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You giggled, hidden inside a large closet, head peeking out once in a while to look out for your seeker.

You spotted the white bones and teary sockets of one of your playmates, and ducked back into the closet, curling into a sitting position under a pile of blankets, covering your mouth to silence your giggles.

The skeletons head turned towards the closet, hearing your giggles despite you covering them. A small grin on his face. He began acting as if he hadn’t heard you.

”man..where’d the little bug go? they can’t have gone too far.”

He got closer to the closet, rummaging through the drawers and cabinets in your little bedroom.

”they aren’t here..maybe they’re..here!”

He pulled open the doors of the closet and pulled you out from under the pile of blankets quickly. You were surprised at first before you began giggling wildly as he began spinning you around in his arms, him chuckling a little.

”mwahaha! i have captured the little bug! they will now feel the wrath of my tickle attack.”

You whined in protest while giggling, and he began tickling your sides, making you erupt in even more giggles. He laughed evilly while doing so.

He eventually stopped tickling you, and looked around a little.

”so, bug. i haven’t found your dad and big bear yet. wanna help me?”

You calmed down from giggling so much, and nodded furiously. Your little head shaking so fast, Killer had to stop you with a small pat to your head.

”you nodded enough, bug. don’t want your little brain to fly out or for you to get a headache, now do we?”

You shook your head lightly, and began reaching up for Killer.

”Kiki! Kiki! Piggy.”

Killer chuckled and crouched down to let you climb onto his back.

”alright alright, piggy. now let’s go find your pa, might be in his office again.”

He hoisted you and himself up, and began walking out of your room and into the hall. He walked across and knocked on the larger grander door in front of your room. You heard the sound of your pa speaking, and Killer then opened the door.

Nightmare, your pa, sat at the big desk in the center of the room, filing papers into a cabinet underneath. He looked up and spotted you on Killer’s back, before smiling lightly.

”impling, killer. what must you need?”

Killer set you down gently, before pushing you gently to run to Nightmare’s side. You ran over and jumped into Nightmare’s awaiting arms.

”Papa! What are you doing?”

Nightmare sat you on his lap, and picked up another paper on the desk, looking it over.

”checking papers, my impling. i have a lot of work i have to do.”

You pouted, before looking up at your pa, and gently playing with one of his tendrils.

”But I thought you said you’d play a game with me, Kiki, Dusty, and Bear..”

He frowned at that, and patted your head, running his phalanges through your hair.

”i’ll play with you and the others tomorrow, impling, i promise. but to make it up to you, i can give you some cookies and sing you a lullaby tonight before you sleep.”

You smiled widely at that, and hugged Nightmare. He hugged you back, and set you back down on the floor.

“now, go on. i don’t think you finished your game just yet. bear is likely waiting for you to find him.”

You ran back to Killer, and take hold of one of his hands. You waved back at your pa as Kiki walks you out of the office.

“c’mon, bug. let’s go find bear. might be hiding somewhere in the kitchen, like always.”

Kiki walked you into the hall, and began to take you to the kitchen. Gently holding your hand in his own.

Along the way, you saw Dusty, hauling a basket of clean laundry from the laundry room. He smiled down at you, and patted your head as he passed.

”hey pup and killer. you’re lookin’ for horror, he’s in the kitchen again. saw ‘im walking in there not long ago. guy loves bakin’ while playing hide & seek with us.”

Dusty was the first one to be found, obviously. He’d been too lazy to get up from the couch, so Kiki had found him immediately.

“again? he’s gotta find a better place to hide. me and little bug here are gonna go find ‘im. see ya later, dust.”

Killer opened the door to the kitchen and let you in first, him following behind with a hand on your shoulder. The smell of (your favorite pasta + sauce) hit your nose first, you smiled widely, and you took off running further into the kitchen.

You got on your tippy toes to open the pantry door, and looked in. Right there, under a shelf was Bear, his big red eye light looking at you, before he got out from under the shelf with a grin on his face. 

“I found you, Teddy!!”

He bent down to pat your head, and pick you up into his large arms, nuzzling his face into your cheeks.

”ya’ found me again, baby bear. i made your favorite pasta while i was hidin’, and there’s brownies in the oven too.”

You began cheering over the brownies and your favorite pasta dish, the two skeletons chuckling over your excitement.

Bear took you over to the dining room, setting you on your seat at your tiny (favorite childhood show) table set (it’s one of those foldable sets).

He brought out plates, a zoopals plate for you, and regular plates for the others, before serving you your own helping of the pasta. He plated food onto the other plates on the large table for himself and the others.

”killer, do ya’ mind callin’ the others. dinner’s ready.”

Kiki nodded and disappeared in one of his shortcuts, shortly after, Dusty appeared in his seat at the table, followed by Killer. Killer spoke upon arrival.

”boss said he’d be here soon, just putting away a few last papers and grabbing something from his room.”

A minute after he said that, Nightmare walked in, holding something behind his back. He brought it to his front, hiding it inside his jacket as he sat in his chair.

”i’m here. had to grab something on my way here. it’s for my impling. a gift since i unfortunately couldn’t find the cookies i bought.”

You frowned at that and aww’d sadly.

”No cookies?..I wanted cookies..”

Pa reached a tendril over and gently pat your head. He smiled softly.

“i’ll go buy some tomorrow, don’t worry, my impling. now we can eat.”

You excitedly dig into your meal, eating the pasta happily. Like always, Mama Bear watched everyone eat before him, especially you. When you’d all finished, he opened his jaws wide and just poured his helping in, the food disappearing quickly.

He stood up after and walked back into the kitchen, coming back with a tub of vanilla ice cream in one hand and a large tray of brownies in the other.

He grabbed another clean zoopals plate and placed a brownie on it, him turning his head to look at you.

”do ya’ want some ice cream too, baby bear?”

You nodded excitedly, and he placed a scoop of ice cream on the brownie. He placed your plate on your table, and began serving the brownies to the others, leaving him with half a pan of brownies and a half gallon of ice cream.

