Nightmare (bad sanses) x you the reader (part 1???)
[So for context or something? You and Nightmare started to talk more and more, after he met you at Ccinos cafe (a bit cliché Ik but its a good one). Unfortunately the apartment you were living at had burned down by some careless person. So you started to stress as you had to move back with Ink and Dream (who got into fights often and it was starting to mess with you as it was a common occurrence where anywhere you went people would always argue with each other, like your mom and her boyfriend, your aunt and grandmother, when you went to visit them, your friend and their partner. It felt like you were bad luck). Anywho Dream and Ink took you back in with open arms]
I was sitting on my bed criss-cross with my hands in my lap listening as Ink and Dream fought over something so small. It sucked being back here but I had no where else to go but here. I sighed, I've only been back for a week now and they started arguing after two days or so of me being back. It was draining and it just felt like I was back home with my family and my mom's bf.
I couldn't take this anymore and texted Cross asking if I could go over and spend the night with him. Cross gave me the green light and I grabbed my phone and hoodie. I opened a portal and snuck out to Nightmare's mansion where Crossed lived. I walked up to the door and knocked. Killer had opened the door and let me in.
"Well, hello, dear friend, what brings you here this late?" Killer asked, Dust and Horror turned to greet me and I just waved at them before looking back at Killer.
"I'ma spend the night here with Cross-" I spoke only to be cut off by a deep "echoey"? voice. Nightmare. I turned to look at him. He was just standing there, his single eyelight locked onto me.
"No, you're not gonna spend the night with Cross, you're gonna spend the night in my room" Nightmare stated with a slight possessive tone.
I looked confused and a bit shocked for a moment before speaking up again. "What happened to 'Hi', 'Hello', 'How are you'?' I asked in a teasing manner, trying to brush off that hint of possessiveness in his tone. Nightmare just rolled his eyes.
"I was gonna ask you that when we got to my room, I can sense your 'mood' and I found it strange that you asked Cross to stay the night" Nightmare spoke as he made his way to stand in front of me, he lifted my chin when he was close enough to me. "You know you could have just texted me instead, right?"
I slightly tensed up, he didnt know I was living with Ink and Dream only Cross did. I then softly sighed rubbing the back of my neck. "I thought you were busy and didn't wanna bug you" I stated looking up at him.
"I'm never busy for you though" he stated as he softly moved to cup my chin and caress my jaw with his thumb. "Next time just ask me"
I blushed and nodded, sparing a glance at the guys who had smirks on all their faces. That made me flustered as I pulled away, softly moving his hand away from my face with a small frown in embarrassment. "Yeah, yeah, okay I'll text you next time" I muttered while looking away from him.
Nightmare smiled at the way I got flustered before jerking his head in the direction of his room. "Alright come on, we'll talk in my room" he stated before turning around and making his way to his room expecting me to follow.
I sighed quietly before following behind him trying to ignore the giggling and teasing from the guys. I flipped them the finger as I walked past them they knew I didnt mean it and that I was just flustered which made them laugh more.
Cross came out of his room just in time to spot me with Nightmare. "Ah, you're here come on in I have your favorite movie up and ready" he spoke while gesturing for me to go into his room.
I looked at Nightmare "I'ma chill with Cross for a bit if thats okay, I'll meet you back at your room when Im ready for bed I guess?" I spoke shrugging at the end. Nightmare gave a slight huff before sparing a small glare at Cross, then looking back at me and giving me a small smile and nod.
"Alright I'll be waiting for you in my bed~" He purred into my ear when he got close enough while passing by, one of his tendrils brushing against my back as he did so. I shivered and blushed, turning my head away from him. Damn it why did he always have to be such a fucking tease.
"Okay sure" I managed to say before pushing Cross into his room and closing the door behind me all flustered. I sighed once the door was closed and glanced at Cross, who had a slight smirk on his face. I grumbled and lightly smacked him on the arm. Which just made him chuckle as he pulled me into a hug, patting my back. I reciprocated and hugged him back.
