Authors Note

Hello, I would like to apologize for this chapter coming out so late. I'll be honest with you I actually lost the motivation to write and put it off for a long time. But I have not abandoned this story or my other one, I will continue writing them but as side projects, hopefully I will keep up on them.

Again I am sorry for the long wait.

Also Papyrus and maybe a bit OOC I'm not sure. But he will speak in lower case letters when he is trying to comfort and help someone who is in a serious situation.

One last thing If any of you have some ideas on which way this story should go please don't hesitate to PM me or leave them in the comments I would love to hear your input.

Chapter 7 Feeling of Betrayal

(Recap)

"SANNS! YOU ARE SCARING THE HUMAN!" Papyrus walked in to the living room with two plates of spaghetti in his hands. "I HOPE YOU ARE HUNGRY HUMAN I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS HAS MADE YOU SOME OF MY WORLD FAMOUS SPAGHETTI!" Frisk pulled her arms out of the blanket and gratefully took a plate from him. Sans moved to the other side of the couch letting papyrus sit in between them, they sat there watching the TV in a comfortable silence. Chara fazed through the door and looked over at the trio. They were all asleep, with Sans and Frisk each using one of Papyrus' shoulders as a pillow. Chara floated over to Frisk and whispered to her.

"Frisk, hey Frisk, I'm back." Frisk shifted in her cocoon and yawned.

"Ch-Chara?" She rubbed her eyes sleepily before looking at her old friend, she was about to speak but Chara placed a finger over her mouth telling he to be quiet. She whispered. "Are they alive, did you take them somewhere safe?" Chara crossed her legs while floating in the air.

"They are fine, Zach was able to use his soul power to heal his sister and in the process protect us from Sans blast. I took them to an old shack that Asriel and I built with dad, it is hard to find if you don't know where it is, and they will be safe there." Frisk let out a sigh of relief.

"That's good. I may tell Papyrus that they are here and see if he would be alright if they come over." Sans shifted in his spot but continued snoring, Chara watched him for a moment. "But first I need to convince Sans that they are just like us, they would never hurt anyone on purpose, well they may try to hurt each other but that's what siblings do, I think." Chara knew that Sans wasn't really sleeping, luck fully she knew that he couldn't hear her.

"Hey Frisk." She pointed her thumb at the skeleton. "He's awake just keep pretending that he's asleep. And who knows, maybe we could convince him without taking to him directly." Frisk understood what she wanted to do.

(Present)

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'I guess you do need something to reply to, otherwise Sans WILL kill them without hesitation.' Chara sat on the ground thinking over what they could do to convince that bone head that they're no real threat. After thinking it over she knew what to ask first, it was something that has been bugging her for a while. 'Ok, this is a hypothetical question but also one we need to discuss just to be one the safe side.' Chara sighed hoping that it will never come to pass. 'If they decide to go genocide on us do you think that they would succeed in eliminating all of monster kind, or would only be able to kill a few monsters before they're killed themselves?' Frisk realized how serious the question was and thought it over carefully before answering.

"Well, from what I have seen I highly doubt they could kill anyone, for one thing they only seem to know how to fight amongst themselves, and they have no clue on how to tap into their souls potential. With what Zach did back there when Sans tr…" She took a deep breath to keep herself from crying before continuing.

"When Sans tried to kill them, it was just an accident He had no clue on how to use his souls power and even with someone walking him through the process it would still take them a long time to master it. Heck it took me months of dying to even get a grasp on what was going on. So no, I don't think they could go genocidal and kill everyone in the underground. And if they tried I know for a fact that when they die they can't load a save file, it's just not within their power. Everyone's souls have different traits, some souls may have a few similarities but there are always something different." Chara saw Sans shift slightly, most likely trying to get more comfortable.

'Good point. How do you know so much about souls? I don't remember anyone explaining them to you.' Frisk perked up.

"Sometimes at night when I can't sleep I read this book that I get from the library. It tells you everything you need to know about how souls work both humans and monsters. I've almost finished it, which reminds me I do want to go back there and check it out again sometime soon."

"Is that why you make us stop at the library every time we enter Snowdin? I guess I would have known what you were doing in there if I actually went inside with you.' Chara shook her head causing her hair to sneak in to her mouth which she quickly removed.

'We're getting off track; I have another question for you." Frisk nodded.

"Do you believe them when they say that they had no idea that we are real and that they were effecting everyone's lives, they DID try to explain everything to us immediately after they realized where they were and I personally find that a little suspicious.' She took a deep breath trying to calm herself before she started to yell out of frustration.

