(I have a lot to say this chapter, sorry.)
I really appreciate the positive feedback, thank you! Also, the view count tho! This fic has been consistently getting 200+ views every day that I post a chapter, and that's ignoring the extra views for the rest of the week and leading up to the next update. AND HOLY CRAP WE REACHED 50 FOLLOWS! WE'RE GONNA REACH 5000 VIEWS AFTER I POST THIS! Seriously, thank you all so much! I'm really glad you're enjoying this! I honestly have no idea what I'm doing right but that's okay! Seeing that seemingly a lot of people actually enjoy this… well… I hate to be cliché, but it fills me with just a bit of determination.
By the way guest "Allie" (Thank you for giving yourself a guest name by the way), to answer your question: The correction Frisk was referring to is the fact that Papyrus thinks the humans are brother and sister, that they're siblings, and they're not. The teen tried correcting Papy on that once and the skeleton didn't even respond, so the older human is just giving up on trying to get him to understand that.
Now, I have been putting off this chapter for a whole freaking week because I can never get myself to start a fight scene. I can't keep delaying this any longer, time to force myself to do it. If it comes out poorly, oh well, I can't let it delay this story any more.
Hope you all enjoy this chapter, somehow!
ProtectorTale Ch.10
The two humans walked further down the street and came across one last large building at the edge of town. There were Christmas lights all over the two story building, and there were also two mailboxes nearby labeled 'sans' and 'PAPYRUS.' Apparently sans was too lazy to clean out the junk mail in his mailbox.
"They do live here!" Frisk noted with a smile.
"Well I guess we'll be visiting them after our 'fight'." AJ said with air quotes.
They noticed Papyrus's silhouette in the distance down the road. They walked towards him, but as they did a snowstorm started to build up out of nowhere. They held their hoods tightly as the wind and snow tried to blow them away, but they powered through it. Eventually they were close enough to see Papyrus's silhouette in the blizzard, and they noticed the skeleton was turned away from them with his cloak fluttering in the high winds.
"HUMANS, YOU ARE FINALLY HERE." Papyrus noticed. "YOU KNOW, I PITY YOU TWO LONELY HUMANS. ALL YOU HAVE FOR FRIENDS ARE EACH OTHER! I CAN HARDLY IMAGINE WHAT THAT'S LIKE, HAVING ONLY ONE PERSON TO CALL YOUR FRIEND. I AM SO GREAT THAT I HAVE MANY FRIENDS!" They saw his silhouette pose dramatically at that. "AND HAVING MANY FRIENDS IS FAR BETTER THAN HAVING ONE FRIEND… THAT YOU… CAN REALLY COUNT ON…" He said hesitantly. "W-WHATEVER! I AM NOT JEALOUS OF YOUR FRIENDSHIP! QUANTITY OVER QUALITY AFTER ALL! I MEAN, ONE SPAGHETTI NOODLE MAY BE GOOD, BUT IT WON'T DO MUCH ALONE!"
The blizzard abruptly cleared and the tall skeleton spun around to face them with his usual smile. "YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT! SO I DON'T NEED FRIENDSHIP LIKE YOURS, I… I'M FINE WITH WHAT I HAVE! I DON'T NEED TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOU!"
"Or, you know, we could still be friends anyways?" The teen suggested.
"REALLY!?" Papyrus asked with stars in his eyes before recovering. "N-NO! NO I CAN'T BE YOUR FRIENDS! YOU'RE HUMANS! I HAVE TO CAPTURE YOU BOTH AND DELIVER YOU TO UNDYNE! WITH TWO HUMANS, SHE WILL SURELY MAKE ME CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD!" He created a bone out of magic and raised it up as if it was a sword.
(Nyeh Heh Heh! – Undertale OST)
"Papyrus, come on! You don't have to do this, we really can be friends!" AJ pleaded.
"Yeah!" The child agreed.
