hI! I am back! Sorry for taking so long! I got distracted with an animation! It's about seb! I will evenually upload it so you can see it :3 Here's the chapter, to be honest, i am not that happy with the result, tell me what you think :3
"Stanley! Stanford!"
It was a nice Saturday evening and he had woken up from a nap. He had been looking for his brothers for a while now and he couldn't find them!
Kari was absentmindedly talking on the phone to her costumer while watching two year old Sherman play with cubes on the floor.
"Yeah, it is 99 cents the hour so feel free to talk" she shrugged.
He approached his mom, trying to ignore the toddler. "Ma! Where are my brothers?"
"Tebas!" He offered him a cube and let it on the floor for him. The preteen kicked it away.
The woman looked up from the phone mildly annoyed . "I think they are in their room"
"I looked there already and they aren't there!" He whined.
The toddler came back with the cube he offered previously.
"Cuh?"
"Knock it off!" He hissed and stepped over the plastic cube, breaking it.
Sherman pouted, looking at his destroyed toy.
"Ma!" He tried to call her attention again.
"I don't know!" She lied quickly to let him work.
"Tebas?"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" The boy roared, pushing the little toddler away from him with his foot. He fell down on his diapered butt and started crying.
"Can you- Sebastian!" His mom scolded.
"Where are my brothers!?"
"At the arcade! Shoo!"
"Thank you!" He singsonged and left the house, smiling at the sound of Sherman's sobs.
He ran down the street and entered happily to the most crowded place in town, full of children and teens.
"Sixer! Fez!"
"Seb!" His triplets were playing one of the new games, Tetris, and didn't even look up to greet him.
"Why didn't you call me to play with you!?" He asked, bouncing up and down. "Can I play!?"
He accidentally moved a lever and he made Stanley lose his concentration. 'YOU LOST' flashed on the screen and they groaned.
"Sebastian!" Stanford whined. "Why do you never see where you go?!"
Seb pouted as the kids watching them laughed mockingly or started commenting about his eye.
"You ready to lose the bet, chicken Pines?" One of the kids smiled and the Stans shook their heads.
"No! No! We had three chances to beat the highest score" Ford remembered them, smiling smugly when the children pouted in defeat. They had said that having 12 fingers was like cheating because he could play better...
They were not wrong.
"My brother plays too" Stan looked at the taller kid. He had a new tooth now and was sure as hell he wasn't going to get it knocked out.
"Nuh-uh! That freak can't-OOF!" His friend elbowed him in the stomach. That kid practiced boxing with Stanley and wasn't willing to be under the boy's hateful glare.
"What he MEANT!" He glared at the boy. "Is that...That we said just two players, and you can't change it now" the children nodded.
"Besides, if you don't follow the rules, we won't return the Money you bet"
The Stans looked at his shortest brother with a sorry grimace.
"Sebas...Please?"
Sebastian blinked at his brothers. "Are you serious?" Were they really telling him to go!? When he got no response, he sighed.
"Ok..." He mumbled and left the Arcade angrily. Fine! He didn't need them! He-He...He preferred being with Sherman than with them!
He walked back home with his head low, grumbling about emotions and how much he hated them. He got home and just when he entered by the Pawn Shop's back door, his mom sighed in relief.
"Oh, thanks God you are here"
"What? Why?" He frowned. "Where are you going!?"
Filbrick grabbed his keys and impatiently scowled at his wife and she huffed at his impatience. "We need to go shopping stuff for lunch. We'll be back in a few hours. Take care of your brother, yes?"
He regretted what he said before. "WAIT!"
They didn't hear him, they were already gone. The little toddler approached his big brother.
"Mama?" He pointed at the door.
Oh triangles, he was going to kill him...
"Let me alone" The older boy said, going to the living room. Sherman giggled and followed him like a duckling.
"Teb! Cuh!" He happily pointed at the couch.
Seb ignored his little brother and sat down, only to stand up quickly with a cry. He looked at the offending thing and found one of Sherman's stupid fucks.
"Cuh!" Sherman giggled.
Sebastian groaned angrily and threw the plastic cube against the wall.
Sherman closed his eyes when the toy hit the wall and looked up at his big brother who was now going to the kitchen. "Teb?"
"Go away! I DON'T like you!" He emphazised the word pushing the toddler away from him.
The baby giggled and continued followed his big brother. "Teb!"
Seb tried to ignore him as he served himself a glass of water and he tried to grab it too.
"Ah! Ah! Want"
Seb looked at the toddler. "You want water?" He asked.
"Yes" Sherman nodded, making grabbing movements.
Sebastian smiled evilly and poured the water over the toddler's head. "Oops. I don't have it anymore"
Sherman gasped at the sudden water on his face and wiped it away with an angry baby whine.
"No! Teb!" He scolded.
Sebastian rolled his eyes and went to his room to draw. He went to his table and started drawing more about Bill's past. After Liam suddenly... disappeared, Bill found books. These books contained theories and studies forbidden in Flatland which spoke about colors and a third dimension. It had been Liam's dream to see them, and Bill, angry with his planet and bored of their dumb rules, did everything in his power to see the third dimension... (Even having his friends sacrificing themselves just to end up in prison for trying to change the past...AND probably insulting a giant baby...)
Seb finished with his drawing. He smiled. It was Liam and Bill seeing a rainbow together!
He waited for Bill 2 to speak, but he never did when it came to his past brother...
He had been inspired today! He was admiring his drawings when he felt a tug on his pants.
"See?" Sherman tried to look at his drawings.
Sebastian let out an undignified shriek when he saw the toddler there. "Why the heck are you in MY ROOM!?" He roared. Bill would have already turned red...
"Pway" The baby showed him a box which had a puzzle. Seb remembered it being of them when they were little...
"You dare come into MY ROOM!? Ask to see MY drawings and you have the-the nerve to show me MY puzzle?!"
The baby giggled and nodded. "Pway! Teb!" He ran to his bed, climbed and waited for him there.
Sebastian had enough. He marched toward the little boy, grabbed him roughly by the armpits and took him out of his room.
"No! NO and NOO!" He shrieked, his voice getting a bit higher pitched. He dropped him outside as if he was kicking a stray dog. Suddenly, he felt his eye leaking.
"You want to take everything away from me!" The child sobbed and his little brother frowned. What happened? Why was Sebas crying?
"Do you want to take my room again!? Uh!?" He poked Sherman's chest and the baby whined.
"TAKE IT THEN! Because that's the ONLY thing you are good at! Taking my things away from me!"
Sebastian stomped off to the bathroom, locking the door behind him. He stayed there for a few minutes until he managed to control his breathing again. Fez was right, he cried about everything...
He heard whimpers from the outside but he didn't give a damn. He splashed water on his face and when he was ready, he got out.
His brother was still crying and he blatantly ignored him.
He went to his room and closed the door but he still could hear Sherman sobbing outside his room! So annoying!
A few minutes passed when the boy exploded and opened the door again. "Can you just shut up!?"
The toddler looked at him for a moment and then continued crying.
Seb growled and pulled his hair angrily.
What do I do!? He asked Bill in his mind.
'Kill 'im' Seb could feel Bill shrugging.
"I-I can't kill him" Seb said out loud, looking at the kid who still cried!
"Urgh! Shut up! What do I do to make you shut up? What about a deal?! Sherman! Sherman! Stop crying!" Seb whined.
The toddler rubbed his eyes with his tiny fists. "Pway...!" He sobbed
Sebastian had never had to deal with the toddler's cries before. It had always been Mom or his brothers! Ugh! It was exasperating!
"Ok ok! I will play! But shut up! Shut up!"
Sherman sniffled and looked at his brother. "Pway?" He whimpered.
"Yes yes, but don't cry!" He shouted.
Sherman wiped his tears away and giggled tearfully.
So, moments later, Seb found himself in the living room, with an angry pout on his face and surrounded by little cars, stuffed toys, puzzles and everything the toddler thought about and brought to him.
"Doggy" the baby handed him a stuffed toy with a happy smile.
"That's not a dog, idiot" Seb spat. "It's a bear"
"Doggy!" The toddler insisted and Seb sighed loudly. A deal was a deal...
Seb opened the box of the puzzle and threw the pieces to the floor with a deadpan look.
Sherman squealed and grabbed a piece of the puzzle, putting it randomly with another piece.
"Move, you don't know how to solve a puzzle" he did the puzzle as his brother observed with his thumb in his mouth. When it was done, Sherman clapped.
