A Different Everything (Closed) (For Babyblues)

[Babyblues]

"I'm not going to fibu-lie," he replied, listening to the distant cackling of his sibling, "The folks down here are desperate. But despite that, they're pretty decent. I dare say you'll win em over before long, if you're careful."


"Hate to tell you though, Eddie," he added with an impish grin, "Ain't nobody down here like my bro and me. We're bone-afide one of a kinds."

 

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Ed's small smile slowly grew. She nodded at that. She watched as, up ahead of them, Frisk was running ahead of Papyrus now, starting a small chase until they got to the puzzle.


"I think you could say that a thousand times and it never be false." She said honestly. "Ya got a nice smile, you know that?" She asked suddenly.

 

[Babyblues]

Sans choked at that, a small trace of blue creeping over his features. What the hell brought that on?! "Heh..hehe... yeah..." He chuckled haltingly, "um.. you.. too I guess..?" He huffed in embarrassment. He didn't get genuine compliments like that often. It pretty much threw him for a loop.


Desperate for a distraction, he takes a short-cut, finding himself at the other-side of the puzzle mere moments before Papyrus just barely beat the shorter human.

 

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Seeing Sans disappear beside her, she stopped and stared at the spot. Well, not the first time she chased a guy off. At least it was with a compliment this time.


"Guess I still need to learn to shut my mouth." Ed sighed. She had only been trying to make a friend. She had always been a little jealous of her sister. Without any issue, she could make a friend out of anyone while Ed had only a few close ones.


"Hurry up Eden!" Frisk yelled from the starting point of the puzzle. Eden ran up and looked at the ground not covered by snow.


"Hey, if its to avoid the snow, I think we got it." She teased Frisk, nudging her with her hip and making the smaller girl giggle.

 

[Babyblues]

"FINALLY! I WAS BEGINNING TO THINK THAT GOING TOE TO TOE WITH MY GREATNESS HAD INTIMIDATED YOU!" Papyrus declared, posing like he had been waiting for an hour and not the scant few seconds it had been, "BEHOLD! A PUZZLE THE LIKES OF WHICH HUMANS SUCH AS YOURSELVES HAVE NEVER SEEN! EVEN OTHER MONSTERS TREMBLE WITH FEAR AT THE MERE SUGGESTION OF TRAVERSING IT'S DEADLY TWISTS AND TURNS, FOR YOU SEE BEFORE THE MOST COMPLICATED, MOST BEFUDDLING AND MOST INFURIATING MAZE IN EXISTENCE! I DARE SAY YOU SHALL IT TO BE RATHER... SHOCKING! NYEHEHEHE!!"


Sans rolled his eyes at his brothers little joke, slouching lazily at the far corner of the maze as he watched the siblings approach. He knew the elder had been trying to be friendly but he'd always found such compliments disarming. Hopefully she wasn't too bummed out at his rash refusal of her olive branch. He could always make it up to her after Paps had finished with playtime.

 

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"Shocking I hope doesn't mean electrifying. That's a little dangerous for a kid, ya know." Eden said, crossing her arms giving her sister a small look.


"Its fine! See!" Frisk said and eagerly stepped into the puzzle area, not shocked since she wasn't holding the orb to be shocked.


As Papyrus was shocked, Eden pulled her sister back quickly and held her shoulders.


"How'd you know that would happen?" Eden looked at her sister and spoke quietly. Frisk tried to shrug out of her sister's grip and ignored her entirely.

 

[Babyblues]

Sans didn't hold back his snicker as his brother jolted sharply at the electricity coursing through his bones. He wasn't terribly concerned for any lasting damage. After all, Paps was a bigger softy than he let on, he honestly couldn't hurt a fly even if he wanted to. Still, it was hillarious to see his brother look so bewildered in his layer of soot.


"Don't you think the humans should be holding the orb?" he asked nonchalantly, barely batting an eyelid as Papyrus gave him an irritated look.


"OF COURSE," he sniffed, "I JUST DIDN'T ACCOUNT FOR THEM TO BE SO IMPATIENT TO GET STARTED. I MUST SAY, THEIR EXUBERANCE IS RATHER REFRESHING." He shot Sans a pointed look at the before carefully making his way through the puzzle, thrusting the orb into one of the humans hands and scurrying back over at record speed.


