{MCYT} •Mini Stories• <Book 2>

{Where Did We Learn It?}

Dream passed Corpse a coffee, he was visiting for a bit so Dream did his best to make Corpse feel welcome and relaxed.
Although, Corpse had a question on his mind that he had been meaning to ask since their first game of Among Us.
"Hey, Dream, can I ask something?", Dream smiled as he sat down with his drink,"Yeah, sure, what's up?", "Where did exactly learn how to kill, I mean you seem to have grown up in a normal home life.", to that Dream snorted, he shook his head,"No, no, no. My upbringing was far from normal, pretty sure everyone I grew up with was unstable in some way.", after Dream stopped laughing and took a drink, he turned to Corpse,"Before I slander the names of who was responsible for how I turned out, promise not to tell your friends or my friends what I say?", "Only if you do the same for me.", they shook on it, a deal was sealed and so Dream leaned back in his seat a bit as he began to explain to Corpse his upbringing.

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"So, to put it lightly Corpse; I was surrounded by loving people but they also had a neck for being violent."
"The top 2 people to blame would be Techno and my older brother; Foolish, I'll be sure to have you meet him."

"Techno was somewhat of my mentor, at a young age I wanted to be just like him so when I was old enough to pick up a sword or began to train me and of course there were moments I'd catch him unable to control his desire for blood."

Dream watched as Techno used an axe from the armour stand to break in the door Skeppy and ran into.

Dream watched Techno flip off a police car.

Dream watched Techno train.

Dream read with Techno about The Art Of War.

"Basically I was like a little fan boy."

"As for my brother, my older brother suffers from DID, or MPD and this tended to confuse me when I was younger because back then I couldn't tell who I was talking to but all I knew was that his other side was incredibly violent."

Dream watched Foolish threaten a kid to protect Alistair.

Dream watched Foolish beat the crap out of people.

He even watched Foolish kill someone.

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Corpse was surprised.
Dream shrugged,"Basically people I grew up with were crazy in a good way and sometimes a bad way.", Dream turned to Corpse with a smile,"So, Corpse, what about you? I always wonder where you get it from because, well I know Jack can be scary because he's got a Demon on him but I don't know if Anti influenced you.", Corpse shook his head,"No, no. Anti had nothing to do with it, I learned about stuff like murder and uh, covering up my crimes at a very young age.", Dream was surprised,"Really?", Corpse nods, he took a drink from his coffee as he tried to think of one memory that really summed up how he turned out this way.

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"Years ago, I was making dinner with my mother and I had cut my hand while I was helping my mother cook dinner."

"Ow!"
She looked over at her child, seeing he had cut his finger from chopping the carrots,"Oh, dear. You cut yourself with the knife, I'll get you a plaster and after you help me clean the board.", "Okay.", so he followed his mom and she cleaned the cut and put a plaster on, she watched as he cleaned the chopping board in the sink.
"It's clean."
The board was clean, his mother smiled,"Wonderful, but you'll be surprised to hear but the blood is still there.", he was confused, he didn't see any blood and watched as his mom got something out of a drawer and held it to him,"This is called 'Luminol'.", she sprayed it on the board and reached for the light,"I'll turn off the light.", she does so, then she made sure her son was watching,"Now I'm using Blacklight and it can do this.", she turned it on and he could see the blood or where it use to be at the most, she held up another bottle,"And this is called hydrogen peroxide. Sprinkle a little of where the blood was, rub it in really well with anything.", he watches carefully as his mother does so, she then turns off the light again and under the blacklight there was no blood!
She turned to her son,"I hope this lesson comes in handy one day-", "Honey.", she stopped talking as she saw her husband in the doorway, her mood changed and she quickly got the food out of the oven, as she did the dad pulled his son out of the room and into the living room and knelt down in front of his son, making him look him in the eyes.
"I don't know what she taught you, but don't listen to her, don't repeat any actions your mother does. It will only hurt others so I beg of you; Don't be like your mother."

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Corpse thought about that memory,"Come to think of it, I remember my mother was pretty sad when she realised I had agoraphobic and I had no interest in romance.", Dream and Corpse look at one another for a few moments of silence.
. . .
"Our childhoods were something else."
"Indeed we did."