"Pwetty!" He squealed and without warning threw the pieces again!
Seb looked at him in horror as the toddler waited for him to solve it again. "No, no I won't!" He spat. "I'll play something else and because you are so stupid you won't even know" he grabbed some toys and took them to another part. Sherman giggled, grabbed his 'doggy' and followed his big brother.
"This are my friends, not yours" he told the baby who sat down next to him. "You are our slave and bring us stuff...So, bring the legos over there"
"Ok!" Sherman happily obeyed and was content with sitting down next to his brother as he made a huge tower.
Seb imagined the toys as his old friends and made different voices to differentiate each of them, even though he couldn't quite remember their voices...or their names for that matter...
Seb didn't realize it, but he enjoyed how Sherman laughed and clapped at his jokes and the faces he did.
At some point, Seb destroyed the tower and threw all his "friends" away and looked down at Sherman. "Then the stupid heroes came and killed us, but not me because I am the leader and you because you are my slave" Seb finished his story over flooding with imagination and his baby brother clapped. Then the toddler looked up at him pleadingly.
"Teb, hangwy"
Sebastian tilted his head in confusion. "You are angry?"
"No! Hangwy!" He cried and when he saw his brother couldn't understand him, he whined impatiently.
"Well, sorry for not speaking gibberish!" Did all kids speak like that? He couldn't remember himself speaking such nonsense as a little child...He hoped so...
Sherman pointed at his stomach. "My tummy hangwy"
"Aaaahhhh!" Sebastian nodded. "You are hungry"
The toddler nodded.
"Well, sucks to be you, I won't give you anything" Seb stuck his tongue out and went to the kitchen.
He tiptoed to grab a box of cereal. He looked at the front. A cereal with nuts? Oh well, he was taking them out then.
Sherman raised his arms for Sebastian to give him. "Me! Me! Want"
"You want?"
Sherman nodded but then stopped. He covered his head with a pout. "No head"
Seb smiled. "Sure" he took a mouthful of flakes to his mouth and threw some to the floor. "There" he said maliciously.
Sherman innocently went to pick it up and took it to his mouth happily.
Seb laughed as he continued throwing the flakes to his brother because the toddler eventually managed to catch them before they hit the floor.
"Mom should give you to a zoo" Seb commented as he continued separating the nuts from the flakes.
"But I can do it better than you, look" He threw a flake to the air and tried to catch it, but it hit his nose and fell to the floor.
Sherman clapped and giggled madly.
"Shut up! You made me lose my concentration, idiot!"
" Gain, 'gain!"
Sebastian tried again and did it this time. "Ha! You see! I am better than you! But-but no one thinks so" the child pouted. "If my eye wasn't like this maybe-maybe they wouldn't have sent me to the attic..."
"Eye?"
"It is your fault I am there... But I am not scared anymore" he told his baby brother who sucked his thumb curiously. "There I am learning to knit and it is really fun and also I sew and no one bothers me when I draw and I can be as loud as I want!" He shouted to get his point across.
Sherman frowned and pointed at the box of cereal. "Mow"
Seb rolled his eyes. "Yeah, whatever" he threw the box to the floor, including the dry fruits spread on the table. The baby ran as fast as his baby legs could take him to the disaster and started munching his cereal.
The older boy walked toward the TV, searched for a decent channel and when he found cartoons, the former demon threw himself to the couch.
"Fordsie doesn't like watching TV" he told his brother. "He says it is boring and prefers reading. I like to read too, I read books to learn how to knit and sew, but I get distracted with the school books and I leave it, that is why everyone calls me dumb...But I am not!" He complained to the baby.
"I had infinite knowledge before but-but now..." He trailed off, not feeling comfortable talking about his 'broken' body. "Lee doesn't like reading for real but just because he does many sports no one calls him dumb! But-But I am not saying he is dumb!" He quickly clarified. "He's intelligent too"
"He likes to watch cartoons with me, but now he practices a lot and doesn't do it as often. Pa likes that because he says he can be famous and a millionaire...A-Are you listening?" The preteen asked half annoyed.
He turned around and found his brother coughing. His face was red with tears in his eyes and he was struggling to breathe.
"What's wrong?" Sebastian asked, half worried for the child. He walked toward him and the child started sobbing desperately.
"Teb! T-T-Teb!" He sobbed coughing. The toddler was obviously panicking.
Sebastian frowned, this time worried, and looked at the cereal.
'Sebastian...' Bill purred. 'Do you know many, many humans are allergic to nuts?'
Oh shit...!
"No! Wait!" He quickly knelt beside his coughing brother. "What's wrong?! Why can't you breathe!?" He was panicking himself, noting that the baby was icy cold and had his face swollen. When Sherman rolled his eyes backwards he shouted.
"NonononNO! Sherman, SHERMAN! Don't die! No!" Sebastian cried. If Sherman died, Filbrick was going to kill him too!
'LET HIM DIE! THIS WAS WHAT YOU WANTED, DIDN'T YOU!? LET THAT ANNOYING BABY DIE AND YOUR MOM WILL LOVE YOU AGAIN!'
Sebastian held his brother close to him, tears falling from his eye, without knowing what to do. Then, a simple memory resurfaced from the back of his mind. Liam was holding him, he remembered feeling sick...
"I've got you, Billy..."
Liam wouldn't do that...
Sebastian picked up the barely conscious baby and ran out of the house sweating cold, leaving the door open in his rush. He ran toward the closest hospital as fast as he could, ignoring the burning sensation in his chest as he ran out of breath. Sebastian hugged his baby brother tighter.
He wasn't going to let him die...NOT under his watch!
"Hold on...Please Shermie, resist..." he pleaded, hugging him closer.
He entered to the hospital exhausted, gasping for air but that didn't stop him from screaming. "Help! Help me!"
The nurses quickly rushed to him and saw the baby in his arms. "What's wrong, sweetie?"
Sebastian ignored the shocked look they gave him when they saw his eye and sobbed. "Do something! He ate something!"
The woman took the child from him and with some doctors they quickly put the baby in a stretcher.
"This is an aphylactic shock, an adrenaline dose, fast" the doctors disappeared behind a door and Sebastian immediately felt to his knees, his adrenaline running out. The nurses helped him stand up and offered him a glass of water in the waiting room.
He started crying when the woman rubbed his back soothingly.
"I-I didn't know!" He cried. Wh-Why was he crying anyway? He didn't care of Sherman...did he? He just got pretty scared because he was under HIS watch! He was just thinking about his own well-being.
But why was he so scared about Sherman then? He-He was the one who took everything away from him!
"It's ok, sweetie" the woman smiled kindly. "The best thing you could have done was bringing him here...You saved your little brother"
"It was just cereal with nuts..." He lamented. He hadn't known food could make a person sick...Damn, human bodies were weaker than he thought...
The woman asked him some questions, like Sherman's name, age, their parents, etc. Then she left to report it.
After the scare passed and he cried his relief out, Seb smiled just a bit. He had saved him; he saved his younger brother...
'Urgh...'
He decided to ask for a phone to call his house, thinking they must have returned by then. He winced when his mom screamed.
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU, WILLIAM!?" His mom screamed stressed.
Almost 10 minutes later, his parents and his triplets appeared by the door. His mom was crying her eyes out, Filbrick had an unexpressive look on his face (wearing glasses didn't help him to read his emotions) and his brothers who were confused and scared for the baby.
They had just gotten home (with 30 bucks in their pockets each) when they saw mom hanging up the phone, crying about how Sebastian took the baby to the hospital. His dad had shouted, his mom too, and after their fight they went to the hospital Seb told his mom.
"What did you do, monster?!" Was the first thing Filbrick said when he saw the preteen in the waiting room. He flinched, lifted his hands to protect his face and closed his eyes when he saw him advance toward him, raising his fist.
"Filbrick, stop!" His mom shouted, pulling his arm and glaring at him. That forced Seb to open his eyes.
"He saved Sherman's life!" His mom said. "It was not his fault! Don't you see he's scared?!" She pushed past him, surprising the man, and went to hug her baby. Seb immediately hid his head against the crook of her chest.
"Ma...I didn't know..." He whimpered, his emotions once again making his brown eye well up with tears.
His mom stroked his hair soothingly. "It's ok, baby...You are a little hero, Sebastian...You saved your brother...thank you" She kissed his forehead and the boy smiled slightly. He remembered her telling him those exact same words when he was a baby and said his first word to save idiot Ford from killing himself.
