If no one could tell I have a hard time portraying Papyrus for some reason, and puns please feel free to send me horror puns. It would help a lot.
Papyrus couldn't believe it. How had the human gotten around him and to the door first? He was both very impressed and very Surprised Sans had truly found a talented human. Her manners were terrible as she slammed the door on the older woman in nothing but a towel her face scrunched up in the same way Papyrus had seen other humans when they landed face first in a rotting corpse. He scratched his head, surely the older human woman didn't smell that bad.
Loud noises were being made outside the slammed door and Annette sneered at the door holding it closed with her back pushed against it like it was going to break down on top of her if she stopped pushing against it.
Papyrus crept around the corner trying to adjust himself on the balcony to get to the stairs. He was going to help the human to show her how she was supposed to greet guests at the door but Sans rounded the corner before he got to the bottom.
Sans stopped halfway to her before the light in his socket shrunk to a pinpoint his foot frozen midair as he stared at her. Annette stood frozen unsure if she wanted to run or keep holding the door closed.
Sans watched as some water trickled down her skin just into her cleavage from the towel. His eye light blew largely and his phalanges twitched as he became aware of his surroundings.
"heh, Being nude huh, I can Bare it." Papyrus felt a groan on the inside.
"Shove off you sick pervert." Annette's voice cut right into the empty room and echoed a little down the hall by papyrus.
"can't. I watern't be able to bone it otherwise." Annettes entire body lit up bright red.
Papyrus glowered at Sans from balcony unaware of Papyrus's presence there.
"SANS, THAT IS NOT HOW YOU TREAT A POTENTIAL MATE!" Sans flinched and swirled his red eye light locking onto Papyrus. He relaxed his shoulders seeing it was only Papyrus on the stairs trying to make it down the narrow steps with his much larger than human size feet. Papyrus would probably be sticking to the lower ground once he managed to get to the bottom of the staircase.
"heh, sorry pap." Sans stared past Annette to the figure hammer on the door threw the stained glass of the door.
"so who's at the door sweetheart?" Papyrus had almost forgotten the human was even trying to keep someone out.
"IT'S NOT NICE TO KEEP GUESTS OUTSIDE THE HOUSE."
"They're not a guest. There a Pest and they don't need in now, or ever!" The words of OPEN were clearly being screamed from the older woman outside the house the skeleton brothers not entirely sure how to go about this particular intruder. Had Papyrus not been there Sans more than likely would have simply taken the human somewhere and would never be heard from again. Papyrus was fully aware he was the only thing standing between the prune woman living and not living.
That and a scantily clad woman standing in front of the door that his brother just so happen to want to bone. NYEH!
"Whats-Sis where are your clothes?" Victor had just come from the area Sans had eyeing his sister lifting an eyebrow high at the white towel wrapped around her.
"Aunt Crooks...may have run off with them threw the widow." Victor stood blinking slowly at her not sure how to process his sister standing in almost in the buff in front of him.
"...Aunt Crooks, so you believe me now?" Another slam on the door and yelling didn't allow Annette to answer.
He blinked rapidly for a moment and gave Annettes an inquisitive look before a smirk pulled at the corner of his mouth.
"Is that Misses Plum?"
"In all her Purple glory." She practically spits out making Victor chuckle. He walks over to the door and nudges her to move away from it.
"I'll talk to her. You should find clothes..." He emphasized his point by pointing to a blushing Papyrus whos eye lights were trying to look anywhere but at her and Sans who wouldn't stop staring at her.
A notable Tongue came from Sans mouth tracing over his teeth as his eyes roved over her scared legs eventually his eye light settling on the towel itself. Papyrus stood next to him and nudged him out of his focused imagination.
Annette shook her head to Victor from the side and pulled out the metal pipe she had from earlier. He sighed and rubbed his head.
"No smashing in anybody's skull..." She looked at him as if he said something offensive eyeing Sans already busted Skull.
"...more. No smashing it any more than what it is. Just go put on something." He sighed but she got off the door keeping a grip on the pipe as she passed Sans from as far as she could sending him death glares. He turned to follow her but Victor stopped him.
"Wait, Sans, I could use your help here if you don't mind." Sans stopped trailing Annette eyeing Victor from his spot on the floor. Hesitantly he turned and nodded his head remembering where he was and how he should behave at least in front of his brother...and his future brother-in-law.
"Just uh... stand by Paps and don't move." He winked before turning and opening the door to see the woman dressed in purple from head to toe with the strangest taste in hats yelling.
"HOW DARE YOU LITTLE SH-Oh, Victor how...nice to see you again." The woman had stopped yelling eyeing Victor up and down.
"Hello, Miss. Plum how have you been?" She turns her nose up as if she smelled something bad and twitched it.
