Dullahan AU one shots!

How I Met My Body: Palette and PJ

(Quick Note: In my AU, PJ's lore is different.)

Destiny has a weird sense of humor. Dream and Ink used to date, and eventually had a son they named Palette. But quickly after Palette was born, Ink started to turn away from Dream which caused Dream to turn away from Ink and go to Cross. Which, after the breakup, Ink had an encounter with Error and Nightmare. The three battled hard, and in the end. They all simultaneously retreated back to their homes. But left behind a few remains of their battle, creating an anomaly that named itself, PaperJam. Palette and PJ were destined to be the next creator and destroyer of the Multiverse. Now then, we cut back to the present, where Dream and Ink are sitting in Dream's house, Ink still in a trance from the kite thing.

"Welp, I got nothing to do to you, Ink."

Dream snapped his fingers and Ink was immediately out of the trance.

"Woah... How long was I like that?"

"3 days."

Ink was stunned that he was in a trance for 3 days. He looked around the house.

"Palette is here, by the way."

"Who? Oh! The hat son. Cool. Cool. Uh... What's he doing?"

"I don't know. But I'm tired, and..."

Dream immediately shut his mouth as he heard a crash on a nearby wall, and he saw... A skeleton head with a sailors hat?

"Palette? Is that you?"

Palettes body ran downstairs and grabbed his head. Palettes neck sported a lime green flame on top of it.

"Sorry, Dad. I'm still trying to get the hang of this."

Ink and Dream were stunned.

"Our son has your dullahan gene."

"Why does that make me nervous?"

Palette just ran back upstairs with his head in his hands, but Dream stopped him.

"Palette? Honey, when did this happen?"

Palette tried to make his head float to Dream, but only made it halfway down the stairs, hit the steps, and began tumbling down into Dreams hands.

"Ow... That hurt."

"I bet."

"Ok, so... During one of my hangouts with Goth in ReaperTale, we were just hanging out, doing friend stuff. And that when I felt a migraine. And on one of our hikes, I kinda dozed off and... I fell off a ravine, and... Goth found my head on the ground. When Goth found me and I realized I didn't have a body, I freaked out, but Goth told me to keep calm and that we could find my body later that day. But my body was near this centaur Sans that lives in ReaperTale, who's named... Dullataur, I think. He's pretty cool. So... Yeah... I'm a creator who can take off his head, just like Ink! Pretty cool, right?"

Dream was stunned. Wait, Palette thought Ink was a Dullahan?

"Palette, honey. Ink isn't a dullahan. You got the gene from me."

As a demonstration, Ink pulled off Dreams head and revealed the golden flame in all it's glory. Palette was starstruck, to say the least.

"Hey! Maybe you can reach me dullahan stuff!"

Dream blushed.

"Oh, well, I'm not really... The best at this dullahan thing myself. I've only been like this for about 2 months. And even I'm still learning some basics."

Pallette just stared at Dream and Ink.

"Dad, can you make my head nod?"

"Oh, sorry."