How to Fix the Broken

Chapter 22: Beautiful

Killer looked up at the stars. He had his head laying on Horror's stomach as he stole his hand, having it wrap around his neck and rest on his ribs. Dust seemed to have settled in Horror's other side as the stars shot overhead.

OuterTale was often called the most beautiful world in the multiverse. That was an understatement. OuterTale's  beauty was indescribable.

Falling stars shot left and right, the aurora borealis waved from above, and contestations twinkled like magic.

Killer sighed contently, sinking lower into Horror's chest. 

Off to the side the sound of a portal being opened was heard. Killer looked over as he and his lovers sat up. They were hidden from who ever was there.

"Blue, seriously, can I take the blindfold off?" A very familiar voice asked. It was Nightmare. Killer became just a little nervous, they haven't told Boss about the three of them yet.

"Not yet!" Blue responded. He sounded excited. "I want the first thing you truly see to be this!" Killer watched as Blue and Nightmare came into view. Blue was leading a blindfolded Nightmare toward the cliff edge.

Blue stopped Nightmare before they both fell and walked behind him. He reached up on his tippy toes and yanked his scarf off Nightmares head.

Killer heard Nightmare audibly gasp as he faced the stars.

But...

Wasn't Nightmare blind?

Nightmare gazed at the stars in front of him. Thousands apon thousands twinkled in his eye, bright wavy lines of lime green that faded into cyan blue danced across the sky, stars fell from the dark, creating streaks of white in the deep purple night.

He felt his socket fill with tears. He could see. And this was the first thing he truly saw, not the blurry image of Blue and the grassy plain, this... this was incredible. He used to think Dream was the most beautiful thing in the world... maybe he was wrong...

He brought his hand up to his mouth to keep from sobbing. He owed Blue his life.

"Blue-... I-..." Nightmare was at a lost for words. He felt Blue gently grab his other arm and guide him to sit on the edge of the cliff.

"Beautiful isn't it...?" Blue ask as he sat next to him and stuck his legs over and let them dangle. Nightmare only nodded, unable to speak. "I come here when I need to let go. As tempting as it was to jump into the void, the stars always brought me back. I wasn't expecting the auroras borealis though...that just makes this even more special..." Blue's voice was quiet and gentle as he watched the stars.

Nightmare tore his eye away from the stars and looked down at Blue who was tying his scarf back around his neck. "Tempting...?" Nightmare knew that Blue was quite a negative person, but never thought he'd be suicidal. ... though his Check box...

Blue looked up into Nightmare's eye then away. Nightmare thought he saw tears in Blue's eyes. Nightmare protectively wrapped a tentacle around Blue, pulling the swap Sans closer.

Blue squeaked at the sudden closure of the space between them, but let his head fall onto Night's left shoulder.

"Blue, I owe you my life." He murmured softly as he rested his head on Blueberry's.

"...no... you don't... it was the least I could do... you saved me from Inks grasp, knowing I could be a spy..." Blue whispered quietly.

"I already knew you were." Nightmare said. "I know when someone is in the house and when they're not... I know you talk with Dream. But I also know that you care about us... that you care about..." Nightmare trailed off as a fuzzy feeling warmed his chest and face. He was about to say 'me'. He mentally shook himself, what is this?

"Nightmare...?" Blue asked quietly.

"Yea..?"

"Can I tell you something...?" He sounded nervous and scared.

"Sure..." Nightmare felt the fuzziness grow stronger.

"I... I love you..." Blue said carefully.

The fuzzy feeling exploded as his mind registered what Blue had said.

He looked down at Blue. He looked like he was on the verge of tears. His face was dusted with a colbolt blue blush. He was tense as though he was ready to run if Nightmare became mad.

Nightmare thought about all the times he was with Blue. He was funny, kind hearted, and more beautiful than Outertale. He realized what the feeling was.

"I..." Nightmare started, hesitantly.

"I understand..." Blue whispered and buffered as he started to get up.

Nightmare dragged him back down and into his lap, hugging him.

"I love you too..." Night whispered back. He looked down at Blue who was curled up on his lap, his face bright blue and eye sockets wide.

"R-really..?" He whispered, his face falling as though he didn't believe him. "Do you..?" He glitched.

"Yes. I love you Blueberry." Nightmare said confidently. "Not only are you kind hearted, funny, and unable to forget others pain, but now I can see that you are more beautiful than the stars above us." He looked up at the dancing lights floating above and the stars shooting past.

"Yes, OuterTale is pretty but,"

he looked back down at Blue,

Blueberry was beautiful.

"You are beautiful." Blue stuffed his face into Nightmare's turtleneck. He wrapped his arms around the smaller.

He gazed back up at the stars, each twinkling in their own way.

He froze, realizing the shocked and mixed emotions coming from the echo flowers behind them. Killer, Horror, and Dust, and there was someone else, out of more to the left then the trio, someone Nightmare was not ready to see after 500 years. He mentally growled.

He adjusted Blue in his arms, getting ready to stand.

"Time trio, it's time to go." Nightmare stated, quickly standing up and causing Blue to squeak.

"Time trio?" Blue asked, sitting bridal style in Nightmare's arms. Nightmare didn't respond, only making a portal in time for the trio to jump through after him.

"Wait! Nightmare!" Dream cried from the other side.

Beautiful
And so they begin
Love conquers all

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