"I've been around making sure people have been keeping to code on architectural art. You sister, of course, avoids meeting all the requirement for keeping the house in the pristine state it was meant to in order to stay in the historical society good graces."
"You know my sister isn't required to keep the house up to your standards since it's in our family's name. The historical society doesn't own the house until everyone who can inherit the house is dead or until they choose to sell it to you. I doubt sis is interested in selling to you misses Plum." He forced a smile hoping the woman wouldn't notice and checked to make sure Sans hadn't left his spot next to Papyrus. Sans still stood there eyeing the woman from the dark corner of the room sizing her up.
"Misses Plum this is kinda a bad time. While I don't mind having this banter with you I have more important things to do." She gasped and huffed at him.
"Don't be rude with me boy. The historical society only sends her money to maintain the house so that when we do receive it we won't have to work as hard. It seems though she hasn't been doing that. This house always looks like it's in disrepair. I'm only here today to inspect the inside of the house to know whether or not that money is being used for it's intended purpose." Her face scrunched up and she crossed her arms glaring daggers at Victor.
"As you wish." Victor sighed and stepped back to let the older woman threw. She uncrossed her arms nose still in the air as she straightened her back like a metal rod at been attached to her spine.
As she entered her eyes fell on to the skeletons who hadn't moved as they stared at her. "hmpf, Isn't it a little early for Halloween?" Sans glared at her but the woman was no longer looking at him. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to do something to the woman or not since Victor remained quiet as the woman eyed the rest of the house form the peeling wallpaper and multiple holes in the carpeting.
She clenched her teeth and sneered at the broken banister of the staircase. "This doesn't look promising Victor." Victor shrugged his shoulders. He didn't really care what the woman thought she was usually just a snooty person to him and his sister.
But mention the devil and...
Annette stood near the lower hallway fully clothed metal pipe still in hand and giving the evil eyes to misses plum occasional switching it over to Sans. Misses plum eyed her jeans and shirt wardrobe giving it a slow burn with her eyes. Annette only stuck her tongue out at her the scowl on her face never leaving.
Misses Plum gaped before she realized her mouth was even open and snapped it shut. "Childish as always I see."
Annette only gave her the finger her face more relaxed realizing she was hitting a nerve with misses Plum. "And you're not supposed to be in my house. Seems my brother is far too nice, I'm not that nice. Leave."
"I have a rig-"
"No, you fucking don't. House isn't yours till I'm dead and even then you're the last person who would get it. My Will will hold more weight than your words. Especially since you'll be dead way sooner than I will be anyway. By the way, does the age of this house must make you feel nostalgic?"
Misses Plum clenched her teeth and let out a small hiss. "Rude as always child, had you been my daughter you would have been sent to boarding school till you were my age."
"That's funny. I thought you were still in boarding school."
"You-"
"That's enough!" Victor's voice echoed off the walls and up the staircase leaving a faint echo. "As I stated Misses Plum we have more important things to do today. So if you will hurry with your little inspection that would be great."
"I'll have you know boy this inspection is important. If it fails to meet my standards ill have to inform the historical society that the money isn't being used well and any funding to help preserve the house will stop."
"heh, docent sound like a problem to me." Misses Plum jumped to look at where the voice came from. She eyes the skeleton unsure until Sans red pupil flashes her and jumps back letting out a scream.
"Wha-what the hell?" Annette snickered as she watched Misses Plum grab Victor to pull in front of her.
"What's wrong Misses Plum did Victor forget to mention his new friends to you?" Annette gave her a smug look as Misses Plum's eyes traveled between the skeleton and her. Realization dawning on her as she took notice of the taller skeleton waved at her.
"HELLO, MISSES PLUM. I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS AND THIS IS MY LAZY BROTHER SANS. I AM DISSAPOINTED THE HUMANS DIDN'T TREAT YOU BETTER AT THE DOOR IT'S JUST BAD MANNERS BUT NO WORRY-"
Misses Plum starting screaming again. Annette flinched the screaming being louder than the first time Misses Plum had done it. Sans watched as Annette tried to drown the screaming out covering her ears as a slightly pained look fell on her face. It was enough to make Sans take action though.
Misses Plum went silent as a red glow snapped her mouth shut. As soon as it was quiet again Misses Plum started screaming with her mouth closed again. A small bit of blood trickled out of the corner of her mouth.
"MISSES PLUM IT IS VERY RUDE TO SCREAM. IM SURE SANS WILL STOP IF YOU STOP SCREAMING."
Instead, Misses Plum started to push and pull at her mouth screaming harder realizing she couldn't get her mouth open.
Victor turned to Misses Plum and tried to pull her away from her mouth but only received the woman's fury as she scratched at him instead of her hand catching on to Victor's bandaged hand.
