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You know those days where nothing seems to go right...?
As the skeleton brothers drive further away from their father the eldest speaks up "You can't trust him you know." His brother looks up at him from the passengers seat "He may be acting like he's changed right now but what happens when I leave you alone with him, or if we let our guard down and he does something bad?"
Sans looks down at his feet, pulling at the string of his hoodie. "Sans, I just want you to be safe, you know that right?" He nods "I just don't trust him, not yet anyways. I'm not saying we can never trust him again but it's going to take a lot of time." Sans smiles underneath his mask.
"I know you don't trust him, and I know you remember a lot more than me about what all happened but, Papyrus, he seems like he's really changed." Sans stares up at his brother with a mix of sorrow and worry. Papyrus takes his eyes off the road to glance at his younger brother, quickly realizing it was a mistake when he meets his brother's eyes.
"Sans, I appreciate your mercy on him but we may never know if he will start acting like he did back then." They near the school and Papyrus decides to change to a cheerier subject. "Anyways we're here, how about you go find Neil, he works every day right?" Sans nods confirming his brother. "Yeah, he said he works everyday for two weeks in a row." They both get out of the car and start toward the building.
"Now no getting in any fights today, all right?" Sans huffs and crosses his arms. "That was one time! besides you never heard what he said..." Papyrus scrunches up his face but eventually lets it slide. "Okay well I'll see you at lunch then." "See ya." Sans waves.
Away from his brother Sans allows his thoughts to wander as he heads to the nurses office.
"SANS!" Sans jumps as Undyne rushes up to him, checking him over for any signs of abuse. "Hey, you okay, everything alright?" he nods "I'm okay Undyne, nothing happened." She lets out a huge sigh of relief. "Good. I know how weird it is to have someone you don't trust living in your house... you doin' okay, like noggin wise?" Sans nods again. "Yeah I'm good, but Papyrus Isn't doing so well. He's all paranoid and stuff. he went on a rant about keeping me safe, I mean He's been acting fine..."
Undyne slaps a hand down onto his shoulder. "Ha ha! Sans that makes perfect sense. If anything I'd say you are the one with the jacked up feelings right now." Sans feels a little hurt by this but lets her continue. "You've BOTH got a right to be paranoid and up tight, that guy totally messed things up and now he's living in your house?"
Sans shrugs. "I don't know, he said he'd changed and he hasn't done anything to make us question it yet so I just assumed..." Undyne can almost feel the sadness and disappointment rolling off of him. "You know what? maybe he has changed, but no matter what you have to keep your guard up around him. I mean how do you think I got this amazing, by letting my guard down around everyone?" after Undyne gives Sans her 'probably not the best to go off of' advice she pats him on the back and goes off to find and talk to Papyrus.
Sans sighs and pushes open the door to the nurses office. "Hello dear, Is there something you need?" a slightly chubby woman says looking up from her book. Sans looks around the small office "I-Is Neil here?" the woman marks her page and sets the book down "Oh I'm sorry sweetie Neil called in sick, he couldn't come today." Sans feels a pang of something in his chest and he feels very uncomfortable. "O-Oka-ay, um... t-thanks anyways."
Sans quickly pulls put of the office and shuts the door, heading straight to the bathroom. "Okay okay, calm down, it's just one change in the routine. it's not that bad..." Sans mutters to himself as he paces around the bathroom, hands up by his chest. luckily there was no one in there with him, otherwise people would start to think even less of him.
He didn't know how long he had been pacing in the bathroom for but he realized it must've been somewhere around an hour because he saw the same kid come in and out of there twice. "Sans? are you in here?" Sans looks to the door to see Papyrus peaking in. "Sans what are you doing? you missed two of your classes"
Okay, so maybe it was a little more than an hour.
"I um..." Sans trails off still making unintelligible sounds. Papyrus walks over to his fumbling brother and wraps an arm around him. "Sans, I heard Neil couldn't come in today, is that what this is about?" Sans nods his head and drops his arms to his side. "Change happens and it's just a thing we all need to handle okay?" Sans pears up at Papyrus and wines a little. "Papyrus...everything is going to go wrong today, I know it"
"Don't be so negative Sans, If you say it's going to be bad then it will be." Sans's eyes widen slightly in horror. "I just said everything is going to go wrong, does that mean literally everything is going to go wrong?" Papyrus starts to correct Sans but immediately gets cut off. "Is someone going to die? if everything is going to go wrong is everyone going to die? am I going to die?" Sans starts to panic and starts squirming under Papyrus's gaze. "No one's going to die Sans." Sans looks at him with crazed eyes. "HOW DO YOU KNOW?!"
