How's Red?

Members: MattTheMagnificent,
BlueBird, DevilBoi, EddHead.

EddHead: Are you guys home yet?

BlueBird: Yeah. Just got here, actually. What about you guys?

MattTheMagnificent: We arrived a while ago. I'm with Ringo :)

EddHead: you guys left before us! How are you just now getting home?

BlueBird: Traffic?

EddHead: I guess.

BlueBird: What's Matt doing at your house?

EddHead: Lost his house key.

MattTheMagnificent: And my dear sister isn't home yet.

MattTheMagnificent: She's out with Connor.

Tom shut off his phone and huffed into the cushion he held by his chest. They were in Toms house, watching 'Ready Player One.' They wouldn't have watched anything new, or that Tord hadn't seen. Tord had recommended them to watch it, claiming he's seen it a billion times with his parents.

The concept of a VR seemed rather inconvenient to Tom, surely that would be damaging to the eyes, but the plot twists and throwbacks to old entertainment kept him watching.

The kids still had the red and blue sweaters on, they were playing with Legos after a scene came up that Tom preferred for them not to watch.

Tom hugged the cushion closer as the playful giggles and the chattering from the kitchen made the home almost peaceful.

Namki loudly opened a can of beans.

"what am I doing now?" she asked to Tord, who was standing next to her, sniffing .

Tord frowned.  "you opened a can of something or your cutting some tin foil."

" Can you guess what's in the can? " Namki chuckled.

"No. It smells weird."

The two were now strengthening Tords other abilities, currently sound and smell. Namki had Tord stand next to her while she prepared dinner, making him guess what she was doing, what was being cooked, or what type of spice she just added in.

It was working for the most part, Tord could point out when she was scraping the pan or slicing something, smells, however, he was having trouble with.

"Maybe you have a cold." Namki shrugged.

"I'm not familiar with most scents." Tord sniffed the air again.

"maybe I could bring you some spices from my shop, then you could practice smell a little more?" Namki suggested

"I think that'll help. " Tord  listened again to the sound of the stove. "

"Your cooking up something like beef. I don't know? It smells nice though. also something is sizzling. "

Namki nodded, then remembered her blind fellow. "Correct." She  opened a cabinet and grabbed a small glass sugar jar, though it was filled with mint leafs.

Tord cringed at the loud sound of the containers not so elegant landing on the counter top. Must've been heavy.
"Your adding sauce?"

Namki remained silent as she tossed a leaf into a small pot and gave another to Tord.
He sniffed it, in some weird way it freed his nasel passages more, but it was also pretty strong.

"Mint."

" Correct. "

Tord hummed and rubbed his fingers along the small veins that ran along the leaf. it felt soft and almost fuzzy in a nice way.

out of nowhere, something had clicked to Tords mind. He slowly put down the leaf somewhere and cautiously felt around the walls and nearby tables to get to the living room, thankful that Tom was watching a movie, so that the sound could guide him in the right way.

He eventually felt the soft fabric of the couch, and he tapped Toms shoulder from behind, startling him.

"Oh, Hi Tord." Tom yawned. " You need something? "

"Where's my phone?"

"Just a sec." Tom got up and walked off somewhere, and came back a minute later.

" I left it to charge. " Tom carefully handed the phone to Tord in his hand. "What do you need to do?"

Tord shrugged. "call my parents, tell them I got hospitalized two weeks after they left."

"Do you need help?"

Tord shook his head. "Nah. I remember where most buttons are."

Tord tapped the spot where he guessed the phone icon would be, and suddenly doing this without confirmation that he was hitting the right button, seemed quite impossible .

"You've hit the right app."  Tom chuckled.

Tord had thought he went back to watching the movie but, apparently not.

He scoffed. "Gee thanks, can you call the contact that says 'Dad'"

" You don't wanna call 'Mom'?"

" would you want to call Mom?"

"Nah."

" that's what I thought. "

Tom called and handed Tord the phone, who carefully sat down on the other couch facing the right side of the room. Tom lowered the volume of the Tv and got up to use the bathroom and give Tord his privacy.

The phone rang in Tords ear, he knew they would answer, after calls from the school and possibly the hospital, of course they'd have to...right?

after more ringing, a familiar voice answered.

"Tord?Tord! my sweet baby oh my god-" The voice rambled on excitedly yet concerned.

Tord smiled. "Hi ma."

'That son of a gun called Mom.' Tord thought. No wonder he was in a rush to go to the bathroom.

"Tord how are you? The school called, the hospital called, Your father didn't let me answer the first one! Then our friend Leah had to hold both of us back from answering the second - It was horrible what the he'll happened?"

