UTEO Oneshots

A Mother's Love (Bad Guy Gang)

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥This took me like, 3 days to write because writer's block is awful. But I did it, and I'm super proud of how this came out! A huge thanks to LuckyPeanut9 for making the comment that originally inspired this. Another shout out goes to MayaTablet for a headcanon that fit really well with my characterization/background for Nightmare. I super hope you both enjoy this fic! WARNINGS: Depiction/description of a character having a panic/anxiety attack. If this makes you uncomfortable, you may want to skip this fic.♥ 

Published: October 8, 2020

Length: 741 words

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     It was late. Far too late for anyone to actually be awake. Well, anyone other than Nightmare, that is. 

Nightmare was in his office, doing paperwork as usual. Although it was dull, someone had to do it, and seeing as Nightmare was the ruler of his kingdom, the responsibility landed on him. He wasn't exactly sure how long he'd been sitting at his desk, but it had to have been a while, as he recalled that the sun had only just begun to set when he first started. What had drawn his attention from his work was not his stiff bones, but rather the nagging feeling that something was wrong. 

Nightmare knew this feeling all too well.

One of his babies needed him. 

Nightmare had just moved to get up when someone spoke.

"What are you doing, we need to get this paperwork finished." It was Terror.

"Terror, one of the kids are upset. Can you help me figure out who it is?"

"Mare, no. Whoever it is can deal with it on their own. They're all 'big boys'."

"Darling, please!"

"I said no, Mare. We need to get this paperwork finished."

Nightmare was silent, simply sitting back down and resting his head in his arms. After a few minutes, Terror sighed,

"FINE, I'll help you figure out who's so upset that we can't finish our work."

"Thank you, Darling!" Nightmare perked up immediately.

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     He knew rationally that he was fine. He was in Nightmare's castle, he wasn't alone with... them, though it certainly didn't feel that way. It was only a bad dream, but he could still hear the screaming, sense them slowly inching toward him, feel their hands on him, feel the errors taking over his vision, and oh stars he was about to-

"Error, you need to calm down." A calm voice cut through his growing panic. "Is it okay for me to touch you?" After a few moments without a response, the person spoke again. "Error, are you able to recognize my voice?"

Error shook his head, unsure as to why he was actually answering this mystery person, and hugged his knees tightly to his chest.

"It's Nightmare, honey, it's just me. So I'll ask you again, is it okay for me to touch you?"

"N1-16h-16htm4r3?"

"Yes, baby?"

Error shakily opened his arms, indicating he was not only okay with being touched, but probably needed the contact. Nightmare obliged, sitting on the edge of the bed next to Error and opening his own arms to allow Error to initiate whatever level of contact he needed, the other practically throwing himself into his arms.

"Alright Hun, we need to get you calmed down, okay? Can you take some deep breaths with me? Remember, it's in 4, hold 7, out 8; Can you do that with me- let's do that together." The two spent the next few minutes simply monitoring their breathing, until the error messages clouding his vision began to fade. "Okay Error, you're doing great. Now, can you name for me 5 things that you can see right now?"

"1-1-1 c4n 533 y0u- 533 y0u."

"Uh-huh."

"My pupp3t5."

"Go on."

"My-my537f 1n th3 m1rr0r."

"Yes."

"Th3 h0l3 th4t H0rr0r 73ft 1n th3 w477."

"Really should get around to patching that up..."

"4nd th3 670w-1n-th3-d4rk 5t4r5 0n th3 c3171n6."

They continued on through the rest of the exercise, and Error had calmed significantly by the time they were done.

"You did amazing sweetie, do you wanna talk about what happened that caused you to nearly crash?" Nightmare knew that sometimes talking about it could just start the process all over again, so he always gave them the option to just move past it.

"N0, 1 c4n t47k 4b0ut 1t. 1 uhhh, 1 h4d a b4d dr34m." 

No more had to be said on the subject, as Nightmare had figured that it was a nightmare. Error had them from time to time, and they were always close to the same.

"It's okay, Baby. It's perfectly natural to have nightmares-"

"B4d dr34m5." 

The intrusion caused Nightmare to chuckle. Everyone in the 'gang' insisted that the term "nightmare" was right out. They always called them "bad dreams", and it was honestly quite heartwarming.

"Right. It's perfectly natural to have bad dreams sometimes, everyone does."

"3v3n y0u?"

"Even me."

And that was the end of that, as Error began to doze off. Once Error was asleep, Nightmare tucked him in, gave him a small kiss on the forehead, and went off to finally finish his paperwork so Terror would stop stressing out.

"70v3 y0u m0m."

"Love you too, baby."

Extra Note: Here's the key to decipher what Error is saying if you can't figure it out! This key will be applicable to every story Error is in, but obviously I'll still have it here at the end every time!

1= I/i

2= Nothing

3= E/e

4= A/a

5= S/s

6= G/g

7= L/l

8= Nothing

9= Nothing

0= O/o