Papyrus holds both of his brother's arms and looks him straight into the eyes. "Nobody is going to die. I know because our school is one of the safest ones there is. also if you or me were in any danger I know we could handle it and I would never ever let one of us die." Papyrus, seemingly having defused the situation lets go of his brother and stands to his full height. "Alright, do you think you can go to class now?" Sans nods, eyes down cast and walks straight passed his brother.
"That was weird, even for him..." Papyrus quietly says to himself following Sans out of the bathroom. Papyrus catches up to his surprisingly fast brother in the hall. "Sans is there anything you'd like to tell me?" Sans shakes his head no and keeps walking towards his next class. "You sure? because you kind of freaked out in there for no reason." he shakes his head again. "Okay if you sure. I have science next so if you need me that's where I'll be." Papyrus walks off down the hall glancing back to his brother once or twice.
Sans reaches his destination and opens the door to see the classroom all looking at him. "Nice of you to join us Mr. Gaster, take a seat. Sans starts to walk to His seat but realizes there is a pompous looking girl sitting there.
He stands there for a minute unsure of what to do. "What do you want?" the girl says snarkily not even looking at him. Sans shoves his hands into his hoodie pockets. "Um, that's my seat..." the girl huffs and turns towards him in her chair. "really? I don't see your name on it." the girl waves him off, turning back to face forward in her chair.
Sans's face starts to show concern while he looks around the room for a seat. There were many open spaces but none of them were right. He ends up standing in the back of the class room scanning for a good seat. "Mr. Gaster," The teacher sighs. "please sit down." Sans's eyes pop up to the teacher and he eventually sits down in a chair next to a human boy and a wolf cub of some sort.
The rest of the day wasn't all that spectacular either.
During the same class that the girl had taken his seat he sat somewhere else where he got yelled at for knocking too hard on his chest.
In his science class they had been doing things with chemicals that had a smell that took over the room, making it impossible for him to focus, that in turn caused him to make a small explosion that blew up in his face, covering him in soot.
After that he had his class with Toriel, it was the only thing that he could think of that could make him feel the tiniest bit better.
"Hello class, I am Miss Linesburg, your substitute teacher for today" Sans locks up. he pulls his feet up onto the chair with him and buries his head in his knees, letting tears fall down his face. Miss. Linesburg notices him in the back and goes over to him, not knowing what was going on. "Hey, are you okay?" She says putting a hand on his back.
as soon as she touches him Sans lets out a lout shout. this quickly makes her back off but she returns just as fast. "Does anyone know this young man?" one human boy raises his hand. "Yeah I kinda know 'im, he's a little weird like this sometimes." The teacher rolls her eyes "Okay but does anybody know if something like this has happened before?" everyone in the room nods their heads. "There was this lock in a while back and he freaked out there, but it was scarier then." a slightly smaller girl says playing with her hair.
"I'll be right back, don't get too close to him." She says as she runs out the door. Sans can feel everyone looking at him but he doesn't care, everything had went wrong today, he knew when he had that nightmare last night that it wouldn't be a good day. Neil wasn't here, Science hurt, his seat was taken and Toriel wasn't even here. It had to have been one of the worst days ever.
He could also hear the other students murmuring about him all around him. "Is he okay?" "this is a lot more sad than last time, last time it was just scary." "Wow he really can't keep his shit together for one day." "I hope he's not crazy, I can't go to school with someone who's crazy" all the talking just made him cry harder.
Soon the teacher came back with two other people behind her. Sans couldn't tell who because they were so blurry. "It's alright Sans, I brought your brother" she had apparently gone and found out his name and found his brother in the time she had been gone.
Man she was fast.
"Sans, it's alright. just breathe." Papyrus says carefully picking him up carefully. Sans immediately latched onto his brother and tucked his head into his shoulder. "Home, home, I wanna go home." Papyrus hugs Sans closer. "Alright Brother, you can go home, I'm going to have to stay here though."
