Sorry for the wait, got caught up in exams, then I took a long break. I'll try to update more frequently now, but I still want longer chapters, and since I'm still new at this I'm taking a bit of time to write. Wanted to make this chapter longer, but I wanted to give you something first. Enjoy!

Papyrus was feeling like this day would be good. His brother finally wanted to do something else beside sleeping and telling pun (thought to be fair he would probably make some in the movie night) and Undyne, like Alphys were free. He thought about making another batch of spaghetti for all of them, but he settled for something a bit different since they had been eating that for the past week.

They would be amazed by how great his lasagna will be!

Alphys said that she would also bring popcorn for the night. Honestly, Papyrus didn't like it so much. It would always get stuck in his teeth, and he couldn't remove it without his hands, with his lack of tongue and all.

But Sans loved it. Then again, his brother couldn't open his mouth, much less move it, a permanent grin plastered on his face. He would eat using magic, making food disappear in front of his teeth.

Papyrus's smile faltered for a second. He would never admit it, but sometime this physical characteristic would bother him a lot. Of course his brother was hiding stuff from him, he wasn't stupid. But he felt like Sans would also lie about how he felt to protect him. And this grin would always mislead him into thinking that he was fine.

His eyes were the only thing that gave him a glance at his true feelings. He could see how his eye sockets were darker than usual, and how the lights in them would sometimes flicker.

He wanted to know, god he wanted to know what was wrong. But he knew Sans all too well. He would only shut down if he tried to force it out of him.

He could only wait, and be there for him.

Strolling in the snow to check on Sans at his sentry post, he was excited to tell him that Undyne and Alphys were free for the night. It was quiet outside, truly a beautiful day.

His brother wasn't at his post.

Papyrus worried for a second. "AH, OF COURSE", he said out loud as he remembered that he liked to go to the giant door to practice his knock knock jokes.

He faced the wooden gate on the bridge, progressing toward the door.

He was interrupted as he heard a laugh, a silhouette standing right behind the gate. Upon closer inspection, he realised this was in fact the same shape as a human.

Normally, he would be thrilled to see a human child. But this laugh sent a shiver down his spine. His smile was gone. He felt it; something wasn't right. They were showing their back, their attention fully concentrated on something at their feet. He couldn't make out what it was.

He decided to test his luck, approaching the human carefully, but with confidence.

"HELLO HUMAN. I AM THE-"

"Great Papyrus?" the child finished in an unnerving voice, looking back at him, moving on the side. Which gave him a perfect view of the unidentified thing on the ground.

He froze where he stood, his smile long gone, eye socket widening.

There he was, his brother lying lifelessly in the snow, a mix of blue and red staining the snow right under his head. The human had a foot on his pelvis, his right leg in one hand.

"My my, Papyrus, you're here early!" they cooed, dropping the knife he just realised they had in their hand.

Papyrus was at lost for words. He stared at the child, then at Sans, unable to do anything. He couldn't take his eyes off of his brother's unconscious body. Why would they hurt his brother? Papyrus knew him more than anybody else in the underground. His brother wouldn't hurt the human. They had their puzzles to capture them after all, so why would he even attack? Why would the human feel the need to attack him?

He felt his vision falter. This can't be happening… Why? Why would they do this? He thought as his hands shook.

But he still couldn't move.

"Wow, not going to save him? That's pretty pathetic".

They grabbed Sans's femur with both hands, pulling while keeping a sturdy foot on his pelvis. They were slowly twisting it inward, and the awful realisation of what they were doing crept into Papyrus's mind too late. His body was thrown into action, feeling his magic forming around him, tears prickling at the corner of his eye sockets.

"STOP!" he desperately yelled, a hand thrown in front of him, firing a bone at the child.

They moved their heads slightly to the left, the bone planting itself in a tree behind. The child smiled.

Sans's leg was ripped off.

Now, Papyrus was never a fighter. Well, he did want to join the Royal Guards, but he never wanted to fight with the intention of killing any humans. He never wanted to hurt anyone. But at that moment, as he heard the sickening crack of his brother's leg being torn off, there was no more morals restraining him.

