Chapter 9: Dream

Finally arriving back home, you said your goodbye to Ink as you got ready for bed, you laid down on your bed giving off a small yawn as you drifted off into sleep.

You then opened your eyes, it was time to wake up and start a new day, you heard a knock on your room door making you nervous about who was in but remembered that Ink could still visit you, so you got out of bed still half asleep as you walked over to the door, you opened it slightly.

Your eyes widened seeing a different skeleton, he wore a yellow head piece, a blue and white shirt with blue pants, over that was a yellow cape he also wore yellow gloves and yellow boots, his eyes were also yellow.

You were a little nervous you didn't know this Sans version "um...hello" you said, the small skeleton seemed to smile with glee "hello are you Y/N?" he asked, "um...yes" you said the skeleton smiled "ah good, just had to make sure I had the right person" he said happily seeming to take something out of his pockets, "and you are?" you asked causing the skeleton to slightly fumble almost dropping a small marble ball in his hand "oh I'm sorry, my name is Dream" he said holding out his other hand for you to shake.

You shook his hand "so what are you doing in my house?" you asked, Dream began to blush a yellow colour "oh um...well it's not exactly your house, I-I mean it is but...it's um actually" he said fumbling on his words, you gave Dream a nice smile "it's okay I'm not mad" you said making Dream calm down "well this is actually all a dream" he finally finished.

You paused in shock, okay...sure you had dreams now and then but they were short and never felt so real, "wait so...this is a dream?" you asked Dream gave a nod a nervous smile on his face, "so...your not in my house, your in my dreams?" you asked once more as Dream nodded again.

Finally you just had to pace back and forth "okay, okay...so are you real or are you a dream t-" you said before remembering his name, Dream had a smirk on his face "alright...so what are you doing here in my dream?" you asked actually curious "oh well, Ink told me about you when he came to visit me, and I just had to see the girl that got him all flustered" he said.

You wondered if this was the friend Ink had to visit in OuterTale...wait...did he say flustered?

You stared at him confused "flustered?" you questioned Ink always looked calm and confident around you, Dream gulped nervously "ah...I-I mean he was so flustered with happiness" he said nervously, you sighed guessing Dream didn't mean to tell you and you decided for his sake to play along "okay, but that still doesn't answer my question" you said making Dream confused for a moment.

"W-Well...I wanted to see you for myself and I didn't want to bother you so much" Dream said starting to fiddle with the marble in his hand, okay now you had something else to question "what's with the marble?" you asked causing Dream to look at it then smile "it's all your hopes and dreams" he said, "wait, wait...your saying all of my hopes and dreams are in that marble?" you asked.

Dream nodded "yes, wanna see?" he asked, you were a little nervous but also curious "sure" you said watching Dream as he broke open the marble as your eyes widened as lights spread around showing her memories of her past as a little girl, it made you remember the many dreams and hopes you had as such a young child but when you grew up many of your dreams and hopes vanished.

It brought tears to your eyes Dream got a little worried "ah I'm s-sorry I didn't mean to upset you" he said, you gave him a smile "I'm not upset, these are happy tears" you replied as you wiped your eyes, Dream gave a small smile "y-you like it?" he asked you nodded quickly "of course" you replied finally getting your emotions under control, "I'm just...surprised, all these dreams I had when I was so young" you said spotting one memory of you dressed up as a superhero making you blush slightly "oh gosh, that was Halloween, I went around telling everyone I was going to be a superhero when I grew up" you said giving off a little laugh.

Dream smiled "well you still can be a superhero, anything is possible" he said you just laughed "no no, it was a childish dream, superheros don't really exist" you said "then you make it exist!" Dream yelled seeming excited as you giggled slightly "nah, I couldn't take all that responsibility..." you added from having watched a few superhero like movies you didn't want all that responsibility.

