The rest of the trip to Alphys' lab was spent in mild silence, save for the mild humming that comes from Sans, he seems a lot more cheerful from earlier. You feel yourself smiling, being led by the hand, he has the bucket with the mushroom in his hand, and very random you would see blinks of light pass your eyes from neighboring trees or paths lit up with odd things that hold a light to them. You feel heat as you two near closer, and Sans is lifting you up to carry you across something.
The sound of his feet against wood lets you guess it is a bridge with wood. The searing heat intense underneath, Sans behind you keeping you moving and telling you not to stop. Once your feet are on solid ground again you're turned to face Sans, who lifts the bucket up so you can see.
"We're almost there." Sans leans in and gives a gentle kiss to your forehead. It felt more like a tap of his teeth against it but it is the gesture that makes you smile more. The skeleton takes your hand again and starts guiding you behind him again, towards where Alphys is supposed to be. Sans is quiet for the rest of the walk, and his grip on your hand tightens a bit more, as if afraid to let go of you.
You finally are at the lab for Alphys and Sans goes to knock only for the door to slide open. Quickly he pulls you with him inside the place. The bucket for the mushroom being the only source of light for you to see in pitch darkness. You walk a ways into the place, and Sans has you leaning against a wall for now.
"Hey, I don't see Alphys here, but wait here. I'm sure she is either upstairs or somewhere here." He leaves you with the bucket, and you use it to keep your sanity. There is a humming in the air, of electronic machines buzzing, and feet pattering around. Sans feet not too far away before they do disappear through a door. You hear what sounds like an elevator, and shrug your shoulders, not moving from where you were told to be.
Counting the time and you recount the events that have happened, barely even hearing the sound of the elevator coming back up. You are lost in thought of Sans and his words from earlier; smile on your face in the pleasant memory. There is a sound and a door opening, catching your attention, you turn your head up.
You hear shuffling and the sound of feet pattering across the tiled floor, this sounds like skittering of multiple feet. It also catches your attention, and subtle you inch along the wall away from the skittering not knowing what is making that sound. You hear a sniffling sound, like something sniffing around for food. The bucket you have scrapes along the floor when you drop it, making a considerable sound. Whatever was lurking in the room, the feet start skittering across the tiled floor towards you.
Holding the bucket up in front of you, in defense, you barely catch a glimpse of the creature before it pounces. The bucket tipping over with a loud clang and the dim light lets you see what is over you. The only thing you could even come close to describing it was that it resembled a large dog, immense in size. The face on the creature was lacking except for a large orifice, a mouth that seemed to leak a black substance, frothing just at the edges of the bottom of the mouth.
A shriek is torn from you, something expected at seeing such a thing, let alone suddenly over you. There is a visible shiver through the creature, its fur bristling out like a scared cat and skittering back off. You scramble backwards away from it, till your back hits a corner. Thankful for the darkness in your eyes now, you couldn't see it, but you could hear a subtle growling as it got closer. You feel it maybe a few inches away, the head leaning over to sniff you.
Taking a chance to look up, the creature leans over you again, pushing its head into your lap. Hesitantly you brush your hand on top of the head to touch an ear. The dog-like creature seizes up violently then settles down again. You force yourself to relax on the surface though all you want to do is tremble and cry from fear. Petting the creature some more, there is that black frothy substance leaking out of its mouth. The feeling of something nudging your legs from the creature, the under part of it seemed to be more dog like creatures vying for attention.
You are beyond freaked out, but you keep petting the heads that are pushing into your hands. After what seemed to be a while, the creature settles down like it is content. Lazily lounging its head on your lap, the rest of them also seemed to fall into a light sleep. Your heart finally stops beating so wild after realizing you are not in as much danger as you thought you were. Just an overgrown puppy seeking affection.
"O-Oh my god!" A panicked voice from the end of the place shouts, and rushes over. The dog creature perks its head up at the voice and starts shaking like it is happy to see this person. Your vision is obscured from the massive body, but you feel the weight shift and the creature bounds off and towards the owner.
"What are you doing up here! Go back down! Get going Endogeny." The voice is angry and Endogeny emits a strained distorted hiss and whine. Something of a pouting dog would make, you feel a boney hand help you up, your guess is Sans. The bucket brought up for you to see his face, he has a genuine worried look in his eyes.
"Hey, are you alright? Sorry that wasn't supposed to happen." Sans attempts to comfort you by picking you up to stand you up from the corner you were huddled into. He's more worried than he's been in a while; you reach your hands up to cup his face.
