A few hours ago

- You know what squid ? Screw you !

Error opened a portal to an unknown location and left the tattooed skeleton alone.

He ran. Ran as fast as he could. The place didn't matter, neither did the arrival. He just had to go as far as possible.

Error was hurt. Hurt like a helpless, little, injured creature. Trapped, scared. The great destroyer still ran. Like if it could reduce his pain.

Creating a portal. Run through it. Create another portal, run through it again. And this a good twenty times.

Finally, Error managed to stop running. Out of breath.

A big sky was above him. A sky full of stars. Outertale... Of course.

Error saw a cliff. He weakly walked to it. Stand up at the really end of its edge.

His brain was just out. He didn't think about anything but that unbearable pain right now. And finally he sat down.

Though he was gonna jump off ? No. Hell no, even lost in his pain, Error was still too selfish to do such a thing. After all, he still got plenty more "AUs" to destroy right ?

The poor windows vista pulled his knees up and hugged them. And just now his anger melted into something deeper... It transformed into pure sadness.

A tear began to fall from his eye socket, running down his cheek, following those blue lines Ink liked so much, ending by wetting his clothes.

One tear, two, eight, twenty. The great destroyer started crying a river.

And Error stands there, crying.

Crying until he would run out of tears and energy.

"Error ?"

The black skeleton knew this voice. Of course this bastard would come. Counting on how BAD Error was feeling right now.

"Leave m-me alone b-bitch..." sobbed Error.

Nightmare tsked. The goopy skeleton then, sat next to the glitched one.

"I s-said leave-" started Error

"No." simply answered Nightmare

A long silence arose between those two monsters. And finally Error asked while sobbing.

"What do you want, you freak ?"

"Well, as you may know I can read feelings, but I am still unable to read minds. So if you would be willing to explain me what puts you in this state..." answered Nightmare with a detached tone, almost like he wasn't really caring about it.

"Never" mumbled Error.

The same long silence arose again. Making Error uncomfortable with his ex-boss so close to him.

"Why won't you leave ?" finally cried Error "I don't need you to comfort me or... I don't know what kind of shit you have in mind but I'm not goin to help you ! I need nobody, ok ? You know what... Why are you even here ?"

"Dust and Horror being asses again" answered Nightmare with that same detached tone.

Like he was bored or something. But Nightmare obviously is here for something right ? I mean... Why would he come to Outertale ? This AU always was a tad bit too positive for the goopy skeleton. So why make this effort ? Even Dust and Horror doing shit back at the castle wasn't usually enough to make Nightmare come here.

"Tell me why are you really here."

"Tell me why do you feel so bad"

Error stood up but didn't leave. The glitched skeleton took deep breaths and looked down. And finally, after another silence he mumbled.

"Ink dumped me..."

And he waited. Waited for his ex-boss to burst into laughter, with an unpleasant "Told you so, idiot" or maybe a deep annoyed sigh that meant "Did I seriously wasted my time for some love stories ?"

Or anything like it, just to give Error a good reason to punch Nightmare in the face.

But nothing.

Yeah. Nothing ! Nightmare, the Prince of darkness, Lord of negativity and the Emperor of "I'll have the last word even in front of god !", was speechless !

At least that's what Error thought until he glanced at Nightmare's face.

The bastard was smiling.

Yeah. Smiling. Not only he wasn't trying to not grin, but Error could feel that Nightmare was reveling in his suffering.

Worse! The little superior air he displayed seemed to tell him "dickhead, I knew it and I've told you so... Weak."

"Nightmare..."

"I could tell you that I did warn you about that rainbow asshole, that he would end up dumping you or worse... But I am not going to say it. First, cuz you know I am thinking it and second, oups... I've actually tell it !" the goopy one replied in pure amusement.

Error groaned and sat back next to Nightmare, rubbing his eyes where tears started to fall again.

"...I feel so bad..."

"He didn't just dump ya didn't he ?"

"...He fucked someone else and just show it to me like it was a thing..."

Nightmare nodded, with a kinda faked compassionate pout.

"I told you Error... You don't belong to their type of person. You're a bad guy, remember ? Come on, come back to us. Come back where you really belong, among us, among the bad guys..."

"..."

"We... I actually miss you back to the castle..."

Error stay silent. Looking down. His breath was back to normal, he wasn't sobbing anymore.

"...Not a word on what happened to me. Or I'll kill you."

Nightmare smiled in triumph, a smile that Error didn't see and that Nightmare had the time to replace by a machiavellian look on his face before erasing it all. Giving his head a perfect poker faced look.

"C'mon, let's go."

Nightmare stood up, and so Error did. And then the king of negativity took them back to Dreamtale, to the bad guys' castle.