He blinked as he woke up, finding himself in the bed of his childhood, and he sat up, staring at the slightly decorated room. He knew this place...

Faint memories stirred in his head, this was his old bedroom. From before that old man had gone mad...

This was Xtale, before it became what it was, when it was lost to a white void...

This was his chance! If he could leave before he got caught up in the story of his AU, it opened up so many possibilities for him to hide!

He wouldn't be locked into one gender by his so called father, and he wouldn't have his signature scar, scarf, or eyelight! He could even grow up somewhere else, and have a different body type by the time that Nightmare would show up to recruit him! He would also be long gone by that time, or Nightmare would end up recruiting another Cross, one that would be highly unstable, due to not being the Original One!

Cross giggled, he would have to keep an eyelight out for Nightmare, and Dream, trying to recruit him early, but as long as they didn't put two and two together, and figure out who he was, he should be okay!

And he could use so many pronouns now! It had hurt to be locked as a male Skeleton! He hadn't been able to go through the process of choosing his gender, like the rest of the Originals had, when they were growing up... Was that why so many of them had confused looks on their faces, when they meet him for the first time?

That would explain a lot, but at the same time, it didn't...

But it would go towards explaining why those Skeletons had become his friends... Were they that worried about him?

Cross knew that they had been his true friends, but it only took everything ending, and starting again, for him to see that...

... That they had really cared about him, to the point that they had defended him from some of the more hateful Sanses of the Multiverse, who hated him for something that wasn't his fault.

However, as much as he wanted to see if they were okay, and to let them know that he was okay, he couldn't do that... Not yet...

Because they would be the first ones to be visited by either side, once they had realised that he had done a runner...

There was a possibility that he could visit them, once things where calm, and depending on where he was in the timeline... If he entered the Multiverse at the age that he was now, he should be able to spend some time with them, before he had to hide, to avoid Nightmare...

If he used a different name for himself, and Nightmare didn't have the bright idea to recruit his gang early... It would make it harder for him to find him...

Cross sighed, he just wouldn't know what he could do, until he was in the Multiverse itself...

"How hard could it be to pass myself off as a regular Sans? It can't be that hard, right?"