Chapter Five

Hangovers and Mobs

Sans stopped somewhere in the middle of a crowd, and pulled Shadow to him dancing with her, "Let me take you out."

"Out? Like outside?" Shadow questioned, her booze filled fog left her in a stupor.

"Like out on a date." Sans looked her in the eyes.

"A date? I, I think I'd like that", Shadow replied with a soft smile.

Sans leaned closer to her only to have her push him away with a finger placed on his lips, "Not yet."

Sans paused and smiled, "Alright then Shad, I'll wait for you."

"Hey Sans", Shadow called out to him, her eyes looking very hazy and he felt her stumble into his arms, "I need to go home, I don't feel so…"

Shadow's body went slack in his arms. A wave of panic flew over Sans. He instantly did what she had asked. Getting her to her bed he climbed in next to her, making sure she was alive and breathing. He quickly tilted her head sideways incase she puked in her sleep. He didn't want her to choke on her own throw up and die. Sans felt a lot calmer hearing her steady breathing and found himself drifting off into sleep.

It was probably four in the afternoon when Shadow woke up. Her head was pounding, her stomach was killing her and she was slightly aware of a pair of arms around her waist. Slowly turning around she came face to face with a sleeping Sans. Her face reddened but her embarrassment didn't last long before she was running out of her bed and into the bathroom.

Probably an hour later Sans woke up to sounds of puking. He knew immediately that it was Shadow. Sans actually felt fine. Maybe he had a small headache but that was it. He was listening to Shadow puke her brains out and knocked on the bathroom door.

"Are you okay in there?"

The response he got was crying and words sounding kind of like, "Help me Sans."

Sans opened the door and rubbed her back as she puked more. She turned to look at him. Her make up was messed up from the sobbing she was doing. He quickly got up and looked around for something to clean her face with. He somehow found make up remover wipes and started to wipe the makeup off her face. He found himself blushing staring at her face without make up, even with her puffy eyes she was still beautiful.

"Sans…" Shadow's horse voice woke him from his stupor.

"Yeah Shad?"

"What happened last night? All I remember is sitting at the bar then nothing."

Sans felt his heart sink, this meant that she didn't remember the date he asked her on. This might be for the best though. He's just hardly met her, it would be best to get to know her better anyways. Sans simply smiled at the girl and told her they danced for a bit before she passed out and he took her home. He then explained that he stayed because he was worried about her. Shadow nodded and thanked him. Sans then got up to leave only for her to grab the sleeve of his tux.

"Please don't leave me alone right now?" Shadow looked tired and messed up. Seeing her like that Sans melted a little, he picked her up and carried her to her bed and tucked her in.

"You know I have to go, Paps will be worried."

"Can't you call him? Please don't leave me yet", Shadow begged. Sans sighed and called Papyrus, he quickly explained what happened and his brother simply told him to take all the time he needed.

"Alright, I'll stay with you only till you're better, alright?"

"Yay!" She cheered weakly as she patted the spot next to her, "Can you hold me a little?"

Sans sighed again and got into the bed next to her and wrapped his arms around her and laid there till she was back to sleeping. Once he was sure she was asleep he went to her living room only to find no T.V. but a laptop. He didn't think that Shadow wouldn't have a T.V. but she didn't. Instead he played around on the laptop, finding a few games on it. He started playing some waiting for her to wake up.

Hours later he hears a moan and the girl comes stumbling out, it looks like she managed to change. She was wearing fluffy pajama pants and a large white T-shirt. She looked at Sans and smiled a little. It seems like she was both awake and feeling better.

"Hey Sans, you stayed."

"I promised I would, feeling better?"

Shadow nodded and sat next to him on the couch, "Having fun?"

"Yeah, I feel like I know the characters in this game. It's almost creepy, I find I'm like this other Sans, it's weird how everyone shares the same names as…" Sans trailed off like he realized something. He turned to Shadow realizing that she's played that game about everyone of them.

"I never killed anyone", Shadow started explaining knowing that Sans would be mad if she didn't, "I fell in love with all the characters. I don't know why but this skeleton tended to be my favorite. Probably because I love puns and his calm nature."

Sans was almost angry, but he paused. She looked so at peace staring at the game, then glancing at him. He could tell how much she cared for them all.

"I have to say though, you guys aren't fully like your characters. You don't tell half as many jokes as he does."

Sans smiled lightly and ruffled her hair, "Many people act like they know us, but they only know a story of what we could be like. It's nice that you took the chance to get to know us."

"Of course I did, I think you're far more amazing than this Sans, you feel much more real, and less depressed."

"Most people assume that I'm depressed and try to baby me, or make fun of me. I hate my job because those kids have played this game, they think they know who I am, but they're so wrong. I'm just Sans Skeleton. As dumb as it is, Skeleton was always just my last name." Sans explained to Shadow.

