☾︎ Undertale au oneshots ~ x listener ☀︎︎

☁️ horror x depressed!reader x nightmare?

Y/n = Your name
f/f = favorite food

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<Reader's POV>

It had been months since you've seen him.

You wondered if he had even noticed you left, or even thought about looking for you..

You sigh as you continue to walk to an alley with your grocery bag, leaning against the rough brick wall and sliding down as you searched into the bag. You pulled out a water bottle and f/f (Favorite food), sighing, lost in thought as you ate your lunch.
You could have been in a nice warm castle, with all of your friends, and those you considered family. Only..you couldn't stand to look at him, after what you did. Not now, and hopefully..not ever.
You took a sip from the water bottle. Luckily, you had enough gold left, since you had taken your equal rations out of the 'chore money' he paid you, since someone had to clean the castle, and he didn't want to leave you unrewarded. This gave you enough for food for the week, a taxi, and maybe some shelter.
However, guilt tugged at your soul. You felt bad for leaving at such short notice, but you couldn't possibly have told him why..You've seen his temper, and you didn't want your relationship to take a turn for the worse.
You see, you had been dating the taller for about two months now, and have been living with the baddies ever since..that is, until you drifted away from him after some time, despite his efforts, and you had even started to lose affection for the negative skeleton. Not in a way where you wouldn't love him, but more in a way where you sort of..pitied him. Pitied him for having to go through your mood swings, for even having to deal with...you.
You couldn't stand to see him heartbroken like that, and you knew he wouldn't understand. He would think you were leaving him, and he cared for you more than anything in the world..as he's said before. You hoped that that was true, but at the same time, wished it was not. If he did, and found out you had gone missing, he would have probably..hurt himself. Badly.
Your guilt worsened as you set down the lunch you had bought, placing it back into it's packaging and putting it back into the bag. You lost your appetite.

You stood up, walking into a nearby shop for some warmth. You heard the shop's doorbell ring, and sighed heavily. If it weren't for the spare hoodie you kept with you, and the nearby shops, you wouldn't have lived this long. You've been gone for three weeks now, and you were glad it wasn't winter. Luckily, it was much less chilly in the fall.
As you enter the shop, you pull your hood up and look through the candy in the isle. Maybe something sweet would help. You  glanced at the chocolate, shaking your head. After what cross did, you would probably never eat chocolate again.
You stand in thought, eventually a pack of Mentos gum catching your eye. It was tropical fruit flavored, and fruity candy would be a nice change.
You had managed to forget about what you had thought about before almost completely, until you heard a familiar voice.

'...Y/N-? ´

You glanced over at the sound of your name, called out by the one and only...
Horror. of course, after he had been staying with nightmare, despite being addicted to eating humans, Nightmare had to make sure he could stomach human food before he could completely rid some AUs of humans. Otherwise, he would run out of humans to hunt, and the only one left would be...well.. ahem. Off topic.
You shook your head slightly, ducking more into your hood as horror poked his head around the corner of the isle. Oh sh*t.
you hoped he wouldn't recognize you, but sadly, anyone could recognize your figure in that hood, no matter where you went. You sighed as Horror, the f*cking cannibal teddy bear, ran up, hugging you.
(Excuse my language. Don't know what you expected from a oneshot book? )

' Y/N! It is you! Hehehe, boss set out an entire bounty to bring you back alive, so you're comin' with me! ´

You rolled your eyes. Ofc he set out a bounty..he made it sound like he wanted you hunted. Horror pointed to the poster you hadn't noticed on the store's window. It read:

Wanted
[Insert reader description and photo ¯\_(ツ)_/]
bounty: 10,000g
Please bring back alive and in good condition

Atleast he mentioned 'good condition'..knowing how some of the villagers acted towards you for being around the negative monster, you sighed in relief that horror had been the one to find you. Didn't want to be taken by one of those other creeps, did you?

Horror grabbed your hand with his bone-hand, though you'd think it would be smaller than yours, since he doesn't have skin, monsters are built different. Like their own sort of animal, I guess. Most of them are built larger, and often have similar teeth and actions like feral animals, though they act much more civil. Well, most of them do.

You gently and silently pulled your hand away from horror, looking down in guilt. Horror gave you a sympathetic expression, and then grinned. He picked you up, carrying you over his shoulders, (mind you, either he's a bara in this chapter, or he's just surprisingly strong.)
And checked out his groceries quickly, humming. You watched from behind his shoulder as he checked out his items, it was mostly beef jerky and bacon. He unsurprisingly eats a lot of meat.
after checking out, he walked out, carrying you and a bag of groceries in his other hand.

You couldn't help but smile timidly as you heard low, rough humming escape from his teeth. He seemed almost proud of his trophy, and acted that way the entire walk through a portal and into the castle. He set you down at the doorstep, to your disappointment. Not having to walk was fun and all, but now you have to deal with the damage you dealt to nightmare's emotions.
Horror just continued humming, one hand in his hoodie pocket as he rung the castle's doorbell, placing the hand back into the other pocket. Fighting and yelling to get the door was heard,  it dying down as you heard the door crack open. You hid your face in embarrassment and guilt as nightmare stood there, wide-eyed and upset. You could feel his negativity drop as you pulled the hood over your face slightly, expecting him to lash out. Instead, you felt someone hug you. You look back. You could feel his warmth, his soul beating, and his warm breath on your shoulder as you stood there in shock, tears threatening to fall down your cheeks and successfully doing so, as tears pricked his. You felt the warmth in both your face and his as you choked down a sob, muttering that you were sorry for leaving and that you wouldn't do it again. Nightmare ran his hand through/down your (hair, if none just the back of your head), whispering comforting remarks as he tried to comfort you. You were glad to be back.

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Uhh. Yeah, I might make another part tomorrow if you'd like-
sorry I didn't do much for it, it's kind of a lot of random thoughts put together-
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~Hope you enjoyed~