Ebott Ville, 1 year 7 months after the release of monsters and magic back in the world.
"what a mess" This really doesn´t affect me in the least but, if the kid is involved I should care as well as offer my sympathy to Tori… she deserves all the happiness in the world.
"Yes Sans, this is one of the few times in my life that I don´t know what to do." Toriel answers with a tired sigh
It has been about two or three hours since Frisk and Chara had gone… Or was it Chara possessing Frisk?
Doesn´t matter.
But.
How can we be so blind that no monster knew about this?
Papyrus was the exception, Papyrus is the coolest monster and only he could solve the weird (but endearing) behavior of the child.
And what about this Wilson guy… He truly seems to care about the kiddo but… there is something else, something deeper, that man is doing all of this for a reason he still didn't know. His intentions are something that is not clear to him...
I sincerely think Tori´s rage towards the human is not for motherly instincts of protection, Frisk is perfectly safe with him after all, but from jealousy. She thinks he will take her child away from her… Maybe she is right.
"SANS, I THINK THAT THE PRINCESS DIDN´T MEAN WHAT SHE SAID, SHE WAS JUST ANGRY."
Heh pap´s the coolest.
"yeah paps she was angry… and that sometimes blind us and makes us say hurtful things"
I know about that
"Papyrus." The goat man called after calming himself down.
"I´m sorry Papyrus, I lack words to say how sorry I´m for treating you like that, for doubting your words, you knew, you trusted Frisk, you let him keep his promise towards Chara and you didn´t treat him with distrust like Toriel and I…" The man was about to cry again.
"OH THAT´S OK YOUR MAJESTY, I´M SURE YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK I READ AND THAT IS THE STARTING POINT OF ALL THIS MISSUNDERSTANDINGS!, I´M SURE THAT IF YOU LIVED WITH FRISK YOU WOULD KNOW HOW FRISK HAS BEEN SPEAKING WITH CHARA WHEN THEY THINK THEY ARE ALONE IN A ROOM, ALSO, FRISK OFTEN DRAWS, YOU SEE. THEY HAVE A DRAWING STYLE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER HUMAN CHILDREN, WHEN CHARA IS THE ONE DRAWING, SHE DRAWS WITH HER LEFT HAND AND THE DRAWING DIFFERS FROM FRISK´S USUAL PORTRIALS OF HIS FRIENDS TO BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN FLOWERS AND SURFACE LANDSCAPES."
Asgore eyes grew wide to my bro's tale.
"She loved golden flowers and… and… yes she was left handed… Is Frisk right handed?"
"You don´t even know that Asgore, really? You adopted the child for the Angel´s sake!" Toriel all but shouted to the now guilty king.
"ok, let´s calm down everyone, we, i mean, no one knew half of what frisk had to go through in the underground… and now is not the time to point at anyone. first we have to let them, all of them explain themselves so we can make heads and tails about all of this… fighting each other won't solve anything and will upset them further."
I hate to take cards on issues that are not of my concern…
But for Tori…
"MY BROTHER IS ONE MORE TIME IN THE RIGHTNESS HERE! WHY DON´T WE WAIT FOR THEM PATIENTLY, THAT´S THE LEAST THEY DESERVE FROM US RIGHT?"
"That shall be done" Asgore agrees.
Asgore drives home and we dim the day over. I assure Tori one more time that, no, Frisk is not going to die, and, no, Wilson won´t kill him. I reminded her that he is not alone. He has never been alone.
Toriel gives me one last hug for the night.
It´s heavenly, she smells like home, her warmth like a gentle fire pit on a snowy night, the magic that runs down below her fur, she is a goddess.
A goddess I don´t deserve.
I let her go, reluctant to lose the warmth, she smiles at me and it will take years for me to forget it.
She goes to her room. Hopefully to a restful sleep.
"hey pap, wanna have a bed time story?"
"YES SANS!" he looks at the animated stuffed animal… I still don't sense bad intentions from it… all the contrary… it´s just as he said… I feel gratefulness, kindness and most of all the determination to protect Pap. I don't know yet how to deal with this new and old friend at all so I let her be.
