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Philza POV

I looked down at my children. They were all sitting on a red and white checkered blanket in a gorgeous field. Our life was great. We had a great house in a good area and we were all happy.

Tommy was chatting with Tubbo about who knows what and Wilbur was sitting with his best friend, Niki. He was my oldest son and I knew that he had helped me the most in raising Tommy and Alex. Alex was playing out in the field with techno. Although techno was not my son, I had apopted him when he was four so he didn't remember much else.

I was going on a walk with Wilbur, pushing him in his stroller before I saw a box sitting on the side of the road. Mutant- leave to die. Was written on the side of the box in big, red, messy handwriting. I looked in the box and saw a small human pig thing sitting in the box. At the time will was two and still very much a baby but seeing the small thing sitting in the box hurt my heart so I picked him up cautiously, trying not to scare him, and took him home. Wilbur and techno became friends but they were never super close. Wilbur was always wanting to go into the city and meet new people while techno would rather go outside and explore or write his stories.

When Tommy was born Wilbur was 4 and techno was 6. The age difference in between techno and Tommy was a hard one because techno was at an age where he wasn't old enough to care but wasn't young enough to be friends with the small boy. Wilbur on the other hand took an immediate likening to the boy. He liked his loud demeanor and the fact that he had a friend since at this age Phil didn't let him go to the city by himself. Now, Wilbur had something to entertain himself with at home. As close as they were, Tommy got on Wilburs nerves pretty often but that was pretty expected.

Lastly, there was Alexis. She was only two years younger than Tommy but she seemed like a totally different person. Wilbur was in the same place techno had been with Tommy, being in a middle age where he really didn't care, plus he already had Tommy to play with and Tommy was already 2 so he could do a lot more. Tommy loved the girl because they were able understand eachother in a baby way where no one else could. But above all else, techno loved the little child. She was calm and kind and loved to hear techno read to her. She loved it when techno would show her his favorite spots and they would play and hangout for hours.

Now they were much older. Techno was 24, Wilbur was 22, Tommy was 18, and Alexis was 16. They lived in a small town where you didn't really move out until you had your own family. You stayed with your family for as long as you could so even once Wilbur had fundy, he still stayed at home. Fundy actually lived with his best friend, Eret.

As Phil sat down on that picnic blanket, he looked across his children with affection. His eyes caught on techno and Alex. He was lifting her up and throwing her over his shoulder and running around. They were such good friends that techno told her things he didn't tell anyone else. He never seemed like a very open person, in fact he was quite the opposite. Techno never opened up about anything to anyone except for Alex. He told her everything, and she did the same for him.

Alex, being the youngest of the 4, had three extremely protective brothers. She was also really close with Tommy and Wilbur and they relied on her for so many things. Girl problems, bad days, anxiety, and just being a shoulder to cry on. Alex was a super nice person and  was very easy to talk to. She also always kept secrets. She never said anything if you told her your problems or secrets, not even to her other brothers. When Phil asked about anything they told her, she always gave a very short brief answer. She thought her father deserved to at least know something but she never went in to detail and never never lied.

Alex was also the most likeable person in the whole city. Tubbo was Tommy's best friend but he still adored Alex. Niki was Wilburs best friends but her and Alex still talked all the time. But through all the friends she had, techno was her best friend and definitely her favorite.

Phil always found it very easy and enjoyable to talk to her. She always put on a very happy outer shell but as her father, she could see that she wasn't all smiles on the inside. Techno was the only person to really know because Phil never pried into any of his kids business, he trusted them so they trusted him.

They're picnic was cut short though. Before they had even sat down to begin eating, someone emerged through the forest to their right. The field they were in was not close to their house but it wasn't far either. It was one of the spots Alex and techno had found and once they got a good path here, it was about a 15 minute walk. Dream emerged from the forest with sapnap and George on either side of him.

Dream was wearing a lime green sweatshirt with his signature smile on the front. He had his hood up with an axe in one hand and the other hand sitting in his hoodie pocket. He had his mask in front of his face but it still showed his mouth below. George and sapnap stood beside him, both of them wearing their respective clothing. Sapnap with his black shirt underneath the white one with the flame on front and his bandana pulled across his fore head keeping his jet black hair in check. George was wearing his blue hoodie with a red rectangle in the front and his white, oval shaped glasses on his fore head.

I looked over at Alex, worried. She had had a run in with the dream team before. One day when she was out gathering food with her dog, Jack, apparently she picked the last apple from their tree and they were furious. Dream and sapnap were planning to make apple pie for George's birthday and they got a little over protective over George. She came running in crying and very beat up. We all were terrified, knowing what probably happened. When she told us that they had hurt her and killed Jack the boys were furious.

"NO ONE CAN HURT ALEX WITHOUT GETTING PUNISHED FOR IT!"

They were insane with anger but I was able to calm them down and I helped Alex to bed. They were mad and didn't understand but I just didn't want them getting on dreams bad side after I saw what they did to Alex. And they probably had pity on her saying she was a 15 year old girl. No one slept easily that night.

I looked back up at dream slightly smirking at us.

"George, sapnap, stay here and watch them. Philza, Alex, come with me."

We all looked at each other, slightly concerned. I knew they felt a little better knowing that I'd be with her but still, they never really  asked what he did to her that night. He probably just had way too much pent up anger. As I began to slowly walk over to Alex she looked up at me with worried eyes.  I gave her a nod of reassurance and we began to walk away. Before we got too far, techno quietly whispered,

"Be careful please."

Alex turned around and nodded with a smile, but both techno and I knew it was fake. Once we got up to dream, he smiled again. He pointed down the hill to a cliff.

"Right this way."

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