(Fluff)
"Achoo!"
Nightmare took a step back, his face showing disgust as he looked over at the bedridden Cross. "Gross! Don't do that in my direction numbskull!" Cross wiped his nose on his sleeve, sniffling as he glanced over at Nightmare. "M'sorry, boss." He could barely get the words out before he started another sneezing fit, his eyes starting to water a bit. Nightmare shoved a box of tissues towards him, still scolding the sick skeleton. "Don't just sneeze into your sleeve, you'll get it all over yourself! And sit up straight so you can breathe better, stop slouching so much."
Cross grabbed one of the tissues after the sneezing subsided, grudgingly obeying Nightmare. He had a tired smile on his face as he spoke with his hoarse voice. "Geez you even have to lecture me while I'm sick? You're cold, boss." Nightmare scoffed, crossing his arms and looking down at Cross. "Well if you didn't go and mess around in the rain without an umbrella for an hour, you wouldn't be sick would you?" Cross frowned, leaning his head back against the bed's headboard. "Aw come on, how was I supposed skeletons could get a cold!"
He had been like this since yesterday, sneezing and coughing all day, and not able to get up from bed without everything going dizzy on him. It was this morning when Nightmare decided to step in, since the others clearly didn't know how to take care of a sick skeleton. So the goopy skeleton had spent all day with Cross, making sure he was eating and sleeping, and giving him anything else he needed. Nightmare would never admit it, but he did care about him, even if he was a little bad a showing it sometimes.
Nightmare spent another good ten minutes lecturing Cross, before turning off the lights and leaving, ordering Cross to go to sleep. The sick skeleton let out a deep sigh, wanting to argue back, but feeling too tired to do so. He moved down, deciding to listen and try to fall asleep. Cross pulled the covers over himself and shut his eyes, but after a while, just couldn't manage to drift off. He sat up, giving out a frustrated huff while he looked around the dark room. His eyes landed on a book across the room that he had procrastinated reading for weeks. Well, it's better than nothing. Cross pulled the covers away, moving over to the edge of the bed when he heard Nightmare's voice in his head. 'And don't even think about getting up! You're so clumsy even when you're not sick, you'd probably fall and break your head open.'
Cross rolled his eyes. As if he would fall just by taking a few steps. He decided to ignore the voice in his head, stepping down on the hard floor and standing up. He waited a moment, a hand cautiously grabbing onto the bed. Cross grinned to himself, feeling perfectly fine. He took his hand away and started stepping towards the book, considering this a small triumph. See Nightmare! I told you I could-
His thoughts were cut off as his head immediately started throbbing and everything went blurry. The next moment, he was on the ground, a loud thud sounding out as he collided with the wooden floor. Cross groaned, his whole body aching now as the door to the room was thrown open, light spilling in. "Cross?!" F*ck. He looked up to see Nightmare standing in the doorway, flipping on the light and looking down at Cross, a pissed and worried expression coming onto his face. Cross grinned sheepishly at him, still unable to move from his spot. "Heyyyyy boss, nice to see you."
Night quickly walked towards him, glaring daggers back at Cross. "The hell were you doing you idiot?! I told you not to get up!" His tentacles came forward, reaching down and wrapping around Cross, pulling him up. He set him down on the bed and removed the tentacle, grabbing his arms and examining them, looking to see if there were any bruises or fractures. Even the anger in his voice couldn't mask the worry. "Sh*t, did you break anything? Take your shirt off, let me see your ribs-" Nightmare reached for his shirt, but was intercepted by Cross quickly grabbing his hand. "H-Hey wait a minute I'm fine! Stop that!"
Normally Cross would've make a joke like, 'At least take me out to dinner first, boss!', but seeing the genuine concern on Nightmares face made him feel flustered. Nightmare hesitated a moment, before letting out a deep sigh and looking away. "...Don't do that again." Cross couldn't help but smile a little. "Okay, boss." He knew that the other was probably going to leave now that Cross was okay, so he mustered up a bit of courage and grabbed Nightmare's hand. "Can you sleep here with me?"
Nightmare looked at him, then looked down towards their hands, seeming surprised. Cross thought he was about to get yelled at again for touching him, when Nightmare responded, looking back up at Cross. "Okay, move over then." Cross didn't bother to hide his shock as Nightmare moved onto the bed with him. "Huh?!" The taller skeleton glanced down at him. "What?" Cross sputtered, not sure how to respond to Nightmare listening to him. "I-I just didn't think you'd actually.."
"Well obviously I can't leave you alone again after you decided to be an idiot and almost hurt yourself." Nightmare looked to the side, mumbling. "You scared the crap out of me you know." Cross blushed a bit, and then smiled. He leaned his head against Nightmare's shoulder and hugged his arm, deciding to test his limits and take full advantage of being close to him. After all, Cross would do anything to be with Nightmare like this all the time. He couldn't help but like him a lot.
Nightmare blushed, stiffening up a bit, but then relaxing against Cross's warmth. He shifted, getting more comfortable and wrapping his tentacles around Cross, and pulling the covers up over them. He used his magic to flip the light switch off, and looked down at Cross. "This is just for tonight, okay?" Just for tonight Nightmare wanted to hold Cross for a bit. Just for tonight, because he probably wouldn't have the courage to get this close to him again for a while.
"Okay, Nightmare."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm writing this made me feel so happy inside I love fluffy stuff so much and I love this ship🥺 Thank you so much for suggesting it, it's really refreshing.
~Author Chan, out!
