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"Wilbur!" Techno yelped as he threw yet another snowball at him "Phil said not to throw any snowballs or else we'll get wet and sick" he frowned as Wilbur giggled. "Oh come on Techno" He smiled "You know Phil won't care, I'm too cute to get mad at"
Techno snorted at that "Annoying is what you mean" he muttered, while reaching into the snow. Wilbur gasped dramatically at that, "You don't mean that. I'm too amazing to be annoying, becau-" he couldn't finish what he was about to say as a snowball got thrown at him. He froze for a second as he heard techno's laughter, two can play at that game. He grabbed the snow and started forming two snowballs quickly, he pelted Techno at the head. He watched as he stumbled back in shock and he couldn't help but snicker at that.
He grabbed more snow as he watched the shock fade from Techno, and instead a grimace and competitiveness replace it instead. He continued to repeatedly hit him with them as he ran shrieking, and as Techno ran after him with a million snowballs in hand. This kept going until they both fell down panting from all the sprinting. They had gotten tired from their snowball fight and instead they had sat down onto the ground, watching as soft snowflakes fell down onto the ground. He turned to his pink haired brother "I want to see Sally" he said.
Techno looked at him "Again? Why do you care about your stupid fish so much?"
Wilbur shrugged "I like her, she's my wife you know" he grinned, but Techno didn't seem to feel the same. He deadpanned at Wilbur's answer for a while before he opened his mouth to reply "You can't have a fucking fish wife, stupid" he replied.
Wilbur stood up onto his feet and shook his head "Nuh uh! Me and Sally are in love and we're married!"
"Whatever, even if you and Sally are" He brought up his fingers to make an airquote " 'Married' the river would've frozen over anyway". Wilbur frowned "I don't believe you" he said, he grabbed Techno's hands and tried pulling him with him "Come one let's go!". Techno groaned in disagreement but still reluctantly got up and followed his twin, muttering things under his breath, which Wilbur had no problem ignoring.
***
"She's here somewhere....I think" Wilbur said as he craned his neck to get a better look into the river "I know she is here. She wouldn't leave me just as we got married!". He could just see Techno roll his eyes at that, he tugged at his coat sleeve "Your fish wife or whatever isn't here. We should go back before Phil gets angry at us for being late". But Wilbur still didn't budge, he kept staring at the water, as if Sally would stick her magnificent face out as she usually does, and talk to him, mostly about school and how annoying Techno could be, just like right now. Techno sighed and started walking away as he had given up on pulling Wilbur by the coat sleeve "I'll leave without you, you know!" he yelled from the distance.
Something moved from the far side of the river and he squinted his eyes to get a better look. Another call from Techno "I'm going to call Phil and tell him you weren't listening to me!" Another pause and he could make out a figure of some sort. It didn't look like his beloved Sally, he frowned at that but tried to move closer to get a better view of it. "What the hell are you looking at?" Techno asked, now moving to his side, the crunching of the snow under his boots.
Wilbur blinked at him, “I think there’s something there” he pointed towards the object “Can you go and get a closer look at it?”.Techno crossed his arms and huffed “I’m not falling for that” he rolled his eyes “You’re just going to push me into the water”. Wilbur stared at him and pouted “Fine, I’ll do it myself then!” Techno watched as the other child snapped off a branch from a tree and moved closer to the water.
It came more into view it was brown and spinning in the water on some orange floaty thingy. He got up onto one of the logs that had been knocked down into the river and reached as far as he could. “Wilbur you’re going to hurt!” He yelled, but Wilbur just shrugged “I’ll be fine! I’m just going to see what this is”.
He could definitely see what it was now, it was an box on some sort of thing to help it float. He broke out into a grin “I think Sally got me a present!” He yelled happily. Techno blinked at him and came closer to where Wilbur was on the log "Your fish didn't send you an Amazon box" he rolled his eyes. Wilbur frowned at him but didn't say anything "Can you at least help me?" he asked, and moved even closer to the edge of the log. Techno shrugged but took the stick out of Wilbur's hand and also moved closer to the edge. He reached the stick out and managed to grab the box using it, thankfully he could pull it close to him.
