You wake up to the door of your apartment slamming. You startle, but not able to jump much due to the heavy short skeleton lying on top of you. Sans snorted awake, tightening his arms around your stomach in a stretch and grumbling his face between your shoulder blades.
"What are you two still doing asleep? Its already noon!" Papyrus barged into the room, looking down at the two of you. Normally you would have quickly sat up or attempted to pretend not to be sleeping, but you just felt so relaxed… You lazily look up at Papyrus with one open eye.
"Hey bro," Sans mumbled, you felt him turning his head slightly to look at Papyrus as well. "Sup?"
"Sup? Sup? Only that the two of you are sleeping on the floor and some movie is still playing on the TV! Is this all you two did last night?" Papyrus didn't seem quite angry… maybe offended? "I could expect this kind of laziness from my brother, but not from you, Human!"
You laughed, bouncing Sans slightly. "Sorry Paps, but we all need a lazy day." Sans nodded, and Papyrus stomped his foot.
"Fine, if that is true, then today you shall be extra active!" He declared. He paused, waiting for the two of you to react. He waited longer. "Well?"
"Do we haaaaave tooooooo?" You asked and dragged out your words. You were still so, so comfortable on the floor under Sans… Just five more minutes…
"Yes! If you lay here any longer plants will start growing around you!" He exclaimed. You laugh and move your arms up, doing a half attempted push up and struggling under Sans, biting your cheek when you felt a dull pain.
"Fine, fine, we'll get up." You grumble and tilt your body, Sans rolling off and landing on the floor with an 'oomph'. Papyrus seemed happy and headed to the kitchen. "Oh! Sans, Toriel called! She said she wanted to talk to you."
"Tori?" Sans's head immediately picked up, shocking you. "Thanks bro, I'll call her."
"Who's Toriel?" You ask, sitting on the floor comfortably and looking at Sans. He wore a goofy grin and looked to the side.
"Just a friend from the underground." The way he was smiling made you doubt that, but you nodded anyway. "Hey, you should meet her! You'd love Tori." He smiled at the idea, and you don't think you've seen him so excited about anything before. "You don't have any plans do you?"
You laughed at his joke. "HA. Plans, without you? Yeah right." His smile got bigger.
"I'll be right back." He quickly got up and grabbed his phone from his jacket and headed to the spare room. You sat and watched him leave, not really knowing what he had planned. The door closed, and you heard his muffled voice a few moments later.
Figuring you have a few minutes of free time, you headed to your room and popped off the cage lid for Samus. "Hey hun, how are you doing?" You pull her out and sit on the bed, letting her coil around your arm. She looked at you with her flicking tongue, and you swore she looked disappointed that it was you. "You just want your new play mate don't you?" She flicked her tongue. You took it as 'Yes' in snake speak. You laughed and let her hang off your arm, dangling slightly before flopping onto the bed.
She slithered around the blanket, poking your legs with her face and slowly climbing over them just to get to the other side instead of simply going around you. You watched her travel around a little, occasionally picking her up and moving her away from the edge of the bed. Time must have passed a lot faster than you thought; you heard a knock at your open door and look up to see a grinning Sans. You smile and wave him in. He takes the offer and sits on your bed, carefully keeping his eyelights on Samus.
"So, we have a date?" You ask him, before realizing your choice of words. You saw his cheeks turn slightly blue out of shock. "I-I mean, hangout session, with Toriel?"
Sans's shock quickly vanished with a sheepish smile. "One better, picnic night out of town tonight. A few of my friends from underground plan on being there to catch up on these months of being above ground, Tori wanted to let me know and invite me. You cool with coming?" He looked hopeful, as if you even had a chance of telling him no.
"Of course. It'll be fun." You smile at him and his grin gets bigger. "Anyway, I feel like I need a shower." You stand and pick up Samus. Sans watched you as you turned to the cage before speaking.
"Wait… I- uh, can I hold it again?" He asked, catching you off guard.
"You want to? After what she did last time?"
"Yeah, I'll be careful this time." He nodded, looking anxious but almost excited. You smile and put Samus on the bed.
"Okay… Pick her up. Show me you are fine with grabbing her." You take a step back and watch. Sans looked at you, at the snake, back at you. You motion to Samus and wait. He swallowed and carefully reached out, grabbing her around her lower stomach area. Samus kept her head pointed at Sans as he lifted her and put his other hand under her. She was calm as he lowered her, simply coiling into herself as he put her down in his boney hands. He watched her as he rested his free hand, waiting for her to do something. After a moment of being still and simply looking at Sans, she darted for under his sleeve.
