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We find Sopran, a tiny, fragile Sans, wandering the streets on a rainy summer night.
They are covered in blood and monsterdust and on the cusp of falling down
Not paying any attention to their surroundings, they walk into Red, who had just stumbled out of a bar and was now on his way back home.
Red can sense the fresh LV and is confused. Every Sans and swapped Papyrus alternate is the Judge of their respective world and he never met a Judge with LV.
At the same time the other doesn't look like a killer, more scared themself.
Sopran decides that this bigger Sans might be able to end their misery and when he summons a sharp bone, Sopran is ready to go.
But then, Sopran collapses and Red catches them in his arms.
He is highly confused and decides to help this strange Sans, whose HoPe is dwindling. He takes them home and hides them from his brother, Edge, fearing how he might react to an unknown monster, covered in dust and with fresh LV.
Of course, Edge immediately knows something is up.
Red gets himself and Sopran into something dry and lays the other in his bed.
After a stressful supper he comes back with food for Sopran, only to find his bed empty.
He finds them in a small corner behind his bed, panicking, and only puts the food in front of them and backs up to not further scare them
Sopran passes out after they ate and Red finds them feverish. He puts them on one side of his bed and sleeps on the other.
The next morning, Edge demands Red to tell him what's up and they both agree to talk about it after work.
While alone in the Fell-brothers' home, Sopran wakes up and goes exploring. They find the kitchen and take a pudding from the fridge, because they are hungry.
They get scared by a fluffy cat, but learn quickly that 'Doomfanger' isn't like the cats they had to fight in the streets.
The two fall asleep on the living room floor, cuddling.
In the evening, the brothers return home and Edge loudly demands Red to spill. His yelling wakes Sopran and Doomfanger, the former trying to hide in a panic, the latter trying to protect his new cuddle buddy.
Edge finds Sopran and Red explains. Edge agrees to help Sopran. After supper and Sopran passing out from a panic attack, Red puts them in his bed again and the brothers discuss how to find out more about Sopran.
They call Sans and Stretch, but no one ever heard about Sopran.
The next morning, they offer Sopran to bring them home and Sopran is sad, thinking the brothers don't care.
They take the car to the street Sopran told them, and the tiny Sans enters an apartment building to make the brothers believe they live there.
As soon as the car drives off, they leave the building and go to the back alley they actually live in. But, besides the brothers, who only pretended to leave Sopran on their own, a gang of monsters follow Sopran into the alley and try to kill them. The brothers intervene and scare the gang off.
They take Sopran back home with them.
Sopran tells them how they were dumpster diving that evening, Red found them, and were attacked by the same gang. A boar monster named Fiona threatened Sopran with a gun and in the following skirmish, Sopran accidentally shot Fiona with her own weapon. That's how Sopran gained their 3 LV.
The brothers assure Sopran that they're not to blame, that it was an accident and happened in self-defense.
After that, Sopran cries themself to sleep, relieved.