Ink's Pov

It's been peaceful for the last little while. Nothing disturbing us but the sounds of the forest. Some point during are quite sitting time we began leaning into each other and we said nothing about it so this is happening now.

I was actually kind of enjoying my alone time with Error and not having the feeling of panic twenty-four seven. That was until I see something out of the corner of my eye floating down the stream towards us that should umm not be floating down a stream. I turn my head to see Blue starfish floating on top of the water looking lifeless. Error copied my actions and we watch Blue float towards us. The water pushes him calmly and it makes him turn slowly because of it. He lightly bumps up against our legs and then we continue to watch him float away.

"...Should we do something?" Error says in a flat tone, not taking his eyes off Blue.

"Uh noooooooo- wait, actually, let's just see if he's alive at least." I get up and head towards a long branch I saw and picked it up. I began lightly jogging to catch up to Blue and notice Error still sitting in the same place having no intentions of helping. I don't blame him. Blue has been really annoying resonantly. Well, more than usual. I don't know what the hells been going on with him. But since I'm the 'good guy' or whatever, I have to do something.

I get to the side of the river and lift the stick, whacking Blue with it. An 'oof' type noise escapes his mouth and he begins flipping out like a fish out of water.

I turn to Error to see if he's still watching "He's alive!" He replies with a simple thumbs up.

"Ink?" Blue begins to frantically look around for me.

"Yeah, it's me" He turns to me and immediately brightens up. I throw the stick into the water not having a purpose for it anymore and Blue goes to fetch it like a dog. At least that will keep him busy.

As Blue swims out (with the stick in his mouth) I walk back over to Error. I overhear Blue trying to catch up to me with the squishy noises of his clothes. Error looks up and smiles at me as I give him my hand to help him up.

"Oh...." I hear Blue stop and I turn back to see him looking Error up and down. That radiating happiness fading by the second.

"So what happened exactly?" I turned to him confused motioning towards his soaking wet clothes. A confused/shocked look immediately shot to his face.

"I FELL IN THE RIVER!!!" He shirked in panic "Didn't you guys hear me!?!" Oh, so that's what that was... I slowly looked over to Error hoping he had an answer.

"....no" I stretched out the word longer then I should of but it looks like Blue believed me anyway. He sighs and starts ringing out his scarf, a flood of water coming out of it. Error snorts and laughs a little staring down at the floor. Blue shoots his head up, glaring at Error. At least I think that's what he's trying to do.

"What's so funny?" Blue mumbles to Error.

"Nothing, nothing" Error laughs a little more "sorry, it's just funny to imagine you falling into the river" he snickers some more and I try to hold back a growing smile.

"It's not funny" Blue whines like a child "I'm lucky I didn't die!" Blue begins pouting.

Error rolls his eyes "yeah so lucky" Error mumbles. Blue glares daggers at him or at least try's to. I copy Errors actions and snort at Blue.

I lazily point my finger at his face "that's cute" I say sarcastically an amused smile growing on my face.

Blue looks at me shocked and slightly heartbroken "T-that was rude!" His face drops as he looks at me "I'd expect that from him but not you!" He looks down at the ground, thoughts filling his brain. "This is his fault!" He shoots his head up pointing his finger at Error. I look over at Error confused and he does the same, he shrugs at me and turns his attention back to Blue. "Ever since you started hanging out with him you've become more distant, colder, less nice-"

"Well, I've never really been nic-"

"Lying more!-"

"I've been lying my whole lif-"

"Really mean, and you've become a bad guy!" Blue doesn't let me finish my sentences and blurts out things that aren't true..... At least I think their not true.

"Wait, hold on." Error steps forwards getting defensive "last time I checked I haven't destroyed an AU in like two months and who here has been playing a game of Romeo and Juliet, keeping us apart, with my bad 'friends'" Error gets closer to Blue standing his ground.

