Chapter 3

Papyrus hurried himself to his room and sat upon his race car bed. He was nervous to continue reading his brother's journal now. The way Sans spoke, it sounded as if something bad were to happen in later entries. Well… there was no turning back now, he did want his answers and he was certain this would be the only time he was to get them. Taking a deep breath he opened the cover and found the entry he had left off on. This next entry looked rather shaky.

19. _ _ _ you secretive little bastard! I don't know if I should yell at you until I lose my voice or cry until I drown in my own tears. I… I can't believe it… why didn't he say something? I had no idea he was thinking about something like this… I guess Tori and Asgore's kid put this little plot in his skull. Bastard should have told me, I would have helped him… I would have… god I can't believe it… I'm gonna be a daddy.

"WHAT!" Papyrus yelled, the book falling from his hands as that last word became lodged in his mind. His brother was a Father? Since when! Why did he never tell Papyrus? It was not fair that Sans never told him that he was an uncle! Where was his niece or nephew? Had something bad happened to them like Gaster? Now he really must know! Picking up the book once more he resumed his reading, anxious to know of the fate of his unknown relative.

20. Gosh, little guy gets bigger and bigger every day. Right now he's just a bundle of magic floating in a tube but before I know it he's going to become my boney little bundle of joy. Lord I'm nervous, what if I don't make a good dad? Shit, the kids gonna hate me I just know it, this was a bad idea. D this was a bad idea, they're gonna hate me, I'm going to screw up so badly.

21. I've been reading to him every day since I found out about him. He really seems to like this one book that I found in the dump, I can see the magic pulse especially brightly when I read it. D tells me I'm being ridiculous, balls of magic can't understand what's being said. Well I think he's being the ridiculous one, I know my baby bones understands what's going on even if he doesn't have a body yet; he's a smart little bucko.

22. Finally. My boy finally has a body. He's so beautiful. His hands and feet are so little. He's such a little baby bones. I can't wait to hold him… We still need to name him, I was thinking me and D could continue the trend of font names.

23. The human kid is sick. The king and queen are really worried. _ doesn't think they'll survive… I sure hope he's wrong, that kid is our only hope to get rid of that barrier… but… he almost never is.

24. I'm finally getting to hold my baby bones. _ says that he's stable enough to let out of the tube.

25. I… I don't know how to feel right now. I'm so overwhelmed, I can't seem to stop crying. He's so beautiful. He's a fragile little treasure that needs to be protected at all cost. I flashed my eye lights at him. He flashed his right back at me. His magic is orange, my brave little baby bones. I love you. Welcome to the world… Papyrus.

Papyrus felt as if everything around him had frozen. He couldn't even draw a single breath. His lightless eye sockets were glued to that one word, that one name that meant everything to him. A chill seemed to go down his spine, he didn't know if he wanted to continue reading any longer. He was drowning in his confusion and only more confusion was being piled on top of it. "THAT… THAT'S MY NAME…. THAT'S THE COLOR OF MY MAGIC" He whispered in disbelief. How could such a thing be? In a sudden feeling of desperation he continued to read on, praying that his mounting questions would be answered soon.

26. Chara's dead… D was right. The king and queen are heart broken. The undergrounds hope is in tatters. That barrier will never be broken. But maybe it's for the best? I don't know any more.

27. God… Asriel's dead. The humans killed him when he took Chara's soul and crossed the barrier with their body. How much more are they going to take from us? Toriel is inconsolable and Asgore has completely shut down. I'm sorry Papyrus, I wanted you to see the outside world. I was going to show you the forests and stars, the oceans and the moon, the fields of many different colored flowers. I guess we will never be getting out of here now. I promise I'll do my damn hardest to give you the best life imaginable down here, it's the least you deserve my little sunshine. It's for the best I suppose, why live in a world that wants you dead? I don't want my baby bones exposed to that kind of hate.

28. Everything is going to hell. The king has declared war on the humans. Any human that falls down here will meet a gruesome end. He will take their soul. The queen wants nothing to do with it. She's left and has no plan of coming back, we have no idea where she went though there aren't many places she can hide in our little circle of paradise. As for _... I feel like he's so far away that he's practically on another planet. He's locked himself away again and refuses to come out… not even to be with his son. Damn it D, you need to stop doing this to yourself, to us, to me… I love you, you bone head and Papyrus loves you too.

29. The first human has fallen down here. They're just a kid… Asgore killed them… a kid… I can't stop hugging Papyrus, he knows something is wrong with papa. I can't stop shaking.

