Silent Stars

Chapter 9

I have no excuse for my actions 😭
It has literally been about a year since I last posted. I kinda lost interest in the fandom and couldn't muster up any motivation. And then it happened.
The TumblrSexyMan™ Twitter poll...
After Sans won, I was like oh yeah cool, but then there was another one.
Who is the best Sans? And that's when it happened. I was dragged back into this, and I was shocked. Also at the time I'm writing this Fell Sans has won against Error in the finals so Fell gets to be the picture up top. (Sorry Error you tried your best)
uhhh thanks Twitter for giving me motivation???
Also I am still very sorry that it took this long, and honestly I thought I would never finish it. I also can't promise that it won't be even longer for the next one, but I'll try my best.
Welcome back 😊
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Inks pov

Numb.
That's all Ink felt. He had stopped crying about 20 minutes ago, after Dream had healed the worst of his wounds that nightmare gave him. He could tell that Dream was exhausted from having to heal him, and that was with all the negativity in the room so he was even worse off than he would have been. 

'God you can't stop hurting people can you?'

Ink wanted to do nothing but just lay here forever and rot away, but he knew he had a job to do first.

Without saying a word, he teleported out of the anti-void and looked up at a sky full of stars.

Ink remembered when he first had created outertale. It came to him in a dream he had once. It was just the night sky everywhere he looked, going on forever in the spaces of his mind. Naturally as soon as he woke up he started creating it, and it was done in less than a day.

As he was looking back on the memory, he abruptly came to a stop when his eyes fixated on what he came here for. What surprised him however, was a certain skeleton sitting down on the cliff gently holding Error's scarf in his hands.

"O-outer?" Ink softly said. "What are you doing here?"

The space themed skeleton lifted his gaze up from the scarf, but didn't look in Inks direction, just stared out into the void.

"Ink." He said, coming out in a sort of whisper.

"Outer I have to explain something to yo-"

"I already have an idea of what happened", he said solemnly. "Not exactly sure why he would do that, but... I can assume by your breakdown earlier I'm correct that we made a... mistake didn't we?"

Ink stayed silent, not exactly sure how he would ever explain to everyone else what had happened. What he had done.

Outer continued speaking, saying "Y'know, Error actually comes here- used to come here and just sit for hours. I remember the first time I saw him, I was so scared I just froze. He noticed me, and I thought, 'This is it, I'm going to die right here, and my au will be destroyed.' But he didn't say anything, he just turned back and kept staring at the stars."

His mouth turns up into a soft smile, "I mean he wasn't doing anything, so I kinda just... left. Next time I saw him, it seemed we had some kind of agreement. I didn't bother him, he didn't bother me. I don't know why I never called you to let you know when he was here, maybe it was partly fear that he would've retaliated in some way, but I now think he wouldn't have done that."

Hearing this, it just made Ink feel all the more terrible. Outer seemed like he wanted to say more, but stopped himself, falling silent.

"I'm really sorry Outer. I promise I-I will explain everything  soon. Um... do you mind if I have the scarf?" He said as he walked behind the other skeleton and held out his hand.