Papyrus's inner conflict showed on his face, but he forced it away. "NYEH! THE GREAT PAPYRUS MUST JOIN THE ROYAL GUARD!" He raised his sword, and three more bones appeared above him, floating in the air.
The older human pulled out his machete and got in front of Frisk. "So, any ideas how to spare him?" He asked.
"It's not coming to me right away." The girl answered. "I'll try to think of something."
The skeleton launched the bones one at a time, and the human shattered each one with his blade. "Guess this is a boss fight then." He figured. Papyrus attacked so slowly the human was able to easily destroy each bone attack that came at them.
"I have an idea!" Frisk said before rolling out to her fellow human's right. She then placed her hands around her soul and made a heart shape over her soul.
The teen looked confused. "What in the world are you doing!?" He asked.
"Shut up! I'm trying to flirt right now!" The girl whispered.
'That's flirting!?' He thought before looking back at Papyrus…
…who was blushing.
"W-WHAT!? FLIRTING!? SO YOU FINALLY REVEAL YOUR ULTIMATE FEELINGS. BUT I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW, I AM A SKELETON WITH STANDARDS." Papyrus said proudly.
'How is this even working?...'
"I can make spaghetti!" Frisk said with a smile.
"Can you?" AJ asked, getting only a frown in return. "Alright, alright, I'll shut up."
Papyrus looked worried. "OH NO! YOU'RE MEETING ALL MY STANDARDS!" He shouted.
If this situation wasn't so ridiculous, the taller human would have laughed at that. 'HOW IS THIS EVEN WORKING!?'
"I GUESS… THAT MEANS I HAVE TO GO ON A DATE WITH YOU THEN!" Papyrus realized, confusing the hell out of the older human. "WELL WE CAN DATE L-LATER THEN, AFTER I CAPTURE YOU!" He launched another few bones at the humans, who jumped to dodge the attacks.
AJ got back in front of the child and raised his weapon. "Neither of us want to fight you, Papyrus! Just give up the fight, you can't hit us with these attacks anyway!"
The skeleton raised an eyebrow at him and smiled. "OH REALLY? YOU HAVEN'T SEEN MY OTHER ATTACKS YET!" He raised his sword high, causing bones to stick out of the ground in front of him. The bones went from one end of the wide path to the other. "NYEH HEH!" He pointed his bone sword at them and the bone wall that was only as tall as Frisk began to tear through the ground at high speeds to move towards them.
The humans were easily able to jump over the small wall because of the magic they had absorbed. The teen looked up at Papyrus after they landed. "Sorry, but that won't work either." He said calmly. "If that's all you got, you might as well stop trying!" 'Please fall for it please fall for it please fall for it.'
Papyrus actually seemed surprised. "WELL, I GUESS YOU WILL HAVE TO HONOR OF SEEING MY FAMOUS BLUE ATTACK!" He said before creating a ludicrous amount of blue-tinted bones. It was a scary sight for the humans, but they knew what to do and stood their ground. The bones all attacked in rapid succession, each one going right through the humans as they stood still.
'Yes! He fell for it! A boss who can't even win with a special attack has to give up!' "Even your greatest attack can't beat us!" AJ shouted, hoping that acting cocky would help him out somehow in this situation. "Now let us spare yo-" He suddenly felt something in his chest shift, he looked down and saw his soul was blue.
"What the?..." He heard Frisk exclaim behind him, letting him know the same had happened to her.
"YOU'RE BLUE NOW! THAT'S MY ATTACK!" Papyrus exclaimed before laughing maniacally. "NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!"
(Bonetrousle – Undertale OST)
'Oh that bastard!'
With a wave of his sword, another wall of bones was created and sent at the humans. They jumped, and just barely made it over the wall. Papyrus noted their confused expressions. "NO MORE SUPER HIGH JUMPS FOR YOU! NYEH HEH HEH!" He sent a few more bones at the humans, and the older one deflected them while the younger one rolled out of the way.
