Chapter 2
Sapnap’s fans were not only curious about Harley, but were desperate for more Harley content, and this amused him.
The day after Sapnap uploaded the video, Harley woke up, had a shower, and walked through to the kitchen to find Dream scrolling through his twitter timeline. “Hey,” Harley said, trying to get the others’ attention. Dream turned around, surprised “Hi, why you up so early?” He said confused. Harley checked his phone, huh it was 03:47, “Honestly, I hadn’t realised the time,” Harley explained, “I would ask you the same but Pandas has already warned me of your weird sleep schedule.”
Dream chuckled, “He makes it seem worse than it is.”
“Really?” Harley asked, raising his eyebrows, “So what do you do with all the time us mere mortals lose through sleep?” He joked. Dream pointed to his phone, and twitter.
“It’s a hell-site, but just another time waster, just like your precious sleep,” he said sarcastically. “Although you might like it there, they love you. My whole timeline is people begging me and Sapnap for more content with you.”
“If you’re serious about wasting your downtime on twitter, we should just give the people what they want,” Harley grinned, “Make them love me more when I make Dream stream.”
“Hmmmmm,” Dream thought for a second, “Fine, you can get an alt stream, not a main one though, and give me a sec more.” Dream was clearly set on scrolling for a while more, so Harley sat down next to him, and joined him. Instead of going to twitter, he decided to message his friends.
Harls: guys
Harls: guys
Harls: cmonnnn i know at least one of yall are awake
Go away: What.
Harls: MJJJJJJJJJJ HJIIIII
Go away: Why are you like this
Harls: im just far too cool
Go away: Right, and Peter doesn’t have crippling abandonment issues
Harls: wow so mean
Harls: he isnt even here to defend himself
Go away: You’re right, they’re not here to defend themselves, nor is Ned, so I’m the one stuck dealing with a hyper Southerner at 3.55 am
Harls: wow mj now im just hurt
Harls: buttttttt
Go away: ?
Harls: dream’s gonna stream with me!!
Go away: Okay, have fun, are you going to go on his server? If so, you should grief Pete
Harls: oooo look at you with all of your gaming terminology
Harls: wait thats a good idea
Harls: thank u mjjjjjjjj
Go away: You’re welcome
Harley looked back up at Dream, and found Dream staring back at him. He had clearly finished with his phone before Harley had. “Lead the way,” Harley said, indicating he was ready to go. Harley followed Dream to his set-up, on the way dragging Sapnap’s chair with him. “So what are we gonna do?” Harley asked as Dream started to load up his PC. Dream stopped, and turned to look at Harley, “You’re the one that wanted to do this,” he started pointedly, “If we do an alt stream we could do anything really, or, I noticed that in Sapnap’s video he didn’t really teach you how to play the game. Teaching you would definetly be for more of a main stream, if you’re up for it?” Harley was, in fact, up for it, and before Dream hit the ‘go live’ button, he asked Harley if he wanted to say anything before he started stream. Harley, the great friend he is, thought back to the questions Ned and Peter wanted him to ask, “Yeah, actually, do you have a secret stan account?” Dream replied with a chuckle. “I’m being serious,” Harley pushed, “And can I tweet from it?” Unlike his friends, Harley didn’t expect the Minecrafter to have a stan account, so he was rather shocked when the other reached towards his second moniter and opened twitter. “As long as you don’t say it’s me, and don’t tell anyone, and I mean anyone, that I have it.” He logged into a fairly popular stan account, it appeared he mained 404 twt which apparently was the sub twt for that GeorgeNotFound guy. After he got over his initial shock, he turned to Dream and told him he was ready to get the stream started.
