Asylum [Dust X Horror] (Collab with me and BlueTechLunatic34)

Chapter 6

Recall 

Horror looked embarrassed at his own words, yet he felt that he couldn't stop himself from saying what came next.

"So I...I guess I like you then?" Horror asked, blushing so hard that his blush could be seen in a pure black room. "I just...You mean to much for me to be without. And I...I...God. You probably hate emotion sharing just as much as me. I'm sorry Dust. I'm being an emotional ass. I'm sorry..."

Recall End

Dust blushed deeper, stuttering softly, unable to form coherent sentences, his soul beating rapidly.

Finally, though, he swallowed, fiddling twitchily with the hem of Horror's shirt, gazing into the other's eye light, his own filled with fear and anticipation.

"I... I like you too, Horror. Really like you," Dust whispered back, cracking a small, scared smile. He didn't want to say 'love' in case that wasn't what the other had meant. Never again.

"Now that I know you, I... I don't want to leave your side. I... I care about you, more than I probably should. I..." Dust trailed off with a quiet sigh, looking away.

'I think I love you...' he continued in his head, his eye lights filling up with pain.

Horror looked deep into Dust's eyes, into his soul. And Horror published deeply at what he saw.

"So I'm not being a total emotional ass? You feel the same way that...I do? Dust, I know that neither of us is saying love, because we both have bad experience from it. I don't know your bad love experience, but I know it happened. I can see it in your eyes.

But love...is that what we both feel? I think it is, but I'm not sure... I haven't fell real, GENUINE love before. So I wouldn't recognize the feeling, but...still." Horror' s face was as Red as a cherry, but Horror was also deep in thought. He wanted to know what this emotion was.

Dust's face turned a deeper purple, and his gaze dropped to the ground.

"I don't know..." he said softly, his soul aching for Horror. "I... I don't know what you're feeling, and it scares me." His eye lights met Horror's just barely, and he cracked a small, fearful smile.

"I'm scared," Dust admitted shakily, tears trickling down his face.

"I... I want to tell you I love you. I want to, but... I'm scared of you not returning my feelings.... And... I... I know that you don't like this mushy crap. I can just shut up, if you want me to. Sorry," he whispered, backpedalling quickly because he was scared of how Horror would take it.

'I don't want him to hate me... I have to control my emotions... I can't...' he thougt desperately, crying softly, knowing that he had already gone too far. 'I can't have him hate me, I couldn't bear...'

Horror looked at Dust, surprised.

"So you do love me then? Really? I thought it was just a mutual bond at first. I thought that you didn't like me THST way, so I hid any EXTRA feelings for you. Lied to myself..." Horror stared at the ground, feeling too many emotions at once.

"I do love you, Dust. Everything about you... And like I said, I don't feel that my emotions for you are the same mushy crap that I hate. I feel differently about you. Me. Us..." Horror mumbled, sighing.

"I...Um. I'm not very used to sharing feelings with people. I...hmmm. What was your bad love experience? Don't tell me if you don't want, but I just...I know we've both had problems in these subjects before. Trust. Care. Love." Horror calmly, yet quietly stated.

Dust blushed deeper, then looked down in an attempt to hide the pain that memories brought.

"I..." he trailed off, biting his 'lip', still stunned by what Horror had said.

'He loves me? Actually loves me..?' he thought tentatively, feeling warm and fluttery.

'The love experience. Right. I need to tell him about that,' he thought distantly.

"...I... I fell in love with someone... He was... Another skeleton, his name was Blueberry, and..."

The name brought back so much pain, so many awful memories. Distress showed on his face, as well as sadness.

"I... I thought he loved me back. He told me he loved me back, but..." Dust sighed quietly, shrinking into himself. "Ha. He didn't. He pretended he did, played along until he knew it would hurt me most, then told me he had been cheating on me the entire time with some other guy." Dust sighed, his hands curling into fists.

"I sticked around. Stupidly. And he started hitting me." He looked away, not wanting to see Horror's reaction.

"And that's my sob story. Haha..."

Dust gave a small, pained smile.

'I deserved it.'

Horror looked at Dust with a pained face. "Wow. I'm so sorry. But Dust...You didn't deserve any of that. Sure, you kill people. But I do too, and yet I didn't deserve what happened to me. I thought I did, for awhile. But I don't. And you don't either."

Horror blushed slightly, and smiled. "Besides. I love you now. And I couldn't, WON'T, do that to you. I care about you more then I understand, and I can not leave you. Dust, I DO love you. And nothing is being concealed while I say this. I promise you." Horror promised, hugging Dust, but being careful not to lean too close, for fear of hurting Dust' s shoulder with his muzzle. The hard iron muzzle would easily push into Dust' s shoulder, if Horror wasn't careful.

Dust's face turned a soft purple, and he smiled slightly, hugging back tightly, his soul beating fast.

"I love you too, Horror," he whispered, burying his face in the other's shoulder. "Thank you..."

'He's too kind to me... Too sweet,' Dust thought with a soft smile, his blush only deepening.

'I love him. So much.'

Horror snuggled into Dust' s hug, smiling in pure bliss. "I love you Dust. And I want you by my side. Because while I may act tough, inside, I'm terrified without somebody there."

Horror then turned his gaze to look out the door of the room, at the last two remaining doors. He knew that even tough he wanted to, he couldn't enter Dr. Duessbag' s lab without killing the final creature. And Horror knew, since all the other creatures were dead, this creature would gain a huge spark of extra strength.

Dust smiled softly, just enjoying the hug, letting himself sink into the other, relaxing as he nuzzled into Horror's shoulder.

"I won't leave your side, then," Dust said softly, feeling warm. "I'll stick around until you don't want me anymore."

'It's inevitable. He'll grow bored of me, grow bored of loving me. Eventually, he won't want me. I can just enjoy it while it last,' he thought to himself, his smile fading slightly, but not dropping.  

Horror felt Dust tense in the hug, something bothering him perhaps? But Horror decided to gently pull away from the hug after a moment, gently rubbing Dust' s good shoulder, and pointing.

"Dust. We have one more monster to fight. Since all its copies are dead, it is extra powerful. And don't forget, it can change form. Do get tricked." Horror calmly explained.

Dust nodded, leaning into Horror's gentle touch.

"Okay," he said simply, feeling warm, but determined not to make the same stupid mistake as he had last time.

'I won't let him down again,' Dust thought to himself.

Horror nodded, smiling. "I'm not worried about us, this time. We have each other, or some shit. That's what lovers say...right?"

Horror asked, with a playfully confused look on his face. He didn't seem to know how to completely express his affection, without being corny. Well... Oh well.

(Note)

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