Chapter ten:

Sans groans softly as he awakens only for his eyes to snap open at where he has found himself. He was sleeping next to a sleeping Papyrus who is smaller than him with a red turtle neck and brown knee length shorts. "No. No no no no!" He looks around starting to panic. "It couldn't have been a dream! NO! Not a dream!" His head spins to look to the door that slams open as his eyes widen in fear at the tall dark figure with scars on his face. "No. Please no." He begs trembling in terror and he shuts his eyes tightly. His soul beating so quickly it almost rings in his nonexistent ears.

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Toriel almost starts to drift off when Sans starts twitching and whimpering in his sleep. She rubs his back and notices Papyrus tightens his hand on Sans's own as if doing so on instinct as he sleeps.

Sans a little slowly seems to calm down and Toriel finally allows herself to drift to sleep.

Sans's P.O.V.

I feel a hand grip mine comfortingly and I turn only to see Papyrus is awake. I see him smile at me trying to comfort me. I blink as a light comes from the doorway making me turn to the snarling face of the monster meant to be our father.

"Until the next night brat."

Then with that he is destroyed and Toriel steps forward with a gentle smile.

My vision becomes blurred with tears then both me and Papyrus rush forward hugging her as she hugs us back. I smile and before I knew it two words were slipping past my mouth. "Goat mom."

Even with the promise of a nightmare the next night for now I am just happy to be having this dream. A dream I can truly enjoy.

My eyes blink open and I find myself seeing that the Tv is still on. I raise my head and look to next to me. I was sleeping on Toriel who is also asleep with her head titled back slightly buried in the blanket of the fort we made last night. I also notice that mine and Papyrus's hands are linked together across her lap. I smile to myself only to slightly turn as Toriel stirs.

She lowers her head back to its rightful angle and turns noticing that I am awake. She smiles. "Good morning Sans. Sleep well?" She asks kindly.

"After the partial nightmare yeah." I admit to her glad that us telling her wasn't a dream.

"The nightmares won't go away right away." Toriel tells me. "But you don't need to fear what is in them."

"Yeah Sans."

The two of us turn to see Papyrus with half open eyes smiling at me.

"We'll really be okay now. They're just dreams. Remember what we always say? They're not real."

I smile softly and nod just as softly. "Yeah. They're just dreams. They're not reality."

Papyrus nods to that.

"How about we make some pancakes?" Toriel suggested getting both of our attentions in which we both nod enthusiastically.

No one's P.O.V.

It's been a week since Sans and Papyrus told Toriel their story.

They've been hanging out more at the castle where both Toriel and Asgore treat them along with Frisk like their own children. They finally have parental figures that are the kind they should have had from the start.

The two don't even mind how the brothers have latched onto them rather quickly and in fact encourage it.

"Come on Papyrus!" Frisk encourages as she and the taller skeleton are pushing a giant ball of snow towards an even bigger one. "We gotta get the snowman's body onto his bottom!"

"We can do it!" Papyrus responds as they keep pushing it towards their snowman's base.

Sans, Toriel and Asgore are watching from by Sans's sentry station with some tea placed on the sentry stations surface.

This snowman will be the third that they all have built though the three of them are taking a slight break for the tea that Asgore had brought.

Sans blinks hearing some kind of scraping behind him and he turns to the woods behind him. He jumps off of his sentry to his feet seeing a dark figure that is scarily familiar. His soul feeling almost like it was about to leap out of his chest in fright. He feels a shiver of terror go through him making him fear that Gaster has returned.

Noticing this Toriel and Asgore turned to see what made Sans jump in fear. Both of which look with curiosity but also anger. They are worrying that the other has made it out of the void to come back for the two that should have never been in his possession. They see what looks to be the figure of someone there just within the woods.

"Identify yourself." Toriel demands in warning with a stern voice but is only responded by another scratching sound like something scrapping against a tree.

It almost sounds like defiance or a warning.

Both Frisk and Papyrus paused to look at what is happening and Papyrus's eyes widen in fear as he slightly ducks down until he's slightly peering over the big ball of snow.

"You won't be getting those two ever again!" Toriel launches a fireball at the figure and Asgore summons his trident only to slash at it.

The slightly oddly shaped tree falls onto the snow as it fell into view out of the darkness cut and a bit on fire.

They all kind of glance to each other, Sans and Papyrus relaxing upon seeing that it wasn't Gaster, then they all slightly chuckle as Sans rubs the back of his skull while the other two stop their ready attacks.

Toriel reaches over and gently rubs Sans's skull who smiles a little.

Sans tries to shrug it off for now as Asgore also does the same as Toriel with both being so gentle with him.

The two end up suddenly bringing him into a shared hug making him slightly let out a surprised sound at it only for Papyrus and Frisk to jump in on joining the hug making them all laugh as Sans is slightly tackled by his little brother.

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"And they lived happily ever after." Asgore turns after closing the book seeing that Frisk fell asleep next to him and a little in front of him the brothers are cuddled also asleep next to an awake Toriel.

Toriel and Asgore get up grabbing a spare blanket each and bringing it over to the younger than them monsters. They pause when Papyrus begins to twitch a little only to start breathing heavily mixed with pleading whimpers with slight 'Nyeh's mixed in. They crouch on either side of the brothers but before they could do anything something happens.

Sans shifts as if trying to get closer to Papyrus and from beneath his grey shirt chest begins to glow, as a beautiful light blue is escaping between the spaces between his ribs shinning from what the two can only guess is his soul.

Papyrus calms down as his own red shirt also lights up from a glow escaping from between his ribs but for him it's more an orange colour.

As their souls seem to glow together both start to smile in their sleep causing them to rest easier.

Asgore brings a hand to by his heart as his eyes go a little wide at the sweetness of such a sight brings warmth to his heart. He puts the blanket over the two smiling greatly at them as his heart sings from their adorableness. "Sleep well my children." He whispers softly and Toriel smiles even more than she was when she had just witnessed Sans subconsciously help his brother.

This can work for sure.

"Asgore." Toriel begins as she gets up going over to Frisk and putting the blanket she has over the small human child. "You know. I think that this will work. You, me and our three wonderful children."

Asgore smiles and nods. "Me too Torrie. I'm truly sorry for the way I acted in the past. It was uncalled for."

"I'm sorry for how I acted too but…" Toriel smiles gently after both her and Asgore gained apologetic looks on their faces. "We've changed things and now we have our own family. Children that will make us proud well more so than they already do."

"Quite." Asgore nods also gaining a smile on his face.

There was still healing to do with the brothers but it's a good step forward in the right direction.

The end.