MHP: Poor Decisions and LuckTethys had made his cozy nook below the stairs into something of a home.
He liked it there, even if many of the stitches who lived there still harbored an intense mistrust for him. He couldn't really blame them; he was just happy he had a place to stay, and people around him who wouldn't treat him like garbage. And of course, 95 was there, too, and she ensured no one treated him too badly.
Tethys had hung up a hammock and at 95's behest Crow, the dear thing, had drawn all over his walls, swirls and stars and all kinds of lovely patterns. 38, the only parent who seemed to harbor him no ill will, had found him a sheaf of paper, a pen nib, and MHP: Poor Decisions and Luck
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MHP: Cold Rains, Epilogue"Ready, lovey?" 39 asked, opening his daughter's front and hooking up the transfer wire.
"So…I'm gonna look like that?" she asked, eyeing the adult body that had been built for her, which her mother was currently fiddling with. Tethys sat beside her, quiet, clutching her hand. Shen leaned on the wall, his new, grown-up wings stretching behind him.
"Yup, big and pretty and grown-up," 39 said, grinning and mussing her hair. "Now, Mags is the only one who's figured out how to do this, so are you really, really ready?"
"Dad, I'm ready!" 95 giggled. "Shen and Keller already got theirs, I'm ready for mine!"
"All right," 56 said fondly. "Mags!"
MHP: Cold Rains, Epilogue
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Time"Lass?"
And she's human, this girl who looks up from the white laptop is. Hair messy, unwashed, and bright orange, glasses perpetually slipping down that long nose. Sweatpants and freckles. "Hey, Fox."
The scarred stitchpunk, never one to deal in pretenses, clambered out of the top drawer of the ornate wood dresser and jumped, slick as one of the girl's cats, onto her long desk. She watched as he carefully climbed over papers and trinkets and buttons, finally stopping just beside her bed. "Hey, Spice." A pause. "Yeh haven' spoken ta me in a few days."
She removed her glasses and scrubbed the back her hand across her eyes. "Yeah, I know, I' Time
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MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 4"One thousand!" 56 screamed, dashing out of the Movie House. "95?! 95!"
"They're long gone," Fox sighed.
"We have to go after them!" 39 cried, tugging at his hair with shaking hands.
"Go after them where?" 38 asked gently, putting a hand on her twin's back. "We don't know where they went."
"He's been in the walls," 56 said determinedly as she ran over to where she knew the exposed brick opening was, hoping, praying that he left some clue about Bunny's hideout behind. But inside Tethys's nook was only a pile of used chemical heaters.
"She's been taking care of him," 39 said quietly, his knees buckling beside the pile. "Oh, baby girl… MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 4
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MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 395 returned every night that week to Tethys's little nook, bringing him chemical heaters and listening to his myriad of Russian fairy tales he had to tell. The rain never once let up, but now that Tethys had a regular source of warmth, he was able to travel through the walls and the holes that mice had made long ago, and listen to everything that went on in the movie house's bottom floor. Even though he couldn't get inside, that had to count for something, right? Bunny would be pleased, he was sure. He'd find some other way to sneak in and get the prize. In the meantime, he'd gleaned that the next week the kids would be getting their adult up MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 3
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MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 2It was night, or at least late evening, when Tethys finally woke up, to the feeling of something being draped around his shoulders.
His optics blearily clicked open to the sight of the small purple doll from before adjusting what felt like a pouch full of tiny balls around his shoulders, and it was warm. Tethys nearly wept at how warm it was as he tugged it around himself, encasing his whole body in warmth. "Vhat is dis?"
"A chemical heater," she explained as she sat in front of him, scootching so their knees were touching and she could feel the warmth too. "Mama and Fox found a whole ton of them a few months ago, we've been saving 'em for MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 2
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MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 1"Vhat vould you have me do?"
"You know what I need you to do, Puppy. We've been quiet far too long."
"I like qviet. Ve have more time for us."
"Are you talking back, pet?"
"No, no, mistress, of course not! Vhy vould I talk back? Talking back makes mistress upset, and Puppy doesn't like mistress upset! You know best, you alvays know best!"
"Of course I do. And you know what you must do."
"But—vhy tonight? Looks like rain, and, vell—"
"Don't question me, Pup. Just do as I say."
"Da, mistress. At vonce."
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"I dinnae like how quiet it's been."
"You're impossible," 38 sighed, tying her hair behind her head. She'd left it loo MHP: Cold Rains, Chapter 1
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