Error POV:
No one noticed at first that Timer had passed out, Dust doesn't joke so when he said something about a soul in Timers watch everyone rushes over to him to see. "What the-?" Ink asks, looking at the green soul pulsing behind the glass of Timers watch. "Is that his soul?"
"Fresh, come here." Reaper calls.
"Wassup?" Carefully Reaper slips the watch out of Dust's grip and hands it to Fresh. "I thought I was the only Sans who had something like this." He mumbles.
"I-i-i-is it just m-me or is the light in his soul fading?" I ask.
"Ink, hes passed out!" Blue exclaims.
"Give me the watch!" I say grabbing the watch from Fresh's hand and putting it on Timers right arm. All the hands start spinning fast as if restarting the non existent heart before Timer gasps, opening his right eye.
"Still haven't put me down?" He mutters before passing out again.
"He's going to bed." I say lowering him to the ground before teleporting to Timers room. His room is completely white with no decorations or anything the only other color is a small black dot of Ink in the center of the room, accidentally left by Ink. I place him down on his bed deep in thought. Why is his soul in his watch? How did it get there? Why did it affect him like that when it was removed? Why didn't he struggle or at least try to fight back? Hes an odd one that's for sure, but then again all Sanses are odd.
"What happened?" Ink asks the second I enter the Library again.
"He passed out." I tell him, walking over to the desk where the bag of Timers things sit.
"What are you doing?" He asks.
"Bringing them back for Timer." I say. "Torturing him isn't how you'll get your answers, you could just ask him and if he doesn't want to answer you then leave him alone until he wants to talk. As he said he's an introvert and doesn't like talking to people."
"Ooh, Errors grown a soft spot for Timer they didn't stutter once during his speech!" Dust teases quietly.
"Sh-sh-ut u-up! Ans its glitch not stutter." I say before bringing Timers stuff to his room.
Timers POV:
"Error?" I ask, opening my eyes to see the glitching Sans standing next to wherever I'm lying down.
"Timer, finally!" Dream exclaims coming into my line of sight.
"Where am I?" I ask.
"In your room in the Sans Palace or whatever you called it." Error says.
"How long-?"
"Two days." Ink says.
"Shoot!" I exclaim sitting up checking to make sure everyone was still doing their own things. Everyone's in the same place, not good. Where are they? I wonder. MY HOUSE?! Why are they there? Even Toriel and The Prince, and the humans too!
"Is there a way for me to get back to my AU like.. right now?" I ask.
"No. We're all stuck here for a while." Dream says sadly.
"Meh." I shrug, leaning back down.
"Wait- what?" He asks. "A second ago you were just freaking out about going back to your AU and now you're just gonna say 'meh' when you find out you can't see them and you're now stuck in an unknown and strange place?"
"It's not strange and unknown." I say. "I've already gone through the place and I think I know it by heart,"
"What the hell?" Ink asks.
"I'm not explaining right now." I say standing up and walking over to a desk where all my stuff sits.
"Where are you going?" Dream asks.
"Dunno," I say walking out of the room. Oh, that's my room. I think rolling my eyes So blank it's only gonna add to the headaches. I walk down the hallway until a door opens and blue strings pull me in.
"Error?" I ask looking around the room. All in shades of a calm yellow, red, and electric blue, and a dusty black.
"T-T-Timer!" Error exclaims hugging me from behind me.
"Please don't hug me." I say squirming out of their grasp.
"I don't like being touched."
"Sorry, but h-h-ow are yo-ou?" They ask.
"Good," I say, noticing the red flashing numbers in the corner of my vision. "Hold on, give me a sec." I say walking over to his dresser, bracing myself on it as the Reset happens. "Kay, sorry," I say walking back over to him once my vision cleared.
"What the hell?" "Please ignore that." I say.
"Now I'm gonna go back to my room." I say walking out.
There are a lot of AUs stuck here so I spend my days locked up in my room making watches out of whatever parts I have left and keeping a close eye on my watch. I know Ink can create almost anything from his paintbrush but I don't want to talk to him. I really don't like him -also I hate talking-. The others have knocked on my door trying to get me to talk but I haven't let anyone in and nobody's tried teleporting in yet, so I just stick to what I have in my empty white room.
"Timer?" Blue calls knocking on my door for the fifteenth time today. "I got everyone in the living room and we're all going to introduce ourselves and get to know each other, can you please join us?"
