Chapter 17: Healing
You hummed happily as you made tea for your mom as well as Ink, Ink gave your mom a nervous smile not sure how he felt, this was quite personal, your mother seemed to stare at the skeleton before taking a sip from her tea.
Suddenly the door was opened as a man came running in "sis are you o-" he shouted before spotting Ink you quickly covered his mouth before he could scream "it's okay he's a friend" you said, finally releasing your hand from his mouth he looked to his mother who shrugged in response "sister...where did this...skeleton come from?" he asked.
You knew you'd have to explain this sooner or later "well from a drawing" you replied making him stare as he began to laugh "HA Ha haha oh so funny...okay seriously where did it come from?" he asked again, you growled "HE" you stated before continuing "and I'm telling the truth I drew him and a few others, they lived in my house for a few days, now I visit them through a portal only I can see" you said.
Your brother paused mouth open in shock "h-how?" he asked as you shrugged honestly you still were unsure how it came to be Ink decided to interrupt "um I think it could be due to some kind of magic...that your sister may have been born with or inherited..." he said causing your brother to stare at him what was he supposed to do call the military, police...FBI?
"Son please do be calm" your mother said as he stared "HOW ARE YOU SO CALM ABOUT THIS!" he yelled, "remember when your father told you about those stories?" your mother asked as your brother nodded "uh yeah...what about them?" he asked, "what if they were not just made up...and he really DID go on some grand adventure" your mother said making your brother stare, "what your saying Y/N inherited whatever power she has from dad?" he asked.
"Yes...whatever it may be" your mother replied, you were unsure what they were talking about "what stories?" you asked curious, Ink too was curious and listened in "well...your father never really told you, you had such an imagination but...when your father told stories of magic when he was a young boy, whenever he was lonely he'd find a magical place and play with magical people...to be honest I never believed him" your mother said as she looked to Ink "but if it was true...maybe" your mother added almost hopeful.
Ink quickly shook his head "sorry miss...Y/N is the first human I've met like this..." he said as she sighed "ah well, whatever it is your father certainly passed it on" your mother replied as your brother seemed to smile, "maybe I got cool magical powers" he said putting his hands out in a motion making you giggle "it doesn't work like that" you said, your brother frowned "that sucks...still sis...why didn't you tell us?" he asked.
You stared "what am I supposed to say?" you asked "hello, I have magical skeletons invading my home, I'd sound nuts" you added, "true...but they...haven't hurt you have they?" your brother asked as you smiled "not at all" you lied easily, you didn't want to tell your family about the two times you ALMOST DIED!
"Well...I guess...we should introduce ourselves" your brother said walking up to Ink "I'm...Chris...it's nice to meet you" he said holding out his hand, Ink gave a smile and took it in his own giving it a shake, "I'm Ink...nice to meet you too" he replied happily, you gave a smile feeling relieved that your family was okay with the whole magical talking skeletons.
Your mother stood up "well sweetie...it is nice to see your...okay...but please...don't go missing like that again" she said as you nodded...it wasn't in your plan to go off and missing you would need to talk to Ink about Error.
Your mother headed out the door, you sighed guessing she still hasn't forgiven you and Ink noticed your sad look "Y/N are you okay?" he asked, you looked up and gave a small smile "yeah...I just need to get some sleep..." you said heading upstairs to your bedroom.
Chris frowned "sorry...mom and Y/N...aren't...close" he said as Ink frowned more "what happened?" he asked Chris sighed he sat down next to Ink "I...well..." he said obviously nervous talking about it "don't tell me...if I want to know, then I should wait until Y/N tells me" Ink replied.
Chris noticed the cup of cold tea "uh do you want fresh tea?" he asked as Ink gave a small laugh "oh no...I can't really drink it anyway...it just goes...right through me" he said, Chris started laughing "oh god was that...a pun?" he asked, Ink smirked "yep...anyway...I should get going" he said placing the cup on the table and standing up "hey...before you do" Chris said as Ink looked to him.
