He lays where he is, unable to move without his injuries crying out in protest for hours.
"ugh...Potassium, K, uh...shit. 20? man i'm rusty…" Sans sighs, "Hydrogen, H, 1...positive charge...wait. no that's just ionic state.. "
He hears the front door open.
"Sansy, I'm hooome~"
The skeleton groans and leans his head back, sighing and shutting his eyes "great."
"And I brought ramen!" He hears them coming up the stairs.
"...okay…?"
They enter the room. They are covered in dust and bits of blood, and they are grinning. "Which means it's dinnertime! Get up unless you want to starve~" They say cheerfully as they grab his arm and hoist him to his feet, dragging him out of the room.
"gah shit watch it my legs are broken you psychopath!"
"That reminds me, I need to wash that filthy mouth of yours~" They throw him to the floor and head into the bathroom.
"are you serious."
They come out with a bar of soap. "Open wiiiide~"
Sans narrows his eyes at them, "you're the one that needs soap, kid. have you looked at yourself at all? you're filthy."
They shove the soap into his mouth as he talks, and they force his jaw closed so he can't spit it out. "I can worry about that later~"
Sans shuts his eyes tightly, choking and forcing down the bitter chalk, coughing and gagging when Chara removes their hands from his mouth. Idly he notes that his H.P has risen by 0.2, and feels his arm heal up.
'...thanks for buying organic soap, Paps. get vanilla flavored next time, maybe?'
Chara grins. "Hopefully you've learned your lesson about swearing. Now come along, its time to eat." They force him to his feet again, and drags him down the stairs. They drop him halfway down and cackle as he falls helplessly. Sans cries out as he tumbles down, hitting the floor and rolling forward a bit.
"guh.." Sans shuts one eye, staring dizzily at the ceiling.
"You make that look fun" The child says with a giggle, stepping down to catch up to him. They lift him to his feet once more, and drags him to the table, and shoves him onto the chair. "Now, to make dinner~"
"yeah you go ahead and do that." Sans mumbles, wincing and shutting his blinded eye.
Four minutes later and Chara places two bowls on the table next to each other, then they sit next to him. "Hungry Sansy?" They ask as they take a bite of their own food.
He eyes them suspiciously, "uh. no." He grimaces and turns his head away, gagging as dust falls onto the food that they're eating, "i wish i could throw up."
"Well, too bad~" They say as they pry his mouth open with their fork, and shoving a mouthful of his food into his mouth. "Eat up~"
Sans coughs, shutting his eyes and swallowing, "your cooking could use some work." He says, inwardly rolling his eyes at himself for making such a childish insult.
"We have all the time in the world to make that happen, though, it may have been contaminated a bit" They say, chuckling as they rub their fingers together, allowing some of the dust to fall into his bowl.
He immediately scoots back, "nnnope."
"Yep!" They say, grinning as they pry open his mouth again, and force another bite into his mouth. Sans spits it out onto the floor, shaking his head and looking sick. "Tsk tsk. Don't you know there are starving kids on the surface who would kill to have some of that?" They mock as they get up, wrapping the fallen noodles around the fork, and prying his mouth open once again. "You will eat all of your food~" They shove the food in, then hold his jaw shut. "Now swallow."
Sans pretends, and then immediately spits the food back into Chara's face when they release him, gritting his teeth, "i'm not playing games with you, kid. RESET. this joke is getting old."
"Make me." They taunt with a smirk, forcing his jaw open once again, and reclaiming the spat up food from the floor. "I can do this for all eternity~" They shove the noodles back into his mouth. But not before Sans manages to bite down hard on their finger.
"Ow! That wasn't very nice Sansy. We are going to stay here until you eat all of your food, so you might as well get it over with." They say as they tap the empty fork on his teeth.
Sans keeps his jaw locked tightly. Chara can't pry his mouth open again - he's more DETERMINED to not eat monster dust than Chara is to feed it to him. They're at a stalemate, and this frustrates the child very quickly.
"Well then, if you are going to be stubborn, then you will starve. Although, I wonder if I can put the food into your eye sockets. You are a skeleton after all, and it could just fall from your head to your throat. What do you think? Should I try it?"