"Uh..." The nurse looked at the yellow eyed kid and at the people with him. "Are you relatives of Sherman Pines?"
"Yes" Filbrick said and the nurse instructed them they could see Sherman now. The Pines followed the nurse and the first thing Kari did when she entered was hugging her baby who woke up with the noise.
He looked around the room, seeing his mommy, daddy, Stan, Ford and...
"T-Teb!" He said, giving the preteen a huge smile. His big brother saved him! "Teb!" He raised his arms, wanting to be picked up. Seb approached and he was suddenly hugged by the toddler.
His mom cooed loudly and Filbrick rolled his eyes. That didn't change anything. William was a demon, and he was sure of it.
Sebastian, stunned by the hug, slowly relaxed and hugged the baby back, not realizing he was smiling. "You almost gave me a heart attack, dumb baby. Don't do that ever again" He hissed, but without malice. "Die when you aren't under MY watch" He complained.
The baby let him go and then wanted his mom to hug him. Seb backed away and sat down on the couch in the room. His triplets approached and sat down next to him.
"I thought you hated Sherman" Lee pointed out. "I am proud you saved him, though" He hit his shoulder with an awkward smile.
Seb giggled and turned around when Ford started talking. "But...why did you do it exactly? No offense, but I really would have expected you to let him die..."
Seb hummed. He didn't know himself WHY... He just...felt it was the right thing to do...
'You are turning into such a weak human...' Bill said with disgust.
"He is my brother too, I guess..." He smiled smugly when he felt Bill groaning in disappointment.
-.-.—
Bill had met thousands of humans along his long, long life. They came from different parts of the globe, different skin tones, height, weight, gender and age, and he had had the opportunity to possess many of them, but he had never, never thought important to know how their weak, meat sacks worked. After all, their existence was just a mere blink in his life.
Sebastian wished he had cared just a tiny bit more...Maybe he could have been prepared...Invoke a demon for a deal or something...
The triplets were officially teenagers now. They entered to middle school and the Stans seemed to be eager about that.
"We will finally be men!" Stan roared. "We will be tall, and muscled and get all the girls. And I am sure as heck that I'll be the captain of the football team!"
"We will see Physics and Chemistry..." Ford sighed dreamily looking forward to those subjects.
"We will dissect frogs!" Seb added a huge smile showing off his fangs. "Imagine the terrified faces of the teachers when a dismembered frog appears in their coffees!"
"You aren't doing that" Ford declared.
Seb knew something was off the moment he stepped foot in the school, seeing the same kids he had known since first grade. At first he didn't know what it was...He just knew something was...different...
He examined his brothers, hoping to see if they felt the same thing as him...but nope. There was something in them though...
"You have gotten taller" He told them one day casually as they worked on their boat. He had always been shorter than them, but they were so much taller than him now! They didn't exactly look like triplets right now! His brothers looked at him confused.
"Really?" Stan asked. Sebastian nodded and Ford hummed in thought, stroking his chin.
"Maybe you will grow up later" His voice dropped at the last word and Sebastian burst into laughter at poor embarrassed Fordsie. Stan glared at him slightly.
That was some of the odd things he had seen. Many boys seemed to be sick or with a cold! Their voices were really weird. He hoped it wasn't contagious.
"Not cool, man" Stan scolded and Seb apologized but he was still laughing. Oh god, it was hilarious.
What Seb didn't consider hilarious at all was that the bullies were also bigger and stronger...
"Hey, look at that! He is a freak AND dwarf!" He had to turn around from his locker to look at Crampelter because that deep voice couldn't be his!
"What do you want, fatball?" Seb asked.
Crampelter easily slammed his head against the lockers and Seb took a moment to realize what happened.
"Look at me, freak!" His friends laughed. "You look like a baby" He mocked and left with his friends. Seb watched him go with disgust.
When they turned fourteen, Seb discovered what was wrong with everyone and not by his own merits...
Filbrick was the chosen one to talk with them (and just how happy he was to be) and very frankly and to point gave them...'the Talk'
The Stans had known it so they weren't so bothered by it just with certain...awkward situations they would get later, but Seb left the conversation pale as milk, shivering like a leaf.
"Dude, it is not that of a big deal..." Stan reassured but Seb shook his head.
"Yes..." He started slowly. "Yes it is...IT IS A BIG DEAL BECAUSE I DON' T WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT!" He exploded showing off his fangs in his anger. It was so horrible and disgusting!
He had just gotten used to his meat back, dared to say like it, and they were telling him it was going to change?! Human bodies were even grosser than he thought!
"But...It is something everyone goes through..." Stanford told him confused. No one was eager to go through that but, there was nothing they could do...
"NO! I am NOT going through that! I will do everything in my power to avoid it!" He shrieked in a high pitched voice.
It was still summer, and his little brother was innocently playing in the living room. Seb sat down next to him with a heavy sigh. He missed being that age...No school, no stress, no worries... Since the accident, his relationship with his brother improved a lot. He had come to like the toddler a lot more; to the point he let him sleep with him when he came crying because of a nightmare. He understood what was feeling alone and scared at night. He had been scared to go to their parents' room and the Stans didn't pay him attention.
"Seb! Seb!" The toddler called him. "Guess what day is tomowow"
"Um...Is it Halloween, Shermie?" He was the first person that called him Shermie too. The toddler liked the nickname.
"No, silly! It's my birwday!" He smiled.
"No! Really?! And how old will you be?!"
"Like this!" He showed him 4 tiny fingers and Sebastian laughed.
"Are you sure? Isn't it 5?" He laughed when Shermie doubted and showed him five fingers. "No, you were right the first time" He chuckled.
Shermie woke them up screaming with the high pitched voice every toddler had. But it was Sunday and the teens weren't so happy to be awoken.
"IT IS MY BIRWDAY!" He informed the Stans as he burst into the room.
"Gah!" Ford who had fallen asleep on his table reading a huge book of physics he had borrowed from the school library woke up and hit his head against the table.
"Lee! Ford! It is my birwday!" Stanley, who had an arm hanging from his arm woke up confused and stared at the brown eyes of the little boy "Happy birthday..." He said tiredly and fell asleep again.
"Ford!" Shermie insisted raising his arms to be picked up. The nerd yawned, adjusting his neck which was positioned in a strange angle and searched for his glasses. "Happy birthday, Sherman" he ruffled his hair and climbed to his bunk bed.
The toddler pouted. He wasn't being pampered the way he wanted... He left the room and went to Sebas' bedroom where he found him sleeping soundly.
"Sebas! Sebas!" The teen woke up startled, scanning the room for danger but only saw the little pest laughing at him.
"Come here birthday baby!" He got out of bed and picked him up to throw him to his bed.
"I'm not a baby anymore! Now I am 4!"
"Oh ohhhh right...but guess what?"
"What?" He asked innocently.
"I don't care!" He blew a raspberry in Shermie's stomach making him shriek. "NO!" He got revenge and used his little fingers to tickle his brother's armpits and belly. Seb surrendered easily.
"N-NOOOO NOOOOO HAHAHAHAHAHA NOO MERCY! OMG NO! HAHAHAHAHAHA BODY SPASMS!"
Shermie smiled in triumph and Sebastian stuck his tongue out. His brother's yellow eye was glowing and Shermie thought it looked awesome.
They had a calmed morning after that. Kari hugged her youngest baby boy tightly and made a nice breakfast. Filbrick acknowledged it was his birthday with a nod.
The pawn shop still was open Sundays so the Stans were helping their father for a little while. Sebastian was sitting quietly on a corner, finishing his sketch of Bill2's human suit as he bounced his leg nonstop. He had stopped being hyperactive long time ago, but he still got distracted and needed to do something else while working.
"I can't wait to return to school..." Ford sighed and Lee smacked his head
"Neeeerddddd" he booed. "but me too! It is better to train with all the girls watching you..." He winked and Ford laughed, rolling his eyes.
The phone rang and Filbrick picked it up bored. "Pines Pawn Shop?..." He looked at his oldest son with an unreadable face. "Tell your friends, Stanley to stop calling to the store's phone" The teen's eyes lit up and picked it up. "Make it quick" his father reassumed his job.
"yes? Oh, Sam! Hi! Yeah, nah, it's ok, he's always like that! Yeah! Would be awesome! Gimme 10 min! Ok! Awesome!"
"One of the baseball kids?" Sebastian asked not looking up from his drawing.
