A Lovely Mess

Day 2

A gas canister later and following their tracks, lead them back to their car, they were previously convinced it'd be the last time they'd see the vehicle, however sapnaps lucky jackpot in trying to rinse the motors in the town for traces of gas proved successful.

"now we have the car back, and you guys said it was hopeless" sapnap smirked as he stride along the gas swishing about in the cannister

"yeah yeah, whatever sapnap" george laughed playfully pushing the taller man

dream stopped and put his arm out suddenly stopping the group, he grabbed sapnaps wrist as well as george's and pulled them behind a tree just off of the road

"what the f-" sapnap tried to complain before dream stuck his hand over his mouth

Dream signalled with two fingers from his eyes to the car

an outline of a person was seen, scourging through the back.

"z?" george mouthed not letting words escape

Dream shook his head no, he raised his pistol, with his free hand gestured his finger over his lips telling the guys to be quiet.

Carefully Dream approached the figure

"drop what ever you're holding and stop what you're doing" Dream said, sternly not breaking tone, weapon raised, he clocked the gun to alert the person that he was in fact wielding a weapon.

"ah- i oh- fuck" A boy, a similar height to dream yet with much younger features stumbled back dropping everything he'd collected, in his sudden stumble he hit his head on the hood of the car, he hissed out gripping the top of his head where he was injured

"Jheez, didn't have to startle me" the kid mumbled rubbing his head, his accent was now clearer, distinctively british.

"did i just hear a british accent-" george emerged from behind the tree with sapnap behind him

"ah a londoner" the child beamed

george nodded

"what the fuck were you doing going through our car" sapnap shoved the boy against a tree and raised his axe to his throat, the boys eyes widened shocked by the sudden movement

"i prefer the guy with the mask he was friendly" the teen tried to joke, the wood of the axe being pushed against his throat causing his voice to crack with the added pressure that was being applied

"sapnap, he's just a kid, leave it" dream grabbed sapnaps shoulder, sapnap agreed letting go of the teen who began rubbing his now ever so slightly bruised neck

"what's your name then" george asked meaning against the car desperate to lay down again

"tommy"

"well, you're on your own? what are you like 14 where's your parents" dream asked

"16 actually-" he scoffed before continuing "my dad and brother are back in lmanberg"

"where's that? southern florida? ohio?"

"canada"

"CANADA?" george jumped up surprised

"that's miles off" sapnap began questioning the boys story

"nono, look, l'manberg is a large community in canada in old edmonton! hundreds maybe even thousands-"

"cut the bullshit tommy" sapnap groaned

"nonono i'm being serious" the boy panicked began to stumble over his words

"do you have any proof at all" george tried to help the boy out

the younger boy began patting at his pockets letting out frustrated noises, until he pulled out some papers, between them a crumbled envelope, he opened it revealing 3 damaged photographs

one of a snowy, wooden town

another with children playing in the snow

and a final one of tommy, a taller boy with a fringe wearing a beanie and long brown trench coat, and another male, a green hat and long dirty blonde hair, obviously the eldest out of the four. and a final boy, his face etched out, he was shorter than the rest by a significant amount. he wore a green button up and a large puffy coat and thick leather boots, yet his his face wasn't distinguishable.

"is- is that enough proof" tommy's hands shook as he showed the photos around

"yeah, fine" sapnap said getting into the car leaving dream to make the final decision

dream stood, he lazily put his hand behind his neck and stretched slightly

"i don't know kid, it's risky, you can stick with us but we're not going all the way to canada that's like-" dream stopped to think

"atleast a two weeks- i went on a road trip to alberta as a kid that took atleast 4 days and that was pre z! it's just not worth it"

"please, look we can give you weapons, food, whatever you need! shelter! look i can even get you a good word in with other factions-"

"what are you like some big name" dream jokingly teased

"my brothers the democratically voted president of l'manberg and other factions, not to brag but we're one of the biggest family names up north" tommy smiled, he was obviously bragging

"right"

dream thought, if what the kid said was true this would be an amazing opportunity for him and the team, however if it was a lie it could get them murdered, well anything these days could get you murdered

maybe it was worth a shot

"welcome to the team"

"FUCK YEAH" the boy beamed

"i'm dream, the other brit is george and the angry axe texan is sapnap"

"okay epic"

well it was all set, they were heading to L'manberg