He yelled as a wall of bones formed in front of him. His magic poured out just like his anger, a white fury no one could have possibly thought he had in him. He threw every bones he could possibly summon, a disordered attack only fueled by his emotions.

"HOW DARE YOU!?" He screamed as the human quickly took a few steps back, their twisted smile fading away. "DO NOT HURT MY BROTHER!" They were forced to jump, dodge and dive on the ground as bones were coming from everywhere.

When bones grazed their shoulders and their hips, the human decided to retreat into the forest, making a run for it for their knife before dashing deep inside the woods.

Papyrus threw a few more bones at them. He wanted to follow them, he really did. But something was a hell lot more important right now. More specifically, his brother.

The tall skeleton sprinted to Sans's side, carefully taking him in his arms. He searched around for his missing leg, but realised with anger that the human ran away with it.

No, right now he needed to concentrate on what was important.

He carefully wrapped his scarf around Sans's head for his eye. "COME ON BROTHER… LET'S GET HOME…"

"U-Undyne! Calm down, you're g-going to break the table!"

"But have you seen that?! Why doesn't Mew Mew just go with him?" Undyne yelled, the said table flipped against the wall.

"W-well, she still likes her first love…" Alphys mumbled.

"ARGH!" The fish monster lamented, crashing back on the sofa, folding her arms. "This show is stupid anyway…"

"Aren't you the one who absolutely n-needed to see the f-four next episodes…?" The scientist replied, stifling a laugh.

"WELL YEAH!" she retorqued, gesturing to the TV, "I need to know who she's going to choose!"

Undyne groaned again, taking a sip of her water that was fortunately on the coffee table next to the sofa. Even if Alphys was kind enough to put the air conditioning whenever she came, it still wasn't like Waterfall, but she didn't mind. She liked spending time with her shy friend watching anime.

"Who knows, m-maybe we'll see in the next episode…"? Alphys smiled as she waved the remote control in front of Undyne's face. The latter was fixing it, debating her options in her head.

She threw her hands in the air. "FINE! But it's the last one!"

"Of course!" The small monster clicked on the next episode, fully knowing that Undyne was too curious to just stop there after a cliff hanger.

Not even a few minutes in that Alphys's cellphone rang.

"Alphys! Come on!" Undyne complained.

"S-sorry!" She said, pausing the show. "Weird, I was sure I muted my phone…"

She got up, promising to be back as she walked to her desk, searching around for the cell. Unfortunately, as she found it, the call got to voicemail. She frowned, sure that it was definitely put on mute. So why was it rigging?

She quickly discovered why as a text displayed '25 miss calls" on her screen. Her eyes widened as she remembered she put the option of ringing when someone was calling to much in case of emergencies.

She quickly checked who it was. Papyrus?

"ALPHYS!" yelled back Undyne. "WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG?"

"A-a minute! I h-have to call s-someone!" She quickly replied as she found Papyrus's contact name in the list, dialing his number.

It picked up at the first ring.

"Papyrus! Wh-"

"ALPHYS!" Papyrus was practically screaming in the device, making Alphys's head recoil "ALPHYS I NEED YOU RIGHT HERE IN SNOWDIN! IT'S AN EMERGENCY!"

"W-w-what? Papyrus, c-calm down! What's w-wrong,..?"

"IT'S SANS! THERE WAS A HUMAN AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DID BUT THEY ATTACKED HIM I THINK AND-GOD HIS EYE IS BLEEDING AND I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW THAT IS POSSIBLE SINCE WE'RE SKELETONS-"

"Papyrus! Stop, you're rambling!" she said with more force than she was used to. "I'm coming right away, alright?" she stated, grabbing her lab coat, searching for her medical kit. Damnit, where were her stuff when she needed them?

"OKAY, BUT PLEASE HURRY ALPHYS!" he sounded terrified.

