I told you I was inspired~ Should I continue?
His Bark
It was supposed to be an easy job.
Papyrus crouched over the bloody corpse of what had been a living human being. He took great care to make sure none of it tarnished his newly pressed suit.
The dead bastard before him was his latest target: a double agent, employed by the skeleton family only to find he had been selling their information to another mob.
Dim-witted fool.
He stood to leave, when his eyes caught sight of her. She was standing there stone still at the end of the alley, eyes transfixed on him with a look of terror on her face.
Her bag was still in hand, hanging by her side as if she had been swinging it on her way home. When she had just happened to pass by…
How unfortunate.
He immediately grabbed her by the soul, ensuring that she wouldn’t escape. Even from where he was standing he could see her lip quivering. He felt a pang of guilt go through him seeing how scared she was, but he kept his face set in a glare as he walked slowly over to her. She was starting to hyperventilate and he could tell she was on the verge of screaming. He needed to calm her, or at least keep her silent until he could talk to her.
He now stood over her as she shook with fear.
“Calm Yourself Human. If You Scream, I Will Have To Hurt You. Be Silent And I Promise No Harm Will Come To You.” He said, lowering his voice so as not to frighten her even more.
The girl swallowed but nodded, biting her lip.
He sighed.
“I Am Going To Release My Hold On You. Do Not Try To Run. I Need You To Come With Me. If You Resist I Will Have To Hurt You.”
The girl’s eyes got wider and her lip went back to trembling at his words. He felt another pang of guilt hit him.
Slowly he released her soul, praying she didn’t try to run. To his relief, she stayed put. Gently, he grabbed her arm and began walking towards home. She stumbled along behind him, still in shock as well as trying to keep up with his long strides.
It was going be a long trip home.
…..
When they arrived at the skeleton household, Papyrus was relieved to find no one was home. Less things to scare the little human.
She had jumped when he had shut and locked the front door behind them. As he lead her up the stairs he could fee her shaking in his grasp. Finally, they made it to his (shared) room. He motioned for her to sit on the bed.
“Stay Here. Do Not Try To Leave. I Will Be Back In A While After I Take Care Of A Few Things.”
The girl gave a small nod, not looking up at him. Her face was white and she looked ready to pass out. As he went to shut the door he caught a glimpse of her first tear run down her face.
‘No no no no! Don’t cry!’
A part of him paused, wanting to say something to comfort her. Her eyes had already flooded with tears as she let out the breath she had no doubt been holding since he grabbed her. He was surprised she had been able to hold it together this long.
The tall skeleton sighed and shut the door. He would find some way to calm her later, right now he had a phone call to make.
……
The girl’s breath came out raggedly as the tears came down her face.
How could this be happening?!
One minute she was walking home from work, the next-
She choked on her tears. She remembered hearing the scream of a man. The number one rule on Red Road was ‘Keep Walking’. But the sheer anguish behind the scream had made her stop in her tracks. That’s when she had caught sight of HIM.
He was tall-taller than any human or monster she had ever seen. He stood over a bloody mass on the ground, what she guessed was the source of the scream. What scared her the most though, was the fact that he didn’t have a speck of blood anywhere on his well pressed suit.
He had done this before. And he was good at it. That’s when he had looked up. She couldn’t stop staring.
He was all bones! He had sharp jagged features and to top it all, he had a giant scar running across his left eye. Or rather, eye-socket. Two red pinpricks of light had stared at her intently.
Everything in her had screamed for her to run, but she was frozen in place. One of his eyes had started glowing and she felt a weight in her chest. She couldn’t have moved even if she’d wanted too.
The rest had happened in a blur. Even as he had dragged her through the endless alleys, she had barely been able to comprehend what was happening.
And now she was sitting here locked in a room, awaiting her fate.
She felt her arms shaking, ready to give out. The bed beneath her felt soft and oddly inviting. She decided to lay down.
She just wanted to close her eyes. Maybe she would wake up and find that it was all a dream. Slowly her eyes drifted shut as she gave in to exhaustion.
…..
Papyrus put his phone back in his pocket. He had informed his brothers of the situation. He had stressed to them how cooperative she had been. Though his job required him to kill, in truth he hated him to see innocent people be hurt.
He knew his brothers would be more reasonable than those three. He didn’t want to imagine what would happen to her if they had been home.
The tall skeleton decided it was time to check in on her. Hopefully she had calmed down enough to talk, otherwise he knew his brothers would get frustrated.
When he got to the door upstairs he listened for a few moments. He didn’t hear any cry or sniffling. Slowly he opened the door.
To his surprise he found the girl asleep on the bed. She was curled up in the fetal position and tear stains still streaked across her face.
Papyrus came closer. She looked so small and helpless and-
The tall monster shook himself, restraining himself from running his phalange down her cheek. He had always been drawn towards small, cute things…
No, there was no need to get attached. Cute and sweet things never lasted very long in his world. Everything around him was sharp, angular, and edgy.
Nothing as soft and gentle looking as her ever lasted very long in his life.
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Submitted by @turtleskele
……. Oooooh….. that’s good.
Yes, yes! Please please continue, I want to read more, I want to know more of the sharp edgy skele with the smol sof human, please-
(P.S. I’m flattered that you put it in AMitS, it’s so good!)