'I mean if I were in their position and what they said is true then I would be freaking out not calmly explaining everything to the person that I took control of and forced them to kill everyone they care about over and over again. I honestly don't know if we can trust them.' Chara flailed her arms around as she spoke needing to find a way to let out some of her stress. Frisk understood exactly what her friend was saying; they did explain themselves rather quickly and didn't seem to be affected by anything concerning their predicament at all.

"You're right, that's something that we will need to ask them the next time we see them. I don't know if they were telling the truth. But that doesn't gives us any reason to kill them, they may have not been telling us everything but that doesn't mean we should just let Sans blast them in to nothing, we barely even know them. I just think that we need to get to know who they are before we make any judgment calls on them." Sans slid his hand over his skull and turned to face them.

"kiddo. i know what you are doing, and you know what." Both of the girls turned to him. Frisk hesitantly responded.

"What?" Her voice was shaky.

"i think it's working, but it's in your friends best interest that they stay away from paps and i. so i propose that you and your ghost friend there." He pointed to the spot in front of Frisk. "go and make sure that they're somewhere that i can't find them and make sure that they have everything that they need." Chara stood.

'I don't like how he suddenly changed his mind, but he's right we should check on them, the place they are hiding out at seemed void of any supplies.' Frisk nodded her head in agreement.

"HUMAN, SANS, I MAY HAVE NO IDEA ON WHAT OR WHO YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, BUT I THE GREAT PAPYRUS SHALL AID YOU IN WHAT EVER YOU MAY POSSIABLY NEED!" Sans and Frisk fell off of the couch while Chara shot up through the ceiling at Papyrus' sudden input on the matter. Sans was the first to recover.

"bro this doesn't concern you." Papyrus gave them both a stern look.

"WELL BROTHER, IT DOES CONCERN ME IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO TELL FRISK TO KEEP THEM AWAY FROME ME, WHOEVER THEY ARE! AND I'M GETTING TIRED THAT BOTH OF YOU ARE KEEPING THINGS FROM ME!" He turned to look at Frisk who's still on the floor. "I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE FRIENDS FRISK! I WAS HOPING THAT ONE OF THESE STRANGE TIME ANOMALIES THAT YOU WOULD COME TALK TO ME TO HELP YOU STOP HURTING PEOPLE!" Orange tears were starting to form in his eye sockets as he turned back to his brother.

"AS FOR YOU, I EXPECTED MORE FROM MY OWN BROTHER, I THOUGHT THAT YOU KNEW THAT YOU COULD COME TO ME WHENEVER SOMETHING IS BOTHERING YOU, I HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING TO YOU BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO COME TO ME YOURSELF. BUT NOW I THINK I HAVE TO BRING IT UP BECAUSE I HAVE REALIZED THAT YOU DON'T TRUST ME." Papyrus walked to the door and placed his hand on the knob. "I NEED TO GET SOME AIR." He left the house preferring the bitter cold of Snowdin over the feeling of betrayal he feels every time he looks at his brother and the human Frisk.

He headed towards the woods not wanting any of the towns' folk see him upset and start to worry about him. He always walks in the woods whenever he starts to feel down; in fact he has a special spot that he goes to. After walking for almost twenty minutes he stepped over a fallen log before taking a sharp left and forced his way through some bushes. He abruptly stopped when he noticed that in his special thinking spot the candle he left by the door was shining through one of the windows.

"I WONDER WHO'S FOUND THIS HIDDEN PLACE. I GUESS THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW IS TO CHECK IT OUT MYSELF, PERHAPS THEY'RE THE ONES WHO BUILT THIS SMALL SHACK!" He slowly walked over to the window careful so not to alert those inside and peeked in trying not to be spotted. Inside he saw someone trying to start a fire but before he could get a good look at them he heard the snow crunch behind him and he instinctively turned throwing a few bones at whatever was approaching, he heard the bones crack as they hit something followed by a scream.

