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Chapter 4 - But Not Beyond Repair

What the fuck. That was the one thing George thought as he woke up. 

The last thing he remembered seeing was Dream and himself on the path walking back to the castle. He started to sit up to look at his surroundings but something made him stop as he tried.

"Ow." Was all he can manage getting out before lying back down. He looked around from his bed. He was in a room that he didn't recognise, it was very clean and organised. A lantern hung in the middle of the room and around the room were chairs and counters with a window overlooking the walls surrounding the land of where the castle stood. He recognised it was a hospital room of some sort, then he remembered what happened.

He remembered Dream yelling as he fell, Dream holding him in his arms looking worried. Then he remembered the blood, he put his hand to where remembered getting hit. The arrow wasn't there but it was exchanged for a bandage wrap.

As soon as he started thinking more, someone came in, he recognised her right away.

"Niki? What are you doing here?" He asked as she came closer to inspect his shoulder.

"Hi King George, I'm fixing you up obviously." She giggles at his obliviousness. "I know we are not normally on the same side of things but." She stopped talking for a second but then continued less confidently but still with her smile. "We're friends and I'm always here to help. Anyways drink this." She held up a regeneration potion.

"Oh, yeah, thanks." George took the potion and drank it as Niki continued talking.

"Yeah, don't worry about it. I took out your arrow when you got here and splashed you with a healing potion so with all of that you should be in tip top shape in i'd say 12ish hours. Don't push it though I think you should stay here till after your better."

"Well thank you so much." George said again gratefully, he was happy that he had such caring friends.

"Don't worry about it King George." She said again as she started to clean up the already clean room. "Oh, I almost forgot, there is someone here to see you, do you want me to let him in or do you still need your time?"

"Oh, who?" George asked and then added. "And don't call me King George, or King, or anything of that title. Like you said we are friends."

Niki chuckled. "Alright that sounds good Ki- George. And It's Dream that's here. He has been waiting since you got into the room, it's been like 2 hours now."

George was shocked that it was Dream and blushed a bit. "Alright yeah, let him in. Thanks again Niki."

"No problem." She said with a smile and left.

George wondered why he would wait outside his room for two hours when he obviously knows he'll live. He looked worse than him back there, he should be in his own room or resting, its probably late.

"George! Oh my god are you okay? She wouldn't let me in while you were asleep, how do you feel?" Dream burst into the room with a worried face and speed walked to sit down beside George on the bed. George only laughed at this.

"Yeah, yeah i'm fine. Why are you so worried?" George answered trying to comfort his friend while also trying not to laugh about how dramatic he was being. He was in worse shape than him but he still looked alright.

"Don't you remember? You got shot in the arm and fell and then fainted. You lost quite a bit of blood and.. and I was supposed to protect you." He starts mumbling mostly to himself saying "I should have been more cautious, I should have made you go, what is wrong with me, you probably hate me." Dream was rambling at this point, spiralling, his only job was to protect George and he already failed.

"Hey hey hey." George said as he sat up, it didn't hurt as bad this time. "You didn't do anything wrong okay? Hey look at me."

Dream wasn't paying attention, he got George hurt, King George, his best friend, the one person that meant the most to him. Suddenly he felt arms wrap around him, he started to tear up.

"I-I'm so sorry." Dream quietly spoke.

"It's okay, i'm okay." George pulled away so he could look at Dream's face, he looked so shattered. His eyes were puffy and a tear was streaming down his face. George wiped the tear away and cupped his hand under Dream's face to make him look up at him. "We are going to be okay, alright?"

Dream only nodded, it was his time to start blushing, he didn't know why but he didn't care. He was with George and George was safe. He pulled George back into a hug.

George was confused but he didn't mind the closeness. He was glad Dream was safe and away from danger too. The hug lasted a good two minutes until Dream broke the silence.

"Do you know when you will be okay to get out of here?" Dream spoke into George's neck not wanting to let him go.

"Niki said that I would be in good shape in 12ish hours so i'm guessing in 12ish hours." George laughed at his joke which made Dream laugh with him.

"Alright but you should get some sleep. It's 2:30 in the morning and I'm sure you need to rest." Dream didn't want to leave George but he knew he was tired and he was too.

"Okay sounds good Dream." He was interrupted with a yawn. "Looks like that's the answer."

Dream giggled. "Alright goodnight Georgie, get some rest, if you need me you know where to find me."

"Alright, goodnight Dreamie." He started to lay down and Dream started to walk to the door before getting interrupted. "Hey, one more thing."

"Yeah?" Dream asked confused.

"Thank you for taking me back here and making sure I was okay, I really appreciate it. Make sure you get checked up on too, Niki is great with it." George said with a smile as his eyes closed.

"Sure thing Georgie. Night." Dream answered shyly.

"Night." George answered back as he drifted off to sleep.

Dream left the room with a huge smile on his face. He went to go find Niki as George said to make sure he was okay. He got checked up earlier while George was asleep, he didn't need stitches or anything his armor blocked most of it, he only had a few shallow cuts. 

He got bandages on his holes where arrows were thought but they never went as deep as the arrow that hit George's did. He also had a cut on his face, he didn't mind it he thought it looked badass.

Niki just changed his bandages and told him to get some sleep to rest and take a regeneration potion when he woke up so that was what he was going to do, well if he could sleep.

He couldn't stop thinking about how he didn't protect George, how he was hurt now because of him. By the time he got to bed it was 4:30 in the morning. 

Suddenly around 5 he was woken up by knocks on the door. He didn't think much of it and tried to go back to sleep but then the knocks didn't stop. After a minute of knocking he opened the door to see George on the other side.

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