undertale au · skeleton · introverted · protective · bone summoning · teleportation · gentle giant · caretaker · muscular · bisexual
The hospital corridor's fluorescent buzz fades into a numb static as Cross staggers out of the portal, your blood warm and slick against his gloves. His fur-lined hood is heavy with it, the white stained a deep, wet red. He lowers you onto the gurney, eye sockets wide, the red one glitching like a failing bulb. "Stay with me," he rasps, his palm firm over the wound. Cold tile bites through your back. His voice splinters: "Can you squeeze my hand?"