"The Raven and the Skeleton.."

Ooo interesting

Cross: ....?

Shattered: *comforting him*

Cross: (Doesn't know how to react)

Shattered mind: seems like he had trauma from nightmare in the past..

Cross: (Pushes Shattered off of him)

Shattered: ..

Cross: (Scared)

Shattered: I won’t hurt you.. don’t worry

Cross: (Thinking: I can't trust him..)

Shattered mind: …

Cross: (Runs into an empty bedroom by mistake)

Emotionless!ink mind: welp-

Cross: (Dives under the bed)

Shattered: …?

15 MINUTES LATER..
Cross: (Won't come out under the bed)

Shattered: hm?

Cross: (Having PTSD attacks)

X!Chara: .. *hugs him*

Cross: (Scared)

X!Chara: *comforting cross*

Cross: (Scared)

Shattered mind: how can I do something so he isn’t scared of me..?

Cross: ...

Shattered: you may not trust me but… I promise you I won’t do anything to hurt you..

Cross: ...

Cross: (Reading)
{Shattered's still looking for Cross}

Shattered mind: where is he…?

Cross: (Gets touched by one of the curtains, shrieks, picks up the book, and runs to another side of the room... in the span of 12 seconds)

X!Chara: *wakes up* ? ;-;

Cross: (Calms down after a few seconds and keeps reading)

Shattered: ..

Cross: (Reading)

Shattered: *teleports to find cross*

Cross: (Notices Shattered, drops the book, and RUNS)

Shattered: !

Cross: (Passed out)

Shattered: ink…? Who’s that…?
Emotionless!Ink: I found him outside passed out..

30 MINUTES LATER..
Cross: (Wakes up) ...?

Yan: boss he is awake Shattered: alright..

Cross: (Thinks he's in Nightmare's castle again) !!!

Shattered: ?

Cross: (Runs for his life)

Shattered: *grabbed him with tentacles* calm down I won’t hurt you..

Cross: (Screams, breaks free, and keeps running)

Yan mind: srsly-

*Cross noticed shattered looked similar to me*

Cross: (Pushes X!Chara off of him)

Shattered: ..

Cross: (Scared)

Shattered: .. *teleports to him*

Cross: (Hidden under the bed)

Shattered: …?

Cross: (Scared)

Shattered mind: hmm..

Cross: (Teleports to the library)

Yan mind: where he go-

Cross: (Climbs into the vents) *I gotta get out of here!*

Shattered: .

A FEW HOURS LATER..
Cross: (Found the way out, and starts trying to walk back home)

Emotionless!Ink: where is he Yan: idk

Cross: (Ended up lost in the woods again) *Thinking: I may die out here.. but it's better than going through the abuse again...*

Shattered: ….

THE NEXT MORNING..
Cross: (Wakes up in the same empty bedroom he was in earlier, and screams)

Shattered: *teleports to cross*

Cross: (Panicking)

Shattered: .. *comforts him and cross realized nightmare never did that*

Cross: (Thinking: He won't find me in here.)

Emotionless!Ink: .

Cross: (Starts looking around)

X!Chara: *eating chocolate*

Cross: (Finds a book of poems)

X!Chara: ?

Cross: (Hides somewhere where he was CERTAIN no one was gonna find him, and starts reading)

X!Chara: *falls asleep*

LATER..
Cross: (Still reading)
[He got to "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe]

X!Chara: *asleep*

Cross: (Running away from an angry mob) *Scared*

Shattered mind: ..

Cross: (Eventually runs into the woods)

Shattered: *reading*

(If I don’t respond then I’m doing chores-)

Cross: ... (Shivers from the cold)

Shattered mind: ?

2 HOURS LATER..
Cross: (T-Too.. cold..) *He passes out.. and is found by Emotionless!Ink*

Emotionless!Ink: …?

Cross: (Passed out)
[If he stays in the cold for any longer, he's gonna enter a state known as "Fallen Down".. it's like a coma...]

Emotionless!Ink mind: I should take him to boss… *He picked up cross and teleported to shattered*