Reunion ~ Book 4

Chapter 14

"Chris!" Dream called, jogging after the other man. Chris opened the door to his house and stopped, turning around. "Hey- wait up,"

"What do you want?" Chris hissed.

"Phil didn't mean it, he's in a bad mood," Dream said. 

"Yeah, but he's right," Chris said. "If I hadn't captured Technoblade and forced him to like me, we'd never be friends,"

"You didn't force him, there must have been other people he could have-" Dream started.

"No! I was the only person, guard, prisoner, anyone, that didn't hit him or sneer at him," Chris hissed.

"So you were nice to him, of course he's your friend," Dream said.

"You don't get it," Chris said, closing his eyes and shaking his head for a moment. "I manipulated a child into trusting me knowing that if we were friends he wouldn't kill me when he grew up to be powerful," Dream said nothing as Chris stared at him. "I didn't care about him, all I wanted was money and power, I wanted to be the next MrBeast and I knew that if my champion were my friend I could do it much easier,"

"So... you actually aren't his friend?" Dream breathed. "You've just been using him?" Chris sighed and shook his head again.

"No," He admitted. "At first, yes, that's all it was. Just a game of power. But after a while... he started growing on me, he was almost a son to me even though I'm not much older than him," Chris said. "I watched him grow up and eventually we really did trust each other, and now we're friends," Chris paused and backed into his house. "I just hate how our friendship was built on lies," Dream stopped the door from closing and pushed it back open as Chris tried to close it. 

"Let's watch some of those videos," Dream said. Maybe watching old videos would make Chris feel better about himself. Chris said nothing for a moment before glancing at the camera and sighing.

"Fine," He muttered. "Come in," Dream followed Chris to the couch and sat beside him. Chris wasn't one of the people who owned a TV so Dream just looked over his shoulder. The screen was big enough to see so it wasn't a problem. Chris scrolled past a few videos, all the way to one from 2017, and clicked on it. 

Technoblade was sitting beside Chris, holding a bottle of water and he didn't seem to realize he was being filmed. 

"Do a bottle flip," Chris said. 

"A bottle what now?" Techno turned to him, looking a bit confused. 

"Flip the bottle so it lands," Chris said.

"Why- are you filming me?" Techno realized after a moment and scoffed. "Give me that-"

"No," Chris said, standing up and backing off. Technoblade gave him an annoyed look but didn't go after him. "Just spin the bottle so it flips,"

"That's pointless," Techno said. "I can do something much cooler," After a moment he unscrewed the cap enough that it was almost completely unscrewed but not quite. He held up the bottle and then squeezed it. Nothing happened for a while but then the bottle cap popped off, spinning in the air. Techno reached up and grabbed it, setting down the bottle before placing the cap on his thumb and flicking it up again and catching it.

"Not as cool as a bottle flip," Chris said.

"Seriously?" Techno said. "That's much cooler than a bottle flip," 

"Drink your water, you've got a fight soon," Chris said. "Then after that, you can practice bottle flipping,"

"You can't tell me what to do," Techno scoffed.