'How the heck do we spare him!? It takes certain actions, but what!?' "Hey, Papyrus! Instead of fighting, why don't we just head back to your house and you make us some spaghetti instead!?" AJ suggested.
"I AM SORRY, HUMAN, BUT I MUST DO THIS TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL GUARD!" Papyrus countered before throwing another volley of bones aimed specifically at him.
He ducked under the first before maneuvering so the other two flew over his shoulders. He watched the skeleton prepare another wall for him and launch it at him. He jumped as high as he could, once again barely making it over the wall, and rolled as he landed. The moment he looked up, he saw three more bones coming at him. He broke the first, froze for the second blue one, and broke the third before running at the skeleton with a determined look in his eyes. He raised his blade and swung downward, and Papyrus met it with the bone he was holding like a sword. "Papyrus, you really don't need to do this! You can get into the Royal Guard some other way, without hurting us, and we can just be friends!"
"I DO NOT NEED YOUR FRIENDSHIP, HUMAN!" Papyrus countered before shoving away the human. "LIKE I SAID, I HAVE MANY FRIENDS, AND DO NOT NEED ANY MORE." He swung his bone at the human's left side, but the human blocked it with his weapon. He continued to push towards him, switching between attacking the left and right side each time, but the human was keeping up with him. He stepped back when the teen suddenly counter attacked and slashed at his chest.
The human began to push him back. The teen spun and struck at the skeleton's ribcage, but Papyrus blocked it with bravado. He swung for the skeleton's leg, but it stepped back and parried his machete. The human quickly swung upward then downward, forcing the monster to step back quickly. Papyrus lunged forward, but the human stepped to the side and slashed him across his chest armor. While the skeleton was reeling, he punched him in the chest, knocking him back. He stood straight and pointed his weapon towards his opponent while the monster recovered. He could feel that Frisk was behind him, and that was all that mattered to him at that moment.
Papyrus saw them both and sadness seemed to flash in his eyes for a moment. He shook his head and launched another wall at the humans. They barely jumped over it before he launched a bone attack to drive them apart. He then did his best to throw bones at both of them once again. He caught the older human off guard with a combination of blue and normal attacks and was able to get a hit on him. Being a bone, it was nothing more than a blunt weapon, but it actually hurt quite a bit, and AJ saw his soul crack a little.
"Are you okay!?" Frisk asked, concerned, as she ducked under another bone attack.
"Don't worry about me." He responded calmly, knowing full well that she would ignore that request. "It doesn't hurt that bad." He pushed towards the skeleton once again, ducking, breaking, and jumping over the bone attacks that got in his way. He struck at the monster again, but his blade was blocked again. Papyrus's bone sword turned blue before he swung, and the human stopped moving mid-swing to avoid it. The moment the bone passed through him he continued his swing, only to be cut off by Papyrus's weapon coming back and hitting him in the side with such force that it knocked him down.
The younger human gasped in fear before running towards the fallen human. Papyrus saw this and threw out three more bones at the girl. She raised her stick and used it to break the first two as she ran, but the third hit her good arm and caused her to drop the stick. But, she was able to pick it up with her other hand before she ran past it. The skeleton panicked and tried to raise a bone wall to stop her, but she jumped up and off the wall to get to the monster's height. She let out a yell as she swung as hard as she could, smacking the skeleton's skull and making him stumble back. There was no killing intent behind her swing, so it barely hurt him.
Papyrus shook his head before looking up again. He saw her standing straight with her weapon pointed towards him just like AJ had done. "Papyrus, please, we can just be friends. You don't have to do this…" She pleaded.
They looked on in shock as Papyrus's eyes squinted in what looked like frustration or anger. "I HAVE FRIENDS ALREADY! I HAVE PLENTY OF FRIENDS ALREADY! I DON'T NEED YOUR FRIENDSHIP!" He shouted before launching bone attacks at the girl rapidly. The girl kept her feet firmly in place and her eyes filled with determination. She broke every single attack he threw at her, making sure neither her friend nor she herself were injured further.
