Dani stood in the living room between her roommates shaking like a leaf. Her hands were gripping them tightly, the skelebrothers giving each other looks of concern. Sans hadn't found anything strange in the house aside from the broken phone; no broken locks or windows for someone to get inside, and nothing missing that he could tell. If someone had gotten in they must have had a key. Sans suggested they take her up to her room, the human reluctant to release the brothers even as they took to the stairs. Walking behind her, Sans' brow bones pulled together in frustration. Dani wasn't the kind of person to get this freaked out, especially not for so long. The horror movies she watched would get her going but they never made her shake like this. She didn't even seem to realize it, the look on her face was a consistent mask of terror and anxiety. Every little noise got her head to turning, jolting from the steps creaking under foot.
Papyrus got her settled in bed as Sans stood near the door trying to figure out what had happened. Seeing her like this made him sick. Dani wouldn't hurt a fly, she didn't have enemies as far as he knew… Why would someone do this to her? Papyrus gave the girl's head a few pats before sitting next to her on the edge of the bed. She moved to curl around him yanking the blankets up over her head. The brothers shared another long, concerned look; they weren't sure exactly what to do. Both were content to stay with her through the night if thats what she wanted, but Sans felt a distinct sort of itch to find whoever did this and beat the crap out of them. Or at the very least scare them as bad as they scared Dani. Too bad none of them knew who had done it.
"S-Sans…" Dani called, muffled as she remained buried in her comforter.
The skeleton sighed, a small smile playing his boney features. He sat down at the foot of the bed wishing he could do something more to comfort her. If Papyrus wasn't here he would have been in those blankets with her straight away. Not sure how she'd react to public displays of affection, Sans had decided to contain himself for the time being. "i'm right here kiddo," He said, hand closing on her ankle, giving it a squeeze. Finally the girl came out from her blanket cave, giving him an almost offended look; silently asking why he wasn't cuddling her already. Giving a short laugh, Sans moved to sit on her other side, wiggling under her blankets. Sans paused as he lifted the comforter away from the girl's legs, about to slid in beside her. Her leggings were pastel vomit, so why were there black blotches on them? His hand came out to touch the spots, finding them to be tacky against his fingertips.
"hey, what's this from?" He asked her, drawing Papyrus' attention in the process. The brother's held the blanket away from her as the girls hands cautiously moved to touch at the spots.
Sans watched as the girl found the sticky splatters he had mentioned, honestly shocked when her face paled. Just a few seconds ago she had started to calm down but now the horror was back in full force. The girl instantly grabbed the fabric yanking it down towards her ankles. Papyrus dropped his part of the blanket and stood, his face glowing orange as the human started stripping out of her leggings.
"How? How did those get there?" Dani finally managed to get the stretchy material off before throwing it as hard as she could towards the door. She pushed herself into Sans' arms her slender shoulders shaking all over again. The skeleton moved to wrap around her giving Papyrus another confused expression. After the skelebrothers had gotten home and calmed her down the whole thing seemed absurd. Obviously it was some kind of prank call, or a nightmare, or her mind playing tricks on her. There was no way that some creepy dream voice was suddenly in the real world, and then the creepy dream guy was in her house out of thin air. Shit like that didn't happen, or at least, wasn't supposed to happen.
Sans smoothed his hand over her hair the other one moving to pull the blankets back around her. "hey, papyrus is going to take them out of here; right pap." The stout skeleton nodded to his brother who had gather the garment, examining the black splotches.
"INDEED HUMAN, I WILL REMOVE THE OFFENSIVE ITEM RIGHT AWAY." Papyrus shut the door behind him as he left, no doubt grateful to escape for a few moments.
Sans waited for a few seconds before moving to look at her face. She had started crying at some point, brows knitted together, lips quivering. Even her eyes which were usually so vacant shone with her fear and confusion. "what happened?" He had to know; those black marks were worrisome, there were a lot of things that just weren't fitting together.
Dani took a deep breath, maybe talking through it would help her make sense of what happened. Or maybe Sans knew what was going on. "I g-got a phone call, the voice said it was from you, so I answered it. Then it was quiet for a while but this noise started to get louder and louder until…" She paused to take a breath. "Just like in that dream, really noisey and then all of a sudden it was gone and then that same voice said 'mine' and called me 'eureka'." She felt sick, almost able to hear that strange distorted voice playing in her head. Dani could feel Sans tense in her grasp. "Then a few drops of cold hit my legs, like the ooze from the dream and I could feel it right in front of me-" Her voice creaked painfully as the climax of her terror played through her mind. "A-And I threw my phone at it and ran…"
Sans felt her body give a few more shakes before the tension finally broke giving way to a sobbing human in his arms. If she wasn't so terrified she may have been able to notice the sensation of his magic as his left eye blazed with utter rage. He was shaking too, but the human wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between her sobs and his anger. Sans' teeth were on edge, the smile plastered on his skull twitching as he tried to keep himself from losing control. He would never have thought that something like this would happen again so fast after the dream she had. What the hell could he even be up to? What did a blind human have to do with any of this?