"I'm fine, all it wanted was petting. I'm not hurt." You assure him, and then look over as Alphys comes into view. She reminds you of a unique lizard features or dinosaur. You look back to Sans who exchanges looks with Alphys.
"I-is this her?" Alphys asks, and Sans nods.
"W-wow, I mean I know it is her, since I've been kind of observing since you exited the ruins." Alphys fidgets with her hands and looks down. The glasses sliding off her face a little, pushing them back up, she remembers the incident and her expression takes on a bit more guilt. "I-I'm sorry for that, Endogeny isn't supposed to be up here at all. I don't even know how it got pass me and Sans. But it turns out things are fine, no one is hurt." This makes you smile.
"So, do you think you can see what is wrong?" Sans places his hands into his pockets, and waits for the answer.
"I'll have to examine her, and run some test. I think I will be able to find something, you should probably get to one of your posts before Undyne drops by. I'll take care of her." Alphys assures Sans as he gives her a weary look considering Endogeny. The skeleton gives you a small stare and leans over to place a pseudo kiss to your cheek.
"I'll return as soon as possible on my breaks. Alphys is really nice. Remember what I said earlier." He gives you a simple wink, then turns to Alphys. "I'll leave her in your care. Make sure nothing happens to her." With that he leaves the lab, and you to Alphys who goes to lock the door for now. Ensuring that no one will come in that isn't authorized.
"A-alright, hey, I know that he already said my name, but I am Alphys." She extends a hand out to you and you take it up, thankful the mushroom provides light for you to see.
"I am _." You say back to her greeting, you try to look around but still everything was dim and dark to your eyes. It is like looking around in a dark tunnel with only a bleak flashlight. Alphys leads you over to a spot to sit down at, so she can begin.
"L-Let's get started alright, whenever you are ready." Alphys is nervous about this, but as you sit down you feel the bucket being taken away for now. Your vision dark.
"How many fingers do you see?" You know it is for her to test.
"I don't see them…" You're honest about it, a dim yellow light is brought closer. You see what looks like two fingers. "I see two now."
"Alright. Tell me about how you fell in?" As Alphys gets more serious the stuttering from before fades off.
"I was with a group of friends, I went off by myself to see the edge of the barrier, and lost my footing. When I fell, I hit the back of my head on the ground." You explain it as if it had just happened, touching the back where you had hit it. You feel fingers touch the spot, and rustling of some papers nearby.
"Anything else?" Some scribbling can be heard as she is taking notes, and your vision is dark then a light yellow light brightens up the room. You can see clear as day, and your head snaps towards Alphys. She scribbles more notes; you can't read the handwriting from where you sit.
You wonder if mentioning Flowey would be a good idea, you decide against it for now. Wanting to bury the memory of that flower deep in your mind.
"Everything went dark after that, and well, here I am." You look down at your hands, your turn to fidget as Alphys stands up to reach over the desk near her for a book on human anatomy. She scans through it and closes it once she has an answer to her own question.
"This is really unusual, since I have never dealt with things like this before… but I know it isn't uncommon for humans to have temporary blindness from a fall. Since this place is full of magic, perhaps when you hit your head, your senses got mixed up. Well… clearly." Alphys trails off for a moment while in thought trying to make it have sense to herself.
"My guess is, the reason you can see through magic, is because of how your soul protected you during the fall. I don't know if Sans explained it, but soul magic can come at will, when you are in trouble.. like going to get hurt from someone, or in this case. When you are falling from a great height. So your soul distributed it when you hurt your head. The blindness part should reverse itself in time. Or I have an idea… since you seem to be starting a relationship with Sans. Maybe having him transfer some of his soul magic might help somehow." By the end of her words, Alphys is bright red at trying to explain it.
"How would he transfer magic to me?" Your vision is dark, but you could hear a simple muttering under her breath about how to explain it.
"Transferring magic.. can be simple as a kiss, but um… maybe.. more i-intimate. It's a theory, I don't even know if it will work! I mean you can wait till I find a better solution! It doesn't have to be right away either! I-I mean! I… um… I'll be right back!" You can feel the mushroom put into your lap, as she patters off. To get over her own embarrassment, you are wondering why she is so flustered over that explanation.
It finally dawns on you of what she meant and you are burying your face into the mushroom, accidentally bumping it, it flickers off, leaving you in darkness even inside the bucket. Pushing your face into it again it blinks back on with a squeak, and this time you feel the bucket being lowered down by a pair of hands. The edges of bone phalanges seen at the edge, and you quickly stop Sans from pulling it down further, your own face bright red.
"Hey! I didn't know you were this much of a bucket-case. Mush-you be so shy all of a sudden?" You snicker, and look up into the white pinpricks that peer at the edge of the bucket. "There's my pretty girl laughin' Love hearing you sing like this." Your face brightens in a blush.