He looked annoyed with them, but he soon smirked. "WELL, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE MY SPECIAL ATTACK!" He said before throwing his left arm out in the direction of the forest, as if he was going to catch something. Suddenly, a bone that looked exactly the same as all the others flew out of the woods and into his hand. He then realized there was a small white dog hanging off the bone and gnawing on it. He let out a furious yell as he threw the bone away as far as he could, far too frustrated to deal with that dog right now. He looked back at the human.
"Please…" She pleaded.
Her standing her ground seemed to be breaking him, his eyes were welling up with tears as he started to throw attacks at her as hard as he could. "I DON'T NEED TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU! I DON'T WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU! I'M FINE WITH THE COUNTLESS FRIENDS THAT I HAVE ALREADY! I HAVE SO MANY NOODLES IN THE POT AS IT IS, I DON'T NEED TWO MORE! I'M FINE!" His attacks stopped as he witnessed the older human get up and stand beside his fellow human. They both stared defiantly at him, as friends, and they weren't going to be taken down by him.
Papyrus broke down and fell to his knees. "I… I CANNOT LIE ANY LONGER HUMANS! I AM JEALOUS OF YOU BOTH! I AM ENVIOUS OF A FRIENDSHIP LIKE YOURS! OH HOW I WISH I COULD HAVE FRIENDS LIKE YOU!" He cried out and began crying into his large, gloved hands.
The humans looked at each other sadly before walking up to the sobbing skeleton. "It's okay, Papyrus." Frisk said softly, petting the top of his skull.
"Papyrus, you don't have to do this." AJ started softly. "You can be our friends, just stop fighting please."
The skeleton pulled his hands away slightly to look at them. "But… I want to become a member of the Royal Guard…" He said.
"And you can! You're 'The Great Papyrus', I'm sure you can get into the Royal Guard eventually!" The teen said with a smile. "But if you want to have friends like us, just be friends with us! You can be friends with us AND get into the Royal Guard, can't you?"
The skeleton sobbed. "I… Yes, I can." He answered.
"Then come on! Let's stop fighting and go back to your house!"
"And have our date!" The younger human added quickly, getting an odd look from her friend.
The skeleton looked up at them and smiled brightly. "Let's be friends now." AJ said with a smile.
Papyrus's eyes shined brightly. He loved the idea of being friends with them, and he couldn't argue with the older human's logic. There was no reason they couldn't be friends, the friends he wanted to have. "THAT SOUNDS LIKE A WONDERFUL IDEA!" He shouted gleefully before jumping up to a stand and hugging the two humans tightly. "WOWIE! I CAN'T BELIEVE I MADE TWO FRIENDS! WHO KNEW ALL I HAD TO DO TO MAKE FRIENDS WAS GIVE PEOPLE AWFUL PUZZLES, FIGHT THEM, AND THEN COLLAPSE INTO AN EMBARRASSING PUDDLE OF TEARS IN FRONT OF THEM!" He said cheerfully before letting go of them.
The taller human applied his hand to his face and let out a snort before shaking his head, while the shorter one just laughed out loud. With that, they all smiled and started walking back towards the house of sans and Papyrus. The humans were relieved they had gotten through the fight without anything really bad happening to anyone, though they were both surprised that had ended up being an actual fight. Papyrus felt bad that he didn't capture the humans, and he worried about how Undyne would react to this, but he was still happy to have made new friends out of the humans.
The oldest human was also happy he didn't get angry and try to kill the adorable skeleton.
They reached the large wooden house and the tall skeleton knocked loudly. "SANS! I'M BACK!" He shouted before opening the door and entering.
"Hey, bro." the shorter skeleton lazily greeted from the couch. "How'd it go with the humans?"
"IT WENT VERY WELL! THEY'RE MY NEW FRIENDS!" Papyrus answered happily before the two humans walked in and leaned past the monster to look at sans.
