Daddy's a Serial Killer

Chapter 5 - Ben, Jack, and a Dog

Carefully, the glitched boy balanced a pretzel stick between his teeth as he typed away on the computer. Smile Dog's face in the corner of the screen as they cooperated together.

It was funny how things worked, huh? The two always refused to work together, yet when Sans gave them the opportunity to live together, they realized how much they had in common.

"I can't believe you talked me into this," Smile Dog said, huffing. His blue eyes rolled over with annoyance.

"C'mon, I'm bored, got nothing better to do," Ben said, shrugging. "And it's either this or I murder someone."

"I don't give a shit if you murder people."

"Well..." He paused. "Shut up. Pretend you do care."

The bleeding boy took a small glance out from under his sweeping blonde bangs. There, quietly Eyeless Jack sat, poking around on the new phone Sans just bought him.

Officially the man had joined their gang. Ben pressed a finger through the computer screen, and pulled up Eyeless Jack's screen onto the computer. Ah. Setting up a background. Some cute looking cat picture.

'Hey bitchy boi'

That got his attention. When those words flashed across his screen, he turned towards the only two who could actually do that. And towards the only one who'd write a sentence like that.

"Hey." Ben flashed him a grin.

"Do you... need something?" Eyeless Jack cocked his head to the side.

Oh silly ignorant Jack. Ben shook his head, chuckling.

"I need you to come over here. We're going to perform your entrance ritual to join this household."

Smile Dog quickly stuck his head out of the screen, turning towards Eyeless Jack. "We don't have one, he's just messing with you." Smile Dog said. "And what we're doing you probably wouldn't understand."

"But he should know, shouldn't he?"

Ben felt kind of bad for the guy. Despite joining the house a week ago, he still hasn't really fit in with anyone. Not that he was trying. Always sitting in a corner, away from everyone. Jane and her girlfriends were like that, but they never stayed for long and they tended to stick together. So Ben decided to be such a nice fella and extend out a hand. For Eyeless Jack to join the reason that united everyone else.

"Jack, come here." Ben patted the seat next to him. "While we may have a lot in common with being killers and living here now, I'm going to show you what you don't know about us. Because we all saw some shit that you need'a know."

There was a glint of curiosity within his eyes. One Ben was familiar with. His victims all required that glint to become victims. In order to investigate. Lean forward within their chairs, tilt their heads to the side as they responded to the cleverbot pop up that should just be a glitch. Without that curiosity, they were boring to torment. There was a sense of prophecy whenever they responded. As if their achilles heel was replying to something they shouldn't. If they didn't acknowledge him, they would have lived. Almost a self fulfilling fate.

Curiosity got the cat killed, and there was no coming back.

"I wish I had recorded the Undyne and Alphys incident, but I was smart enough to go to back to the building after it collapsed and see if I could salvage any security footage," He said, clicking on a folder in his computer. "So I'm going to show you the fantastic event we saw the aftermath of."

Ben paused over the video for a moment. In a sense, he did feel guilty. He should have been watching. The one time he decided not to watch cameras near Sans, for Sans' privacy, and it almost got him killed. If he had been there, then his foot wouldn't have even been injured. Everything turned out alright, thankfully, but he did think about that sometimes. So Ben kept this video. For what he wasn't sure, but he kept it just in case. Who knows, maybe posting it online could ruin Papyrus' reputation. Word already spread from a few other monsters who were there on the monsternet, and it didn't help that Sans deleted his account altogether and disappeared from pictures on Papyrus' profile.