Carefully, the glitched boy balanced a pretzel stick between his teeth as he typed away on the computer. Smile Dog's face in the corner of the screen as they cooperated together.

It was funny how things worked, huh? The two always refused to work together, yet when Sans gave them the opportunity to live together, they realized how much they had in common.

"I can't believe you talked me into this," Smile Dog said, huffing. His blue eyes rolled over with annoyance.

"C'mon, I'm bored, got nothing better to do," Ben said, shrugging. "And it's either this or I murder someone."

"I don't give a shit if you murder people."

"Well..." He paused. "Shut up. Pretend you do care."

The bleeding boy took a small glance out from under his sweeping blonde bangs. There, quietly Eyeless Jack sat, poking around on the new phone Sans just bought him.

Officially the man had joined their gang. Ben pressed a finger through the computer screen, and pulled up Eyeless Jack's screen onto the computer. Ah. Setting up a background. Some cute looking cat picture.

'Hey bitchy boi'

That got his attention. When those words flashed across his screen, he turned towards the only two who could actually do that. And towards the only one who'd write a sentence like that.

"Hey." Ben flashed him a grin.

"Do you... need something?" Eyeless Jack cocked his head to the side.

Oh silly ignorant Jack. Ben shook his head, chuckling.

"I need you to come over here. We're going to perform your entrance ritual to join this household."

Smile Dog quickly stuck his head out of the screen, turning towards Eyeless Jack. "We don't have one, he's just messing with you." Smile Dog said. "And what we're doing you probably wouldn't understand."

"But he should know, shouldn't he?"

Ben felt kind of bad for the guy. Despite joining the house a week ago, he still hasn't really fit in with anyone. Not that he was trying. Always sitting in a corner, away from everyone. Jane and her girlfriends were like that, but they never stayed for long and they tended to stick together. So Ben decided to be such a nice fella and extend out a hand. For Eyeless Jack to join the reason that united everyone else.

"Jack, come here." Ben patted the seat next to him. "While we may have a lot in common with being killers and living here now, I'm going to show you what you don't know about us. Because we all saw some shit that you need'a know."

There was a glint of curiosity within his eyes. One Ben was familiar with. His victims all required that glint to become victims. In order to investigate. Lean forward within their chairs, tilt their heads to the side as they responded to the cleverbot pop up that should just be a glitch. Without that curiosity, they were boring to torment. There was a sense of prophecy whenever they responded. As if their achilles heel was replying to something they shouldn't. If they didn't acknowledge him, they would have lived. Almost a self fulfilling fate.

Curiosity got the cat killed, and there was no coming back.

"I wish I had recorded the Undyne and Alphys incident, but I was smart enough to go to back to the building after it collapsed and see if I could salvage any security footage," He said, clicking on a folder in his computer. "So I'm going to show you the fantastic event we saw the aftermath of."

Ben paused over the video for a moment. In a sense, he did feel guilty. He should have been watching. The one time he decided not to watch cameras near Sans, for Sans' privacy, and it almost got him killed. If he had been there, then his foot wouldn't have even been injured. Everything turned out alright, thankfully, but he did think about that sometimes. So Ben kept this video. For what he wasn't sure, but he kept it just in case. Who knows, maybe posting it online could ruin Papyrus' reputation. Word already spread from a few other monsters who were there on the monsternet, and it didn't help that Sans deleted his account altogether and disappeared from pictures on Papyrus' profile.

Usually it wouldn't gain much traction, but Papyrus was a well known monster who boasted about his selflessness quite often. People noticed when a monster who bragged about helping people left his own brother for dead and lost him from his life, along with his niece.

Oh, Papyrus had to have heard by now. How could he not? From what Ben could tell about post history, the two brothers were the most known out of Snowdin. And Sans used to go to some sort of bar, becoming a regular. So random monsters would walk up to Sans on the street, always noticing his child within his arms, and would talk to him about it. About how most people anticipated Papyrus becoming a Father before Sans, about how much Sans has grown as a person, and how he'd make a great parent. And, finally, asking about Papyrus' reaction to little Bean, where Sans would say the same thing. "Oh, I dunno. He hasn't met her. I went no contact with him."

No doubt some word has reached Papyrus now. How desperately Ben wanted to see Papyrus' reaction. To know that Sans is living a better life with his child and Papyrus will never even see it. To only hear from distant old neighbors that they bumped into him, that Sans didn't sugarcoat the truth and were wondering what Papyrus did to invoke Sans' hand in going no contact. Maybe he'd stutter out of shock, maybe he came up with some lie to try and twist the blame. Perhaps he groveled at their feet and begged them to tell him where they saw Sans.