"THERE! YOU MAY NOW BEGIN!"

 

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Eden quickly took it before Frisk had a chance to.


"I think I'll take the dangerous thing." She said seriously. "And don't get any funny thoughts on where to step."


Papyrus' big shoes had left big footprints in the snow and soggy ground, an easy trail to follow. Frisk smiled up at her sister and gave her a thumbs up.


"I won't do that to you." She promised and followed in Papyrus' prints, Eden trailing close behind. As they came out the otherside, Eden smiled at Papyrus and held out the orb.


"Ah, this is yours yeah?" She said, looking a little nervous holding it.

 

[Babyblues]

Papyrus plucked the orb out of her hands, completely astounded at the speed in which they had traversed the maze. It was impossible. They hadn't even made a single mistep, something he had never seen before. Trying save face, he sucked in a deep breath, puffing out his chest and posturing for all his worth.


"BUT OF COURSE YOU SOLVED IT!" he declared, "TWAS ONLY AN SMALL TASTER OF THE TRIALS TO COME! WE WOULDN'T WANT YOU TO FEEL DISCOURAGED, NOW, WOULD WE? NYEHEHEE! BUT DO NOT BE COMPLACENT FOR YOUR NEXT TRIAL WILL NOT BE SO EASY! NOW YOU WILL HAVE TO BATTLE AGAINST THE INSURMOUNTABLE INTELLIGENCE OF MY BROTHER! ... SO LONG AS HE ACTUALLY DID HIS JOB FOR ONCE..." He gives Sans the stink eye.


"Yeah, yeah, Bro. I've got it covered. They'll never get past me." Papyrus clicked his tongue iin a highly sceptical manner, narrowing his eyes at his brother.


"THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN," he chided, marching off to get a first hand look at what ever his brother could have prepared. He wasn't particularly hopefull.


Sans turned back to the duo, his grin beaming at full force.

 

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Eden smiled at Sans while Frisk held onto her arm. Quickly, the taller human looked at her small sister and held her hand before she could try and run away again.


"You go ahead, I need to talk to my sister here." Eden said, smiling despite heavy thoughts weighing her mind.


Frisk's eyes went wide and tried to pull away.


"I don't want to talk! I just want to go to the next puzzle!"


Eden moved and knelt infront of her sister, shivering when her bare knees landed in the snow. She held the purple clad shoulders and gave her sister a serious look.


"Stop, or we'll skip the puzzles and head out of here right away." She warned.


"Mom said you can't tell me what to do!" Frisk said right away, trying to pull away.


"Yeah, but Mom isn't here and I'm bigger than you and can throw you if I want so talk to me." Eden said seriously. She glanced to see if Sans was walking away before saying quietly, "Have you been here before?" She asked softly.


Frisk looked down and shook her head. Eden frowned recognizing that lying look.


"You have a secret way to get out? We need to get home soon before Mom and Dad worry." She tried to guilt Frisk for a moment.


"No, I really haven't been here before and I don't have a way out!" Frisk said quickly, looking at her sister with teary brown eyes.


Eden sighed softly. She didn't believe her sister for a second right now. But kneeling in the snow was going to freeze her kneecaps off and the skele-bros where probably getting a little impatient for them. Not to mention, pitting Frisk against her in this situation wasn't something she wanted to do.


Standing up and grabbing her sister's hand, she nodded. "New rule, no running off." She said seriously. Frisk looked relieved and nodded quickly, rubbing her eyes dry.


"I promise! Lets just go to the puzzle now!" She said and started to drag her sister with her.

 

[Babyblues]

Sans noted the strained look on Edens face as she made her request. She'd twigged on to how strangely familiar her little sister was with the Underground, he could tell that a mile off.


"All right," he said with a shrug, "I can patella when I'm not wanted.Wouldn't want to rib you guys the wrong way." He shoved his hands in his pockets and began walking away, listening to the muted whispering behind him as the elder of the pair confronted her sibling before he took a short cut for the last leg of the distance.