"How did Y/N disappear?" Chris asked "Error...he's...kinda my enemy...but don't worry he can't take her again...I didn't think he knew about her but...I put a protection around Y/N, Error can't take her again" he said as Chris sighed "she is safe right?" he asked as Ink nodded "yes I promise..." he said, Chris smiled "then I guess it's best I go..." he said starting to walk away.
Ink felt nervous but he had to know "Chris..." he said making Chris stop in his tracks "yeah?" he asked "is Y/N...is she..." he started asking looking nervous..."is she...going to be okay...on her own?" he asked, Chris seemed confused by the question "uh yeah...it's been like that since she was sixteen, though I guess now she's not, with magical skeletons living in her place" he said giving off a laugh.
"See ya Ink" Chris said leaving the house Ink groaned as he smacked his head "stupid, stupid, stupid" he whispered harshly to himself "asking her brother if she's single...it's not right" he mumbled as he left through the portal.
Y/N was alone once again...this time...she didn't want to visit the skeletons.
Many weeks later...
Ink came back through the portal as much as he didn't want to force Y/N to do anything she's made too many friends to start ignoring them now, he charged up to her room and stopped as he heard soft sobbing making him frown...he gently sighed and knocked on your door.
"Who is it?" you asked...trying not to sound too upset...you failed, "it's Ink...I got something to show you" he said you opened your door making sure your eyes were not wet with tears, greeting the skeleton with a small smile "really?" you asked.
Ink nodded as he grabbed your hand and brought you to the portal...in all honesty you didn't want to go back to another world...but you didn't want to upset Ink, you just closed your eyes and calmed your fear as you and him went through the portal.
When you arrived in the white void, Ink led you through another portal close by, after the whiteness cleared, your eyes widened.
In front of you was all of the skeletons you have met thus far Dream, Blueberry, Sans, Red, G, Reaper, Lust, Blackberry, Pluto and Raven, you stared at Ink almost confused "what's going on?" you asked curiously "Y/N...I'm sorry" Ink said tears in his eyes "I-I lied..." he said making you confused "what about?" you asked.
"I could have taken away that portal...you didn't have to visit us...I didn't have to drag you into our lives, I am so sorry" Ink said, you stared almost dumbfounded "Ink..." you said making him flinch dreading your words of how angry, how upset...how USED!
"Don't be..." you said making him look up at you as you gave him the first real smile "I'm happy to have met you, all of you" you said, "I-I'm sorry...if I made you feel bad by not visiting...I just...needed space...time" you added as tears began to fall from your eyes "b-but I'm happy" you said.
Blue seemed concerned "then why are you crying?" he asked as you gave a small laugh, the others somewhat joining in "these are happy tears" you replied.
Suddenly you felt Ink hug you tightly as he began to cry as well, then Blue started getting emotional and joined in "MWEH then we will cry together!" he yelled, Blackberry not wanting to be beat joined in the hug though was much tighter than Blue was.
You laughed slightly "no need to hug so tight...I'm fine" you said the two berries glared at each other and you can tell there will one day be a war "no fighting or I'll cry" you said making the berries flinch and return to their positions "what...do we do now?" Ink asked and you smiled "same as before..." you replied before gasping "why don't we all have a party?" you asked making the skeletons jump.
Each skeleton had an idea of the perfect party in mind and each skeleton swore on their very souls that they would get a kiss from you.
You have no idea the chaos you've caused.
Well here we are the healing.
So we have found out her father may have had magical powers (no joke based on a real story that happened with me)
So the party chapter will happen but it won't be as a fanfic (hehe)
On May 12th, it'll be my birthday...I have planned a special Q+A (plus truth/dare and spin the bottle) for Living with the Skeletons.
I know it is far away but it'll be fun ^^
Also next chapter well...since someone did guess they chose Aftertale (LoverofPiggies) Geno, (oh boy) I got my work cut out for me, may take longer than normal as he isn't easy to think of a good story.