Chapter 10

So, in light of recent events, this story is becoming more and more real to me. Why is this you may or not be asking? Well let's just say I'm currently in a situation like Raven right now. To be honest I never thought i'd ever actually be living out one of my stories, granted it's not nearly as extreme as Raven and Klarion. However I am going through a lot of conflicting emotions like Raven is. It's really complicated, that I don't feel like going into details with. Mostly because I don't think I should as this is about the story not about me. So anyway, last chapter Sans tricked Raven into going to the monster district with him, it was a tad forced but I have plans for the MD and it's chapter 10 so I really need to start adding more than slice of life to it. Who will Raven meet while they explore? Find out here! ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!

"So Grillby's huh? Isn't this where I met you the first time?" Raven asked upon entering the establishment. Sans shrugged.

"I like it here." he said as he took what Raven assumed to be his usual seat. She sat next to him, "Besides, a lot of friends come here. Like Grilby!"

As Sans said that he pointed to the fire monster who stood behind the bar. She recognized him from earlier in the week when she first met Sans. He seemed to be giving her a wary look, which made sense, since fire and water didn't mix well and the last time Raven was there she looked like a drowned rat. Cherie probably didn't help much either seeing as he had shook himself dry on the counter. She gave a nervous smile.

"Uh, sorry about last time." she said. Grillby was silent for a while then nodded.

"It's alright." was all he said as he went back to cleaning glasses. Raven looked to Sans who was downing a bottle of ketchup. She rolled her eyes and smiled.

"So, is this the only place you hang out?" She asked.

"Nah, just my favorite place to." Sans said with a grin, "It's a real hot spot yaknow."

From the corner of her eye Raven saw Grillby slump and let out a sigh. She laughed, it seemed Cherie and Papyrus weren't the only ones who disliked the skeleton's puns. It was weird that she even liked them. She'd met several people like him, kid flash always had something to joke about, and he managed to get on her nerves every time. Sans, not so much.

"You are repeating yourself Raven dearest. One would think you were in love." Cherie mewed from the tops of her shoulders. Raven scowled. Sans was a friend nothing more, nothing less. That was all she wanted, romance wasn't necessary. Not after the abuse she suffered from Klarion, romance was dead anyway. Cherie Curie flicked his tail.

"Says the woman still debating whether or not she wants to—" Raven interrupted her familiar by placing a hand on his face. That usually shut him up, as it caught him off guard most the time. No reason to think about stupid wandering thoughts now. She was supposed to be having a good time with sans, not worrying.

"Actually I thought I'd introduce you to some friends of mine." Sans said with a grin.

"More monsters like you then?" Raven asked. Sans laughed.

"There's no monster like me." He said, "No bones about it."

"I guess that's true." Raven laughed as the door to Grilby's opened again and a human figure appeared inside. Sans looked over and motioned for them to come over. Raven looked and saw a person she'd only ever seen on TV. The human ambassador between the monsters and the humans. The human 'child' Frisk. Though child was a bit outdated, seeing how the kid was probably in their early twenties or at the very least, close to getting into them. They smiled at Sans and walked over.

"Sans!" they said sweetly then looked over to Raven who sat there awkwardly, not sure what to say. "Who's your friend Sans?"

"Raven this is Frisk," Sans said with a smile as he then gestured toward Raven, "Frisk, this is Raven, the human I told you about."

"Wow, didn't think I'd be meeting the monster ambassador." Raven said calmly, though on the inside she was practically giddy. It wasn't every day she met someone so important. Guess she was wrong about nothing surprising her anymore. "Nice to meet you."

"I've actually heard of you before." Frisk said as she shook Raven's hand. "You're that girl with the magical powers who fought the justice league (X) years ago. Aren't you?"

"Uh...y-yeah..." Raven mumbled as she slouched over the bar, "That's me..."

"How'd you know about that?" Sans asked, genuinely surprised. Frisk turned and shrugged.

"Being the ambassador, I have access to a lot of records regarding the different cities every Monster District is erected. Raven Blu was a name at the top of their list of super powered criminals." she admitted. Raven rested her hand on her chin as she propped herself up on the bar. She sighed, guess she should have known better than to hope that she'd be past all that. After all, why wouldn't Gotham City not have a file on her. "Oh! But I don't think you're dangerous."

"Hm?" Raven asked, shifting her eyes toward the androgynous ambassador. Frisk nodded.

"I said I don't think you're dangerous." She said, "If you were, I don't think Sans would have decided to be friends with you."

"Heh. Kid's gotta point." Sans said with a grin as he patted Raven on the back. Frisk nodded.

"Plus, Sans has told me a lot about you. You saved a bunch of people the other day." She said. Raven gave a nervous smile as she scratched the back of her head. "Only someone really heroic would do such a thing. Not a criminal."

"I don't know if you call having a bad day and scaring the piss out of some punk to be heroic." Raven said nervously. On the bar Cherie mewed.

