I... I think I have a medical issue. 3 chapters in the span of one night and day... help

Sans had been in his room for an hour upstairs, and everyone in the house was working. Frisk was alone, watching TV. Of course, Sans was awake, and probably would've noticed if something bad happened, but Frisk didn't know that.

Undyne and Papyrus were training back at Waterfall.

Mumbling to herself about how she wouldn't be able to teach Papyrus to cook for another month, she trained with Papyrus.

Undyne didn't want to keep the training going, they didn't need a royal guard anymore, but Papyrus always insisted it was for 'bonding' reasons.

Training, of course, mostly consisted of chatting over near the dummy in front of Undyne's house. They never actually trained, because after all, like Undyne had said, the Royal guard had disbanded.

Undyne wouldn't admit it, but she was a bit sad over the fact she couldn't train normally anymore, and she was trying harder than ever now to try and change Papyrus's train of thought. Maybe become a cook, maybe make puzzles, but fighting will do him no good.

Undyne was also trying to keep the conversation off of Sans. They didn't need more of that. Papyrus was also trying to keep the conversation off of his brother.

Alphys was still 'working', which meant she was most likely watching Anime that day.

Eventually, Papyrus invited Undyne over again, who reluctantly accepted. Papyrus started the walk back home, and Undyne called Alphys.

"Hey, Alphys, come over to Papyrus's house again.. he just invited me over and I'm not going alone..." She hung up before Alphys could respond and ran to catch up with Papyrus.

Sans finally came out of his room and went downstairs.

"hey kiddo, what's up?" Smiling, Sans greeted Frisk, who was still watching TV.

"sorry about being gone all morning, but hey, you know me, sleeping is my sport of choice," Sans winked, and Frisk laughed at the joke.

Sans took a seat next to Frisk on the couch.

"whatcha watchin?" Sans looked at the TV, uninterested. He made conversation, which Frisk eagerly replied to. Sans had social needs too, and with no time to talk to anybody at Grillby's, or any of his friends, he was picking conversation out like he hadn't talked in years.

Sans excused himself and went to his bedroom, using a 'shortcut' into the kitchen, just because he could. He didn't want Papyrus coming in with Undyne, he said he'd be in by this time...

Papyrus, Alphys and Undyne all arrived soon, and eventually, it was night again. They spoke for a while, and at 9:00, everyone paused.

Undyne was anxious to see what speech Sans' was gonna come up with tonight. Alphys was nervous, and Papyrus was eyeing them both.

"FRISK, WHY DON'T YOU GO TO BED?" Papyrus asked slowly, looking at the time then back at her.

"Uhh, I... I'm not tired." Frisk smiled, and pat Papyrus's hand.

Alphys had asked her to stay. Yeah, Alphys.

They waited. 15 minutes passed. 20.

Frisk was getting sleepy, and she couldn't deny it.

Papyrus stood up and picked her up, observing Undyne's strange behavior. Papyrus put Frisk to bed, which was odd, because recently, Sans came into both Papyrus's and Frisk's rooms when he couldn't sleep just to say night to them both. Frisk usually didn't sleep until Sans said goodnight, but tonight she was tired.

Papyrus awkwardly pat her on the head and went back downstairs.

"Hmm... Hey, Papyrus, we're gonna go. It was fun today! Tomorrow we'll come back, probably. So, bye!" Undyne grabbed Alphys hand and rushed out. Papyrus was left in an eerily silent room.

Was it just him, or were they acting like they wanted to leave as soon as possible? Papyrus shook off the feeling and confidently went to his room to lay in his bed and read puzzle books to calm his nerves.

Papyrus was almost falling asleep when he heard pattering against the wall. He quickly got up and walked into San's room. Under a pile of blankets, Papyrus heard Sans mutter some things in his sleep which he couldn't hear.

Then, a bone appeared. Then another. Flying around the room weirdly, not aimed at anything in particular.

Slowly taking the sheets off Sans, Papyrus discovered Sans was mumbling pretty loudly, almost arguing. They were unintelligible jumbles of words, like all sleep-talking, but it sounded like a pretty heated conversation.

Papyrus took the chance and woke Sans up.

