*ALPHYS LAB - ? AFTER ZAP INCIDENT*
Alphys woke up, she was shaking beyond belief, scared for her life and continued existence.
She couldn't see where she was, it was too dark, darker yet darker. oh god it was dark.
Even now as the dream? was fading out of her mind, like a desperate rat escaping an empty cage, gone insane from lack of food, drink or any meaningful existence.
She could feel sweat all over her body yet was losing memory why, luckily since the last incident with the dreams, she kept a dream journal to come with terms to her mysterious and strange yet important? dreams that occured every so often.
She tried to reach out for the journal...she only grabbed the table, she tried again, and again, and again. She knew her vision was good even in the dark, so this was strange.
She tried grabbing randomly until she got the journal and pen nearby, she had to remember.
Alphys flipped to a random page and started writing, it didn't matter the order, she was running out of time and things kept getting darker, darker, darker, darker and more dark.
"DONT FORGET"
She furiously scribbled down the things she could remember.
The dark void, crushing darkness all around her,
the darkness moving her towards the grey room.
The grey room, and its mysterious walls and wooden door.
finally she tried to write down the last thing she saw,
The THING in the middle of the room, the un-moving, drooping and melting thing.
"The Staring One" Alphys had decided to call it for now.
With its unfamilar shape taking a form of a skeleton, drilled hands and horrific face with its sinister smile.
The more she wrote about it, the more she forgot.
Instead of a rat in a cage desperately trying to escape, when it came to this thing she wrote about.
It become more like the rat in the cage, but the enviroment disappeared and the rat fell into darkness and kept falling and falling until the thing grabs-
Who was she writing about again?
Why was she sweating so much? Why did she feel so scared?
Why had half of her vision disappeared.
Alphys now in her current state, could not answer any of those questions.
Deciding it was just another bad dream, she decided to start her day early to calm down.
"Its just a bad dream...its ok me, just a bad dream..." Alphys got out her bed, only starting to remember what happened the last time she was awake.
Oh right, she had figured out how to use charged magic and it went horribly wrong, much like a mad science experiment.
That reminded her of someone..? She had that feeling she was being reminded of someone very important in her life, good or bad.
Things were very strange today, that was for sure.
Quite frankly, she was starting to get sick of it, so as normal monsters do in the mornings, they got started on her daily habit and ritual.
*Alphys Lab - Later*
Sans checked his invisible watch on his skeletal wrist.
yep it was that time of day again, sentry's job boring as always.
Frisk and Papyrus have been doing good so far, like a proper family.
Sans only hoped the human wouldn't turn on the monsters and dust them, he didn't quite trust humans after all from what the remaining legends said.
might as well check on alphys again, she had been out for about two days now if he was correct.
he was starting to get worried...Alphys was THE royal scientist after all, even though she hadn't done any real work in months now, the appearance of hope was very important to keep up, after all...we lost everything twice now.
Sans teleported in the lab, thinking Alphys was still clocked out, what he didn't expect was to appear right behind her.
welp, she said to never teleport behind her again, but she would forgive him if he just did it one more time, right?
A good prank can be forgiven after all.
"heya, glad to see your awa-" A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed by him, it looked powerful...almost like a charged attack, Sans dodged the surprise in-coming attack, wow what a way to take a prank.
"yo, calm down its only me alphs" Sans attempted to calm Alphys, as for her.
She was breathing heavily, Electricity cracked from her eyes, she felt on edge/guard all day, like something was following her.
Sans did not help, teleporting behind her like that, didn't she tell him to stop!?
"i told you to stop sans!" Alphys said after a long while, calming down a bit.
"alright, alright, geez no one can take a prank these days." Sans remarked casually.
Alphys looked down at her now normal arm, there were no burnts or any mishap, did she perfect the mysterious magic that could be charged?
"Sans..." Alphys asked suddenly and a lot more quieter.
"Why did you...take c-care of me when i went unconscious?" She was now looking down at the floor, her demons coming back again to kick her while shes down.
Sans looked around awkwardly, was she really asking this? and more importantly, what could he say about it without seeming selfish, its not like they were really close...were they?
"Well uh..your the royal scientist alphs, your really important to the underground folk, even though you might not think it, heck you built an entertainment robot that has given the underground major hope, you might not think it, but your more important than you think."
Sans said this out of his feelings, people might not realize at times, but the royal scientist could be just as important as the king himself.
Suddenly he felt himself being hugged by one appreciative nerd lizard...
Was she crying? he swore he felt he felt tears on his jacket...after a quick check, yeah she was.
Guess he's good at emotional support after all.
"Thank you...it really means a lot to me." Alphys muttered in sincere apprecation and a new-found bond with Sans.
Alphys smiles at Sans with her wet eyes, "Please dont go just yet...w-would you mind sleeping over or something..and we can w-watch anime?"
Sans thinks about it for just a moment, thats all he needed, he smiles back "sure, alphs anything you want"
It felt good to make people smile.
Authors note: Ok wow, that chapter was far longer then i intended to make it, funny how things turn out in this world, i would like to thank everyone who has viewed this and left review (currently 1 so far, thank you who-ever that is! it really does mean a lot to me).
And yes, this is a Salphys (Sans x Alphys) story, i wanted to do my own take on it so far, i apologize for not really focusing on Sans personal life, but as you can see, its mostly the same. ill try to add some more fluff scenes later on.
Once again, thank you for all the attention and i bid you all a good day!