You began happily (and messily) eating your dessert, in the process, getting chocolate and ice cream all over your cheeks.

Bear noticed while watching you all eat, and he chuckled lovingly, his singular eye light forming into a slightly unstable heart shape.

The others took notice and looked down at you, all showing different signs of amusement and love. You felt the eyes on you and looked up, smiling.

Nightmare lifted a napkin with one of his tendrils and began wiping your face with it.

”you’re messy, my impling. at least we know you enjoyed your dinner. now, come. it’s just about time for you to go to bed. you need to get ready. i’ll still sing that lullaby to you. ”

You whined sadly, but got up and walked over to your pa, letting him pick you up. You waved and said goodnight to the others as you were carried out of the dining room.

Nightmare helped you get bathed and changed into your pajamas, before settling you into bed, covering you with your starry blanket.

”remember when i said i got you something instead of cookies, little impling?”

You nodded, and nestled happily into the bedsheets, yawning.

Nightmare stuck his hand into his jacket, and pulled out a plush. A rabbit plush, it was light blue with a white muzzle, paws, and tipped ears. It had two large pink buttons for eyes and a small purple button for a nose. You grabbed the plush as he handed it over.

”error made it for you, i was going to give it to you when he was here but i saw it better that i gave it to replace the cookies.”

You played with the rabbit plush, giggling. 

“I love it, papa! Kitty is very nice.”

Nightmare chuckled at the nickname you gave Error when you first met him, all because you had seen Error fidgeting with a yarn ball like a cat.

”well, let me sing you the lullaby i promised you.”

He sung calmly to you, running his phalanges through your hair to calm you into sleep.

When you’d fallen asleep, he stood from his seat on your bed, tucked you in, and turned off your bedroom lamp.

”sweet dreams, my little impling.”

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It was that day again. Papa Nightmare would be leaving you once again in the hands of Error.

Error, while having not been the friendliest when you first met him, slowly grew to like you as you started to become family to Nightmare and his gang.

Eventually, instead of leaving you in the care of a random AU’s daycare facility, especially after that incident ( he’ll never let Horror ever again to take you to an AU on his own ), he left you in the safety of Error.

Nightmare patted your head lightly as he placed you down on the white floor of the anti-void. You pouted sadly up at him, holding onto the edge of his jacket.

”Do you have to go, papa?”

Nightmare smiled softly and nodded. He took out your bunny plush from his jacket, and handed it over as his phalanges gently raked through your hair.

”i’m sorry impling, but yes i have to go. i will be back sooner than you think.”

Nightmare crouched down and opened his arms to you. You jumped into his arms, hugging him before he let you go and stood to full height again.

”now error, please watch over them. if they want a nap, their backpack should have their blanket, and a pillow.”

Error stood behind you. He reached out and took the backpack Nightmare held out to him.

”cmOn, kIddo. sAy by3 t0 your d-dad.”

You waved to Nightmare as he walked back a little bit, the portal he’d made slowly sealing itself back up. Just before he disappeared from sight, he waved back, smiling.

Error turned to you and gently tied a few of his strings to one of your wrists, guiding you into his “living area”.

He picked up a TV remote resting on his beanbag chair and let you settle into another smaller chair not too far from him. He turned on the TV and looked to you.

”now, wh4t w-w-would you l1ke to watch? i’ve got some videos sa-saved for y4, al1 your favorites.”

You looked through the videos he had saved and smiled when you saw (favorite childhood show).

”I wanna watch (childhood show), Kitty!”

He cringed a little at the nickname you gave him, but selected and played the video anyways. He placed your backpack down next to you and sat in his beanbag chair, picking up his bag of knitting needles and cloth scraps.

”just t3ll m-me if y0u want or ne3d h-help with any-an-anything, i’ll get it done for you, bun-bunny.”

You nodded and focused on the show playing in front of you on the TV.

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You opened your backpack 20 minutes into watching the movie and sneakily took out a pack of (your favorite cookies), and began eating them happily, until Error looked at you.

He shook his head and his strings were soon wrapped around the package of cookies. He got up and looked down at you.

”y0u can’t eat th0s3 y3t, little bunny. you haven’t eat3n lunch y-y-yet. you can have them after you e4t. y0ur da-dad left a b-b4g of d1no nuggets here last time he left you w1th m-me.”

He walked around to his mini fridge behind the beanbags you were sitting in and opened it fishing out the bag of dino shaped nuggets. He took out a package of ZooPals plates as well, and layered a few dino nuggets onto a panda plate. You saw the plates and squealed happily, pointing at them.

”ZooPals! ZooPals!”

Error chuckled and nodded as he put the plate into the microwave on top of the mini fridge. He punched in the time and waited, putting away the plates again.

“ your da-dad menti0ned that he u-u-us3d them for you-you. so i got some for when you stay h3re w1th me. “

The microwave beeped at Error and he took out the plate of nuggets, filled one of the ears with (favorite sauce for nuggets), and picked up a small lap table, setting it down in front of you with the plate on top.

He placed down a cup of milk next to the plate, and then sat back into his own beanbag chair. You immediately got to eating the food you were given, happily.

”if y0u get t-tired, just t3ll me. i’ll g3t an a-a-area set up so you can sleep c0mfortably.”

Error got back to knitting, now holding a big part of what looked like a blanket made of soft baby blue yarn. You kept eating, watching the show still playing on the TV. Once you’d finished your meal, you looked to Error.

”Kitty! I want cookies, please.”

Error cringed at the nickname but you didn’t notice it. He brought over the pack of cookies and took a few out of the package, placing them near you so you could grab them.

”alright. you can have the c00kies n0w. only a f-f-few though. can’t be h-h-having too many sweets n0w.”

You nodded and smiled as you dunked your cookies into your milk and ate them. You drank the milk after and sat back watching TV.

As you kept watching, you started nodding off, feeling sleepy after your food. You yawned and Error looked up from his project at you. He smiled and stood up from his seat, walking off to do something.