"Okay, I-I will… I'll be there in ten minutes okay? Put a tight bandage around h-his eye… socket for now okay?" She ordered, crouching under her desk. It was filled with boxes, and as she tossed them out of her way, she saw the red and white logo of the medical kit. Bingo.

"I WILL!" Papyrus shouted back. She took the box out with her, banging her head against the desk in the process. "ow…" she mumbled as she got up.

"S-so," she continued, "stay with him, I'll be there soon… Call me back if things get w-worst" she finished, closing her cell after a loud 'okay' from Papyrus. She opened her kit on her desk, checking if she had everything to treat a magical wound.

Well, she wasn't sure what it was without consulting the patient, but she suspected it had to do with his magic. Skeletons didn't have eyeballs, but she knew Sans's source of power was his left eye socket.

It wasn't a rare thing for monsters to have a physical source of magic on their body, but it was usually hidden inside. As for skeletons, they didn't have that chance. At least Papyrus's was in his ribcage. For Sans unfortunately, it was where everyone could see it.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Undyne spoke right behind the scientist. She yelped, banging her hips against the desk, making a few papers fall, scattering on the already messy floor. She completely forgot the fish monster in this story.

"Undyne! I-I got a call from Papyrus saying that Sans i-is badly injured…" She closed the medical kit. There was everything she needed in there. "I n-need to go down in Snowdin right now…"

"What?" Undyne exclaimed. "How did that punk even get hurt? By falling down while sleeping on the job?"

"P-Papyrus said he was attacked… By a h-human…"

"THERE'S A HUMAN UNDERGROUND!?" She suddenly shouted, taking the small monster in her strong arms without warning. Alphys yelped, slightly blushing despite the situation.

"WE'RE GOING RIGHT NOW!" The warrior declared as she started jogging outside of Alphys's lab, ignoring the heat from Hotland that she hated so much.

"U-Undyne!" she squeaked, "you don't h-have to hold me…!"

"It'll be faster! We can't let the human hurt any more monsters!" She yelled, running full speed to the River Person. Alphys clenched the medical kit tighter in her hands, which were shaking. Not only was she scared, she didn't know if she could even help Sans. And that was without mentioning that the human could be killing other monsters as they spoke.

No. She had to be brave. This wasn't the time to doubt herself. She was needed after all.

Papyrus kept walking in circle in the living room, where Sans laid lifelessly on the sofa. He used an old shirt to make a tight bandage around his head. It was already soaked in a blue liquid, which he assumed was probably magic. The only good news was that it was slowing down.

But it did not calm Papyrus down.

More than once he hallucinated dust piling right under his brother. He now had to check every minute or so, carefully lifting his head to check for any sign of dust. He couldn't let his brother fall down. He just couldn't.

He carefully took Sans jacket off, which was neatly folded on the table next to their pet rock. Papyrus didn't know what else to do. He had called Alphys, but what if she didn't make it in time? What if the human found them?

The human… He should probably be hunting them down to capture them, but he was too worried to leave his brother's side. He had warned the small village that they needed to hide in their houses since a threat was roaming in the forest. No children were allowed outside, and adults had to be careful and alarm a Royal Guard if they ever spotted them.

Greater Dog and Lesser Dog were on surveillance in the village, whereas Dogamy and Dogaressa were scouting the forest, hoping to capture the human before anyone else got hurt. Doggo stayed in his sentry station, ready to warn the others if the human was spotted.

They told Papyrus to stay indoor with his brother. In different circumstance, he would have contested, declaring with confidence that he could be of assistance, and secretly hoping that they would see his potential to become a Royal Guard. But this time was different. He simply nodded his head, heading back home.

He wouldn't admit it, but his… little outburst left him exhausted. He shook the feeling off, too worried to be able to sleep anyway.

With a sigh, he sat down next to Sans at his feet. Well… at his foot would be more appropriate. Papyrus couldn't believe that the human torn off his brother's leg. He just couldn't comprehend why. If they wanted, they could've dust him where he laid on the snow. They didn't…

Could it be that they didn't want Sans dead?

