Truth be told, I kind of started this out of boredom. ^^;

I guess you could say that this is a side project while I'm working on the 100 themes challenge back on DA. Because of that, I'm not expecting updates to be super frequent.

Also: I will warn you, this is a bit headcanon-heavy. Also OC warning. And as usual

*Sans will only speak in italics

*Papyrus will speak in bold

*And Gaster will speak in underlines (parentheses mean that he's speaking in sign language)

School had just ended, it was finally the weekend. The streets of New Home were filled with playful young children, ready to go off on their own adventures.

A young skeleton was walking down the street, he looked down at the grey pavement beneath his feet. He held onto his brother's sleeve with one hand while carrying a stuffed pink rabbit with the other. As an 8 year old, Papyrus had already gotten used to the sights of New Home. Sure, he has been to Hotland quite a few times, but he didn't really like that place all that much. He could visit the king at his castle if he wanted to, but he would just feel like he was intruding since the King was usually busy.

"Hey, Sans?"

"hm?" Papyrus' brother looked at him with wide eye sockets.

"Don't you think that's a bit boring, here?"

Sans replied with a shrug. "eh...it could be better."

"I suppose you're right," Papyrus said, avoiding eye contact. "Although, I suppose it could be much worse, too."

Sans nodded without a second thought. "but hey, just think...you'll be a royal guardsman, I'll be the royal scientist, and we'll be able to go all over the underground. doesn't that sound cool?"

"Of course it does! Only someone as cool as The Great Papyrus would become a member of the Royal Guard!" He looked down at his stuffed Rabbit. "What do you think, Fluffy Bunny?"

"pap, you realize he's just a toy, right?"

"I know he's a toy," Papyrus argued, "It doesn't mean he can't talk."

"whatever you say, bro..."

As the brothers walked to their apartment, they saw a note hanging off their door. Sans took the note off the door and began to read it. His pupils rolled in his eye sockets.

"Dad's not home, is he?"

"nope," Sans crumpled the note and threw it over his shoulder. "it's just the two of us."

"Well, what should we do?" Papyrus asked.

"i dunno, what do you wanna do?"

"Hm..." Papyrus placed a hand over his jaw. "Maybe we could go to the park? That's always fun!"

"sure!" Sans gave Papyrus his sleeve to hold onto. "lead the way."

Papyrus nodded as he started to lead his brother out of the apartment building. While their father had been very busy as of late, he and Sans were more then capable of taking care of each other. Besides, they were fine as long as they got back before it was night time.

It was late afternoon, there were still some kids playing on the playground. Most of them were older then either Sans or Papyrus, at least that's what the skeletons assumed.

Sans made his way over to the swing set while Papyrus sat down near a tree, petting his stuffed rabbit. He watched as most of the kids played tag. He would join them, but as great as he was, he had to admit...he wasn't the greatest when it came to making friends.

Papyrus lifted Fluffy Bunny up to his eye level, speaking in an unusually quiet tone. "Well, at least I have you and Sans to hang out with."

He let go of the stuffed rabbit, it became surrounded in a blue-ish hue as Papyrus started playing with his gravity magic. He hadn't had known how to use magic for very long, but he was always careful with it. Last thing he wanted was to hurt someone by accident.

Sans jumped off the swings, walking over to his brother with a concerned look. "somethin' wrong?"

Papyrus looked up at his brother as the stuffed rabbit dropped back into his arms. "No, why?"

"i just thought you looked lonely, that's all."

"Well, that's because we're not very popular, yet!" Papyrus argued, "Trust me, Sans...once we're popular, we'll be able to make all kinds of friends!"

"hm..." Sans closed his eyes and started rubbing his jaw with a sleeved hand, which gave Papyrus bad vibes. "Sans, what are you doing!?"

Sans continued to hum impatiently, causing Papyrus' bones to rattle. "I'm serious, Sans...this better not be one of your tricks!"

Suddenly, Sans began calling out to the other kids. "HEY, CAN WE PLAY!?"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Papyrus yelled, dropping Fluffy Bunny and placing a hand over his brother's mouth, "You're embarrassing me!"

"i'm your brother, i'm s'pose to embarrass you!"

"SANS!"

