Sorry for the late post. Haven't been in a writing mood lately.
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Nightmare shuffled through his clothing, looking for an outfit that was casual yet looked nicer than what he'd usually wear. Dust sat on his bed, watching as he tossed the different clothing items aside or not.

"Sooooo what are you specifically looking for? Because if you're aiming towards looking good that's already solved because you always looks good." Nightmare tried to hide the small smirk that came across his face.

"Even with the giant gap of skull I've got here instead of my usual covering?" Dusts face sombered as he stood up and sat next to the taller. "Of course you do." He cupped one of his cheeks and left a small kiss on the other. "Thank you. To answer your original question-" he went back to looking through his clothes. "-I'm looking for a sweater I have. I plan on dressing at least somewhat nice."

"What about your skin-tight silky turtle neck thing that you usually wear under your jacket?" "I suppose I could wear that, also we don't have skin, Dust." "Yeah, but it's kinda weird saying bone-tight don't you think?" "Sounds like a pun" "true".

Nightmare took off his jacket, showing his scarred bones of his arms to the other. "I should get some nice pants though, gym shorts won't do it for me."

"Why do you wear shorts like that anyways?" "Not sure, thought it would be comfortable however not visually appealing to me." Nightmare reached down and saw some tight black leggings. "These should do." "Might want to use an ecto body for it though." Nightmare nodded.

Nightmare moved over and interchanged his short for the pants, then summoning half of his feminine ecto to keep the pants to fit.

"More comfortable with tight pants." "Thats fair."

The imitation body formed from his ankles to his hips, stopping at his waist. The armless turtleneck laid loosely around his slim bones.

"Are you ready to go now, Night?" He gave a small nod as he created a portal to his brothers, Dust stepping through first, then himself.

They were greeted by a small house with light yellows and whites, quite the contrast from Nightmares castle. Nightmare sighed, it seemed quite strange to go up and knock on his life long enemies house door for help yet here he was.

He slowly made his way forward then knocked roughly on the door three times, then greeted with a loud "coming!" Of the familiar voice of his brother. Nightmare briefly debated the idea of just teleporting out to avoid his problems again but before he could even act on it the door swung opened and he was greeted by his brother wearing casual attire consisting of a sweater, short shorts and socks.

Before Dream could speak Nightmare started to explain himself. "Hello, Dream. I hope to have a civil conversation with you." Dreams mouth laid agape. "Y- yeah yeah of course. I will be keeping a close eye on you however." "I understand. This is kind of important so I suggest taking a seat somewhere." "Oh yes sorry, come in we can sit in the dining room."

Dream led them to the dining room, he sat in the chair across from the other that Nightmare sat in at the small table, Dust sitting in the one on the side.

"So why do you need to talk to me, brother?" Nightmare grunted and sat tall, "believe or not I am not exactly as intact as one would think. My magic is unstable ever since the incident and now I may as well be melting from too much magic and material negativity stored within my form."

Dream gave him a look of surprise. "Y- you're melting?"

Nightmare rolled his eyes, "basically. Science said that the only way to stop it is to restore some of my form with a positive aura and well, here we are. However if I didn't need you to live I wouldn't be here at all."

"So what does that mean?"

"I believe it means I may have to ask for a truce between positivity and negativity. However this does not mean a truce between all bad and star sanses, Error and Ink will have to figure out a truce on their own if they wish and we will help Error with his endeavors as he is still part of the group."

Dream nodded. "I understand, I will accept. Does that mean that I'll have to go to Sci's lab with you soon?"

"Pretty much, unless you want me to die." "No I'd never wish anyone to die. Especially not my brother."

Dust sat there awkwardly. "Soooo uh- is this little better feud done with now?"

Dream looked over. "Oh you're one of the newer members of the bad sanses, aren't you?"

"Er- yeah." Dream stuck out a hand for him to shake, Dust taking it with a light shake. "My names Dream, as you probably know, what's yours?" "Dust."

"Hm so does this mean you've replaced Killer as Nights right hand man?"

"Uh-" "For the most part, Killer still gets plenty of information however just Dust is the one who sticks by my side on errands and such."

"Oh have I been reduced to your little errand boy now?" A small spread of teal came across Nightmares face. "Hush." Dust made a small chuckle.

Dream looked from his brother to the new member of the bad sanses. "Oh my stars wait- are you two romantic partners?"

Nightmares teal coloring to his face brightened, "No! Never, definitely not, not at all." "Damn I can't tell if I'm offended or not."

"Awe Nighty! I didn't know you were capable of loving!" "Wha- that's rude!" "It's the truth though!"

"To be fair I don't think anyone outside of the bad sanses group knows you can feel anything other than negative emotions."

"What a rude thing to assume. I'm still somewhat mortal afterall."

Dust stood up which paused the conversation, "this is nice and all, but we should go to Sci's now." The brothers nodded their heads.

"Let's go."

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Oh my stars I'm almost done with this book I'm so excited to be done with this shit!