I sigh, getting up. "Whatever," I open my door.
"Yay! The magnificent Blue always gets people to join!" He says grabbing my hand, ragging me all the way down three floors. "I got him!" He says forcing me to sit on an armchair.
"Good job Blue!" Ink smiles
I ignore most of the talking, day dreaming and wondering when I can get back to my room. It's been weeks since I've seen Pap, but I honestly don't care anymore.
"Timer!" Dust shakes me.
"What?" I ask sharply.
"It's your turn." He hisses. "Whatever," I roll my eyes. "You know my name and I'm not telling you about my AU so what do you want to know?"
"Well we want to know what to call your Papyrus." Ink says. "Like mine is Sketch, Blues is Carrot, Fells is Edge, just like how we have nicknames, y'know what I mean, so what should we call yours?"
Annoying? I think. "Umm.. Cogs?" I ask. "I dunno.. I'm not the best at making up nicknames," I shrug. "We'll stick with Cogs until you decide what name you want." Dream smiles.
"Can you tell us what happened the other day?" Dust asks.
"What do you mean?" I ask. "Like when you passed out after begging us to not take off your watch off."
"O-oh.. umm..."
"It seems there was a soul in your watch. What's up with that?" Fresh asks.
"Well.. that's my Soul." I say making a quick decision not to lie. "M-my soul is in my watch..
"How did it get there?" Fresh asks leaning forward in his seat, "When you were first created was it there or..?"
"I'll tell you." I say sitting straighter. "But it's a long story so I'll shorten it. But be prepared, it's unsettling.
"I was very young still, I knew about the Resets but the human hadn't realized yet what was going on. We started with a Pacifist route, then a Neutral and that repeated for quite a while. Then we had our first Genocide..
"I was the Royal Scientist for some time, my watch always existed and when I first saw it I immediately knew why it had so many hands. Why? That's for me to know and you to maybe figure out. Now my soul was always a little weird. It would send shocks of power through my skeletal frame paralyzing me for some time. My creator, known as W.D Gaster, wanted to help me, because I also worked for him and he can't have his best scientist paralyzed now can he?
"No Blue, that was a rhetorical question, I wasn't looking for an answer." I can't help but chuckle quietly.
"Well, he can only think of one thing to do with my soul and that was to remove it. I was all for it but he was 78% sure I wouldn't make it without a soul. I told him that was okay but he wouldn't listen to me. 'I still need you', he would say. Well while he was busy thinking of what he could do he forced me to stay on the couch. He wouldn't let me continue working saying if I was suddenly paralyzed while handling radioactive substances then we'd all be dead, ignoring the fact that we don't handle that stuff. Finally, I had an idea, I told it to him but he was scared. "It's too risky!" He kept saying but I pushed on until he agreed.
""I don't know if you're gonna make it." Gasters' worried face said leaning over me. "It's fine Gaster, I'll be fine." I had said, resting my hand on his arm. "Now please can we get it over with? I feel another shock coming." I told him "We'll have to wait until your shock comes before we start" He said. Several minutes passed before I felt the shock start making its way up my body. "If I don't make it." I said. "Tell Pap I love him, and take care of him for me." "Understood." Gaster says before diving into my ribs, extracting my soul. I saw the green glow but everything went black.
"When I opened my eyes felt fear pulse through my body. I don't see anything. Maybe I died? I had thought, relaxing myself. Maybe I'll finally have some peace. But my body felt too heavy for me to be dead. I tried saying something but no noise came out so I sat up. "Sans!" Gasters' relieved voice exclaimed and reassuring hands were placed on my shoulder. "Sans you're okay!" He lifted something up and I could see again, and I realized it was a blindfold. "I'm so glad you're okay. I lost you twice and I thought your body may be too weak, or your soul too far away but you made it!" I lifted up my right arm to look at my watch with the many hands, staring at the green soul glowing behind my face.
"You were right." He said. "The second I removed your soul it knew where to go and squished between the gears of your watch, fitting in a place that seemed to be designed for a soul." "Thank you Gaster." I said looking up at him. "Really, thank you." I stood up and hugged him. I never liked physical contact but that time it felt right, hugging a skeleton much like myself.
"It took me a week to adjust. Removing my soul weakened my body, everything I did felt like I had just run all day then exercised. It was a nightmare but I was able to go home soon. We soon realized that removing my soul did have a major effect. But, you'll find out what that is a different day."
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