"The camera was broken before Laughing Jack could be seen, and this was the only surviving footage," Ben explained as the video played on.

On screen, Papyrus' back was to the camera, concealing his expressions from the view. Sans' expressions, though, were shown in full effect. His annoyance, anger, all of them bubbling to the surface. And finally, his panic when the first crash occurred. Then, when the second explosion went off, the camera crashed to the ground and went black.

"So, uh, you couldn't see what happened next," Ben said awkwardly. He kinda wished there was more recording. "But Sans got trapped under rubble and Papyrus left him there. I showed you the argument so you could see what led up to it. And so you can know who to avoid on the streets." He tapped on the house for a few times. "Smile Dog and I are trying to fix the outside footage. I think we're close. So we could show you Papyrus fucking leaving Sans for dead."

"I heard about it. It's awful." Eyeless Jack shook his head. "I can't imagine who would do that. Sans is nice, too, it's... understandable why Sans would leave."

Ben glanced over. He couldn't blame Jack for his lack of enthusiasm on the situation. Sure, Sans helped the guy and saved his ass, but he barely knew him. Sans was a stranger. He didn't see those countless nights where Sans would sob from his room. See the annoyed expression on Undyne's face when another pun that Sans spent all day coming up with was spoken. See his defeated smile when Papyrus would tell him he was busy, only to turn around and say "No, I'm free tonight" when Toriel invited him to help host a school dance. He rewound the clip in silence, mostly for himself at that point.

It was weird. Everyone who moved here with Sans had a close bond and understanding. They all saw that shit go down. But Eyeless Jack didn't experience it himself. So he really didn't understand Sans himself either.

"You don't have to understand or know. It was just something we all watched." Smile Dog stepped out of the screen, flicking aside some code off of his foot as he fully escaped. "We just wanted to let you know he's bad news. I mean, we're serial killers, but he was straight up just a dick."

"Oh, so I can't make jokes about 'chonking dicks' but you can just go casually around saying the word?" Ben huffed.

"Because you're a child." His tail flicked into Ben's nose, making the boy almost sneeze. "And you were right next to Sally."

"I was friends with Sally before you even knew her, she's heard worse."

Smile Dog simply rolled his eyes and settled against Ben, looking over at the screen as more code ran in the background. Trying to fix the broken footage from the building across from the restaurant. Should be done soon. He didn't know why it took actual months to fix, footage was just really corrupted.

"How did you and Sally become friends?" Eyeless Jack asked.

"Uh..."

Ben leaned back. He never really thought about it in awhile. It has been a long time.

"I mean, we've been friends for years," Ben said, shrugging. "I just... sorta forget."

"Forgot?" Smile Dog asked. 

"I mean, we've just... always been friends, I guess." Ben adjusted his grip on the computer he had stolen. "We're the only people in the world that knows what it's like to be stuck in a dumb immortal body. Of a child, too."

He could remember so many days of hanging out with Sally. Giving her a phone to contact him with, playing dress up with her bear despite it not interesting him. Just because they were kids, and that's all they'd ever be. And Sally understood that. And he'd often watch as other CreepyPasta stopped by. Jane. Jeff. That weird girl with no eyes. That one mean dude with the yellow strings. 

And, of course, he saw Slenderman. 

Sure, Ben settled his feelings with his childhood immortality, but his feelings over Slenderman were not as settled. After all, he had years to process his inability to physically grow. But Slenderman was something he never encountered often.

He just didn't understand that man. At all. He heard so many rumors about him being such a dangerous man, yet he checked in occasionally on Sally. Killed someone in front of Sans, but didn't stalk him like he did his regular victims.A mystery indeed.

Not something too important, though. He talked about it with the other CreepyPasta. All behind Sans' back. Slenderman wasn't targeting him, but that was a good thing. And they'd take a good thing. So best not to dwell on it. Or to dwell on his and Sally's past. What mattered was the future now. What silly prank he'd pull, what stupid thing Jeff would say next. Stuff like that.

"I wish I knew about CreepyPasta relationships sooner," Eyeless Jack said, "If I knew that other people were as lonely as I was..."

"Eh, no one really realizes. Everyone is faking it in this world, really we're just a bunch of shitty lonely people who wouldn't mind a friend or two." Ben leaned against him. "Welcome to the CreepyPasta house, dude."