Everything hurt.

Remus opened his eyes. His arms ached, his legs throbbed, his head pounded and he felt nauseous.

Damn the full moon.

He sat up, attempting to ignore the extreme pain shooting throughout his body. He held his head in his hands.

Suddenly, the memories of the day before returned. He whistled and his owl, Jack, flew through the window. The owl perched on the end of his bed. Remus leant over and grabbed a quill and piece of parchment from his bedside table and started writing a letter.

Hey, Frisk. I can't really come round to see you today (you know why). You can still come round and see Mum and Dad, though. If you do, make sure to pay me a visit. I'll be slowly dying in my room.

Hopefully, I'll see you later,

Remus

He handed the letter to Jack.

'Deliver this to Frisk. She's next door,' he said, his voice hoarse.

Jack hooted before flying out the window. Remus sighed and leant back on his pillow. The door to his room opened and his mother stepped.

'Morning,' Hope said. 'How are you feeling?'

'Terrible,' Remus replied, 'but I'm used to it.'

Hope gave her son a sad smile.

'Bacon sandwich for breakfast?' she asked.

Remus nodded. He always had a craving for meat around full moons. Just like he had a craving for chocolate the rest of the time.

Hope left the room and, as she did so, Jack flew back in. He dropped a small note on Remus' lap before going over to his cage, climbing in it, closing the door of it with his beak and falling asleep.

Remus picked up the note. Hardly anything was written on it. He read it aloud to himself.

'Three, two, one...'

'Remus!'

Remus' head snapped up, causing a sharp pain to go through it. Frisk and Sans were stood there, at the end of his bed.

'Sorry,' Frisk said. 'We didn't mean to scare you.'

'It's fine,' Remus responded, smiling through the pain.

'jesus, frisk wasn't lying when she said you were really sick,' Sans said. 'you look like shit.'

Remus had gone through enough transformations to know he was as pale as a snowman and had bags under his eyes as dark as James' hair.

'I don't particularly feel that great, either,' he replied.

'Here, I brought you this.' Frisk reached into her pocket and pulled out a brand-name chocolate bar and gave it to her brother.

'Thank you so much!' he smiled opening it and taking a bite. His eyes sparkled and Frisk laughed.

'I forgot how addicted you are,' she chuckled.

Sans raised a metaphorical eyebrow.

a kid with a determination soul who has an addiction to chocolate, he thought to himself. way too familiar for my liking...

'C'mon,' Remus said, as he finished the chocolate bar. 'Dad's at work, but Mum's downstairs. You ready to see her again?'

'Yep,' Frisk replied, 'but you shouldn't get up. You need to rest!'

'It's okay, I'm fine,' Remus said, swinging his legs over the side of the bed. He winced, biting his tongue to stop himself from screaming. 'See? Fine...'

'At least let me help you,' Frisk said. She put her arm around Remus and helped him stand.

'Thanks,' he said through his teeth, still trying not to scream in pain.

'i'll make things easier for ya,' Sans said. He placed at hand on Frisk's shoulder and teleported the three of them.

The actually experience of teleporting was actually relatively familiar to Remus. It didn't feel too different to Flooing and apparation. Well, side-along apparation. He'd never apparated himself before, given he was too young and hadn't had any apparation lessons at Hogwarts.

There were a few differences, of course. The main difference was the fact that, for less than a millisecond, the three of them were seemingly in a void. They were surrounded for complete and utter darkness. Remus swore, however, that he saw a figure stood in the darkness. They seemed to be a skeleton, only melted and they had two cracks in their skull.

As quickly as it had come, the void was gone. The three were just by the door into the kitchen. Remus was glad his sister was holding him up because, if she weren't, he would have flopped to the floor.

'Whoa...' he gasped.

'you'll get used to it,' Sans smiled, winking.

'Mum's in there,' Remus said, nodding his head towards the door to the kitchen. 'You ready?'

'Ready as I'll ever be,' Frisk said, taking a deep breath.

'i'll wait out here,' Sans said. 'don't wanna freak out your mum or anything.'

Remus and Frisk stepped into the kitchen. Hope was facing away from them, slicing bread rolls.

'Hey, Mum,' Remus smiled. 'Look who came home.'

'Remus, what are you doing up?! You have to- '

Hope froze.

'Hi, Mum,' Frisk smiled.

'Frisk... you're alive... You're alive!'

Hope ran over to her daughter and enwrapped her in a hug.

'I can't believe this! You're...you're actually here!' She paused before asking: 'Where were you? What happened?'

'I sorta fell into a mountain filled with monsters, who I befriended and helped free from their underground prison,' Frisk explained.

'...Frisk, tell me the truth. This is nothing to joke about!' Hope said, sternly.

'She's not lying!' Remus said. 'And...we proof.'

Frisk caught onto what he meant and called through the door, 'Sans!'

The skeleton walked into the room, much to Hope's surprise.

'heya, i'm sans the skeleton,' he said. 'nice to meet ya.'

'He's one of the frie... family I made in the Underground,' Frisk said. 'Us and the others just so happened to move in next door. Oh, that is alright, isn't it? That I live next door? I mean, those guys are just as much my family now as you are. I'll still come round here every day! And you can come round whenever you want. I'll also sleep round here...those nights.'

Sans once again rose a metaphorical eyebrow. What did she mean by 'those nights'?

'Of course,' Hope said. 'I'm just so glad you're okay. Wait until I tell your father!'

'I should properly get back to bed,' Remus said.

'i got it.' Sans then teleported three of them back to Remus' room, surprising Hope once again.

Remus, with help from Frisk, got back in bed, wincing and...

Sans began to wonder if he was hearing things, because he swore he heard Remus whimper a few times, like a dog.

Frisk didn't seem to notice, so Sans presumed he was hearing things.

'i'd better go back. the sofa won't nap on itself,' he said. 'you coming, frisk?'

'Nah, I'm gonna stay here with Remus,' she responded.

'Frisk, you don't have to,' Remus said.

'I want to,' she said. 'And, anyway, I need to make up for the month I was gone, to both you and Jack.' She went up to the sleeping owl and gave him a stroke on the head through the bars of the cage.

'welp, i'm heading off. see ya later.'

And so Sans teleported away. He sighed.

Boy, did that raise more questions than it answered.

Full Moon next chapter. What will happen?! You'll find out soon!

To poplasia: Thanks for the tips! I'll keep it in mind. As for the apostrophes, I will keep using them this way, only because, in lots of books (including Harry Potter) single apostrophes are used for speech and double speech marks are used for speech within speech. I'm used to reading and writing this way and will keep doing it. I'm really sorry if you prefer it the other way, but this is just how I'm comfortable doing it.

To Myra the Dovahkiin: Glad you're still enjoying it! Also, Sans is older. In this story, Sans is currently 18 and Papyrus is 16. It's personally how I see their ages.

To CartrigeReality: You're about to find out...

To HRTG1027: Thank you! Happy you're enjoying it still.

See ya in the next chapter!