He frowned as he fished about in his pocket for something that could remotely look like a puzzle. Eden was far more intelligent than he had previously given her credit for, a realisation that was not as comforting as you'd think. If Frisk, a naive and slightly bratty little child, was a dire threat to the underground, just how much worse would it be if an intellectual adult turned their rage towards them? She already seemed desperate to leave, a notion that he could whole-heartedly sympathize with.


He sighed as he pulled his hand out of his pocket, eyeing the crumpled sheet of paper with resigned boredom. He'd already seen what the kid could do when left unchecked and he would be damned if he was going to make the same mistake again, especially now there was another variable to worry about. He tossed the paper onto the ground with a shrug, watching it float lazily into place as he settled to wait.


Guess he'll be getting slightly more involved this time around.

 

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Half an hour later and another strange encounter with a dog who just wanted pets had set them on the path to the next puzzle. Frisk was hopping along the path, excited for the next encounter while Eden trudged along behind her.


Eden had given Frisk her jacket once more. She rubbed her arms as they walked up to the puzzle standing across from Papyrus and Sans. She couldn't help but to tilt her head when she saw the paper on the ground.

 

[Babyblues]

Sans watched her carefully from beneath the hood of his jacket, not even bothering to hide his shit eating grin as Papyrus took a double take at his contribution.


"SANS," he ground out, rounding on his brother, his irritation almost palpable., "WHAT IS THAT?"


Sans shrugged lazily, turning to smile innocently at his irate sibling. "It's my puzzle."


"IT'S PAPER!"


"It's a crossword," Sans corrected with a chuckle, "Don't worry, bro. i chose a really good one. They'll never be able to solve it."


Papyrus sighed, pinching his nasal bone. "SANS, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE A PEN!"


Sans' eyes glittered with mirth. "Exactly."

 

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"We have a pen!" Frisk shouted and went digging in her sister's pockets. Her brown eyes went wide. "Ed! Why don't you have a pen like normal?!" Frisk whined at her.


Eden shrugged and held up her hands. "Hey, how was I suppose to know there would be a paper puzzle!? I didn't work any this week so I didn't take a pen from work like normal." Frisk whined again at this response but was determined to do the puzzle, snatching the paper up.

 

[Babyblues]

"I BET IT'S NOT EVEN JUNIOR JUMBLE!" Papyrus fumed, crossing his arms mutinously as the human siblings mildly bickered over the puzzle. Sans snorted incredulously. "Pap, that's baby-bones," he snickered, "Of course it isn't junior jumble."


Papyrus gave an affronted snifF. "I BEG TO DIFFER. JUNIOR JUMBLE CALLS FOR A FAR MORE STRATEGIC AND CLEVER MIND. CROSSWORDS ARE SIMPLY FOR IDIOTS WHO DON'T THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX." Sans simply shrugged again, his non-committal attitude only serving to frustrate his brother further.


"HUMANS," Papyrus barked out, turning towards the pair after deciding that Sans was a lost cause,"SETTLE THIS DEBATE FOR US. WHICH IS THE SUPERIOR PUZZLE? JUNIOR JUMBLE, THE PUZZLE FOR THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL OR CROSSWORDS. i THINK WE CAN ALL SEE THE OBVIOUS CHOICE BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD AID ME IN SHOWING MY LAZYBONES OF A BROTHER THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS."


Sans turned towards them, interested as to how they would reply.

 

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"I always thought crosswords were harder." Ed said, crossing her arms. "Cause the answers can be like, three different things."


"Those are so easy though!" Frisk said, throwing her hands up in the air. Ed rolled her eyes softly.


"I'm talking about the one in the newspaper, not the ones you get in class." Eden looked down at her sister. "Either way, word jumbles are pretty easy for me."


"No way, those are way harder." Frisk said still, frowning up at her sister. Eden groaned softly and rubbed her hair back.


"You're only saying that because I'm saying crosswords are harder aren't you?" Eden asked.


"I don't have to answer that!" Frisk blushed, realizing she had been caught.