The other monster children watched as the two brothers continued to bicker. The smallest monster, a Whimsun, began to fly meekly at the two. He nervously pressed his fingers together.

"Y-you're Comic Sans, right?"

The skeletons stared at the young insect monster with confusion, Sans nodded. "yeah, why?"

"Well..." The Whimsun looked away bashfully, "Um...I'm not sure how to say this, but...aren't you a bit-"

"frail?"

"Er..." The Whimsun shook nervously, "Y-yes...I mean, no offense but wereally don't want to hurt you."

"then why don't you play with my brother?"

"Sans, you're not making things any better!" Papyrus grumbled. Sans lowered his eyelids. "well? you were the one who wanted to make friends!"

"Psh...who's be friends with these numbskulls?"

The monster children stood stiffly as a pair of new monsters came into the park. One of them was an Astigmatism, an eye monster with a bow on her horn. The other one was an orange dragon, he appeared to be missing a tooth.

"Let's face it," said the dragon, "One's too loud and the other can't even take a hit!"

The monster children panicked as they started hiding throughout the playground. Papyrus wrapped his arms protectively around Sans, afraid of what these bullies might do to him.

"Oh? Looks like Rattles still hasn't forgotten what we've done to his brother last time we saw them," said the Astigmatism, Sclara. "What are ya gonna do, pick on us?"

"And don't think I haven't forgotten about you knocking my tooth out!" Ricky snarled. As expected, Papyrus began to rattle, he held tighter onto Sans, who struggled to breathe. "pap, you're gonna break my ribs!"

"'Ey, Ricky!"

Ricky looked over at Sclara, who was tapping her foot impatiently. "Don't forget, we've got other fun monsters to play with!"

"Don't worry, I'm just gonna mess with these guys for a little bit!"

Papyrus tried to walk away while carrying Sans (despite being the same height). However, he was stopped as Ricky placed a claw on his scarf. "Where do you think you're going?"

"U-um..." Papyrus dropped Sans onto the ground, who landed painfully on his tailbone. "Do we really need to fight? I mean...I know you CAN be a good person, you just-"

"Cut the bull crap, already!" Ricky's soul began to glow, as did Papyrus'. Panicking, Papyrus threw Sans over his shoulder and started running.

"pap, whaddaya doin'!?

"Saving our tail bones, that's what!"

Ricky began to summon fireballs around his head as he started chasing the twin skeletons. Sans started to scream as one of them headed straight for them. Papyrus jumped, making sure it didn't hit them.

Ricky started chasing them out of the park, throwing more and more fireballs at them. As this continued, Sans kept yelling out different directions."RIGHT! NO LEFT! NOT YOUR LEFT, MY LEFT!"

"Huff...huff..." Papyrus followed his brother's directions as he avoided getting hit. "Gees, brother...you're louder then usual..."

"well...hopefully this won't DRAG ON for too long!"

"SANS, NOW'S NOT THE TIME FOR-"

"BWAH!" Sans began to kick his legs as a fireball nearly made contact with his skull. "RUN FASTER!"

Papyrus tried to pick up speed, but his legs began to feel tired. He could tell that if he had lungs, they would be burning, right now. All hope seemed lost until Papyrus saw another skeleton walking along the streets. He was a tall, lanky skeleton with a long black robe dragging across the floor.

The tall skeleton turned around as he heard Papyrus' foot prints. He looked down at the two children with concern. (What is it, my child?)

Papyrus hid behind the skeleton as Ricky came closer. The dragon skidded to a halt as the skeleton stared at him, his wonky eye sockets glowing a threatening purple color. "G-g..."

"Hello, child," The skeleton spoke as he smiled his usual crooked smile. "My boys have not been causing any trouble, have they?"

"Um..." Ricky began to tremble, backing away slowly. "N-no, Dr. Gaster sir."

"Oh..." Gaster smiled even wider, a pair of dragon skulls appeared beside him. "Then you certainly aren't planning on hurting these poor boys...are you?"

Ricky shook his head, backing away as Gaster started to walk closer. His eyes began to flash between purple and yellow. "Because if you are, then...well, I'm sure that I could use another test subject for my lab experiments!"