"So its the same thing all over again?" He asked while still holding me close to him. I took a moment to breathe before answering him.
"They just... they never stop arguing, it just goes on and on every once and awhile. I tried to help them out and step between them. But they just speak over me and dont even listen. And I'm tired of it, its literally draining" I whispered to him sinking into the hug more.
"I dont even know why they still live together, or why Dream keeps arguing with Ink knowing damn well how Ink is. Its pointless, I've tried telling him that and not to waste his time and breath on Ink, but of course he just tells me to stay out it and not to worry" I grumbled pulling away from the hug to walk over to Cross's bed and flop onto it sighing with frustration.
Cross following my movements, frowned, while also looking at me with sympathy. He walked over and sat down next to me.
"Its okay, man, just try to focus on your goals so you can get out of there quickly and not deal with them. For right now, lets watch your favorite movie to take your mind off of things" he patted my stomach before reaching over to grab his laptop, where he had the movie ready. I just looked at him and smiled softly, having him as one of my best friends was amazing I really appreciate him.
After the movie was over, we chatted for a bit more, before I got up off his bed wishing him a good night and letting him rest. I quietly closed the door to his room and made my way to Nightmare's room. Once I got to his door, I lifted my hand up to knock on the door only to stop when I heard Nightmare speak up.
"Come in~" He purred, which made my cheeks heat up again. I shook it off and opened the door walking into his room. I closed the door behind me and turned to look at him. He was in his bed with a book in his hands and his reading glasses on. He really was an old man I thought to myself with a small chuckle.
"Were you really just waiting for me?" I asked with a small amused scoff.
"And so what if I was? Is that a problem?" He asked more rhetorically as he closed his book and placed it down onto the nightstand along with his glasses as he took them off.
"So are we sharing a bed again?" I asked as I walked over to him. We have shared a bed before. Nightmare and I were drinking, it was my idea as I wanted to try it out for the first time. I got a tipsy and Nightmare, well he has a strong tolerance for alcohol so he didn't even get drunk or tipsy. It was only me who got tipsy and after a bit I got sleepy and walked over to Nightmare tapping his arm with the back of my hand to get his attention. When he turned to look down at me, I told him that I wanted to come home and sleep.
He smirked for whatever reason as he took me by the hand, and started to lead me out to his car, saying that I was gonna spend the night at his place. I was confused but didn't brother to question him and only said with my tipsy ass "oh yeah! we're gonna have a slumber party!". He laughed and called me a dumb ass as he opened the door to his car and carefully shoved me into the passenger seat.
If I didnt know better or trust Nightmare, I would have thought he was kidnapping me. But he did nothing other than check up on me while I was staring outside the window. When we got to his place he told me that I could use his bed and left to go do some paperwork. I shrugged and got to his room, it felt weird so it took a good minute to fall asleep, and by that I mean it took me about an hour as it felt like I was out of place on his huge ass bed, but when I did the alcohol had already worn off. Right when that happened I slowly fell asleep only to be woken up a minute later by the bed sinking a bit.
It was Nightmare and I didnt wanna make things awkward so I just pretended to still be asleep. I could tell he was reading a book by the sound of his hand turning the pages and him quietly grumbling about one of the characters being stupid. At some point he looked over at me and patted my head.
It made me flinch which in turned him immediately pull away afraid of waking me up. But when he figured I was still asleep which I wasn't, he placed his hand back on my head and began to give me soft head scratches. Surprisingly that had helped me fall asleep and it was a peaceful sleep too. Best sleep ever if I do say so myself.
I was snapped back to the present when Nightmare flicked my head with one of his tendrils.
"Hello? Are you there? Come back to reality idiot" he grumbled with a slight frown on his face. I grabbed his tendril and gave him a small nervous smile.
"I'm back, sorry, I have a lot on my mind right now" I muttered, rubbing the back of my neck as I looked at him, and giving his tendril a light squeeze.
