*STILL AT ALPHYS LAB - NIGHT*
Things were starting to look up for Alphys and Sans, Alphys could not battle her demons, they simply taunted and stole happiness from her, and there was not a single thing she could do about it...well actually there was one, but she was far too cowardly to do it, to release them and give them back to their families, it was her greatest mistake.
But then Sans showed up in one of her darkest hours, and had given her hope and love.
Alphys trapped in her depression and self-hatred, had forgotten that she deserved to be loved and cherished too, even with all her mistakes. After all, everyone deserves a second chance, and a chance for happiness.
Nonetheless, the demons were always going to be there unless something major happened in her life and relationships, sans at least planted the seed of hope in her head.
As for Sans, he had more love in his life now then before, usually as a sentry and kind of a loner, he would have Papyrus and now the Human in his life and that would be enough for him, he wasn't really a "monster" type of guy and didn't really try to make friends, too busy taking care of Papyrus after all, Sans himself didn't know WHY he never tried to make more friends in his life, he knew it would make it more interesting but guessed it would make him care too much, and would hurt far more when eventually it was taken away.
Now though, he had made another bond that was blooming, it already helped he knew Alphys before in the old times...if only he could remember why he was here in the first place, he remembered working at the lab a long time ago, simply could not remember the boss of the place. Welp guess it didn't matter.
Alphys and Sans sat together on a couch she had lying around in the lab, watching some Anime called "Kissy Kissy something something-" Sans didn't bother remembering the name, he wouldn't say this in front of Alphys but the anime...was really cliche and the main character couldn't be remembered other then she was a catgirl with powers and such.
but if Alphys wanted him to spend some time with her, Sans wouldn't decline, she's important and Sans felt good when around her, which was a new thing for him.
*3 HOURS LATER*
Sans strained to keep his eyes open, how could Alphys pull all-nighters like this?
It was unnatural, even for certain skeletons who didn't get the concept of sleep.
A couple of episodes of the Anime passed, geez how longs were these, Sans honestly couldn't remember what had happened from the very first episode!
Maybe he would close his eyes, and...He was asleep.
Alphys was too busy, eyes glued to the screen watching her favorite show, obviously couldn't notice sans was asleep.
She watched one more episode after that, and decided to call it a night because she could pull all-nighters true, but all monsters had to sleep and it would mess up her inner clock if she did this too much.
...oh yeah, she invited Sans to watch the anime with her, completely forgotten about him.
Well, He was asleep..whoops, didn't Sans have a sentry job or something like that? Its been so long since they caught up, and she never really asked, too late now Alphys thought.
Guess we'll make this a true sleepover, Alphys luckily had a extra pillow and blanket for these type of things, It was normally too awkward for her to do this, but he was asleep. no-one would know anyways, so Alphys basically tucked him into bed.
It was a nice night, she had thought to herself, she really needed that after...what happened.
Alphys goes up the elevator to the second lab floor, and begins her nightly ritual, clean up a little bit, put on pajamas then sleep.
...What the hell was that!?
Alphys saw something, something completely unnatural and not from this world or even dimension. Her heart..its beating again, Shes sweating yet she doesn't know exactly what she saw or if it was even there in the first place.
All she saw was a white and black thing in the corner with an sinister smile, something about this was familar to her...was that the reason she woke up terrified out of her mind, was something or someone stalking her!? Did she need to call someone she knew "Calm down, think this through!" She realized, Sans was here but he was also asleep.
She was too scared to do anything, especially sleep at a time like this, her eye...its crackling again, she had no real control over it, it appeared when she was terrified she was going to die.
Attack or Run Away...some options appeared to her, she couldn't run, where COULD she run, she was in her safe place already, and besides the thing would follow her anyways if it was really there. Alphys didn't know what the thing she saw was real or not, or it was just a bad hallucination from watching anime and staying up too long.
She saw it again, in the corner of her eye. a flash of black and white, predatory eyes. did that THING really follow Alphys to her home!?
She had no choice but to Attack, it was only right to defend yourself. Suddenly she felt herself take control of the wild ancient magic, guess this thing could be useful after all.
Alphys started shooting bolts of electricty where she saw the THING move around, it kept dodging and moving around, guess it knew how to fight too or at least dodge.
Her lab was being wrecked in the process, machines were broken, walls were burnt and somewhat shattered. it made a lot of noise and probably woke Sans up too.
But she had to keep attacking, IT was clearly after her, for what reasons she didn't know?
"Heya, whats with the noi-" Sans had noticed the thing too, there was no words to be said between both of them, the scene clearly showed what had and is transpiring.
"Hehe, hey whatever or who-ever you are, better stop invading our privacy, your causing her a lot of stress, so uh if you dont stop, im gonna be forced to stop you" Sans simply stated to the THING that was moving around her lab.
The black and white skeletal entity clearly did not care, IT was here for one thing only, it kept moving around to catch her off-guard and get her.
Suddenly however, It found it couldn't move, and was suddenly lifted up into the air and slammed into a wall.
"Hehehe, guess you like doing things the hard way." Sans eyes were pitch black, suddenly very serious at the threat, when it came to things like that, Sans could not afford to mess around and be lazy.
Suddenly, IT was stabbed with a plethora of bones, thrown into walls, had Blasters make holes through them, being a unknown entity it could heal very easily, but Sans was tough, far tougher then any opponent the thing saw in its mysterious """life"""
IT could not keep this up, The entity simply did not have enough energy, enough.
IT would stop for now, but it would return, and once IT did, it would take both her and the skeleton.
Suddenly as it appeared, the THING disappeared.
"Alphs...what the hell was that!" Sans let his guard down, he was tired. far too tired for this thing in the night.
"Sans...i dont know, I dont even know what it is, as y-you can see it kept following me a-around...i..don't feel safe here...er can we go to your place and sleep there..." Alphys looked miserable, she was tired, terrified and felt like breaking down, and this was such a good night too..
"Its..not a problem, here i know a short-cut." Sans grabbed Alphys hand and they were gone in a instant.
Appearing inside Sans house in snowdin, everybody inside was fortunately asleep.
The couch was free, as the both of them were exhausted, but didn't want to make his guest sleep on a semi-crappy couch, Sans gave Alphys access to his room, Sans being the lazy brother he was had only one mattress, luckily Papyrus stuffed another matress inside his closet incase and he quote "YOU LAZY BROTHER, DONT MAKE GUESTS SLEEP ON THE COUCH IF YOUR GOING TO INVITE THEM OVER, NYEHEHE LUCKILY I THE GREAT PAPYRUS SHALL PREPARE A SECONDARY SLEEPING PAD FOR YOU."
As Frisk was already sharing a room with Papyrus, He had gotten the idea to be more prepared with guests.
Welp, it was useful now at least, they wordlessly set up the matress and fell asleep on first contact.
Seems like peace would be harder to get in these days, hope will be coming hopefully.