Is This Real?

Chapter 29: The calm before the storm

Unknown POV:

Behind the trees, deep in the forest, they stood there and watched.

Watched everything between the two men unfold.

The fighting, the apologies.... the kiss.

The person gagged when their lips connected.

"That should've been me." The person whispered to themselves.

He stood there in the shadows and continued to watch.

Repulsed by how happy they looked together.

Anger grew and grew inside the person as they stood and watched their love fall for someone else.

"I will get you back." They said to themselves again and began to disappear into the night.

"And I'll kill him for taking you from me."

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Karl POV:

1 day till war

Karl had woken up with Quackity in his arms.

The small man looked so peaceful.

Karl smiled at the sleeping Quackity and moved a strand of his hair from his face.

They had stayed together for two nights now thanks to Sapnap covering for Karl.

They hung out all day and just enjoyed each other's company while they could, and Karl wished he could stay like this forever.

But all good things come to an end.

Karl sighed at the thought.

'What if this is only temporary.' Karl thought to himself, beginning to get sad, but the movement in his arms and the small yawn he heard shook him from his bad thoughts.

"Good morning." Karl said with a huge smile plastered on his face.

"Good morning." A sleepy Quackity responded before getting up and stretching, leading Karl to do the same.

"Did you sleep well?" Quackity asked, turning to face Karl.

"I always sleep well with you." Karl said smiling.

Quackity smiled and gave Karl a kiss on the hand.

"I wish you didn't have to leave today." Quackity sad with a sad face.

Karl cupped the man's face in his hands and gave him a small kiss on the nose.

"It'll only be for a little right?" Karl said, "Hopefully this war won't affect us that badly and we can be together all the time after, okay?" Karl said reassuringly, but deep down he was worried that the war would cause issues between them two.

Quackity smiled at the response and kissed Karl's hand.

"Hopefully." He said, but he too had his doubts.

Both of them were scared about what was going to happen the next day, but they had hope.

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Time skip, couple hours later

Karl, Quackity, and Sam sat together eating their last meal before Karl left and the war happened.

All of them just trying to ease the tension.

Sam kept making dirty jokes about Karl and Quackity, which always resulted in Quackity laughing, and Karl blushing so hard you thought he might explode, which caused them all to laugh.

They reminisced on old memories and talked about anything to get their minds off of everything, and it worked.

But Karl's time to leave had come.

And it was back to the worried thoughts about what would happen.

"Hey everything will be okay." Quackity said giving Karl's hand a reassuring squeeze.

"I'm just scared." Karl said now facing Quackity, "Promise you'll try to not get hurt tomorrow? And if anything, happens just call for me and I'll defend you against whoever I swear." Karl said trying to calm himself.

"I'll be okay. And hey, if you get in trouble, I'll be there for you too okay. We're going to be okay." Quackity said while smiling at Karl and pulling him in for one last hug.

Karl hugged Quackity tightly and nodded.

Though deep-down Karl doubted that they'd be okay.

"I love you." Quackity said, pulling away from Karl and looking him in the eye.

"I love you too." Karl replied and pulled Quackity in for a kiss.

And with that kiss, it seemed like all of Karl's and Quackity's worries washed away.

It was as though they were the only two people in the world, and no one could change that.

They pulled away from each other and hugged again before Karl left.

"Be safe!" Quackity yelled at Karl, who gave him a thumbs up in response.

And once Karl got back to Manburg everything came back.

All the worry, the anxiety, flooded back in his mind, but he just kept repeating Quackity's words in his head.

'We'll be okay, we'll be okay' he thought and sighed.

He went to go meet up with the group and go over the strategies they had planned.

Sapnap was the first person to greet Karl when he arrived.

No one else felt the need to say anything to him and just kept going over the strategy.

Karl made sure to listen so he could know what everyone else was doing as well.

Just in case anything went wrong, he would know where everyone else was and what they were doing.

But nothing bad was going to happen to them.

Right...?

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HELLO, sorry this is a short ass chapter, but its leading to a big one, with a big event happening, that I will be changing so please don't get upset if the story doesn't exactly match the dream smp one!

Also, I could give you guys a choice on what's going to happen in the next chapter if you'd like?

I won't go into detail, but either there's going to be a TRAGIC ENDING or a more or so HAPPIER ENDING.

Both will be good in a way I can promise you that, but the overall ending can depend on ya'll.

So, tell me what you'd prefer and I'll see what I can do >:)

Anyways okay thank you for reading, I will update in the next 2-4 days!

Again, sorry for the short chapter!