Sans nods into his shoulder, not really caring where they were as long as it wasn't that class room. Papyrus takes him out of the starring classroom and pulls out his phone pressing the first number on speed dial. "Undyne, hey, you up for ditching class today to watch Sans?" Undyne laughs on the other end of the line. "Dude I am way ahead of you." Papyrus smiles into the phone and starts down towards the front doors. "Great, can you meet me by the front doors?" "yeah, I'm already there" Undyne replies coolly.
"alright thanks bye" Papyrus says quickly, hanging up the phone before a teacher walks passed, somehow completely unfazed by The crying Sans being held by Papyrus.
Papyrus shifts his smaller brother and opens the doors. "Undyne, hey thanks for doing this for me, I really can't miss another day of school this year and I couldn't leave him home alone because of...you know who." Papyrus tries to set Sans down but he refuses to let go of his brother. "No problem. You caught me just as I was heading out anyways." Undyne goes over to the brothers and takes Sans out of Papyrus's grasp. "I got 'im" Sans glances at Papyrus before he clutches just as tightly to Undyne as he did for his brother.
"Well I'd better be going. you have the spare house key right?" Undyne nods and pats her pocket. "Good, also you could go to the park with him or something, but if You Know Who is there go back to the house with him please" Undyne holds up a clawed hand. "Papyrus please, you don't think I know this? I'm not going to let that creep anywhere near your brother" Papyrus turns with one last "Thank you." and disappears back into the building.
"Well it's just you and me now bud, how about we head back to your place?" Undyne says walking to her car, to take the skeleton home.
"So," Undyne starts "What's goin' on with you?" Sans keeps his skull tucked into his knees in the back seat of Undyne's car. "Cool man." Undyne says without a response.
"Alright, we're-" Undyne cuts herself off when the arrive at the skeleton's house. There, walking around the house was W.D Gaster himself. "Uh... change of plans little guy" She says as she speeds up to get away from the house as fast as she could. "We're gonna go hang at the park for a bit." Sans lifts his head and looks at Undyne, hurt almost by her changing the plans of the day once more.
She looks back at the skeleton in her back seat and pulls on a huge smile. "It'll be even better than going home, I promise! maybe the ice-cream truck will happen by and we can get the good stuff before anyone else." Sans lets out a little 'humpf' and lets his head fall roughly back to it's spot in his knees.
As soon as they reach the park Undyen turns in her seat to look at Sans. "We're here, ya wanna go into the park now or you just gonna sit here for a bit?" Undyne, once again, gets no response. "Ah,I see." she slumps down in her seat a little. "We're just going to sit here...okay, I'm down for that."
The two of them sit in the increasingly heating car for half an hour before Sans opens his car door and starts slowly walking to the park. Undyne looks up from her phone after hearing the car door open. "Oh, now you wanna go to the park?" She gets up, following Sans away from the car and towards the playground
Undyne catches up to Sans fairly quickly and nudges his shoulder gently. "So, what'cha gonna do first?" She could hear him inhale like he was going to say something but lets it out and turns his head in the opposite direction of his current care taker. "Okay, don't tell me."
Sans quickly looks down at his feet as they walk to the playground. Undyne watches him as he finds an empty swing and sits down, her, sitting on the swing beside him.
Sans makes a noise behind his mask but doesn't actually say anything. "You say something buddy?" Sans gives his first sign of communication sense leaving his brother and shakes his head. "Okay..."
They swing slowly for a while before anything happens. "d-do... am I-I scary?" Undyne looks at Sans with a mix of confusion and concern. "No, of course not. what made you ask?" there is a long pause before the answer to her question was reveled. "I-In class, I could hear them... They said I was scary... scary and sad."
"Well, there wrong ya know. They just don't know you. you're sweet and fun, and you are so honest that most people think it's rude, but really there should be more people like you in this world." A little bit of happiness returns to Sans's eyes and he gives himself a bit more of a push on the swing.
A couple of kids, out of school early for how young they where, ran around the swing set before charging in-between Undyne and Sans, knocking him off his swing and roughly to the ground causing him to smack his skull on the dirt. "ahh!" he shouts squeezing his bony eyelids shut.