You eventually fell asleep sitting in the beanbag chair, curling up and holding your bunny plush close.

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WARNING: THERES A DESCRIPTION OF CHILD ABUSE AHEAD. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IT SKIP AHEAD FROM HERE TO THESE SYMBOLS (~~~~~~~)

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You opened your eyes and looked around seeing your old bedroom. You panicked. Did..papa leave you here again?

You heard the loud clicking steps of your mother  heading in your direction. You got under your bed cowering, hiding from her.

Your door opened and you saw her black heels walk towards your bed, and standing there. She got down and looked under the bed at you. She began shouting.

”You little brat! Why did you do this?!”

Clutched in one of her hands was a makeup palette she favored, all of the colors were scraped up and a dusty mess inside the container.

”Mommy..but I didn’t d-do it..”

She growled and grabbed your arm, yanking you out from under the bed roughly. You wailed in pain and tried to struggle away, only making her grip harder. She dropped you on your bed after she got you out and shoved the makeup in your face.

”LIAR. Your sister told me you did it! She said saw you.”

You slapped you on your right cheek and poured the dusty ruined makeup in your face. You began crying through the pain from the powder getting in your eyes and the slap.

”Ma-mama stop..I-I didn’t do it! Sissy did it..”

She slapped your other cheek, and threw the makeup container at you. You moved away as to not get hit by it.

”Shut up! Your sister is older than you and knows better. I knew I should’ve gotten rid of you once you were born. Now, you are going to stay in your room for the rest of the night and tomorrow! You will only be given what the dog eats tomorrow.”

She moved away from you and looked at your bedroom walls, seeing new pictures of you and your bio dad.

”Why do you have more pictures of HIM? The bastard doesn’t belong here. He can rot for all he wants. I’ll be taking these away and burning them.”

She began yanking down drawings you made with your bio father and pictures, not caring if she ripped them. You cried as she tore up the images, and held your red cheeks trying to sooth them from the pain.

”Mama..”

She turned to you and began shouting at you again.

”Stop crying! You are the one who made me do all of this! If only you were more like my ACTUAL children. Now, go to sleep. You aren’t coming out for the rest of the night.”

You cried silently after that, laying down in the bed. You heard someone calling your name in the distance, and you looked around.

”bun-bunny-“

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You shot awake and felt someone’s hand on your shoulder, gently shaking you.

Your eyes were closed as they picked you up and cradled you close as you sobbed into their shirt.

Your eyes opened, blurry from tears, and you looked up at Error. He held you in his arms, rubbing your back as he tried to comfort you and bring you out of the panic.

”K-k-kitty....mama..mama hurt..”

You kept crying into Error’s shirt, as he still held you. He nuzzled into your hair.

”n1ghtmare t-t-told me this could-could happ3n. it’s ok, little bun-bunny. it-it was j-just a bad d-dream.”

”Scared..don’t wanna sleep anymore..mama will come again.”

Error sat down on the bed he set up for you, wrapping you in your blanket, and handing you your plush, he laid you in his lap.

”i’ll stay with you her3, and h-help you calm d0wn. d0 you-you want more milk and c0ok1es?”

You nodded and sat up in his lap. He shot out some strings bringing over your cookies ,a glass of milk, and a few small storybooks.

”i th1nk reading t0 y-you should calm y0-you down as well.”

He took out a few cookies and handed them to you along with the milk. He then picked up one of the books and opened it, starting to read to you.

You listened to the reading, and ate your cookies, still crying a bit from the bad dream you had, but now you felt a little safer being held and comforted by Error.

Eventually, you went against your words and fell asleep on Error, cuddling him like a teddy bear. He also fell asleep, his skull resting on a few of the pillows he propped up when he sat down with you.

When Nightmare came back from his work, he went searching for you and Error in the anti-void, only to come upon the sight of you sleeping and cuddling an also sleeping Error. He chuckled, and took out a camera to take a picture for the others.

”The boys are going to love this. Heh.”

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You giggled as Horror carried you in his arms, walking down a path in the pretty, starry world you were now in.

“Again, again!!”

Horror tossed you into the air, sending you into more giggles. This time around, you felt the cold grip of a tendril catching you midair. 

“i think that would be enough, impling. it’s dangerous to be doing that.”

Nightmare brought you into his arms, and you whined.

”But daaad..it was fun…wanna go up again!”

You pouted at him and he shook his head at you, patting your back with a tendril.

”as fun as it may seem, you could fall and get hurt, my impling.”

You huffed, puffing out your cheeks and looking away from him.

”Mad at papa.”

Killer chuckled behind Nightmare.

”ooooh. nightmare made little bug angry.”

Nightmare looked back at Killer with a soft glare that he laughed at, and Nightmare turned back the way he was facing.

“we’re almost to the spot, so i can put you down when we get there.”

You were still upset, looking away from Nightmare. Nightmare sighed and patted your head with a tendril.

“i know you liked playing that way with horror, impling. but it was unsafe. you could’ve fallen and gotten hurt. once we get to the picnic spot, i’ll give you a bit of extra dessert as a sorry.”

You looked up at your papa, giving him puppy eyes.

”You promise?”

Nightmare nodded and hugged you against his chest.

“i promise.”

You giggled, and hugged Nightmare back.

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You all arrived at the picnic spot, Dust, Killer and Horror working to set up the food and set down your booster seat on the picnic table bench.

Horror took you from Nightmare’s arms and sat you down in your booster seat.

Nightmare sat next to you on your left, with Horror on your right, Killer and Dust sitting across from you.

You picked up your food, a sandwich, and began eating it happily. Horror, like usual watched everyone eating before him.

You finished your sandwich and began reaching for your juice box, but it was too far to reach.

”Dad..my juice too far.”

Nightmare put down his bowl of teriyaki beef and rice, and scooted the juice box and your dessert closer.

”there you go.”

You grabbed your juice and drank a bit of it, and then ate a spoonful of the slice of homemade chocolate cream pie that Horror had made.

