Happy Flowers Fall Up

Chapter 7

AN: Since I am on Thanksgiving break, I have decided to submit an extra chapter of each story this week. Hope you like it as much as I do.

After a little more small talk, I felt a lot better. My head had stopped bleeding and Alice finished her drink. By then it was night time and she was getting tired. We came to the decision that Alice would take my bed and I would sleep on the couch. I closed the door so that I wouldn't wake her up with the TV and so that Papyrus wouldn't see her when he came home.

As I was trying to sleep and failing because of the same nightmares, Alice was having the same problem. She would dream about every time I had killed her. She told me that she could still feel the burn of the blasters and the jagged bones piercing her flesh. She got up and quietly opened the door. She looked around for Papyrus. She crept down the stairs and knelt beside the couch and whispered to me, "Sans, are you awake?" I mumbled the affirmative. Her voice cracked as she said the next words, "I had a nightmare. Can you keep me company, please?"

I opened my eyes for the first time and looked over at her. She was terrified. I realized what she had been dreaming about before she told me. I knew exactly what she felt. "Yeah. Sure, Sweetheart. I'll be right up." She nodded and went back up. I needed some time to think. This was a delicate situation. If I messed up, she might never trust me again. I was the one that killed her after all. Why not just go to her flower for comfort? I guessed it was because she wanted to be reassured that I wouldn't ever do that to her again.

When I walked in, I had that purpose in mind. I knelt down beside my bed and asked, "Do you want to talk about it?" She shook her head to say no. I nodded and said, "Then, you don't have to say anything. I'll talk." One of her hands was by the edge of the bed and it was shaking. I took her hand in both of mine and I said, "I think I know what your nightmare was about anyway. I have the same kind of dreams except our roles are switched. That's why I didn't trust you at first. I remembered all the previous humans killing all the people I cared about and then eventually killing me. I can still feel the cold steel ripping through me."

I involuntarily put a hand to my chest and winced. Alice started to cry. She threw her arms around my neck and nuzzled her face into my shoulder and continued crying. I was surprised. My eye began to glow and I tensed for a fight, but none came. I calmed down and turned off my eye and smiled softly. I stroked Alice's long, dark hair and held her close to me. She was shaking so hard. After a while, she stopped crying so much and let me go so that she could lay back down. She was still holding my hand.

I let her cry herself to sleep. I thought, "How could I let myself hurt someone so sweet and innocent?" I thought I almost saw her smile when I gently squeezed her hand before I got up to leave. But she wouldn't let go. I chuckled and sat back down. I ran my fingers through her hair and said, "I'm not going anywhere, Sweetheart." I fell asleep beside the bed still holding her hand. I had a dream about the human sparing me and I had a feeling that she was having a similar dream.