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"I bet I will find you first." Dream spoke softly, a smirk tugging at his lips as he weaved through people at the airport.
"No fair, you're cheating." George pouted as he held his luggage, looking around, only to be grabbed and pulled through the building straight outside, once he settled down ready to lay it out to the random person trying to kidnap him, he looked up and gasped in realization, letting go of his luggage to wrap his slender arms around the waist of the taller man in front of him.
Dream chuckled and ended the call, wrapped his arms around George, resting his chin on George's head, moving his thumb in small circles on George's back.
Once they pulled away, they look at each other, expressions soft, "It's really you.." Dream said softly, holding back the urge to cup George's face by putting his hand on a shoulder.
George brought his hand up and placed it on Dream's smiling, "I'm so happy I finally get to see you, having me partner with your Merch company was smart, huh?"
Dream chuckled, "You are the smart one here, Georgie, I will admit partnering for a business visa was smart and just so we can be business partners being best friends and all."
Dream gave in and lifted his hand to George's cheek, George's hand staying with it as George leaned into the touch. "We should go before someone recognizes me." George suggested and took Dream by surprise as George's arms were back around his torso, Dream's hand moving to the back of George's neck, as Dream's other arm held George close and protectively.
Dream placed a kiss to George's head getting George to smile against Dream's chest.
Dream let George free and grabbed his luggage, linking his free arm with one of George's leading him to the car.
Dream opened the door for George who got in and closed the door behind himself while Dream put the luggage in the backseat with Sapnap who was on a phone call.
"Hey George!" Sapnap said, setting his phone down reaching up to give him an improper hug, George hugged back as Dream got into the car, "I didn't know you could be nice." George joked.
"Cmon man, I can be serious, we've been friends for years. You fucking jokester." Sapnap chuckled and pulled away, bringing his phone back to his ear, "Yeah, sorry mom, George finally arrived, we can talk later."
Sapnap slipped his phone back into his pocket as Dream started driving, George yawned from the long anxious plane ride, "You guys are going to bore me to sleep." George chuckled and leaned on the window.
"Dream wasn't kidding," Sapnap started, grabbing the aux, "You have a joke for all situations." Sapnap connected his phone scrolling through songs.
"Jokes come easy, maybe one day you'll be funny too, Sapity Napity." George smirked before yawning again, his eyes fluttering shut.
George woke up and realized his head was on something softer than the window, once the thing he was leaning on moved a bit, the surface became harder, almost tense, he opened his eyes and realized he was leaning on Dream's bicep, and appeared to be inside.
George then realized he was on Dream's lap, curled up, they were on the couch, George noticed Patches had came up to Dream on the side that George's head was and Dream's arm had flexed when reaching to pet her.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to wake you but she would have if I didn't pet her, she gets needy." Dream explained and George just shook his head, yawning and sliding away from Dream's lap, sitting on the opposite side from Patches, pulling his phone out to check his notifications, a few from friends making sure he arrived safely.
"Where's the idiot?" George asked softly, "He's on the phone with Karl, when he's done we will do dinner together and I would take you for a walk tonight but it's raining."
George nodded, "another night then."
Dream hummed and pulled Patches to his lap, "You can have a proper tour in the morning but for now, cmon you should know the basics." Dream stood up, keeping Patches close, setting her on his shoulder as George stood up.
Dream led George to the kitchen, "Here's the kitchen, Patches and I lurk around here at all hours of the night." George chuckled taking note and following Dream up the stairs, to a hallway with 5 doors.
2 on either side, and one at the end. "Okay first one on the left is mine, first on the right is empty, second on the right is Sap, straight ahead is storage and second on the left is you, each of the side rooms has a bathroom, except its between the two rooms. So yes, we will share a bathroom, hope thats okay."
"That works with me, I'll eventually go out and go shopping once my money transfers into US dollars to decorate for the 6 months I get here before I have to return for a while unless everything goes right and I can live here for real."
Dream hummed in response still a little shocked George was really there.