Frightened, Ricky began to run far away from Gaster as fast as he possibly could. The tall skeleton started to cough, as he couldn't talk for long periods of time. Papyrus looked up at his father, confused. "You don't really use monsters as test subjects, do you?"

(Heavens no!) Gaster replied, (I was just merely scaring him off. And besides, I'm usually my own test subject, I have no need to use anyone else!)

"that's gonna get you killed, one of these days," Sans warned him. Gaster took Sans out of Papyrus' arms and gently nudged his son's skull. A pair of magic hands appeared besides his head. (Your mother would tell me the same thing, you know).

"well it's true!" Sans argued.

(Well...as a scientist, sometimes I have to make risks.)

Papyrus started pulling at his father's sleeve, Gaster looked down at the impatient young skeleton. "C'mon, we gotta go home before it's night time!"

Gaster nodded, one of the floating hands started petting Papyrus' skull. (Forgive me, my child!)

Gaster started heading back home as Papyrus clinged to his robe. It seemed like both children had an eventful time at the park, they would certainly need some rest.

After dinner, it was time to settle down. Sans was sprawled across his bed, ready to fall asleep at any moment. Papyrus walked in, dragging his feet across the floor. He sat on the bed, placing his hand on his jaw.

Upon seeing his brother like this, Sans sat up from the bed. "what's wrong?"

"Ricky ruined everything, again!" Papyrus said, bitterly. "Honestly, why can't he leave us alone for once?"

"well, maybe next time he will. and who knows? he'll actually let you have friends!"" Sans said, sympathetically. Papyrus shook his head. "You know I can't make friends with you embarrassing me all the time."

"ok, fine, i won't try to embarrass you, anymore!" Sans said, smirking. "well...no promises, though."

Papyrus smiled at his brother, "I appreciate the thought, Sans...but let's be realistic, here. Nobody wants to be friends with someone as loud as me!"

"hey...don't forget, you still have me!" Sans argued.

"Well I know that," Papyrus said happily. He jumped off the bed and embraced his older twin. "I could never forget about you, Sans!"

"aw, pap..." Sans began to smile brightly, patting his brother's back. "and you can't forget about fluffy bunny. either~!"

Suddenly, googly eyes formed in Papyrus' eye sockets. He backed away from his brother with a dazed look on his face. "Sans...?"

Sans tilted his head. "yeah, bro?"

"...I think I might've left him at the park."

"hey, don't worry about it," Sans said, causing Papyrus to glare at him. "How can I not worry!?" He could be cold and hungry out there, by himself!" The younger skeleton buried his face in his hands, screaming. "OH MY GOD, I'M SUCH A TERRIBLE FRIEND!"

Sans' shoulders dropped as he spoke in a more deadpan tone. "papyrus, he's a toy!"

"But he's still suffering out there!"

"look, he's not gonna go anywhere," Sans said, placing an arm over his brother's shoulder. "we'll look for him tomorrow morning, ok?"

"er..." Papyrus rattled nervously. "Are you sure he won't go anywhere?"

"trust me, he'll be right there waitin' for ya!"

Papyrus took a deep breath, calming his non-existent nerves. "All right, Sans...I believe you."

"all right, then." Sans said as he started heading over to the bookshelf. "do ya want me to read you a story?"

"Hm..." Papyrus placed a hand over his jaw as he walked over to the bookshelf. He pointed to the book with a green spine on it. "How about that one?"

"this?" Sans pulled the book out, there was a small white dog on the cover. Papyrus nodded. "Yes, that's the one."

"hm..." Sans headed over to Papyrus' bed and started laying on it. "it's kinda long, though, so i might not be able to get through all of it."

"That's all right," Papyrus said happily, "Just try to get through the first two chapters if you can. We'll read even more tomorrow"

"all right, then."

Papyrus headed up to his bed and curled up next to Sans. Since Gaster couldn't talk for long periods of time without coughing (and since Papyrus wasn't very good at reading small text), it usually fell on Sans to read bedtime stories, himself. Papyrus didn't mind, though. In fact, he enjoyed his brother's company.

"once upon a time, there was a dog named toby..."

As I've said, I'm not expecting updates to be super frequent. Not just from the 100 themes challenge, but because of personal reasons.

And I feel I should mention this: Interactions between the bros is purely platonic. (Yeesh does this fandom scare me!)