[Shattered Dream Angst] Daymares ★

Hunger for Revenge

Is it bad to enjoy writing about torture?
No? Good.

Cuz you're reading about it

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   Several months went by. To some, it felt like no time at all, to most, it felt like years.

   Nightmare could never sit still. He circled his office organizing files and papers and anything else that he could find just to keep busy, and get his mind off of Cross.
   "I don't need to remind you what it felt like..."
   Meanwhile 'Shattered Dream' toyed with his mind.
   "Drowning... Breaking... Shattered from the inside out~" 
   The voice was so much more real than Nightmare thought it would sound.
   "You broke me!" It yelled at him, getting louder as he tried to fight it. Shattered's sadistic giggling would echo in the room, taunting and playing with Nightmare's guilt.
  "You ruined MY LIFE!!"
   Nightmare leaned against his desk as he tried to tune out the screaming in his ear.
   It's not real, It's not there...
   "I fucked your boyfriend~♡" it always got louder when Nightmare tried to fight it.
   "NOW YOU WANT TO TALK TO ME!?" Louder, and closer.
   "YOU CAUSED THIS! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!"

   "Shut up! I know what you're doing! SHUT UP!!" Nightmare yelled at it desperately while covering his almost ringing ears.
   The room fell silent, and Nightmare took his hands away from his head hesitantly.
   Warm breath whispered against his neck with a joy filled giggle in its throat,
   "I can't wait to break you♥︎"

   Nightmare quickly got up and turned around, back up into the door of his office and even stumbling through them to the hallway outside.
   No one was in his office.
   He felt the back of his neck with his hand, as he thought about whether or not he could actually feel someone standing behind him at the time.
   "Uh, Nightmare?" Killer stood near Nightmare and stared with a worried expression, "Are you okay?" He asked.
   "I'm fine... Anything new to report?" Nightmare straightened himself out as he cleared his throat of any fear or doubt. Killer was still unconvinced of course.

   "No, not really. No one's seen Cross, and frankly we're running out of allies who are still alive." Killer huffed.
   "How is Horror holding up?" Nightmare asked softly.
   "Not great... Better than before I think, but still not great." Killer admitted. "It was always Horror's greatest fear that his brother would starve to death... but who knows how Shattered knew that." Killer thought out loud, silently wondering what else Shattered knew.
   "Unfortunately for everyone, he's getting better at knowing exactly how to get under people's skin." Nightmare grumbled.

   "I fucked your boyfriend~♡" Nightmare wondered why Shattered worded it like that... More so, he wondered why he never kissed Cross before. Why he couldn't tell Cross how he felt.
   Even after Shattered first escaped and flat out told Cross about his feelings, it never seemed like the right time to talk about it. After what Cross went through...
   But somehow, out of everything, Shattered calling Cross Nightmare's 'boyfriend' was bothering him.
   Why was Nightmare such an idiot?

   "Nightmare? Boss?! Are you sure you're all right?" Killer asked again.
   "I said that I'm fine!" Nightmare insisted with a defensive scowl.
   "Have you been getting those daymares?" Killer asked. Nightmare sighed in defeat,
   "Yes..." he hesitated to answer, "But that's not important! Keep searching for Cross!" Nightmare ordered.
   "Boss!" Horror quickly made his way down the hall, headed to Nightmare's office with Dust chasing after him.
   "Horror! You should be in bed!" Dust kept trying to get him back to his room.
   "Stop trying to baby me!" Horror pushed him away. "I found Cross!"

   Dust suddenly stopped trying to drag him away, "What!?"
   "How?" Nightmare watched Horror take out his phone.
   "At least I think so. Shattered texted me..." Horror grumbled. The text message came from Horror Papyrus's contacts, "He used Pap's phone to text me..."

   "What's he say?" Killer asked.
   "Numbers, coordinates I think. And a winky face..." Horror answered.
   "Ya that sounds like him..." Dust sneered.

   "It's better than what we've had so far." Nightmare thought as everyone spoke.
   "It could be a trap." Killer noted.
   "It's definitely a trap." Nightmare agreed.
   "What choice do we really have?" Horror argued.
   "Can any of you tell what au the coordinates lead to?" Nightmare asked. All of them look at the numbers written, but non could even guess which AU they led to.
   "We must have never been there before." Dust shrugged.
   "So, no guessing what to even expect." Killer sighed. The three looked to Nightmare as he thought. Weighing their options, and deciding what they could do.

   "We'd be playing into his game..." Nightmare grumbled.
   "That's definitely a trap,"
   "In a AU we've never been to,"
   "And we don't even know if Cross is there."
    "Yes, I get that." Nightmare looked to all of them.
   "What are we waiting for?" Dust smirked. The others smiled.
   "Are you sure?" Nightmare asked, looking to Horror in particular.
   "Respectfully boss, I've never been more ready to kill your brother!" Horror grinned.
   "You deserve it after what he did to Papyrus. If any of you do magically get the chance, don't hesitate to kill him." Nightmare was at a point that he knew his brother was dead.
   Dream would want this hell to end. One way or another.

   "We still can't just go head on. We have no choice but to play this cautiously." Nightmare clarified before everyone split off to get ready.