Sollux woke up with a start for some reason, and shrugged it off as just a small bad dream that he just couldn't remember. It was early in the morning, similar to the morning before, yet it seemed clouded over. The small boy shrugged that off too, and he excitedly bounded out of bed to his fathers room. He slammed the door opened and called out.
"Daddy! Get up! Remember what you thaid latht night? Daddy?" Sollux went to the side of the bed to look in it only to find it empty. The covers looked messed up and the pillow astray, and the small boy huffed. He must have got up already, strange... Usually Sollux had to be the one to get him up. He checked in the bathroom and stormed out, determined to find his father and go to the stream yet again that day.
He walked down the hall and peeked back into his room. Mituna wasn't in his bed either but that was normal. Sollux continued to go into the living room, seeing no one still and the same in the kitchen. He growled in frustration and turned to the sun room, pushing open the large doors and glaring at the green walls he was confronted with. As he stepped inside, he noticed Mituna in his usual hideout and stopped over to him.
"Where'th daddy?" He barked at the bigger boy who was yet again coloring on the floor. Mituna, in response, shrugged idly like he didn't care. "Oh come on you idiot! No coloring on the floor!" he snapped and swatted the crayons out of his brother's hand. Mituna snapped his head up at Sollux and glared back at him.
"I don't know! Nngghhh I thhhaw him leave thith morning but I don't know where!" He yelled at Sollux and grabbed the crayons back up, continuing his drawing more aggressively. "And I'll draw where ever I want you thhhhtupid!" He growled through his clenched teeth.
To Sollux, his outburst was completely normal. He huffed and crossed his arms, thinking. "He thaid he'd take uth to the thream again today..." he muttered and sat beside his brother, who was happy again already. As he sulked, Mituna waited a moment before looking down at him and smiling wide.
"Don't worry. He might have had work today." He said cheerfully and nudged the smaller boy. Mituna then stood up and headed back to the interior of the house. "I'm going to get thome food if you want thome." he turned back to the still sulking boy as he reached the door. Sollux stood up and nodded, following his older brother out of the sunroom and to the kitchen. Once there, Mituna went to the pantry and pulled out a bag of cereal, placing it on the table and then going to the fridge to retreave the milk. Sollux sat at the table with his bowl at the ready, sighing sadly. His red and blue eyes stared silently as Mituna filled their bowls messily with the cereal and then the milk just as haphazardly. They both then began to eat in silence and dump there bowls in the sink.
"If daddy had work today then he lied to me latht night." Sollux huffed as he helped Mituna put the food away. He continued to pout as he followed Mituna into the living room to watch their morning cartoons, yet again in silence. Mituna though still had a happy grin on his face, not worrying about their dad's disappearance to his job.
The two brothers went through out their days normally, although Sollux stayed with Mituna most of it. He was grumpy that his plans were messed up and he had to stay inside. Anyway, the clouds outside had formed into dark storm clouds as the heavy rain beated down on the windows and roof. Night had fallen and Sollux started to get worried again.
"Mituna..." He called out to his brother while they sat in there room playing. He looked outside and saw that it was dark and the sun had long set. "Daddy cometh home when the sun is setting, now its all dark.. Do you know why it'th taking him tho long?" He continued, looking back at Mituna.
Mituna shot a smile up at Sollux. "Maybe he'th got to work longer today, or he went to the thtore." He comforted his smaller brother and yawned, getting up and getting into his bed. Sollux followed into his own, sighing. "Don't worry Tholluxth..." Mituna smiled at his brother warmly and turned around with his covers over him. Sollux smiled a little back and laid his head on the pillow, closing his eyes.
The next morning, the outside was dripping wet and still overcast, creating a grey setting once again. Sollux groggily rubbed his eyes and sat up, looking over to see his brother not in his bed. He got out of his bed and walked to his fathers room. He knew his dad didn't ever work for more than one day in a row. He stumbled into the room of his father's once again, looking up to the bed. "Daddy?" He called out and walked to the bedside and looked over it. Again, no one was in it. Sollux heart turned to ice and dropped as he saw that the formation of the pillows and blankets were the same as the same before. He stared for a moment before a feeling over came him and he ran out, running to the sunroom where he knew Mituna was at.
