Bad things always happen in threes.
The thought drifted through Sans head attached to nothing as he stared down at the blood soaked snow in front of him. His eyes darted from the mess to its source.
His arm had a huge gash in it.
That's not good Sans though still not quite putting two and two together.
He watched as big red drops of blood fell onto the snow in front of him and suddenly Sans felt like he was going to be sick. He tried valiantly not to throw up and succeeded only when he looked away into the tree line.
It didn't hurt now but it would. Sans knew he was in shock and he needed help.
Sans went to go grab his phone only to realize at some point he had fallen to his knees. His shaking hand reached into his pocket. The phone fell out of his hand into the snow.
Dang He reached for it again and managed to get the phone to his head. If the person he was trying to call wasn't on speed dial he would have been in trouble.
It rang a few times before his brother answered.
" 'sup?" Said a sleep ridden voice from the other end.
"I think I need help." Sans said as a dull throb started to come from his mangled left arm.
Something in Sans voice set off alarm bells. It sounded odd, almost detached.
"Where are you?" Papyrus asked suddenly all business.
There was a pause and some heavy breathing before Sans spoke up again.
"I b-b-by the b-bridge o-outside of town."
Papyrus barely had time to tell Sans to wait there before he was throwing on a hoodie and running out the door. Deciding to save time he blipped to the bridge on the edge of town. In the dim early morning light he could see something on the other side of the bridge near the trees, something bright blue.
Once again he blipped to the other side of the bridge next to Sans who was sitting facing away from him. The smaller of the two was visibly shaking and had his head turned to the side eyes squeezed shut. Papyrus could see a few spears, rope, and what appeared to be some kind of mace or flail scattered around in the snow.
When he walked around to kneel in front Sans he saw the blood. It was staining his white shirt, he could see it was a deep wound.
"What happened?!" papyrus asked panicked as he dropped down in front of Sans not knowing the first thing about flesh wounds.
"I slipped." Sans said in that slightly detached voice still not looking at his arm. Lucily Sans started his day earlier than most other monsters so there was no one around to see what was happening. It wouldn't stay like that for long though. Papyrus needed to act fast but he was drawing a blank. Panic was seeping into his mind clogging up the gears.
"What do I do?" He said staring at the blood.
"Papyrus don't panic." Sans said. He looked kind of sick himself but was somehow keeping his composure surprisingly well.
"I-I need you to t-tell me how bad it is. I-I can't look-"
"Sure." Papyrus said reaching for the mangled arm. Sans braced himself but still flinched pretty badly when Papyrus' boney fingers prodded at the wound. As he pulled back the shredded material he could see it was bad. The gashes were deep and the longest was about four inches in length. The blood was still flowing freely and papyrus had to take in a deep shuddering breath.
"That b-bad?" Sans asked meekly.
"I think this needs a bit more than a little healing magic... I think you might need to see a doctor." Papyrus couldn't lie this situation was bad. Who in the underground could possibly help. Who would be willing to help?
"Papy I need you to do me a f-favor." Sans said weakly.
"Anything."
"Get my phone and call Undyne. Tell h-her she was right a-about the file. Then tell her about m-my arm. She'll tell you w-what to do."
Papyrus was confused but didn't have time to think. Sans was holding his phone out and Papyrus took it.
"Let's h-hurry this is starting to hurt." Sans said with a weak uneasy laugh.
Papyrus quickly pulled up Undyne's number and hit the call button.
It only rang twice before a surprisingly alert voice answered. Undyne was probably the only monster in the Underground that had a worse sleep schedule then himself.
"Sans?"
"No this is Papyrus." He couldn't quite keep the shaking out of his voice.
"What's w-wrong?" She asked sounding concerned.
"Shit, he's hurt. He's hurt bad I don't know what to do. I need help. Oh god what do I do."
"Papyrus." Undyne said sternly "H-hang up the phone and call a d-doctor, a medical d-doctor."
"I can't." Papyrus said distraught.
He felt a tug on his sleeve and looked over to see Sans grabbing his arm. "The f-file." Sans said in a small voice eye lights small and dim.
"Sans said something about a file!" Papyrus said urgently "He said you were right and you would help!"
There was a pause on the other end of the line. For a moment Papyrus was afraid that the call had dropped.
"Undyne are you still there?"
"I was right?" He heard her say in wonder filled tone.
"Yes!" Papyrus almost yelled into the phone "Whatever it is you were right! Now can you help me or-"
"Yes!" Undyne said eagerly . "What do you n-need?"
Papyrus let a little of his tension drain from his body. Undyne was going to help. Everything was going to be okay.
"He..." Papyrus took a deep breath to steady his nerves. "He hurt his arm- cut it realy bad. I think it was cut with a spear or something. What do I do."
"First you need to get some c-cloth and apply steady pressure to the w-wound to stop the b-bleeding."
Papyrus pushed all the questions out of his mind for the moment. Sans needed help. He could ask what the hell was going on later.
"Okay." Papyrus said into the receiver as he turned back to Sans. The little guy was now laying in the snow breathing heavily. The amount of blood outside of his body was alarming.
Reaching out Papyrus pulled Sans up so he was sitting in his lap. "Sans I need to use your bandana." The smaller of the two just gave a weak nod and let Papyrus gently remove the article of clothing.
Then Papyrus folded the blue cloth into a square and as gently as he could placed it over the wound. When Sans only let out a soft whimper Papyrus said "Sorry 'bout this." as he pushed down on the cloth. Sans let out a yelp but otherwise stayed quiet. The blue was quickly changing to a dark purple as it soaked up the blood.
