Soulmates

Three

Dust gasped in pain as he curled into himself. His body and Soul hurt so much...

Dust shakily opened his eyes and looked at his hand that was covered in that other monster's dust. His vision was red but turning black at the edges. A pulsing feeling shot through his vision in time with his headache.

But he was sure that his hand was... melting.

Another painful jolt sent him on his knees in pain.

Dust screamed in pain, trembling harshly. He used all his determination to keep himself together.

Another, more painful jolt ran through him. Dust gritted his teeth in agony. What was happening to him?!

A dark rimmed portal opened and Nightmare jumped through, landing in an empty AU. He frowned in concern when he felt large amounts of pain and Determination.

Dust cried out in pain as he felt his hand melt some more. It hurt so much!

Nightmare frowned when he saw someone and went towards them, alerting the monster of his presence.

Dust looked up fearfully, flinching back a bit.

"Go away..." He gasped out in pain.

Nightmare raised his hands in a placating manner. The other seemed to be in pain.

"I don't mean any harm..." he said slowly. "What's wrong?"

Dust curled up on himself a bit. He flinched when his arm started hurting. Oh no, was his whole arm going to melt? He sobbed quietly. He didn't want that...

Nightmare felt his arm burning but he ignored it. He could see the skeleton's hand starting to melt. DT.... He had too much DT.

Nightmare rushed over to him and pulled out his Soul. If this was his Soulmate he was not going to let them die!

He gripped the Soul gently and used his negativity Soul to push Despair and Hopelessness into the Soul. Those counteracted Determination. They made humans lose Determination. Lose their will to live.

Dust gasped as he tried to fight the darkness threatening to consume his Soul with Determination but he didn't stand a chance.

His Soul slowly stabilised and his hand went back to its normal shape. His arm was burning with ferocity though.

Nightmare pulled away when the Soul stabilized- unknowingly taking away his insanity- before gripping his own arm in pain with a quiet hiss. That was not a very nice feeling. Not at all.

He looked at the other skeleton. "Are you okay?"

Dust looked up at the other with tears in his eye sockets. He had no idea what had happened but he couldn't hear the whispers of his definitely dead brother anymore.

He looked at his hand, noticing that it was normal again.

He looked up at the other.

"Thank you..." He said quietly. He rubbed his burning arm unconsciously.

"You're welcome." Nightmare said softly before wincing. He checked his arm and saw another sentence being burned away.

Well, that explained it then. This one was his Soulmate too. There seemed to be a pattern.

He looked back at the skeleton in concern. "What happened? You were melting from too much DT."

"I... I..." Dust mumbled quietly. He wasn't completely sure.

Nightmare smiled softly at the Sans and stood up, reaching a hand out. "We'll figure that out later. You must be hungry right? I have food at home."