°~Codenames~° Troublemakers!Au

Chapter 4 - Did we pay the bills?

Third POV [Changing Focus]

A slow, mist of a pork pie wafted in through the cracks of the window above the young children who slept, Tommy as always woke up first. He woke up with a foreign object clamped in his mouth.

He opens his eyes blearily and when he tried to rub them he felt the weird feeling in his mouth. Tommy blinked continuously, staring at the peeling roof plaster above him before he sat up urgently, almost spitting out what he could now tell was Clementine's foot.

When he recognized what it was he took it out gently and when he was putting it down he was struck by the foot in the chest, Clementine kicked him reflectively, the sudden movement jerking Shroud awake.

Tommy muttered a few sleepy curses before calming down the two startled children by distracting them with petting his ears - he didn't like this much, however.

A few minutes later he heard wet-rubbery sounding feet slosh along the dusty plastered floor and a Benson shaped child bounding into his side and rambling at a 1000/mph.

Tommy sat up and moved the moth in his lap to his knee and beckoned for Benson to sit on his other while Shroud stood behind Tommy, plaiting curls of his hair that probably got greasy again due to the questionable hygiene of the place.

"Alright, little man, what is it you came in for, aye?"

Tommy asked, smirking at the duck in his knee as he absent mindedly reached a hand down to Clementine to gently pull the sleeve in her mouth away to dissuade the habit.

"The nice lady next door came over with a pie, its on the kitchen side!"

Benson spoke so fast that Tommy had to process it before he realised the situation - their next door neighbour had brought them food round? It baffled the racoon.

It wasn't weird for the old lady to give pies or anything like that to the rest of the building but it still surprised him. They didn't need charity and had insisted against it most of the time, but at times like this, the one smart braincell pushed through and excepted it.

Tommy had a Shroud clinging onto his back in a piggy back ride as he carried a tranquil moth and hyperactive duckling in either arm as he headed towards the kitchen and had his nose assaulted with the smell of pie before even reaching the open room.

Ranboo had a Henry and Friend clinging to their 'pants' leg while Ranboo chatted awkwardly to the old woman in their kitchen, cutting generous slices for all of them and Tubbo had a Michael that had been given a small pocket watch to hold by the kind woman as he stared entranced into the fake painted gold of the old watch, in his arms in the corner of the kitchen by the sink.

Tommy put Clementine and Benson down and 'fought' with the shroud on his back as he kept avoiding his attempts to put him down, muttering curses under his breath.

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Ranboo was writing in his stolen notebook as the practically licked clean plate off, he sat next to him on the counter. He had decided to eat at the kitchen counter with Tubbo while everyone else ate on the floor in the supposed living room, offering the deflated bean bag to Betty, the old woman who had brought the pie over.

Tubbo put his plate in the sink just as a little blue sheep turned the corner, strangely unaccompanied by the usual presence of a cow. Friend's hooves clomped on the ground as sie jogged to Tubbo and made grabby hands at him.