30. Two more humans have come. Asgore has both their souls. He looks so ill and tired. D has finally come out of hiding. He's told me that the strain of everything is what is making Asgore sick. Losing his kids, wife, freedom, and now has three innocent deaths on his hands? Yeah, I can see how that would happen… I can kinda get where he's coming from actually… If I lost Pap and D? If I were trapped in Asgore's position? I'd have gone mad… or fallen down…

31. Oh god…. Oh god…. I…. I…. I killed one…. I killed a human kid. It somehow found its way into the lab. I panicked. They were too close to D. Too close to Papyrus. I can't lose them. I won't. Oh god what have I done.

32. I did it again… I let D talk me into it… this one was harmless… they were wearing a frigging tutu for Asgore's sake! This one wasn't even harming anyone… they were just dancing… maybe we do deserve to be locked away down here… if we are so willing to take the soul of an innocent child. I'm too terrified to touch my own child now… I have too much innocent blood on my hands. I'm sorry Papy, my sunshine… I'm so so sorry…

33. Undyne killed the 6th human that's fallen down here… just one soul left… maybe Pap's will get to see the sun after all… but at what cost?

34. It's been months since the 6th human. They used to drop like flies but now… I wonder if the humans are staying away from the mountain. They've lost so many of their own to this pit, I would be surprised if they didn't forbid a climb up the mountain. Monsters are starting to lose hope for that final soul that will set everyone free. They don't seem to realize that Asgore could have crossed that barrier by now, he could have gotten that last soul… he could have set everyone free a long time ago. I've finally gotten over my aversion to holding my little baby bones. I just couldn't stand the crying any more, it was breaking my heart. D is working on something else now… I don't see him anymore, he's locked everyone out of the lab.

35. Pap is getting so big, he's even started crawling. You're missing so much D, I wish you would come back out.

36. I take everything I said back… I wish you had stayed in that room. You hide away for months only to show up one day and tell me that you're going to experiment on OUR KID?! I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO YOU LOUSY BASTARD EXCUSE FOR A FATHER! I'm not letting you sacrifice the one good thing I have left in my life, to use him to break that damn barrier. Fuck the barrier and fuck you _._. _. I'm taking Papyrus tonight and you will never see him or me again. I can't believe I trusted you…

Papyrus had to stop reading once more. His skull was starting to hurt from all the information that just didn't add up. His brother had a child. The baby was named after him. He was nowhere to be seen. This Gaster guy wanted to use the baby in an experiment. It was like reading some kind of fiction novel. He sighed and continued to read, praying for something to tie this all together.

37. He… he's gone… I can't believe it… D fell into the Core. I was trying to leave with Papyrus in the middle of the night and he had chased after us. We had both summoned a _ blaster and the blasts connected. They couldn't hold the connection and ended up exploding… he was knocked over the edge of the catwalk… right into the Core. A part of the blast rebounded and hit my right eye socket… I can't see out of it right now… I wonder if I'll ever be able to see out of it again… at least Papy is fine, he's sleeping right now. Poor guy is so stressed over this… but at least he is safe… I can't believe he's really gone… It's just Pap and me now…

38. I've looked back through this journal on a whim…. _ name is completely illegible. It freaked me out so I went to find Alphys to talk to her about D… she didn't remember him. I went to Asgore next… he doesn't remember him either… no one remembers him but me? How is that possible? Could falling into the Core really get rid of almost every scrap of someone's existence? Then why do I still remember him? I'm going to need to do some research on this… but right now Pap is my number one priority, I need to figure out what I'm going to do; I can't stay at the lab, too many memories… too many questions… I think maybe I'll take him to Snowdin, it's a quiet little place with lots of kids, I'm sure he'll love it. This will be my last entry for a while, I'm going to get us settled first before I do any more writing… if I do any more writing.

39. Snowdin is perfect. It's small, quiet, and nobody from the capital comes out this way. I can raise Pap in peace here. For now we are living off what G I had saved up, I can't exactly find a job while raising an infant; I think it will last till Pap is old enough to go to school, then I can find a job to support us.

40. I ran into a flame elemental today, literally. We were walking around a corner when we bumped into each other. His name's Grillby. Nice guy, he plans to open up a bar here in Snowdin; I'll have to drop by some time.

41. Pap and I were out walking today. Little smarty bones has started learning words. Unfortunately due to my short stature and his little growth spurts people keep mistaking us for brothers. Pap has even started calling me big brother… I don't have the heart to correct him… perhaps this is the final step we need to a fresh start? I'm gonna miss being a papa but I'll try my hardest to be the best big brother for the best baby brother a bag of bones like me could ever ask for…. I think this will be the last time I write in this book, it's time to start anew and the first step to that is to let go of the past. I'm sorry D but you brought this on yourself. Good bye you bone head.