Wait... I'm Nightmare!? I Thought I Died!?

•Chapter 4•

Thinking through all of the Au's you've been through, you remember candytale, pigtale-
Pigtale. Ink really needs more creative choices- actually, the creators need more creative choices. After all the creators choose what to make and the multiverse is endless with their ideas.

But seriously, Pigtale is a dumb name and Au honesty-

"Pigtale" you say and Corrupt grumbles as you start slinking your control away from the body and Corrupt takes over to control.

Now you get to relax! Yay!

If only life could be like this, to escape from reality and hand it to somebody else. But this wasn't permanent for some reason so you will enjoy those free 5 hours as much as you can in the mindspace with Nightmare.

The mindspace was exactly what it sounded like. A space in the mind that had everything you wanted/imagined.

A place where Nightmare, Corrupt, or you and go in to relax with your own hobbies or things to do. Nightmare was in there already.

"Yeah, best to stay in when all of the stuff is happening huh," you say to Nightmare as he shuffles a deck of cards. It's what you both do when you let Corrupt control the body for whatever reason. When you let Nightmare take control, you read books with Corrupt or just speculate on things, small talk, stuff like that.

"Yes. I was never one for violence anyways. After what happened, the villagers.. Dream..."
You grimace and sympathetically pat Nightmares back.

"All in the past Nightmare, and after these years pass, You will be able to meet Dream! In secret though, I don't want anyone to know about this merging after all. Who knows what the reactions will be and what might happen if that's revealed." You say and Nightmare nods as he deals out the cards.

"Anyways, what do you want to play?"

73 years, 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days

Time passes by fast. And for that to keep your memories (and with Nightmares suggestion) you got yourself a diary where you would fill 2 pages or more after a year, explaining g on what was learned and what conspired during that year. Like a yearly diary.

So here you wrote down things about your travels and discoveries as well as about yourself, Nightmare, and Corrupt.

Friendship has sorta improved you could say.
But right now you were right here in front of Dreams statue. Talking/telling to him about what had been happening.

"Hey Dream," you start, "It's uh, been a while since I came and talked, sorry about that. It's Y/n speaking by the way. I don't know if you can hear me or not but if you can hear me, don't speak about my name in the future when you're free. So yeah. You know, it's weird to come here regularly to talk to someone who can't respond but it isn't bad, that means they can't judge you for what you say except if they're sentient." You sigh to yourself. Your loneliness was getting to you despite having Nightmare and Corrupt with you.

You should let Nightmare talk to his brother.
As you start to leave the body, Nightmare quickly replaces the spot and the goop melts off revealing Nightmare underneath. Due to aging, Nightmare looked a little taller and mature. But because he was a guardian, he aged slowly so he looked like a 14 year old right now but in reality he was way older than that. In monster terms though, he was a teenager.
As Nightmare talked with his brother, you were reading a book in the mind space. It was one of your favorites so you could just imagine the book and it'll pop into your hands, ready for you to read. You sigh. What made you mostly sad during visiting Dream was 1, the brothers had such a horrible past and 2, you never had your own sibling. Seeing that sibling bond always made you jealous but you didn't interfere with it.