Papyrus didn't really know much about Tondra. The girl wasn't as loud about herself as Cole was, and she wasn't as clear as Silky was. All he really knew was that she was his niece, she could read the runes, and that was about it. He didn't even know what she looked like, most of her body was covered by clothes. She loved puns, too, cracking them every chance she could.

It was very obvious she too was Sans' child. Quick with puns, and loving to joke, she took that from him.

Trying to get close to her was difficult. It wasn't like she was outright mean to him, as Tondra was overall nice to everyone. She just never really talked about herself to Papyrus.

She felt like Sans.

Covering herself in layers by both her clothes and her jokes. Before, Papyrus couldn't see it, he hadn't looked deeply enough to notice what Sans had been doing. But now that he was aware, he could see it. Tondra wasn't telling him anything about her on purpose. The only information she could observe was how excited she got when talking about the runes. She wouldn't hold back, talking in great detail about them. She was passionate about them, who could blame her? It was something she obviously enjoyed, and it was one of the few things he could learn about her.

That's why he was trying to learn about her, trying to break through the layers she had built.

"How about a favorite food? Do you have one?" Papyrus asked her.

Tondra shrugged. "I guess I'm kinda cheesy, 'cause cheese and crackers crack me up! Or maybe I'm a tad corny, because corn is amazing!"

Papyrus looked at her while he took out a dish from the fridge, setting the leftovers on the counter. That wasn't an answer, he had learned that from many nights spent thinking about the old days back underground. Those answers were what Sans gave, using puns to avoid giving a direct answer. He did that with everything, and Papyrus never noticed.

"Here, you might like this." Papyrus reached down and pulled out a spoon from the drawer. "I made this before we left with BoBo, it's a creamy tarragon chicken bake."

"Oh, nice," Tondra said, "What's in this?"

"Chicken, olive oil, cheese, basic cooking things," Papyrus explained.

Tondra paused for a moment, looking down at the bowl of food he had given her. Did she think it was poisoned or something? It wouldn't affect her.

"Just chicken? Nothing else?" She asked, "As in, meat and stuff."

"It's just chicken and normal food. No other main ingredients."

"Man, I'm just going to be honest." Tondra set aside her beer bottle and pushed away the food. "I can eat this stuff, sure, but I'd rather eat organs. You got any in there?"

Oh. That was why she didn't eat it, she probably needed to eat organs too. But why did she say she could eat it...?

"I can eat both normal food and organs no problem, but I'm in the mood for some organs." Tondra clarified, tapping the plate. "So I'd rather sit back, down a beer and eat a kidney or spleen."

"Ah, I see," Papyrus said.

This was different than Addy and Jack. They both needed to eat organs, and that sense of requirement had managed to sooth Papyrus' worries about their diet. Tondra, on the other hand, didn't need to. She was willingly eating organs of other humans, without batting an eye.

How Papyrus wished Silky was there. She wasn't, having gone out with a few of her siblings and parents to try and find the others. The only person that stayed behind was Leonie, who was typing away on her computer. Oddly, her phone was with Tondra the entire day, the brown haired teenager reading through something on her phone. Even now she was on her phone, dragging her fingers across the screen doing who knows what.

"We only have this, and I don't know what it is." Papyrus held up a jar of something from the fridge.

"I think it's either the spleen or the stomach," Leonie announced from the living room.

"Eh, that's a chance I'm willing to take. Give it here," Tondra said, motioning him over.

It felt odd, handing an organ to his niece with the knowledge she fully wanted to eat it. However, it didn't feel as bad as before, signifying how he had grown used to this. Was this his life now? Just housing killers, in an endless search for their family? How would this change when they found Sans? Would he join them, or retreat underground again with the promises to hurt Papyrus?

"Don't look so freaked out." Tondra said, drawing him from his thoughts. "It's just eating an organ."

When she drew back her mask, Papyrus realized she wasn't entirely human. Large, sharp teeth were contained behind her pale lips, the girl pulling them back into a wide smile that stretched further than a human smile could.

She wasn't fully human, not like he had expected.

"They're all wisdom teeth, since they're rather wise," Tondra joked, biting into her meal.

A trail of blood ran down her chin as she ate swiftly, practically inhaling the food. She was like a watered down version of Cole, in a sense. She liked to eat food and exercise a bit, but not to his extent.

"'Kay, so," Tondra said, wiping the excess blood from her chin. "This is what you guys do here? Just sit around, try to find the others, and try not to die?"

"I guess so," Papyrus said, moving to sit down. "Do you have any interests you'd like to do?"

"Yeah, a skele-ton." Tondra gestured to him.

There she went again. She hadn't told him what those interests were, she just never specified what. It was a good way to somehow answer the question, yet also give out little to no information on herself.

The conversation had continued on like that. Tondra used puns and humor to dodge and bullet the questions from herself onto other things. While Silky was always open to answer questions, Tondra was the opposite. All information given was small or twisted, always layered in with a pun or five. It was practically Sans from before the surface, it was what he did.

He did that because he was hiding something. So what did she have to hide?

"And that's why clouds wear thunderwear," Tondra said, her voice sounding a little gaspy.

"You said that one before, when it had been raining," Leonie said from the living room.

"Why don't you tell me about yourself?" Papyrus offered, "You don't have to hide anything from me, after all I know a lot about you guys."