Tord decided that for .4 seconds he hated Tom and everything he stands for because right now this situation is bullshit.

But he often knew how to deliver bad news in a calming manner, just start off slow and simple.

slow, and simple.

"Ma I have 3 days."

Tord covered his mouth to suppress his laughs as Pat started to scream words of concern and threatening at the same time, Namki had over heard and looked over while trying to hold back herself from laughing while having a silent prayer for Tords parents

"Mom I'm lying-im-" Tord wheezed into a nearby pillow.

"You better be lying- Tord I swear to god."

Tord coughed a few times and let out the last few chuckles.

"You didn't let me finish, I have 3 days to wear bandages over my eyes."

before his parent figure could speak, he interrupted.

"Nothing horrible Ma. calm down, I just got a really bad stinging sensation in my eyes today and the doctor  put bandages on to hold on pain medication and protect them from anything."

bickering about the weight of the situation went back and forth.

Tom sat on the bathroom floor with his head against the wall, it brought back memories for hours earlier, but right now, that wasn't on his mind.

~Earlier~

" Grab enough for 5 days. "

"but I only need the bandages on  for 3."

" just do it. "

"okay?" 

Tom entered the small complex slowly, Tord easily went into his room, guessed he really had this place memorized.

Tom walked around carefully, as if the floor was laid with nails facing up wards, he was careful not to touch anything.

His eyes landed on a small picture frame.

He slowly made his way over, where he could see 3 figures. One with slightly long brown hair holding up a younger version of Tord. Both smiling.  Another to the left holding up Adoption Papers.

Adoption Papers

Tom cringed at that,

'Adoptive parents.' Tom added that to his mental list of problems Tord has but doesn't deserve to have.

but if Tord was happy with them, then it doesnt really matter.

until now.

" are you looking at the picture frame. "

Tom jumped.

"was I not supposed to?" Tom squeaked.

" No. No rules against it. "

Tom eased, Tord slowly walked over in front of the frame.

"I was 9."

" huh? "

Tord put a finger where he believed his picture was.

"I was 9 when they adopted me."

"Oh." Tom frowned . "I'm So-"

"Not your fault."

Tom stayed silent as Tord slowly took back his hand.

" I love my new parents though. "

"That's good." Tom let out a small
sigh of relief .

"Good Dads."

Tom nodded. "Gay parents?"

" Gay parents. "

They stayed silent for a while, Tord silently wishing Tom didn't find it weird, but that just seemed out of character.

"i'd like to meet them."

Tord shrugged. "I think they'd like that."

Tom looked at the frame for a couple more seconds, Tord was walking to the door.

Tom looked at Tord now, who was smiling with a duffle bag slung over his shoulder.

" Now come help me down, I don't remember how many stairs there are. "

"Mom I'm staying at a friend's house-"

"Ma I swear to god if you don't stop yelling I'm gonna actually hang up."

Tom listened to the back and forth between a concerned 'Mother' and Tord. Namki had driven them to Tords house earlier to get his stuff, Tord had explained his parents personality for 'Mom and Dad' on the way to the car.

Tom let out a small chuckle after Tord started to scream at the phone.

'that's some mother-son love right there. '

Tom blinked. and sudden regretted thinking that after the train of memories came by.

"Where's Dad." Tord said into the phone.

Pat yawned "He's out patrolling the one of the few entrances."

"ah."

" So you really gonna be okay? "

"I can bet my life on it."

" uh-huh. "

There was a small nervous silence coming from Tord.

His mind returned to the picture frame in his house, he could remember the exact moment they took it.

Tord stuttered over his words.
"When are you guys coming back?"

Pat hummed. "Not for a while."

Tord groaned and fell back into the couch, disappointed.

"I 'd like to be there more often, for unexpected times like these, but I just cant. "

Tord frowned. "why not."

" As you know, there's a new leader for this entire army, being a female doesn't help in her case, and lately we've all been on edge for spys or really anyone that thinks they can get to her. She's been taunted and targeted and we just don't want anything to happen to her. "

Tord nodded, though he had many other questions, he settled for one.

"How's little miss Red Leader?"

usually, he would dare not say that , but his voice was low and everyone was far and busy. so it wasn't an issue.

Pat frowned. "She's been well, but also a tad..On edge?"

" what do you mean? "

"I don't know, sometimes it just looks like she's holding back from doing something."

Tord was going to open his mouth to speak, but his Mom on the line said something.

"Oh! Miss! there you are!"

Though she was far off a couple hundred miles away, Tord still shuttered.

"I know it's not normal for you, but I've got my son in the line! I showed you A photo!"

'you showed her a photo-'

Tords thoughts were cut off by a feminine screech and two bullets that followed after. Faint shattering aswell.

his heart dropped.