"i'm not going to let him hurt you." Sans murmured, hardly able to speak in his anger. Unfortunately he wasn't sure what he could even do to stop something like him. After the accident he was everywhere and nowhere all at once.
Papyrus came back into the room with a cautious step, finding his other two roommates bundled up together under the blankets. Sans smiled as best as he could to his brother, the human in his arms sobbing without restraint. The taller brother sat on the ground beside the bed, his arms folding under his chin as the three of them lingered in silence. It didn't take long for Dani to cry herself into exhaustion, only a few minutes more of her tears and she was sleeping restlessly against San's chest. "IS SHE GOING TO BE OKAY?" Papyrus asked, his voice barely above a whisper.
Sans smiled, honestly not sure of the answer. If he was after the human there was no telling what could happen. "of course pap, she just needs some sleep." The stout skeleton responded, his eye sockets coming to half mast as relief hit him, glad that she was finally asleep.
"WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING FUN TOMORROW SO THE HUMAN CAN BE HAPPY." Papyrus suggested, his eyes closing as he leaned up against the bed.
"sure thing pap." Sans answered, his voice evident of his own exhaustion. For a skeleton who had been napping nearly the entire day he felt like he could pass out for a week and still wake up tired.
"MAYBE WE COULD GO SKIING? HUMANS SEEM TO HAVE A LOT OF WINTER SPORTS…" Sans just grunted in response his chin resting into the human's blonde hair. "OR PERHAPS THAT SPRING UP IN THE MOUNTAINS. I COULD ASK TO BORROW UNDYNE'S CAR FOR A FEW DAYS. DO YOU HAVE YOUR LICENSE? MAYBE UNDYNE COULD DRIVE US; MAYBE SHE WOULD WANT TO COME ALONG! WOULD THAT BE RUDE, TO INVITE SOMEONE ELSE IF WE ARE GOING THERE TO CALM DOWN OUR HUMAN?" Papyrus most likely kept on talking even as his brother fell asleep tangled up with the human.
Morning came and went with Sans and Dani still asleep the way they had been. Papyrus on the other hand had gotten up at the crack of dawn as he usually did and went about calling Undyne to ask a handful of favors. What had started as him asking for her to house sit while they borrowed her car and went on a mini vacation turned into Undyne inviting herself and Alphys along for the ride claiming that the she would easily be able to convince Toriel to watch the house instead. Next he called the hot springs resort and made reservations, happy to find that he could upgrade their stay to a private spring shared between four different hotel rooms. Money apparently wasn't an option when their human needed to get away for a while. From there he went to the grocery store and bought snacks and beverages for the trip.
It was already noon and check in was at three and Undyne would show up any minute now; Papyrus had let the two sleep as long as he could but if they didn't get up soon they'd be late. They would both be so excited to go on vacation surely they wouldn't be too mad at him for waking them up. Papyrus knocked on the girl's bedroom door, opening it cautiously as he remembered how she had thrown her pants the night before. "YOU TWO NEED TO GET UP NOW! I HAVE A SURPRISE!"
Sans froze where he was positioned above the human, her arms pulling at him a moment ago in passionate need, now out of shock. Thankfully they hadn't gotten much further than the initial kisses and touches but that didn't stop them both from going completely still with horror. The human's face was a brighter red than Sans had ever seen, her legs struggling to pull closed even though he was squarely between them. Thank god they were still under the comforter. "s-sure pap, we'll be up in a second." Sans said, his skull slick with sweat.
"OKAY, JUST BE SURE TO HELP THE HUMAN PACK! WE ARE GOING TO BE LEAVING FOR A FEW DAYS." Papyrus' voice was filled with absolute excitement, wishing he could have seen their faces as he gave a hint as to his plans. If it were just Sans in bed he would have gone over and torn those blankets away by now in order to assure that the skeleton would wake up. But with a half naked Dani under there as well he didn't dare chance it. "AND BRING SWIMWEAR!" With that he skipped out of the room, shutting the door behind him.