"Wait, how did you get in here? Alphys locked the door." You are perplexed by just how and his grin widens.
"I have my ways. So, tell me what you learned, anything good?" He tilts his head as he holds the mushroom bucket so you can't put your face into it again and hide.
"Well, she told me that the blindness can be temporary. That the reason I see via magic is from my soul protecting me, and for some reason it never redistributed back. Probably from the fall. She… has a theory of how it can be corrected." You feel your cheeks flush again and look away.
"Yeah, and what is that theory?" Sans brings a hand up to play with the edge of your hair, looping it around the index finger.
"She says that if we're to transfer soul magic to me, somehow I might see. She then ran off." The finger twirling the hair stops, and you look up only for Sans to pull the bucket just out of vision so you don't see the tinge of blue across his bone cheeks.
"She said that might help you? You do know what she means by that right?" Sans voice sounds nervous, and he brings the mushroom back to let you see him.
"I figured a little bit after she said an intimate exchange…" Lowering your head down a little, to hide your own embarrassment, Sans lifts your head to see him, blue eye lighting up so you can stare him in the eye. "But… as long as it is you. I don't mind." He places a kiss on your lips, a soft one and you feel your head spinning.
"Are you sure? We can wait a while, get to know each other better." Sans rubs the side of your face with the back of his hand, and you lean into the touch.
"I'd appreciate that… it'd be my first time." You feel your cheeks flush dark, and there is almost a mischievous gleam to his eyes.
"All the more to take our time. Whenever you want to I mean."
There is a cough to your side and Alphys has returned she is holding something that looks like a necklace; you can barely make it out until it is brought closer. The necklace has a gem to it, and it glows a light blue in color.
"I know this isn't much, but it might replace using the mushroom for now. We have a darkening room that runs on crystals and lanterns. There is a small button to activate the gem on the center, but it works." Alphys shows you the necklace, and helps put it on, after pressing on it, you see things in a brilliant purple then fades into a light blue.
"Thank you." You say to her with ease, and look back to Sans who is turned towards Alphys.
"Is what you told her true on the transferring magic? Or basically combining soul magic?" He's serious in this exchange of words.
"Y-yes, but like I said it is a theory, there is a chance it is wrong." Alphys is fidgeting with her hands again but keeps the skeleton's stare.
"We'll let you know if it works or not. Thank you for your help." The way Sans speak is like another scientist to one. He wasn't using slang or making puns during it, your guess is when it matters he doesn't joke.
Sans is lifting you into his arms to start heading back. You look over to Alphys who is reading over some notes then smiles. "I'll keep in touch on other probably ideas, I'll give you a call or text Sans." Alphys informs you both, Sans takes you out of the lab and you both walk down a pathway. You hear rushing water, and someone humming something.
"Tra la la, care for a ride in my boat?" The being asks, and Sans is helping you onto the boat.
"Yeah, can you take us both to Snowdin?" Sans sits down behind you and pulls you into his lap.
"Tra la la, off we go." There is a shift of the boat, and you feel that it is actually galloping rather than gliding on the water.
"Tra la la, water is wild today, good luck." They're humming to themselves as you both are ferried to your destination. The air feeling colder and you move closer to Sans as a result. He tucks you in under his coat to provide what little warmth he has.
Once you are on solid ground, and saying your goodbyes to the river-person. You look up at Sans who stares back at you, adoration in his eyes. You both are walking away from where other people can hear your conversation. More intimate than you want others to hear.
"You meant what you said about being a virgin?" Burying your face into his side, you make a muffled sound. "I'll take that as a yes. Don't worry, only I have to know. Star-eyes. Let's get something to eat first, I know you haven't had anything since Papyrus' food this mornin' your treat." Snapping your head up towards him, he chuckles and you feel tension melting off your shoulders.
"We'll need energy. But I do mean what I said, that we can wait a while too. See if this is what you want. Or if another way comes through." You appreciate that he is not making you feel pressured into it, and once you are standing outside Grillby's where you can feel the heat coming off.
"Let's eat first then we'll continue this conversation. I don't mind as long as it is with you, and um... if you promise to be gentle." Circling your foot on the snow, Sans gives you a softer grin.
"Ya know I hate makin promises, but that one I'll make. I have a place for us to do this where we won't be bothered. Let's give it a day, alright?" He rubs your back, and leans down to press a kiss onto your lips again. This kiss is a lot longer than the previous pecks, and when it tapers off, you let a light-hearted sigh escape you.
"Kisses like that will make it hard to wait."