After Pacifist { A Sanscest Story }

Chapter ten: Apologies

"Error... god... where are you?" Ink mumbled to himself and looked through the aus in the doodle sphere. After a while, he decided that Error isn't in a any aus and decided to go find him in the void, knowing that Geno is there and Error might go there to find him since they are in good terms for some reason. They sometimes chat together and stuff, don't know why tho.

Ink quickly opened a portal leading there and jumped into it. Only to see Reaper, from reapertale is there chatting with Geno. Geno immediately saw Ink, "Oh hey Ink, what brings you here?" He greeted. "Hey Geno! I'm finding Error, has he been here at some point?" Ink asked. "Well, no... what happened?" Geno replied as he tried to shove away Reaper, who's trying to make him talk to him. "Ummm... I, uh kinda pissed him off and he ran away while we are trying to find Dream," Ink said, "sooo... you and Reaper, huh?" "Wha- no!" Geno immediately shouted and hid his face in his red scarf. "Well~ I wouldn't mind about that~" Reaper said in a flirty tone, making Geno's cheekbone bursted out a red hue because of his blush. "Never think of that!! There is NO way I would be with you!" He squeaked, hiding his face more as Reaper hugged him. "Aww... you hurt me Geno..." Reaper said dramatically and put his arm up to his forehead.

"A-anyway... you're finding Error, right? Well... why don't you try to find him in the anti-void? That's practically his home anyway." Geno suggested. "Yeah! Thanks Geno! Would you like to come with me?"Ink asked. "Nah, I'm good. Moreover, Error doesn't like too many people at his place. You can come find me after that though, I can help find Dream," He answered. "Sure! Wait, you can leave here?" Ink asked, slightly confused. "Yeah... we kinda figured out that I could get out by eating something before I dust." Geno replied. "Cool! I'll go now! You two have fun~" Ink said, jumping into a portal, leaving a flustered Geno and a flirty Reaper.

"Error?? Error!! Where are you???" Ink shouted as he walked around the anti-void, which is an endless empty white void. After a bit of walking, he finally saw the destroyer lying in a hammock. "What do you want, squid?" Error questioned, clearly annoyed. "I just want to say sorry... I forgot you have haphephobia... and I'm sorry about the water too..." Ink apologised. "Wow, the squid apologised! What a rare sight!" Error said. "I'm sorry, ok? Just... accept it before I take it back please." Ink said, "and... you're usually not that pissed even if I dumped water on you... what happened?" He added. Error huffed, "It's none of your business..." then looked away. Ink didn't want to give up yet, "I know something is up! You are usually just annoyed, why are you angry all of a sudden?" He asked. The destroyer only looked away.

"Fine... you want to know?" Ink nodded. "Okay... so I kinda made some puppets and... I actually want to, well... I mean, we made a truce now... so... I thought maybe we try to be friends will make it work better? I just thought of it... and I think a gift can, well, resemble it? But yeah... you kinda make the gift soaking wet with that dump of water." He said, unsure about what he said himself. Ink didn't speak, only looked down. "Uhhh... are you okay?" Error asked after a while. Ink remained silent. "Uhh... earth to Ink?" "Oh uh... sorry..." The artist mumbled. "What happened?" Error asked again. "Umm... it's nothing..." Ink answered. "It's not nothing, I can tell, or you just don't want to be friends? I understand if you don't," Error said. "No! I want to! It-It's just that... I can't... I can't be friends with you... you fought me all this time so I guess you know what my vials are for, right?..." Ink shouted and ask, suddenly losing his voice. "Yeah. Those are your emotions, right?" Error replied. "Yeah... so I can't feel anything and I can't care about anything or anyone without them... my emotions are fake... and I can't care about anyone but... caring about each other from the bottom of our heart is what friends should do... so I can't..." Ink said as the sadness in him grew, what the most ironic thing is that the sadness doesn't belong to him either.

Error thought for a bit. "But ain't Blue and Dream your friends?" He asked. Ink shook his head, "They are, but they aren't... like... I do care about them when I take the vials but if I don't... I don't but they don't know about this yet... so they think that we are truly friends and I don't want to break their heart... I don't know what to do... I mean... they are really good friends..." he said.

Error remained silent as the other finished. After a while, Error lowered some of his strings and pulled two slightly wet puppets off them, handing them to Ink. Ink took them, avoiding any touch. He looked at them, fascinated, "That's you and me?! How did you make them!? They are so good! And they're cute too!" He exclaimed. "I kinda just made them with my strings, nothing much..." Error said, "they are the gift I said I want to give you but yeah, you see, they are soaking wet." He added. "Thanks Error..." Ink said. "Hey... I know you can't really have a friendship and stuff... but yeah, can we uh... at least be friends when you have emotions? Like, if you know what I mean," Error asked. "I would love that... you know, it's kinda funny that you asked since you're the one who denied my friendship request before," Ink replied and laughed. "I know, but I just think it's better this way as we made a truce." Error said. The other agreed and giggled. Ink then felt a hand warped around his shoulder, he immediately turned over, only to see nothing but Error's strings forming an arm and warped around his shoulders.

"H-how..." Ink stuttered. "I know you're upset about the whole concept of the friendship thing... so just want to say... don't worry, everything will be fine, I know it will be. I can't touch you and you know why, I guess, if you didn't forget so I'd figured to do this since my strings are okay with it." Error said, continued to hug Ink with his strings. "Thank you Error... this is nice... I needed that" Ink thanked, in knowing that he really needed the hug and leaned into it. "Yeah, yeah... don't mention it," The destroyer said, looking at the artist. 

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Sorry for making you guys wait again, this chapter is short and bad, I'm really sorry. I'm not really good at writing stories, heh... 

So anyways, have some Afterdeath and Errink!! >:3 I'm not good at writing them but they are really interesting to write, especially Ink and Error, they will need some time to trust each other and develop feelings. Ink is really hard to write in these kind of shipping stories because of the soulless thing but I will try to make it as good as possible. I know this isn't really Errorink but it's sailing, okay? It's going to take some time. 

Stay determined guys!! =)