Prompt: "I feel like liquid" - Undyne & Papyrus
Or: shara accidentally made yet another AU whoops
He's never been here. He never saw this before.
And in the current moment Papyrus wishes he never had.
Of course he knew, factually speaking, that Undyne dies. But there's such a vast difference, an insurmountable gap, between knowing something and witnessing it, that it feels like the very soul inside him has pulled taut. Tighter and harder and straining until it snapped.
There's a special kind of agony in seeing one of your dear friends literally waste away in front of your eyes.
"I feel like liquid."
His eyes snap open, closed involuntarily to the horrific sight in front of him and it's with a kind of stone-cold realization that Papyrus notices that she too isn't gone.
Not yet.
"I'm sorry," he says, as if any of it is his fault. As if everything is his fault. But he knows she can't hear him anymore.
And just like that, she is over with.
He can barely see the human trail off in the distance, faintly aware that's the difference. They didn't kill Undyne properly and they didn't kill him properly.
They rushed by before delivering the final blow to her, though the damage was far from repairable already. They didn't completely follow through on their attack back in Snowdin, leaving him with just the sliver of HP he needed to not expire.
Something is wrong.
Sans is gone. He is impatient, as always, and thinks he has the advantage when he doesn't, as so often.
Papyrus doesn't normally worry about his brother, not in that regard at least.
But this timeline is different and all the bets are off.
He just hopes he can be there in time to change something.
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