His train of thought was interrupted as the house's door opened with such force it probably left a hole in the wall. He stood up in alert, but relief soon washed over him as he took sight of Alphys in Undyne's arms, who opened the door with a kick.

"ALPHYS! ALPHYS PLEASE HELP HIM!" Papyrus ran to them, yanking her from the fish monster's arms without realising it. Alphys didn't have time to say a word as she was shoved in front of Sans.

"Hey watch it Pap!" Undyne yelled at him. He was a bit too rough for her liking, and even if she knew Papyrus was just panicking, she didn't want Alphys to be overwhelmed with his actions.

"I-it's fine U-Undyne...!" She reassured her, before turning back to Sans, opening her kit on the floor.

"Alright, you stay and take care of his brother while I go KILL that damn human! No one hurts my friends!" Undyne yelled as a spear materialised right in front of her, catching it mid-air.

"BUT YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR ARMOR!" Papyrus mentioned worriedly. In fact, the warrior was still in her casual clothes, since she was just spending time with Alphys.

"Damnit, I forgot!" she facepalmed herself. "PAPYRUS!", she yelled back, pointing at him, "protect them while I'm gone! I trust you, trainee!" With that, she ran outside, clacking the door behind her.

Papyrus gave his attention back to the scientist with her brother. She removed the soaked shirt, examining the inside of his eye socket with a rag to wipe away the excess that was leaking out. "I was right… This is definitely a magic wound…" she mumbled as she took out from her medical kit a syringe. She only then noticed the tall skeleton that was looming over her, watching her every movement.

"Uhm.. P-Papyrus..?" She lifted her head, meeting his eyes, "I… kinda need to concentrate… uhm…"

"OH OF COURSE, I UNDERSTAND" he says as he took a small step back, still fixing her.

"Why don't y-you go in your r-room… I'll call you when I'm done, okay..?" she gently smiled at him. Of course he was worried, she'd never seen the two sibling this close together… But it was unnerving to have the taller one watching her.

"OH… UHM…"

"Don't worry Papyrus, I'll help him, promise. Now go wait in your room please…"

After a few worried glances at his brother, he finally obliged, walking upstairs and closing the door behind him.

She sighed, and turned back to Sans, only now noticing his missing limb. With an expression of shock, she carefully looked up his short, only to find that his femur had been ripped off of his pelvis, a red spot marking the missing bone. She put her hand over her mouth. What the hell happened...?

She shook her head. No, she had to concentrate. Fix his eye first, the priority. Then check for other none threatening injuries.

She pulled up his shirt, reaching inside his rib cage with the syringe, carefully injecting his soul with a surplus of magic. She couldn't heal his wound herself. Only his magic could do it, so she needed to give him more as it was leaking.

Sans body spasmed as the magic was too much at once. The blue liquid was practically oozing from the skeleton's face, but she had no choice. With this much quantity, the soul would force it out of his body, and one of the ways was by using it. Since his body could sense his injury, his magic would unconsciously turn into healing.

Sure, it was uncomfortable for the monster receiving it, but Sans was fortunately unconscious. Placing a good quantity of new bandages over Sans's eye socket, she finally decided to have a look at his pelvis.

She hated entering someone's privacy without his consent, but this was a skeleton. It wasn't exactly a 'private part' for her. Heck, she had a skeleton made of plastic at her lab (thought Sans blushed a bright cyan blue the first time he saw it, telling Alphys how it was inappropriate to have a female skeleton body exposed like that. This made her wonder how they could even identify the genders…)

She carefully stripped his shorts off, taking a closer look. It was only an abrasion, a few drips of blood staining the white bone. The scientist took out another bandage, covering it as best as she could.

There wasn't much she could do at this point. Sans was healing his eye, which wouldn't take him long to finish, and his pelvis was relatively fine. She put the blanket she found folded on the couch and placed it on Sans.

She carefully put away her stuff, looking back upstairs to call Papyrus back, only to find him peeking down the stairs, half hiding behind his room's door.

She sighed. "You watched me all the way didn't you…?"