"HEY FLUFFY BUNNY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR THE STORY WITH ME?"
The bunny nods its head and tucks herself with paps in his bed.
I read the story and they can´t be any more happy. When it's over, Fluffy Bunny stands from her place in bed and gives me a post it she had hidden in one of her arms.
'Papyrus has something to tell you. Ask him the reason why he doesn´t like to sleep' I read out loud and my mind can't register what it says until Papyrus takes the little piece of paper and hides it.
"uhm… pap wha-"
"NOTHING!"
"but pap wh-"
"NOTHING!"
" s."
"…" he hides under his blanket…
"hey… you know you can tell me anything right. i mean, i´m your brother, its fine if you don't want to share what hurts you, but if it is something i can help you with i´m more than glad to do it…" In my world there is nothing truer than this.
"…I…UHMM WHAT IF I TELL YOU…. It´s The Same Reason As You… you get nightmare at night?" Oh… I hate that tone… that means insecurity and that´s a very unpapyrus thing.
"wha- how would yo- ok say that again please?" He fidgets with his blanket and Fluffy Bunny hugs his arm with her tiny ones.
"MY NIGHTMARES… ARE THE SAME AS YOURS"
No. impossible.
"ok, maybe you think they are the same but i´m completely sure they are not-"
"YOU DREAM OF ME GETTING DUSTED RIGHT?"
…
….
…..
…
"yes"
"THANK YOU SANS, THANK YOU FOR FINALLY TRUSTING ME, EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THIS SINCE BEFORE FRISK CAME TO SNOWDIN"
"you… knew…?"
"YOU SHOUT AND RATTLE AT NIGHT… YOU CALL MY NAME, YOU TELL ME NOT TO DIE, TO NOT TO LEAVE YOU ALONE AGAIN…" Papyrus eye sockets are full of unshed tears now.
"oh pap… i´m so sorry"
"IT´S OK BROTHER, THEY ARE JUST NIGHTMARES… THEY ARE NOT REAL"
Thank the angel he thinks they're just nightmares.
"and you dream the same things?"
"…YES. YOU DIE IN A GOLDEN HALL… A SLASH IN YOUR CHEST AND YOU SAY MY NAME AT THE END, AND THEN YOU, YOU…"
And now the waterworks…
"oh paps…. if you want, i can sleep with you tonight?"
"PLEASE BROTHER"
I didn´t know I was crying until Fluffy Bunny gave me a Kleenex from a box Papyrus had in his nightstand.
The morning came far too fast for me, but hey! I´m lazy so that´s no surprise.
"Sans, Wake Up, Today Is a New Day Full of Good Things!" And what a way to wake up, Paps knows best to have his voice in his normal tune when I come from slumber land… I get startled easily; he knows this more than anyone else.
"ok"
Breakfast is served by a very sad looking goat woman…
Oh… Tori…
"hey tori… why did the bacon laugh?"
"SANS IT´S TOO EARLY FOR THIS!" Papyrus groaned in annoyance entering the kitchen.
"Humm? I don´t know… why?"
"´cause the egg cracked a yolk!"
"ARRGGHH"
"Ha ha ha ha Oh, Sans!" Toriel wipes a tear from her eye and that is success!
"You are such a punny guy Sans!" Tori´s worries wash away just for a minute and that´s more than enough for me.
We eat breakfast in mild silence.
I say goodbye and teleport to my illegal stand of hot dogs and hot cats in the park. Nicey the nicecream vendor is already there.
"Oh! Hello Sans good morning!"
"hello nicey what´s up?"
"Oh! business has been slow, but fret not! It´s not been but two hours since I opened and we have a great day ahead I just know it!"
"heh sure thing nicey" I really like the guy, his cheery attitude remind me of pap.
Hours pass by and the two stands receive a few sales, business really is slow, one because seasons are changing and two because humans are reluctant to eat things that don't reach their stomachs…. Something that they don't feel full or something like that, who knows.
"Good day Sans, two hot cats and two hot dogs please!" A man stood in front of the hotdog stand, expensive black suit, fourtyish style. I think. Red vest as his old tattered one but this one seems to be newly made.
