Heavenstruck (Guardian Angel AU)

What happened?

cw: vehicle crashes

George was playing on a shitty laptop, and Dream was playing on a computer with his usual settings. Why was George still winning this stupid Minecraft sumo match?

"Get out of here!" George shouted, his frantic clicking and the excitement in his voice audible. "Get out! Let's go, get him out of here!"

Dream burst out laughing. Fuck, his finger was slipping from his mouse. He needed to focus. "George, I'm right next to you, stop shouting in my ear—"

"Get out! Get out! Yes!"

There was more screeching and laughter from them for the next thirty seconds that sumo match lasted. Ultimately, George yelled out a victory scream as Dream sank into his chair, his abdomen aching from his hysterical laughter.

"You're making me laugh too hard," Dream whined, wiping a tear from his eye. A couple more chuckles escaped from his throat. "Screaming, like, 'yes' at the top of your lungs for no reason."

George giggled at that as he typed in an invitation to another sumo match. "You have so many wins on this alt, Dream. I didn't think you were this bad."

"Oh, shut up, you only barely managed to win. I'll beat you this match."

And if Dream allowed his finger to slip from his mouse the next round just to see George happy again, that was his business and his business only.

Well.

Dream watched George as George bragged about his second win, listening but not processing the words. His heart strained.

This was getting to be too much for one person.

*

"Bro, you quit your job and you didn't even tell me?"

"You uploaded a video and didn't tell me."

"Oh. That's true..."

Dream rolled his eyes, chuckling along with Sapnap on the other end of the call.

It had taken far too long for Sapnap to upload his first video (which he begrudgingly admitted he laughed at and replayed for five minutes), but he supposed it had also taken him far too long to bite the bullet and put in his two week's notice. They had both been stubborn fucks to some degree.

Late October was a strange season. It was the weird middle ground between casual times and the holiday rush, the awful mix of chilly winds and oppressively hot sunshine, the tightrope walk of there still being over two months left in the year and the year almost being over. That was especially apparent now that Dream was walking through the city alone.

Actually, walking alone felt just as strange, if not stranger. George had always been by his side, always a shout away. It had mostly been out of necessity at first, but now...

Ugh. It felt weird. Though having George around for this conversation he was about to have with Sapnap would be even worse.

"Sapnap," Dream called, "I'm gonna tell you something, and you can't make fun of me."

"Um, I'm afraid you're gonna be disappointed, buddy."

"No, like. Actually."

Sapnap paused at that, and distantly Dream could hear the rattle of a collar and footsteps padding away. A door shut. "Okay, I'm alone now. No cats listening in on our conversation. What do you need?"