"… I'M SORRY ALPHYS." He said as he walked downstairs. "I'M… I.. I'm just… so worried…" he sat next to his brother, watching him like a guardian angel. "I… don't want to loose him. He's everything to me", he said, almost whispering.

"You know, he always does everything for me", Papyrus smiled at the memories, looking down at his face. "He took on so many jobs to pay for the house while I trained with Undyne to become a Royal Guard…" He could feel tears prickling at the corner of his eye sockets. "He never once complained. But sometimes…" his smile was gone. "I wonder if he put aside his dreams only for me. Or if he even has one…"

It was the first time she saw him talking with this much sadness in his voice. It broke her heart. Papyrus was so innocent, so full of cheers, pulling everyone together. She really liked his presence, even if she was always quiet beside him. People thought she didn't like the tall skeleton, that he made her feel uncomfortable, but, in reality, he made her feel important, wanted.

"It's okay, I understand… B-but he'll be okay! He is healing himself, and he should actually wake up soon" she smiled at him as gently as she could.

"REALLY?" He said, his grin back on his face. "WHEN WILL HE WAKE UP?"

"Uhm, well it really depends on his recovery… It could be in a few minutes as it could be a few hours…" She sighed. "It would be b-better if it was the later… Waking up e-early could be painful at the moment…"

It was true. The magic she injected him could put his body back into action, forcing him to wake up even if he shouldn't. If the patient wasn't fatally wounded, she didn't use this. But knowing how fragile Sans was, she didn't take the chance. Better a bit of pain than dying, right?

"I… I'M SORRY IF I WAS A BIT AGGRESSIVE WHEN YOU CAME IN."

"Oh, u-uhm don't worry about that…! I fully underst-"

She shrieked, interrupted as the door was forcefully opened, breaking the wall in the process. The fish monster stood in the doorway, wearing her armor.

"UNDYNE! BE CAREFUL WITH THE DOOR!" Papyrus scolded, getting up to clean the pieces of drywall littering the ground.

"Ah, sorry Pap", she said as she closed the door, helping him. "I talked to Greater Dog, and the human wasn't spotted yet. We're still on watch", she threw the pieces she collected in the garbage can under the table while Papyrus fetched a broom, "How's Sans anyway?"

"H-he should be fine…" She replaced her glasses as Undyne examined Sans. "He might have a sh-shock when he wak-"

"THAT HUMAN BRAT CUT OFF HIS LEG!?" She gritted her pointy teeth together as she clenched her knuckles together.

Yes, she wasn't as close to Sans as she was with his brother, but she still enjoyed his company when he was there. Sure, he was lazy and it got on her nerves, but she liked the guy. His laziness was, in a way, his charm. But this wasn't the point. She was the head of the Royal Guard, and she couldn't even protect a close friend? How was she expected to help everyone if she already failed at her job?

A monster was hurt today because she wasn't on duty. Papyrus's brother suffered the consequences because she was careless to think that everything was okay today.

Her self loathing was interrupted as a calm hand placed itself on her knuckle.

"Calm down Undyne… It's n-not your fault, okay?" She looked down at the yellow monster, who had a faint tint of red on her cheeks. Strangely, this calmed the Royal Guard. She took a deep breath.

"It would be careless for you t-to go in the forest… We don't know where the human is, and this place n-needs your protection. You should s-stay until we have news of the human's whereabouts."

"… DON'T YOU HAVE CAMERAS INSTALLED ALL THROUGHT SNOWDIN?" Papyrus spoke after a moment, looking down at the pile of dust and drywall. He shivered as he collected it in the dust pan, throwing it away.

"Oh, y-yes I do!" She quickly took her phone out of her pocket. "why didn't I think of that...?"

"THAT'S BRILLANT PAPYRUS!" Undyne exclaimed. "We'll be able to trace down that fucker soon enough!"

"LANGUAGE!" shouted back Papyrus.

"Okay" interrupted Alphys, "It'll take too long for me to go b-back in my lab, so I'll try to connect to my computer from my phone… It'll take a while thought" She looked back at Undyne, "For now, please stay put, okay?"

