Mommy Alphys (Completed Story)

Chapter 10

"Mettaton?"
"Yes Sugar Skull?" Papyrus blushed at the nickname. He loved it. They were currently sitting next to each other, looking at the waterfall ahead of them. They decided to come to a more quiet and comfortable place then Hotland. "Your very sweet and funny. How come I never met you before? Where do you live? I mean, no offense sweety but I've never heard of you really. Just seen you at my shows." The skeleton didn't take any offense to what the star had said. He never made an attempt to introduce himself properly in the first place. He was always too shy to. "I live in Snowden. Totally opposite from your home. Or your second home right? You use to live next to Napstablook. Anyway I was too nervous to actually talk to you. I thought......well I thought you wouldn't like me." Papyrus thought that he wouldn't like him? Couldn't he see that he was an amazing person? Sweet and Caring? Silly and Alive? Why wouldn't Mettaton like him? "And why would you think that? Your astounding darling! And so positive about everything." That made the skeleton feel better. His role model thought that of him? "Well because.....I did something bad before. Very......bad." The last word was a whisper. The robot could tell that he was lost in thought now. Papyrus' focus was on the grass around them and he clenched some of it in his gloved fist. What did he do? Steal a flower or something? This sweet monster would never hurt a fly. Or at least that's what the star thought. Maybe he wasn't telling him everything? Didn't everyone have some type of secret? He knew himself that he did. He was sure that Paps didn't want to talk about it. "Are you alright?" He only nodded and sniffed. The robot was surprised when he went on ahead and told him anyway despite it obviously hurting him to do so. "Sans tells me not to worry about it. That I had to do it. For the monsters underground. Undyne congratulated me on a job well done but.....I didn't feel like myself after. It took a while to become the Great Papyrus again. I sometimes have nightmares about it still. When Undyne finally said that I could become apart of the royal guard.....I actually refused. I always wanted to be apart of the royal guard. It was all I talked about. My dream. My goal ya know? But after that.....I realized that I didn't want it anymore. She told me that she understood and that's she's sorry...... But we are closer than we were before so that's good. I try not to dwell on it too much. Please know that it wasn't on purpose. I didn't want to. But.....I had to." Mettaton stared with his mouth slightly opened. What did the skeleton do? It seemed to be much bigger than he thought it was. The fish knew? God, what was it? He didn't want Papyrus to keep talking about it if it bothered him so much so he stayed silent and did the best thing he could do at the moment. He pulled him into a hug, squeezing him hard to show that he was here. "I don't know what you did but.....I'm here okay? You don't have to tell me sugar skull." Papyrus had tears in his eye sockets and held onto the celebrity. He'd tell him....some day.