Sans woke up alert and groggy, a bad mixture. Lifting his hand up, he dismissed his bones, as if it was instinct for skeletons to know when they had misplaced magical attacks.

Mumbling a few words, Sans opened his eyes and sat up, looking up at Papyrus.

"oh, hey papyrus. what's up?" Sans looked up at his bother, sitting on his bed. Papyrus stood and looked at Sans.

"SANS, PLEASE TELL ME, WHAT WERE YOU DREAMING ABOUT?" Papyrus begged in a small whisper.

"noth-"

"SANS, PLEASE, JUST ONCE, TELL ME..."

"you wouldn't want to know, Papyrus..." Sans looked up at him. Telling his brother would risk it all.

Papyrus fell quickly to the floor, sitting. Now he was looking up at Sans. A small tear ran down Papyrus's cheek.

"no, papy, no..." Sans sighed. "okay."

And he explained. He left out multiple details, but pretended that the whole bad part of the dream was that he was being hurt. Sans didn't have the heart to tell Papyrus 'hurt' meant 'dying' over and over.

"...WHO HURT YOU?" Papyrus looked up with watery eye...sockets? and begged for an answer with his eyes.

"papy, please, don't cry. it doesn't matter. you saved me!" Sans chuckled, getting down and giving Papyrus a hug. Papyrus didn't hug back, and Sans fell backwards after 2 seconds, falling down in a tight space between the bed and Papyrus, Papyrus scooted back a little bit, concerned.

Sans kept it cool throughout some of it.

Can you imagine the one person you've hoped never dies not hugging you back? The one person you've always counted on to hug you even in the worst times? Sans knew it was ridiculous, but it was like hugging a corpse. Even if monsters turned to dust after they died.

Sans smiled at Papyrus, completely forced. But the pain from the hit, well, hit him.

Sans rubbed the back of his head and moaned an "oww", him hitting his head on the bottom of the mattress (Which was hard) when he fell back. Partially at fault for a few tears that tried to push come out.

Papyrus rushed to try and hug Sans, but Sans instinctively held his head and pushed Papyrus back with one arm, trying to push backwards into his mattress.

Papyrus went wide-eyed, got up, and ran right out of the room, not bothering to close the door. Sans crawled over to the door and shut it quietly.

It all felt like it happened so fast. Sitting against his door, keeping it shut, Sans started to breathe quickly, it seemed to help.

Still holding his head, Sans weeped silently. As he did this, he pressed harder against the door. If anyone came in, his life would be ruined. He wanted to scream, but his only objective now was not to be discovered.

He shouldn't have pushed back so fast. Sans felt around for cracks, but he didn't feel anything but the headache. This was the first night he'd shed real tears. He was whispering to himself, in a voice he could barely hear.

"it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, please stop crying, it's okay,"

He used the bedsheet to rub his tears off furiously, making sure no residue was left behind. Be strong for Papyrus.

Papyrus had bolted out of the room into his own room, where he was frightened. He didn't know why, but he was scared. He had done wrong. He should have hugged back, he shouldn't have done this prank, Sans was doing so well, he didn't get nightmares as much anymore, then Papyrus had to agree with Undyne and go in and RUIN it.

Papyrus wanted to cry, but he had no tears. Crying wouldn't make anything better, anyway. A large weight hung at his heart. He had conditioned himself long ago to forget the bad and smile at the good, but what good was there now?

Papyrus had made

his own

big brother

die a little

inside

and it was all

his fault.

Papyrus cowered in fear of himself under his own bed sheets, which were now in a mess, covering him.

Well, maybe there was one thing to smile about.

Nobody had to be sad about it, because they didn't know. The only lives he'd ruined had been his own and Sans's.

Papyrus had failed his duty.

Sans had failed his duty.

Keep each other happy.

-=-=-=-Undyne-=-=-=-

It was dark. Undyne sat up in bed, holding her bunched up pillow and pressing it against her. She gripped Alphy's arm and shook it a bit.

Alphys woke up and sat up in bed, putting on her glasses. She looked at Undyne.

"Yeah, Undyne? What's wrong?" Alphys whispered. Her heart beat in her chest, what had happened? Undyne was never this tense.