You inhale and rush forward to help, but Sans holds out a hand to stop you. He calmly (while looking like he was already sweating) took off his jacket, slipping his arm infested with the snake out last. You saw Samus tied between his radius and ulna, looping her long body around both bones a few times in a figure-eight fashion. She stuck out her tongue, looking satisfied with her new climbing toy.
"S-see? I got it… I'm good. " Sans shakily smiled at you, though he did seem like he was having… fun? He looked amused, to say the least.
"Okay, do you trust Samus enough to let me shower real quick?" You ask, keeping a careful eye on both of them. You trusted Sans, obviously, but it was Samus you were worried about leaving alone with him.
"Yeah, I got this." He nodded, seeming more confident. You raise an eyebrow to make sure, and started grabbing clean clothes.
"Right, then I'll be right back." You paused a moment, waiting for Sans to back out, and turned to leave the room.
"W-wait! What should I do… If I end up not trusting the beast?" He asked, looking concerned for a moment. You laugh a bit, rubbing the back of your neck.
"Just block her path, make her climb something else. If she is discouraged to climb something, she'll just go around it." You explain, hoping it'd be all he needed. "If worse comes to worse, you can just gently unwrap her. She wont put up too much of a fight."
Sans nodded, turning his attention back to Samus. He looked like he was concentrating incredibly hard on taking care of the snake, and you almost laughed. You quietly left the room and head to the bathroom, hoping that you didn't return to a disaster.
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The shower felt good, though the heat hardly helped you relax like it usually did. You don't think you ever felt your back muscles so relaxed before a shower. Just how long did Sans massage you last night? You changed clothes in the bathroom and looked in the mirror, happy to see that the bruises on your face were gone, and you just had a couple of cuts left that were healing nicely.
You wish you could say the same with your arms. You looked down to see the ugly cuts trail down the inside, the black stitches dashing and crossing over each other to hold your skin together. You were lucky the cut stopped a couple inches short of your wrist, making it easy enough to hide with long sleeves. You tug a sweatshirt over your arms, hissing a little when the sleeves brushed against the stitching. You sucked in a breath and slipped your hands through the holes, feeling better once it was over with.
There, Sans never has to see it now. He said he remembered almost everything, and even remembered your puns, but he never looked at or mentioned your arms. Hopefully he doesn't remember, and he wont need to, you think aggressively. He felt bad enough as it was, him seeing you having these scars would ruin him.
You yank the sleeves lower to cover part of your hand, and head out of the bathroom. About to knock on your cracked bedroom door, you paused when you heard Sans talking to someone.
"…and I mean, what do humans even like? You are just as much as a monster as I am, but you lived with humans for pretty much all your life. I could really use some advice." He must be talking to Toriel again, you think. "Yeah, yeah, okay missy, look here. If I weren't desperate, I wouldn't be asking you. What do I do? I can't just keep having them drag me to all these places, its just plain rude!" You breath gets caught in your throat as it tightens, heat draining from your face. He… Didn't enjoy the d- hangout sessions? You swallow and try to take a breath, forcing back the prickling feeling in your eyes.
Obviously he didn't enjoy them, you tried to reason. He was a monster, and monsters like doing other things rather than just… being lazy with humans. You rubbed under your nose and turned to walk away, not feeling like you would be able to look at Sans at the moment.
"They've been taking me to all these amazing places that mean something to them, and I'm not even sure if I have any places that are half as special to bring them. I can't let them be the only one putting in the effort of… this." You pause, startled at the change of wording. "Everything I've ever known was underground, and I doubt they'd like it under there too much. The most beautiful place I've seen other than our dates was the sunrise when we first got out… But…" He paused. "The picnic! Oh! Little beast, you are brilliant!" You heard him laugh.
"Little beast?" You whisper under your breath and peak through the crack of your door, seeing Sans laying on the bed and holding Samus above his head while she looked down at him. They were having a conversation, you realize with a smile. You head back to the bathroom and splash your face, making sure you weren't red from the scare.
You look in the mirror, seeing a stupid smile stuck on your face. "S-shut up!" You whisper to yourself, smile only getting bigger. Your cheeks were red, but for a different reason than before. You press your hands to your face and take a breath, trying to push back that stupid giddiness. It was impossible, you knew. Sans… actually did like you. O-or he wanted to keep this friendship as awesome as it has been and- Wait he called your hangout sessions "dates." You felt another rush coming and you quickly splashed your face again.