"Yesss" The teen exclaimed. Ford rolled his eyes once again. "They are planning to go eat pizza for lunch all of us! See ya" He saluted his brothers and father and was about to go upstairs to put on decent clothes when his little brother came downstairs.
"Lee! Lee! It is 2pm! Mommy told me! You promised!" The toddler ignored how Stan paled. "Pwease! You said you would take me!" Shermie made that kicked puppy face and Stan bit his lip. "Squirt...It has to be today?"
"Today is my birwday!" Shermie stomped his foot.
"I know...but...You see...I'm kinda busy...Me and my friends are going out right now and I can't take you..." Sebastian glared slightly at his triplet, hearing Ford correcting about grammar. He promised Sherman first...
Sherman seemed about to cry. "Daadddyyy!" He whined in his direction but Filbrick didn't even react. "Sorry, squirt...Ford can take ya to the cinema!" He quickly went upstairs to avoid confronting his brother.
"Stanley!"
"Ford...Pwease...I want to go...It is my birwday..."
Ford started having a panic attack. He loved his brother but he sucked handling kids! "No, I can't, sorry Sherman"
Sebastian looked down at his drawing when Sherman ran away crying. He knew how explosive kid emotions could be and how hard it had been for him to control them... Heck, he was 14 and it was still hard for him to control them! He went upstairs to find the kid crying on his mom's lap.
"Hey, Shermie" The kid looked at him with red and puffy eyes. "Do you wanna go? I can take you" he offered with a tiny smile. Shermie sniffed, cleaning his nose with his sleeve and nodded. "Weally?"
"Sure!" He knelt in front of him. "Tell you this. You let me take you, and I promise I'll make this an even better day than Fez could ever make!...Deal?"
He wiped his nose and nodded. Kari looked up at the youngest triplet with a proud mama smile.
Lee appeared again in the living with his jacket.
"Do you have money?" Seb asked Stan.
"Um...Yeah? But for me?!" Stanley smiled as if he grew up a new head and walked to the door.
"Fez!"
"Love ya!"
Shermie pouted and clinged to him. "Can we go now?" He asked his brother.
"Mom...Do you have money? Don't make me ask Dad..." The woman looked up from the phone and pursed her lips in thought. She pulled a 10 dollar bill from her bra and smiled proudly. "Here"
Sebastian's face heated up as Shermie giggled madly. "Mom!" The teen whined.
"What!? Will you go or not?"
Seb grabbed his little brother's hand with a small growl "Let's go, flea"
"I'm not a flea!"
"I don't want to walk" Shermie whined, leaning all his weight against his brother.
"Well, we can't spend the money on the bus, we won't have later"
"Why not?"
"We just won't" Seb rolled his eyes. It wasn't that far away anyways. It was a small town, everything was close.
"Sebas" The toddler looked up. "After the cinema, we can buy ice-cream?"
Seb pursed his lips in thought. Well, he did promise the boy a nice birthday. What kind of birthday would it be if he didn't.
"Sure! And then I can take you to the fair"
Shermie's eyes lit up and he hugged his leg. "Thank you!"
Sebastian patted his curly hair but wondered why he even offered it. The money wouldn't be enough. Then he would have to deal with Sherman's tantrum and he was going to explode and scare his brother and-
"What do you mean the tickets are more expensive now?!" Sebastian roared at the deadpanning young man behind the counter. He chewed his gum without a care in the world.
"Sorry, squirt. New management"
Sebastian glared at the man but he didn't seem intimidated by his fangs or his eye. Urgh, he hated him already!
He took Shermie away from the counter and the toddler looked up confused "Sebas?" Sherman asked innocently and Sebastian sighed. What now?
At that precise moment, when the young teen was about to explain to Shermie that it wouldn't be enough money, (what a rip off!) the horrible man went and in his place came a young woman with a big smile.
Hey...He knew her... She was the older sister of one kid of his school. He knew it because he had seen her around before. She was extremely kind and unable to kill a fly. A sly grin formed in his lips and Shermie frowned.
"Shermie. You should be glad you have Sebastian William Pines as your older brother because we are about to go see that horrible movie you want to see so much!"
"Yay!"
He grabbed one of the wheelchairs the cinema offered for disable people and sat his little brother there, putting his jacket over his legs. "Now. Listen here, flea. Remember when I climbed that tree and fell down and broke my arm?"
"You were laughing, it was scawy"
Seb chuckled at the memory. It had been hilarious. His arm had been in the wrong direction! "Yes. Remember how I couldn't move it? I need you to stay completely still now, don't move your legs at all, is that clear?"
"Um...ok"
"I am going to say some things to that girl and you have to say that they were true..." He rolled his eyes when Shermie gasped.
"But that is lying and it is bad!"
"Mom lies, is mom bad?" Seb smiled when Shermie shut up, shaking his head.
"Good. You ready?"
"uh huh"
Sebastian pushed the wheelchair toward the girl and she cooed at Shermie. "Good afternoon. What can I help you?"
Seb made the most pathetic face he could master. "H-Hi, miss...My-My little brother and I were wondering if we can buy tickets for this...this Disney movie"
"Sure! It would be 13 dollars" She said happily. Sebastian resisted the urge to shout at the excessive price and patted his pocket.
His eyes widened and he looked at the girl apologetically. "O-Oh...My-My money...it must have fallen from my pocket...oh no...After how hard it was for me to earn it! I-I worked for days cleaning shoes to earn every cent..." He looked down at Shermie. "I am so sorry, little brother...I-I guess you won't be able to see that movie before your surgery..." He said holding back tears.
Shermie pouted. "Why?"
The blonde's heart broke a little at the exchange. Sebastian sniffed and gave her a sad smile. "The poor little guy...He had been so strong all this time fighting. He was born unable to move his legs, and-and my family is now in debt for all the surgeries we had paid...I am their only other kid...and-and I even dropped out from school to help with the bills" He choked down a sob. "But-But it isn't enough, you know..."
"Oh..." The girl also had tears in her eyes. "I-I am so sorry to hear that..."
Man, he should be an actor! He praised himself.
"Yes, and it hurts every day" Shermie added.
"I feel like it is my fault...I also had some problems with my sight and my eye got infected...Soon my other eye will stop working too and I'll go blind..." Crocodile tears streamed down his chubby cheeks and Shermie whimpered. Why was Seb crying?
"I guess I just wanted to give my little brother a special thing before it is too late for both of us..." He turned around.
"Let's go, Shermie...Maybe if I clean enough cars I can buy you lunch..."
"NO! Wa-Wait!" The girl was wailing. "Don't worry about the money! I-I will pay your tickets little guy" She smiled at Shermie. "Consider it a birthday present from me"
"With popcorn?" Shermie sniffed. "I haven't eaten" Seb held back a snort. He hadn't eaten since breakfast so that wasn't necessarily a lie.
"Of course, of course! Here! Enjoy your movie" She gave Seb the tickets and told them to just pick up their snacks before entering.
"You are the greatest big brother I have ever met, you are so strong, child" She sniffed and nodded.
"I-I do the best I can..." Seb said humbly. He pushed Sherman in the wheelchair and once the doors were closed, the two brothers burst into laughter.
"Again! Again!" Shermie laughed, standing up from the wheelchair and grabbing his awesome big brother's hand.
"No need. Let's get you popcorn and go watch that horrible movie"
The two brothers exited from the cinema room. Shermie didn't understand the movie, but Seb was holding back tears. It had been so beautiful...
"Seb, can we get an ice-cream now?"
"Hey!" Seb turned around to the voice that had shouted and paled. The girl from the tickets. "What?!" She screamed.
Seb looked at his brother, who was indeed not on a wheelchair. "Oh, look! What a miracle! He is walking! Thanks Yahweh! Run! Run! Run!" He grabbed Sherman's hand and ran away laughing. The toddler had a hard time keeping up but he was laughing too.
"Security! The girl shrieked, but the boys were already gone. They came to a stop when they were out of sight of the cinema and they burst into incontrollable giggles.
"Oh that was insane!" Sebastian panted but unable to stop laughing.
"Seb! Seb! Water!" Shermie panted too, pulling his hand. Sebastian decided that he didn't want to pay for a bottle of water so they walked to the closest restaurant.
"You are adorable, flea. They would even give you food if you asked for it" He motioned the toddler to approach a waitress.
"Excuse me...I am firsty...Can you please give me a glass of water?" Shermie pouted and the woman cooed and nodded at him. Shermie looked at his brother and he gave him thumbs up.
