Nothing about this made sense.

The murder numbers had always been high, sure. It was why Noelle had even become a cop, because she wanted to help people from this. To protect her husband and daughter from these dangers.

But then, out of nowhere, murders went up. Random disappearances skyrocketed. People were going missing left and right. Citizens were more likely to stumble upon a dead body doing normal activities than ever before.

Some of the killings, however, made absolutely no sense. How could someone rip out organs like that and replace it with candy? Seeing the crime scene was horrifying, to see the child's dead eyes looking up at her while candy was sticking out of his chest. The smell was terrible, and the blood and candy positioning around the body made it look like he had been thrown across the room. The claw marks on the kids skin wasn't by a human, whatever created it was something else.

Then, it only went up.

And that's when the skeleton started appearing.

The first appearance was outside of a mall, she had watched the footage. He was only in frame for a few seconds since he had run through, but he was crying in the video as he ran. Shortly following him was a hooded man, and sticking out of his pocket was a knife. The monster looked upset, emotionally distraught. She didn't know what had happened, since they had quickly both disappeared from the frame on the other side of the screen. The only update on their situation was when she investigated a bank down the road, where they had caught sight of the car. Zooming in on the footage, she could see the skeleton in the passenger's seat. He was hunched over himself, as if he was afraid or crying.

It looked like a kidnapping. And more evidence supported it, too! There was a camera stationed in an alleyway behind a coffee shop, she had watched it before she had asked to see his friends and brother. The coffee shop was stationed next to the forest, and watching it, she saw the skeleton being carried by some creature, screaming as he was ran over the street faster than anything should have been able to. It was impossibly fast, he was only on the screen for less than a second. It looked like not only was he taken, but also a child and a dog.

That's why she asked to see people he knew, she had started at his work first. His office mate had went missing, disappeared from her own chair. Checking with his neighbors, she discovered that two of them had been murdered in the same time frame. There was something going on, so she tried to find out everything she could about him.

It just became more confusing.

The cop that had arrested Papyrus, it turns out that she had been tipped by his own brother himself. Sans had told the cop that he was married to someone and that the child, of which sounded awfully like the one on the phone, was his own. Asking a different cop that had visited his house, Sans had been living alone and quickly dismissed his company.

The skeleton was somehow related to these murders. He was there in the office when the woman disappeared, He was there in the carnival when a little boy went missing. He was in the zoo when the creature she had been anticipating receiving escaped. Now that she thought about it, that creature could be the same from the coffee shop camera.

Noelle sighed, hunching over her notes on her desk as the stars shimmered from her window. Her colleagues were of no help, some of them had been acting weird about this. All of them claimed different theories. Demons, the same serial killer, they even said it was the single skeleton doing it. The killings had started before monsters were released to the surface, that obviously wasn't the case. One of them had even started stealing her notes about him, it was annoying to have to hunt down her notes for the guy to claim he didn't even take it. Of course he did, if only he'd take the responsibility for his actions. He acted like a child about it, even hers was less annoying.

"Mom."

Oh, speaking of her child.

"I know, I'll go to bed soon," She sighed.

"You can't really predict how they'll act, they're CreepyPasta Mom," She said, "I told you everything I know about them, you won't figure out anything more."

Creepypasta. Before, it had just been something her daughter would read about. Horror stories. Her daughter liked reading them, she liked watching horror movies, it seemed natural. Until the murders became too much, and when she had briefly mentioned one of the latest crimes, her daughter was almost able to perfectly describe what happened to the body even though Noelle never told her. Eyeless Jack, she had claimed. How she was able to describe how the organs were removed was too detailed to just be a coincidence. Something was going on.

"Are you sure Comic Sans Font isn't a CreepyPasta? At all?" Noelle asked.

Her daughter shook her head. "No, sorry. I think he just might be caught up with them, like you said, he could have been kidnapped."

"It just... makes no sense!" Noelle sighed, running a hand over her face. "I have to get these people behind bars before they hurt more innocent people."

"I know, and you're trying your best, but I have school and you're kinda my ride," Her daughter spoke, "And I know their stories, they aren't stopped by the police. Just sleep over it, you might figure it out."

"Well, I still expect you to go to bed, missie," Noelle said.

"Fine, night Mom," She said.

"Night, Bubbly."

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I just wanted to get out a quick chapter since I finished my essay, but I have to work on the poster still so I'll probably be update-less until Tuesday. Also, Noelle is totally based off of my Mom as a FBI agent (not her actually name, and not her actual job) cuz she's cool and let's me write about gay skellies. 

U cool Mom, u cool