Brokentale: Underlost Losttale

Final Stretch

       Eyes watering and his vision getting blurry, he let his imagination dictate his sight. Letting him believe that his mother and sister sat with him, that the whole family was enjoying their meal at a family outing at a restaurant. Papyrus trying to keep his sister from making too much of a mess, Sans babying him by cutting his meal into smaller portions and seeing his mother smiling at him with that gentle smile that told him how much love she felt for him. Everyone laughing, just enjoying each other's company. For just a moment, he wanted to believe it was true, but when he saw his fork glitch in and out... he knew he couldn't afford it. Couldn't afford to be selfish.

      Sans was having a difficult time keeping his magic in check and seeing how his brother was starting to twitch, he knew he wasn't having much luck. Having their kid so close with his soul so weak, their own magic was begging for them to help the boy out. But they couldn't afford to scare the kid. Perhaps after Jasper became more comfortable with them or even when they find his sister, maybe then he'd let them heal him. The bone brother's hid it well, but Jasper had no idea how much he was hurting the brothers. To see their own child reject their magic was as if he was rejecting their love. It was heartbreaking for the brothers.

"JASPER? ARE YOU NOT FEELING WELL?" Papyrus noticed the unshed tears in his son's eyes.

"Hmm?"

"your eyes are glassy." Getting caught at being weak, Jasper quickly snapped himself out of it but doing so caused a piece of food he was munching on to go down the wrong pipe. Going into a coughing fit, both Sans and Papyrus got up from their seats and started patting his back. Being such a small child, having both parents patting him proved to be too much as not only was he able to spit out the piece of food but the brothers managed to pop both of his eyeballs out. Usually his eyeballs wouldn't be so easy as to pop out in such a manner, but seeing as how they were moist from tearing up they weren't as secured.

"....Just great." The little boy mumbled out while both brothers were busy screaming out their skulls out as the eyeballs rolled across the table and onto the floor. "Can one of you get that for me before-" at that moment the waiter had come back and slipped against the small orbs. "Nevermind..." Hearing the small pops, Jasper knew that he was going home without his eyeballs.

"shit shit shit shit!"

"OH MY GOD SANS, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!!!???"

"Hey! Boneheads!" Shouted Jasper to capture the attention of the bone brothers. "Can you guys try not to lose your skulls? It's fine, okay. I'll just have to pop in the spares I have at home. It's not a big deal."

   Especially since sis goes through a whole box of them every week. I doubt me losing a pair will make a dent.

"SPARE!!??

"squirt you're losing us here. what do you mean you have a spare?"

"What else do you think it means?" Jasper pointed to his eyesockets where small white light could be seen. "They weren't real. Bonbon and I weren't born with eyeballs. Those are just see-through squishy balls that Dr. Tanaka made just so that we can look more human."

     Seeing the confusion in their face, Jasper doubted that they would let the subject drop. Rolling up his right sleeves, he showed them his arm. "Before we were born, Dr. Tanaka told my mom our excessive unstable magic was greater then our human genes. So when we were born," Jasper's skin faded into a mix of blue and orange like silicone in which his bones could be seen through. "Instead of regular skin we have this thin magic-like skin protecting our inside. With no effort at all we can change the membrane' s color to look more like skin. Or..." the magic membrane faded away only leaving the bare bones of his arm, "...with some magic we can turn into a full blown skeleton. Which is hard to maintain since we need a lot of magic to safely tuck away our non-skeletal parts."