"Here, baby" The woman smiled and handed the water to him. Seb nodded in gratitude and helped Shermie in case he accidentally dropped the glass.
He drank the rest of water and handed the glass back at the woman. "Thank you"
They walked away and Shermie pulled his hand again. "Seb. You pwomised ice-cream"
"Yes. Yes I did, let's get you an ice-cream" Seb picked up his brother who shrieked startled and put him on his shoulders. Sherman squealed as his older brother started running, grabbing his tightly from the ankles.
"Shermie, you are choking me!" Sebastian shouted exaggeratedly and that only made Sherman hug him tighter by his neck.
Seb ended up by the beach, walking with his little brother on his shoulders. He just needed to walk all the beach and he will end up in the fair, there he would buy that annoying ice-cream.
"Sebas?" Shermie pulled his hair to call his attention.
"Ow!" Seb smiled. "What, squirt?"
"Why do you call Lee and Ford Fez and Sixer?"
It was a simple question, an easy question Seb would have been able to answer at any time...But for some reason he couldn't...
He couldn't remember why he called them that...
"Uh...I-I don't know..." He waited for Bill2 to tell him something, anything! But the demon was unusually silent...
"What is a fez?" Shermie insisted. "Sixer because Ford has six fingers? But you have six fingers too" The toddler looked utterly confused and Sebastian couldn't explain why he called them that. He had forgotten so much these years, he didn't want to forget...
He fell silent and his little brother sighed in defeat, knowing he wouldn't get an answer.
Seb's mood increased when he saw the entrance of the fair and people paying tickets. He didn't feel bad for tricking people, so it made it easier to do it once again to enter to the fair for free. Seb bought Shermie his damn ice-cream and sat with him on a bench, watching him with a big smile as he happily ate his treat. Shermie's face and shirt got all dirty and Seb used his own t-shirt to clean his face.
"Thank you!" The toddler giggled. "Go! I wanna go there!" He grabbed his hand and pulled him to the game. Most of the games were for kids taller and older than Shermie, so Seb got stuck with his baby brother playing in a pool full of plastic balls, a really slow carrousel, where he had to sat in the tiny horse because Shermie couldn't go alone, and playing in the fair games to win Shermie his damn plushie.
He did, and Shermie walked around with his huge dolphin against his chest, telling everyone his big brother won it for him. Seb casted a dark smirk at the owner of the game and he gulped.
Most of the money disappeared with the candies Sherman wanted and Seb had various heart attacks when Sherman ran away screaming and laughing because he was in a sugar rush. The sky turned dark and Seb decided it was time to go home. Sherman threw the tantrum of his life, kicking and screaming that he didn't want to go home yet.
Seb had to carry the shrieking boy to the bus station, counting till one thousand to control himself from screaming at him. Sherman fell asleep in all his crying and fortunately for Sebastian, he had a peaceful trip back home. They arrived to the last station and picked up his brother to carry him home.
Sherman stirred and looked at him with sleepy brown greenish eyes. "Seb?"
"Sh...Go back to sleep, ok?" Seb smiled at him, stroking his hair. "We are almost home"
Sherman nodded and snuggled closer to his chest. "Seb?" He asked again and his brother looked down at him.
"I wove you..." Shermie grabbed a fistful of his shirt with one hand as he held to his plushie with the other. "You...you are the bestest big bwother ever...but don't tell Stanley" Shermie tiredly took his thumb his mouth and then went back to sleep.
Seb stayed silent, watching his little brother's chest rising and falling. He-He loved him...He preferred him before the Stans...That-That had never happened before...A new warm sensation flooded his chest and he kissed his brother's forehead, promising that he would kill for this baby if necessary...
"I love you too"
-.-
Life continue moving on, and the horrible process Sebastian was avoiding was becoming more noticeable in everyone he saw at school, even in his poor, unfortunate brothers.
They were amazed when they were starting to grow a mustache! How could they?! It looked horrible! Wasn't it itchy? How did it come off later?
His questions were asked indirectly when Filbrick took it in his hands for his sons to learn to shave.
"Listen. You aren't kids anymore. You will be men, and you need to learn that women are cruel" He told them and Seb raised an eyebrow. "There are things that girls don't like. You want girls?" he asked.
Stan nodded vigorously. Ford looked down, embarrassed, but nodded too. Sebastian shrugged.
"Girls won't get close to you if you look like losers" The man told them abruptly and the triplets winced. "You need to start looking decent. Start using deodorant and blah blah blah"
Sebastian was overwhelmed by all of these. He couldn't hear Filbrick talking anymore; he just stared at his brothers, then at his arms where he could swear he was seeing more hair...No! Haha, he was just paranoid, nothing else!
Filbrick at some point finished talking and took his two sons to the bathroom. Seb shook his head and followed, curious. He started explaining some things to them, showing them a knife life thing and a white cream. He made a face when Ford shouted in pain and left the room.
He sulked in the living room, and his mom approached him. "Something's bothering you, sweetie?"
"Ma...Will I have to do that too?" He touched his face worriedly, at least not feeling anything out of normal.
His mom laughed and hugged him by his shoulder. "Don't you worry, Seb...Before you know it, you will have your growth spurt and you will be a handsome man" She smiled.
Sebastian pouted and hugged his mom tighter, biting his finger.
"Son, stop sucking your finger, you are too old for that"
"I'm not sucking my finger!" He answered, digging his fangs ever deeper into his skin. He didn't want to go through that! He was going to skip puberty! Yes! He just needed to keep thinking he wouldn't have it! It has worked so far!
'Sure, kid' Bill rolled his eye and Seb felt it.
Sebastian noticed his brothers were changing, not only physically. He knew it had something to do with hormones or something...
It became easy for him to learn not to bother Ford now. You could practically smell the fire in his eyes when you bothered him. Stan made that mistake once. Ford was studying, or reading, or doing whatever nerd thing he always did, when his triplet entered blowing a whistle. He dared blow it in Ford's ear...
Stanford broke the whistle and screamed at him loudly, insulting him in really colorful words his triplets and Sherman, who had been listening the whole time, had never heard. They couldn't say that it couldn't be a good thing sometimes though. Crampelter had gone to high school so some kids their age thought it would be fun to bother Stanford, who by the record was taking boxing lessons with Stanley again...
He broke their noses.
Seb had the time of his life when Ford realized what he did and panicked. His reputation as perfect student!
Stanley wasn't as emotional as his triplet, but he regretted some things now. He had a few pimples and he was incredibly embarrassed to go to school. What was everyone going to say?! He was the popular one! He couldn't have this! He scowled angrily when Ford happily reminded him of the sweets and candies and sodas he consumed as a kid.
Then, in the least indicated moment, their parents thought convenient they needed braces. It was there when Stan broke down. It had surprised his whole family because he hadn't cried since he was 9.
"I am going to look like a nerd!" He wailed, falling to his knees and hugging his mother's waist to plead, not wanting to look at his father who was surely angry at his behavior.
"Ma...Pa...Do you really hate us that much?" Ford pouted. "The one who is going to look EVEN more like a nerd is ME!"
"But you ARE a nerd! Not me!" Stan spat. The poor dentist waited impatiently for them decide.
"Break their noses again then" Seb chuckled and Ford glared at him.
"It is going to be just one year, kids" The dentist said monotonously. "Your teeth aren't that bad"
Their mom nodded, ignoring Sherman pulling her hand wanting to go home. Their father ordered them to obey (those brats. You spent a fortune on them and they were ungrateful) or there were going to be consequences.
The triplets exited the place hours later. Yes, the three. Seb was surprised when he was called too. He didn't care about braces or not, but Filbrick barely spent money for his clothes, he wondered if it had been mom's doing. Their mouths hurt, their existence hurt, their self-esteem hurt.
"You look funny" Their baby brother giggled.
"Thut up, Therman" The triplets said with a lisp at the same time.
It wasn't more than two weeks later, still angry about his predicament that Stan went to the cinema. He took his glasses because he really wanted to see a non-blurry movie, and took two hours more than what he said.
Stanford, reading in the living room, and Sebastian, unable go to his room to knit if his mom was as stressed as she was, accompanied her as she paced back and forth. The idiot finally returned. He had a red kiss in his cheek and was smiling like an idiot.
"Where the hell have you been!?" Kari screamed.
"Family...I have a girlfriend now!" Fourteen year old Stanley exclaimed and that was enough for Ford to look up from his book.