”Yummy!”

Horror smiled and patted your head. He waited for everyone else to finish eating and then ate his food in one bite.

You looked around and noticed a little park nearby. You looked up at Nightmare.

”Daaad,can I go play?”

Nightmare looked at the park and nodded, picking you up from your seat and placing you down on the ground.

“just be careful. no talking to strangers.”

You nodded and ran off, heading to the slides immediately.

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The Star Sanses watched the child run to the park area.

”we need to do something. that child is in danger just hanging around with those four.”

Ink looked upset as he spoke, glaring at Nightmare and his gang.

Dream put a hand on Ink’s shoulder, shaking his head.

”ink, i don’t think we really have to worry about this. i mean..the child looks happy. i can feel the positivity radiating off them. i’m just surprised nightmare isn’t ill because of it.”

Ink looked at Dream incredulously.

”dream. you can’t be serious. those four can’t be allowed to raise anything. what if they influence that kid to be an evil person like them? plus they’re not even from this AU or any of their AU’s! that kid is from an underfell AU.”

Blue watched the two arguing and sighed, which alerted Ink to remembering he was here too.

”blue! what do you make of this? would you rather be a good guy and save that kid or let that kid be with murderous, insane guys and the literal king of negativity?”

Blue watched the child sliding down one of the slides.

”i mean..dream is right. they look happy. we should leave them alone..but then again they’re with a group of bad guys..”

Ink growled a bit and stepped a bit away from the others.

”whatever! we’re saving that kid. dream! you get the kid, me and blue will distract nightmare and the others.”

Dream looked worried and Blue looked concerned.

”ink. i don’t think we-“

Ink glared at Dream, and pointed to where the child was.

”i. don’t. care. go get them. we are taking them back to their AU where they’re safer! now come on blue.”

Blue walked behind Ink, prepping himself for battle.

Dream looked towards the kid, and then he heard Ink yell and paint splatter against one of the other guys.

”ink..he should’ve just listened to me.”

Dream walked out of the bushes near the park, and saw the kid hiding in a slide out of fear.

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You looked up from your hiding spot when you heard the bushes around the play area rustling.

”Dad..?”

You saw a skeleton clad in mostly yellow clothing, and shook your head.

”Not papa..”

The skeleton looked down at you and crouched down to be level with you.

”what’s wrong, little one? why are you hiding?”

You moved away a bit, hiding further in the slide.

”Papa said to not follow or talk to strangers.”

The skeleton smiled a little, sending out a bit of his magic to calm you down.

”well, you don’t have to worry, i’m your dad’s brother and i am perfectly safe. so you can come out of there.”

You peeked out a bit and looked at him.

”Are you sure?..”

He nodded and held a hand out for you.

”i’m sure. i’m dream. nice to meet you, little one. what would be your name?”

You grabbed his hand and got out of the slide.

”I’m..Y/N. I got scared because I heard loud noises..like fighting..”

Dream pulled you closer and held your hand in his.

”you’ll be perfectly safe with me. i’ll take you to a safe place away from the noises.”

You nodded and let Dream walk you away from the park area.

”My papa is that way, Mr. Dream..”

You pointed towards the direction your papa was at.

”oh we can’t go that way, little one. your papa is busy fighting someone..”

Dream looked down at you with a worried expression.

”Oh..ok..Papa gets in fights with weird people sometimes. Bear said one had a biiiig brown scarf..and another has a blue bandana, but he said that one isn’t so bad. He also said there was one with a long yellow cape.”

Dream nodded along with what you said.

”he sure does.”

Dream stopped at a certain point and you looked up at him.

He got down to your level.

”we still have a bit of a walk, little one, and you must be tired. would you like me to carry you?”

You nodded and raised your arms up as he stood to his full height again.

Dream picked you up, holding you on his hip.

”there we go. now..this is going to feel funny. close your eyes?”

You closed your eyes and held onto Dream.

Your eyes peeped open a little when you heard rustling from some bushes and saw and heard Horror.

”let go of m’ baby bear, dream!”

Horror was looking at Dream with a glare, raising his bone club, and then the world went dark.

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You clung onto Dream still until colors came back and you saw you were in a bright yellow place with white papers hanging everywhere. You let go of Dream and looked upset at him.

”I saw Bear! Bear is safe. Bear was mad at you.”

Dream put you down and shook his head.

”i’m sorry, little one. but i can’t take you back. it’s not safe there at all.”

You whined and began tearing up.

”But I want my papa and bear!..”

Dream could feel the sadness coming off you.

”me and my friends are taking you back to your world and your real mom and dad.”

You looked scared as he mentioned your real mom and dad.

”N-no..papa is my papa..”

Dream shook his head, but he still felt off.

”you need your real mom and dad. nightmare..isn’t a good..dad.”

You began sobbing and hitting Dream’s legs with your fists.

”NO! I don’t wanna go to mama! mama bad! NO! Take me back to papa!”

Dream shook his head and looked at you with concern.

”i’ll be right back, little one.”

Dream disappeared and you fell down and kept crying.

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Horror rushed back to Nightmare and the others, a pissed look on his face.

Nightmare looked at Horror with a bit of confusion.

“horror..where is my impling.”

Horror looked at Ink and Blue with a hate filled glare.

”dream took baby bear.”

Nightmare’s single eyelight turned into a pinprick and his tendrils straightened into sharp points.

”w h a t.”

Killer and Dust stopped mid battling Blue and Ink, and backed up a bit, both looking pissed as well. A look neither of the two Star Sanses had seen on them.

”little bug got taken by the positivity freak?”

”pup..”

Just then, Dream appeared next to Blue, and all four of Nightmare and his gang focused on him.

Nightmare looked enraged.

“dream. where. is. my. child.”

Dream was concerned at Nightmare’s look.

”blue. grab on quickly.”

Blue grabbed onto Dream as Dream got ready to teleport again.

Nightmare sent his tendrils at Dream.