"I have a dreadful feeling and I don't know why," Undyne frowned, whispering as well. Why were they whispering? When it's dark, you feel a need to whisper.

"Me too, Undyne. Me too..." Alphys whispered, confused. The dreadful feeling remained, even when Undyne didn't reveal anything horrible. It was like Alphys was scared of something, but she didn't know what.

Undyne gave up all attempt to look tough and gave Alphys a quick, tight hug. Alphys hugged back, but after a second it was gone.

"I don't know why, but I'm scared." Undyne wasn't scared of anything.

"I am too... do you think... something bad.. happened to..." Alphys didn't finish.

Undyne gave Alphys another hug.

"It doesn't matter yet, Alphys. Let's try to be reasonable. Don't be scared for no reason," Undyne whispered, and gave a small smile.

This time, Alphys hugged Undyne. Undyne slowly hugged back and they laid down, going back to sleep.

Undyne joked and spoke with Alphys while they walked to Sans' and Papyrus's house. Alphys contributed in the conversation, but not as eager.

Undyne didn't knock, and just walked in. The first surprising thing was that it was almost 10:00am and nobody was up. Papyrus got up early every day.

Sans suddenly opened his door and walked downstairs. No smile on his face, no nothing. He looked at Undyne and Alphys, then kept walking.

"Hey, you! Where's Papyrus!" Undyne, trying to use intimidation as an advantage advanced on Sans.

Sans didn't answer. It hurt to blink, he must've taken quite some damage last night if he had such a splitting headache. His health had been building up lately, for every day there wasn't a reset, he got 1/8 of health. His health was at 5. This only started happening recently, and his health hadn't been going up at all in the past few days, probably due to all the stress.

"Hey! Answer! Your jaw isn't frozen shut, is it?" Undyne tried to corner Sans. Sans stood below a cabinet and turned to Undyne and Alphys. Despite his dislike for Undyne, he should explain why he's not talking before she straps him down.

"i... have a headache... leave me alone..." Sans grit his teeth and managed not to slur the words, that was an achievement, and proceeded into grabbing a bottle of headache pills and walking away and upstairs.

"Jesus, where's Papyrus?" Undyne ran upstairs and knocked on his door. Papyrus opened.

"HEY UNDYNE, BYE UNDYNE," Papyrus shut the door again. Alphys thought about checking on Frisk, but Frisk slept until 11:00am on weekends.

Undyne banged on the door, and opened it.

"HI UNDYNE, PLEASE GO AWAY, I'M BUSY," Papyrus forced a smile, but it didn't reach his eye sockets.

"Papyrus! What's wrong!" Undyne frowned in confusion.

"NOTHING, IT'S A SURPRISE, PLEASE COME BACK ANOTHER TIME. I'LL CALL YOU LATER, OKAY?" Papyrus forced a grin.

"Uhh... okay, but you better call me soon..." Undyne took a step back from Papyrus.

Alphys was watching from a few feet back.

Papyrus waved bye and shut the door. Undyne ripped a sticky note from a stack laying in the corner, probably left by Sans or Frisk.

"WE'RE TAKING THE PUNK OUT, NGHAA! -UNDYNE AND ALPHYS"

Undyne slid the note under the door and turned to Alphys.

"Alphys, go get the punk. We're going to take care of her today." Alphys nodded and ran off.

"I'll be outside." Undyne respectively went outside.

Undyne looked down again, then took a deep breath. She let it out, and she watched the steam from her breathing spread. She rubbed her arms in cold. She was never good at extreme climates.

Undyne was really worried. She would never admit it, but she was scared as well.

Undyne watched the mist spread and disappear, becoming cold as she whispered once again.

The prank, it had become obvious, had ruined more lives than one. She had to fix it. SHE had to. She did it, she planned it, and she needs to find out what happened.

Alphys had woken Frisk up and was coming downstairs with her, ready to go with Undyne and Frisk back to Undyne's house.

Undyne looked down, then at the emptiness around her. It was early in the morning, after all.

"What's wrong with Papyrus?...

is it because...

We broke Sans...?"