"I never knew that, hey, I'm feeling better. Don't keep Paps waiting anymore. I'm sorry to have trapped you here all day", Shadow gave him a small smile and kissed his cheek, "Thank you for staying with me."

"Anytime Shad, I'll see you next Friday then." With that Sans vanished, Shadow did notice how blue his face got when she kissed his cheek. She giggled a little then started making herself some food.

Shadow went back to work on Monday only to find a bunch of humans blocking the door. After a lot of excuse me's and slipping through she finally managed to get through the door. She came face to face with a terrified Grillby.

"Shadow, the humans are rioting now. It's only getting worse. Was leaving the underground a mistake?" Grillby asked, his face getting more worried.

"I'll try to speak to them, I am human after all", Shadow bravely stated. She burst back through the doors with a bright grin, "Hello fellow humans!"

The crowd went quiet, "I am Shadow Knight, I work here at this fine restaurant. I notice a lot of you outside, if you want to have some food you should go inside. I promise to serve you all with a smile!"

"Traitor!"

"Monster fucker!"

"Monster whore!"

"Liar! I bet you are a monster, everyone get her!"

Shadow's eyes widened as the mob started at her. Soon sirens could be heard, the mob started running off leaving Shadow sitting on the ground with a broken heart.

"Miss are you okay?" An officer asked.

"Yes I am, but at the same time, I feel betrayed. How are those people humans? They tried to kill me like the monsters they think my friends are." Shadow stated looking hurt.

"I don't know Miss, I really don't", the officer helped Shadow get to her feet and she recounted the story. Soon enough they left and Grillby decided to leave the place closed today.

"I don't think it's safe today to have the store opened."

"Well, I'll just clean up around here for today then", Shadow chirped giving him her brightest fake smile.

Shadow busied herself with cleaning, keeping her mind off of what happened. After an hour of cleaning she found the place to be spotless. "Boss, I finished, anything else you want me to do?"

Shadow turned to Grillby only to find him drinking, she gasped at him, "Boss put that down. Drinking isn't the answer!"

"Sans, he'll be here soon. What will he do to you? To them? He killed so many of the humans that fell down. We needed seven souls, he killed four of them. Our king took care of the rest." Grillby started mumbling.

"Killed humans?" Right when Shadow asked that, Sans burst through the door.

"Grillbs, Shad are you guys okay? Where are the fucking human assholes that did this?" Shadow saw that his eyes were completely black, then it followed up with a cyan color in his left eye.

Shadow backed into the bar counter, "You killed humans? How could you, you murdered people!"

Sans' eyes went dark. He turned to look at her only to find fear in her bright red eyes. He slowly started walking towards her only to watch her try to back up more in fear. "Shadow, we didn't have a choice. It was the only way to get free and see the surface. To see the stars, the sun, the moon, and the sky. What were we supposed to do, be trapped there forever?"

"How old were they? Kids, it was always kids that went missing around the mountains. You killed four kids Sans. Four of them! Children! Innocents! Why not grown adult assholes. Would you have killed me if I fell down?" Shadow started crying, her heart shattering more.

Sans was speechless, he was fumbling for words and at some point he found them, "They were kids, and yeah Shad, would have had to kill you. Don't think I murdered them out of hate, I had to do it! There wasn't another way. We were suffering from overpopulation. What would you have done? Huh?!"

"I don't know…", Shadow sniffled at him, "Why did Grillby act like you were gonna hurt me?"

Sans looked at the drinking man and sighed. Grillby freaked out very easily and he had to witness Sans murder more that one human on occasion. "Because he had to watch a few die by my hands."

Shadow slowly got up and walked to him, once she reached him her arms wrapped around his neck. Sans found himself slowly wrapping his arms around her as well. Tears started to fall from his eyes as Shadow just held him.

"I had to Shadow", Sans started to sob, "I had to do it. I had to kill those kids and watch the life slowly drain from their eyes. I had to hear them beg and plead for their lives only to kill them in the end…"

Shadow just held on the Sans tightly and lowered them both to the floor hugging him close to her, "It's okay Sans. I understand now. I can't imagine how you must have felt. Having to do that to those poor kids."

Sans held onto her tighter and the two sat there in each other's arms while Grillby drank his sorrows away. The doors burst open again, this time revealing Undyne and Alphys.

"S-sans, S-shadow? What's wrong? Grillby why are you drinking?" Alphys looked confused as she look at the scene, but Undyne looked mad. Her anger was immediately directed at Shadow.

"I don't know what you did punk, but I'm not letting you get away with it!" Undyne did a weird hand movement and a pure white soul flew out of Shadow's chest causing her to jump away from Sans. The room stood in silence as everyone stared at her glowing white soul.