"N..no! I mean, yes. Kinda. I mean…" Kate trailed off.

Her eyes trailed down the floor and folded her hands.

"The king wants me dead. The doctor is letting me stay so I can hide." She spoke with a quiet voice.

"But how can you know that you can trust him?" Papyrus asked with a skeptical expression at his face.

"I can't. But my chances here are better than outside."

The rest of the day they spent talking and getting to know each other. The doctor later showed up and asked her to not play her guitar anymore that day, as he had to finish his report in pace. He then served lunch and left, after refusing to let her help, like tree times. The food was the usual. Cheap microwave dinner and water in hard plastic cups.
Kate was looking skeptical at it, but ate it anyway. She commented to the skeleton brothers, that she were a pretty, good cook and that she should try, to cook something for them someday.

"Cooking? What's that?" Papyrus asked.

Kate sat the tray of food on floor beside her.

"Cooking? Well.. you know. Food doesn't just exist. It's made from ingredients. The potatoes and carrots are vegetables, which grows in the dirt. They are then, peeled and cooked in a pot of water, until they are tender. The meat from animals, which is fried on a hot pan and the thing they are trying to pass for sauce is water, flour, butter and broth, etc." She downed the last water and put the cup beside the tray.

"Animals? Like, a living thing?" Papyrus held his hand to his face in horror.

Kate looked at him with confusion.

"Uhm.. yea? Where DID you think meat came from? Trees?"

"I.. I've just never thought about it.." He looked down at his tray. There was still some food left, but he no longer had any appetite. He put the tray to the side.

"I don't wanna eat that anymore. I don't want to hurt anything living." Papyrus began playing with the edge of his johnny gown.

Kate stood up and walked over to him.

"Papyrus.. the meat we're eating, comes from animals which were breed, for the sole purpose of being eaten. They were gonna die whatever you've chosen to eat it or not. That you refuse to hurt living things is one thing. Another one, is to eat what already were predestined to die. You have the choice to either eat that. Or it will end up in the trash. It will have died in vain."

Papyrus looked up at Kate with sadness in his eyes. He still didn't want to let go of his principles, but he didn't want anything to die in vain either.
Slowly, he picked up the tray again and continued eating. Silently thanking the animal for it's sacrifice. Sans had almost butted in to give Kate a piece of his mind. Almost. He didn't like the way she had talked to him. But at the same time, he didn't want his brother to eat even less, than he already did. So he kept quiet.

After the meal, they all became quite bored. Kate wasn't allowed to play the guitar anymore, but the skeleton brothers were still caught by this new ' music' thing.

"Too bad you can't play your gatar anymore." Papyrus pouted.

"Guitar." Kate corrected him.

"And the doctor didn't say anything about singing! We can still do that!" She beamed.

"Still.." Sans said, pouting with his brother while absentminded playing with his rubiks cube.

Kate thought for a moment.

"Well… if you want music.. you can just make some! Almost everything can be an instrument if you use your imagination!" She looked around and grabbed the hard plastic cup, by her tray.

"Like this!" She put the cup down, bottoms up and began clapping, hitting the bottom of the cup and doing all kinds of things with it, which the brothers couldn't quite follow. But it made a pretty catchy beat.
"I got my ticket for the long way round
Two bottles of whiskey for the way
And I sure would like some sweet company
And I'm leaving tomorrow, what do you say
When I'm gone
When I'm gone
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You're gonna miss me by my hair
You're gonna miss me everywhere, oh
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone.."

"..You're gonna miss me by my walk
You're gonna miss me by my talk, oh
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone" She slammed the cup down one last time and smiled at the boys.
"Wowie! I've never thought you could do that kind of thing with just a cup!" Papyrus had picked up his own cup, but couldn't quite imitate the art of the cup song.
"See? You can do all kinds of things with a little imagination!"
Their conversation were interrupted, as the doctor entered the cell to collect the food trays.
"Oh hi, doc! Do you NOW need my hel.." Kate chirped.
"No!" Gaster interrupted and collected the trays. It must have been the fourth time today she had offered to help and he just wanted to finish his work in peace!
"Oh, okay. Just call me if you need any h.."
"I'll be fine." He reassured and hurriedly exited the room. *Safe* He thought as he was out of the room. Still. He feared dinner.

"You have an awful lot of baggage. What on earth do you even keep in those huge bags?" Sans pointed at the two big suitcases. He was surprised that she could lift even one of them.
"Oh! Just the most necessary!"
"Like what?"
"Books. Mostly. I've also got some clothes.. and notes from my personal research. And some few personal items. I had to get rid of a lot of those though."
"Why?" He asked.
"Well.. things got pretty serious once i traveled down here. The underground is dangerous. There were a lot of monsters attacking me on my way here. I had to get rid of most of my stuff so I could travel faster. Things that only had sentimental value was left behind. Like my old tutu and ballerina shoes." She was looking kinda sad but her smile never seemed to fade. It was kinda freaky.
"Aw, that sucks. Sorry about that."

She sighted.

"So... What's a tutu? And ballerina shoes?" Papyrus asked.
"Oh! They are clothes! For a special dance called ballet! I've always been a great dancer and those specific clothes was from one of my first performances. I've grown out of them long ago but I really wanted to keep them as memory. Most of my stuff must have been stolen from where I left them but I've hid those specific items well! So.. maybe I can pick them up when I go back."
"You are lucky to have belongings." Papyrus said from over by the suitcases. He was crouched down and looking intensely at them, as if he could see through them if he tried hard enough.
Kate chukled as she walked over and placed a hand on Papyrus' back. She reached down and opened one of the bags for him. It opened with a gentle click sound.
It was mostly books. But it had a lot of cool stuff that Papyrus had never seen before. He badly wanted to pick up and inspect all of these new things, but he stopped himself. Last time he had touched stuff without permission, the doctor had become really mad at him. He pulled his hand away.
Kate put a hand on his shoulder.

"You can touch, you know. Just be careful not to break anything."
Papyrus beamed at that and nodded wildly.
"Oh yes! I promise!" He said and picked up a little glass container.

Which he dropped.

It fell to the floor and broke into tiny little pieces. Papyrus looked like he was about to cry.
"I.. I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to do that! And I just promised.." He began scraping the pieces together in a little pile, as if he could fix it that way.
The hand on his shoulder began gently patting his back.
"Don't worry about that. It was just an empty test tube. These things happen. Really. It's okay."
Kate took his hands away from the shards.
"But don't touch that. You could hurt yourself" She said and cleaned up the shards herself.

Both Papyrus and Sans got to play with some of her stuff. Papyrus was extra careful though and only picked up things that couldn't break. The rest of the day went pretty much with them just talking and Kate showing off her stuff. Later, the doctor shut the lights and went home.

Tomorrow he was gonna begin the testing on the human.