***Hello, everyone! I have discovered that I am going to be very busy this school year...boy, howdy. But, as usual, there will be time for this site. All rights go to a mister Toby Fox while this story and a certain OC go to yours truly. Enjoy!
Undyne peeked her head into the bedroom. She had kept herself out of the room and-to her surprise-as quiet as she could keep herself for a little while now.
When she walked in, she didn't bother making her footsteps quiet. Alphys was a heavy sleeper. She was currently laying in bed, sprawled out in the center. She hadn't even bothered to put her glasses on the nightstand before nodding off.
Undyne walked over to her, taking her glasses off and putting them on the nightstand. After doing so, she smiled. In her eye, even after going through hours of childbirth and becoming so disheveled, Alphys was still beautiful. Undyne pulled the blanket over her and gave her a gentle kiss on the forehead. Then she walked over to the crib that was pressed against the wall.
Inside was a sleeping child. Her sleeping child. He was a fish monster. His scales were bright orange and his hair was red. His eyes, which had sprung open simple minutes after he was born, were simply black slits. He looked so tiny...so fragile.
Undyne grinned, her sharp teeth gleaming. She quite honestly thought her cheeks would split.
When her son shifted a little, she saw it. A small arrangement of scales that stood out against all the other ones. Their specific arrangement formed his namesake: Arrow.
Undyne leaned some of her weight against the bars of the crib. She carefully reached in and felt Arrow tightly grab onto her finger. He had woken up again.
"Heya, kid," Undyne said softly. She didn't expect an answer, but she also didn't like total silence for too long. Arrow reached up with his free hand and began sporadically clenching and unclenching it.
Undyne picked him up. She sat down on a chair in the room with him still in her arms. "God, you're perfect," she said. She realized then that tears were rolling down her face. She was about to wipe them away. Then, she recalled the rush of emotions she'd gone through. Stress and worry. Shock. Then, absolute joy. So, she sat there, with tears rolling down the right side of her face, smiling.
Arrow was confused, looking up with wide eyes.
Once everything was out of her system, Undyne cleaned her face. That's when she felt it. The instinct to keep her son safe from any and everything that could ever hurt him. She sighed.
"Listen, kid. We need to talk. I'm not gonna be a perfect mom. There's probably gonna be days where you hate my guts. And there's gonna be days where I screw up big-time. One thing that I can promise, however, is I am sure as heck gonna try my freakin' best to be the best mom to the best kid in the world," she said.
She looked around the room, a faint smile playing onto her lips. "I never thought I'd end up here," she thought aloud. "I thought I'd be in the Underground forever. Now, here I am. On the surface...married to the woman of my dreams...with a son to call my own," she went on.
She looked down at Arrow. "I love you kid," she said. That's when Arrow did something he'd never done before.
He smiled.
Undyne cradle him to her chest, lovingly and protectively.
"You have my word."
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