Sapnap walked out and smiled, bear hugging George as George giggled, hugging back, "It's good to see you man!"
"We saw each other in the car." George chuckled but his voice held warmth, "But yes, it is great to see you mate."
Sapnap and Dream both gave George a look to which George gave them a confused look, "What?"
"The hell did you just call me?" Sapnap asked seeming offended.
"I called you mate, whats with the faces?"
"You never call us mate, hell I dont remember you ever saying it, like ever." Sapnap added and George shrugged.
"I've been hanging out with others, it just kinda happens, sorry, m- Sap." George didn't see the issue, it was just a word after all.
Dream put a hand on George's shoulder, "Let's just go eat."
And they did, they went down and made some pasta, and sat down together joking and laughing with each other.
Dream's phone rang and he made a face reading who it was, "Who is it?" Sapnap asked noticing the dismay plastered on Dream's face.
"Schlatt." Dream said and answered it, "Hey man, what's up?"
"Fuck Dream, it's not looking good man."
"What do you mean? What happened?" Dream kept his voice calm as Schlatt seemed worried.
"Dream, theres a group of people on twitter right now, making threats and shit to everyone involved in your latest manhunt, and I know George got there so none of you are checking socials, but its not good for Bad, Ant and Sam right now, they're getting nervous as people are saying they know where all six of you guys live and plan to burn your shit down and stuff, Slasher had posted fake cheating proof for this to happen."
Dream inhaled, "George, Nick, go upstairs into your rooms or one of your rooms, leave your phones and stay off your pc's."
"What? What's going on?" George asked and Sapnap set his phone down, also wondering.
"Just do it please." Dream stayed calm as George set his phone down and the two took their dinners upstairs, going into Sapnap's room.
"I'll deal with it, thank you." Schlatt said his goodbye then Dream ended the call.
Dream took the phones and went upstairs calling Sam, Ant and Bad in a group call, "Guys turn your internets off and ignore everything, I'll handle it."
George and Sapnap were listening, "What do you think he's doing?" Sapnap asked.
"I don't know but it has to be big, he's being really really calm for some reason, maybe someone was dumped." George joked and regretted it.
"Dude, you need a joke filter." Sapnap chuckled.
Are you really joking at a time like this? George scolded himself, biting his lip, keeping his ear to the door.
"Do not argue with me right now," Dream's voice was low and serious, it was a lot scarier than him yelling, "I said I will handle it, do what I said." Dream went into his room and slammed the door behind him, Sapnap and George losing his voice.
Dream sat down at his setup and turned it on, starting a stream saying it was serious, tweeting about it.
After about 10 minutes he let out a breath, "I'm fine with getting hate and false accusations, I'm used to it by now and can handle it, my entire internet face is full of negative energy no matter how hard I try to make it positive." Dream let out a breath, turning chat off.
"I don't think you guys understand how much you're hurting everyone else, I don't give a shit if the two faced idiot told you I cheated, I do this shit for fun, for the fans, everything we all do is for you guys, yet you go and hurt us then want us to keep making you happy and bringing you good content. How well do you think we run after being stabbed over and over in the backs? Not well I'll tell you that."
Dream ran a hand through his hair, his voice stayed one steady line of pure rage, "Not all of you are hurtful and some of you actually appreciate what we do for you, but holy fuck, death threats over a video game? Then you what? You want me to reward you all with a face reveal and going to vidcons and other shit, how would you like me to do that when I do not feel safe leaving my house?"
Dream let out a chuckle, "I mean come one guys, what if the roles were switched and I was watching your every move, and claiming to know what you look like, where you live, what groceries you always shop for, who your friends are, where your family lives and more shit? You wouldn't like it, would you?"