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Back at the Skeletons House

Sans

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Sans stared at the door in shock, he thought Papyrus knew nothing about the resets, are they the only ones or are there other monsters that remember bits of the other time lines as well. He was pulled from his thoughts when he heard a muffled sob coming from his left, He turned to see Frisk staring at the door tears streaming down her cheeks, he closed his eye sockets. He felt the need to comfort her while at the same time he felt that this is all her fault, if she had fought back when ever those other humans (if that is even what they are) decided to reset and kill everyone over and over then none of this would have happened. He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the door close again. He opened his eyes thinking that Papyrus has returned but instead Frisk has left him alone. Normally he would be grateful but this time a bad feeling crept up his spine making him feel the need to find his brother and fast. He teleported out of the house and into the woods, he knew that Papyrus prefers to go walking around there when he's upset. He called out for him and waited for a few moments, when he didn't hear an answer he teleported to another spot and did the same thing, He continued to teleport and call for his brother for a few more times before he found himself deeper in the woods, he was panting heavily from using up to much of his magic and decided to rest for a moment, once he caught his breath he was about to call out for his brother once again but was cut off by scream that in a distance, he ran towards the source hoping that nothing has happened to Papyrus, he can't lose him, not again.

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Skeletons House

Frisk and Chara

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After Papyrus left Chara sat herself next to Frisk. Both of them were confused and a bit upset about what Papyrus said. Chara decided to try to comfort who she considered as her sister.

'Frisk.' She spoke in a soft tone. 'Everything's going to be alright, how about we go check on Zachary and Annabell, make sure that they have what they need.' Frisk stood as she wiped the tears that ran down her face with her sleeve before looking at Sans. He seemed to be conflicted with something, not wanting to disturb him she nodded her head and quietly walked out the door with Chara following behind. Once outside Frisk spoke with a shaky voice.

"You're right; we need to focus on the task at hand and that is making sure that our new friends are safe." She took a deep breath and turned to Chara. "You will lead the way; you're the only one who knows where they are hiding."

'Right, it's sort of a long walk but we should be there in thirty minutes or less.' Chara smiled as she walked through the woods with Frisk next to her. They chattered amongst themselves about what they may need to make the small building a little more livable for the two humans.

'We're almost there; it should be on the other side of those bushes.' Chara pointed straight ahead of them when suddenly a scream pierced the silence of the woods. Without hesitation the girls sprinted towards the source and halted when they reached the small opening. Papyrus stood in front of a small shack with his arm stretched, across from him Ann stood with blue bones imbedded in to the trees behind her.

"OH MY, HUMAN YOU'RE NOT HURT ARE YOU?!" Ann screamed again causing everyone to jump, she immediately spoke to the taller skeleton with excitement, but the two girls were too far from them to make out what she was saying. They silently watched as she walks closer to Papyrus and held out her hand. He accepted it before he was pulled into the house. Confused Chara turned to Frisk.

'What just happened?" Frisk shrugged back at her.

"I have no clue, want to go find out?" As Frisk walked towards the shack, Chara started to follow her but stopped when she saw something in the corner of her eye. She scanned the trees to her right, when she didn't find anything out of place she shrugged it off and ran to catch up with her friend.

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Papyrus, Zach and Ann

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"I can't believe it, you're Papyrus! I've always wanted to meet you; you've been my inspiration to be a better person!" Without thinking about any possible consequences she ran up to him stopping at arm's length with her hand held out. "Greetings Great Papyrus my name Is Annabell, but you may call me Ann. I'm sorry if I scared you, that wasn't my intention at all: I hope you could forgive me." Papyrus shook her hand and waited for her to finish speaking to answer but he never got the chance.

"Please come inside, you must be freezing." She tightened her grip on his gloved hand leading him into the small shack. The old wooden door creaked as she closed it behind them. Inside Papyrus realized that the figure he saw through the window was another human. He's sitting in front of the worn down fireplace stirring some liquid in a tin can over the flame. "Zach!" The human hit his head on the brick mantel hard enough to make Papyrus flinch.

"Sheesh Ann, there is no need to yell." He turned around rubbing his head; his eyes went wide when he saw his overly exited sister bouncing next to Papyrus. He sighed when he saw her stop bouncing on her toes and a glimmer of mischievousness shone in her eyes letting him know that she's thinking of something that will embarrass him.

"Oh, I'm sorry Zach; I just thought that you should know that I caught this young skeleton peeping through the window watching as you do whatever you were doing." She smirked when Papyrus blushed a bright orange while Zach shook his head.

"WHAT, N..NO ALL I WAS DOOING WAS INSURING THAT SOMEONE WAS INSIDE BEFORE I KNOCKED! I THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD NEVER INTENIONALLY PEEP ON SOMEONE, MY STANDERDS ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN THAT!" Papyrus' spoke in a higher tone than usual as he tried to explain himself. Zach noticed this and placed a hand on the skeletons shoulder.

