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Going to a nearby gas station at two am is perfectly normal, in technos humble opinion.
Listen, he ran out of chips. potato chips. Can you blame him for wanting to go out and buy some more for his very responsible all nighter?
Well. In his defense, it is a friday. It's a free pass pretty much. Besides, hes done this before. Countless times!
The actual anomaly, is that his baby brother is awake.
Techno can't blame him, pulling all nighters are fun. Especially since you get to experience peace and quiet with alone time. That's the whole point right?
If only he hadn't heard him go down the stairs..
"Techno?"
The elder piglin almost jumped out of his skin at the voice of his brother, looking behind him with hitched breath before calming down. "Oh- Its- Its you."
"Who else would it be bitch?"
Technoblade rolled his eyes and walked towards the kitchen, tommy following close behind with little steps. "Where are you going?"
"Out." He dryly responded back, grabbing phils car keys and his spare house key.
"Its like.. Two in the morning."
"So? If anything, you should be in bed runt." He gruffly replied back.
Tommy grumbled, tail flicking behind him annoyance. "You're not asleep either."
"Im allowed to be."
"Nuh uh, not if i go wake up phil!"
"You know theres a thing called lying right?"
The younger piglin glared up at him, cheeks puffing up in anger and frustration while his tusks started to show up. "Take me with you."
"Not happening."
"You have to! I'm bored and hungry!" Tommy whined back at him.
"Who said i was gonna go out and get food?"
"Why wouldn't you go out just to get food? You don't socialize."
Techno blinked. He had to admit, tommy got him there. "Touche."
"So, are you taking me with you?"
"The answers still no."
Tommy pouted, crossing his arms and looking up at him with his pout turning into another glare. "Ill scream."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Would i?" The blond responded back with a feigned innocent smile.
Techno hesitated for a moment, before sighing and rubbing the bridge of his nose. "..Fine. Come on, but I'm not buying you anything."
The nine year old beamed, happily running to the front door with excitement practically drawn onto his face.
"You're gonna wake phil up with your running."
"I think his old man ears will protect his sleep." Tommy retaliated, the quip making techno huff out a laugh at him. To be fair.. Technically the truth right?
Unlocking the car doors, tommy happily jumped up to the passengers seat with ease, techno not too far behind with getting in the drivers seat and starting up the car.
"I want the radio this time-"
"I let you come with me to the gas station, you are not also taking away my aux cord."
"But!-"
"Nope, no buts, nothing, nada. Don't even want to hear a quip from you, theseus."
Tommy frowned but complied, sinking into the chair while techno hooked up his bluetooth to the radio. Putting on his 'late at night' spotify playlist.
"Prick."
"Oh come on, the songs arent even bad. You're just a child."
"Im a big man!"
"You're nine." Techno grunted, starting to move out of the driveway and onto the street.
"Yeah! Almost to the double digits prick!"
Techno didn't respond back, choosing to ignore his brothers antics in favor of reversing and getting out onto the road. Finally driving away from home with the start of one of his songs playing.
"Can we go to a far away gas station?"
"Why? Don't you want to head home fast?"
"No, wanna enjoy the ride."
Techno added the options onto his mind, weighing which would be better to him. And good enough for tommy so that he doesn't throw a tantrum.
Though going home quickly is way more appealing, he does have to admit, going out on a long late night drive is calming. Even with his younger brother on his side.
Not too far obviously, phil would be pissed to find his gas to be so low. But.. A twenty-five minute drive is pretty decent, looking through the GPS in a red light of course. He's responsible! He isn't trying to get his brother killed! (Though techno doubts there'll be many cars out at two in the something morning..)
"Fine, we're going to this seven eleven near the faraway walmart-"
"Can we go into walmart too?"
"That, is an absolute no."
"Please?" Tommy whined, flashing puppy dog eyes at him.
Technos ear flicked, his emotions restraining from giving into his brothers eyes.
Shaking his head no, techno looked back into the road when the stoplight turned green. "No."
Tommy let out a small 'Hmph', turning his head to the window to be distracted by the passing buildings.
"..I will buy you a slushie if you stop pouting."
A smile spread on the kids face, happily looking to techno with an eager nod.
A fond grin twisted on technos face, relief and small bits of happiness setting in his chest with his brother finally happy again.
Techno hummed along the beat of the playing song, making a turn to the next road while tommy kicked his feet up and down to the beat.
The gas station finally started to pop up into view, after a thirty minute drive due to getting temporarily lost halfway through. (Listen its dark okay? Don't blame him!)
"We're here runt." Techno grunted, the pink haired man making a turn into the gas station. Eyeing his little brother, who was looking at the walmart next to the station.
Techno turned off the car and got the keys out, gesturing tommy to get out aswell. The kid getting out in swift movement, going around the car to meet his brother who was waiting for him in front of the drivers door.
"What flavor do you want?" He asked to the smaller blonde, grabbing the boys hand and walking towards the entrance.
"Blueberry and raspberry!"
"Together?"
"Yeah! And gummy worms too! The sour ones!"
The elder piglin raised a brow at him while opening the doors.
A very much sleep deprived guy who looked on the verge of passing out greeted them, barely turning to look up at them from his phone. "I never said i would buy you candy runt."
"Well you will now!" Tommy beamed, getting a light hit in the back by technos tail as a sign to quiet down.
Techno walked into the snack isles, looking at the different varieties of chips while tommy looked at the candys behind him.
"Tech, tech, hey tech."
Technoblade looked behind him, tommy holding up something in his hands with a clear expression stating he wanted it.
"What is that?"
"s' the jelly bean game. Where some of them are normal and some have gross flavors, see? This one tastes like puke!"