"Grab it! Grab it!"
"Wait I'm trying" he grumbled and grabbed the box into his arms. He looked into it and his body stiffened in shock, Wilbur tried look in there "Wait I want to see!" Techno stared in disgust at whatever was in there "Fine here" and shoved the box toward Wilbur. It was surprisingly heavy and he had to put it on the log to not accidentally drop it. He peered in there and his eyes widened "Holy shit..." he started "Techno are you seeing this?" he breathed as he stared down at a small boy inside of the box.
Techno scrunched his nose like he just smelled something unpleasant "Yeah. And he's an orphan"
”How do you know he’s an orphan?” Wilbur asked.
”I mean just look at him” he pointed at the kid “Remember that movie we watched yesterday? About that boy who’s an orphan and got sent out in the water for someone to find him?”
Wilbur nodded his head “Oh” he paused “So you don’t think Sally sent me a present?”
”Why the fuck would Sally give you an orphan as a present?”
Wilbur shrugged “She’s special like that”.
”Okay whatever. Let’s go now” he grabbed Wilbur’s hand and urged him to follow him. “Phil’s going to be mad if we don’t go home soon. I don’t want Phil to get mad at us”.
Wilbur shrugged him off and kept looking at the boy “We can’t just leave him! He’ll die, it’s super cold out here” the little boy squirmed and Wilbur noticed he was carrying a little cow stuffed animal, similar to his sheep one. “He’s so cute, look at him!”
Techno cringed “I don’t like him. Now come on” he pulled Wilbur “No I’m not leaving without Tommy!”
“Tommy? Let me guess, you already name him, didn’t you?” He bitterly asked. Wilbur nodded “Yeah and I’m not letting him go. He’s our baby brother now”
”Our?”
Wilbur shrugged “Fine. my baby brother now” he hauled the box onto land. The thing the baby was floating on sank immediately into the snow. A lightbulb lit up and he gasped “Techno! I have an idea”
”What is it this time?”
”We could push the box like a sled! I bet it would be super fun” he giggled. Techno rolled his eyes and sighed “Fine, but he’s your problem now. I’m not going to help you with anything with the baby”
Wilbur broke out into a smile but Techno spoke again “I’m not helping you with Phil either”. Wilbur remembered that his father existed and frowned “It’s fine, I’ll think of a cover story while we’re walking”.
They walked through the snow, as the afternoon fell, but the snow did just as quickly. Tommy surprisingly hadn’t stirred or woke up, even when they raised their voices a little too loudly. Thankfully he seemed to be a heavy sleeper.
Him and Techno would get along for that.
***
“Phiiiiil!” Wilbur called out, but it didn’t take long for their father to appear in front of the,. By the look on his face Wilbur knew that he wasn't really happy, but it was a mixture with relied, so that was at least a good sign. "Where were you?" Phil asked before Wilbur could open his mouth, he could tell that he was trying to keep his voice low but his anger betrayed him "Do you have any idea how much I was worried? I had to call all your friends, and did you know how scared I was when they told me they hadn't seen you?"
Wilbur stared down at his shoes, Techno side eyed Wilbur as if to say "It's your problem now" and tried to make his way to his room, but got blocked by Phil. “No I want you both here to explain yourselves” the worst part of it all was that Phil didn’t sound angry but more disappointed, he just would rather him yell at them than let him sulk under the guilt.
”Well?” Phil asked, urging at least one of the twins to speak up. They both stared down at their boots before Wilbur opened his mouth “we- ghhfgjj” he murmured.
”What was that?” Phil said, “Come on, I won’t be mad just tell me”
Wilbur gulped, not knowing how his Dad would react to him saying that they found a toddler floating around in a box, he gulped “Surprise! We found a new brother!”
He stepped aside to reveal the box. “What” Phil paused trying to find the right words to say “What the fuck did you guys do”