Keeping in the same fashion as Sapnap’s video, the title of the stream was ‘ACTUALLY teaching a nerd how to play Minecraft”. The stream went along smoothly, the two sharing funny Sapnap stories and just getting to know each other, as chat did, too. Dream had finally gotten Harley into the nether “Right, it’s time for you to find the fortress,” Dream said, determined to have the other complete the game, when Harley saw a chat message from Ranboo flash by. Harley was immediately distracted by this “Hey, was that Ranboo I just saw in chat?” Dream looked at him confused, but he just waited for Ranboo to respond. He saw an affirmative reply, “I heard you’ve got merch releasing soon, if you’ve ever got any spare, please send it to this guy or Pandas to give to their favourite nerd.” He used an accusatory tone on the word nerd, making Dream chuckle. “Slow down dude, try to beat Minecraft before trying for free merch.” Harley frowned at Dream, making him chuckle more, when he turned back to read the chat he just caught another message from Ranboo pass ‘I was going to say yeah anyway but sure, I’ll make it more difficult for you’. Harley huffed and turned back to Dream, “Now look what you’ve done,” he turned himself back to Dream’s monitor to find his in-game self getting shot at from a square ghost. “AAAAAAAA,” he yelled, “WHY DIDN’T YOU WARN ME,” he build his character a wall to hide behind and slapped Dream. “That’s a ghast,” he explained, “You can deflect their shots.” This made Harley curious so he ran out from behind his wall, and then he realised he didn’t know how to deflect a shot, “Help! WHY IS IT MAKING THAT NOISE???” Dream stood by and laughed for a while, before going back to helping Harley. After what felt like the longest 2 hours of Harley’s life, he had completed the game. “HA SUCK IT YOU PUNY DRAGON,” he all but screamed, before getting killed for the 100th time by an enderman. He turned to Dream for a high-five, “This is one of the proudest moments of my life,” Dream joked, “I’ll make a hunter of you yet.” Harley had no reaction to the Manhunt related comment, which puzzled Dream. “Do you actually not know what a manhunt is?” Dream was shocked by even the idea.
Sapnap walked into the room in time to hear the Manhunt conversation get started up. His hair was a mess and he had clearly just woken up. He yawned before getting their attention, “I told ya Clay he’s an absolute noob.” This made Dream laugh and Harley feign offence. Sapnap could be heard as a mumble over stream and Dream was sure to subtly remind him that he was streaming. “Sapnap say hi to chat,” he said as Sapnap snuck between the two and grabbed the mic. He mumbled “Hello,” into the mic, and turned around to look at Harley, “There’s a nerd in my seat.” He started to shove Harley, which ended up only wheeling the chair around. “Y’know you can just sit with me nerd,” Harley laughed, receiving an irritated expression in return, “Y’all seem to forget that Pandas was as much of a Nerd as I am.” “Anyway, back on track,” Sapnap said, taking the mouse from Harley, “It’s Manhunt watchparty time.” Harley looked at Dream, wondering if this was a usual thing, Dream shrugged. Sapnap pulled up Dream’s YouTube channel and Dream took the opportunity to promote, “Hey guys go make sure you’re following my channel, especially if you like what we’re about to watch.” Harley pulled out his phone to check if he was subscribed, “C’mon Harls you’re not? Remember guys there’s a glitch that randomly unsubscribes people.” The last comment made Harley chuckle, he realised Dream wasn’t going to stop until he had Subscribed. Harley subscribed, but Dream kept staring at him in silence, so he turned notifications on, which Dream acknowledged with a smile. Sapnap, perched precariously on the edge of the chair Harley was in, had been rambling on to chat about which manhunt was best. He and chat had decided that they should watch ‘Minecraft Speedrunner VS 5 Hunters’ at some point, but not first because the whole Dragon respawning thing would be a bit confusing to a first time viewer. They had also decided to watch ‘Minecraft Speedrunner VS 5 Hunters REMATCH’, but probably not first either because, like the other, it had a rather controversial ending. What they had decided to watch first was ‘Minecraft Speedrunner VS 4 Hunters’. Sapnap clicked play and Harley was invested, too invested to make commentary rather that a couple “wow”s and “you really did that?”s. Due to Harley's lack of contribution, the commentary mostly consisted of Sapnap laughing at his own jokes and Dream light heartedly insulting him everytime he laughed. After the first watch through, Ranboo, in chat, was asking them to get in a call so that he could join them.