Sans just snorts. He has to admit he's a little curious about that too. But it'd probably just...be in his eye.
"I will take that as a yes." The child says as they shove a forkful roughly into his eye. Sans jerks his head back, blinking and staring at them awkwardly with noodles hanging from his socket.
"...uh."
The child laughs. "Well, that didn't go how I expected. Still, at least I know now." They get the noodles out of his eye, and while he is off guard, swiftly yanks his mouth open, almost breaking his jaw, and his mouth is forced shut before he can spit it out.
"khk!" Sans thrashes his head, already pale skull turning paler as he feels the dust in his mouth. He looks ready to vomit. They hold his head in place, keeping his jaw shut. Sans closes his eyes, and in spite of his efforts he begins to tremble, "gh…"
"You are just torturing yourself by making this go on longer than it should~"
Right. Obviously he should just swallow the remains of dead monsters without a fuss. It's not that he's trying to avoid torturing himself - it's the repulsive thought of dust being absorbed into his SOUL.
"Come on Sansy, you can do it~"
'fuck you, kid.' The taste of dust is starting to make him feel more nauseous than he's ever been in his life.
"Looking a little green there Sansy, better to just get it over with."
Sans shuts his eyes and he swallows.
Chara holds his mouth shut, and it isn't until he gives a disgusted shiver that they let go. "There, was that so bad?"
He bends over his waist, coughing and giving a weak attempt at throwing up. But he's already absorbed it. God...he probably knew the monster that that dust belonged to. This is...this is so fucked up…
Sans turns his head away as Chara tries to feed him another forkful, "k-kid, please-"
"My name is Chara." They remind.
"Chara, please, this is...this is sick…"
"Your point?" They ask, smiling.
"don't make me do this."
"Are you telling me what to do know? Because you don't seem to be in that kind of position." They mock with a smirk, holding up the next bite insistently.
"p...p-please, don't…" Sans closes his eyes tightly, drawing in his shoulders, "a..a-anything else, just not this.."
"I will force your mouth open again." They warn, waving the fork in front of his teeth.
"wh...why are you doing this?" Sans looks at them, eyes filled with confusion, "not asking about me. i don't really care about why you're doin' this to me, but...Tori, Paps, Undyne and Alphys and MK and...everyone...what'd they ever do wrong to you..?"
"This is not about them, this is about you." They shove the bite into his mouth as he opens up to speak again.
Sans chokes down the bite, "wh-who are you? a-and...and what did you do to Frisk?!"
They shove another bite into his mouth. "Haven't you heard the stories?"
The skeleton stays more hunched over as the sickening process of being force-fed dust starts to drastically weaken his psyche, "the last...years of my life have been...nothin' but RESETS...of the same thing...over and over...so if i ever did, then i've forgotten…"
"Once upon a time, a human fell into the underground. Injured by their fall, they called out for help. The prince found them, and took them home. The the two became like siblings, until the human fell ill and died. The prince absorbed their soul to take them to the surface to see their beloved golden flowers one last time, then the humans attacked. Instead of fighting back, the prince went home, and died in the garden." The child recites, almost monotone.
Sans can sense there are missing details that only they knew. "...so, you mean...you're talking about Asriel Dreemurr, right..?"
"Yes, he was the prince." They say as they shove another bite into his mouth.
He forces the bite down, focusing on the conversation to try and keep his sanity intact, "so then you're...you're the human that fell…? the first human…?"
"Correct." They shove another bite into his mouth. "Except I didn't fall, and I didn't fall ill."
Sans is starting to feel his mind growing distant, "..hf...m..might as well just...give me the whole story if you're...gonna be droppin' hints like that...don'tcha think…?"
"Suicide." They say with a grin. "Hey, it's too early for you to be falling asleep, you haven't finished your ramen."
"i'm not falling asleep." 'just gonna faint is all.'
"Well, quit being a baby then. Finish your ramen." They say as they shove in another forkful.
One more bite. Sans breathes in steadily, choking down the last bit. His eyes roll back and he blacks out.