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All he did was blink and now he was standing somewhere completely different from his obsidian box, and in front of a beat up and depressed… Tommy? ‘How did I get here?’  

“Tommy?” Dream asked in a small voice, “Wha-?”

Tommy cut him off with a yell, “I’M FINE DREAM, JUST-” he trailed off before sighing, “I don’t want to do this right now.”

Dream stared at the grass at his feet as Tommy walked away, he was stunned. When was the last time I saw grass? What happened to the prison? What am I doing here? Where is ‘here’? Dream knelt down and touched the ground amazed that he was outside, in his regular clothes instead of the prison jumpsuit. Dream plucked some grass out of the ground, sat down and stared up at the sky he hadn't seen in months as he held the blades of grass in his hands a little bit tighter.

Hours later ~

Dream forgot what it was like to be outside, to not be trapped, he forgot what it was like to have cool wind blow through his hair while the sun warmed his back. He forgot what it was like to be so happy he’d cry, he forgot but now he remembers. He was sitting there in the grass crying with a smile on his face that everyone would be able to see, with his mask now laying in the grass beside him, but nobody was around anyway.

Tommy had left, his tent was empty with the flaps wide open showing the bed that was inside it. ‘ Logstedshire, he was by Tommys’ tent', He doesn’t know where Tommy went and he doesn’t care, Tommy could go back to L’manberg if he wanted to, Dream has a better idea on how to spend his time now that he has a chance to live his life again before ‘they’ eventually decide that their better off with him in a cage.

Dream set the grass that he's been holding for hours down and stood up to dust himself off. He needs to find Tommy, ‘Contradicting myself… I’ve done it before, it’s fine’ , he just needs to tell Tommy something before he leaves for good. He grabs his mask and sets it back on his face and walks off.

And so he goes looking :)

Dream finds Tommy setting stuff up on the beach, ‘The beach party… Did I already get the invitations from Ghostbur? I guess that's one more thing to take care of before I go.’ Dream walked up to Tommy, before clearing his throat and tapping him on the shoulder. Tommy looked over at him with a questioning look.

“What do you want Dream?” Tommy asked stopping what he was doing and turned completely to face Dream. 

Dream swallowing his pride and doubt and rushed out words that would change the course of everyone's lives, “Well I just wanted to tell you that I don’t care if you go back to L’manberg.” Tommy stared at Dream as if he had grown a second head. “W-what?” Tommy stuttered out in a breathy whisper, “wh- but I thought-”.

“I changed my mind, so after your beach party you can go back if you want to,” Dream said, trying to sound nonchalant as he pulled out his communicator and sent everyone an invitation to Tommy’s party just in case he already did take them from Ghostbur. He turned away from Tommy, who was still making a face at him, and started walking away before he remembered something.

“Oh yeah…” He stopped, turned to look back at the wild looking child:D behind him, “I won’t be able to come to your party, goodbye Tommy.”