“b r i n g  m e  b a c k  m y  c h i l d!”

Dream teleported away with Blue just as Nightmare’s tendrils hit the tree behind him.

Ink slashed at the ground with his paintbrush and jumped into the puddle he made.

Nightmare stood glaring at the spots his brother, Ink, and Blue had been.

“we’re getting error, and looking for my impling. now.”

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You sat on the floor of the place you were in now.

Tears streamed down your cheeks.

You heard the sound of paint splattering and the vwoop of a teleport or a shortcut, something that Kiki told you about.

You looked up and saw them.

The skeleton in the blue bandana, the one with the brown scarf, and Dream.

You backed away, still crying.

”No! Away! Bad people! Hurt papa!”

Dream came forward and reached for you, sending out a bit of his positive energy.

”it’s ok, little one. you’re safe with us.”

You shook your head and kept trying to back away.

”I want my papa!”

You looked surprised and panicked while you tried to fight away as someone else picked you up from behind.

”No! No! Away! Down!”

Ink held you in his arms.

”kiddo, calm down. you’re going with your mama and dada now. you’ll be safe with them.”

You smacked Ink on his mouth and he yelped in pain.

”No! Take me back to papa!”

Ink growled a little at you.

”blue, take the kiddo. you know how to better handle one.”

Ink handed you over to Blue, who began immediately holding you in his arms properly.

Ink looked around at the papers hanging from the non existent ceiling of the place.

Dream spoke up, a nervous look on his face.

”ink, are you sure this is a good idea? you saw their faces. they’re pissed.”

Ink tapped on one of the papers and then slashed the ground with his paintbrush, forming a portal.

”whatever. they just want the child they kidnapped back. come on, found the kid’s world. let’s go return them.”

Ink hopped in the portal.

Dream watched Ink disappear and looked at Blue.

”blue, what do you think?..”

Blue was holding you in a way that kept you from smacking him.

”i guess i sort of agree with ink, dream..this kid was kidnapped by them, who knows what they wanted from them.”

You were still crying on Blue, your body was trembling.

”I wanna go to my papa..mama is bad..scary..”

Dream felt the fear and sadness seeping off you.

”um..blue? can i carry them? just incase you need to help in distract the bad guys again. i can also handle calming them down..”

Blue nodded and started handing you over to Dream.

”sure, but be careful, they’re a handful. they tried to smack me a bit ago. i’m gonna go after Ink, so he doesn’t get lost or something.”

Dream held you in his arms now. He looked up at Blue.

”i’ll follow in a bit. need to do something really quick.”

Blue turned towards the ink puddle and jumped in.

Dream watched and waited for Blue to leave and looked at you.

”little one..i would like to talk to you.”

You looked up at Dream with an upset face.

”Bad uncle. not taking me back to papa..”

Dream smiled unsure.

”i know. i didn’t want to take you away..but your papa..nightmare..isn’t a good guy.”

You looked even more upset at that.

”Papa isn’t bad! Papa saved me! Papa took me from my mama because she hurt me! Papa,Bear, Kiki, Dusty, and Kitty are nice! They give me food and they love me! Mama didn’t want me!”

You started crying again.

”Papa loves me..”

Dream watched your outburst with slight surprise. He felt the bit of positivity as you spoke about Nightmare and his gang.

’nightmare was being nice..?’

”what do you mean he saved you from your mama?”

You looked away, still crying.

”Mama..hurt me..she said I ruined her life..wouldn’t let me eat..yelled at me so scary..”

Dream looked upset as he felt slight burning from the negativity starting to come off the child.

”you tell me more about this, ok? i’m taking you somewhere to calm you down and maybe..i’ll take you home..to your papa.”

You sniffled and held on to Dream.

”Okay..”

Dream hopped into the paint portal.

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Nightmare opened a portal into the Anti-Void, with Killer, Dust, and Horror following behind him.

Killer yelled into the Anti-Void.

”error! if you’re here, come over here! we need to talk!”

Error lowered down in a swing made of his strings.

”what d0 you n3ed? g0nna droP ofF, y/N?”

Error then noticed the faces of the gang.

”ar3 they s1ck ag4in?”

Nightmare shook his head and Killer spoke again.

”the star idiots attacked us while we were at the park. ruined our picnic.”

Error rolled his eyelights and turned himself away.

”wh4t does that haV3 to d0 with m3? i 0nly de4L w1Th those id10ts if they m3ss with my work.”

This time, Horror spoke.

“they..kidnapped baby bear.”

Error snapped back his head to look at them with glitch filled sockets.

”th3y d1d what.”

Nightmare spoke afterwards.

”we were having a nice day at the park, having a picnic, and ink and blue attacked us. i sent out horror to get my impling to safety and he came back telling us my brother kidnapped them.”

Error growled and got down from his string swing, pulling strings out from his under eyes.

”th3 squ1d t0ok my bunNY?!”

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Dream buckled you into a booster seat next to him and placed (your favorite dessert) in front of you.

”there we go, little sunshine. enjoy.”

You had both stopped at a Muffet’s in the universe you were now in.

Dream now seemed pretty nice to you, you had forgiven him before you arrived at the cafe as you had explained and told him everything about how you ended up with Nightmare, your papa, and he apologized for taking you away.

You took a spoonful of the dessert and smiled up at him.

”Thank you, uncle Dream!”

Dream chuckled and ate a bit of his own dessert before patting your head.

”you don’t have to call me uncle Dream, sunshine..”

You nodded and thought of what to call him. You sparked up with joy at the idea you had.

”Can I call you Mimi..?”

Dream smiled as he blushed lightly, finding the name a little embarrassing.

“sure, sunshine! it’s silly but i like it!”

Your fun together was interrupted.

Ink and Blue appeared in front of you both. Ink looked upset.

”you didn’t find their home with us?! we took so long! why are you giving them dessert?!”

Dream glared at Ink and blocked Ink from you with an arm.

”i wanted to calm them down, ink. they’re terrified. they don’t want to be with their real parents.”

