safe with me - dnf mafia au (english)

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Dream POV.

After Sapnap finally left and didn't even try to come back, I sighed with relief and sat down on the chair next to the bed.
Sap had read a book there, or at least he tried to, so I picked it up and started flipping through the pages as well.
To be perfectly honest, I read a lot, I even wrote under a false name at times and published my work, but not books like... this.
I got bored pretty quickly.
Just a book of some straight romance with a guy who didn't deserve the girl at all.
Like, seriously Stephanie, you could have chosen anyone else in the world and choose this scumbag Rodrigo over there??

With a sigh, I put the book down and turned my attention to the still unconscious man next to me.
I hadn't found a chance to really take a look at him up to that point, as I was busy with Niki and a few other people and issues.

For example, I had to take care of the team as Tubbo was threatened by one of the guards at the entrance of the Hawk's mansion and nearly got injured while setting up the dynamite for the explosions.
However, Phil noticed it in time and easily snapped the man's neck.
He could really scare you when someone threatened his kids...
Anyway, the teenager was trembling a bit afterwards and wasn't quite himself anymore, having never been so close to the danger of our profession.
He was always in charge
of attaching the dynamite and was currently training with Tommy and Ranboo to do the rest with us soon, but they weren't quite ready yet.
The kids usually waited in the car with someone or alone so I had to talk to Tubbo later and explain a few things to him, he ultimately decided to just stick with the dynamite installation for now and not go into the rest. He was quite terrified after being held at gunpoint for the first time, which was understandable.

Tommy, on the other hand, had a different opinion.
He's always wanted to go on missions like this with us, with flamethrowers and pistols to shoot and burn people to death.
Sometimes he scared me... But he always waited in the car with Tubs and Boo when we asked him to.

I completely forgot what I was doing and looked up again.

Sap had given me a photograph of the two of them as a guide in case I found George somewhere in the Hawk's mansion, I pulled it out of my pocket and looked at it again.
It was very old and both of them were quite young, but you would recognize him if you compared him to the photo.
In the photo, Sapnap's arm was slung around George's shoulders and the other arm was pointed forward, he was the one holding the camera.
Both friends were laughing in the picture. In the background was a garden or park, with trees, bushes, plants and grass.
George had a slit in his right eyebrow, I took a quick look at his face and compared it to the one in the picture.

The slit was still visible, but it wasn't quite clear anymore.
The injuries that had been inflicted on his face were more obvious, he had probably been beaten several times.
His eyes were obviously closed, but I knew they were a deep brown, as was his hair, which fell partially over his face.

Without even noticing it, I leaned forward a bit and carefully stroked one of the dark brown strands behind his ear.

I thought nothing of it and just kept looking at him.
If you thought about it, you might've realized that this behavior was creepy as fuck.
You know, watching someone linger in an unconscious sleep, examining their face without their knowledge and stroking their hair out of their face...

But I didn't think about it.

His face was pulled up in a laugh in the picture, but it was clearly rounder than the one in front of me.
His lips weren't really visible in the photo, but they were full and rosy pink in front of me.
I shook my head smiling as I slowly came to my senses and realized how stupid I was thinking.
It wasn't really important, but I had just felt the thought of finding him quite... attractive.