Role Reversal

Digging up Memories

Little clicks of bones hitting wood were heard throughout the house as the owner of the feet ran from their room down the stairs to the kitchen. Taking the care to jump down the last 2 steps and scuttering into the kitchen with a wide smile.

"Wigdangs!" They cheered happily running over to the much taller skeleton monster in the lab coat and apron, a black turtleneck underneath. He made a soft puff sound as a tiny monster bumped into his leg grabbing at his pants and looking up at him with a wide smile, a tooth missing from the front, they wore a puffy pastel blue dress with long sleeves and a hoodie, though the hood was a bit bigger and covered most of their face.

He smiled softly and peeled back the hood to be met with little sockets of awe from his beloved little sister.

"Hello little one. *He cood and scooped her up nuzzling into her cheek forcing a giggle from her. "Someday you'll get my name right." He chuckled at her.

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"No!" The little skeleton shouted running away from the taller, she was doing everything to avoid him.

"(Y/N) you need a bath." He sighed following her, keeping up with long strides. She only puffed her cheeks and kept running, ducking under the table to hide.

"No baf! Baf bad!" She tried to argue.

"You have been playing in waterfall all day, you need to get clean. A clean monster is a happy monster." He crouched down and spotted her under the table, she squealed and tried to bolt off but phantasmal hands grabbed her by the back of her sweater, she wiggled and thrashed clicking and whining in protest as the hand floats and drags her out. "Noooo! Put down!" She hissed at him.

"No can do. Bathtime." He headed up the stairs to the bath all while keeping a strong hold on her.

He filled the tub up quickly and started to undress her, she put up a fight bless her little soul but he plopped her down in the water with little to much effort taken off him.

"Hate watah!" She tried getting out, he grabbed her by the shoulders and kept her down.

"No, no little one." He warned and started to wash her bones gently.

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"Stoooop you're squishing me!"

"I can't help it darling sister! You are so smart! Best grades in your class! I am so proud!" The taller skeleton had scooped the smaller in praise. She had straight As in all her classes and 100s on all her tests, all without breaking a sweat or much studying. He would have loved her even if she was below his own intelligence but still.

She wasn't and he was overjoyed!

"You are so smart!" He cood nuzzling her cheek.

"Dingdong knock it off! Everyone is staring!" She thrashed in his hold trying to get away.

"No! Let me bask in this moment with you! I am much to proud!" She deflated in his hold with whined.

"I must say I was worried you were going to be a slow learner, unlike me." He mocked playfully.

"You are so egotistical!"

"I am not. I am just aware of my own intelligence."

"That's what egotistical people say to justify being egotistical!" She argued, but it fell on deaf ear holes.

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"I honestly don't think you should go." She tried to stop him.

He was overworking himself again, he had been down in the lab for months trying to find a way to break the barrier that sealed them off from the outside world.

He was currently fixing his lab coat and grabbing his clipboard of notes "I am sorry but I must. King Asgore only has so long before another human falls and he is forced to take their soul, I wish to save him from his fate." He turns at her with bags under his sockets and a look or sorrow. He didn't even want to go, but he knew he had to.

She frowned with a sigh and walks up to him flattening certain parts of his coat. "Ok fine... but I am texting Alphys when it is time for you to take a break, and if you don't go on break I will go down there and break you myself." She warned looking up at him sternly.

"Dearest sister was that a threat?" He knitted his brows in slight amusement.

"Damn straight it is! You know I can kick your ass. And I will make you take a break." She jabbed at his chest as she talked.

"Alright, alright. I will take a break when Alphys tells me too. Promise." He placed a hand over his soul and bowed a bit to her.

"You better. Now go before I change my mind and just drag you back to bed, you need more sleep... you look like hell."

He headed to the door with a deep chuckle. "Of course, see you later tonight."

"Bye bonehead."

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He didn't come back though.

You remembered all of this, these long lost memories tossed to the back of your mind.

You watched them all play out. He never came back after that because something happened with the CORE. You tried to ask Alphys but the trauma of whatever it was made her forget... or maybe it was repressed so far in her mind that she has no idea, she doesn't even remember your brother. No one but you did. They all forgot him, Asgore... he forgot his most trusted friend and Alphys her beloved mentor.

And you... doomed to remember and miss.

That was around the time the rests happened too.

Maybe they were connected, but after everything you tried, you lost your motivation.

You were ok on repeating everything over and over.

And over...