"Say you love me! Say it"
"No! Never!"
The giggles of the two brothers fill the air, as the two children grapple playfully with each other and roll on the grass around their Mother.
They get grass and dirt in their mouth, as they keep laughing and teasing each other, but neither of them care.
"I could never love someone as stinky as you!" the one dressed in purple says, blowing a raspberry at the other.
"Niiightyyyy!" the one dressed in yellow whines as he grabs his twin by the waist and pulls him up in the air "I'm not stinkyyyy!"
With a smirk, Nightmare suddenly stops pulling forward to break free and goes limp; Dream, caught by surprise, cannot stop the action and brings both of them tumbling down, falling backwards into the grass once again.
With his brother now defenseless, Nightmare exchanges their positions and ends up being the one carrying his twin by the waist.
"I'll throw you into the river, so you'll stop being stinky!"
"Nooooooo!" Dream yells with an happy shriek, wriggling like an eel.
Neither of them want to admit defeat, and so they fight on and on, but it's alright: it's only a game.
Dream is panting, exhausted, as he gets on his knees and starts crawling away.
He has to escape, he has to run-
"Ah, Dream" Nightmare says, as one of his appendages circles Dream's waist "Your fear was always my favourite⁓"
"No-!" his desperate cry is cut short from the golden ichor that he coughs from his mouth.
The Guardian of Positivity digs his phalanges into the dirt, but it's not enough against his enemy; the Guardian of Negativity pulls him towards him agonizingly slow, savoring the terror his brother feels, to then yank him in the air and slam him onto the ground face up.
Dream's breath is stolen as his spine connects with the ground, his pupils two pinpricks that focus on Nightmare's face.
They both know that this is the end.
Nightmare leans down, closer closer closer, until the twins' foreheads almost touch.
"Any last wish, Dream?"
Behind him, an appendage sharpen into an awl.
Despite the hatred, the satisfaction, the contempt coming from who used to be his brother, Dream cannot help himself.
"Please... please... say that you love me... s-say it..." he pleads in a whisper.
Nightmare's smirk widens as the appendage embeds itself in Dream's chest, as Dream lets out his last breath in a betrayed gasp, as Dream's eyes search for something he will not find in Nightmare's expression.