"Don't listen to her she is just trying to get us riled up." Confused Papyrus grinned.

"NYEH HEH HEH! THE GREAT PAPYRUS KNEW THAT!" Laughter from both humans filled the room and he joined in. Once the room was silent Ann motioned at a chair in front of the table.

"You can sit down if you'd like, I'm going to go get some wood for the fire." Papyrus looked at the old chair before noticing that one was missing, he glanced over at the fire place and saw that they were using broken pieces of the missing member of the dining set as fuel for the fire.

"I CAN HELP YOU GATHER THE NECCESARY MATERIALS YOU NEED TO KEEP YOURSELVES WARM." She gave him a soft smile as she gently shook her head.

"Thank you for the offer but it is our job as your hosts to insure that you are comfortable, I'll be fine." On that note she left the building. When the door closed behind her Papyrus sat at the table as Zach removed the can from the fire and transferred the steaming contents into two small cups filled with some type of needles and moved one in front of the skeleton.

"It's pine needle tea, you should try it, but first you'll need to let it cool." Papyrus nodded his head before his smile dropped as he realized something.

"I DON'T MEAN TO PRY BUT HAVE YOU BY CHANCE MET MY BROTHER SANS?" Zach flinched confirming his suspicions. "I SEE, HE'S NOT BAD, HE JUST DOES WHAT HE THINKS IS BEST FOR ME AND OUR FRIENDS. I KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG WHEN I HARED THE GASTER BLASTERS WHILE I WAS GOING TO CHECK UP ON HIM, AND THEN I FOUND FRISK CRYING BEHIND THE LAMP. YOU TWO MUST BE THE ONES THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT BACK AT THE HOUSE." Papyrus paused and took a small sip of the tea in front of him, it had a light taste of tree sap and was surprisingly good, he took note to make some later for Sans although he will just pore ketchup in it before even trying it. He looked at Zach who is staring intently at his cup.

"IT WAS NOTHING HORRIABLE IN FACT IT WAS THE TOTAL OPOSITE. THEY AGREED TO LET THE BOTH OF YOU LIVE HERE IN THE UNDERGROUND BUT THERE WAS SOME CONDITIONS." Zach looked up at him with hope gleaming in his eyes.

"And what might they be, I'm willing to do anything if it means that I won't lose my sister. She almost died and if Chara wasn't there she would have." Sadness washed over Papyrus, he knew that Sans was the cause and he will have to speak with him the next time he gets a chance.

"I THINK IT WOULD BE BEST THAT WE WAIT FOR FRISK TO GO OVER THEM WITH YOU AND YOUR SISTER." Papyrus stirred the tea with one of the needles before removing them. "WHO ARE YOU, WHY HAVE I NOT SEEN EITHER OF YOU IN ANY OF THE PREVIOUS TIME ANOMALY'S?" He spoke with uncertainty at the last part. Zach took a sip of his tea before getting up to place a log in the fire and watched the flames dance.

"My sister Ann and I are not from here, and I don't mean that we are from the surface, we come from a completely different world than this one. Where we are from, there is no such thing as magic or monsters. There are only humans some good and some bad. I believe that we were brought here by your brother so that he could stop all of the bloodshed that I have caused, my sister has nothing to do with any of this." Papyrus finished the tea before placing his cup back on the table.

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU ARE THE ONE RESPONSIABLE FOR WHAT FRISK HAS DONE?" WASN'T SHE THE ONE TO KILL ANY THAT APPROACHED HER?" Zach let out a sigh.

"I am the one who forced Frisk to do all of those horrible things; I'm the one that killed Toriel. I'm the one who murdered you, Undyne, Mettaton, and Asgore ... and even Sans." A dark laugh escaped Zachs' lips. "And you know what. I enjoyed every moment of it, every time the screen changed I got this feeling of excitement because it gives me an opportunity to try and find a new way to kill someone. And now that I know that I actually did all of that, all of the things I forced Frisk to do, actually happened, everything here is real not just a bunch of numbers on a screen for our pleasure without any consequences."

Papyrus placed a hand on his shoulder to comfort him, and in that moment Zach turned and buried his head in to Papyrus' scarf. Papyrus gently rubbed his back as his muffled words continued to flow. "Now that I know that I am the one to kill everyone in the underground and caused so much suffering for everyone I realize that Sans is in the right for trying to kill me I shouldn't be allowed to live anymore. And what makes things worse is that my sister is caught up in all of this and almost died for my sins. I'm … a horrible brother, she gave up so much for me and not once have I repaid her. I…I..." Papyrus shushed him and pulled him back so that he can look him in the eyes and spoke in a gentle tone.

