Wounds Heal, Scars Fade

Chapter 5: Ink Reveals

(Hints of suicidal tendencies and the cutting)

Error steps into Oceantale after his arms were heavily bandaged by the goddesses, the two citing if he kills himself, Ink won't keep having his fun and the balance will tip.

Error needed to get away from them. He needed a break, and Ink hasn't created another AU yet. In fact, an AU actually died on its own without Error's interference, so that will keep the Star Sanses busy for a while. Error walks out onto a pier, pulling out a small notebook and a pencil. Error spends about ten minutes trying to draw the sunset on the horizon, eventually giving up and just watching as the last light fades below the ocean, sighing softly.

"B34t!f#l..." (Beautiful...)

"Pity you don't deserve beauty!" With that, Error is pushed off the pier into the ocean, trying to get back above the surface, panicking as his chest begins to tighten. He needs to breathe. He needs to see the surface. He can't die. If he dies, this multiverse...

He needs to swim...

He can't...

His arms hurt too much...

He's losing consciousness-

"I've got you!" Comes a shout from what would be a recognizable voice, if Error weren't half-unconscious, and 90% drowned. Within seconds, someone has a grip around Error's chest under his arms, and is pulling him back up to the surface. When they break free, Error gasps, taking in a huge breath and coughing, hacking up water as the familiar voice that said 'I've got you!' begins to berate the people who pushed Error over. Once Error has finished coughing up water, he blearily looks around for the person who saved him, only to find Ink drenched from head-to-toe in water.

"Sorry I didn't get here instantly, Dream and Blue kept insisting you were the one who destroyed that AU, even though they watched me destroy the AU because of corrupted code." Error feels confusion bubble. When was Ink good? When did Ink have the capacity to destroy? Was it this entire time?

"OceanTale won't tell anyone what happened here. I want to keep that I'm your 'secret' friend a secret, ya know?" Error feels more questions arise, fighting to get through his throat.

"Why...4r3...y0# b3!ng n!c3 t0 th3 d3str0y3r?" (Why...are...you being nice to the destroyer?)

"Because I know you're a good person. A good person who likes to draw, a good person who has suffered to where he feels a razor being drawn across his bones is the only way to handle this suffering, a good person who is being tormented by goddesses..." Ink giggles nervously.

"Because I may or may not have placed a recording device on you at one point and was then able to watch whatever you saw as well as reality...heh..." Error slowly gets to his feet, wobbling when he is standing.

"Y0#'V3 B33N R3C0RD!NG M3? H-h0w m#ch d0 y0# kn0w?" (YOU'VE BEEN RECORDING ME? H-how much do you know?)

"Not much, but from what I've gathered, I'm partly to blame for your suffering. Error." Ink's voice changes from the neutral to a somber and serious tone, Error tensing, expecting Ink to attack, failing to notice that Ink's brush is nowhere to be seen this time.

"I feel I have to do this." Ink walks up to Error, the smaller of the two flinching away from the Creator.

"I apologize for the suffering my actions have caused you. I only recently discovered I had the ability to destroy timelines and AUs, so I started doing it to try and balance out the Goddesses and the Multiverse creating AUs." Error opens his eyes slowly from his flinch, looking to see Ink's face sad and apologetic and a hand outstretched.