{Tired Mercenary}

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by agrace932YT

by agrace932YT

**The Past: Prison Building**

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Dream admired the Prison coming along nicely, making sure everything was coming nicely and the blueprints were just as good.
"Hey."
Dream turned and saw Punz running over with a crate,"Got a few more things for the Prison.", Punz put it down, Dream smiled and took out the pay,"Thanks again.", Punz nods, Dream then titled his head for Punz to follow him.

There was a bunch of lava, it made Dream look terrifying and it made Punz looked just as scary, but unlike Dream he didn't have many scars that made him seem scary.
Though, the heat was making Punz uncomfortable and making him tug at his turtle neck, Punz always wore a lot on him, turtle neck, hoodie and armour.
As Dream checked the lava and to check the mechanism of the bridge and doors, Punz started to feel a little weaker, considering his legs felt like jelly,"Dream. . . Maybe, we should. . . Not put much lava. . .", Dream turned to Punz,"Why-?. . . Punz, are you okay?", Dream approached him, Punz wiped his forehead,"Hot. . . Too hot. . .", Dream them noticed in the light, noticing Punz's looked sick and had bags under his eyes,"Punz, have you been sleeping or eating well?", ". . .mhm. . .", Punz subconsciously leaned forward and rested his head against Dream, Dream was surprised as Punz wasn't exactly a fan of being given affection or being touched even,"Punz?", no response, that give Dream red flags immediately picked up Punz and rushed him to the medical bay.

Dream took off the armour and hoodie off Punz, elevate the legs and feet slightly. Remove tight or heavy clothing. Got water and orange juice that had no alcohol or caffeine for when he wakes up and then he got a sponge drenched in cold water and dab his forehead.
"Dream, what happened?"
He looked up and saw Hannah,"Heat. He fainted from heat, but I suspect something else.", Hannah shuffled her feet nervously,"Ah. . .", Dream was confused, but Hannah spoke,"Well, it's just. . . A lot of people have been giving him slack for working with you, a lot of jobs that and a friend of his hasn't written in a while.", Dream stared at her, those fucker fuckers-. . .
Dream sighed,"Try and get them stop, because this is taking a towel on his health.", Hannah nods and leaves, Dream sighed and wished it was easy to help Sam with his. . . Mental health, Physical Health and maybe Emotional.

Punz now felt colder than usual, he opened his eyes and he wasn't in the lava room but in the medical bay.
"Hey."
Punz turned on his back looking up to see Dream looking at him from his right,"Dream?. . .", "You passed out from the heat, lack of sleep, food and water.", Dream helped him sit up, grabbing the glasses of water and held it out to Punz, Punz took it and drank it slowly,"How do you walk around with that all on?", "I'm use to heat. . . Just, lava. . . It felt too much.", "That's because you haven't been looking after yourself, Hannah told me.", Punz froze, running his hand through his hair,"Shit. . .", "Here. Eat. And no alcohol or coffee, that won't help.", Dream held out chicken nuggets,"Chicken Nuggets help.", Punz sighs, despite his head saying no, he took a nugget and ate it.
"Take the week off, recover from this and get yourself back to eating, drinking and sleeping. Stay healthy."
Dream felt like Ponk and a parent but he liked fussing over someone he cared about again.

"Punz!"
Punz was surprised and turned saw Boomer,"Boomer, you made it!", Boomer jogs over and pulls Punz into a hug,"Of course, got lost but made it.", Punz smiled and Boomer played with Punz's hair and hair accessory,"I missed ya.", "Oi.", Hannah came over with a ruler, breaking their hug and putting a ruler between them,"5ft, Punz wouldn't be able to handle your new flirting techniques.", "Oh come on, don't go mother on us!", Hannah just simply flew up and pats Punz on the head,"Punz is mah child.", "Hannah.", oh boy.