My Anomaly (An Error Sans X Reader)

Chapter 12 A Plan

Chara had their cheeks puffed up displeased, carrying a plate of carefully made chocolate chip cookies, seeming as though they had been trying to get the teams attention for a while now. Papyrus wasn't far behind a cool smile against his lips, but his posture was tense and he was smoking his 10th cigarette over the past 2 hours. (Though no one needed to know he snuck off to Muffet's new bar to smoke in between baking.)

"Ah! Human! I'm terribly sorry we did not mean to be rude!" Blue cheerily skidded over your his friends looking upon the plate of delicacies with stars in his eyes.
"These look delicious! Mewhehe! Looks like my cooking lessons have rubbed off on you! Too bad these aren't taco cookies or they'd be even better!"

Blue happily accepted a cookie going back to sit at his place. Ink took one next but dream politely declined offering a soft apology for not wanting one at the moment. The plate was placed against the coffee table neatly in the middle.

"What's our plan of action?" Chara signed eagerly.

"Well," ink chomped down on the cookie mid sentence, "it's kinda complicated kid! But don't worry we'll say your sis in no time now that I've got a team!"

Ink seemed so sure of himself despite the harsh loss he faced not that long ago. How long has it been now? In your au? A few months. At the most 3. For you though? In truth the same time had passed. Though in the anti void time was irrelevant. So what felt like hours were days. (It was a rather complicated reality.)

"Yeah! I shall accompany my friends in retrieving the eldest human!" Blue put his hand against his chest plate nodding his head.

"I don't want ya goin bro, what if something bad happens to you too?" Papyrus seemed more on edge at the thought, loosing a friend is one thing but loosing his brother again. He couldn't take that. Not in a pacifist timeline that seemed the best out of a lot of timelines.

"But brother! I just aid! We are a team! I have helped them before!" Blue seemed insistent.

"Ah how about we talk about who goes in a moment? There's still a lot left to consider." Dream tried for defuse to rising tension, to him negative feelings were overwhelming. Almost like they made him sick. Having Papyrus upset already was too much as it was.

"Dream is right, I don't think error's home right now anyway." I know shrugged leaning back now resting his weight against his hands.

"It's been a long time already, I thought the plan was finished by now." Chara seemed saddened. Dream looked away a bit sucking in a breath.
"You keep saying that you'll save her soon, but every time we see you you're talking about something else. Like how underfell is doing or outertale, or mafiatale, it's like you don't really want to save her."

Chara's signing was slow and hesitant seeming as though they were upset with ink's behavior. Ink just smiled waving his hand in dismissal.

"Nah! It's not like that at all! I just wanna draw out the game a little longer." Humming satisfied with his answer ink reached for a cookie stopping at the look blue was giving him along side his brother. Dream was too lost in thought to really hear the words ink had said.
"What?"

"Game?" Papyrus spoke slowly chopping down a bit too harshly against his cigarette causing it to hiss at the added pressure. He didn't care about the taste of tobacco in his mouth as smoke fell from his jaw and nostrils.
"This is all just a big game to you?"

Ink glanced at blue who seemed to shift uncomfortably. The room was quite again. Dream's eyes looked towards his friend seeing the tension in the room but there was nothing he could do to stop it. It's always been a game to ink but dream figured as long as he's doing "good" in his game then what's the harm of letting him see it like that. Still that didn't mean he should just say it so casually.