Shoulder to Lean On

Something Amiss

Hey everyone! Just wanted to establish a few things:

1. Dream, George, and Sapnap have all stated that they don't mind having fics written about them. If they ever express discomfort about this in the future, I will delete the fic.
2. I am writing about Dream, George, and Sapnap's online persona's or "characters". I am not writing about the real people themselves, just kind of the concept or idea of their online characters, if that makes sense.
3. This fic won't have any slash. You can interpret it however you want, but I'm going to write Dream and George as really close friends. They will retain the flirting/joking about a relationship and have platonic moments that could be interpreted as romantic if you want to read it with rose-colored glasses. Up to you.

Chapter One: Something Amiss

The evening had started off well enough. George moved his mug far enough away from his electronics to be safe before sitting down in his comfortable chair and booting up his equipment. It took several moments for everything to come to life, load, and start running. He could feel his phone buzzing in his pocket as he double checked that everything was connected and secured, so he pulled it out and set it on his desk. The messages were from Dream and Sapnap, and since he would be able to communicate with them in Teamspeak in a matter of seconds so he didn't bother to check what they said.

"Hey guys!" he said into his mic, pulling his headphones over his ears.

"About time," Sapnap replied immediately.

"Wow, rude. What happened to hello? How are you?" George tried to mimic a Tik tok sound because he knew that Dream and Sapnap were addicted to Tik tok and he wanted to make them laugh. Sapnap chuckled. Dream, however, was silent. That's odd... George thought. He's usually the first one to laugh at dumb things.

"Now that slow poke Georgie is here, can we start recording? This is gonna take a few hours and I have school tomorrow."

Finally, Dream spoke. "Yeah we can go ahead and get started. Log into the server."

George couldn't help but noticed that Dream's voice sounded a bit rougher than usual, almost as if he had a cold or something. But it was the end of summer in Florida, definitely not flu season. Maybe his mic was being weird. George decided that he needed to let it go. His extreme attention to detail when it came to Dream was something that bothered him, and he didn't want to make it super obvious. He logged into the server without comment.

"Alright, are we ready to start recording? George, you have the plug in ready to go, right?"

"Yeah, it's all ready to go."

"Okay, let me record my intro real quick." George spaced out as Dream ran through his classic intro, introducing the video and mentioning the viewer to subscriber gap. The idea for this video had actually come from a comment on a previous Youtube video posted to George's channel: Minecraft, but every time you break a block you take damage. It was a concept that would make things difficult, but not impossible. Dream had offered to do all of the coding for it, so George supposed he ought to be paying attention to the rules Dream was currently outlining. Instead he just clicked around a few times and hit Sapnap for fun.

He snapped back to attention promptly when he heard Dream say his name. "George, go ahead and run the command." With a few clicks of a button, the plug in took affect and they were off.

"We're gonna have to find food super quickly," Sapnap commented. "It's the best way to heal from the damage of gathering our supplies." He dashed behind George and hit him in revenge, causing the British boy to let out a squeal of protest.