Betrayal Of A Nation

14

"Tubbo, wake up, we gotta go, we're already late," A voice which Tubbo easily recognized as Dream said shaking Tubbo's shoulder.

Blinking awake Tubbo is surprised to see he was laying in a bed but he supposed one of the men carried him into Dreams house after he fell asleep.

"What are we late for?" Tubbo asked tiredly struggling to Will himself to move from his comfortable place in the warm bed.

"We gotta get you clothes all your stuff is at L'Manberg so we have to get ya new stuff, you can borrow some of mine since yours are bloody and I don't think they'll let you get very far with blood all over you," Dream said throwing Tubbo a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie. "Don't tell George but you're borrowing his pants today cause mine probably wouldn't fit you at all,"

"Where is George anyway?" Tubbo said standing and unbuttoning his bloody long sleeve button up. Putting on the bright green sweatshirt he looked even smaller than he was because of how big the sweatshirt was.

"He's on watch duty currently he switches out with Punz at four pm though I believe," Dream said turning away and walking up to the many chests pulling out his mask and putting it in his backpack which Tubbo was quick to realize hadn't been on for a majority of the party last night.

"Watch duty? Also, do you have any shoes I can borrow cause all I have is the knee-high L'Manberg uniform shoes?"

"They watch L'manberg's every move to make sure we're ahead at all times, it's how we knew to recruit you instead of our original idea to recruit one of the others," Dream said picking up a pair of worn-down tennis shoes and a pair of socks and handed them to Tubbo.

"You watched our every move?" Tubbo said sitting back down on the bed to pull on the shoes.

"Yeah, and Incase your wondering Tommy's doing less than decent but he's got a fun new bright yellow scarf from what I've been told,"

"That's nice..." Tubbo trailed off looking down at his lap before laughing slightly. "I look like a miniature version of you,"

Dream laughed his wheezy heart out before asking through a laugh what server Tubbo wanted to shop on.

"We could try that one server with the big ice sculpture at spawn and the super big castle type thingy,"

"Is that the one that's a normal mode server?"

"Yeah that one"

"I don't think we can go to that one," Dream said trailing off at the end.

"Why not?"

"I'm pretty sure I'm still a wanted criminal on that one," Dream said to Tubbo who at this point was looking at him in both slight horror but mostly admiration.

"Wha-" Tubbo started but was cut off by Dream.

"I killed some people and burned down a few city blocks," dream said offhandedly before pausing in thought. "We could go to that one easy server it's got the modern feel like the normal server but I'm not a wanted criminal on that one so it's a win in my book,"

"Alright, I'm fine with that," Tubbo said opening his com and ignoring the multiple messages from Wilbur since he had betrayed L'manberg hours ago.

Dream server hopped and Tubbo did soon after. Appearing in the middle of the city spawn they were greeted with a statue of the servers current leader. Multiple stores lined the streets. The two boys slowly made their way down the road stopping at each shop until eventually, Tubbo thought he found everything he needed. Pulling Dream into one of the many craft shops he grabbed a few balls of yarn and a crochet needle.

"What're those for?"

"My mother's birthday is coming up I plan on making her a blanket," Tubbo's mother's birthday was several months ago but Dream didn't need to know that.

"Good enough for me, want to grab anything else while we're in here kid?" Dream said wandering through the store aisles.

"I don't know I think that's all from here," Tubbo said quickly. Dream nodded and went to pay for the multiple balls of yarn.

Dream stuffed the plastic bag full of yarn and crochet needle into his backpack and walked out of the store Tubbo following close behind.

"What do you want to eat for lunch?" Dream asked suddenly. Tubbo stopped before deciding on one of the many fast-food restaurants on the server. "By the way, SapNap wants a new candle so we have to pick that up before we head home,"

"That's fine, where are we gonna go to get it,"

"He wants a scented candle so we'll just go to one of the smelly shops with all the smelly hand sanitizer and stuff, you know if your good we'll get you a candle to since I heard you like fire,"

"Really," Tubbo asked through a bite of chicken.

"Yeah," Dream said finally finishing what he was eating and threw away the trash. Tubbo finished soon after and they were on their way to the candle shop.

Pulling a candle off the shelf Dream looked at the scent before lifting it to his nose and then immediately pulling it back with a sour look on his face and coughs. Tubbo laughs at the reaction.

Tubbo slowly walks through the store, he didn't know what he was looking for but he was sure he'd find something good. His eyes flicked across the many shelves of scents in various forms like perfume, candles, and hand sanitizers. He stopped when he saw a lemon-scented candle.

Tommy always smelled like lemons, apparently, when he was much younger his parents owned an orchard where they had grown lemons specifically. Eventually, he began to associate home with the smell of lemons. So when he finally left the nest and joined a different server he bought a bunch of different lemon-scented things to keep himself from getting to homesick. Tubbo finds that whenever he smells lemon he associates it with Tommy because in most cases Tommy would be nearby and thus the smell of lemon. Now that he had betrayed him he missed the familiar smell of lemons. Grabbing the candle off the shelf he held it close and pocketed a small lemon perfume bottle that he knew Dream probably wouldn't get for him.

"There you are I thought I'd lost you for a second," Dream said coming up from behind and grabbing the candle from his hands. "Lemon? Nice I like it. SapNap's getting cinnamon and I think I'm gonna get George this tiny perfume thingy it smells like oranges," Dream wheezed before stopping and looking down at Tubbo "George hates the smell of oranges," explained with a smile.

Tubbo smiled back up towards him. Following behind Dream he watched as Dream checked out the items and set them in his backpack. Making their way back to spawn they talked of random things that happened on their previous servers. The conversation began to slowly become more comfortable as Tubbo nodded along to what Dream was saying.

When they finally served hopped back to the Dream SMP with a bag full of clothing, yarn, and candles he laid it out on the bed. He looked over to Tubbo before smiling and asking a simple question that would ruin his perspective of him.

"Alright now, what did you pocket while we were there?" Dream asked emptying his pockets of a series of small hand sanitizers and perfumes along with several small chains and charms.

Tubbo sighed before emptying his pockets as well. Some cool socks he found, a bee charm he liked, and beanie he thought he'd look good in, and several other small trinkets he'd found while on the server.

Dream laughed at the look on Tubbo face when he asked him. "What did you think I didn't know? You're from an anarchy server of course you're gonna pocket something, don't feel too bad I did the same," Dream told him patting him on the back. "You're staying with me tonight seeing as we kinda burnt down your house, don't worry I'll wake you up for training though so you won't have to worry about being late,"

"I didn't even know there was training," Tubbo said mostly to himself as Dream walked away into his office.

AN; because of the election today I've been wondering how to properly work it into this particular fic. I might make a sequel that focuses more on that and leave this as the fight for revolution. I'd love to hear your opinion on this idea as it lets me know what I can do to improve.