"Want to hear a story about why I got into content creating? George and Sapnap wanted to start and I was willing to support them and show up in their streams, so George did the first SMP stream and I noticed the hate comments as the weeks went on, so I started content creating to be the negative face and I took the hate for Sapnap too, then the SMP grew and I sucked all that onto myself as well so everyone could have great streams and enjoy what they're doing. Because I love and care for my friends, so when i get a phone call telling me to worry that my house might get burnt to the ground because someone managed to pinpoint a street I might live on and was close, I'm not going to laugh about it like I do the other hate I get. Most of it I can joke about because it's stupid, but holy fuck guys, you need to calm the fuck down, I will shut down every account I own if this keeps going. I didn't cheat in the stupid block game, but I feel cheated out of my enjoyment right now. George arrived a few hours ago, we were going to announce it tomorrow morning but now I don't feel safe putting him on the internet, all the hunters will be taking an internet break now because of you guys. Hope you had fun." Dream ended the stream and sighed, turning off all socials notifications and going to Sapnap's room.
"Everything alright?" Sapnap asked as Dream handed their phones back.
Dream smiled, "All good, just neither of you go anywhere but the house without me."
"Why did you stream?" George asked the notification still on his phone as Dream forgot to clear it, "I just needed to talk to everyone, everything is good and its late, I have a video to edit, bye." Dream left the room and George followed, sitting on Dream's bed watching him sit at his chair.
"I'm fine George, I'm used to the internet being dumb."
"Wanna know what else is dumb?"
"What?" Dream turned amused.
"You." George chuckled and Dream smiled flipping him off jokingly.
"You can fuck me whenever~"
Fuck, stop making jokes, Idiot, George scolded himself again
Dream chuckled and got up walking over and pushing George back, crawling over him, grabbing Georges wrists and pinning them above his head, smirking down to him.
George gulped, "George."
"D-Dream.."
"Stop being so hard on yourself, we all love your little witty jokes."
"I have no self control though." George pouted at his restraint, his face flush as he felt Dream's warm breath on his skin.
Dream smiled and placed a kiss to George nose before trailing a hand down to George's lower stomach, making George's body fill with goosebumps at the soft touch, before he knew it he was giggling out of control, Dream had started tickling him.
"D-Dream!" George protested through giggles as Dream chuckled rolled onto his back, releasing George as he started wheezing.
Once they calmed down, George crossed his arms and pouted, "That was unfair."
"You're just mad that I'm not ticklish." Dream chuckled and watched as George moved to sit on Dream's torso, staring down at him, "You sure you're really okay, Clay?"
Dream gulped at the name, knowing George was out of his joke mindset, it was rare, not that he couldn't have serious conversations with it on, because he could, but this was different, he was a different George, and Dream was unsure how he felt about this George.
Dream reached his hands up and held George's face rubbing his thumbs along George's soft skin, giving a soft smile, "I'm sure, just mad people would think it's okay to mess with my friends, and you." George flushed as he was singled out from the others and smiled, laying down and holding the fabric of Dream's hoodie, tightly.
"Wanna go sit on the porch?" Dream asked and George nodded, sitting up to get off Dream but instead was picked up bridal style and carried outside.
Patches has managed to sneak out and Dream only noticed when he heard her crying from being wet too long and was all the way in the road.
Dream set George down and ran after her, "oh baby what are you doing out here?"
Dream took his shirt off and wrapped it around her to keep her safe, turning back to George, holding Patches close.
Dream was under the street light as the drops of water rolled over his defined muscles, making George flush dark red, luckily it was dark.
Dream walked over and slipped Patches inside, "If you want me to hold you out in the road shirtless, just ask, you don't have to drool."
George glared, "I Wasn't drooling, idiot." George grabbed the hand that was extended out to him, standing up and letting Dream lead him out to the street.
Dream placed his hands on George's waist after putting the smaller boy's arms around his neck, pulling them close and swaying softly.
George pulled Dream's face closer so their noses were brushing as the rain fell over them softly.
They were dancing softly under the street light, Dream eventually had a hold of George's hand, spinning him before connecting their bodies again to a slow dance, getting a wide smile to break on both their faces.
It was the perfect night.