Time went by fast. They had used the rest of the month on planning and construction. They weren't even nearly done, but it began to take form. It hadn't been easy. They would often get bruises and burns, while working and the long nights, they spent on paperwork, seemed endless.

One night, Gaster fell asleep at his desk, just to wake up the next day, with a blanket draped over his shoulders. He put on his glasses, which someone had taken off and put on the table. He looked over at Miss Andersons workspace, to find her sleeping in her own chair.

He rubbed his eye sockets and went over to wake her up. He wanted coffee.

"Hey." He said, rubbing her back.

She hummed in protest, but slowly woke up. She spoke up, half asleep.

"Hm? Morning, doc. How's the back?" She spoke slowly as she rubbed her tired eyes.

"My back? Why would you ask me that?" He felt his back, for abnormalities but everything seemed in place.

"Huh?" She asked.

"My back." He said.

"What about it?" She had finally woken up.

"You asked, how my back was." He straightened his lab coat, which were wrinkled after wearing it while sleeping.

"I did?" She asked, frowning her eyebrows.

"Yes."

She took a moment to think and then gently hit her own forehead.

"Oh! That! Sorry, I meant another doc, I've been working with. He had back problems. It sort of just became a habit to ask about his health. He could be pretty stubborn and not go to the hospital, if something was off. So I kind of took on the responsibility to look after him. He was a good man." She smiled for herself and turned in her chair and looked at the mess, from the night before. She then looked back at the doctor.

"Oh yeah! You wanted something, right?"

"Coffee."

"Right! I'll go make it right now." She exited the room while yawning.

So she does this for everyone. Gaster felt.. disappointed? No! Why would he? He didn't care if she treated everyone like she treated him! After all she was just his assistant! I mean, test subject. Even though he hadn't used her for much testing. Yet. But he would! Someday. He was just using her right now, that's all! He needed her to build his machine. That's all... right?

"Coffee's ready!" Kate excitedly entered the room, holding two steaming mugs. She went over to him and gave him the coffee. She turned on her heel, when he spoke up.

"Did you..?" He hesitated.

She turned to look at him. "Hm?"

"Put.. anything in it?" He pointed at his mug.

"Nnnnno? Do you want anything?" She raised an eyebrow and placed her own mug on her desk.

"..."

"...sugar." He said.

Kate simply smiled. She went over and carefully took the mug from his hands.

"To sweeten your day." She stated.

"Emit the blast at my command." Gaster ordered.

Papyrus kept his stands wide, as Kate had taught him. Ready for action.

"Now." The doctor said.

Papyrus focused his magic and sent a powerful bone-attack flying. It hit the training-dummy with full force, which were destroyed in the blast. Papyrus huffed and puffed. It had been difficult, but he felt that he had improved his skills.

"Okay, now Miss Anderson. Please check the results, so we can move on." He picked up his clipboard and got ready to write.

"On it, doc!" She skipped down the stairs of the testing area and went over to the tired skeleton. After shortly checking his stats, she smiled.

"The test was a success! Subject two's DAMAGE has gone up by 1!" She reported.

While the doctor hurridly scribbled down the information, Kate patted his back gently.

"Well done, Papi! You did an amazing job!" She quietly praised him.

"Thank you." He smiled tiredly.

She took his hand and lead him towards the stairs. Sans quietly watched them, as Paurys tripped up the stairs. Kate held on tight, as to not let him fall. He fell anyway...

when his arm came off.

Kate held the skeleton arm in her and just starred at it for a while. Not quite registering what had just happened.

"OMG!HOLYFUCKINGCRAP! Your arm came off!" Kate freaked out and held the arm as far out from herself as she could. She had stopped breathing, when the doctor casually went over by her side.

"Relax! Limp-detachment for a skeleton is completely normal. See!" Gaster simply picked the arm out of her hand and put it back on Papyrus's stump. It connected with a soft 'clank'.

"There." Both the doctor and Papyrus seemed total calm about it, which made Kate blush.

"Oh.. right. Monster-thing. Hehe... that scared me for a second." She grabbed her shirt right over her heart.

Gaster simply rolled his eyes, while Papyrus put his hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry Kate! I got pretty scared too, first time my arm came off!" He pointed at Sans. "My brother, too!" Sans nodded to her, which made her heart a little lighter.

"Okay! Next up is testing IQ." Gaster said while exiting the room. Kate took the skeleton brothers and followed quietly.

Spread out on the table were serveral... toys. As Kate would describe them. There were the infamous rubiks cube, a game of simon, some quizzes, magic rings and a puzzle box.

The doctor began instructing the skeletons in the different puzzles, while Kate could take a break, reading and from time to time, write down results of the different test.

Sans did excellent. He was very intelligent and had almost no trouble with most of the puzzles. Papyrus on the other hand tried his best, but had a lots of problems with solving them.

He kept trying to open the puzzle box in almost any way possible. The 'magic' rings got bent by him, trying to pull them apart with force and he kept insisting, that the so called 'Simon' inside the round and colorful plastic box, were trying to trick him into pushing the wrong buttons.

All in all his test were a failure. As it had been all the other times they had tried, the doctor informed her. Papyrus were currently trying to solve the rubiks cube, but he kept messing with it as if he tried to make the puzzle harder, rather than solving it.

In the end, the doctor called it off. The they had run out of time and he still had some testing to do with subject 1.

The doctor escorted Subject 2 back to the cell while Kate kept an eye on Subject 1. And with keeping an eye on, I mean that she was reading, while Sans just looked around.

"Hey.. Kate?" Sans suddenly asked.

"Yes?" She didn't look up from the book.

"Are we a secret? My brother and I."

Kate looked up and smirked.

"You ARE very smart. Yes, you are. But don't tell the doctor, that I told you or he will scold me." She looked back down at her book while Sans smirked for himself.

The doctor soon returned. He didn't ask for her help so she just casually hung back. In the start, it was just simple examination of the 'pupils' with a small flashlight. But when the doctor led him over to the restraining table, she knew they were gonna have a bad time.

She quietly got out of her chair and exited the room. She should stay. She should support him. But her heart could not take it. She cared to much for the skeletons, to watch them in pain. She purposly avoided eye contact. She just couldn't.

She began strolling down the halls without a specific destination. Her mind began wandering. Why was she here? Well she knew HOW she got here, but she still felt that something was off. She searched her memory for the thoughts she had, when she first decided to seek out the doctor.

As she tried to remember, her head suddenly hurt really bad! It felt like it was going to explode! She fell to her knees as she took her head in her hands. The pain were so bad that she couldn't utter a single sound. She couldn't hear anything because her ears were ringing and the world began to spin. She totally collapsed at the floor as the pain went on and on.

She didn't know how long she had been lying there. It could have been hours or minutes. The pain was gone, but she still felt dissy. She slowly got up on her hands and knees. Afterwards, she crawled over to the wall and used it as support so she could get on her feet.

After a few failed attempts, she was finally leaning against the wall, trying to catch her breath.

When she finally was okay, she looked around to make sure no one was her. Kate was about to move on, when she heard an explosion coming from the operation-lab.

Doctor?

Kate ran as fast as she could towards the room. Her steps echoed trough the, now quiet lab. She finally reached the door opening and stopped to observe the situation. The operation-lab were trashed. There had been an explosion over by the restraining table were. Or.. had been. Her eyes finally fell upon the two skeletons.

"Oh god, no." She whispered under her breath.