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Was it really today the last day in his home? The lack of decoration in his room and the suitcases were a good reference to know the answer. He only had the things that he will need to use before going away, after all.
Most of his belongings were already divided in between the two cars from the L’manburg team. His team now.
The paperwork was more of a hassle than he expected, even if Dream didn't object to following it and fully understood the decision. But after an extra week of the team staying in Essempi, Tommy was finally allowed to leave and work there.
They had a 4 hour trip that Tommy took with Fundy and Niki. He almost felt like he had been with them for less time, actually.
They talked about gossip, how Techno slept way too much and Wilbur too few, or how Phil had this bad habit of adopting childrens (letting them stay in his home until they learned how to control their power and then go back with their family).
They also taught him things about their own powers, little curiosities like Niki being able to breath under water and Fundy being able to create holograms with particles that, for some reason, loved to be around a guy named Ranboo.
When he asked who that was, they just said “You will see” and changed the topic.
He would never admit how happy that statement made him feel or how excited he actually was to be able to just see whatever magic person they wanted him to meet.
He had waited too long to be taken as a hero, he had to repeat himself that he could wait for a couple hours more now.
When they got to the border between L’manburg and Essempi everything seemed more real, Niki, who was driving, handed an officer their papers and, when they saw that all was good, they were welcomed to the district that Tommy could now call home.
Then, they had about an hour and a half to get to the main city, where the headquarters and his new home was.
Of course, they went to where he was going to live first. It was a big flat with departments that, apparently, was where most of the heroes lived.
It was nothing to do with the hero profession, actually. Just like any other job, they didn't care if heroes didn't have where to live, and that's how it all started.
Niki explained that Phil was the first one to move there, when Wilbur and Techno were still young and, when both brothers decided to have their own spaces, they decided to rent an apartment in the same place.
Fundy then explained that, when he was kicked out of his house, Wilbur practically adopted him and let him live there and, again, he stayed in the same building when he decided to become independent.
Tommy did ask why he had been kicked out, although he was a little afraid of touching a sensitive subject that might make the hero uncomfortable.
“It was for the best, actually, they never accepted who I was, they expected me to be someone who I wasn’t” Was his response and Tommy didn’t push the topic further.
Then Niki quickly continued talking about how she got there thanks to Phil. She was already a hero for that moment, and her landlord decided that she wasn't going to live there anymore, for some reason, kicking her out by the end of the month.
She laughed at how she was so stressed with finding a new place that she did really bad at training but Phil, instead of getting mad at her or something, he bought the whole building (one by one, first an apartment, then another and now he owned them all) that he lived in only to make sure that no other landlord will ever do that to her or anyone else.
Every hero in L’manburg knew that they had a place to go to and, even if Phil assured them that they didn’t have to pay rent, they did it anyway. He ended up accepting the payment only to stop finding money hidden in his house (his wife loves to have small pots with flowers outside and they used to hide money in them).
Before starting with the transfer of headquarters, the whole L’manburg team joined Tommy’s family for dinner and they explained that the kid could either live in one of the apartments or with Phil if he (or his parents, because maybe they would feel safer if Tommy wasn’t living alone) wanted.
Of course, Tommy chose his own sector and nobody objected.
And now, they were here, both cars in front of the building in another district where his dream would become true.