Chapter 4: Realization
2:18 am.
Sans shot up in his bed, breathing heavily as he began to bawl out in terror. The horrified screaming was so loud that it came from across his brother's room. Papyrus groaned as he heard the commotion. He sat up in his own bed and rubbed his eyes from where he was dozed out. "Sans?" He said to himself as he got up to check on his brother. "What on Earth??" He said in confusion as he opened his door. He then proceeded to walk over to Sans's room. "Sans?" He called out, but no answer, just heavy breathing that was heard from outside. "Sans!" Papyrus called out as he turned the knob on the door, which opened soon after. "Are you alr-?!" He asked, but in shock to what he saw.
He saw his brother, sitting up in his bed, with flames in the shade of blue coming from his trembling hands and one of his eye sockets, hyperventilating in terror, bloodcurdling, uncontrollable sobs, and tears coming from his eyes. "Oh my God!! Sans!!" Papyrus called out as he ran over to him. He stood at the edge of the bed, not knowing what was going on. "Sans?? What's wrong?? What happened??" He called out to him. But Sans couldn't hear him. Papyrus got up on the bed as he put his hands on his brother's shoulders to see if he could get his attention. "Sans!! Look at me!!" He told him. But Sans still couldn't hear his brother's calls to him. Papyrus started to shake Sans to get him to snap out of whatever he was thinking. "Come on!! Say something!! Please!! Papyrus called out, but Sans still couldn't hear him. So as a last resort, Papyrus yelled out for him.
"SANS!!"
Sans shot up from the hyperventilation state he was in as he looked at his brother, horrified. Papyrus looked a little scared as he looked how scared his brother was. Sans finally began to speak, "p...papyrus...??" Papyrus was relieved that his brother was alright, but was confused as to why he was hyperventilating in terror. "Brother...What happened??" He asked him. Sans held up his hands and put them on both of his brother's cheek bones, and realized that he was only dreaming. Papyrus held one of his trembling hands to show him that he was here.
Sans then started trembling from head to toe as tears rolled down his eye sockets. "oh my god..." He said to himself as he was about to cry.