The Cure Ch 1 The Review

Author's Notes Below

A yellow dinosaur reached for a small stack of papers off to the side of her desk and smoothed out one of the crinkled edges. She picked up the page on top and held it in front of her. Her hand reached into the drawer to the right and retrieved a wooden stamp set almost out of habit.

After pressing the stamp into the plastic box beneath for a few seconds, she pulled it back and stamped a bright red symbol at the bottom of the page. She pulled the stamp back, admiring its gloss for a moment. The image resembled that of a point trident, but it wasn't this that suddenly caught her attention.

Oh! She thought to herself a little surprised. Well, I'll be. The youngest student really did pass all the tests, She noted. Amazing. "Is that a skeleton?!" She uttered out loud after almost dropping the stamp.

"Oh, are those the accepted students? Anything of interest?" A curious voice came up behind her, peeking over her shoulder to see what she was working on.

"Uh yeah, they are..." She replied not taking her eyes off the paper in her hand. "Actually, I was just noticing that-" She began, looking to who it was asking.

"G-Gaster!" Her voice caught again, as her hand flew up to her chest, startled.

"Good …. Morning?" He inquired, cocking an eyebrow.

"Please don't do that!" Alphys scolded, taking a few breaths. "W-warn me next time," She finished in a whisper.

"I'll keep that in mind," He mused for a moment. "However, I find it interesting how easily you were to answer my question when you didn't even know it was me. My dear Ms. Alphys, if you give out sensitive information with non-personnel, it might not be in your favor," He finished much too casually.

"F-F-Fired?" She gawked, suddenly feeling uneasy in her chair, and her tail began swishing side to side nervously. She'd been warned of his nontraditional sense of humor but even after all these years, she was still tripped up at times.

"Oh Alphys, y'know I kiiiiid," He replied with a candid smirk crossing his features. She handed him over the applicant she'd been holding, " Huh, it looks we acquired quite a few candidates this year didn't we…" He said as he lifted his free hand to rest under his chin. Something suddenly, struck in his mind, "You didn't use my test did you?"

She took a deep breath to calm her stutter, "I did not," she spoke matter-of-factually.

He grunted, slightly annoyed, "Why not?"

"It was too difficult for anyone to do."

"Well, you did it."

"That's different."

"Huh, and why is that?"

"…" She didn't say anything at this.

His mind switched back to the candidates. This test score... "It seems like we have a rather talented monster here don't we?" He replied, impressed, "Pretty smart for such a young age as well."

Her mind seemed to be on something else while she continued stamping papers, "Ahh.. yes."

"… " His gaze continued in her direction, not satisfied with that answer, "Something wrong?"

"Not really, while he's been involved in petty crimes, nothing really noteworthy." She began stamping faster when silence settled between them.

He clutched the paper to his chest as he bent down slightly. "Miss Alphys, doing some investigation on this young man I see? Do you already want to take him under your wing?" He smirked like a child, "Come onnnnn we're pals, you can indulge me with the details, what all did we find?"

The color drained from her face, as her patience thinned. "…"

He got even closer with a curious look on his face, wondering if she was going to spill what was on her mind.

"You know, you can be rather over bear-"

"Morning you two, time for breakfast?" A monster from a small group, all in lab coats like themselves, shouted over to them to get their attention. The rest of the group nodded with him in unison as the picture of tasty hot foods filled their minds.

Gaster smiled back, eager to join them. "But of course, we'll be right behind you," He waved back, and with a small wave, the group then headed towards the cafeteria.

"Time to go get my treat," Gaster spoke, mostly to himself.

"You sure do love food.." Alphys smirked, looking over at him. She began tucking away her supplies and some paperwork to get going.

"Well, food does supply nutrition to the body," He paused for a moment in thought. "Just as a power station requires gas, or coal to power its turbines, we have to support our bodies," He lowered the paper. "Go on, you need to get something too."

"Alright," She replied, her gaze turned back to her desk.

Today is going to be a good day, Gaster thought to himself as he set the paper back down on the desk. His palm remained pressed against it as the picture of a young skeleton looked back.

This time for sure, A smile grew on his face at the anticipation of victory. We are going to find it, I can feel it.

Author's Notes

Back on the grind again! Eyo! I know if you are from my "Time to Get Merry" story you've heard me talking about it only like a billion times hehe... I've been wanting to get back to this story, re-edit and change a lot from the current chapters. I realized after coming back that there were even a few things from the first two chapters I wanted to change as well. Just, quite a bit of changing which I'm excited about. I'm glad I took the break from this story to work on that other one as it allowed me time to come back with a new perspective. Either way, I will be posting deleting most of these chapters and reposting them. If re-reading these chapters are not your thing, the latest chapter I have posted is on FF at ch 15 I believe. I will be posting first on Archive and updating that account up to ch 15 and then I'll prolly swap off weeks to be posting on both of these websites. Depending on which site creates more traffic or which site I enjoy working with more will most likely determine which site I keep updating. I doubt I'll keep updating both sites as it's too much work for my lazy bum. I will tell you before I disappear though.

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