Misery Loves Company

Dream Meets The Gang And His Guard

You sat comfortably on your purple and black throne, waiting on the rest of your group to join you in the throne room. The others that had arrived earlier were standing at attention, some of their eyelights glued to the smaller and oppositely colored throne that sat beside your own.

You could feel the confusion wafting off of them and waved a hand, a sign that they were allowed to speak, and in an instant they were all blurting questions that you could barely hear. "one at a time, raise your hand if it makes it easier" you say, dragging a hand over your face. They do as instructed and you allow brief happiness in your thoughts.

You nod to a Fell Sans, you think Cherry, "did'ja find a queen, boss?" he asks with a sly, perverted smirk. You flush a mix of purple and cyan, glad that your black tar was covering the glow, you clear your throat, "that i did not" you say. You feel even more confusion and nod to another; Bloodberry, your mind supplies. "DID YOU ADOPT OR PERHAPS HAVE A CHILD?" he asks, pure curiosity and you feel the others wave of emotions.

The emotions were all different, ranging from jealousy to nonchalance. You snort, surprising them before shaking your head; "you will be informed once the rest of the group get here" you say, feeling a bit irritated at the lateness of your members.

Then the door opens and your inner circle comes in, with the exception of Cross who had been in the room the entire time. "sorry, boss, horror got hungry" Dust says and you give a nod of acknowledgement. "right, please stand at attention with the rest" you say, glad that they're feeling obedient instead of chaotic today.

"as a few of you may know, i did not always look this way-, even fewer of you know of my universe" you pause, murmurs filling the air. "and until recently, none of you knew that i in fact had a brother", the murmurs grow louder and you raise a hand, effectively silencing them all.

"in fact, he is my twin brother and until yesterday evening, was encased in an stone prison" you say, tendrils flicking. "he is my opposite, making him guardian of positivity and keeper of dreams" you pause again, waving your hand at a guard in signal. The guard steps behind a curtain and returns to view with your counterpart in hand.

"everyone, welcome my brother, dream", you allow the stun silence as you beckon Dream to your side. He walks to you with some hesitation and you urge him to sit in the gold and cyan throne before he engages you in a silent argument, not wanting to as he was too embarrassed.

You win, to his ire and he sits in the fancy, jeweled throne. The way he seats himself is as if he'd been sitting in thrones since birth, perfect posture and all. You feel all eyes go to you as the black substance leaks off of you, leaving your ivory colored bones, "like i said, twins" you say, laughing a bit at the disbelief radiating from them despite your anxiety.

You lock eyelights with Dream, "well, greet them won't you, dreamy?", he rolls his eyelights at you before grinning, "but of course, nighty" he purrs. You flush purple and are a little put off by the fact that the glow isn't covered, "shut up" you grumble, embarrassed by the nickname that a few were sure to call you just to tease you, and Dream laughs. "well, which would you have me do? shut up or greet your people, brother", his sass causes you to frown.

You refuse to say you were pouting.

"hello, i am dream, nightmare's twin brother" he says, smiling. You watch a skeleton in the crowd flush, more specifically; Killer and you can't help as your sockets narrow, lust and attraction heavy in his emotions. Killer flinches at your glare as he catches it, quickly averting his eyelights.

You sigh, "as my brother has been trapped for so long, it is obvious that his magic and skills are out of practice, so he shall require a personal guard" you say, despite Dream squawking indignantly. You eye the crowd and sigh, Killer seemed to be the only one that fit what you needed in a guard for Dream, Cross being ideal if it wasn't for him being so socially awkward.

Dream needed a person that he could converse with, him being the social butterfly he is, but someone that wasn't too mean or sadistic which eliminated a good portion of your group. They also couldn't be busy or too unstable, meaning Horror and Dust were out, both being very unstable and busy caring for each other.

"killer-", he snaps to attention, "you seem to be the only one fit to guard dream, not that anyone else's skills are lacking", you pause, looking for proper wording, "dream just needs special attention". Killer's mind instantly goes to the gutter and he flushes, you squawk, "not like that, you pervert!!", Dream is confused and you internally cry at his innocence.

"dream is a social butterfly, and on top of that, he is sensitive emotionally. meaning that you must be nicer and try to converse with him often, most of you here are too mean, sadistic, unstable, busy, or socially awkward" you say, ignoring Dream as he tries and fails to properly defend himself.

"so, i expect you to clear your schedule, you shall guard dream from dawn till dusk everyday, you should expect less work as well" you say, Killer nods. "cross, horror, dust, scoundrel, and homicide, meet in my office after getting ready, you're going on a run with me" you inform, getting a multitude of nods. "prepare the closest room to mine, dream shall be living there from now on" you order one of the Papyrus guards, and they quickly scurry off.

"killer, i expect you won't disappoint" you say, narrowing your eyes, he nods with a lazy grin. "dismissed!!", everyone begins to leave, excluding you, Dream, and Killer. "killer, take dream to the training area, i'm sure he wants to train his magic" you order, Dream giving you a cheerful goodbye before leaving with Killer.

You sigh, that was quite boring. You kind of wish something had happened, just to spice things up. It was time to get your things together for the run, "order one of the others to go kidnap science sans or medic sans, put them in a nicer cell and treat them well, i'll personally deal with them when i come back" you state, another guard rushing from his post to do as instructed.

It seems your twin has an admirer that you just assigned as his guard...

You hope you made the right choice...