CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. ✧ ೃ༄
❝ THE HORROR OF SWATTING. ❞

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"I know, I know. I'm sorry chat for not streaming for the past week. I've been busy. I think I might pull a Dream and not stream because I've been really busy with some things I've been working on... Chat! It's been almost an hour since I've been streaming! Why are you reminding me now?"

| twitchuser: she's gonna stop streaming 😔
| twitchuser: NO DONT LEAVE US 😭
| twitchuser: they always leave/j 😔

"Chat, oh, my God," Angelica chuckled. "I'm still going to stream just not as frequent. Dream, that ass doesn't stream for weeks. Months even. I'll stream twice a week... Hey! At least I'm giving you content."

| twitchuser: mhmmm sure
| twitchuser: I'll believe it when I see it
| twitchuser: 💔💔💔

"You guys are too much," Angelica snorted before moving to answer the Discord call from George. "What the hell do you want? I'm streaming."

"I know, I've been watching," George replied. "We're all waiting for you. We want to speak with you."

"Since Dream has been gifting me strawberry shortcakes, fine, I'll go right now," Angelica immediately headed towards the VC the boys were currently waiting for her and she dramatically sighed. "I need more girl friends... Hey, Dream."

"Hi, Angelica," Dream muttered, not having processed her words until a few seconds later when everyone got quiet. "Did you just call me a girl?"

The boys laughed and Angelica snorted. "I don't know... Did I?"

"Yes! You did!"

"No, I called you hot," Angelica smirked. Dream sighed and she chewed on her bottom lip, moving her Minecraft character around his, circling him. "I'm being serious. I was flirting with you. Flirt with me back."

"I'm not going to flirt with you, brat," Dream chuckled.

"Why do you laugh like a dad?" Angelica laughed next. "You sound like my dad when he laughs."

"Shut up," Dream laughed harder, causing her to laugh even more. "S-stop. Stop laughing!"

"I can't," Angelica wheezed out, feeling her face heat up. "Your laugh is funny... Stop!"

"You guys have the same laugh," Sapnap laughed next. "There's no difference. You two sound like tea kettles."

"Angelica sounds even more annoying."

"You sound more annoying."

"No, you do."

"Shut up."

"You shut up."

"Both of you be quiet!" George laughed. "Oh, my God. I swear, you two can't stop annoying each other for just a few a seconds. Calm down."

"Dream's presence annoys me so much," Angelica snorted, glancing at her chat who was taking her side. She jumped, though, startled, when there was banging on the door and stood up halfway, ready to mute. "Be right back, chat."

Walking away from her setup as soon as she made sure she was muted on stream, Angelica opened the door, only to reveal a bunch of armed police officers who immediately started swarming her home.

"What the-?" She gaped. "What's going on?"

"We got a call by an anonymous caller saying there was yelling come from this apartment and a gunshot," an officer explained before showing her a piece of paper. "This is a warrant. What's your name?"

Quickly telling them her real name, the girl placed her hands on the pocket of her hoodie. "I'm the owner here."

"What were you doing?"

Leading the officer to her gaming room, the girl pointed towards her screen where currently Dream, Sapnap, Quackity, Karl, Bad, and George's characters were dancing.

"I was streaming," Angelica answered. "I'm a gamer."

"Have you ever owned a weapon?" Another officer asked, looking through her stuff and even made sure to check her PC. Angelica shook her head.

"Never owned any type of weapon," she shakily let out, trying to breathe. She glanced at her screens, eyeing the way her chat flew, clearly knowing what was happening. "Well, I have a knife my friend gave to me but I have it stored away. I can just show it to you."

"Lead me to it."

Quickly taking them towards the knife Corpse had given her, the cops inspected it before, surprisingly, eventually, waving it off. Angelica simply looked around as if asking "Are you seeing this?" to completely no one, finding the fact that they waved off a weapon.

"Looks clear!" A police officer yelled from across the room.

"What's going on with Ang?" Quackity nervously laughed, just as nervous as the others who had stopped what they were doing to hear what was going on.

"Um, is it okay if I go back to doing what I was doing while you guys continue to search?" Angelica nervously laughed, scratching the back of neck.

"We still want you to be with us just in case we do find something."

"Oh, okay," Angelica nodded. "Completely understandable. I just wanted to make sure my mic was muted so they wouldn't be able to hear that the police is here."

"Um," Dream let out before realizing that Bad was streaming and remembered that Angelica had mentioned she hadn't been wearing headphones for a few days since they weren't working. "Uh... Angelica! Angelica! You're unmuted on Discord!"

"You're unmuted!" Karl yelled next.

In a matter of seconds, they all started to yell, alerting her that her mic was indeed unmuted on Discord.

"If you want," she said, muting herself. The boys let out a sigh of relief, "you can check my computer for anything. I just have to finish streaming."

"No, it's fine," the police officer nodded curtly at her. "It seems that someone faked a report. You're a gamer, right?" Angelica let out a "yes, sir" under her breath. "Have you had any type of conflict or any type of issues with anyone for the past few days, weeks, months, or past few years?"

"No," Angelica shook her head. "I'm a faceless streamer so I make sure not to communicate with anyone outside of my gaming community. Though, I've been threatened with my address being leaked and people have been threatening me with swatting."

"It seems to be that way," the police officer nodded, looking up at his co-workers who all told him that it was clear and nothing was out of the ordinary. "We're sorry for barging in, but we had to make sure there was no type of danger."

"It's totally understandable."

"We'll let you get back to what you were doing and call us if you have any issues," the man cleared up, leaving her room. "It might be better to move, but it's all up to you."

Opening the front door to her apartment, Angelica rubbed a hand over ber forehead before her fellow neighbors, Nancy and Cynthia, came in, followed by her other neighbors, Mr. Timmothy and his young son, Abe.

"Are you okay, babes?" Nancy hugged the girl, bringing her closer to her chest while rubbing her back up and down. "What happened?"

"I got swatted," Angelica shakily let out, hands shaking with nerves. "Doxxers finally found out where I lived."

"We got a call saying that there was yelling and that there was a gunshot coming from this apartment," the police officer explained. "We just wanted to make sure there was no type of issue or anything like that. In the meantime, we do advise you to stay with a friend that does not live on this apartment building. It's most likely they'll try this again and this time, it's not going to be us coming in."

"How would I know it's safe to come back?" Angelica furrowed her eyebrows, untangling herself from the 32-year-old woman.

"I don't even think it's going to be safe living here in general," another police officer chimed in. "If people know where you live, they will continue to call until eventually, they will go to an extent that another police force will think you are a threat and you can be killed."

Angelica loudly sighed, running a hand over her face, trying her hardest to ignore the fact that some other neighbors poked their heads out to see what the commotion was.

"I-I'll come up with something," Angelica cleared her throat, crossing her arms over his chest to hide her trembling hands. "I'll stay at a hotel for now and look for a house."

"We can stay with you if you want?" Cynthia suggested and Angelica looked at her and her girlfriend. "We just don't want to leave you alone until you look for a proper house."

"That's fine."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

the fact that majority
of the time as im about
to update, Sapnap goes
live... LET ME POST!!

Also, I don't know how
police work works so...
just imagine I'm right :)

Here enjoy my drawing
of Dream as a butterfly 🦋😌

dream + butterfly = dry