"Enough already, Sans let her go." He yelled still trying to help misses Plum. Annette stayed back and watched silently from a corner of the room. She found it amusing but kept her eyes on Misses Plum's nails trying to dig into Victor's flesh. She wanted to rip her hands off and break them but Victor would have a fit if she did it.
Her only other option was...Sans.
"Sans." He turned to look at her the red magic still glowing around his eyes and Misses Plums' mouth.
"Stop." The light faded and stopped and Sans suddenly disappeared and stood near Misses Plum a hand wrapped around her mouth to keep her from screaming again.
"ya know, my bro's right. it's not nice to scream at someone ya just met." Misses Plum started to shake a few tears falling down her makeup caked face as she struggles against him. He imagined her bones breaking but like fruit, she would need a good scrub from all the cosmetics she had on. Annette stepped closer to him he didn't seem to notice till she gripped his coat. He froze when he looked at her.
She looked so soft and...shy?
She blushed and looked down to avoid his eyes lights. Her small hand gripped his jacket a little harder.
He never saw her looking like that. NEVER.
It was like a schoolgirl with a crush.
It was almost Calm. The brief flashes in her eyes letting him know there was still a storm of fury in her. It just wasn't pointed in his direction like before.
So cute, but why...
"Stop Sans." He did.
Misses Plum pulled away ran to the front door throwing it open and running out.
Sans didn't notice he just kept staring at Annette. What changed? She was being more domestic than normal. What was wrong? She stared at him and he stared back. He examined her eyes wanting to make sure it wasn't her aunt possessing her again. Her face flushed red and she turned away from him towards Victor. Sans felt his soul pulse but there was an underlying feeling of disdain.
Where did the monster Annette go and who was this? He kept watching her as she examined Victor's hand. He looked for something out of place a hint or clue the only thing was her fist still clenched tightly around the pipe in her hand. She hadn't even threated him with it.
"SANS" Sans back went rigged as he turned to look at Papyrus. Papyrus indicated to the direction of the kitchen holding the door open and waving him over. He gave him a confused look but walked over to him. This was Papyrus trying to be subtle right? He eyed back at Annette who only glanced at him before turning away to look at Victor again.
Papyrus closed the door of the kitchen cutting off Sans's view of her.
"SANS YOU USED MAGIC ON THE HUMAN. HUMANS ARENT SUPPOSE TO KNOW ABOUT MAGIC. IV'E ALLOWED VICTOR AND ANNETTE TO KNOW DUE TO THEM HAVING MAGIC BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE THE HUMAN MISSES PLUM HAS MAGIC. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE MISSES PLUM DOSN'T TELL THE OTHER HUMANS. QUEEN UNDYNE-"
"undick."
"UNDNE! SANS THAT IS NOT HOW TO ADDRESS A QUEEN." Sans shrugged he could care less about the bitchy fish woman. He had bigger fish to fry after all.
" i know' paps. don't worry. ill have it sorted out." He pulled out his phone and waved it in Papyrus face. Papyrus huffed and shook his head.
"NO SANS. WE DON'T KNOW IF THE HUMAN EVEN NEEDS THIS PLUM WOMAN."
"she doesn't. she has us now bro. "
"THAT IS BESIDE THE POINT SANS. WE DONT KNOW IF THE WOMAN HAS ANY OTHER SIGNIFICANT VALUE TO EITHER OF THEM. NO HUNTING."
"it's not a hunt bro. just picking fruit." he shrugged. Papyrus scratched at his cheekbone and shook his head.
"SIGH, SANS I KNOW YOU MAY NOT GO AFTER THIS HUMAN PERSONALLY BUT IF THEY HOLD VALUE TO ANNETTE YOU WILL REGRET UPSETTING HER LATER."
"don't worry bro. i know the Plum has no value to either of them. it's okay." It was true. The time Sans had spent in Victor's room hadn't just been getting info on the people who had done her wrong it was also about getting info on her. The information he got had massively satisfied him. Not only did she have no family she cared about, excluding Victor, but she also had no friends.
Even Shawn wasn't really on her friend list, she cared but more on the level of Shawn being an associate and someone she didn't hate.
It's what he told himself anyway.
At least he didn't have to worry about them dating. He really would kill Shawn at that point.
Sans eyes his phone. So many people to go after including the Plum woman before she got back to civilization. Sans grin stretched over his face looking up possible contacts to help him out. It was earlier than he planned but it seemed like a good time to set his plan in motion. He had wanted it to save it for Annette's father for when he got out of prison but... he would just have to think of something else special for him.
"hey, pap. ya think you can help me with something...special?"
"OF COURSE BROTHER WHAT SORT OF HELP DO YOU NEED FROM THE GREAT PAPYRUS?" Papyrus face lit up like it was gyftmas.
"heh, well bro you know how your the life of the party right? how do you feel about throwing one?"