I slowly opened my eyes to see a bright light shining. It was bright enough to make me wince and shut my eyes again, holding my hand above my face.
"hey, kid." I heard. As they took the bright light away from my face, I noticed it was that short figure I saw before. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I noticed that I could see clearly. I put my hands over my eyes and did not find my glasses. I am near blind without my glasses, how could this be? I turned and saw a short skeleton examining my body. I jumped in shock as he backed away.
"what's wrong?" he asked, sounding sincerely concerned.
"I… you… you're a skeleton?" I said squinting my eyes.
"shit. i completely forgot. when i was introducing myself, you knocked out for a good 10 hours. i found your glasses, but it seems that the medication that you got corrected your vision." He smiled at me as he stuck his hand out to help me up.
"I'm still a bit confused." I said as I carefully took his hand and felt him lift me up to my feet.
"you're in the underground of mt. ebott. we are all monsters here, but i promise not to hurt you." he said letting me stand on my own. He held out my clothes in front of me and disappeared as I took it. I quickly changed back into my clothes and sat down in a chair next to my bed. Is this a dream? Sans quickly returned as if he already knew I was finished.
"hey." he said smiling at me. I was quite startled as he seemed to teleport back.
"you seem to be spooked pretty easily. i'm not that scary, i'm just a punny skeleton." he said giggling. It made me smile a bit. Before I could begin to speak, he interrupted me.
"i see you use heroin." he said sitting down next to me.
"How do you know that…" I said. When I thought about it, it was obvious that they took tests. But when I looked down at my arms the track marks were gone. and I didn't even feel any withdrawal symptoms."
"it was a bit obvious seeing your arms and seeing how you acted. i've seen quite a bit on addicts. i saw the track marks on your arms. but you need to know that the medication we gave you will not have withdrawal symptoms. it healed your wounds and it basically cleaned out your body." he said. "come on. let me take you to get something to eat. you must be hungry." he said grabbing my hand. He continued to hold my hand as we walked outside. There was snow on the ground and I felt chills run down my spine. He noticed that I was cold. He took his jacket off and guided my arms into it and zipped it up.
"Aren't you cold?" I asked.
"nah. i'm used to this. lived here for years." he said as he grabbed my hand once again. We walked for about 10 minutes. He talked to me about his brother Papyrus, who I will soon meet. He also told me a bit about Alphys and how worried she was about me when I didn't wake up. Sans told me he stayed up the entire 10 hours I was sleeping so he could let Alphys rest.
"alphys worries a lot. especially when she sees someone hurt. i let her go back to her lab to get some shut eye." he said smiling towards me.
"What about you, aren't you tired?" I asked.
"i'm always tired, kid. nightmares wake me up every night." he said looking away from me. "might as well just stay up and make sure you're okay."
"What do you dream of?" I said looking at him.
"kid, you really don't want to know." he chuckled. "not much scares me. but the things i see really rattle my bones." he said laughing a bit.
"You know I'm an adult, right? Quit calling me kid." I said angrily.
"sorry. habit." he said. He seemed like he was hiding something. He was always short with his words. He didn't explain much when he answered my questions.
He led me inside a building with a sign labeled "Grillby's" as we walked towards the bar. A monster that was made of fire approached the bar. I felt everyone's stare around us, but no one seemed to be scared or angry, just confused.
"Sans, buddy. I see you got a friend?" he asked crossing his arms.
"yep. saved the kids life. with the help of alphys, of course." he said winking towards me.
As we ordered food, Sans talked to me about how the monsters and humans once had a war in the past and they were sealed in the underground. He mentioned a human falling into the underground during this time, a child. He didn't mention her name, but it was far before I was even alive.
"Wait… so how old are you?" I asked cautiously.
"we don't really 'age' the way humans do. just know i got the same strong bones that keep me kickin'" he winked at me again. "anyway, this kid went through the underground and most monsters were prepared to fight her, but she didn't lay a hand on one of them. she had a real heart. soul was as pure. she managed to break the barrier between the monsters and humans. the peace lasted a few years, but it went back to war when…" he stopped and looked down.
"i guess it just didn't work." he continued as he took a bottle of ketchup and squirted it in his mouth. Gross.
"we still care for humans, though. been a while since we had a grown ass adult fall in. by a while, i mean we have never." he said laughing.
"Are you saying I'm stupid?" I said angrily.
"no, kid. you're smart, that i sense. but you are also afraid." he said as he paused for my response.
"I'm not afraid." I said condifently.
"bull." his tone changed a bit. "i know a lot about you kid, you're not just some addict that fell into here for no reason. you got issues." he said as he put his hand on my shoulder. I quickly jolted away from him and stood to my feet. Fuck this. I turned away from him without another word and walked out the door.
I don't have issues. I'm fine.