Ink growled and looked down at Dream and you.

”whatever! the kid is going to their real parents. nightmare and his gang are awful, murderous people and not safe for a child to be around.”

Dream yelled at Ink.

”their real parents are abusive, ink! i’m not letting you take them to their bio parents home!  i’m going to take them to nightmare!”

Ink yelled back, his eyelights were gone.

”i don’t care, dream! the kid could’ve lied because they taught them to! we are taking them to their real parents!”

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Nightmare paced near his desk.

Killer sat in one of the chairs twirling his knife.

Dust stood near a bookshelf, talking to his brother in quiet mumbles.

Horror was working, organizing the bookshelves slowly.

Error sat in a new swing made of his strings.

Dust spoke up finally.

”i still don’t see a reason why they’d take pup..if it was because of us being us, dream could just feel the kids positivity..where would they even take them..”

Nightmare nodded as he kept pacing.

Killer tapped on his skull with one hand while he twirled the knife in the other. He tossed the knife in the air. His sockets widened and he grabbed the knife mid fall.

”what if they took em’ to their original AU?..”

Nightmare stopped pacing and looked at Killer.

”might be onto something. ink could have concluded on taking my impling to their original AU after kidnapping them.”

Horror placed down a book and looked at Nightmare.

”might have thought..they were in danger..”

Nightmare looked at the others.

”if they took them to their original AU, we need to search for them there. let’s head to that underfell AU.”

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A resounding slap sounded in the air.

People on the street and in the cafe behind the group watched as Ink’s head was snapped to the side, and Dream looked shocked at his own action.

He just..slapped Ink.

Dream moved back towards you.

When Ink looked at Dream, his eye lights were white.

”we are taking that kid to their home. and this time, i’ll carry the stupid brat. because clearly, the idiot tasked with carrying them is getting too attached.”

You tried to hold onto to something as Ink began picking you up from your seat. You began crying and screaming.

”NO! Bad! I no wanna go! Mimi! Help!”

You reached out for Dream as Ink finally got ahold of you.

Dream looked upset at Ink and the way he was handling you, but he knew he couldn’t do anything much anymore. He messed up.

Ink struggled with you in his arms but managed to open a portal with his paint. He looked at Blue and Dream, his eye lights still white.

”get in, both of you.”

Blue looked at Dream with concern but hopped into the portal.

Dream looked at the hand he slapped Ink with, staring into space.

Ink was still staring at Dream when he spoke again.

”get. in. dream.”

Dream snapped out of the thoughts and nodded, hopping into the portal with Ink right behind him.

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Nightmare stood in a park, his portal open behind him with the rest of the gang and Error coming out of it.

”they might be at my impling’s old home by now. we took a bit figuring out where they were taken.”

Killer grinned.

”me and horror can distract the golden boy and blueberry. you and dust can get to the squid.”

Nightmare nodded and waved Dust over to him.

”good enough plan. error, do you mind helping us or do you want to try and keep my impling away?”

Error answered him quickly.

”1 want t0 be4t up that damn squ1d. he took my bunny.”

Error mumbled at the end of what he said and looked away. Nightmare noticed but shook it off and looked at Dust.

”error would be better set to keep ink distracted, you take charge of grabbing my impling.”

Dust nodded.

Nightmare looked ahead after seeing Dust confirm.

”let’s go then. time to steal my child back.”

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Ink stood in front of a house that looked..run down..people obviously lived there, judging by the car in the driveway.

Ink knocked on the door and you covered your eyes and looked away.

Someone answered the door, a familiar large furry goat woman with fluffy long ears and yellow and red eyes, wearing a purple sweater and black pants. She spoke kindly, a human child clinging to her leg wearing a purple and pink striped sweater and brown shorts, a large yellow flower around their arm.

”Hello! I didn’t expect people to knock at my door. What do you need, sir?”

Ink stared, confused. Dream and Blue looked equally as such.

Ink spoke up, holding you out towards the goat woman.

“hello, ma’am. i was hoping you know who this child is. we’re trying to find their parents and this place is the only place that turned up for their biological mother.”

The goat woman looked you up and down, shaking her head.

”Oh please, no need to call me ma’am. My name is Toriel. The child you have isn’t a child I know. My only child is my adopted child, Frisk.”

Frisk grinned up at Ink from behind their mom, and the flower scowled softly.

This time, Blue spoke.

”oh..do you happen to know if someone used to live here before you moved in?”

Toriel nodded before looking solemn.

”There used to be a family here before me. The people who sold me the house told me a woman, her fiancee, and their two daughters were murdered here. All in their sleep. Necks slashed open. Their youngest went missing the same night. An investigation went out but they still haven’t been able to find the murderer and kidnapper.”

Ink, Blue, and Dream all looked mortified by her explanation. Until they felt the earth below them tremble.

Toriel shouted in surprise as blue strings erupt from the ground around the Star Sanses. Ink’s ankles were tied down quickly, just before he could move, and he tossed you towards Dream just before he was yanked up and slammed against the wall of an office building.

Familiar footsteps walked up to Ink who was wincing on the ground, pieces of sheetrock around him.

Error glared down at Ink.

”and th4t was f0R taking my bunny!”

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It didn’t take long for Nightmare and the others to show up.

Immediately, a fight broke out, each of them fighting to get ahold of you.

You were tossed once again, towards Blue as Dream pulled out his bow and arrow and shot straight at Nightmare who was over Ink currently, his tendrils around Ink’s neck, squeezing.

Nightmare yelled in pain as a golden arrow pierced through one of the tendrils, making it melt and he let go of Ink, only for Ink to get hounded on by Killer and Horror.

Blue was staring daggers into Dust, who was getting closer, his sights on grabbing you from him.

Blue strings suddenly wrapped around Blue’s soul and Blue yelped as he was yanked down to his knees, still clutching you tightly in his arms.

Error spoke above Blue towards Dust.

”gr4b them, dust. 1’ll keep the blueb3rry down.”