Still Dream seemed determined "I'm sure there are many dreams you can make possible...liiiike...ah this one" he said pointing to another memory, you went toward it curiously it showed you holding up a crummy looking picture, you remembered this well it was your first drawing, heck you still had it to this day, you just could never throw it away...but the drawing brought up a bad memory "Y/N?" Dream asked seeing tears falling from your eyes you gave him a fake smile "I'm okay, just a little overwhelmed" you said.

Dream frowned but then gave a small smile "it's okay Y/N..." he said sitting down since this was going to be serious "tell me the truth" he said, you gave a sigh as you sat down beside him "it...was a picture for my father" you started already feeling the terrible memory surface.

FLASHBACK

"Mommy...", "yes sweetie?" your mother replied as she was busy making dinner "when is daddy coming home?" you asked your father hadn't been home for a few days "I don't know sweetie, I guess when the doctor says so" your mother replied as she continued cooking soon the phone went off you rushed towards it "I got it" you said answering the phone "hello?" you said "oh...little Y/N, it's your father's doctor...is your mother there?" a male voice asked, "yes, mommy it's daddy's doctor" you said handing her the phone.

You stared and waited excited that your dad might be coming home "hello doctor, how is my husband?" your mom asked, your mom was quiet then you noticed her face getting sad "mommy?" you asked, your mom just seemed to remember you were there "sweetie, why don't you go draw a picture for daddy?" your mom said, this made you excited as you rushed off to draw something for your father.

An hour later your mom told you that you and her were going to visit your dad in the hospital so taking your drawing with you, you and your mom got into the car, you were very excited to see your dad...maybe he was coming home.

It was another hour before you arrived at the hospital, there was a skip in your step as your mother lead the way, though you soon noticed the faces of nurses looking upset and sad whenever they looked at you, you were confused why were the nurses so upset?

Soon you arrived at your dad's room, you saw your dad's doctor seeming to talk to him about something before noticing you and shutting up, you had a frown on your face "daddy...are you okay?" you asked walking up to him, your father gave you a fake smile "of course sweetheart, in fact I'm much better seeing your pretty face" he said as you sat on the chair next to his bed "I drew this for you" you said showing him the drawing, it was a cruddy drawing of your father coming home to you and your mother "that's nice sweetheart" he said as he took the drawing.

"Are you coming home?" you asked excited, your father just kept his fake smile going "of course, sometime tonight" he replied you smiled with glee dad was coming home...

PRESENT

"Y/N!" Dream yelled as tears just dropped from your eyes, your dream world started to become dark "h-hey it's okay you don't have to talk about it"
he said to you nervously, you continued crying "stop lying..." you said Dream looked at you confused "I'm not lying" he said suddenly feeling a familiar terrible power "Y/N wake up, r-remember it's all a dream" he said, you looked to Dream tears still in your eyes "lies...he lies..." you continued to mumble, Dream normally wouldn't force someone to wake up but he didn't want you to suffer this nightmare "Y/N WAKE UP! he yelled throwing another marble that caused you quite a fright.

"AH!" you screamed waking up and panting heavily, you groaned "ugh...what an awful dream" you mumbled checking the time it was WAAAAAY too early to wake up, moaning once more but unable to sleep you decided to grab a book and start reading.

Well I feel DUMB...soooo I have the memory of a GOLDFISH!

I TOTALLY forgot about Dream D:

I feel AWFUL!

He was in the first chapter but everyone made such a big deal bout missing OuterTale that I forgot about him T-T

So...can we pretend Y/N never met Dream?

I would rewrite this but since he never talked in the other chapters, I feel it can be okay, though I am shocked no one said anything XD

Poor Dream...he's not loved :(

YOU SHOULD ALL FEEL GUILTY!

Anyways I forgot to credit OuterTale's creator last chap: Mimi

So...this was FUN!

I don't know Dream too well, but I like to imagine he is a less energetic version of Swap Sans and a little shy.

Now for the next AU Sans hint/crappy pun.

Birds of a feather stick together...is that a saying *shrugs*