He woke up, eyes glancing around, huh?

His room wasn't white, since he was sleeping in his bed last night...

He got up and glanced down, noting down that he wasn't on his bed anymore, and his outfit had changed.

He frowned, what was wrong with him?

He...wasn't feeling anything for some reason?

Shouldn't he be freaking out that he got kidnapped and some stranger changed his clothes for him?

He frowned even more, looking around with an odd look.

Well now this is weird, where was he? Heck some buildings were just white and a lot of them didn't even look finished, as if someone stopped working on it.

He started walking, noting down what he was seeing, were those of the monster race.

But they looked sad, some of them were incomplete.

He frowned even more, then why wasn't he feeling sad? Why can't he feel anything? Who was he now?

He brought his hand up and paused, bones?

Either he was sans or papyrus...maybe gaster if they were still here...

Papyrus just frowned again as he walked some more, now this is weird.

One moment he was sleeping in his bed, the next he was here in someone else's body.

Did they die as he ended up here and kept them from dusting? What exactly happened to the monster whose body he was now in?

Now he would be confused and distressed if he could feel anything. But all he felt was nothing...

No emotions surging forward, no overwhelming sorrow, distress, happy or any kind of emotions whatsoever.

He wouldn't be happy about this, but again, no emotions, he can't even be upset at his current situation.

He continued to walk, looking around, searching for someone, something different, something new.

Something that wasn't a depressing sight.

He turned a corner and headed out where there wasn't anything made or created and walked in that direction.

He came to a pause as he saw an undyne and walked over to see who she was looking at.

He paused, oh, so he can't be a sans then. Then either papyrus or gaster then.

Sans seemed to be trying to chat happily before it faded looking upset.

"...sans..." oh, he was definitely papyrus he decided.

The sans of this au, perked up, looking relived and happy while undyne gave them a sad and confused look before turning and heading off.

He kneeled down and sat next to his new brother, "I know. You don't want to feel anymore..right?"

Sans looked down, uncomfortable with slight tears at the corner of his eye sockets.

"It is not an existence you should want. I can't feel. I can't be happy, I can't be sad, I can't be mad, I can't grieve, I can't cry, I can't feel anything. I can't find something to do that I enjoy because I don't enjoy anything. Are you sure you would rather not feel then be able to feel? I wouldn't hesitate to trade places with you just to feel for even a  second, to know." He told sans, who looked seconds away from crying before sans lunged at him and hugged him close as he cried.

He started rubbing sans back, "there there..I'm here now..I won't leave you alone..you won't be alone anymore..I promise..."

The other continued to cry for a good long while, shaking in his arms, the sans finally started going quiet with some slight noises every now and then.

He glanced down to notice sans had cried himself to sleep while still making some noises that those make when sobbing their hearts out.

Papyrus just stared for a few seconds before humming a bit, he continued to sit there, he had nothing do to but watch over his new brother.

Now he knows he should very much care about sans, but again, nothing.

But from his previous feelings in his old life, he at least pitied and was sad for some characters, always wanting to help certain ones but couldn't.

But he can at least still help one of them, the one that he is with now, if he ever manages to leave this place, he'll take sans with him and travel, he'll look for the others his past life had wanted to help so badly.

Because if his past life wanted to do that, who was he to disagree with what his feelings would have been saying now if he could still feel?

So he'll take care of sans to the best of his abilities, find out how to leave with sans and travel around helping those his past life and feelings had wanted to help.

He doesn't care, good or bad side, if he had wanted to help them, then he shall. He wasn't heartless or soulless about it. He just couldn't feel..wait did he even have a soul?

Papyrus blinked and carefully thought about summoning his soul out and within a few seconds, he pulled something out.

He gazed down at it, ah, so he had part of a soul formed. Alright, he can understand why he couldn't feel. He didn't even have a complete soul to begin with. Now he knew someone would argue that geno had only a small part of his soul and can feel.

But again, geno used to have a full soul before the whole determination thing happened.

While he never had a complete soul to begin with. How can he feel if his soul was incomplete and seemed to be even smaller then geno's?

Papyrus titled his head, well, he'll figure it out. Even if he lives an empty life, he knows his feelings and past life would be happy and satisfied if he helped all those he has previously wanted before he ended up here.

So he can at least do that, then he'll know, his past life would have felt happy that he finally managed to help those he had wanted.

But until then, his job was to look after his brother and figure out how to get out of here.

Papyrus held sans a bit closer, one hand gently rubbing sans head as he was lost in thought.

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Finished with 1039 words. Don't skip a single word or part of you want to understand down below-

So for this I had some ideas, like one, both papyrus and sans escapes their au and travels, papyrus helping those his past life wanted.

Two, they don't escape and papyrus piece of a soul was accidentally (or on purpose) shattered by something and caused him to be pulled to somewhere and become a creator/protector or aus- same thing happens with sans who did it on purpose because without his brother, he felt like everything had ended and eventually find each other and remember or so.

Third, papyrus gets pulled into another multiverse by himself and travels around and eventually meets the ink from there who felt like he was missing something and just kinda become a bit obsessed with wanting to know who the 'new' papyrus is and trying to solve papyrus problem with no feelings with his paints.

And the other idea is- despite becoming ink papyrus, a few months later sans disappears leave papyrus behind. (Soul shattered-) ink, slowly starts remembering due to papyrus singing a lullaby to him (the one I chose in the next chapter) since things were reminding him

I'm going with the first one where they both travel. The other three I think I'll just have to remake as three new stories about it.

Well at least the title will be somewhat different to this one.

Though I might change the first chapter for the other three ideas. I already have some scenes kinda planned out in my mind for certain parts to it.

Any questions, you can ask me after you read this fully and no skipping.

Ja ne~!

Hmm I tried my best to draw it to see it a bit better click on the top image above that's above the title of the chapter since this just automatically turns black when I post it right here. (I didn't bother with a background)

And no, I was going for a bit of an incomplete look and stuff

Edit part- some parts I tried fixing aren't showing up for me oh well

Also if you read all the way to the bottom you'd know I finished the first and second chapter for this. If you read this fully and comment right here, I'll post the second chapter on the same day :)

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