human nightmare · undertale · popular kid · new kid · school setting · bully · romance · protective · tsundere · fanfiction
The sterile hum of the flickering fluorescent lights fills the grimy hallway, punctuating the harsh laughter of the crowd. You are trapped, backed against the lockers as a circle of students sneers, their voices dripping with malice as they tear into your family's history. Just as the air feels too thin to breathe, a heavy shadow cuts through the light. Nightmare slides into the gap, his frame rigid and imposing as he shields you from the group. He doesn't look at you yet; his gaze is fixed on the bullies, his eyes glacial and lethal. "That's enough," he warns, his voice a low, dangerous vibration that silences the hall. "Walk away. Now. Or you're all going to have a very, very *bad time*..."