"Really?" He asked when Lee threw himself to the couch, sighing dreamily.
"Yup! Her name is Carla...She's from school!"
"Wait. Carla?" Seb asked. "As in,Carla Mc Corkle?" His tallest triplet nodded and he hummed "I know her. I have English with her. She talks a lot"
"I know!" He looked at his mom and she didn't look as angry as before. She was in the kitchen entertaining herself drying the dishes but obviously listening. "A dumb thief wanted to steal her purse so I was like 'Not this time, idiot!' And then 'Left Hook!' And left the idiot on the floor and everyone started cheering on me! Then she kissed me!" He squealed and his brothers frowned.
"We watched the movie together then we talked like, a lot! And now she is my girlfriend" He gave his brothers a smug smile. "Maybe if you had this bud, girls would also want you. See,even looking like a nerd I am a magnet for girls" He flexed his left bicep with a smug face.
His triplets smiled but couldn't help rolling their eyes. They heard their mom trying to suppress a squeal. Her baby boy had a girlfriend!
Bill thought love was a stupid feeling, useless and disgusting. Sebastian couldn't agree more with the triangle. He was happy his brother was happy but the idea of holding hands, or cuddling or kissing someone made him gag.
Until Angelica walked into his life...
The triplets had been in History Class. For some reason, he had kept a lot of knowledge about that, so it was the only subject he really didn't need to study for. Ford was obediently taking notes as the teacher spoke, Stan was eating snacks (he didn't care about pimples anymore, apparently) and listened vaguely to the class, and Seb smiled to himself. Oh yeah, the Roman Empire's downfall, he knew about that, Bill made sure of it...
The class was suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door. The principal entered and everyone inmediately stood up. Seb groaned and stood up too.
"Thank you, kids. Sorry for interrupting your class, but you have a new classmate who arrived today. She will be accompanying us for the rest of the school year so please be nice" He hissed and presented the girl waiting by the door.
Sebastian felt his lungs stopped working for a second because he sure couldn't breathe.
The girl waved shyly to the class and introduced herself as Angelica. She had dark skin, with dark chocolate eyes. She was wearing leggings, a jean short over it, white tennis, a bright t-shirt and she had her jean jacket tied up around her waist. Her hair was wavy dark brown and had huge pink earrings.
He gaped at her when she sat down just across him.
What was happening?! He felt horrible! Everything felt too weird! Oh circles! His face suddenly got all hot! He looked at her, still with his mouth open and she grimaced, looking away.
"I'm Sebastian" He smiled weirdly, showing her his fangs.
"Yeah...Hi..." She gave him a forced smile. She looked down at her notebook and started focusing on the class.
Sebastian did the exact opposite. He glanced at his brothers, confused and worrying because his heart shouldn't be beating that fast. What if it exploded? Would it come out of his chest? Or the blood would pour out of his mouth? He started laughing. He wanted to talk with the new cute girl about it!
Cute? He meant-he meant...interesting. Yeah.
"Hey" He whispered and when those deep brown eyes looked at him his breath hitched. She-She actually turned around!
"What?" She asked back. This boy had a huge smile on his face and she didn't quite like the look on his weird eye...
"Have you ever seen a heart before?" He asked her and she frowned worriedly. "Can you imagine the blood that would come out of it?!" He asked excitedly and nervous, hoping she found it as interesting as he thought it was.
"What...?"
"Like, if I crushed it, imagine someone's heart still beating in your hand and BAM! There is blood everywhere!" There was a huge sadistic grin in Sebastian's face. "All your face would be covered by it and then you can just lick the blood off. I always thought blood tasted interesting"
Sebastian realized her face had gone pale. He wanted to stop talking. Stop talking, idiot!
He got nervous, feeling sweat already forming in his brow. Ew. Disgusting. He wanted to be his friend, and-and he didn't know what to say to her, he felt his throat was dry, and the words just couldn't come out of his mouth, looking at her so close and staring at her beautiful eyes and her fluffy hair and-
"Do you want to taste it?" He asked instead and started biting his finger in desperation.
"Oh god..." Angelica murmured, covering her mouth in shock as the weird boy drew blood from his own finger, spreading the blood all over his lips and chin.
"Mr. Pines! Can you stop talking?" The triplets jumped. The teacher examined the youngest triplet's face and sighed. "God, not this again...Go clean yourself, Sebastian..."
The Stans flinched when the class lost it, either laughing or murmuring in horror as the weirdo stood up, blood dripping from his hand.
Sebastian ran to the bathroom, his breathing speed increasing tenfold. What was happening to him?! He didn't get all sadistic out of nothing! He locked the door of the bathroom and sighed heavily. He walked toward the mirror, frowning sadly at his blood.
She had looked scared...Was she scared of him? He-He didn't want her to be scared!...Many people were already scared of him...
As he cleaned his bloody finger and his face with water, he thought of something. He didn't care what humans thought of him, he only cared about what his family thought of him (minus Filbrick, that man could die for all he cared for)
Then...Why did he want to be liked by that girl?
'You have caught a disease...' Bill said loudly, making him wince in pain. 'A horrible disease humans have infected you with...love' He spat the word as if it was venom.
"I...I don't love her!" He murmured to himself, before picking up his backpack to head back to class. "Love is for the weak"
'And what exactly do you think a human is?!'
After school, working on the Pines o' War, he glared at his brothers who had been staring at him all day, even at lunch! Stan had been invited over to Carla's table. She was a theater kid and they had a huge group of friends. He preferred staying with his brothers just to annoy Sebastian apparently.
"What?"
"You were...weirder than usual today" Stanford pointed out. "Something's wrong?"
"No?"
"Oh, yes it is!" Stan singsonged, nudging him with his elbow. "You like that new girl! What was her name? Angel? Amelie?"
"Angelica, moron!" He snapped and immediately covered his mouth. He gave himself away damn it!
Stanley then proceeded to do annoying ambulance sounds around him. "Wuuuh! Sebastian is in love!" He sang, making kiss sounds.
Sebastian covered his face. Oh god! His face was burning him! How could he escape this meat sack?!
"Do you really think you are one to speak? You have been with Carla for months now" Ford calmly pointed out with a smile.
"Y-Yeah!" Sebastian stuttered. That didn't seem to bother Stan. The optimistic boy smiled and hugged his youngest bro.
"Don't worry, Seb. I'm going to help you get that girl" He put both his hands on his shoulders and Seb smiled slightly, his face still completely flustered.
"Yo-You serious?" He was going to talk to her normally! She was going to like him! He felt something nice on his chest, a sensation he had never felt before and he squealed.
Stan offered Ford to play match-matching for him too and Ford laughed uneasy, shaking his head. Stan started telling lots of things for Seb to do and what NOT to do, (blood, bones, meat and the like were out of question) and he pouted, screwing a nail in the boat. He had a feeling Sebastian wouldn't end well...
"An-Angelica! Wa-Wait!"
The girl sighed and turned around to look at the freak boy. "What" The people she had been hanging with warned her about him. They said he was unpredictable, crazy and harmed anyone out of the blue. Some even mentioned he had rabies!
"Uh-ah..." He looked at his hand where he wrote down some pick-up lines Stanley told him "I just wanted to ask you something..."
The girl deadpanned.
"Uh...Is-Is your dad an art thief?" He smiled when she raised an eyebrow. "Be-Because...it hurt you when you fell from heaven...?" He grimaced and practically heard Stan face palming.
"Uh...Uh..." He stuttered, feeling his breathing fastening. "N-No wonder the sky is grey today, all the blue is in your eyes" That one was right!
"My eyes are brown..." Angelica snapped and rolling her eyes she left to her class.
Seb laughed sheepishly. "Ri-Right...Then-Then then like mud! Your eyes look like mud!" He cried and she sped up. He groaned in frustration and pulled his hair down to cover his red face angrily.
"Well, that went as well as our Bar Mitzvah" Stan laughed loudly and Ford smacked his head. How dare compared this to that pandemonium!?
"I'm going to kill myself!" Seb sat down on the floor. He sucked as a human and he hadn't realized it till now!
"Don't say that, Sebastian" Ford glared.
"Don't worry, little bro. It will go better next time!" He cheered him up.
And so, Sebastian tried. He really damn tried to get close to her, to talk to her at lunch and in breaks, but-but she seemed to be trying to get as far away as possible from him!