Undyne's answer was interrupted by a groan coming from a certain small skeleton on the sofa. Everyone faces turned toward Sans as he woke up. His brother ran to his side as fast as he could, taking his hand, a worried expression plastered on his face.

"BROTHER? BROTHER DO YOU HEAR ME?"

"Pap…?" Sans weakly asked, groaning as he tried to sit up, letting out a soft laugh. Wow, he really felt groggy. First time a reset did that… "Eh, guess I'm still bone tired, huh..?" Why couldn't he see anything?

Really, what happened? The human killed them so fast. He only remembered a surge of pain in his left eyes socket and the human's dark laugh resonating in his skull. Man, this was pretty bad. Where did the kid get the knife anyway…?

He shrugged it off. Not like it mattered anyway. They were just pawns in the human's hands, like a game of chest.

"Brother please don't get up, you're still injured…" Papyrus said in his soft voice, a voice he usually used when he had nightmares and asked for comfort in Papyrus's arms.

Wait- injured?!

"W-what?" He shakily asked as he felt his eye socket, only to be stopped by a bandage over both of his eyes.

What. The. Fuck.

"Yes, you were attacked by a human… B-but don't worry! You'll heal okay..?" He could practically feel his brother smile, caressing his hand in comfort.

But he couldn't relax. The play has changed, and his script was rendered completely useless. He didn't know what was happening, and as much as he hated to admit it, he felt scared. Always having a notion of what was going to happen strangely kept him sane. He knew everything that had to happen: he knew every conversations, every actions like a movie played on repeat.

No, no calm down. The kid will reset eventually like always.

"I'm… okay Pap…" Finally sitting, shifting uneasily as he felt a missing weight on his right side. Alarmed, he touch his right leg.

Only to be met with nothing but the sofa.

His breathing grew faster, as he felt around in desperation to find the missing limb.

"B-brother please calm down…!" he said calmly, taking Sans's searching hands in his. "It's okay, everything will be fine…"

"But.. what.. w-why.." He couldn't find his words. Did the kid just decided to spontaneously take his leg? Why!?

"Hey, don't worry punk, we'll help you okay?" He jumped up, startled as he heard Undyne talk right beside him. She was here too…? "We're not leaving you in this condition!"

"I-I can always t-try to make a new leg f-for you…" Alphys said shyly, making Sans turn his head toward her voice. "It'll be a-alright okay? You just have to stay calm…"

Alphys and Undyne were here… This was definitely far away from the script. Nothing made sense (or should he say, sans) and it was messing with his head so badly.

"What about… the human… w-where are they..?" He asked nervously.

Who knows what they could be planning. He used to not care about these kind of things, but now that everything changed, he was beyond terrified that this was the final reset. That there would be no more.

That his brother could definitively die.

"We a-aren't sure y-yet, but we think they a-are somewhere in Snowdin's forest. I'm t-trying to connect to my computer at h-home to see the cameras…" Alphys stuttered, a beeping sound close to her as he assumed she was on her phone.

"Once we find their whereabouts I'll KILL THEM!" Undyne shouted, follow by a crash to his right side.

"UNDYNE, DON'T BREAK THE TABLE!"

"SORRY!"

"G-guys, calm down, we c-can't have Sans stressing o-out.. It'll be bad for h-his magic!"

"I'm fine Alphys", he assured her, even thought his left eye felt as if it was on fire and his missing limb was beyond terrifying to him. "I just… Need some sleep I think…"

"You should rest brother! Let me take you to your room, okay?" Papyrus voice came next to him. Sans nodded as he felt strong hands taking him from the couch, holding him bridal style. His brother was even more careful than usual, which he didn't think could be possible.

His bandages got soaked by his tears as the smaller skeletons put his head against his brother's chest. He was at peace in his arms, but that was what made it so scary. He could lose this. He could lose his brother permanently now, as there was no way of knowing if the human would reset again.

He gripped his brother's scarf, the smell of spice calming him. He would protect him. He would do anything for him.