I bleed for you ~A sequel to I bleed Red | An Ink x Reader~

Chapter Twenty Five: Tune

It had been a few hours now. We were contacting as many people as we could, the more we got the more brains we had to form a plan.

We were gathered back at the infinite house just like the old days. It felt almost nostalgic to have everybody gathered on the couch again. Dream, Reaper, Error, Red, Poison, etc. The only newcomers to the old scene were Nightmare and Impulse (I suppose Goth as well but he was off doing something else).

"How are we going to find out where she is?" Classic asked the group as he rubbed the temple of his forehead.

"We don't have to, we could lure Cross out and maybe one of us could sneak through the portal he creates." I answered him while thinking as hard as I could.

"Ha! Fat chance, he wouldn't let anybody slip by him like that. He was trained as a royal guard remember?" Blade snickered before realizing she had just been helpful unintentionally. I had forgotten he was a royal guard trainee...

Nightmare suddenly flinched next to Dream and sat upright, tense. He shouted, "She's awake!"

My eyes widened and I instantly went to questioning him quickly. "Is she alright?! What's she feeling?! Is she hurt??" I had stood up, walked in front of him, and put both my hands on his shoulders.

"I-I-I c-can't tell! I-I don't f-feel any initial negative r-response!" Night stuttered and put both his hands up as if trying to space himself between me since I had unintentionally been leaning into him.

I got a grip on myself and let go of Nightmare, taking a step back from him. "Sorry..."

"I-It's alright... you're just worried about her." Nightmare was trembling slightly and Dream put a comforting hand on his brother's arm. I felt awful...

"I can't read anything from her right now, she might be experiencing either a neutral or positive emotion right now. Um, Dream are you able to tune in on her?"

"No... I'm not as adapted to her as you are. I'm not adapted to anybody like that." Dream almost seemed to be on the verge of tears. It was Nightmare's turn to put a comforting hand on his brother.

"If she doesn't feel an initial negative response then she's probably not hurt." Reaper spoke up. He was probably right, but how long until she was going to be hurt?

Nightmare tensed up once more. "I-I'm getting something. S-She's... panicked and scared. But it feels almost muffled. Like she's trying to conceal it. And she's hungry but that's probably not too important..." Night mumbled the last part, realizing it might be stupid to point out. On the other hand, I found every detail important.

"What do you think could be happening?" Blue squeaked as he pressed his knees to his chest. None of us answered, probably assuming the worst. She could be getting hurt right now... but would it feel muffled in that case? I had no clue and I couldn't stand it.

We all waited with baited breath for Nightmare to say more on her condition. He had closed his eyes and seemed to be focusing as hard as he could. He opened his eyes and said, "Well, she's not hungry anymore... And her panic seems to be fading."

That confused me a lot and seemed to as well for the others. Had she gotten food then? At least they weren't going to let her starve.

"There was a lurch of sadness I think? It's a little hard to tell with all of your emotions in the air..."

Suddenly, Error had started to glitch uncontrollably from his standing position in the corner. Weird, he hasn't had a mini crash in quite some time. Had something happened?

The glitching stopped abruptly and Error took a few deep breaths as he recollected himself. He looked up at us with slightly wide eyes and said, "She just tried to contact me."

"What?! What do you mean?!" I exclaimed as I teleported right in front of him without meaning to. I resisted my instinct to grab him by the shoulders as I did to Nightmare (I didn't need him to have a major crash).

"She... We have this thing where if one of us touches our SOUL the other can feel it. Remember how we slightly fused SOULs all those years ago?" Error explained after being taken aback at how close I was to him.

"So you can contact her back?!" I said excitedly, this can be our means of telling her we're going to save her!

"Uh, yeah."

"Well?? Do it! Um, please." I didn't want to seem too demanding since I could feel Blade just waiting to tear me apart later and I didn't want to give her fuel.

Error glanced at the others before shakily extracting his SOUL. He didn't seem to like everybody staring so I slightly adjusted myself so his SOUL would at least be hidden. He seemed a bit comforted by this and he gently ran a finger down the side of his SOUL. He shivered at the feeling and quickly put it back into himself. "There. She should've felt it."

I looked over back to Nightmare and saw him shudder. "Y-Yeah, she definitely felt it. Jeez, that feels weird."

I sighed to myself, at least she seemed to be safe and not hurt. Now, it was time to get back to planning.

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