"Heyo!" AJ greeted with a peace sign.
"Hi, sans!" Frisk greeted with a wave.
Sans acted surprised. "Really? Well, hey there, humans. Glad everything worked out."
The room they stepped into first was the large living room. Straight ahead, past the random table with a rock on it, was the kitchen. To their left was the couch, tv, and the stairs at the far end. The stairs led up to two more rooms, which were more than likely separate rooms for the brothers.
"YES, EVERYTHING DID WORK OUT! I HAVE TWO NEW FRIENDS, AND I HAVE A DATE!" The loud skeleton exclaimed happily.
Sans raised an eyebrow at him. "A date?" He asked, not sure if he heard that right.
The older human stepped further into the living room with a sigh. "Frisk thought flirting with him was a good idea for some reason, so now they're going to have a date." He explained.
The laid back skeleton blinked twice as he took that in for a moment. "…Al…right then." He eventually said and relaxed back into the couch. "Have fun on your date then."
"NYEH HEH! LET'S GO, HUMAN!" Papyrus said before taking the child's hand and heading out with the smiling girl.
"I'm not expecting much from that." The teen commented as he sat down on the couch next to the skeleton.
Sans chuckled. "Between the two of them, they probably don't even know how to go on a proper date."
The human chuckled as well. "Heh. Me neither."
"Heh. Same."
There was silence for a few moments as they both stared at the tv, which was playing nothing but static. The silence was abruptly broken by the door swinging open and Papyrus marching back in. "Wait, why are we back here?" Frisk asked.
"WELL WE SURE AREN'T GOING TO GRILLBY'S, I HAVE STANDARDS!" Papyrus responded. "MY DATE DESERVES TO GO TO A PROPER DATING PLACE, MY ROOM! LET US GO!" He said before heading up the stairs, the smaller human following behind him. They went into the left room and shut the door.
Sans and AJ had never seen two people look so clueless about what they were doing. They didn't know how to date at all.
"Hey, sans?" The human started. "Are you okay with us staying here for the night?"
The skeleton seemed to think about it for a few moments. "I don't mind. You both have been nice so far, and you made my brother really happy so…" He smiled. "Nope, don't mind at all."
"Thank you." AJ said with a thankful nod.
"You're both gonna have to find a way to share the couch though." Sans pointed out.
The human looked at the couch they were sitting on. "Hmm. Never slept sitting down before." He commented, as if it would simply be a new experience for him. The skeleton smiled seeing that he didn't have a problem with that.
They both went quiet for a bit, the older human turning away from the monster to place his elbow on the armrest and prop his head up with his hand. The two in Papyrus's room could be heard through the door, though their voices and laughter were too muffled to understand what was going on.
"Do you hate me?" The teen asked quietly, not turning to face the one he was speaking to.
The skeleton turned to him with a shocked and confused expression. "W-What?... Why would I hate you?"
"I don't know, but people usually find a way." AJ responded. "Why else are you always giving me a fake smile?"
There was silence for a moment.
"W-…What fake smi-"
"Do not treat me like an idiot, sans." The human interrupted angrily, finally turning to face the monster so he could see his fed-up expression.
Sans's smile fell away and he just looked at the human with a stunned expression. "How? No one else can tell, how can you?"
"Because I've been having to do that quite a bit since I fell down here." The teen answered depressingly. "Makes it easy to see yours."
Sans chuckled. "No you haven't. You think you have, but you haven't." The human gave him a confused look. "When I first got a good look at you, your eyes were dark. They weren't the darkest things in the world, but they weren't all that bright, definitely not as bright as the kid's. But the thing is, just sitting here now I can see your eyes are brighter. Every second you've been around that girl your eyes have been getting a little brighter. It may be hard to smile sometimes, but she's having a big effect on you, I can tell. You're not like me, bud, you actually are happy most of the time. You won't be faking smiles for much longer if you stay with that girl." He chuckled before adding. "And I'm pretty sure her eyes have somehow gotten even brighter around you as well."
