In case you missed it, there was an update on the Lost Chapters last night. While you don't have to read it, I do recommend reading that one. It is the side B of the last Chapter. I recommend reading that first. Then coming back here. It is called Ch 27: Side B. This chapter, while it does make sense without it, it clears up a few details of what happened.


Someone had disabled the cameras and sensors that pointed at the doors exiting the Ruins. In fact, they had been doing it routinely for weeks now and no one had noticed so they had turned off the alert to inform you that they were going down from your computer.

Sans had been visiting Toriel behind your back. You were not sure if you should be impressed with how through his covering his bases had been or if you should be disappointed in him for disobeying the one major rule you set out for him.

Still you were worried about what that meant about how he was mixed up in all of this mess. You rubbed your face over the crack in the skull below your left eye socket and flinched slightly at a small twinge of discomfort. Then you paused.

You had been doing that a lot recently. Touching your scars with the corresponding hands as you thought on your sons too hard with worry. Grillby and your scientists had pointed it out to you more than once.

...You did it with Sans more. That was not a good thing.

You really needed to speak with what was shaping up to be your problem child. Maybe a peace offering of a joke book would help open him up a little.


Sans was curled up under a blanket in a pillowfort that Papyrus was making around him to cheer him up when you got home. You set the new joke book on the table and set to helping reinforce the structure so it wouldn't collapse on the teens. Not that you really needed to. You had taught Papyrus well in the art.

"So you two heard about what happened?"

"SANS WAS IN WATERFALL WHEN IT HAPPENED. HE JUST GOT AWAY FROM THE HUMAN WHEN KING ASGORE SHOWED UP, RIGHT SANS?"

There was a muffled "yeah" from under the blanket lump that was Sans.

You curse before you can catch yourself. "Fuck. That was too close."

"PAPA! SWEAR JAR!" You look at Papyrus in confusion when it registers what you just said.

"Oh! Whoops! Sorry, Papyrus." You and Grillby had started the swear jar once you brought the boys home in an attempt to stop swearing completely. It hadn't worked. All it had done was make Papyrus the swear police, which, while funny most the time, was starting to get old now that he was getting old enough that he could swear.

"1G IN THE JAR."

"In the Jar." You toss a G into the Jar with your magic. "Now that I have done that, would it be possible for me and Sans to talk alone for a minute? I am sure your dad wouldn't mind if you hung out up at the Bar for a bit."

Papyrus seemed like he was suspicious of this but he left with a cheery "OKAY." Both your boys could be pretty sharp when they wanted to be.

You setted in next to the Sans lump. "So, you have been visiting the Ruins for a while now…" Best not beat around the bush.

Sans shot up. "you know?"

You roll your eye lights at him. "I was going to have to check the camera eventually. You do realize that only a small handful of monsters can go into my office and would even want to turn those cameras. And by that I mean, maybe both you and Papyrus and we know your brother would have come clean by now if he had done it."

"heh. yeah, i guess that is true… are you mad at me?"

"I am still not sure yet so I guess not. Mostly I was worried about you since you clearly must have teleported the human to Waterfall, which we will get back to-" Sans shrunk into himself a bit at that. "Your HOPE is so much lower than your brother's and mine normally. And now…" Now that he was uncovered you could CHECK him. As you thought his HP had dropped a lot. He was not even breaking 10 which, while terrible even for say a Froggit was scary low for a boss monster. He was only a tenth of what he was this morning when you left. Not good.

Sans looked equally surprised at his own low stats. "oh. no wonder i feel like shit."

You snort. "It is a good thing I sent your brother out or you would have to pay the Jar."

"so i guess i should work on my dodging until i start feeling better?"

"Sans. I have gone through some pretty large drops myself but this is…" You shook your head. "I am still not back to my original level. In fact, I just barely managed to get back to where I was at before you two were born."

"so what you're saying is, the reason you wanted me to avoid the Ruins was so I didn't dust myself, not because you didn't think I could get away from any human who came through."

You sigh. "More or less."

"i am not going to stop going down there. i like talking to Toriel."

You smile at that. "And I am sure she likes talking to you. I know how great of a kid you are."

"i am hardly a kid."

"I'll stop calling you that when you stop wearing those shirts." That got a small laugh from him. The two of you devolved into tossing verbal jabs at one another in the comfort of the fort. When Grillby and Papyrus entered a short while later, with a plate of comfort food, you were happy to find Sans, HP had hit 10 again.


Notes:

So Sans is spiraling and blanket forts only help so much. I am going to post another Side B to this chapter today hopefully if all goes well. If not, well it will be up tomorrow. Let me know what you guys think of seeing things from Sans's and Papyrus's POV.