As he burst into the sunroom he ran to the pile of blankets where Mituna did in fact sit on, doodling on the floor like any other day. The fluffy haired boy looked up as he heard Sollux stomp over to him and sit beside him, curling up and hugging his knees. "Tholluxth? What'th wrong? Why are you crying?" Mituna asked innocently, staring at him.
Sollux wasn't even aware of the tears that ran down his face as he shook, staring at the ground. "D-Daddy didn't c-come home latht night... I'm thcared..." Sollux cried out to his brother, burrying his head into his knees. Mituna blinked at him for a moment before he frowned.
"But daddy alwayth cometh home after work is done and thtuff.." Mituna murmmured and stood up. Sollux looked up at his bigger brother, his eyes red and his cheeks stained. "Daddy thayth to call that 991 number when there'th an emergenthy when he ithn't here, tho we thould call that?" Sollux nodded and stood up, wiping his eyes and following his brother who was already about to leave the sunroom and go into the kitchen.
"It'th 911 you dummy..." Sollux mumbled when he caught up and sat at the table. Mituna picked up the home phone from its dock on the counter and pulled the sheet of paper out of its magmitized place on the fridge, sitting at the table next to Sollux. Sollux stopped him before he could dial the number and took the phone from him. "I'll do it.." He muttered and dialed it, listening and waiting for whoever it was to pick up.
"Hello this is 911, what is your emergency?" A kind sounding lady responded on the other end, and Sollux stammered into the phone, a little nervous.
"Uh, h-hello.." He started, "Um, our daddy didn't come home latht night and he told uth to call here if there'th an emergenthy. And it ith becauthe we're thcared and he doethn't do that." He explained, hoping that was all he had to say.
The lady was quiet for a moment and then spoke up again. "What's your name and age sweety? Is there anyone else at home with you?" Her voice was still kind as she talked.
Sollux looked at Mituna for a moment and continued to talk in the phone. "I'm Tholluxth and I'm thixthh. Then there'th Mituna and he'th uhh 10 I think. The only one elth who liveth with uth ith daddy."
"Okay.. Do you know your daddy's work number or anyone else we can call for you, Sollux?" She asked and Sollux thought for a moment before looking at the paper and reading the number of his work. "Alright and what's his name so we can call there for you and see if he's still there?"
"Um.. Hith name is Pthiioniic Captor. Uthually he only workth for a day and then cometh home before night, but he didn't and he didn't even tell uth he had work. He thaid we would go to the thream yetherday but we think he had work.."
After the woman told him to wait for a moment, she came back and spoke again. "Okay sweety, we called and they say he wasn't there yesterday and doesn't have to work until the end of this week. What's your address so we can come by and check on you?" Sollux read out their address. "Alright... we'll have someone out there and what they'll do is they'll pick you up and take you to the police department and keep you there for a while. They'll stick on note down so when your father returns he can come by and pick you up. Sound all good?"
Sollux though for a moment before giving the lady a 'mmhm' and saying their goodbyes, hanging up and turning to Mituna. His brother was staring at him to see what was going on. "Okay, daddy wathn't at work... but thome people are going to come over and I guethh pick uth up until daddy cometh back." Mituna blinked and nodded, getting up and walking over to the fridge for something to eat, Sollux following behind a little nervous.
After Sollux made them get changed and tidied up, like their father usually did minus Mituna's hair brushing, they both waited on the couch watching TV. A knock on the door brought them to attention and they hurried to open it, staring at the two tall men.
"Is this the Captor's residence?" The brown haired one asked. Sollux nodded and the man smiled down at him, kneeling to eye level. "We're here to pick you up. You might have to stay a few nights, so do you got your bags packed?" The other man was busy taping a laminated post on the door. Sollux shook his head and went back inside, the two men following and Mituna staring at the post.
As the men went ahead and looked around the house, confirming the dad's disappearance, Sollux was packing him and Mituna's bags and other nescesities, like tooth brushes and a hairbrush. They all rendievoused back to the front door, where Mituna was being unusually quiet. The two boys followed the men to the cop car in there drive way, and Sollux noticed his father's car gone. His saddened feelings came back as he stared to the ground, getting in the back of the blue and white car and buckling his seat belt. Mituna followed suit.
The drive was a little quiet, the men introducing themselves but the boys forgetting just as easily. They asked a few questions back and forth, Mituna being considerably quiet, unusual seeing as the ride was quite long. Mituna's dual colored eyes were trained to the changing outside landscape, the lush forest turning into a small town, and finally to the Police Departement.