'She reminds me of another skeleton we know, Raven my dear.' he said inside Raven's head. She paused to think. She did exude a familiar energy, like Papyrus. Course considering how much time the ambassador spent with the monsters, and that she seemed to be close friends with Sans, it made sense.

"I'm surprised you were able to get away from your work to come by, Frisk." Sans said changing the subject. Frisk let out a sigh of exhaustion as she sat down on the other side of Sans.

"Yeah, I've been super busy! Especially after coming to Gotham." She said, "I can't believe how many criminals are. Thanks to them we keep having to move the dates of things, it's such a pain."

"Heheheh. You seem bone tired." Sans joked, making both Frisk and Raven snort with laughter.

"Yeah, but one thing I do like about this gig? I got to meet the Justice league!" Frisk then said with joy in her eyes. Raven kept quiet, the Justice League wasn't exactly a topic she was fond of, seeing how every time she met them she always seemed to bump heads with one, if not all of the members. Frisk seemed to be over joyed to have gotten to meet them, and far be it for Raven to spoil it for the young ambassador. Instead she decided to order a drink.

"I've never seen these heroes." Sans admitted then grinned, "Raven tells me they're all over the place. I feel kinda let out."

"I especially enjoyed talking to Zatanna." Frisk said gleefully. Upon hearing Zatanna's name, Raven's grip on her drink tightened to the point of shattering the glass. Sans and Frisk looked to her with a look of surprise. "Oh my goodness. Raven are you alright?"

"Huh?" Raven mumbled coming back from whatever daydream she was in as she felt her collar burning with rage so hot she didn't even notice the glass in her hand. It wasn't until she heard Cherie that she noticed. She looked down at her hand and quickly hid it away from both Sans and Frisk as she tried to calm down. "I'm fine. No worries. No worries!"

She then stood, "I'll...be right back. I'm gonna go rinse off my hand." she then quickly made her way towards the restrooms. Cherie not far behind her as they left Sans and Frisk at the bar. Frisk slouched in her seat.

"Did I say something wrong?" She asked Sans who was just as confused as Frisk was. He shook his head.

"Nah, She's just had a long day is all." he explained vaguely as he stared after Raven. Frisk sighed.

"She seems nice though." She said, "A bit on edge, but really nice."

"Heh. She's cool. Not as cool as Paps though." Sans grinned. Frisk laughed.

"No one's as cool as Paps." She said then stood, "Well, I should be getting back anyhow. It was nice seeing you Sans. Next time we should all hang out."

"Sure thing kiddo. Don't work yourself too hard to the bone." he said, waving Frisk off.

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Meanwhile in the bathroom of Grilby's Raven was busy cleaning glass from her hand. Cherie sat on the sink next to her. He chastised her for losing her cool over the mere mention of Zatanna's name, and saying she was going to end up broke if she didn't stop breaking things.

"Shut up." She grumbled, trying hard not to let anyone over hear her. Cherie hissed.

'Since when do you get so angry about her anyhow?" he asked, "Last I recall you were over this. Why now has the name of that human woman gotten such a rise out of you?"

Raven looked at her reflection in the mirror for a while. She hated to admit it, but perhaps she was getting paranoid. After the recent collision with Klarion, she was getting paranoid over the idea that everyone was coming out of the wood works. After all, it had been a while since the incident at the G-mart and no one had shown up to arrest her, or at the very least reprimand her for being so careless and letting her anger fly. She had been tense with the feeling of dread after those two situations, and she supposed Frisk was just the breaking point.

"The young ambassador seems rather kind, do you not agree Raven dearest?" Cherie purred as he read Raven's mind. The young witch-girl agreed. Frisk did seem nice, and she hopped she didn't give her the wrong impression when she broke the glass like that. The last thing she needed was for the ambassador between monsters and humans to think that her friends were hanging out with a lunatic. Or worse, ruin the monsters chance to live peacefully with the humans by making it seem as though Frisk was friends with an ex-criminal. She sighed, she would have to set things straight and apologize.

"Well then Raven, my lovely, shall we be getting back?" Cherie asked as he cocked his head to the side.

"Yeah. Let's go..." Raven sighed as she exited the bathroom and made her way back to the bar where Sans and Frisk were waiting. Only once she got there she saw that the only one there was Sans, who waved at her from the bar. Oh crap, she thought to herself as she walked back to her seat.

"You ok?" Sans asked as he downed another bottle of ketch up. Raven quickly put her injured hand behind her back. Only a few shards of glass had managed to cut her so it wasn't too bad, but she was so embarrassed about it she didn't want anyone to see.

"I'm fine. What happened to Frisk? I hope I didn't scare her off." She said, from her shoulders Cherie purred. Sans shook his head.

"Nah, she had to go back to City Hall." he explained. Raven bit her lip, she'd have to apologize later. "I hear they're up to some real Frisky business there with all the Monster districts."

"Is that true? Or were you just waiting for a reason to use that pun?" Raven asked with a smile. Sans grinned and gave Raven a wink.

