It had been a few days since the fight and he is ill. His brother is such a pain in the ass. He knows it has to do with that enhanced arrow. He has to hold form for their safety. He'll deal with this problem after he fixes the gang.

Today dust was acting up. Something has to be wrong. It's stressing nightmare out. He has to make sure the other ones don't hurt themselves and figure out what's wrong with dust.

He cannot snap at them

Searching over dust points out a few things. Shit. Is he sick? He cradles dust close to him. How does he fix a sick baby? Doctors usually do that right? But their doctor was killer... and killer is now a 4 year old. Killer probably isn't that reliable of a doctor anyways.

He manages to distract the other kids with a movie while trying to find a solution. Who else could they ask for help?

Killer, dust, and horror have no friends or family that are not mentally insane or dead. Cross has chara but they'll be of no help. They'll probably try to manipulate them. Who does error know? Outer. The space geek. Shit. Would he help him though.

"Error hun, come here" he calls out. Error looks at him and gets up walking over. "YeaH?" Error asks. "I need you to come with me outside of this AU ok? There's someone who knows you who might help us if your there."

"...really? SOmeoNe kNowS me pErSonallY?"

"Yeah. But the problem is dust is sick and we have no one to help him. If we can talk to this person we might be able to help him."

Error nods, "oK I'll go telL croSs he's in chaRGe" he runs back to the group

Nightmare sighs. He hopes that horror and killer won't be too much work for cross. They'll have to be quick.

Quickly he teleports him, error, and dust to outertale.

The usual spot. He was sure of it. Error liked to watch the sky here. From what he knows. He sits down with error and dust. Error looks at him, "so they are soMewhEre here?"

"Yeah. This is where they supposedly met you."

"Hey-" there's a pause as they turn towards the voice, "n-nightmare... what are you doing here? And-"

"Ok shut it." Nightmare grabs him with a tentacle, "we need your help and we need you to be quiet about it..." outer growls, "why would I help you...?" He scans over them seeing error, "error... why...?"

Error is gripping onto nightmares hip completely unsure of the situation. He had never seen this person before. How could they know him?

Nightmare sighs, "something happened to my gang... I don't know what. But none of us have any family we can turn to. We need medical help because dust is a literal infant and we don't know how to cure him of any illness."

"..." outer squints, "how could I believe you? You have torn apart aus more times than I can count... you are known to be merciless. Why shouldn't I just let you all die?" Nightmare growls tightening his grip on him, "you-"

"WaIt. Mama... lEt me tRy"

"Mama?" Outer stares in disbelief. Error slowly approaches him without getting too close. Nightmare sighs and brings outer down to his height. Error looks at him in thought, "I DoN't KnoW hoW I kNow you... bUt my fAmily neEds help. I kNow tHat peoplE arE scaRed of us. becauSe we aRe scarY loOking... And nOt nOrmal... I know Because OF the VOicEs. But I PRomise we aRe jusT mOnsters juSt lIke yOu. yOu woUld want tO heLp your familY if they were Sick tOo, right?"

"..." outer looks down in thought. If error was pretending it was pretty damn convincing. But no ones attacked yet. He sighs, "fine I'll help. Ill look at him and see if I can get medicine from Sci..."

Nightmare sighs in relief and puts him down, "I'm sorry I threatened... I'm just... really afraid for them right now."

afraid? King of nightmares cared about them? He thought they were disposable... that's why he told error he shouldn't join them.

He really did care.

Outer nods, "it's ok... I just... we were told you couldn't feel anything... why do you care about them?"

Nightmare shudders at that, "... I just do..." he couldn't admit to anyone he still felt emotions much less positive ones. He needs sleep...

"Ok let me see him..."

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It wasn't something bad he just had a mild cold. Outer was sure he could get medicine to make him feel better easy. The problem was doing it discretely. It would be infant medication. There's no infants in his family or friend group. He's sure he can do it though. He waves off nightmare and leaves to get it. Nightmare sighs in distress and pulls error close to him, "you did good..."

Error smiles softly and looks away in embarrassment, "I'm worried aboUt yOu..." nightmare sighs, "don't worry about me, ok? Just focus on yourself. I want you to all be happy and healthy..."

"I knoW..."