"Okay, what's next?"
"I n-need you to get Sans to m-my lab as quickly as possible. I will be able to attend to him b-better here."
"Okay, I gotta hang up but I'll be there in a sec."
"The front d-doors unlocked." The scientist said as she hung up the phone.
Papyrus put the phone in his pocket.
"We are going to undynes she said she can help."
Sans just nodded keeping his eyes closed.
"I'm gona take a shortcut so just hold on a sec."
Sans let out another weak laugh "Lazybones." He mumbled as Papyrus picked him up and blinked them over to the lab in Hotland. All while keeping pressure on Sans arm.
True to her word the doors to the lab were open. Papyrus pushed his way in and heard the clatter of things falling to the floor upstairs.
"Undyne?" Papyrus yelled and he was greeted with a yell from where all the clatter was coming from.
"One sec!"
There was a final loud bang and then a tall gangly fish monster in a lab coat came rushing down the overly futuristic moving stairs. She had a bunch of stuff held in her arms that she almost dropped when she saw the two brothers standing in her lab.
They must have made quite the sight, two skeleton monsters, covered in blood. The larger holding the smaller who looked like he was unconscious. That is until he raised uninjured arm and gave a weak half wave.
"Hello, Undyne." Sans said in a wavering voice.
"Oh my g-gosh!" The fish doctor said half running to a cluttered computer desk. She pushed all of the papers onto the floor and gestured for Sans and Papyrus to come over as she placed various items on the table top.
"P-put Sans in the c-chair." Undyne told Papyrus as she poured some liquid into a small round saucer. Then she threw a few needles, tweezers and such into the solution.
Papyrus placed Sans in the chair and Sans managed to sit up on his own. He looked a little unsteady but he was alert enough that neither monster was too worried about him falling off the computer chair.
"Okay, Sans." Undyne said reaching for the injured left arm. "I n-need to take a look at the d-damage."
"O-okay." Sans said in a wavering voice as Undyne pulled on a pair of plastic gloves.
Next she went to remove the bloody bandana from Sans arm. It was so tacky with blood that it stuck to his arm and she had to give a small tub to get it to come loose. The flow of blood had become a trickle and Undyne pulled out a pair of scissors to cut away the sleeve surrounding the wound exposing Sans dark fleshy arm.
The scientist only took the briefest of moments to look over his flesh before she grabbed a pair of tweezers out of the solution and a small flashlight.
"Papyrus I need to to hold this for me and illuminate the w-wound."
Papyrus hesitantly grabbed the flashlight and cringed.
"I don't think I can do that..."
Undyne gave him an angry look.
"You don't have to look! I just need to see what I'm doing! Y-you want my help right?"
Papyrus' response was to click on the small flashlight to point the beam of light on Sans arm. He only got a quick peek before he looked away but that was enough.
"Sans, I need t-to make sure t-there is no foreign material in the wound before I sterilize and stitch you up. this might h-hurt but I don't have any pain killers to give y-you." She said in a gentle tone.
"T-that's o-okay. I just want to get this o-over with a-as soon as possible." Sans replied.
"Just tell me if you want me to s-stop and give you a breather. Okay?"
The little skeleton just nodded his head and braced himself.
Undyne grabbed the tweezers and started to make sure the wound was clean.
Sans only let out the occasional whimper through the process and every time he did Papyrus' heart would drop in sympathy.
Soon Undyne was done and she was pouring some of the clear liquid into the cuts. She had pulled out some bits of fabric from the wound and when she started cleaning out the wounds with the solution Sans started to cry a little bit.
Papyrus kneeled down next to Sans and offered his hand. Sans took it and held it in a death grip.
Two of the smaller cuts Undyne was able to close with something that looked like glue. Undyne said it was called skin glue and was special for skin. Three of the others had to be stapled shut with two to three staples each. The big one though needed thirteen stitches to fully close it up.
Papyrus couldn't believe how well Sans was handling the whole thing. By the end all three present were covered in blood but Sans arm was cleaned up and no longer bleeding. As a very last step she put a large adhesive bandage over the mess to keep it clean.
Once it was all over Sans fell asleep, or passed out, it was hard to tell. Undyne got him to drink some juice before though. So now Papyrus had Sans in his lap again just holding him close.
"He is g-going to need some major r-rest after this fiasco." Undyne said putting the used tools into a bowel and striping off her gloves.
"We all are." Papyrus said slouching in his chair.
"So you know about Sans?" Papyrus asked suddenly remembering how calm and unfazed she had been earlier.
Undyne yawned "You c-could say I had a h-hunch..." Undyne looked really tired and Papyrus must not have looked much better because Undyne then said.
"M-man you look like s-shit. I got some beds downstairs you guys could r-rest in. I got some c-clothes you can borrow too. We'll t-talk after a good long nap."
Papyrus really just wanted to take Sans home. However he knew his magic reserves were low after the stressful day and it would just be safer to rest here for a bit.
"Sure," Papyrus finally said "A nap sound fucking great."
"That's the s-spirit." Undyne said pushing herself off the floor. She headed upstairs and returned with a couple sets of clothes. For Papyrus she had a t shirt with some Japanese writing on it that was clearly out of her personal collection and a pair of blue sleep shorts. Undyne and Papyrus were similar sizes so they didn't really have to worry about the fit.
She brought an obnoxious pink oversized t-shirt with an anime character on the front for Sans since his pants were still fairly clean all things considered.
"It's o-one of Alphys." undyne said as an explanation.
Luckily Alphys and Sans were also similar sizes too.
Papyrus thanked Undyne and headed to the "hidden" elevator.
