Undergoing

Chapter fourteen the past, time difference

Ina slowly yawns and sits up blinking blearily then she casts her sight spell and spots a plate of spagetti on the table nearby their pet rock she smiles and walks over to it and eats it she instantly feels better and grins "how you feeling mom?" She looks over and sees sans "i feel im spilting from the seems of my soul from feeling so good!" His eyes go black "dont joke about that" ina rubs her neck "ah sorry... i must have scared you guys" sans glares "how can you just brush it off! Your SOUL nearly split in three Mom!" Ina smiles "well, you are ok, gasters ok, papyrus is ok, everyone is ok, and as long as you all are ok... ill be ok!" He pinches his nose bridge and laughs nearly hysterically shaking his head and whispers while hanging his head "but im not ok... ive havent been ok, for a while" ina smiles sadly "i know... come here"

he looks up and sees her open arms he walks forward and hugs her she hugs him back "everyone dies... its a natural part of life, even after we break the barrier one day we all will die, but its what happens before then that counts, life is so much more than death, you know and i know this and before you say i dont know... ive lost more people than almost anyone on the surface, the pack i told you about... is my seventh one..." he flinches and looks up at her, and sees her distant expression and she continues

"i was such a brat... i kept pushing everyone away, i had such a huge stick up my ass, i was emotionally repressed, stone hearted, ruthless, cynical, hardass, detached, vengeful, and such a bitch, i was... pretty bad, i got so many people killed, so many deaths i could have prevented" ina shakes her head "i should have never have been promoted to any leadership position in the first place... i was so determined to get any mission done at any cost be it lives or morals, or sanity... i once talled up the deaths and because of me, four thousand and five hundred people have died and theres probably a lot more..." sans stares at her in shock and ina moves over to the couch and sets them both on it then she keeps talking

"i dont know all of their names, i dont know if they had family waiting for them, i dont know all their dreams, goals, or anything much about them... but it was my seventh pack that shattered my defences and walls, that actually made me care again... they made me soft, and they" ina laughs tearily "they got through to me, they broke my walls down with a sledge hammer, and made me feel again, and helped me learn how to be a real part of the pack... they were my family..."

She shakes herself "my point is even if they are not here they are still with you, their memories will always be with you kiddo, as long as you remember them, they will be with you" sans nods "yeah, yeah you're right..." ina smiles "im not right, im mom!" Sans laughs Then he stops and hestitantly asks "mom does dad know and i was just wondering... but, how is it that you lost seven packs in less than sixty months? or was it just that bad?" Ina raises a eyebrow then she realises "yes he does, i told him every thing over the seven years i was without a pack... wait, sixty months? oh it might be... how long is a year for all of you?"

Sans raises a skullbrow and answers "twelve months" ina shakes her head "a year would be thirty six months for us... you see a couple years before the war started, a few archmages made a mistake with a spell and lengthed our life spans, and in response, we said that one year would pass for every thirty six months... we thought it would be a better method than rather counting all the way up to three hundred years...so when i was ten in human years, i was thirty in your years, and fourty two when it ended... it also slowed our growth unless somthing tramatic happened to us, and the only reason i know that is because, well, i love history..."

Sans stares "so the seven years that youve been alone and to rebuild was actually... twenty one years? And the five hundred year war was ac-actually..." ina nods "one thousand and five hundred years? Yes... yes it was..." then sans asks "how old are you again?" Ina smiles "in our years twenty one, in your years sixty three" he gapes at her then he grins "well then at least im not going to loose you in a couple of decades then mom, And you are a old lady!"

Ina playfully scowls and noggies his head "im not old!

Im in my prime!" Sans calls out "you are! a old lady!" Ina grins and picks him up an sets him on her lap and tickles him he jerks and laughs ina keeps tickling him "grrrowwwl! The Tickle monster has you!" and he keeps laughing until tears were coming out of his sockets ina attempts to catch her breath and grins at him "feeling better?" He nods then a voice says "HEY CAN I JOIN IN?" Ina looks up and sees papyrus and smiles "of course rus! Lets get him!" sans laughs "Paps save me!" papyrus grins "OH NOOOOO THERE IS ANOTHER TICKLE MONSTER!

GGGROOOOWWWLLL!"

Papyrus pounces onto the couch and sending them up into the air ina laughs her and papyrus tickle sans and then suddenly papyrus brushes his fingers against ina's side and she yelps then both skeletons were looking at her ina pales putting up her hands as if to ward them off "no! Nonononono" they both had a simular grin spreading across their faces sans then pokes her in the side making her jump and laugh they both pounce on her and start tickling her and she screams happily in laughter soon they were all panting and lying in a pile of limbs ina smiles contentedly

Slowly the boys seemingly fall asleep as their eyelights disapeared and ina smiles up at the ceiling "i may have lost two true familys... but i have a new one now, im glad i met you three, our family, though it may be small, and broken, but its still a good family, yeah... still good, i love you both" she smiles up at the ceiling and closes her eyes, on her right sans chokes on a sob he turns his head to look at ina "im glad i met you too

mom, i love you too, man... do you remind me of our birth mom"

Then sans truly falls asleep then from the left side of the couch papyrus opens his eyesockets he smiles at the other two and whispers "im also glad i met you momma, i may not remember my birth mom but, i think she would be just like you and i love you too..." then he closes his eyes and falls asleep ina opens her eyes and tears streak down her face and she looks at both of her boys wrapping her arms around both of them she vows "i swear i will make sure you both see the surface, and stay up there, no more resets, no more darkness... only sunlight, happiness, laughter and fun" and she listens to them breath rattling breaths and hours later finally falls asleep