Faking the Fall (errorink)

19; For the Record

"Nightmare let me go!" Eraser struggled as Nightmare finished tying his wrists together. 
“No. I can make him forgive me if I do this. I can make Reboot stop hating me.” 
“How does kidnapping me help?”
“It just does.”
“No it doesn’t!” Eraser struggled against the bonds but when he felt a skeletal hand hit his cheekbone, he stopped. Eraser sat silent.
“Get someone to watch the boys at least?” He asked quietly and nightmare just rolled his eyes.
“Already on that,” He scoffed.
“For the record, I hate you,” Eraser growled.
“You always have and I’m pretty sure you always will,” Nightmare stood and walked to the front door, “oh, and don’t make noise. Let’s not forget that in this Multiverse, I am a bad guy with a group full of other bad guys that I command.”
“How could I ever forget? It was part of your punishment after all,” Eraser couldn’t help but grin at his very own words as he knew they bothered nightmare.

“And watch the world crumble yet again,” Shine had shown up in Inks house that morning and for the first time, Ink was suspicious.
“Shut it.” Re!Error snapped at his friend as Shine leaned against the wall of blue strings Error had set up.
“Nah, this is more fun.” Shine laughed and for a moment his left eye, the one that went blind long before Re!Error ever met him, had a light shining in it.
“You an idiot Shine. I also still think the name you gave yourself is dumb.” Re!Error blinked as the world in front of him finally crumbled.
“Nah, your just a hypocrite.” Shine poked Re!Error’s cheekbone.
“How in the world am I a hypocrite?” Re!Error was genuinely confused.
“Because you allowed your Dream to call you Re!Error yet you won’t let anyone say it,” Shine took a quick step away. A second later Re!Error had reached to slap him. Shine evaded the hit and let out a bitter laugh.
“It’s not like I said your precious Racey was a monster. You haven’t tried to slap me since I did that,” Shine poked Re!Errors nose.
“Just shut up. I’m done here. Shouldn’t you go make more Au’s in your multiverse?” Re!Error crossed his arms. Shine shrugged.
“I’ll go check on Eraser later today. I’ll make sure to tell him about we talked about.” Shine snapped his fingers as a multiverse portal opened.
“See you asshole.” Re!Error waved.
“See ya dummy.” Shine fell backwards into the portal with a wave.

“Pj?” Gradient entered his room upon hearing his brother sobbing. 
“Want daddy!” Paperjam was curled up in the lower bunk of their shared bunk beds. 
“Didn’t daddy come wake you up?” Gradient realized with a sense of doom that their father hadn’t woken his brother up, his question was dumb and redundant.
“No! Want daddy!” Pj screamed again. Gradient felt panic rise in his throat.
“I’m gonna find him. Stay here.” Gradient ran out of the room and through the halls of their home but quickly realized their father wasn’t here. 
“I gotta call one of the-“ he noticed his father’s phone on the floor. He quickly picked it up, grateful Eraser never locked it. He pulled up a group chat and hit call.

“In- Eraser what’s up?” Gradient nearly sobbed hearing his uncle Dreams voice as he picked up, a second later echoed by his uncle Blue.
“Daddy went missing. His phone was on the ground near the door but he’s not here and I’m scared.” Gradient, for once, was very true to his age as he broke down over the phone. He didn’t act older than his age, like he usually did. He acted like a scared six year old. Acting his age wasn’t a normal occurrence which sent red flags through his ‘uncles’ senses.
“Blue, you go to their house, I’m gonna go see if Nightmare has seen him.” Dream knew something.
“Dream?”
“It makes sense to why Nightmare just asked if I could watch the boys. I have an idea what’s going on and I don’t like it one bit. Bring Dust with you and lock the doors. If I’m right the multiverse is in serious danger.” Dream growled and Blue sighed before agreeing.

When Blue and Dusk walked in they where nearly tackled viciously by Gradient who clung to them sobbing loudly. His dark bones seemed to grow grey as he paled and his soul was hammering so fast it hurt. He had been having a panic attack.
“Shh… your not alone anymore…” Blue instantly held to sobbing child in his arms. Dusk shot him a look and Blue sighed.
‘Separation anxiety because of Reboot.’ Blue mouthed at they nodded. Getting the memories of Reboot and Eraser had been a doozy after Eraser announced he had his own memories back. After it all, the only major differences was Blue’s clingy nature towards Dust.
“Hey… your dads safe. I promise. Hey dust? Go get PJ okay? I’ll calm Gradient and lock the door.” Blue spoke as he tried to keep his voice calm. Gradient tightened his grip and looked up at his third uncle.
“I’ll be right back okay Gradi?” Dust smiled at his quivering nephew and, when the boy nodded, he bolted for the staircase. He entered the boy’s room just to see pj curled up, asleep, on the bottom bunk. His cheekbones had pinkish tear marks and he had obviously cried himself to sleep.
With a quiet sigh Dust lifted the child into his arms. Almost instantly Paperjam wrapped his arms around dust and began crying. When dust checked he noticed that Pj was actually crying in his sleep.
“Don’t worry pj. I’m here.” Dust ran his fingers over to boy’s skull in a calming matter and smiled as Pj relaxed in his arms. He turned and went back towards the stairs.
“Dust?” Blue looked up to see his husband reaching the bottom few steps.
“He fell asleep. Poor kid. So what does Dream think happened?” Dust asked as he also noticed Gradient basically falling asleep in Blue’s arms.
“Nightmare happened. He believed Nightmare took Eraser for some sick attempt at apologizing to Reboot.” Blue sighed rubbing his forehead.
“This is all too much for you my dear, isn’t it?” Dust sat down next to blue and quickly the smaller curled up next to him.
“I’m just worried about them. They are just children. No one deserves this much stress. Eraser has been biting his lip and hiding his pain for two years to protect them from all this and then nightmare just openly puts it on them without a second thought towards how little a child might be able to handle this.” Blue snarled looking at his nephews.
“Well we are here for them now. They don’t have to put up with it much longer either way,” Dust sighed. “Did you lock the door?”
“Yea. Pretty sure I know what’s going on.” Blue looked up at his husband who was glaring at the door.
“What is it dust?” Blue asked.
“Hide.”
“What?”
“Take the boys and hide blue.”
“But dust-“
“HIDE!” Dust snapped and Blue ran out of the room, balancing both children in his arms. As soon as he left dust summoned a good amount of bones as he met Killer’s gaze.
“I don’t care if the balance is shattering, you still aren’t getting the boys.” He snapped as bad sans from multiple multiverses stood outside the house.

It was a battle for their multiverse and was sure as hell that they wouldn’t lose.