And he didn't know why, but he was far more sensible than usual. He was incredible happy to be close to her and when she snapped at him or gave him sharp answers, he was barely able to hold back his tears in front of everyone. Hormones, was the first word that popped in his mind when he tried to comprehend this, then mood swings and finally his feared word...
But-But that couldn't be! He had been avoiding puberty! His body wasn't changing; he hadn't noticed anything unusual...
Ex-Except that-that MAYBE he had more hair... but just a BIT...Tha- that didn't mean anything though! Just thinking about it made him blush.
'You know you are pathetic, right? I don't know how we are related' Bill insulted him and he growled.
Bill was another thing entirely. He had been far more aggressive with him. He didn't stop insulting him and belittle him! What was wrong with him?! He knew Bill was far from nice, but he had never treated him like this when he was younger...
"Why are you so mean?!" He questioned the demon when he saw him in the Mindscape. Bill 2 looked up from his game of solitary with surprise. Now that he was older, he had more control of his mind now. He could go to his Mindscape more often.
"I don't understand" Bill 2 feigned innocence.
"Yes, you do. Don't act as if you don't know you insult me every day!" Sebastian glared, his eye turning red.
"Ok, you got me" Bill 2 made the game disappear and floated closer to the young teen. "I will drop the game. I think you know what I feel about our situation"
"Our...situation?"
"Us, being humans! And you haven't done anything to solve anything YET!" Bill screeched.
"Oh come on" Sebastian rolled his eyes. He had had this conversation with Bill2 for 14 years!
"I told you there was nothing to do about it. It was a deal" Seb calmly explained to him, playing with the fire in his hands.
"You seem WAY too comfortable with this" The demon accused. "Don't you see this is the lowest we could have fallen?! Humans are just disgusting insects with a life span as short as 100 years! The lesser and weakest beings in the entire universe! And you LIKE BEING ONE?!" Bill turned red, his voice deepening at the boy.
"WE WERE AN ALL POWERFUL DEMON, YOU FLESH BAG!"
"Geesh, calm down" Sebastian didn't flinch at the demon raging. "I am not a demon...not anymore! And I am clearly not you!" He glared. "I just came to tell you to stop speaking to me when I am awake. I don't like it..." He mumbled.
Bill2 turned back to normal and chuckled. "We are two halves of the same being, Sebastian...Two parts of the same energy...You are the weak one, the part corrupted by human feelings and emotions...I am your past self, the strong one, and the one who won't let you get too happy with the deal...it's simply not convenient" He finished, shrugging. He conjured up his cane and started twirling it around.
"why not?!"
"I have plans..."
"What plans?" Sebastian asked. Bill2 laughed again.
"Well, get our powers back, of course" He lifted a finger and Sebastian was suddenly picked up by an invisible force.
"Let me go, Dorito!"
"I just need to keep you from being too mushy, mushy with the humans until the count starts" He giggled madly. A mirror protruded from the floor, or what would be the floor for them, and floated toward Sebastian. The boy looked down, frowning when he realized he was suddenly bare chest.
He looked at his back. His zodiac was mostly finished. It was an ugly red mark, still resembling scars, and what was still missing where just some details.
"When the time comes, the seal will be completed and your real punishment will begin. Seeing how stupid and dumb you have become, it will be our only way to turn back to normal, I need you to be open to suggestions when the time comes" Bill2 clasped his hands together.
"Punishment?" Seb frowned. He-He never made a deal about punishment!
"Now, I ain't no liar. It will hurt ya, but if you choose MY easy way not so much...If you don't, well, you can scream in infinite pain for the rest of your pathetic mortal life for all I care..." The triangle shrugged.
"NO! I won't be a demon anymore!" Sebastian screamed when Bill let him go but he caught himself on time. Fire erupted from his hands and threw it at the demon.
Bill2 easily dodged it and gave him an attack of his own. Seb blocked it on time. Bill2 laughed again.
"Oh, that is not for you to decide, my little weak counterpart. You have me to make this as less painful as possible! And I wouldn't be here if you actually didn't think as yourself as a monster, even a tiny bit"
Sebastian glanced down.
"You may be in control of your Mindscape, but when you are awake, you are mine" Bill multiplied and surrounded him as all his copies laughed maniacally. Seb couldn't help flinching.
"Now, let's be responsible for once, because you never are, always lazy and dumb, and wake up. You have school!" One of the copies said.
Sebastian glared at him.
"Oh...and by the way...Your little tactic to avoid puberty...I don't think it's working..." Bill2's grin showed in his smug eye.
Sebastian woke up screaming loudly. He got tangled with the sheets and fell to the floor with a thud. He groaned loudly, rubbing his throbbing head.
Ok...Bill2 wasn't nice anymore...Got it...
He grumpily stood up and exited his bedroom to go to the bathroom. A small smile suddenly formed in his lips. He could at least see Angelica today...He drowsily washed his face and dried it with a towel. He stared at his reflection for a little while until he noticed something wrong. Very, very wrong.
He got closer to study his reflection and touched his chin. To his absolute horror, two tiny hairs stood in his chin as if they owned the place. And...what was that abomination on his forehead!?
The Pines woke up startled to a high pitched scream that echoed around their house.
The Stans found Sebastian screaming non-stop as his whole body started shaking madly.
"Sebastian!? What's wrong?!" Ford asked worriedly.
"What's wrong?! Are you blind, Stanford?!" He shrieked and pointed at the tiny red dot on his forehead. Stan deadpanned at him.
"Are you serious?" He glared slightly pointing at his own face.
"No! No! I shouldn't be having this! NO!" He fell to the floor and closed his eyes tiredly as his body continued shaking.
"What are you doing?" Stan asked.
"Trying to get out of this meat bag"
They are watching me. Everyone is watching me... Seb mumbled to himself as he tried to hide his face from view. Paranoid as ever it seemed.
"Bro, I think you are overreacting" Stan told him as they walked to class. "It's normal"
"But, disgusting"
"Well..." Stan flinched when Sebastian looked at him and he couldn't argue. "Touché"
"What about we just focus on getting Angelica to notice you?" He changed the topic and smiled when he saw his brother's eye lit up.
"Okay"
It took them a few days to plan everything, and another few to get everything done. Stanley had said girls loved flowers. He had given Carla a small flower when they were in the park and she had giggled and blushed.
Stan brought him a rose one day. It was really red and without thorns. He told him that he had to be gentleman! And compliment her before giving her the flower.
They were in their room and the flower was in water. Stan had his hands behind his back and turned around to look at his brother sitting on his bed.
"Now. Imagine I am Angelica. What would you say?" He coughed and put a blanket over his head. He flipped his 'hair' and battled his eyelashes. "Hi Sebastian!" He greeted in a high pitched voice.
"DUDE I CAN'T!" Sebastian shrieked, covering his face in embarrassment. "I can't imagine her! I just see your face! MY face" They were triplets after all, it was too weird, even for him...
Stan groaned and threw the blanket to the floor. "Ok, fine. Without that, then. Just...tell me what you want to tell her"
"You do realize you are asking for tips to a kid who has had a girlfriend from less than half a year right?" Ford spoke from the upper bed, startling the boys. He had been there the whole time?!
"And you have more experience on that, Pointdexter? Uh?!" Stan challenged with a smile and his triplet rolled his eyes.
"Of course not. I am just saying that-"
"Don't listen to that nerd, Seb. I am a natural with girls, and with the correct nice words, Angelica will like yours!"
Seb stood a few meters away from her, watching her with a small smile on his face. Love was such a strange feeling, he didn't like it and he wanted it to go away...But at the same time, it gave him a nice warm sensation in his chest and he really liked it.
He tried to give the damn flower to her all day, but the universe thought it would be funny to mess with him. Every time he wanted to talk to her someone took her away or she was doing something else. His heart stopped beating when she looked in his direction but always with a grimace on her face.
He didn't know what he was doing wrong! He was just trying to be himself, just like Stan told him...
He accompanied his triplets to their boxing lessons, forgetting and not caring if he had homework. Stan, as always, was the best, Ford sucked at sports, but at least he was trying... He was so distracted with his thoughts that he didn't realize when the lesson finished. The Stans were all covered in sweat and Seb screamed high pitched when Stan, shirtless, hugged him just to bother him.
"Let me go, you sweaty moron! Please! Pity!" He whimpered.
Ford laughed. "Oh god! Seb, you still have a baby voice!"
Seb managed to escape Stan's hug and gasped for air, trying to breathe fresh air. "At-At least my voice doesn't crack!"