You squirmed in Blue’s hold, fighting to get free.

”Dusty!!”

Dust held open his arms and waited for you to free yourself.

”come on, pup. come to me.”

You managed to free yourself from Blue and ran to Dust.

”Dusty! Scared! Wanna go home! No bad ma-”

You stopped in your tracks, wide eyed, tears forming in your eyes.

”Dusty..hurt..so bad..”

Dust stared in horror as he saw it. A black inky bone, straight through your stomach, sticking out of your back. The shirt around it becoming stained red. Ink lay on the ground under Horror and Killer, his hand up and eye lights turning into pinpricks in his sockets as he realized what he’d done.

”pup! shit..pup! boss!”

Dust rushed forwards, towards you as the bone in your stomach disappeared making you fall to the ground.

Nightmare looked towards Dust and you, seeing you fall to the ground.

”my impling..?”

He watched Dust grab you and start cradling you against his chest, lifting your striped sweater a bit to look at the damage.

Killer, Horror, and Error looked towards Dust and then you. Their faces turning to panic as they let go of Blue and Ink.

Dust was frantically trying to heal you, but to no avail. Blood stained your clothes further and you started to look sickly pale.

”pup..please..hang on..shit..i’m just making it worse..”

Nightmare rushed to Dust and sat in front of him, holding your face gently.

”impling. keep your eyes open please..it’s not time to sleep..”

Blue and Dream looked at Ink who was staring at his hand with pinprick eye lights.

Dream decided to speak.

”ink..what happened..what did you do?”

Ink looked up at Dream.

”i..didn’t mean to..oh stars..what..have i done..”

Dream’s eye lights turned into pinpricks as he realized.

”you..did this..didn’t you.”

Ink turned away quickly, silently slashing his paintbrush at the ground and he hopped into the puddle of paint he created, disappearing.

Dream yelled at Ink as he disappeared, looking furious.

”ink! you just killed a child!”

Nightmare looked up from you and towards Dream, a look of fury on his face.

”get out of this au, dream.”

Dream saw the fury in Nightmare’s face and grabbed Blue, teleporting out of the AU.

Nightmare turned back to you when he felt one of your small hands hold onto his jacket.

”Papa..sleepy..want to sleep..so tired..hurts..”

Nightmare shook his head quickly.

”impling..no..don’t close your eyes. it’s not bedtime..”

Horror, Killer, and Error walked up and sat down around your body with Nightmare and Dust.

Dust spoke with teary eye sockets.

”i’m sorry..i’m so sorry..i should have..walked up and grabbed them, but i wanted to let them free themselves..i’m sorry, boss..”

Nightmare’s tendrils surrounded the gang, minus Error, but kept his focus on you.

Your eyes started to unfocus and tears started to form from your eyes as you cough, blood seeping from your mouth.

”papa..sorry..m’ too tired..but i don’t wanna sleep..i feel..won’t wake up ‘gain..”

You felt a tear land on your face, and looked up with blurry eyes at Nightmare, tears dribbling down his face from his eye.

”impling..stay awake please..”

Nightmare watched as your eyes closed, and shortly after, your breathing stopped, your head lolling to the side, resting on Dust’s chest.

Killer and Horror were crying silently, Dust trying to gently shake you, hoping to see you at least twitch.

Error was watching with anger in his eyes, a few tears lining his sockets, holding the bunny plush he’d made for you in his arms.

Lastly, Nightmare’s face twisted into fury and sadness and he screamed.

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It was a year after your passing.

Nightmare was silent, in fact, him and his whole gang were silent.

They stood in front of a grave, the stone in front read your name.

Error clutched the bunny plushie in his arms, it was now dressed like you, one of his favorite plushies.

Horror was comforting Dust, who was still heartbroken from when you passed in his arms.

Killer was standing next to Nightmare, looking down at your grave silently, black tears flowing down his cheeks, he didn’t want to clean them yet. Chara had been oddly silent in his head lately.

Nightmare crouched as he placed a purple bundle of flowers into the holder connected to the stone.

”we miss you, impling.”

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[ are we connected? ]

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[oh..it appears..you had a bad ending..]

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[what if i told you i can take you back? you know..before you died..]

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[you’d like that? well. everything will be the same as this time, mostly..i have to move parts of this story around.]

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[and..done! you should be able to load a new save now. see you later, young one.]

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[load new save?] 💚

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[new save loaded.]

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Nightmare paced near his desk.

Killer sat in one of the chairs twirling his knife.

Dust stood near a bookshelf, talking to his brother in quiet mumbles.

Horror was working, organizing the bookshelves slowly.

Error sat in a new swing made of his strings.

Dust spoke up finally.

”i still don’t see a reason why they’d take pup..if it was because of us being us, dream could just feel the kids positivity..where would they even take them..”

Nightmare nodded as he kept pacing.

Killer tapped on his skull with one hand while he twirled the knife in the other. He tossed the knife in the air. His sockets widened and he grabbed the knife mid fall.

”what if they took em’ to their original AU?..”

Nightmare stopped pacing and looked at Killer.

”might be onto something. ink could have concluded on taking my impling to their original AU after kidnapping them.”

Horror placed down a book and looked at Nightmare.

”might have thought..they were in danger..”

Nightmare looked at the others.

”if they took them to their original AU, we need to search for them there. let’s head to that underfell AU.”

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A resounding slap sounded in the air.

People on the street and in the cafe behind the group watched as Ink’s head was snapped to the side, and Dream looked shocked at his own action.

He just..slapped Ink.

Dream moved back towards you.

When Ink looked at Dream, his eye lights were white.

”we are taking that kid to their home. and this time, i’ll carry the stupid brat. because clearly, the idiot tasked with carrying them is getting too attached.”

You tried to hold onto to something as Ink began picking you up from your seat. You began crying and screaming.

”NO! Bad! I no wanna go! Mimi! Help!”

You reached out for Dream as Ink finally got ahold of you.