"Looks like you caught me red handed." He said, holding up his ketchup stained hand. Raven laughed only to stop when she felt the glare of Grilby who was cleaning up the glass from her mini freak out. She scratched the back of her head.

"I uh...I'll fix that." She said sitting back down on the bar stool. Both Grilby and Sans looked over at her with disbelief.

"Can you really do that?" Sans asked, still not fully aware of what human magic could do, especially since she had talked about magical restraints. Raven placed her injured hand over the glass shards.

"Yeah, stuff like this isn't hard to do." She said as her hand began to glow with a dull silver aura, "It'll be even easier since I have all the shards here too."

Sans watched as the glass pieces began to reshape and form back into what it once was. Almost as if time was working backwards, upon his closer inspection Sans even noticed that what small shards were still left in Raven's hand were also slowly removing themselves from her skin and added themselves to the small tumbler they once were. Once finished Raven opened her eyes and rested her chin in the palm of her hand.

"That make us even?" She asked as she scoot the renewed glass towards the flaming monster who inspected it carefully. He silently nodded and went to clean the newly formed cup. Raven let out a sigh, that was a relief. She really didn't want to get kicked out.

"Didn't know you could do that." Sans said, Raven looked over at him and nodded.

"Yeah, spells like that aren't used on the offense. So I can use them without Dr. Fate getting in the way." She explained, then gave Cherie a dirty look, "It really comes in handy when the local alley cats break my favorite mugs."

"I have not been an alley cat in some years! Raven my darling how can you accuse me of such things?" Cherie said as he arched his back and hissed at Raven, who grabbed him by the face and fluffed his fur.

"Don't forget who's buddies broke my favorite mug last week waking me up two hours before my appointment." She hissed back. Sans couldn't help but laugh at how comical the two acted, even if he himself couldn't hear Cherie's part of the conversation.

"I'd say you two are the cats meow." He said breaking up the fight between the two. Cherie stopped growling at Raven only turn and hiss at the comedian.

"That joke does not even make sense in this situation!" He howled, then jumped onto Raven's shoulder as she laughed.

"I have to agree with Cherie, that jokes doesn't make any sense." She said, translating what her cat had said. Sans shrugged.

"No, but it stopped you two from arguing." He said, then stood, "Come on, let's head out. There's other parts of the GMD I wanna show ya."

Raven nodded and followed Sans out of Grilby's and back onto the city streets. From there they walked down the road talking about random nonsense for a while to pass the time. Where they were going, Raven didn't know, but she was excited none the less about it. It got her mind off of the fight that was inevitably going to happen between her and Klarion, as well as the crap she was still waiting to get from someone from the Justice League. She still didn't know why none of them had shown up to reprimand her for the outburst she had. It made her nervous, would she be able to hang out with Sans for much longer? Or would she be sent to Belle Reve where there was no way for her to see the city streets again.

"Hey Raven ya know there's a snail racetrack around here?" Sans said taking Raven from her thoughts.

"Snail race? Well, not the weirdest thing I'd ever heard of." She said out loud, then mumbled mostly to herself, "Wonder how long it'll take the Gotham gangsters to turn that into something to gamble on..."

"You don't have a very high opinion of your city. Do ya?" Sans asked. Raven shook her head.

"Sorry, it's not that I don't think the City has its upsides, it's just that I'm way too aware of all the bad that goes on around here." She said smiling awkwardly. Sans cocked his head to the side but kept his grin.

"Oh yeah. Makes sense." He said, "Anyway I have a snail in these races, little guy wasn't too fast. Then I suddenly got a brilliant idea! I'd take his shell off to make him go faster, but it only made him sluggish."

"Sans do you just spend your off days coming up with these jokes?" Raven asked as she laughed. Sans shrugged.

"Nah, but it's nice to have someone who finally appreciates my puns." He said. Raven nodded.

"You're probably the only person who can make me laugh with puns. Most of the time they're pretty cringey." She admitted.

"I think ya just like me." Sans joked.

"Oh absolutely." Laughed Raven. Suddenly Sans stopped in front of a rather sterile looking building. Raven stopped too and looked up at it; it was a large, plain looking stark white with a few windows. It didn't have enough of them to be an apartment complex, and since it didn't have anything like a sign, Raven was left to ponder what it was.

"I've got a friend who's lives here." Sans said breaking Raven from her train of thought.

"This is a House?" She asked. Sans nodded.

"Well, mostly. It also works as her personal lab." He explained. Raven looked at the building. It was a strange place for anyone to live.

A sudden loud crash caught their attention. Reflexively, Raven held up her hands ready to cast a spell. Sans only laughed.

"Sounds like Undyne came to visit Alphys too." he said as he place his bony fingers on Raven's hands. "C'mon, it's better if we go on inside. They probably couldn't hear the door bell anyway."

I'm gonna stop the chapter here, it's been way too long since I had the chance to type anything. My new computer doesn't like word so I'm using my old one and it likes to go black for no reason. So yeah, I hope you all enjoyed it and are enjoying the story so far. I hope to come back and post as often as I can. See you in the next chapter.