Prompt: "Are you crying" Said to Papyrus, by somebody of your own choice.

"Are you crying?"

He blinks. Once. Twice.

He feels the the wetness running down his cheeks.

A vine snakes up to brush against his eye sockets, gathers the tears in a neat little pool.

"How do skeletons even do that?" The flower wonders out loud, an odd type of childish curiosity sneaking into his voice.

Because that's what he is, after all. Just a child.

Or that's what Papyrus tries to convince himself in between the broken bones and bent phalanges, at least.

"I don't know." He murmurs. Trying to talk with a dislocated jaw is surprisingly painful.

Flowey hums, jagged teeth inches from his face. "Of course you don't."

He sounds almost disappointed.

There is a sickening crunch. There goes another knee joint.

"Does it hurt?" Now he sounds pleased again.

"It's fine." Papyrus answers slowly, trying to move his leg and failing.

It does hurt. Everything hurts.

Flowey pokes at the exposed marrow. "Is it, though?"

Papyrus stares at the cavern ceiling above them. The small dots of fake stars in the distance.

They seem to be moving, just like the real deal.

Though that might just be his body going into shock.

"Are you happy?" His voice sounds distant, even to his own ears. Definitely shock.

Flowey doesn't answer. Doesn't need to.

Papyrus can read him like an open book by now, even if the soulless being denies it.

"Then it's fine."

Papyrus hears rather than feels Flowey's anger. Hears the grating of bone shards against plant matter. The annoyed hiss right besides his ear hole.

"I don't understand." It's not the first time the flower has said this. It won't be the last either.

Maybe he'll never understand.

"Of course you don't." Papyrus smiles, even as more tears escape from his eye corners.

The pain is pretty much all encompassing by now, a constant state of being that leaves little room for anything else.

The fake stars blur together, a million tiny pinpricks of light in the darkness that fill his vision.

It's the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.

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