"SHIT- Sans, are you okay?" Undyne says hurriedly kneeling down by the skeleton. "Ahh, arrg." Sans moans in pain, clutching the front of his skull. "Sans, can you hear me? Sans!" She rolls him over and tries to get a good look at the damage. "Come on man lemme see the damage." Undyne prys Sans's fingers away from his skull and finds that the smallest crack had gotten longer.
"Sans, CAN. YOU. HEAR. ME?" Sans blinks his eyes open and stares at Undyne.
"Yes?" he says suddenly. "OH good! now what was it that I'm supposed to do when something like this happens...?" as Undyne ponders what to do Sans gets up and randomly starts to walk in some direction. "Oh yeah that's it! hey San-" Undyne turns to find Sans already pretty far away and heading for the street. "Sans!" Undyne shouts, running up to him.
"What are you doing, where are you going?" she say turning him around. "I-... I actually don't know..." Undyne pulls him by his jacket sleeve back to the play ground and sits him down on a bench. "Okay, I know right now things are really messed up but you gadda stay by me okay... do you know who I am?" Sans looks up from playing with a ladybug to Undyne's red hair and then to her golden yellow eyes. "Yeeesss...?"
"Ohmygosh. Okay just a refresher, I'm Undyne ya'know you and your brother's life long friend?" Sans sits there with a blank expression on his face making Undyne unsure if he was getting any of this. "I'm in charge of you right now, your brother is at school and will be done and back soon."
Undyne finishes her wrap up and waits for Sans to do just about anything at all. Papyrus had told her what to do in case Sans blanks out while he's with him after she had been babysitting Sans and he had almost shoved a bone attack through her chest. boy wasn't that a day.
"s'okay..." Sans says blowing a leaf off of the bench. "Can I go home now?" Undyne winces and scratches the back of her head. "Um... you might not remember this but we can't really go home right now because... your dad is there." Sans pulls his knees up to himself and looks down in thought. "Dad dad...my dad..." he mumbles.
"I-I don't really remember him... I remember something, a feeling. something bad." Undyne looks at him sadly. "Am I supposed to feel something bad?"
"um... well, Probably something like that... he wasn't the best dad ever. you know it's probably better that you don't remember." Sans mumbles something to himself and rubs his skull. "Oh! um, Does your head hurt? ugh duh of course it does. lemme see." Sans pulls his hood down off his head so Undyne could get a good look at it.
Thick red liquid drips down from his skull and onto his shoulder. "Ah, okay you stay right there, don't move. I've got some band-aids in my car somewhere." Undyne rushes off to her car to find the first aid kit.
Sans sits on the bench looking at everything like it was new, the events of earlier that day completely forgotten. after only a few short minutes Sans gets up off the bench and starts wandering off towards down town humming a soft relaxed tune.
Soon Sans is wandering down the streets of the down town area, looking from building to building.
Sans finds himself in front of a warm building with a big sign on top of it. 'Grillby's' feeling some kind of pull, Sans opens the door of the place and gets hit with the aroma of grease, fast food and a hint of alcohol.
He looks around the place curiously and ends up staring at the fire monster behind the bar. He walks over to the monster with a blank face at first.
"Hi, I'm Sans, Sans the skeleton." Sans reaches out a hand to the fire monster over top of the counter. The heat by the monster turns to a pleasant warmth as he meets Sans's hand and shakes it. "Hello Sans, I'm Grillby" Sans smiles at his 'new' friend not knowing he already knew him. "So what is a nice skeleton like you doing at my restaurant all alone?"
Grillby at this point in time is pretty much just going through the motions. Almost every time Sans has a black out when he's out he ends up at Grillby's one way or another. Grillby remembers a time Sans had burst into his restaurant with something like blood covering his hands and skull. He had to find a quick way to settle the hysterical skeleton down before he hurt anyone. Now Grillby keeps an emergency Sans kit in his back room.
"I don't know." Sans states plainly. Grillby hums and starts cleaning the counter with a rag. "Were you coming here with someone?" Sans shakes his head 'no' "I was with my friend Undyne, but..." Sans trails off trying to remember how he had gotten there. "I don't know, I was with her then she went to her car and I walked away."