 

[Babyblues]

Sans didn't know what was more hilarious. That frisk was so blatantly yanking her older sister's chain or the complete and utter look of done that had enveloped Papyrus's face. He glared from Sans to Eden, clearly unable to decide who he was more disgusted with. Eventually he threw up his arms in frustration and stomped off, muttering something about philistines and pranksters corrupting impressionable young humans. Sans decided to take it as a compliment.


He watched the pair bicker back and forth for a moment before whistling to get their attention, holding up a small pen. "I have an ink-ling that you guys are gonna be needing one of these."

 

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Watching Papyrus walk off made Eden smile and Frisk giggled.


"Hear that, I'm corrupting ya!" Eden said in a teasing tone and rubbed her sister's hair. When Sans held up the pen, Eden walked over to take it. "There, now we can do the puzzle."


As Eden reached for the pen, Frisk ran in front of her and snatched it out of San's hand.


"I got the pen!" Frisk moved and pushed herself against Ed's front, getting between Sans and her sister effectively. "Lets go do the puzzle!"

 

[Babyblues]

Sans didn't miss the subtle behavior, his eyes narrowing as Frisk purposefully put herself between the pair, tugging her sister away in order to further separate them.


Now he may be a bit of slouch, that was true but even he could read the signs. Frisk didn't want him talking to her sister for dome reason and that all on its own caused alarm bells to ring in his brain. After all, he had been nothing but courteous to the pair. What reason would the little girl want to keep them apart if it wasn't the fact that she had something to hide?


Or... it could simply be that she was a brat that didn't like to share and he was being a paranoid bag of bones. still, he watched her carefully as he slouched over to the pair, hunching down beside Eden in order to look over their progress.

 

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Eden had sat herself on a tree stump and was working on writing in the answers she knew. Frisk had been running around her to get different angles on the paper, as if looking at it upside down would make the answers all click into place.


As Sans walked over, Frisk glanced at him before moving to stand beside her sister, right where Sans had been walking to stand at. She pointed to the paper. "That one is wrong! It can't be cinnamonbun!"


Eden sighed and tapped Frisk with the pen. "Then what is it?"


"I, uh! I don't know but it isn't that!" Frisk insisted.

 

[Babyblues]

"A bit possesive there, kiddo," Sans drawled, raising an eyebrow as she once again stopped him from approaching her sibling, "I think you of all people should know I don't bite. I can't even open my jaw." he chuckled at his own joke but his eyes fixed upon the younger human before winking at Eden. "besides, she looks like she could hand me my ass and eat it for breakfast."

 

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Frisk frowned at Sans as her sister chuckled, keeping her eyes on the paper.


"Don't mind Frisk, she's always done that with guys around me." Eden said. She moved and nudged Frisk's shoulder. "He's right you know. After I'm done eating, there'd be nothing left but bones!" She smiled at her own joke. Frisk on the other hand didn't look very amused.

 

[Babyblues]

"See," he declared, letting a slightly mocking shiver wrack his body, "Terrifying. Practically chills me to the bone." Deciding npot to antagonize the younger further, he retreats to a tree nearby, crossing his arms and leaning against it in a bored fashion.


"Any reason in particular that she'd be so distrustful?" He asked off handedly. It wouldn't hurt to learn a bit more about the kid after all, "She seems pretty fine with Pap and you really can't get much more masculine than my bro. Unless you count Undyne." He snickered at that.

 

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"I don't know. I work at a diner and I'll take her to work with me sometimes. There's just certain guys she picks out and doesn't want me to go around them." Eden shrugged and let Frisk have the paper and pen to try. "Once she kicked out a booth of my customers because she didn't like them." She giggled.


"I kicked them out because they were saying bad things about you!" Frisk said, staring hard at the paper. "I don't like it when they say bad things about you." Eden shook her head and rubbed Frisk's hair back.

 

[Babyblues]

"Et tu, kiddo?" Sans asked with pout, placing a dramatic hand over his chest, "And I thought I was just being friendly. That hurts, really." He mimed being in pain, clutching his ribs with an exagerrated look of sorrow that probably resembled constipation more than emotional turmoil.