Nightmare seemed to twitch at the touch and light squeeze I gave him. I then pulled my hand away when I realized it. "Oop sorry" I softly apologized. He rolled his single eyelight in response before wrapping one of his tendrils around my waist and lifting me off the ground.
"Stop apologizing for everything idiot, now get comfy and tell me what happened" He spoke as he lifted me over to his bed before dropping me. A shocked gasp left my mouth as I fell onto the bed, I didnt like the feeling of falling thats why I was always scared of getting onto roller-coasters at carnivals. I propped myself up on my elbows and gave him a slight glare before sighing. I guess I'll tell him because I know he won't let it go. I sat up properly this time looking at my feet as I shook them nervously.
"Nothing much just didnt wanna hear my...friends arguing for the 7th time this week" I muttered "it makes me feel like shit whenever because I feel like I'm the cause of it-"
"Do they bring you up when they argue?" Nightmare asked cutting me off while looking at me intently. I shook my head no and looked off to the side with a tilt of my head, resting my cheek onto my shoulder.
"Then why do you feel like you're the cause if it when you have nothing to do with it?" He asked. Damn I don't wanna trauma dump on him or be vulnerable with him, it'll make me feel and look weak and I don't like that, but I can't think of an excuse. Guess I have to be honest and hope I don't make an emotional fool out of myself. I took a breath before speaking up again.
"I feel like I'm bad luck, because there's always people fighting each other whenever I'm around" I muttered almost too quietly, trying to keep myself from remembering that moment. My grandma and Aunt got into an argument, meanwhile my little brother and I were sitting at the kitchen table building a Lego set he got. He looked over at me and spoke.
"Grandma and Auntie never fought like this until you came along. You're probably bad luck." He said so bluntly. That actually hurt me the fact that my little brother had said that to me and so bluntly too. I then snapped out it when I heard Nightmare speak again.
"That's stupid, don't think like that, shit happens, not everything is gonna be sunshine and rainbows. You should know that by now" he muttered as glanced down at me and at my arms. To which I immediately covered them up. "Plus, that should be a sign for them to stop talking to each other if they're always arguing. If shit like that happens again just come to me I'll tell them to shut up or else I'll kill them"
'"Please don't do that and theres no need for that I'ma find another place soon." I spoke before leaning over to him, resting my head onto his arm. It was weird for me to see and hear him to try to comfort me because he is a being of Negativity after all. But I appreciated it nonetheless...it was nice. I didnt even noticed how Nightmare flinched when I leaned against his arm.
After a minute of silence he scoffed and pushed me off with his hand. "Alright that's enough go to bed dumb ass." He grumbled when he pushed me and looked off into the opposite direction.
Was he flustered? I asked myself in the head with a surprised look on my face. I then smirked as I had an idea pop in my head. Some nice sweet teasing revenge was coming up. And with that I wrapped my arms around his neck, my smirk getting bigger when I felt him stiffen up before pulling him down with me onto the bed.
"HEY! LET GO DUMBASS!" He growled as he tried to break free but I just tighten my hold on him. I started to laugh as I looked at him struggling and squirming in my grasp.
"Aw come its just a hug Nighty-poo" I teased calling him a cringy nickname just to get under his bones. He was about to break free but I wasn't letting that happen and wrapped my legs around his torso. "Oh no I don't think so! We're gonna have a nice hug"
Thats when Nightmare gave up because he knew he'd have to use force to get me off and knew that if he did, that he would hurt me, and that was a no go. So he just grumbled and let himself relax slightly into the hug.
"This feels weird and I don't like it." He grumbled into my chest before shifting us to lay on our sides. I just patted his skull with of my hands.
"Well, you're just gonna have to get use to it big guy" I teased before pressing the side of my face onto the top of his head holding him closer. While my hand kept patting the back of his skull, this felt nice, to hold him just like this. I soon fell asleep holding him close like this.
[I hope yall enjoy this as this is my first time writing a fanfic]