The first thing Harley did when Ranboo got in a call with them was to make sure he was still getting merch. “Hey Ranbooooooo,” Harley started, “I’m still getting merch right?” On the other side of the call, Ranboo giggled “Well yeah, you beat the game. Congrats about that by the way, I did not expect you to be able to.” Sapnap, hearing about this for the first time was confused, “Hey I’m getting merch too right boo boy? Like treasure duo, am I right?” Ranboo laughed, “Sure Pandas.” Sapnap turned to Harley and then Dream “This is your fault, everyone calls me Pandas now.”
“It’s a cute nickname, don't rage at us,” Dream laughed.
“It’s almost as cute as you nick, ain’t that right Dream my friend?” Harley said, causing even Ranboo to chortle. “Yeah, totally, a cute nickname for a cute guy.” Sapnap blushed at all the flattery causing Dream and Harley to smile.
Before they could start watching the next Manhunt they had chosen, ‘Punz’ joined the call “What’s this i’ve been hearing about people flirting with my Sappy Nappy?”
“Don’t worry, I can flirt with you instead,” Harley joked in return.
“That I’m fine with,” Punz said, his smile audible. To Harley’s joy, they went back to watching the manhunt videos, but he was still sure to flirt with punz just for fun. Before they ended stream Punz put his facecam on: “A treat for chat, Sappy and the new guy,” he explained. "If I wasn't speaking to someone, I would be sliding into your dms," Harley deadpanned as Sapnap gave a 'we'll talk about that later' look. Punz said his goodbyes and left the call, then Dream ended stream. “Ranboooooooo,” Harley started before Sapnap could drag him away from the computer. “Yeah, yeah,” Ranboo replied, “You’ll get your merch, it’ll be there in a couple of days, if it doesn’t get there before you go just get Sapnap to mail it over to you.” Harley smiled, he was very excited, “Thank you Ranboo, see ya later, bye.” He just managed to finish his sentence before Sapnap rudely hit the ‘end call’ button. “Well that was mean,” Harley said to Sapnap, “Well if that’s how you feel then maybe I won’t take you on my trip today,” he rebuted. Harley’s eyebrows rose, making Dream laugh, “It feels like we are parents taking our kid out on a family day out.” This made Harley frown, he didn’t like being called a kid, he’d had enough of that from Tony. “We’ll be off on our day out in like 10 minutes max, we’re already cutting it close ‘cause of that stream,” Dream said, glancing at Harley, signaling that they should probably get ready to go out. “I’ll have you know I’m already ready,” Harley said, to the others’ shock. “So you’re telling me you woke up at 3am after like 3 hours of sleep, and got ready, without checking your phone for the time?” Dream asked, puzzled.
“I guess some people aren’t as chronically online as others are,” Harley joked to the Minecrafters. “Dream you’re the only one who isn’t,” Sapnap chuckled, causing Dream to huff and go get ready, “Don’t mess with my shit,” he called as he left the room. “So,” Harley started, standing up “You’re a pretty well known guy, do you have any merch?” Sapnap looked down at his jumper, “Dude I’m literally wearing it,” he said, “Do you want me to get you some, I don’t think I have any brand new stuff so you can borrow one of mine, and we can take you to the warehouse another day.” Harley nodded and followed him to his room. The cat, Patches, was sitting on Sapnap’s bed, so Harley said hello to her while his friend pulled out a hoodie. Sapnap threw the hoodie at Harley, who caught it just before it could hit the cat. “Oi, be more careful next time,” he said as he pulled the merch over his head. They heard a door open from the end of the corridor, notifying them that Dream was ready. The two walked out of the room, almost right into the other. Dream stopped to say goodbye to Patches, and the three left, Dream was driving and Sapnap sat in shotgun. Harley made it obvious he wasn’t happy with this arrangement, before getting in the back.