Honestly, AJ didn't know how to respond to that, he just ended up repeating what the skeleton had said in his mind.
"Let me be clear, bud, I don't hate you, at all." Sans continued. "Like I've said, you're both pretty nice, and you did a favor for me that you didn't have to do. My fake smiles have nothing to do with you."
That last line brought the teen's mind back into focus and he faced the skeleton with a concerned look. "Is there anything I can do to help you, sans?" The skeleton turned away from him with a frown. "You know what? It's okay. Just tell me this, is it anything I can help you with or not? That's all you have to answer."
Sans turned back to him with a thoughtful expression. His thoughtful expression eventually faded away and he simply frowned at the kid. "Sorry, there's nothing you can do about my problems."
AJ frowned. "Okay… I wish you luck with whatever you have to deal with." He said sadly.
"Heh… thanks kid." The skeleton said with a weak smile.
(Home – Undertale OST)
"I'm not a kid." The teen said, squinting at him.
"Well, you're a kid to me." Sans countered.
"How old are you then?"
"You don't wanna know."
"Oh really? Why don't I wanna know?"
"Well, it's not so much that you don't wanna know, it's just that…" The skeleton suddenly smiled widely. "I don't have to guts to tell you."
The human was silent for a moment as he processed the fact that he just made that pun. "GOD DAMN IT SANS!" He shouted as he nearly fell off the couch laughing, causing sans to laugh as well. "I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU JUST DID THAT!"
"What? Did I tickle your funny bone?" The skeleton asked, grinning ear to non-existent ear.
"Shut up, damn it!" The teen demanded as his sides started to hurt. "Of all the times to be humorous!"
"Don't you mean… humerus?" Sans asked.
"Yes! Yes I do!" The laughing human answered.
It was at that moment that Frisk and Papyrus came back out from the room they were in, the human looking sad and the skeleton looking sorry. Then they looked down over the guard rails and saw the older human and monster hunched over in pain and laughing. They smiled at them before walking down the stairs. "WELL, I AM GOING TO MAKE SOME OF MY WONDEROUS SPAGHETTI!" Papyrus announced, walking towards the kitchen. "THE HUMANS NEED TO HEAL AFTER OUR FIGHT AFTER ALL. BUT AFTER THAT, WE SHOULD ALL GET SOME REST! IT IS GOING TO BE LATE SOON!"
The two eventually calmed down and were able to stop laughing. "Wait, how can you tell time down here? How does it get late?" AJ asked sans.
The skeleton responded by waving his hands in front of him. "Magic." He answered dramatically.
The older human rolled his eyes. "I guess I shouldn't have expected anything better than that."
"No, no you shouldn't have." Sans responded with a chuckle before walking up the stairs to his room.
The tall human noticed his fellow human walking up to him. "So, how did the date go?" He asked with an amused smile.
The girl sat down next to him and crossed her arms, looking down at the ground. "It didn't work out, okay?" She answered quickly with a frown.
He chuckled a bit. "What? Did you actually think that date was going anywhere?" He asked.
"No, but I thought it might be fun, and it wasn't fun." She complained before leaning back into the couch. "Well, I mean, it was fun until the end when he counter-friendzoned me."
He laughed a bit. "Ah yes, the old 'counter-friendzone'." He said jokingly. "But how did it go before that?"
"Well, like I said, fun, but…" The girl blushed and looked down in shame. "We had no idea what we were doing…" She whined, causing him to laugh out loud.
"Hahahaha! Oh that must have been awkward, I am so sorry!" He said, but he didn't seem sorry when he was laughing. The girl pouted at him, but that only made him laugh more. He stopped laughing when he smelled something burning. "What the heck?" The humans stood up to get a better look into the kitchen and saw Papyrus calmly burning whatever he was cooking. "Hey! Papyrus!"
