Broken Grace

Broken Grace epilogue

-UnderSwap Stable verse Surface-

Error hummed softly as he helped Dust into the custom wedding dress he made for him.  "tElL mE aGAiN why a DResS?"

Dust blushed as the whisper soft folds of silver silk settled around him and fidgeted with the smoke gray beaded cuffs.  "I was teasing Cobalt that he would make a beautiful bride and Cross heard him say I would look better in a dress than he would because I had the legs for it so Cross suggested we bet on, something and the winner gets the tuxedo."

Error chuckled and adjusted the way the neckline draped.  "He was rIght, you loOk almost as gooD in a weddiNg dress aS Night did wHen we haD our rededicaTion."

"It is amazing how much your voice cleared up when the damage to your throat finally healed." Dust smoothed out his skirt only to have his hands batted away as Error fluffed it back out.  "How did dad end up in a dress anyway?"

"I offered to weaR one if we could eloPe again.  He said tO design him a dRess becAuse this tiMe he wAS having a family wedding."  Error chuckled arranging a flower crown on Dust's skull. Error held up a mirror for him.

"Oh my Fox! Error, how do you do it? I have never looked this good." Dust twists and blushes over the scooped back that showed his spine to mid back and shoulder blades.  "Why! Just why does it show so much bone? That magnificent lace dress you made for Nightmare covered everything but his head and hands and he had matching gloves, and a vail!"

Killer snorted, "Cobalt helped pick the design of yours."

Error left Killer and Horror to tease Dust and went to check on Cobalt.  Finding Cross and Scream trying to convince him that putting a ribbon on his Gaster blaster hammer did not make it wedding appropriate. "Cobalt whY do you want it?"

"What if somEone objects?" Cobalt clutched his hammer.

"ThAt is what groomsmen aRe for. Don't you tRust them to kIck ass, for you?"  Error picked Cobalt up and stood him on the dressing table gently taking the war hammer away and straightening his black tuxedo with the cobalt blue cumberbund, with a boutonniere of Bellflowers the color of Dust's blushes. "You look wOnderful."

Cobalt took a deep breath. "I'm scared, hE is so wonderful. I am scaRed someone will try to taKe him away."

Error hugged Cobalt lightly patting his back.  "I know wHat you mean.  nIgHT is that for me. But Cobalt as much as yOu will fight for him, hE will fight for you."

Cobalt sighed, relaxing, "Okay I neeD to get out there so you cAn walk him down the aisle."

Error chuckled letting him go.  "Just try nOt to drOol when I dO. He is flustered eNough over the dRess."

Cobalt looks up at him and shakes his skull. "Don't ask the imPossible."

Error chuckled as he left the room collecting the bouquet on the way back to Dust. Only to find a worried Horror in the hallway outside the dressing room. "What is the matteR?"

"I have no idea he just started crying and we don't know what to do." Horror looks up at him helpless.

"I will talk to hiM, you get Tick.  I swear hE taKes afTer Night."  He walked into the room leaving Horror to find the kids and wonder how any of them take after godparents.

Dust was pacing back and forth with a box of tissues trying not to ruin his dress while crying his eyelights out.

Error took a close look and waved Killer out. "When Horror gets bAck tell him it is time to taKe your places."  As soon as Killer was out the door. Error caught Dust's hands and took the tissues blotting his tears away.  "Talk to me?"

"I told Ash I wished he could walk me down the aisle and he said he is going away!" Quiet sobs filled the air.

"Great timing ASh." Error sighed and hugged Dust he had kind of been expecting this after the wedding.  "Dust it is okay Ash isn't leaVing you he is SOUL bound through yOur family bond remember.  He is juSt going to reSt like CC doeS sometImes."

Dust sniffles hugging him tight.  "Really, I know he stayed because I needed him."

"Dust just beCause he thinks you aRe safe and in gooD hands doesn't mean he wiLl leave just tHat it is a good time tO rest."  Error blots away the last of Dust's tears and helps fix his dress.

Tick peeks in then hurries to Dust's side. "What is the matter, Dust?"

"I am just over emotional. I wasn't thinking and upset myself." Dust wiped his sockets, smiling for his little brother.

Tick nods watch chain rattling, "Duncle Cobalt looks really handsome."

Error smiles letting the kid work his magic as Dust brightened. Error passed Dust his bouquet of Forget-Me-Nots the same bright blue as Cobalt's eyelights.  Just as the first notes of the Bridal March started to play.  "Tick waLk your brother doWn the aisle for Ash."

Tick looked up at him with wide sockets then nodded offering Dust his arm.

Error followed them as they made their way into the cathedral then slipped off to the side and took the stairs up to the organ loft where Nightmare was playing the march. As the march ended and Tick ran to set with Slaughter, Null and Void.  Error thought of the ups and downs of the last two years.  Nightmare's tears when they had finally talked about Rêver and he had shown him the box and the doll with his wedding ring on it's tiny wrist as a bracelet so he couldn't lose it if his finger fell off.  The rededication he had asked Nightmare for because he wanted him to know that it was about him, no about them together and not the child they lost so long ago.

He looked at Nightmare meeting his eyelight when Dust and Cobalt said their vows feeling his own warm his battered old SOUL. Things had not all been sunshine and roses of course, their had been a lot of work and pain while they recovered from their injuries, and they had struggle to come up with a way to get started once FarmTale had successfully reset until Blueberry had announced that UnderSwap had just hit the surface again and Napstablook needed an act to close one of his shows. He had practically begged them to help him out. Little did they know that the wiley Swap Sans had set them up to become an overnight sensation. The revenue from the following tour had been more than enough to buy an estate. The tour in FarmTale had established them as stars and funded the new castle.  He had almost laughed realizing it looked like Nightmare's old one.  Only brighter and happier.

QuantumScareTale!Gaster had been surprisingly easy to deal with, he was happy to make them Tick and Slaughter's godparents on the condition they kept them out of their AU between runs. Tick was growing up tall and strong with high HP.  Slaughter had adapted well to fresh air and room to run easily taller than his brother and kind to everyone. Error glanced down at the kids to find Tick glaring at TK again while Null happily chatted with Citron and Void napped in Fallon's lap.

Nightmare followed his glance and smiled.  "Life won't always be this easy someday it will be them saying I do."

"Fox I hope sO.  I want them tO have what we Do."  Error smiled at Nightmare, no it wouldn't always be easy but it would always be worth it.

_____________________________________________

Authors Note

A special thank you first to all my readers.  You have made this journey amazing for me. I actually thought I was going to have to talk my friends into reading just to have any views.

Also thank you @harrish6 I never could have done this without their permission and inspiration.

And a special thanks to David Erick Ramos for letting me use his name in the story.  He really is an amazing musician.  https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidErickRamos