Autophobia Reborn Dream

Broken Minds Eye

  Author's note: Wrote this the day before I leave for vacation I got inspiration for some Dream angst and having a glimpse into his mind. He is still really traumatized by everything that has happened to him. Next chapter is a look at what Nightmare is theorizing up in that noggin of his. I hope you enjoy the chapter!!  754 words

(Dream)-Talking      (Dream)-Thinking     (Nightmare)-Talking

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   I was on a torn battle field with dust hanging in the air as I struggled for breath. The smell of blood fills my senses along with the feeling of burning cold in each joint. They crack and groan with every movement as I felt as if I was fighting through water. As blurred figures gather around a familiar tree torches in hand screaming in a collective voices. All of the screams abruptly stops.

   Then suddenly I am being held by my neck. The twisted form of my brother before me; a wide empty smile greets me when I look at him in the face, half of his skull looks bashed off. The only eye socket left was flowing with his lavender tears and no eyelight insight .

"wHy DiD yOu LeT ThIs, HaPpEn To Me DrEaM, It HuRtS..."

   I tried to speak to ask what happened but nothing came out like his mouth was super glued shut. Much to my mounting horror, negative liquid started pouring out of his eye socket, and an appendage that looked eerily familiar came from his socket stabbing me in the chest. Then another one came out and started slowly cracking my already shattered rips.

That's when my mouth was finally unstuck and I screamed.

"I-I-I'M S-S-OO-OO SORR-Y; PLEA-SE S-TOP!"

The smile turned from empty to manic.

"Oh Dream, this is just the start I can't let you off easily can I, after all, I LET YOU OFF EASY LAST TIME I HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU STAY DEAD THIS TIME."

    I sat up with a scream, crying out broken apologies, shaking, and feeling the cold ground of the void I found myself in with my broken brother. Clawing at my chest, still feeling the pain from my surely broken ribs. I hear someone's voice, but it is muffled like cotton has been stuffed in my head.

    Suddenly I am pulled into something warm and soft, a feeling of something rubbing my back and rubbing over my knuckles. It calmed me enough to hear what was being said "It's okay Dream. I got you, I'm here, you're going to be okay." 'N-nighty didn't I just get killed again?' I glanced up, even with the blurred vision from the tears. I saw those lavender eyelights full of thinly veiled concerns.

"Ni-Nighty..."

  "Shhh I got you, if you don't want to talk about it yet we won't let's just stay like this for a while." I move to bring my hands from my chest to cling to Nightmare and just cry from the memories of the pain and guilt. Both me and Nightmare fall asleep clinging to each other.

     When the sun rose, I woke up slowly. 'What happened last night....oh, I had a bad dream. I haven't had one of those in a while.' I look down at Nightmare, who is still sound asleep, a determined look on his face as he clinged to me like an overly cuddly koala. 'I'm going to have to explain this..' I let out a drawn-out sigh.

 "Dream?"  said in a tired voice, having just woken up. 

"Yeah Nighty?"

"Can you tell me about the bad dream you had last night? I want to see if I can help." 

"Um, I don't want to talk about it fully but you ate one of your apples to defend yourself from a mob but... It completely changed you and a parasite took over. I was killed. I wasn't fast enough to help you..." 

"Dream... don't worry, I won't ever eat one of my apples, I promise you."

'I wish that was the truth.'                              "Pinky promise?" 

"Pinky promise."

Nightmares non-existent stomach gave a growl out of nowhere. "Heh-heh sorry.."

  "Don't worry when we were playing with flowers yesterday I saw a big berry bush." 'Huh, our appetite changed from last time we could go for weeks before feeling hungry' 

   We go over to a big raspberry bush and grab as many as we could carry in the cup front parts of our shirts and hurry back to the tree. We eat the ripe berries that explode with flavor. I glance over to Nightmare. His eyes spined and turned into stars "Nighty! You're adorable!!" 

   Nightmare gives me an incredulous look with lavender dusting his cheeks. "I am not adorable" he grumbles. I snicker quietly at him while he pouts with his starred eyelights. I pat him on the shoulder and shout "TAG! YOUR IT!!"

 I giggle when Nightmare gives me a look of betrayal. And gets up to chase after me.