So I wrote this really short oneshot at half 11 at night. Maybe if you guys like it I'll write it up as a proper story?
It's about Human Kid!Tavros and his boogeyman Gamzee.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
"When I was younger, I used... to have a lot of bad major... Little kids, have bad dreams all the time; it's merely a product of an over-active imagination. When that happened, the man underneath my bed would appear. He would climb out and just sit there, scaring the nightmares away
"I'd, uh, like to say that he scared me too, and scarred me emotionally, but he didn't. He called himself a 'Boogeyman', but, to me, he was really, just a guardian angel with tattered wings."
Tavros' cheeks flushed as he hid under the duvet, squeezing his eyes shut, so tightly that the tears streaming from them could barely escape from his eyelids.
"G-go...away..." he whimpered. He wanted to sound brave against the scary monster of his nightmares that he believed wanted to hurt him, but all that was released from his mouth was an almost laughable whine.
"Tavbro?" The one he was hoping to hear, the boogeyman, Gamzee Makara cut through his thoughts. Tavros shifted closer to the sound of the voice.
"Is that you, Mister?" He mumbled, wary.
"Sure is, little bro." A slender hand rested on his figure and patted it softly, reassuringly.
"Are the monsters gone?"
"Yeah. Got rid a' them for you. You'll be fine from now on. They'll never bother you again." Tavros pulled the covers below his neck and stared up into the gentle face of the boogeyman...HIS boogeyman.
"Thank you, Gamzee." Tavros beamed and sat up. "I love you."
Gamzee smiled under his clownish make-up and looked down at the human boy. "I love you too, kid."
Tavros knelt up to wrap his arms around his boogeyman's neck in a warm embrace. Gamzee chuckled and sighed happily, before hugging back.
Even at his young age, Tavros knew that his love for Gamzee was real. He hugged the young man tighter and sniffed, "I really do, you know."
Before he knew it he had fallen asleep, tucked in by his boogeyman.
He didn't have any nightmares after that. But...he also didn't see Gamzee again.
He wondered whether getting rid of his nightmares was really worth it.
"It's, uhh...been a long time since I've seen him. But I still think about him, a lot.
That love, it hasn't gone away, either...
You know, I've been getting bad dreams again.
I wonder... Will he come back?
If he does. I will tell him.
How I feel, I mean.
My Boogeyman."