Grillby sets the rag off to the side and wipes his hands on his apron. "Does she know you're here?"
"No."
"Okay," Grillby says calmly "maybe we should give her a call, make sure she knows where you are." Sans thinks about this and then nods, following Grillby into the back room so that they could make the call.
"Alright Sans, I got the-" Undyne returns to where she had left Sans but he was no where to be seen. "Sans?" Undyne starts searching the park, looking under slides, inside of cubbies, on top of swing sets.
"Oh my gosh, If I lost Sans, AGAIN, Papyrus is gonna kill me, for real." Undyne rushes off back to her car and slams the door so hard the mirror cracked. "Damn it damn it damn it, where did he go?" Undyne drives around town looking for the lost skeleton. "Where did he go last time...?"
"What's your friend's phone number?" Grillby asks Sans as he plays with the string of his hoodie. Sans gives him Undyne's number before asking. "Do you set things on fire a lot?" Grillby pulls the phone away from his 'face' just in case somebody picked up "No, my flames are magic so they can't actually spread to anything without me purposely making them." Sans rocks back and fourth on his feet and smiles. "Cool."
As the phone rang Grillby gave Sans a few crayons and some paper out of the emergency Sans kit. "Here, who don't you go draw at the bar while I call your friend." Sans, not questioning why he needed to go, obliged and took the paper and crayons back to his seat.
'DING DING'
The front door opened setting off the bell. loud foot steps echoed through the building as it had fallen mostly silent. "Watcha drawing there?" A new voice says from behind Sans.
Sans turns toward the voice, finding a tall man wearing a long coat and a turtle neck. "It's my brother, Papyrus." He says cheerily, causing the other to sit down next to him. "That's a very good picture Sans."
Sans stops drawing and looks at the monster sitting next to him. "I-I didn't tel you my name." The man just chuckles. "You didn't have to Sans, seeing as I am your father, W.D. Gaster."
"Oh..." Sans says reaching for a red crayon, his head now swimming with thoughts and emotions. "Hey buddy, you gonna look at me?" Gaster says reaching out to still Sans's hand.
Sans lets out an audible gasp when Gaster grabs his wrist. He tries to resist falling into his long forgotten memories but in the end fails to control it.
"Don't you EVER run away from me ever again!" Gaster screams at a nine year old Sans who is being dragged by the wrist across the play-ground. Sans is sobbing the whole way to the car where Gaster shoves him roughly into the back seat. "You're lucky we're in public, otherwise I would've beaten you right then and there!"
Sans curls in on himself and bawls into his hands, trying to muffle his sobs knowing his father hates it when they cry.
"STOP CRYIN' BEFORE I GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!" Gaster turns a sharp corner causing an unbuckled Sans to go flying into the door.
The rest of the car trip goes by in a flash and they're suddenly back to their house with his father yanking on his wrist so tightly that Sans thought it would break. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll never do it again!" Gaster ignores his sons sobs and gives one final tug on his wrist before there was a cracking noise that filled the air.
"AHHHHHHH!" Sans tries to pull his broken wrist out of his father's grasp but only succeeds in making his grip tighter, if that was even possible. "Please." he whimpers before he passes out from the pain.
"Go away." Sans says in a almost inaudible voice, eye sockets devoid of light. "What was that son?"
"I said, GO AWAY!" Sans shoves Gaster out of his seat and runs to the back room just as Grillby is walking out. Sans bumps into him and stumble back a bit. "What's the matter Sans?" Grillby asks bending down to be on Sans's level.
Sans grabs Grillby and pulls him into a tight hug and lets his tears fall onto his exposed flames, making a sizzling sound as they evaporated. "oh! I'ts alright buddy, Undyne is coming here now, along with your brother, everything is going to be okay."
Gaster watches his son as he and the fire monster interact.
It was so much like how a father should act when their son is scared and is in need of caring. He was never there for his son, he was the cause of his sons pain and suffering.
Gaster turns from the fatherly like moment and leaves the restaurant, thoughts and memories deciding to plague him as well.
They were the same memories, just different sides of the torture.
Woooooooh! chapter nine is doooneee! sorry about how looong this is, I just kept writing and I couldn't stop!
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