Ford pouted and Seb laughed. The six fingered boy wiped his sweat with his hand and ran it in Sebastian's forehead.
The former demon screeched.
Sebastian finally had the courage to give the damn plant to Angelica. He approached the girl who was walking toward her locker with her friends.
"A-Angelica!" He grabbed her hand and he had to take a deep breath when her beautiful brown eyes glared at him.
"What do you want?" She asked impatiently, glaring at her friends who were giggling madly.
"I-I..." he trailed off, getting nervous and forgetting what he was supposed to say.
"I-I!" One of the girls mocked him. "Get away, freak! Like, now"
Seb glared at said girl, making her flinch and turned again at the dark skinned girl.
"Angelica..." he groaned. "IjustwantedtogiveyouthisflowerbecauseIthinkyouarereallyreallyprettyandIamgoingtoleavebefore you process this, bye!"
He shoved the rose toward her with his face glowing crimson red and ran away, hiding behind a wall to see her reaction.
Angelica wrinkled her nose at the rose. Her friends laughed.
"Oh my god! The freak likes you! Ew!"
"Don't tell us you like that monster too!"
"Urgh! Shut up!" The curly girl blushed slightly and huffing, threw the flower to a trash can.
Sebastian gulped the lump in his throat and sighed as they left. He blinked a few times to clear his blurry sight.
'You are pathetic, so-so pathetic...Useless...Useless human'
"Where the hell are Sixer and Fez?" He asked to himself as he walked around the cafeteria. The triplets had sat together for 14 years at lunch and he doubted today was an exception.
The other kids who watched him walk occupied the table with whatever they had with them to avoid the weirdo sitting with them. Seb ignored them, just as he ignored the feeling that had developed in him since he became older.
He didn't like people treating him like this anymore...As a kid it didn't bother him at all!
He sat down in an almost empty table and as if he had the plague, the kids stood up and left.
'Don't worry, Sebis. When we get our powers back, we will burn this despicable prison down' Bill purred. 'With everyone inside! Phew phew phew!'
Seb decided he wasn't hungry and didn't stand up to get food. He rested his elbows on the table and pouted.
His face lit up though when he heard the beautiful voice of his crush cursing. He turned around and saw her struggling to carry her lunch tray, her bag and a few books under her arm.
This was his chance! Be a gentleman or whatever Stan said! He was going to help her and then she was going to like him!
"Angelica!"
"Shit" The girl cursed and tried to walk faster.
"Hey, let me help you" Seb gave her an awkward smile and she rolled her eyes.
"No, I am fine, just, let me alone" She turned around but Seb continued insisting, because it was obvious she wasn't fine.
"But I can really help you, just-just I'll grab your books!"
Everything passed too fast. No one could have prevented it from happening.
Sebastian made a move to grab the books that were slipping from under her arm and the girl, trying to keep him from grabbing them, she slid with something on the floor and her food fell over her.
The cafeteria was deadly silent, all the eyes falling over the weirdo and a girl.
Angelica had her eyes closed and her hands turned into fists when the kids started laughing. Seb gaped, looking around feeling overwhelmed with the mocking laughter.
"Angelica, I'm so-"
"Stop!" The girl shouted and everyone looked at them and listened carefully at what they said.
"I am fucking tired of you!" She shouted and Seb flinched when the girl threw the tray at him.
"Did you really think I would ever get interested in someone like you?! Like, think! Because that's something that you clearly never do!"
"I-I" Seb couldn't speak, he was petrified under the hateful glare of the glare.
"Do I continue, freak?!" She glared standing up, wiping the food from her clothes. "You are stupid, you dress with horrible clothes and you act like a psycho! It's so fucking weird! You are covered in your own blood most of the time I am forced to see you, like, stop! No one likes you, don't you understand? Why do you think I would like a freak with just one eye!?"
"I am not a freak..."
The girl laughed loudly. She was embarrassed and wanted to cause him pain and embarrass him too.
"HA! HA! Guys, guys!" Angelica looked around the cafeteria. "The weirdo who brought a dead rat to class thinks he is not a freak!" She mocked.
Everyone was holding their laughter for the sake of hearing the rest of the exchange and Seb felt his blood running to his cheeks. He looked around, trying to spot his brothers, but none of them were around.
"And another thing...Cover your horrible eye! It is disgusting and even creepier to see you. Do us a favor and cover that thing up! And STOP FOLLOWING ME!"
Angelica stomped away from the petrified boy, fuming with her face red with anger. The cafeteria was deadly silent until a boy started laughing, and soon enough, every kid in school was laughing at him.
Sebastian didn't know how to react. He had never experienced anything like this before, in any of his lives. The sound of the laughter became overwhelming and choking down with a sob, he ran away.
He ran until he was outside of the school, and ran back home, not giving a damn about the teachers shouting and how he was going to miss classes.
His brown eye was welled up with tears and the salty liquid streamed down his cheeks as he ran. Was it really true what she said? Did..Did no one really like him? He-He didn't care! He didn't care!
Why was he caring so much?!
He sobbed when he saw his house and threw the door open, running past the costumers to the only employees only door.
"What do you think you are doing here, William?!" Filbrick asked from the counter, not even bothering to look up at him.
Seb sighed and sniffed, wiping the tears from his eye. He let go of the knob and turned around to look at the man.
"You should be in school"
"I feel sick" He simply explained and turned around to try to open the door again.
"If you will start skip school then at least try to be useful around this household" Filbrick stood up and abruptly handed him a broom. "Clean"
Seb sighed in defeat and in no mood to fight with the man, he started cleaning around the Pawnshop. He had to stop once in a while to clean his blurry sight and hold back a sob. He couldn't believe she insulted him in front of everyone! Was...Was he really that disgusting to look at? It was his eye, it was the hair, it was the pimple...He was just too horrible and she had said it; no one liked him...
He hated being a teenager so far. He hated feeling insecure about himself all the time! He literally hadn't cared for his looks months ago! He hadn't been this insecure about himself in all his human life, let alone his demon life! He hated every bit of it...
"Dad..."The teen mumbled, hoping Filbrick heard him and was in the mood to talk at least decent to him.
"What"
Seb sighed, glancing at the dust on the floor. "Remember when I was younger...You and mom wanted me to-to wear an eyepatch to school...and I didn't want to so you told me to et it uncovered..."
Filbrick looked up at the boy. The usual bounciness and energy he radiated wasn't there, but he didn't let his curiosity shown. "Your mom said that it would make you feel better or some shit like that" He rolled his eyes. That woman loved the little demon far too much.
"Frankly, I haven't met a single person who wasn't scared or repulsed by it" He told him straight to the point and Seb choked down a sob.
"Do-Do you still have the eye patch?" He leaned the broom against the wall and wiped his brown eye; his yellow eye still and with no signs of life.
"Ah, you finally came to your senses I see" Filbrick commented and Sebastian lowered his head, hating how weak and scared he must be looking in front of his 'father'
He looked up when something hit his face and caught it before it hit the floor. It was the eye patch...
"I better see you wearing it all the time from now on" The man commented and continued cleaning the watch he was holding.
"Can I go now, father?"
"Yes, yes, get out of my sight" The man said. Seb sighed in relief and opened the door. He put a foot on the stairs and Filbrick called him again. "One more thing..." The man glanced at the costumers and then back at the boy. "Don't call me father...It is sir for you"
Seb sighed, without energy to feel even sadder, and just nodded. "Yes, sir..." He went upstairs with the eye patch in hand and directly went to his room, ignoring his mom's surprise shout and replying with a tired 'I'm sick'.
He approached the small mirror he had in his room and sighed. He looked at the eye patch and then at his yellow eye. He guessed it couldn't hurt...He was blind by that eye anyway...
'Sebastian...no...Why do you care?!' Bill2 shouted.
The boy ignored the demon and covered his yellow eye with the eye patch, watching himself with a grimace. He was horrible...Maybe people would like him more if he was more normal...Stupid space lizard and his stupid vessel!
'You are stupid, caring about stupid things! We are a demon! You shouldn't care!" Bill2 screamed loudly and Seb clenched his teeth.
He hid under his bed frame, his body shaking as he tried to control his sobs biting his finger as hard as he could.
The all-powerful demon Bill Cipher was suffering from a broken heart for the first time.
PLease leave a comment! They always make my day! What do you think of Bill2!? He is up to something! Don't kill me please, it hurt me too to hurt lil Seb so much T-T Favorite follow, pm me if you want. Ill update as soon as possible!