Dream looked upset at Ink and the way he was handling you, but he knew he couldn’t do anything much anymore. He messed up.

Ink struggled with you in his arms but managed to open a portal with his paint. He looked at Blue and Dream, his eye lights still white.

”get in, both of you.”

Blue looked at Dream with concern but hopped into the portal.

Dream looked at the hand he slapped Ink with, staring into space.

Ink was still staring at Dream when he spoke again.

”get. in. dream.”

Dream snapped out of the thoughts and nodded, hopping into the portal with Ink right behind him.

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Nightmare stood in a park, his portal open behind him with the rest of the gang and Error coming out of it.

”they might be at my impling’s old home by now. we took a bit figuring out where they were taken.”

Killer grinned.

”me and horror can distract the golden boy and blueberry. you and dust can get to the squid.”

Nightmare nodded and waved Dust over to him.

”good enough plan. error, do you mind helping us or do you want to try and keep my impling away?”

Error answered him quickly.

”1 want t0 be4t up that damn squ1d. he took my bunny.”

Error mumbled at the end of what he said and looked away. Nightmare noticed but shook it off and looked at Dust.

”error would be better set to keep ink distracted, you take charge of grabbing my impling.”

Dust nodded.

Nightmare looked ahead after seeing Dust confirm.

”let’s go then. time to steal my child back.”

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Ink stood in front of a house that looked..run down..people obviously lived there, judging by the car in the driveway.

Ink knocked on the door and you covered your eyes and looked away.

Someone answered the door, a familiar large furry goat woman with fluffy long ears and yellow and red eyes, wearing a purple sweater and black pants. She spoke kindly, a human child clinging to her leg wearing a purple and pink striped sweater and brown shorts, a large yellow flower around their arm.

”Hello! I didn’t expect people to knock at my door. What do you need, sir?”

Ink stared, confused. Dream and Blue looked equally as such.

Ink spoke up, holding you out towards the goat woman.

“hello, ma’am. i was hoping you know who this child is. we’re trying to find their parents and this place is the only place that turned up for their biological mother.”

The goat woman looked you up and down, shaking her head.

”Oh please, no need to call me ma’am. My name is Toriel. The child you have isn’t a child I know. My only child is my adopted child, Frisk.”

Frisk grinned up at Ink from behind their mom, and the flower scowled softly.

This time, Blue spoke.

”oh..do you happen to know if someone used to live here before you moved in?”

Toriel nodded before looking solemn.

”There used to be a family here before me. The people who sold me the house told me a woman, her fiancee, and their two daughters were murdered here. All in their sleep. Necks slashed open. Their youngest went missing the same night. An investigation went out but they still haven’t been able to find the murderer and kidnapper.”

Ink, Blue, and Dream all looked mortified by her explanation. Until they felt the earth below them tremble.

Toriel shouted in surprise as blue strings erupt from the ground around the Star Sanses. Ink’s ankles were tied down quickly, just before he could move, and he tossed you towards Dream just before he was yanked up and slammed against the wall of an office building.

Familiar footsteps walked up to Ink who was wincing on the ground, pieces of sheetrock around him.

Error glared down at Ink.

”and th4t was f0R taking my bunny!”

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It didn’t take long for Nightmare and the others to show up.

Immediately, a fight broke out, each of them fighting to get ahold of you.

You were tossed once again, towards Blue as Dream pulled out his bow and arrow and shot straight at Nightmare who was over Ink currently, his tendrils around Ink’s neck, squeezing.

Nightmare yelled in pain as a golden arrow pierced through one of the tendrils, making it melt and he let go of Ink, only for Ink to get hounded on by Killer and Horror.

Blue was staring daggers into Dust, who was getting closer, his sights on grabbing you from him.

Blue strings suddenly wrapped around Blue’s soul and Blue yelped as he was yanked down to his knees, still clutching you tightly in his arms.

Error spoke above Blue towards Dust.

”gr4b them, dust. 1’ll keep the blueb3rry down.”

You squirmed in Blue’s hold, fighting to get free.

Dust ran over and ripped you out of Blue’s arms, pulling you into his chest.

”pup! you’re safe now… come on, your papa wants me to take you to safety while they get rid of these bad guys.”

Dust began running off with you cradled to his chest, dodging bones and paint flying by him.

He then jumped, landing on top of a building and disappearing in an alley right after, keeping you totally safe.

”your papa should be here as soon as he can..we’re going home.”

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It took an hour before Nightmare and the others appeared in front of you and Dust.

Tears flowed down your cheeks as you ran into Nightmare’s arms, smiling.

”Papa..!”

Nightmare’s tentacles and his arms wrapped around you in turn, cradling you against his chest.

“my impling..”

You choked on your tears, and he held you, wiping the tears.

“let’s go home, impling.”

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Days later, you sat in Nightmare’s lap in his castle, drawing on a paper as he worked.

Once you finished your drawing, you held it up to Nightmare.

”Papa! I made drawing for you!”

Nightmare gently took the paper from you and looked at the drawing. He smiled and hugged you gently.

“it’s great, impling. i want to hang it on the wall now. let me get a frame..”

Nightmare opened a drawer and took out a small picture frame, sliding the drawing into it. He hung it on the wall right after.

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Hours later, it was nighttime..

Horror was holding you in his arms, carrying you to the living room for movie night.

Dust, Killer, Nightmare, and Error were already in the living room, setting up snacks and drinks.

Error put down a bowl of popcorn, and pulled a movie out of one of the shelves.

He popped open the movie player and put the disc in, pressing play.

Horror sat down with you in his arms, grabbing the bowl of popcorn and two candy bars.

Nightmare took you from Horror’s lap and sat you in his lap, covering you with a blanket.

The movie started playing, and soon, all of the others were cuddling up around you and Nightmare, except Error who just gently laid your bunny plushie in your arms.

Halfway into the movie, you had started falling asleep. Nightmare smiled and gently pet your hair with a tentacle.

“sleep well, impling.”

The others looked at you as you fell asleep, smiling softly.