"OH! HELLO, TALL HUMAN! CARE TO WATCH A MASTER CHEF AT WORK!?" Papyrus asked with his usual smile as the human walked into the kitchen.
"Papyrus, I'm pretty sure you don't burn things when you cook them!" AJ pointed out.
The skeleton waved him off. "OF COURSE YOU DO, HUMAN! THAT'S HOW IT GETS ITS TEXTURE AND STRONG FLAVOR!"
"Look, I hate to tell a chef how to cook, but my mom never burned anything on purpose, and her food turns out really good." The teen explained, and the skeleton looked confused. "Look, could you at least experiment for tonight? See what happens when you don't burn the noodles? And… everything else…" He suggested hopefully.
The skeleton hummed in thought, putting his hand to his chin. After a long moment, he decided. "YOU KNOW WHAT? SINCE YOU ARE MY NEW FRIEND, I WILL TRY THAT!" He decided, and the human breathed a huge sigh of relief before quickly getting away from the smoke. "THOUGH I WORRY WHAT THAT WILL DO TO THE TEXTURE." He sat back down on the couch next to his fellow human.
"Oh yeah, he gave me some spaghetti to try on our date." Frisk remembered.
"How was it?" AJ asked warily.
"Indescribable." She answered with a horrified look on her face. "But I couldn't bear to tell him that. I hope not burning the food helps a little."
Sans came out of his room eventually and sat back down on the couch with the humans. "Hey, sans?" The girl started. "Is Papyrus's spaghetti all we're going to have for food here?"
The skeleton rested his arms behind his skull. "Well, he doesn't really know how to make much else." He answered.
The girl's eyes widened before she leaned close to her fellow human and whispered in his ear. "We are so not living here."
He let out a chuckle. "What, that's it? Just, you've decided, not happening?" Sans gained a curious look and walked over to see what Papyrus was doing differently to not create so much smoke. Frisk shook her head with a fearful look in her eyes. "Aww… but I kind of like it here."
"This is not home! This is so, so not home!" She whispered strongly. "Home has good food, but the only good food here isn't even here, it's at Grillby's! I don't have that much gold on me!"
He raised his hands in surrender. "You know what? I'll just take your word for it." He decided. "I don't know enough about cooking to turn him around and make his food any good, and not burning it isn't gonna suddenly make it good. I guess this'll just be another place we can visit once we do find a proper home. So we'll just continue our search in the morning?" He asked, and she nodded.
Eventually, Papyrus came over with three plates of spaghetti. He handed one to each person seated at the couch. "THERE YOU ARE! BONEAPPETIT!" He then froze, realizing what he had said. He looked down and saw his brother and the two humans grinning widely at him. "NOT. A. WORD." He warned, his teeth grinding together. They decided to obey and stay silent while Papyrus went to get his own plate of spaghetti.
The two humans stared at their food warily. The smell was repulsive. Sans took a bite and his eyes widened. "Wow! Bro, you have outdone yourself this time!" He exclaimed.
"I HAVE?" Papyrus asked, surprised, before staring at his own noodles. "HMM… BUT THEY LOOK WRONG, THE TEXTURE IS TOTALLY WRONG."
"It's just different, paps, try it." Sans requested.
Papyrus took a bite, and he chewed his food slowly, meticulously, taking in every detail he could about it. "HMM… I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE TEXTURE, BUT I MUST ADMIT, THE FLAVOR IS MUCH BETTER." He decided calmly. The smaller skeleton was surprised he wasn't losing it over how wonderful it tasted as opposed to the usual. But he guessed it was just hard for his brother to get into the new concept.
The humans hesitantly took in a few noodles. The taste was as repulsive as the smell, but Frisk mentally noted how it tasted much better than before. They forced down the rest of their food and tried to not look as sick as they felt after eating it. Once everyone had eaten, sans turned off the lamp and the static-playing tv so the living room was dark enough for the humans.