You heard a knock at the door. "Hey… You done? I'd like to put Samus down now, but the beast is kinda… stuck." You heard Sans through the door, and you cant help but laugh. You open the door and see Samus looking cheery while being wrapped around Sans's hand and shoulder at the same time, making his arm look like it was a rather uncomfortable position. You smile and nod, walking him back to your bedroom.
After some quiet untangling of the snake, you released Samus back into her cage and closed the lid. You looked at Sans and crossed your arms, mock-defensive for your snake. "What's that look for?" Sans asked, seeming worried that he did something wrong.
"Her name is Samus. She is not an 'it', nor is she called a 'beast.'" You correct him, making sure he understood the proper terms to call your baby. He looked relieved and laughed, rubbing his shoulder.
"Heh, fine. 'Samus' is a very pretty 'snake-lady-thing.'" He made quotation marks in the air for his corrections and you rolled your eyes at him. "Anyway, grab what you want for the picnic, the other monsters will have food to share, but I'm not sure if you will like most of it."
You nod, excited to go to the picnic now. You turn to leave your bedroom, pausing when an idea hit. "Uhh… How are we getting there? I don't have a car, and you said it was out of town." Sans nodded and waved a hand.
"Alphys's robot can drive, I heard he got a new car to show off to Papyrus." He smiled like it was an inside joke, but you didn't get it. You nodded anyway and headed to the kitchen.
Papyrus was furiously making spaghetti, there was at least six food storage containers were stacked and filled with the stuff. "Looks like I wont need to worry about edible food…" You mumble, looking at the mess that was taking place in your kitchen. Sans smiled in the 'I'm not so sure' way, shrugging. You laughed.
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About a half hour later, you heard honking from outside your apartment. You look out of your (still broken) window, and see a bright pink sports car parked and half full with monsters. Alphys and Undyne were in the back seat, currently making out. A familiar robot stepped out of the drivers seat and put his sunglasses on top of his head, brushing his hair out of his face as he examined your apartment.
Papyrus rushed out of the door to greet the robot, you and Sans quickly followed. "Papy, darling! How are you doing my gentle-beauty? It's been far too long!" The flamboyant robot quickly wrapped his arms around Papyrus in a hug.
"I have been great! I've been living with this human for a while now, every day is very exciting!" Papyrus said, breaking the hug and pushing you towards the robot. He looked down at you with a raised eyebrow.
"So you are the little human taking care of my Papy? I've heard so much about you!" His metallic arms coiled around you tightly in a hug, lifting you from the ground and swinging you around before lowering you.
"Wait, you are the robot from the TV show." You suddenly remember where you've seen the robot from before. He smiles and puts his hands to his face, as if he just saw something cute.
"I didn't know you were a fan of the famous Mettaton as well as an absolute cutie!" He pinches your cheek, and you had half the mind to correct him about your status as a 'fan.' He lets go of your face and smiles greatly at you. "Well, any friend of Papy's is a friend of mine!" He started to turn back to his car, noticing Sans. "Sans." He said plainly.
"Mettaton." Sans replied just as flatly. You could tell they just had a great friendship. Mettaton motioned to the car and the three of you climbed in. Unfortunately this kind of car only had five seats, so you and Sans had to squeeze in back with Alphys and Undyne, sharing a seatbelt and awkwardly trying to give the kissing couple their space.
"All buckled in?" Mettaton looked back and flicked down his shakes, making sure that all of you were safe. "Good. We have a party to go to!" He pushed metal to the petal… to the metal…. And floored his car down the road. You instantly regretted not taking a bus instead.
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After about a half hour of driving through town and listening to funky jazz type music, you noticed a mountain in the distance. "Is that… Mount Ebott?" You ask, leaning past Sans to get a closer look. It had to be, there were no other mountains nearby, but you were still shocked to see it.
"Yep. The picnic spot is where we finally left the underground. Seemed the most fitting place to get all back together." Sans said. Surprisingly, you weren't headed towards the mountain. Soon the towering buildings and the mountain looked the same size, and Mettaton turned off of the main road and towards a large hill. You looked ahead and saw a few cars parked together in a nice little grassy opening in the trees, and Mettaton parked with them. You saw a few monsters of all kinds grabbing stuff out of their cars, and you quickly noticed you were the only human here so far. You were starting to feel unsure about this.
"Come on beauties and gentle-beauties! Let's play catch up!" Mettaton said and exited the car dramatically. The others quickly got out, but you and Sans struggled with the seatbelt for a bit before finally becoming free. You step out and look up to see a massive… goat-monster? He had golden hair and beard, large horns curling above his small crown, and a large white turtleneck sweater on.
"Howdy friends! So glad you were able to make it!"