"That's different! I'm not doing gross naughty stuff with them like you guys! And mines just a one-time thing to help Ink!" He crosses' his arms trying to stand his own ground too. "Y-you... Bottom!" Blue does his best to think of a good enough insult quickly, failing miserably.

Error gives him a confused look "look who's talking! You're literally a walking Bottom! And Ink is 100% more of a bottom than me" he says smugly and I just laugh.

"Yeah sure, whatever helps you sleep at night" I laugh at Error.

"Ugh, whatever! I don't want to hear this!" Blue interrupts Error from defending himself. "Ink why would you choose Error to go out without of any other person! Dream has had the hots for you for like 3 years! He would be a much better match then somebody you've always hated!"

"Dream? That pothead? Why would he like Ink?" Error says mostly to himself.

"Wait, hold up!" I look over to Blue ignoring Error "How long have you kept this a secret? I've slept in the same bed with that guy!" I shudder, think of all the things he could have done when I was asleep.

"I should be asking you that, how many secrets have you kept from me? You kept Error a secret, what's next?" He turned away from Error and towards me.

"I've only ever had one secret and it was this!" I wave around me referring to the scenario we're in "And maybe if it stayed a secret you wouldn't be going batshit crazy!" I spit back at him.

"I'm going crazy?! You're dating the dude you've hated your whole life! You've probably had more fights then conversations with him!" I can tell Blues getting really frustrated now and so am I. He's just whining like a baby about the past and he needs to learn to move on.

"Holy shit Blue just shut up! I really like Error and so what! He's nice, funny and knows what moving on is! Maybe he could teach you a thing or two? The past is the past and I plan on focusing on the future and I want Error to be part of that future no matter what you say! But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you? You've had the same friends your whole life! Everything is always the same for you no matter what. Tell me... Tell me what's making you sit in this sad pit of the past! Never leaving not even for a second! Maybe if you left you'd actually understand wh-"

"Change!" Blue shouts cutting me off from my tangent. All the anger that was balling up finally exploded out off him and he clenches his fist fighting himself from saying anything else. His face drops into sadness and he looks like he's close to tears. "Change...... I don't like change and I never have. I thought you knew that. You're right though, I've had the same friends whole life... I also never change my clothes, I never cook anything else but tacos and I haven't changed the layout of my room since I was nine. Why? Because change fucking sucks. And I know there is no way around it but maybe... Just maybe if I try hard enough I can get close to it. Is it really my fault that I want you to stay my friend? For you to still go to party's with me and fight against the villains. Is it so selfish of me to want to wake up and not worry if the perfect life I have is being destroyed by the second? I just want a reason for me and other people to smile. And we were all smiling before this all happened" Blue sniffs trying to hold back any sadness. I would have been more surprised that Blue swore if I wasn't as pissed as I was.

"You're just acting like a child" I mutter not going to fall for his pity trap.

"I'm not a child!" He shouts back.

"You not!?" Error looks at him with his eyes (if he had any) practically bulging out of his. "I always thought you were just a really smart ten years old! That's why I was really surprised when you dropped an F-bomb!"

"I'm not a kid!" Blue stomps his foot and flares his arms in anger.

Error's P.O.V

You learn a lot in one day. I found out Blue really does hate me, Ink actually likes me a lot and I just learned Blues not ten. The way he's pouting doesn't really help though.

"I'm not a kid!" Blue stares up at me flames in his. "I've beaten you many times before and I'm not afraid to do it again!"

"You couldn't hurt me even if you tried" I throw back at him. "You don't scare me" actually I'm a little scared of Blue because the idea of someone being that happy that often and if he were to snap he could kill us all without us even knowing but I wouldn't tell him that. "Eat my shorts!"

"You're so full of it!" Blue clenches his fist and begins to run towards me. I put my arms out ready to push him. He starts punching and pushing me but our height difference is a big disadvantage for him. Ink walks in trying to tear Blue off of me. "This isn't your fight!"