"Mom? Mom?"

" Mom? Mom? "

Pat held the phone in his hand, a stunned face as he saw his Leader look at him with that same 'holding back' look.

she groaned and shot a bullet into the  floor next to her and stomped off.

"Mom what the hell was that?? "

"I'm safe. I'm safe." Pat reassured .

Tord frowned.
"But what was that??"

" I don't know? She got upset and just shot the ceiling which then brought down a light bulb, and then shot the floor. "

"...Okay."

" uh huh... "

Tord didn't want to speak anymore after that, it left him uneasy and curious in a way that he didn't want to question it.

"Dinners ready!" Namki called out.

Dinner was slow. Asha had took on the task of making sure Tord didn't eat a napkin or put the fork in the cup and not the plate, she was sure he was picking up the fake flowers in the center to bother her.

Tom hadn't came back yet, though, it had only been a minute after Namki set down the plates.

Eventually, Tom walked over and sat down, Tord faced the seat that opened in front of him.

He ignored the spoon Asha held up, she impatiently put it down and continued eating her food.

"I know what you did."

Tom looked up.
Namki peered over
the kids looked over.

"What did I do?" Tom mumbled, guilty. He reached for a glass of water, but Tord's fork stabbed it down immediately.

Tom looked at the glass, The wall of the cup was right between the prongs of the fork.

" I thought you were blind. "

"I thought you didn't call Mom."

Tom froze.

He knew

Tom pushed his hands against the table to scoot out, once there was enough space, he ran down into Soke's room.

Tord got up and ran after, bumping into the doorway to the hallway and tripping on the rug, but he eventually got into the room, Namki could be heard coming closer.

The room was silent, damn it Tom knew how to use someone's weakness.

Until a pillow smacked Tord in the face.

He grabbed the thing off the floor. And kicked his foot on the ground until he felt a harsh surface.

"Oh you suck at hiding."

Tord held on to the pillow even though it was practically flung at Tom in the corner.

Tom shook his head.
For a pillow, the impact was quite harsh. Tom had been sitting on the head of sokes bed with all the pillows as a shield and a weapon.

when he opened his eyes, Tord was sitting at the foot of the racecar bed and already in an attacking stance with the pillow over his head.

"Don't you dare-"

"I told you not to call my Mom!" Tord screeched.

Tom frowned and grabbed a nearby pillow.
"He needs to know what happened too!"
Tom swung again from above but Tord ha blocked it.

"That's my dad's job!"

another hit

"Their both your dads!"

another hit

"So?"

another hit

"So?"

another hit

"it's hard to explain to your parents that you got put in the hospital!"

The back and forth arguing was a funny parallel to Tord fighting with his Mother.

Namki chuckled from the doorway as the two continued their attacks until Soke came in complaining they were dulling his pillows.

Eventually, it died down, though no one wanted to continue dinner. Namki just saved it for later and went to go fix Soke's room.

"I don't wanna sleep on the couch."

" Tord, your blind, it's not like you'll be seeing anything. "

Asha had gone off on her room to do something, and left Tom and Tord to discuss were Tord would sleep.

"What if I fall off?" Tord whined.

Tom snickered.  " At least your eyes would be safe. "

The complaints continued until Asha came back.

"He can sleep in my room."

Both of them looked over to Asha, well, one did. Tord just guessed she was standing in the hall by how distant her voice was.

"He can't sleep on the floor." Tom said, he patted Ashas head.

"Aww Tommy doesn't want me sleeping on the floor"

Tom rolled his 'eyes. '

"Look at what I did though!" Asha smiled and pulled Tom by the hand over to her room , Tord stood out in the open where he stood.

"may I remind you all that I am blind. " He called.

Tiny footsteps were heard coming his way.

"You remind me of my blind fish Goldie. " Asha stated, while carefully tugging Tord around furniture

Tord frowned. "How?"

" It bumped into everything. "

"ouch." Tom chuckled from the doorway to Ashas room.

Tord stuck his tounge out at Tom.

Tom just patted Tord 's head and walked past him and Asha.

"Goodnight you two." He said.

" So I can sleep on the floor? "

Tom yawned. "Go touch the floor in front of you."

Tord sat down on the floor, and touched the ground, sure enough, Asha had laid down some type of of soft bed cover.

Tom was about to leave to his room, until Soke came running down.

"Asha and Tord are having a sleep over?" he beamed.

Soke jumped down into the soft makeshift mattress. "Me too!"

Tord looked up from the floor.

"Tom~"

"No."

Toms room door closed shut. Asha seemed disappointed and Soke pouted.

"Thomas you killjoy. "

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