Pressure

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Trigger warning/s: None

(This chapter is filler, you can skip if you want, it's just to split up conflict and stuff)

Word count: [1192]

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It had been around a week since L'Manburg had started to be rebuilt, and after lots of work, it was finally done.

"Well done everyone!" Tubbo congratulated them one by one, shaking every one of the hands of the people who had helped, and then stepping back to admire the final product, "We're done for now, but we'll obviously expand further at a later date, and soon we'll be putting up Christmas decorations.

He then handed around some party poppers, and everyone counted down from three, and popped them at the same time, some with more ease than others (A/N: once again, big animal crossing vibes), thus was followed by some clapping and cheering.

"To L'Manburg!" Quackity cheered, everyone repeated.

A lot had happened in the week, since we last checked in with the citizens of L'Manburg and the Dream smp. To start. JSchlatt's funeral had been held, planned by Quackity and Badboyhalo. It had been a pretty good ceremony, as everyone attended purely out of politeness than anything else. Many new people had moved to the area, with new interest towards it, and there were still more who were waiting to move soon. There was an overall good feeling, a feeling that none of them had felt for a while. Although threats were around the corner, and y/n felt a little bit unsure, like it was the calm before the storm, she, along with everyone else, could relax for now.

Everyone then parted ways, and so y/n ended up being left with Karl, Ghostbur and Tubbo.

"Have you all met Connor and Puffy yet?" Karl asked them.

"I haven't," y/n informed them. Ghostbur nodded with her. Tubbo confirmed that he had met Puffy, but not Connor.

"Do you want to go and meet them then?"

"Sure."

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They left L'Manburg and headed into the Dream smp faction, Karl leading them to where Connor was living for now. Ghostbur floated behind them, trailing slowly.

Karl rang the doorbell on the house, and a guy in a sonic onesie emerged.

"Hey!" the guy greeted in a strong accent.

"Hey Connor, meet Tubbo and y/n oh- and Ghostbur is here," Karl introduced them.

They greeted one another, and Connor invited the four of them in, they piled into his small house.

"So why'd you come here?" y/n questioned.

"I was always interested in living here, I don't want drama or anything, but I'd like to start my own land soon," Connor explained.

"That's okay then, because you just missed a war," Tubbo laughed slightly.

"What?" Ghostbur asked.

"Nothing!" y/n, Tubbo and Karl urged quickly. It wouldn't be the best for him to find out what he did.

They stayed at Connor's house for a while, before leaving him be.

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Karl then informed them that Puffy would most likely be with Niki, and so the four of them headed over to Niki's bakery.

"Oh hey guys!" Niki greeted, as they arrived.

"Hi Niki, you seen Puffy anywhere recently, these guys want to meet her?" Karl asked her.

"Oh she's probably at her house," Niki replied, not looking up from her cookie mix once.

"Thanks."

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They arrived at Puffy's house shortly after, and were greeted by the girl, wearing a rainbow sheep onesie. All the new people seemed to be wearing onesies.

Puffy greeted Karl and Tubbo, a small frown forming on her face as she spotted y/n and Ghostbur.

"Puffy, you know me and Tubbo, but here are y/n and Ghostbur!"

This was followed by some greeting, smiling and waving, plus some light chatting. It was just the normal thing when you met anyone around here.

"So you like sheep huh?" Ghostbur asked Puffy, his face lighting up.

"Uh-huh!"

"I love sheep too!"

"Oh, really? Would you like to see my sheep farm, maybe you can take one of the new lambs home if you would like?" Puffy offered the ghost.

"I'd love to!"

The two of them walked away. y/n was surprised that anyone was capable of liking an animal, just as much as Tubbo loved bees.

Karl left them shortly after, having to go and give a tour to even more new people, leaving the two cousins alone, for what felt like the first time in quite a while.

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"There are a lot of new people arriving!" y/n exclaimed, walking beside Tubbo.

"Yeah, I don't really know much about the three people who are supposed to be joining us, there are two joining today, one of which is like Tommy's biggest idol, and the other I don't really know much about," he paused for a moment.

"I thought Techno was Tommy's biggest idol?"

"He has a few. Then, I know even less about the one joining us in a few days. Dream told me that he sent a letter about moving, which was really confusing, since the guy didn't even know where he came from, and struggled to even remember his own name!" Tubbo laughed.

(A/N: The name thing is NOT a reference to you know what, I'm just trying to hint subtly about new characters without saying to much, y'know?)

"Tubbo you're a great president," y/n blurted, "You-you're really professional."

She hadn't meant to say it then, but she guessed it was the best time. The two of them were alone, had time to talk.

"Thanks y/n... no, really, but I admire your optimism," Tubbo sighed.

"Huh?"

"Look, I guess what I'm trying to say is... I've had voices in my head, I haven't really slept well at all and-

"Oh Tubbo...need to talk about it?" y/n asked, concerned. She wanted to be their for the boy.

"Sure, I don't feel like I want to talk about it with anyone else, well, apart from Tommy, and he'll be busy now, but I'm under so much pressure," his face faltered.

y/n placed a supportive hand on Tubbo's shoulder, he looked like he needed it.

"These voices they-they keep telling me what to do, and I-they sound like... the presidents before me. I'm doomed to fail, and I'm going to end up just like them... evil, dead, or both."

"Tubbo, you aren't Wilbur or Schlatt, you're yourself, okay, you need to remember that. You're Tubbo! The bee boy-

"But the voices they-

"Tubbo ignore the voices. It's normal to feel pressure, you're running a country! Look, you aren't going to become them, okay?"

"Okay it's just-

"No questions."

And they ended their conversation, just like that. y/n was trying to convince Tubbo that everything would be fine, sure, but was she trying to convince herself? It felt like the sky had darkened slightly that afternoon, the storm was brewing now...

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A/N: Hey, thank you so much for reading! As a little explanation if you didn't understand about the Ghostbur and Puffy sheep thing, my headcannon is that Puffy showed Ghostbur friend, as a lamb, and Ghostbur took friend with him.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed (SPOILER ALERT: there won't be any more happy/chill chapters for a long while yet)