It had been 10 minutes of driving when they passed a drive-thru coffee shop and Harley begged Dream to go through it. “No, we’re already late, you’ll get something when we get there, and stop making me feel like a parent. I don't like it,” Dream complained.
10 minutes later, they were driving on a fairly busy motorway, when Sapnap told Harley to look up “Surprise,” he and Dream chuckled as Harley realised where they were. “AJKDKSA ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS??? DISNEY???” Sapnap laughed, subtly filming his friends’ reaction.
It’s fair to say they had a fun time, Sapnap was recognised a few times, but everyone was respectful of the other two- who were wearing masks.
The next day, they went to Universal “Since you’re a nerd, I figured you’d like the Harry Potter section,” Sapnap had joked to Harley,
“Oh yeah defos, apart from the author being a raging transphobe,” Harley had joked back.
On Wednesday they went grocery shopping, “It has to be done,” claimed Dream as he dragged the others with him.
The day after that, the two took Harley to the warehouse, and he got some merch. Dream laughed when Harley picked up a hoodie with two-toned glasses and said to himself, “Whose merch is this, it’s pretty cool?”
The day before Harley was to leave, they walked Patches- Harley had found a cat lead at Target.
Harley's departure date had arrived, far too quickly in the three’s shared opinion.
Before Harley could put his luggage in Dream's car, Pandas walked up to him. “I guess me actually giving you this will be my present to you,” Sapnap joked as he handed Harley a pile of Ranboo merch. Harley smiled and put the hoodie on, “Look in the locket before you put stuff away,” Sapnap suggested, to Harley's suspicion. He put the rest of the merch in his suitcase and put it in the car, before looking at the locket. On one side was a photo of them at ‘space camp’- Sapnap in his panda onesie of course- and on the other was a photo of the three in front of the Epcot ball. He put on the locket (not holding back tears, thank you very much) and thought ‘I’m going to be the best dressed person on this flight’ ‘huh, that’d be a good tweet’.
Dream drove to the airport, he and Harley forced Sapnap to go in the back, “Harley is the guest, and plus, you were in the front to Disney.”
“Hey dream,” Harley said smirking as Dream turned onto the motorway, “You shouldn’t have let me control the music.” Harley played heatwaves and the other two groaned. Sapnap was confused as to why his clueless friend wasn’t clueless, “Someone may or may not have put me up to it.” Dream eventually forced him to play some other music, so he did, and was sure to message Tommyinnit (yes the tommyinnit) how his plan went.
They arrived at the airport and though neither of them would ever admit to it, sapnap and Harley’s goodbye was emotional. Nothing had changed since they were younger. And although Dream joked about it afterwards, he still was sad and knew he was gonna miss Harley, that guy was easy to like. Dream took a photo of the two hugging (definitely no tears being shed in this photo), and sent it to Sapnaps mum, as he had promised.
Harley got through security and already missed pandas (yes he knows he is a sap) aha Sapnap. He got on the plane and saw that dream had sent him a photo. The photo of him and sapnap hugging in the airport entrance, tears in their eyes. That fucker. He tweeted an airplane emoji- not on Manatreed- and put his phone on airplane mode.
The plane took off and the realisation he wouldn’t see pandas again for a while hit in. He was not going to cry on this plane in his brand new Ranboo drip so he connected to the planes wifi (he was shocked that it worked) and opened up YouTube, there should be some new hermitcraft videos to catch up on.
Fuck, he thought as he finished the last video, I guess I am going to cry on this plane in the Ranboo drip.
After he’d gotten over the ending of season 8, he messaged his friend from home.
H:bro I’m actually crying help
R:L
H:going to get off this plane right now I’m not coming back
R:oh no however will I cope
H:oi I can read your blatant sarcasm
R:sarcasm from me? Never
H:shit, landing soon, see ya
R:you coming over or will you just see me around
H:around
and he turned his phone off, prepared to land