"heya wilson, willow and…"
Oh… no…
"w e e d"
Frisk confessed to me what Flowey has done with the power over the timeline before him. Who would have thought that that little golden flower was the one who killed the whole underground monster population and Papyrus too….
"Oh just great, the smiley trashbag." The flower answered with the same venom I threw at him. I see now that Chester and Eye Bone are present too.
Heh.
"Hey, as if you are any better Flowey" The man told the flower.
Huh?
"What? Did you think we were buddies or something?" He glanced at me incredulously.
He read my face?
"nah, but it sure is weird to see that he finally decided to come to the surface?" I try while arranging the sausagy stuffed hot dog and cat buns.
"HA! THEY KIDNAPPED ME FOR FU-" wow, as sweet as always.
Willow snapped two fingers and little embers flow freely from them. That made the weed shut its trap.
"Willow!" The older brother chided the woman as he reaches to put out the fire.
"Oh come on nobody is watching!"
*tired sigh*
The human gives me the total amount in new bills. Meanwhile, Willow grinned at the gentleman, It seems this conversation had been won by the flame lover a couple of times before as he decided to ignore her.
"Sans, can I invite you to lunch?"
Okaaaay… no
"well buddy, it will have to wait i am still running the business, these dogs 'n cats won't sell themselves you know?"
Heh smooth Sans, smooth.
…
"We can wait half an hour until your lunch break how does that sound?"
Wait a minute.
"how did you-" Wilson turns around and approaches the other stand, as if leaving no place to argue.
Willow smirked at me evilly before following her brother in silence. The weed wanted to laugh but held it…
*sigh*
I end up shrugging without taking my eye lights from them.
"Hello Nicey, may I have… twenty four nicecreams please?"
"Hello sir…" the vendor blinks twice in shocked confusion then smiles again "of course sir! Actually those are the last nicecreams of this morning batch!"
The two exchange currency for product as expected and thank the blue bunny man.
I can't shake the felling that something's off about this Wilson guy.
Both brothers sit down in one of the benches next to the stands and start eating the buns.
"HI NICEY!"
MK, a yellow flame elemental girl and a black bunny boy approach the ice cream stand, Ebott's Monster School ends earlier than the human-only counterpart. The kids had been coming to get the icy treat since school started.
"Hello everyone! I'm sorry but there are no more nicecreams for this morning…" Nicey's ears fall a little at the statement. All of the children awww'd in disappointment, in my rearview I see Wilson perking up from the exchange and walks in front of the children.
"Hi MK, Luzzy and Biscuit!" The human male offers three nicecreams to the children and you can see their eyes sparkling from here.
"Wow sir, for real?! And how did you know our names?" MK tilts his head and loses stability for a second the male reaches to grab him but at the monster's child easy recovery he retracts his hand "Yes young lad, you can have them. It is my fault, after all, that Nicey finds himself without any ice creams at the moment. And to answer your question, Frisk told me that you saved him from the Captain of the Royal Guard… I must add that you are a very brave soul!" MK blushed instantly, the other two are left speechless mid unwrapping their snacks.
"Th-Thank you s-sir!" It's the first time I see him completely embarrassed.
After a while the children cheerily went away to their calling parents to go home.
Aaaaaaand MK falls on his-
No, he didn't fall this time, there is a dark wispy hand that catches one of his ankles. Imperceptible to everyone but me and the caster. He looks around to get an explanation on why he didn't fall as usual. But there is nothing.
When done, the male is met with his sister fake-crying "They don't have any arms!" She whisper-cried to his brother who had been concentrating his magic towards MK.
"There you are wrong dear, take a closer look to his constitution… He is a dinosaur type monster, his arms are there but are too little to come out from his sweater or give him any type of stability whatsoever."
How would he know about it?
Weird…
After a while, Wilson, his sister and company come to my stand once they had eaten.
"So, are you ready?..."
Welp.
"…To Grillby's correct?" He asked expecting and affirmative answer.
Do I have an option? Or is it the illusion of free choice?
"ok"
Notes: Wilson has NO intention of hiding his powers but they have to be careful with their actions. I wonder why. . .
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