Blue, Orange, and Green

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Chapter 14: Silver

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"So, what's this lady's name?" Venus asked as she and Sans strolled to his station in Snowdin.

"i dunno." He shrugged.

"How could you not know? Have you been doing nothing but knock-knock jokes with her?"

"no… some of them are regular jokes." He winked up at her. She scowled at him. "hey, after a few exchanges i introduced myself, but all i got in response was 'oh, i'm just an old lady.'"

"Well then, she's obviously hiding herself from something. I know, I'm an expert on the subject." She put her fingers to her chin. "She lives behind a sealed door, in the ruins where no one lives anymore, or so everyone thinks."

"you're readin' a lot into this." Sans said. "she could have just been left behind all those years ago, either that or decided to stay."

"But she didn't tell you her freakin' name." She argues. "She didn't even have a fake name ready or anything. Don't you think that's the most suspicious thing a person can do right off the bat?"

"how should i know? i'm not a baseball player." He shrugged again. Venus face-palmed. They arrived at his station. "i forgot to mention, but she's not always here. last week she was here around this time, but she's usually here in the evenings."

"Well, I got all day." She crossed her arms.

"are you sure about that?" Sans asked, looking at her. She pretended to cross her arms in determination, but she actually did it because she was already cold. A huge, cartoonish booger dripped out of her nostril. He cracked up laughing.

"Shut up, you bag o' dicks!" She stomped her foot, sniffing up the booger. "I can't help it if I'm half-reptile."

"aw babe, you're still drippin' with beau-gy." He snickered, and she made a pouty-face.

"Let's just get to the door." She said with a nasally voice.

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They didn't have to wait long. They heard a knock-knock on the other side of the door as they leaned against it. "Knock-knock." Said the person on the other side. Yes, definitively an older woman, but not that old.

"who's there?" Sans asked.

"Avenue."

"avenue who?"

"Avenue knocked on this door before?" The woman said before giggling. They both laughed, but Venus pretended not to hear that one before. "Oh, I hear two laughs today! My audience is growing."

"hey, lady, i brought my girlfriend today."

"Hi, I'm Venus." She waved awkwardly at the door.

"You are Venus? Sans has told me a lot about you." The lady said, still not saying her name.

"He… He has?" She looked at her boyfriend, who was blushing and smiling. "That's good to hear, well, depending on what he said." She smiled, too.

"He told me that you perform for a living, and that you're very talented, lovely, funny and smart."

"aw, lady…" Sans put his hood up, hiding his face. Venus blushed bright red.

"He said that, huh?" She said. "I think he's funny and smart too, and totally adorable." She looked at him, and could see the cyan blush under that hood. She and the lady giggled like school friends. "Are you the only person living over there?" Venus decided to get to the point.

"Well… not necessarily." The woman explained. "There are Froggits and Whimsuns, little spiders, and a ghost comes by every so often and lies in the leaves, and… others." She kind of trailed off at the end.

"You're not trapped there, are you? Maybe we could try…"

"No, no… I chose to live here. It's simply my home. I like to say I'm the Caretaker of the Ruins." She really did sound lonely, but also insistent. Venus observed the door, which was quite large and purple with the Delta Rune engraved on it, and when it was touched it emitted rainbow-colored light, indicating a very powerful sealing magic was in place, here. The only person who could undo it is the person who created it. She doesn't recall King Asgore ever saying that the Ruins were off-limits or to put a barrier here; if he did, he would have ordered his Guard to check on this every once in a while. This place has been sealed for so long, yet nobody really cares because nobody wants to live in the Ruins on account of it being small. And yet… humans always come through this door. Can they just go through it because their souls are so strong, or does the person who created the seal undo it for them? "Are you still there, child?"

"Uh, yeah… sorry. I was just thinkin' of a good joke." Venus cleared her throat. "What does an alcoholic ghost drink?"

"What?"

"BOOs." She said, and Sans and the lady laughed.

"You're just as funny as Sans." The woman said. "The two of you make a cute couple."

"Yeah, I agree." Venus smiled at her boyfriend, and he smiled back.

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"Well, I have to admit, she's a nice lady." Venus told Sans on their way to lunch.

"told you so."

"But I am still suspicious of her."

"seriously?" He rolled his 'eyes'.

"Did you hear how she cut me off when I offered to unseal the door?" She threw her arms out to the sides. "She's probably the one who did it! But why? Why doesn't she want anyone in or out?"

"take it easy, girlock holmes." He patted her on the back. "you don't need to worry your pretty little head over it."

"No, but you should be worrying your pretty little head over it, Sherlock 'Bones'." She pulled him close making it hard to walk.

"you think i'm pretty~?" Sans fluttered his eyelids.

"No, you're 'sansome'." She winked. He laughed, blushing again. "And I was very wrong about you and her. I'm sorry I ever doubted you."

"it's fine, you can stop apologizing."

"At the very least…" She turned him so they were facing each other. "You should have a turn to punish me."

"punish you?" Sans smirked, realizing what she was talking about. They'd done some light BDSM before (not counting last night), but the skeleton had wanted to try this thing he always had up his sleeve… "a'ight, if that's what you want. just give me a night or two to rest up… to accumulate magic."

"Ooo, okay." Venus nodded. "You better punish me real good."

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A/N: The rest of this chapter is R18. Please check it out at AO3 DOT ORG under the username fieryhotaru.

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A/N: Yeah, okay that took a long time, sorry. Ya gotta be in the mood for this shit, you know? Also, only a few people have been paying me in comments like I asked, especially Ben10fan4 who's the freaking best, so it's kinda hard to find inspiration when no one's responding to your work. One more chapter, and that will be the end; I will not be posting that chapter on FF. To those who read there, I bid ye farewell, and/or please read it on AO3. Bye!

Taru-chan

UPDATE: I have a new Sans/Venus story on ao3 called Rainbow. I can't post the link, but just go to AO3 DOT ORG and search for my username there, which is fieryhotaru. Thanks again!