Neon Tears

Chapter 5

-UnderSwap #0 Skeleton's House-

Dream sighed and rubbed between his sockets, "I will be glad to go wherever I will be staying next. I somehow managed to forget just how exhausting being around Inky's mood swings is." He gives Cerulean a tired smile and stands walking over to open the door.

Fresh 404 walks up the steps with Inky snuggled in his arms. "Thank you uncle Dream perfect timing."

"Thanks Dream." Razz and Stretch follow them in and close the door.

Razz takes a deep breath of the wonderful scent of soup and sighed. "Cerulean you have got to teach me how to make that, it smells wonderful."

"Sure Razz soup is my specialty. I found this book in the dump when I was a kid just trying to figure out how to cook called The Art of Soup. It was full of recipes and the history and reasons behind them. Glitter hates soup now because it was all I could cook for a long time. But it is healthy, there are thousands of kinds, and it stretches limited ingredients when you are on a budget." Cerulean grins eyelights sparkling with enthusiasm.

Stretch leans on a wall watching the energy and enthusiasm light up the room in a way he hadn't seen since Cobalt left their AU. "Sounds good, I take it Glitter is your Papyrus?"

Cerulean shrugs, "I might have been annoyed when I gave him a nickname." He smirked slightly, "he was covered in glitter at the time thanks to Fresh 404's puffing rainbow strings."

Fresh 404 chuckles darkly making everyone but Inky shiver. "We made it permanent."

Inky yawns, "So he annoyed you to and the AU is dying so you made one of those code changes you told Chara are irresponsible in stable AU?"

Cerulean snorts, "so he is permanently dusted in glitter. Well I guess it is better to be known for glitter than dust."

"Hey now Dust is probably my brother-in-law by now." Stretch gave them all a lazy look and shrugged. "What they made it clear they were getting married when they got wherever they were going. It has been like a week."

Dream snorts a laugh, "I know Cobalt mentioned eloping but Dust was pretty determined to have a huge wedding. Those take time."

Inky rubbed his sockets, "Dust will win Error won't let him baby brother have a small wedding."

Razz and Cerulean focused on Inky while everyone else avoided eyelight contact. "Inky, Error is dead he jumped into the VOID. You, Stretch, Classic, and Outer saw him. We all saw what Cobalt and Nightmare's gang did to you guys afterwards." Razz watched Inky as he reminded him.

"I know that but he isn't dead. Your magic dies when you do and the dolls he made with his strings and the strings in the anti-void are fine." Inky frowned at Razz like he should know about this stuff.

"Inky, mom very much meant to die and any trip out of the Multiverse be it surviving the VOID something we imagine could only happen with divine intervention or by a very special portal like Cobalt and the others used it is a one way journey. Just as final as what he intended." Fresh 404 looked straight at the wall refusing to look at anyone.

Razz walks into the kitchen and gets the stepladder stored in the corner, brings it out, sets it up and climbs it to give Fresh 404, and Inky who was still in the kids arms a tight hug. He was experienced enough not to try to talk to them about it right now, fell monsters tended to be a little suicidal. Thank Fox for rests.

Fresh 404 let's go of Inky with one arm keeping the other under him so he doesn't drop him and hugs Razz back. "We are okay, we just don't want to talk about it yet."