory, tainting it by being a stranger in a room he never should have forgotten.
“Where did the red go?” He asks instead of answering. “You begged dad for weeks to let you paint it.” Because while six year old Tommy thought it was the pinnacle of good design, Phil had thought a room full of bright red walls would give him a headache everytime he walked in.
“I painted over it.” He says, lifting a half empty box from the floor to his desk. He opens the draws and starts putting everything from it into the box. He’s not checking what any of it is, but he’s taking everything, like he has no plans of coming back (because he doesn’t, the terrible voice at the back of his head whispers, he never wants to be here again). “Ranboo and Tubbo helped.”
“I don’t like it.”
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Or Tommy's about to move out, Wilbur wants to fix their relationship, told through Tommys bedroom.
(Or a part two of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)')
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- Part 2 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
- Part 4 of SBI Family Fics
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Technoblades Interlude. by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
24 Nov 2021
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When Technobalde was eight years old he found out he was getting a brother. When he was still eight years old his family finally fell apart. And when he was nine he punched someone in the face for the first of many times. The asshole deserved it, in his very unbiased opinion.
Afterwards, when his nose was bleeding and his knuckles were bruised and his ego even more so, Phil had taken him to the bathroom, sat him on the counter and cleaned the injuries with love and care and far more patience than he deserved, really.
He wonders if Tommy ever got that same patience or if he was left to deal with injuries on his own, if Phil had learned to drown out the sound of the crying child because from what he remembers the boy never stopped.
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Or Tommy's gone, Techno doesn't know how to feel, told through the kitchen at five am.
(Or a part three of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)')
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- Part 5 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 3 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
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A grief born man, (a mourning boy). by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, Minecraft (Video Game)
13 Dec 2021
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Tommy, as a person who never particularly found comfort in his father, tends to stay the hell away from his room. The deep purple walls and the draws full of items that aren’t theirs, the picture that once belonged in the dining room back in a frame but left leaning against the wall in the corner, the family photo on the dressing that’s from a trip before he was born, artwork and old tests but none from him.
There's a layer of dust settled over the picture, along with half the room. One side of the bed is messy. The other hasn’t been touched. He hasn’t been in here in a long time, he used to come running through the door, in a mess of tears and snot and a stuffed animal clutched in his hand with the nightmares still in his mind.
It’s been a long time since that, too. The nightmares never stopped but the comfort did, the line is blurry, where hugs and comfort turned to cold shoulders and years of neglect or if there was ever comfort to begin with.
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Or Tommy and Phils relationship told through Phils bedroom.
(Or a part four of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)')
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- Part 6 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 4 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
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You deserve better, (then the love you get). by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
03 Jan 2022
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“So,” He begins, Tommy looks up from his hands, Techno is sitting on his right and Wilbur is next to Tommy. They look up too, from their phones where Phil is sure they were talking to each other. “How have you been? How’s Ranboo and Tubbo?” He asks, because it’s all he can do really.
“Good, they’re good.” He replies nervously, Phil gives what he hopes is a supportive smile, a smile that says go on, talk, I want to hear what you have to say, I love you. He’s not sure how much of that was clear but Tommy continues to talk, so it’s something. “Tubbo just finished this big project at uni, made a big fuckin’ robot it’s amazing.” He’s smiling more than Phil can ever remember seeing before. “Ranboos gone home to see his mums for Christmas, Tubbo went with.”
“Good, that’s great.” Phil smiles.
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Or Christmas after Tommy moved out, told through the living room.
(Or a part five of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)') Series
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- Part 7 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 5 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
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Tell me why, (you never loved me like that). by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
19 Jan 2022
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Wilbur texted him for the first time a few weeks ago, on the same phone Tommy’s had since he was 17 and with the same number he’s had for years before that, and now, Tommy sits, on his brother’s childhood bed with a baby in his arms.
It’s awfully funny how things turn out.
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Or Tommy gains a nephew but loses a family, told through Wilbur's bedroom.
(Or a part six of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)') Series
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- Part 8 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 6 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
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One step forward. Ten steps back. by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF
17 Feb 2022
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Tommy Watson visits his mother’s grave for the first time twenty years after she died.
Because he only learnt her name when he was eighteen, and the time went too quick while he was waiting to be ready. Except, he’s still not, won’t ever be, doesn’t really know how anyone could prepare themselves enough to be ready.
Beloved Mother, Daughter and Wife.
He doesn’t know if that's true.
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Or Tommy visits his mother grave.
(Or a part Seven of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)') Series
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- Part 9 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 7 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
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If there was a button to make this all right, I don’t think I would push it. by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF, Dream SMP
07 Jun 2022
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Wilbur finds him in the garden the morning after the fight. His youngest brother is crouched at the furthest end, head rested on his knees with one arm wrapped around them and the other gently reaching out to the only patch of flowers that have survived.
He goes to make a move, to go over and talk and apologise too maybe but he stops himself when someone speaks from the phone he hadn’t noticed in Tommy's left hand.
“No Tommy you can’t-” The voice is cut off by his brother who speaks much gentler and Wilbur has to strain to hear him. He shouldn’t be eavesdropping.
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Or the morning after the fight told through Wilbur, Tommy, Techno and the garden.
(Or a part eight of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)') Series
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- Part 8 of Home is where the heart isn’t.
- Part 11 of SBI Family Fics
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And the Universe said 'I love you'. by ThisB_tchEmpty
Fandoms: Minecraft (Video Game), Dream SMP, Video Blogging RPF
16 Jul 2022
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He knows it’s getting bad when at fourteen years old Tommy finds himself sitting in a train station of a city he doesn’t know with his phone in his hand staring at a contact that has never replied to any of his messages.
He stares, and stares, and stares, and stares before his hand moves of its own volition, clicking call before he can stop himself and dreading both outcomes to the results of a test with no right answers. It rings. He shouldn’t be here.
It’s two o’clock on a Wednesday, he should be in class. It’s still ringing. Maybe he should hang up? He’s obviously not going to pick up and Tommy really shouldn’t have skipped school, maybe his teachers called Phil and then he’d really be in deep shit because not only will he have detention but he’ll have to deal with whatever punishment his dad gives him too, which would not be good. Not that Phil is home enough to answer the phone but still-
“Hey!” The ringing stops. He answered.
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Or a phone call to a brother, told through a train station and their front porch.
(Or a part nine of 'The walls are screaming, (please dear god let me out)') Series
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- Part 12 of SBI Family Fics
- Part 9 of Home is where the heart isn’t.