Tondra stared down at her plate, a hand drifting up to rub her neck. "Whatcha mean?"

"I feel like you haven't been open with me. It's okay if you don't trust me yet, since we have just met yesterday, but honestly it feels like you've just been dodging my questions."

There was no response. Maybe Tondra didn't trust him, and it was understandable. Papyrus just didn't want a repeat of what Sans had done, he didn't know how to break someone out of that mold. It seemed the CreepyPasta knew how to, though. As long as Tondra was happy with them, then-

"Shellfish."

It was barely above a whisper, Tondra's shaky voice barely rising high enough for Papyrus to hear. Her hand was now pressed against her throat, it shaking slightly. He couldn't see her expression, as she had put the mask back on. But her voice sounded panicked.

"S-Shellfish!" She repeated, loudly declaring the word as she started to stumble out of her seat.

Papyrus stood up in confusion, moving to help her stand up as her body started to shake. Leonie's was more quick, the female throwing her computer to the side and rushing into the kitchen.

"Oh god, of f*ck-" Leonie said, grabbing Tondra to help stabilize her. "Where's your pen? You have your pen?"

Just then, it had clicked for Papyrus. Tondra grabbing her throat, the way she stumbled back, the way she gasped out the word.

She was allergic to shellfish.

But Papyrus didn't have any! He didn't really like the taste of fish, so he never bought any. How was she having an allergic reaction?

"Underground!" Tondra's voice was now raspy, the girl reaching out to grab anything she could. "I didn't grab it!"

"F*cking mother f*cking- okay, f*ck!" Leonie was chanting.

There wasn't much time to react. If Papyrus could heal her, you would bet he would be already pumping magic into her body to stop her from having a reaction. But he couldn't! Monsters could only heal injuries from attacks or accidents, sicknesses and allergic reactions weren't amongst the things they could cure. That's why a human couldn't be healed from a fever, and it was why he couldn't heal Tondra right now. If she had been stabbed, that was a different story. But this wasn't a wound, it was her own body having a reaction. It couldn't be healed.

That's why Papyrus was quick, whisking his two nieces to the car and starting it without his seatbelt on. Not very safe, he knew, but the emergency room was a short drive away and right now Tondra was starting to shake.

"You're okay, we're going to get there and you're going to be okay!" Leonie said.

Papyrus could hear Tondra's gasps as he sped down the road, the emergency room route burned within his mind. He had always made sure to familiarize himself with the medical centers location, in case anything happened.

"Drive faster!" Leonie yelled at him.

Neither of them were buckled either, Leonie sitting sideways in her seat as she faced Tondra. Tondra was lying on the seats, the poor girl scratching at her throat as he legs kicked out. Her rasped and desperate breaths filled the car.

"We're going to be there in a few minutes!" Papyrus told her, "Are you sure she doesn't have anything on her?"

"We left the underground in a hurry, remember! None of us thought to grab her pen for future occurrences because we were running at the current moment!" Leonie snapped at him.

"How did she even come into contact with Shellfish?" Papyrus asked.

"Uh- sh*t, the stomach!" Leonie said, "Whoevers that was probably f*cking ate Shellfish!"

Tondra had went silent.

Papyrus took a brief, worried look in the mirror before his soul practically dropped. Oh, she was still struggling alright, legs kicking at the door as her mouth was wide open, lips peeled back as she tried to breath. But she wasn't making any noises except for her body's movements, the kicking against the door feeling as if it was booming across the room.

She wasn't breathing. That's why she wasn't making any sounds, she wasn't getting any air.

"F*CK!" Leonie screamed, grabbing her sister with a fearful expression.

Worry and fear filled his soul before he finally approached the emergency room. He didn't even bother parking properly, as he always did, instead screeching the car to a halt, causing him to bounce forward. Without turning off the car, he and Leonie were out of it in moments, the two grabbing Tondra and helping drag her forward into the building.

"WE NEED HELP!" Papyrus screamed as he opened the door, Tondra continuing to gasp emptily as she leaned against him.

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Once again, unedited, my editors are long dead whoops

So basically this is how healing magic works. It can heal injuries or scraps, basically openings in the body that aren't supposed to be there. Open gash wounds, bullet wounds, internal bleeding. It's why scars can't be healed, as they've already healed and became a part of the body. It's also why things like fevers can't be healed, because it's a virus. Healing magic can't kill viruses, it's not made to kill, it's made to heal. So basically it won't have any effect. When people have allergic reactions, like Tondra did, they could go through Anaphylaxis, and to sum up it's basically where the immune system perceives something as a threat and you go into shock. You can research it more if you want, but long story short her body will see anything that contains shellfish as a threat and overreact, causing swelling in her throat and face, resulting in suffocation. Healing magic is made to fix things, but since the chemicals released by the body belong to the body the healing magic won't do anything. That's why she usually has her e-pens instead of just using her Dad or siblings, because Sans couldn't do anything about it. That's why healing magic is great for if you're bleeding out, but terrible for a simple fever. Healing magic works on physical damage, not chemical damage. It's why Papyrus and Undyne couldn't heal Frisk when she was poisoned, and why Papyrus couldn't heal the swelling. The cause of the swelling was a chemical cause, not a physical one. Make sense?

You can ask me any questions you like in the comments if you need to, it's a bit difficult to explain.