"Of all things you come to me," Nightmare said, giving Error a bit of an annoyed look.

"I don't know much about children, you deal with children all day," Error told him.

"There minions not children!" Nightmare protested, totally pretending that he'd practically raised them.

"Awww...." Horror, Dust and Killer sighed outside Nightmares office door.

"Shut up," Nightmare protested slamming the door in there faces, the trio laughed and ran off to cause trouble or to torment Cross with cows.

Sadly for Nightmares sanity later, it would be the cows.

"Now why bring an unconscious kid to me?" the King of Negativity asked his friend.

Error quickly explained how he found the child somehow in the anti-void, and that Error was running out of options. He feed and looked after him, but after a week the child continued to sleep.

"A week?" Nightmare questioned his visible eye light widening.

"A week," Error continued, carefully placing the unconscious child on Nightmares plush love seat.

"Move back," Nightmare told him "I'll look him over."

After all he'd had enough practice with the others.

Error backed away, ignoring how he had to mentally force him hands from pulling away from the child.

Why was he so attached to this child?

The Goopy seeming being quickly began to give the child skeleton a medical examination, his hands glowing a deep purple-blue as they hovered over there body.

"What's the issue?" Error asked curious.

"His body hasn't had enough magic for a few years, I can tell one parent gives enough but whoever the other parent is.. isn't. I can tell there is another parent, I can find traces from years ago of another feeder. Error, he'd feeding on yours. He's just unconscious, because your mana veins are sending to much and hes adapting," Nightmare said running the bridge of his nose.

"What...." Error said shocked.

"Welcome to the club known as Parenthood, there is no escape," Nightmare said smirking, patting Error on the shoulder.

"What..." Error said again in shock, mind going back to where the child had slightly woken once and called him Mama.

Nightmare laughed and left his office.

"No wait... Nightmare," Error called, running after the other.

Behind them, Goth's hands twitched.

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"Sleep sleep my little one."

It was a sad thing that Goth knew this was a Dream.

"Mama will keep the nightmares away."

After all, this was just a memory of before when Geno was still his mama.

Gently mama kissed his forehead, tucking his dream self into bed.

"Love you baby," Mama said, Goth yawned and cuddled under the sheets.

"Stay, don't go," Goth begged, he didn't want to go back to a cold world where his mama was now a stranger.

In the memory he'd fallen asleep for a bit, and woke up later wanting water.

Geno... not mam had been the one to greet him.

"Sleep tight sweetie," mama said, walking away.

"No, no no no!" Goth cried jumping from bed, rushing out of his bedroom after his mama.

Except the void was on the other side.

He screamed as he fell.

In the sky of the void, a faceless horrible being played with giant string puppets.

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"Argh..." Goth cried, as he landed on the floor.

"Owww..." he cried rubbing his skull, he looked around confused as seeing he was in.. an office?

"Hello?" he called nervously.