Disgust clouded the older piglins face, discomfort placing itself onto him. "Why in gods name would you want that tommy?"
"To play with tubbo!"
Techno sighed, unfortunately giving in and placing the gross candy game into the basket, along with two different bags of chips. One normal one, and one with a pickle flavor.
"Come on brat, we lack our slushies."
Tommy grabbed a packet filled with gummy worms and followed behind quickly, him and techno walking to the back of the station to the slushie dispensers.
As expected, the floor is sticky with sugar and spilled icy juice that has long been melted, a cup left abandoned to the side along with hotdog bread crumbs on the floor.
Its.. Not the most sanitary. In fact, its something anyone should frown upon. But hey, the slushies seem good enough to drink without getting sick.
Tommy wasted no time in grabbing one of the cups, hands grabbing one of the bigger ones and quickly putting it under the machine and pressing down so the sweet flavored iced drink came down.
"Careful not to get your hands stickier than they already are." The pink haired man grunted. Grabbing his own cup and waiting for tommy to switch from the blueberry flavour the the raspberry one.
"My hands are perfectly clean, thank you." Tommy huffed in reply.
"Yeah, you wish they were." Techno replied with a roll of his eyes. Finally gaining access to the blueberry flavour dispenser.
"Prick."
"Bratty child." Techno quipped back dryly, grabbing one of the straws held in their holders, handing one to tommy who gladly drank up his drink eagerly. "Are you done?"
The younger piglin responded with a noise, mouth still connected to the straw.
"Good, we're going to check out."
"What if we just steal it?"
"I can't believe my baby brothers gonna grow up to be a criminal." He replied dramatically, resulting in getting hit lightly on his leg by tommy. "No im not! But a little crime won't hurt here and there.."
"Wilbur is rubbing on you far too much"
"He's better than you!"
"Im the cooler twin, actually. Sad you two cant see that."
Tommy rolled his eyes and kept walking with him, fidgeting once they got to the counter while he waited for techno to finish paying off the food.
Food and drinks finally paid off, the both of them walking out of the store and towards the car. Tommy babbling about something techno was barely paying attention to while he scrolled through Twitter on his phone.
"-o can we?"
"Heh? Can we what?"
"Go eat by the bridge on the side of the beach! I wanna watch the sunrise."
"Theseus.. Its.. Almost gonna be three-thirty. The sunrise is sleeping now."
"We can wait for it.." Tommy mumbled under his breath, loud just enough for his older brother to hear.
Techno sighed, on one hand, he wants to go home. On the other? he still wants to go home.
But..
He's been spoiling tommy all night, for no reason at all too. What's one more thing he'll do to comply to his runts wishes?
"We can wait in the walmart parking lot until the sunrise."
"Really?"
"Fuck it, why not?"
Tommy frowned, "You barely curse."
"Im not a heathen like you and wil, but i am able to."
The elder piglin unlocked the car and got in, tommy joining him before going ahead to eat his sweets. "We can go park in the walmart parking lot. Stay there and watch movies on my phone, or we can head home and wait until its six something."
"Parking lot." Tommy nodded, leaving little to no room for argument. Not that techno was gonna argue about it anyway, he gave him choices and the boy choosed.
Watching the titanic until the clock hit six-thirty was fun.
Tommy was currently sobbing onto his chest, a wet damp spot growing in technos hoodie while he sighed. Gently caressing and petting his brothers hair with a small smile.
Tommy finally let his face show to him, looking up at the pink haired man with tears still watering in his puffy eyes.
"Come on tommy, you watched the titanic before. You knew what was going to happen in the end."
Tommy grumbled, burying his face back into technos hoodie. "Whatever."
Techno looked beside him, taking note of the sky slowly starting to clear up once more. Light brushes of pink along with golden light coming out.
"I think its time we head to the beach, go back in your seat."
"Its time already?" Tommy asked, rubbing his left eyes tears away. "Felt short."
"We spent three hours watching a singular movie, though it did feel like time went by fast."
"Well what are you waiting for bitch? Lets go to the beach!"
The ride to the beach wasn't so long, aside from techno making a short stop back to the gas station for more chips and drinks, (since the ones from before were long eaten while they watched the movie in the car.) And tommys choice of music wasn't so bad. Must have gotten it from wilbur.
They weren't going to the beach directly, phil would murder them tenfold if they were gonna come back home wet and sandy. Techno decided to park at the side of a bridge and watch the sunset while sitting in the edge.
And thank the gods tommy complied without complain. Happily watching the sun rise above the ocean of pastel colors.
Technoblade watched as the skys' stars cleared. Drinking his new slushie nonchalantly while his brother ate his chips beside him.
A small nudge in the side of his shoulder drew back technos attention to tommy.
"Hm?"
"The sunrise isn't sleeping now."
A small smile spread on technos face.
"Its not, its coming up to wake everyone up."
Tommy took a sip of his slushie, looking at the sun slowly rise above the water in all its glory. "Phil's gonna kill you."
Techno raised a brow and sighed, taking in another swift of his drink with a tired smile "Oh, no. I know, im gonna get fried because of you."
"But it was worth it!"
"Sure, runt."
The pink haired man looked back to the ocean, checking over the time soon after on his phone.
"We should head home soon.. Lest' you want us to be grounded for life."
"Do we have to?" Tommy whined.
"Be my guest if you want me to leave you on the side of the bridge."
Tommy pouted but went and followed techno back to the car anyway, childish annoyance forgotten once he started talking about school and friends again.
And if they ended up just strolling around buying random things in walmart, how is that anyone's business but theirs? (Even if philza minecraft was not the least bit pleased.)