(Home (Music Box) – Undertale OST)
"WELL, I WILL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT TRYING COOKING THAT WAY MORE OFTEN!" Papyrus exclaimed. "GOODNIGHT, HUMANS!" He said before heading up to his room.
""Goodnight!""
The humans noticed sans heading up into the larger skeleton's room as well, and he noticed the way they were looking at him. "Pap gets cranky without his bedtime story." He explained. Frisk "aww"d. "Goodnight." He said before closing the door to his brother's room.
Sans enjoyed his time with his brother, telling him his bedtime story filled with fluffy bunnies. Even now, the ending still gets him. The older, yet shorter, brother skeleton smiled as he closed the door to his brother's room once again. His pleasant smile went away when he looked down at the humans on the couch. They were both in awkward positions that would hurt their necks in the morning, all so they could make space for each other. Apparently they decided that sleeping while sitting wasn't going to happen. He shouldn't have cared, but he did for some reason. His slippers allowed him to step down the stairs without making a sound, and he approached the sleeping humans.
His worried expression grew when he heard the older human whimper in his sleep. It was clear he was having a nightmare, and sans wished to wake him up from it, but he thought about how difficult it must have been to get to sleep in a position like that, and didn't want the human to have to do that all over again. Suddenly, he remembered what he had heard Frisk say while he was watching them, something about petting him. 'Why would she pet him? Why would he like that? He's a human, not a dog.' The skeleton thought. As awkward as the idea was, he hated seeing the kid clearly suffering in whatever nightmare he was having.
He sighed. 'Screw it.' He reached his hand out slowly and allowed his boney fingers to comb through the teen's thick hair. 'Huh… it's really soft…' He still felt weird petting the human, but then he noticed AJ smile a bit in his sleep. The human relaxed, and when he pulled his hand away, the human stayed relaxed. 'Did… did that actually help him?' He stared at both the humans and the positions they were in, they still looked uncomfortable, nightmares or not.
'Alright, this is ridiculous.' He thought as his left hand glowed blue. He raised his hand into the air, using gentle telekinesis to raise the humans out of the couch. 'I understand wanting to give each other space, or feeling awkward being close to the each other, but whatever your reasons, you are both gonna hurt if I let you stay like that.' Something he had learned was that as long as he was gentle with his telekinesis, they wouldn't feel what he was doing. He set the tall human down across the entire couch, which was the kind of space he really needed. Then he set the younger one softly on top of him. It was the most comfortable sleeping positions they'd be able to have on a couch. He stared at them for a moment and smiled ever so slightly. 'They really do look like brother and sister.' He noticed before quietly walking back up the stairs and into his own room.
Frisk woke up briefly. She clung to the boy tightly as tears welled up in her eyes, as if he would get taken away from her if she let go.
You know, someday, when we get near the end of this fanfic, you'll see that when I want to write a fight scene, I go WILD with it! But when I don't care to write a fight scene? When it's just something that I need to do? IT IS THE HARDEST THING FOR ME TO DO AND I HATE IT SO MUCH. If I had some grand idea for this fight, I could have gone on so long with it, put so much detail into it, and I would have actually liked it! But this? I hated every damn word I wrote once it got to the fighting part! AGH! I shortened it so much because I couldn't stand to write it! MAN, the weirdest thing is I never have had THIS much trouble writing a fight scene before! Maybe it's because I hated every second of it? IDK. Whatever! I'm so glad I can move on from that! *Sigh* On a happier note, I can live with the dialogue at the start and end of it, so that's nice.
I had this massive thing explaining why Papyrus acted the way he did, anticipating the OOC complaints. But, for the sake of your eyes, I removed all that, because you know what? This is an AU, if the characters end up being a bit different, oh well, it's not the end of the world.
Well, that's plenty enough talking for this chapter. On to the next one.
Hope you had a good week and that your next one is great!
(For some dumb reason it said the format wasn't right (WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN) and I had to copy and paste this whole stupid thing I'm irritated right now I hope this didn't screw up anything)