"Zach, even though I do not understand everything I do know what you are going through. Believe it or not I have seen this before with another monster many years ago. Undyne had me help her with the early morning patrol in waterfall; she had me go to the room with all those crystals that shimmer like stars as part of my patrol. There I found a large furry monster sitting against one of the walls staring at the ceiling with a forlorn look. Naturally I the great Papyrus knew that my job as a sentry guard was to insure that all in my jurisdiction was as happy as can be, so I approached him. It took some convincing but I finally got him to tell me what was bothering him, He told me about the time both of his children died and due to the way he reacted to their deaths his wife left him on the same day, he believed that it was his own fault along with all of the human deaths that has happened here in the underground. All of that guilt and self hating was starting to wear on him and he was reaching the breaking point. And as I can tell you are starting to go down that road yourself."

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Frisk and Chara

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'What are you doing?' Chara finally caught up to Frisk who is crouched in front of the window.

"I'm watching to see how they interact with Papyrus. And to see what he will do, despite all of his antics Papyrus can tell what type of person you are by interacting with you." Frisk looked at her friend. "Every run I have done I've noticed the differences in how Papyrus interacted with me. With the pacifist run he was carefree and had lots of energy. While in the neutral he was still carefree and energetic but he would keep an eye on me and watch how I interacted with others. While in the genocides he always watched me even if I couldn't see him he followed me everywhere hiding behind bushes, rocks and anything else that could fully cover him. He is more resourceful than you think and there is more to his job than creating puzzles and watching for humans, but I don't know exactly what it is. And whenever we did interact he was still energetic but it seemed ... forced and he will find ways to subtly convince you to change your ways." Chara looked at Papyrus through the window and held back a giggle when she saw the orange blush on his cheeks. Her mood dropped when she realized something.

'Why didn't you mention any of this before, there seems to be a lot that I don't know about you?' Laughter echoed from the small building causing Frisk to smile.

"It sounds like they are getting along in there, that's good." Her smile slightly dimmed. "I don't tell you much because I don't want you to be more stressed out than you already are." Frisk peeked back through the window in time to see Ann opening the door, Not wanting to be caught snooping she quickly moved to the side of the shack. Chara shook her head as she stood at the corner watching Frisk try to flatten herself against the wall.

'You aren't doing anything wrong why are you hiding?' Frisk moved her head motioning for Chara to join her on the side of the building which she refused; there was no need to hide from Ann of all people.

"Oh, hey Chara what are you doing here?" Ann walked towards the side of the building. "Hey kid, what are you doing over here, the door is on that side." She pointed at the door with a look in her eye. "Where you peeping on us too?" Ann snickered. "You are as bad as Pap. Did you see anything interesting" She crossed her arms and lifted her eyebrows a couple of times. Frisk shook her head in disbelief and moved from her hiding spot.

"Not really, the two of you are rather boring, so much so that I may just join Chara in the ghost group." The three stood in silence for a moment before bursting in to silent laughter.

"Hey, why don't we leave the two boys to chat, I'm going to gather some wood for the night, you can help if you want." Frisk glanced through the window; Papyrus is sitting at the table pulling some needles out of a cup while Zach stoked the fire.

"Sounds good to me." The trio wandered in to the surrounding woods picking up branches and sticks as they went. As they searched for fire wood they started to wander away from each other without realizing it. Once Ann had her arms full she decided it was time to return to the shack.

"Alrighty, I think we have enough for the night and maybe even tomorrow morning." She turned around only to find herself alone. "Frisk, Chara where are you two?" She realized that they got separated from each other. Not knowing what else to do she decided to follow her tracks she left behind her in the snow and call out to them. A few minutes in her backtracking the weather decided to work against her and it started to snow rather hard.

"Friiisk, Chaaarrra, please answer me." She started to jog when her tracks from earlier stated to disappear. Fear started to take her when she lost her only hope of finding her own way back to the others; she stood there desperately calling out for her friends until her throat got scratchy. She dropped the wood and fell to her knees as tears started to freeze as they streamed down her cheeks. She buried her head in her hands trying to calm herself.

"Howdy!" She slowly lifted her head with caution, she know that there was only two monsters in the underground that use that greeting. In front of her was sitting the one monster she was not ready to deal with.

"Flowey."