Blue pushes Ink harder then he has been pushing me. Ink loses his balance, stumbling back and his leg gets caught on his scarf. I reach out trying to grab him before he falls but before I can he hits the water with a big splash. Blue gasps loudly covering his mouth "oh no..." I turn to him now in a more confused, panicked state. I look at the water to see a bunch of bubbles rising to the top of the water.

"Oh no what?! Why did you say that!?" My words come out quick as I become more panicked.

Blue turns to me his face full of fear like he's seen a ghost or something. "He can't swim" if it wasn't completely quiet I probably wouldn't have heard him. My face ends up mirroring Blue as millions of thoughts fill my mind at the same time.

"I fucking knew i.t" without thinking I jump into the water were Ink landed and looking for him. I see him by a pile of rocks. His scarf caught between two of them as he floats there. Some of his paints busted open and began leaking everywhere making it harder for me to see. I notice him turn his head towards me, shock spreading across his face. I swim over to him as quick as I can. I grab on to the scarf and pull it as hard as I can. After a couple of tugs, it finally rips and I push off against the rock over to Ink, grabbing him and using all my power to swim upwards.

I reach the top and take a sharp breath. Gasping for as much air as I can. I look down at Ink in my arms to see him just laying there. I grab his face and slightly shake it. "Ink!"

I shake him more wiping some paint off his face "Ink."

I shake him harder "Ink!"

I soften my grip on him "Ink?.." I hear my voice crack saying it

"I-ink W-wake up...... C-c-come on l-lets not play games here. W-We're skeletons... We don't need to breathe..." I laugh bitterly at that, trying to make this seem better then it is. I hold on to him tightly thinking he'll really be gone if I don't "Ink?..." I say it so quiet this time I don't even know if I said it. He slides out of my grip and floats in the water in the middle of all his paint. I look him overseeing that theirs no life left in him. Just a shell of his body. And I thought seeing him in that dream was the worst thing ever. I look down his scarf seeing all the little notes and doodles he had on their smudging from the water. At the very end is the heart I drew, ripped write down the middle and the water making it vanish like it was never really there.

That's what really got me.

I didn't even try to hold back my sobs, I just let them flow like the waterfall in front of me. I pull my hand out from the water and look at the sleeve where mine is. I tighten my grip on it not planning on letting it go. I reach over and grab him, taking him over to the land where Blue is. Blue falls to his knees and immediately starts crying. I push Ink up onto the ground his art supplies still leaking and leaving a trail. I sit on my knees too with Blue, just staring at him.

He's gone..... He's really gone this time......

....No, he's not! This is just life's way of fucking with me for doing all those bad things. I'll wake up tomorrow and Ink will be fine. He'll be smiling and making one of his amazing drawings and he'll just let me sit there and watch him and will talk for hours like it was before anybody found out about us. We'll be fine.....he'll be fine! Please tell me we'll be fine! It's all going to okay, right!?......please say yes.....

I sigh and a sob leaves my mouth

The first stage of grief.... Denial

Blue reaches out and grabs Inks hand, holding tighter than a kid holding onto their ballon. I can tell Blues trying his hardest to not cry and stay strong but he gives in and bends over, crying as hard as he can. I end up crying too but I end up doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years.

I pull him into a hug.

He doesn't hesitate to hug me back and we both sob, our body's shaking as we hold each other.

This must really be a dream.

(2482 Words)

Ah! Burn from Hamilton just started playing and now I'm emotional as F U C K! She deserved better! Anyway! I said to myself that I was going to get this out before April and that almost didn't happen! But anyway..... Before you throw your torches and pitchforks at me for making Ink die again I have an excuse! ...... No, I don't but whatever! This is what it was originally going to be if Mars was still writing this too. I'm sticking with her story plot (but I make it much gayer and sadder) so don't yell at me! It'll get better just keep reading.

Mars: God if I would've written this chapter it would be nothing like this and it definitely wouldn't be 2000 words. I would also like to say thank you for 4,000 reads, I feel like I'm a degenerate sometimes because I don't appreciate you guys a lot. Also, I don't know if this can get any gayer.