Chapter 4

It was now about 11:30pm, Sans was once again off in a peaceful sleep. That book had really done wonders for him. His chest rising and falling as if he had lungs.

Meanwhile Mettaton was awake laying in bed, Papyrus' infamous racecar bed. He just looked up at the ceiling for a while before sighing and sitting up. He couldn't sleep. He unplugged himself from the powerpoint and got up, fixing the pyjamas he had chosen to wear instead of what he usually wore all the time. He quietly walked by Papyrus who was snoring softly as well as tossing and turning every few minutes, but he looked happy. Must be having a hell of a dream. Mettaton continued on his path down the stairs. It was dark and silent, the only thing piercing the darkness was his now slightly glowing pink eyes. Mettaton didn't like them at first, but had over the time he spent with Alphys had come to like SOME anime, not all, some, and Mettaton was going down to watch more since he couldn't sleep. He stretched his long arms above his head and his back as he reached the bottom of the stairs. He quietly walked over to the couch and sat...

Sans was in a peaceful sleep until suddenly he felt something... heavy on his ribcage and where his stomach would be if he had one. This immediately shattered the peaceful slumber that the short skeleton was in as he instinctively gasped loudly in shock. As soon as Mettaton heard the immediate reaction he jumped up in surprise, making a noise similar to an 'eep!' before turning around to see what he had sat on and made the noise. Mettaton's quickly beating 'heart' was calmed as he realized it was... Sans...? Why was he sleeping on the couch? Mettaton put a hand over his own chest in a calming pose as he looked at Sans gasp for air, not that he needed it. Sans sat up looking at Mettaton.
"Sans! You scared the life out of me!" Mettaton whisper-yelled and Sans groaned.
"And I'm surprised I didn't have my ribs broken" Sans replied with a slight grumbling tone from just being woken up. "What are you doing down here?" he asked, Mettaton huffed.
"I couldn't sleep" he admitted, his other hand held a disk case. The anime disk case. That arm slowly moved further behind his back. Sans noticed this.
"...Whatchya got in your hand?" he soon asked which flustered Mettaton a little bit.
"Nothing..." The glambot replied, Sans an eyebrow.
"Then why're you hiding your hand?"
"I'm not hiding it Sans"
"So does Alphys know you like anime?"
"Wha-?" Mettaton took a quick glance at his hand which held the case, it was still there and hidden.
"So it is anime" Sans said with amusement and slight smugness and Mettaton blushed ever so slightly, how Mettaton could blush in the first place was unknown to Sans, but he remembered the glambot's fixation on the anime they were watching earlier.
"No I just wanted something to bore me so I could go to sleep faster" Mettaton replied matter-of-factly Sans grin widened a little, but he remained silent other than nodding. Mettaton huffed and put the disk back into the dvd player and turned on the tv before sitting on the couch, on the far side, away from Sans. Sans looked out the window, it was still pitch black. Mettaton glanced in the direction Sans was looking at, at that moment Sans looked back at Mettaton who immediately averted his gaze to the TV.
"Aww Mettaton, why you giving me the 'cold' shoulder" Sans asked, making one of his notorious puns. Mettaton didn't know whether to laugh at it or slap him. He rolled his eyes and just started playing the anime which soon grabbed all of his attention. Sans, not particularly having anything to do started watching it too.

After a while Sans stopped staring at the tv screen blankly and looked over at Mettaton. His position had changed from before, he was sitting with his knees hugged to his chest by his long arms and his chin resting on his knees. Sans stared for a few more moments before getting his quantum physics book and started reading it again. Unfortunately this was one of the shorter series of anime and they had watched the bulk earlier so it ended after a bit. Mettaton sighed ever so softly in disappointment and turned the tv off. Now what.
Mettaton looked at Sans and raised a delicate eyebrow, he was reading. This is weird. He had never seen Sans read apart from reading Papyrus bedtime stories from time to time when Mettaton and he had nothing to talk about. Mettaton peered forward in an attempt to look at the cover.
"Quantum physics..?" Mettaton read quietly, but not quietly enough, Sans' eye sockets looked in Mettaton's direction without Sans actually lifting his head.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"I'm surprised you'd read something like that" Mettaton admitted.
"What I'm not a total bonehead" Sans replied in slight mock offense, grinning at his own pun. Mettaton strangely kept his mouth from cracking into a smile, not a frown, the skeletons cheesy jokes were actually rather funny.
"Hilarious darling" Mettaton said sarcastically. "I meant i never thought you were the type to be into that" he commented "kinda reminds me of Alphys." Sans shrugged and yawned. This wasn't actually too bad of a conversation, he wouldn't call Mettaton his friend but it wasn't too hard to interact with him. Hopefully it stayed this way…

When Papyrus woke up and he looked around. Mettaton wasn't here..? He peeked his head out of his room before calling out:
"METTATON?" When that didn't get a response he went down the stairs. He gasped when he saw the couch. Both Mettaton and Sans were on it sleeping, cuddling up! He whispered-squealed 'They're actually getting along!' Papyrus thought happily. But it was late so Papyrus was going to wake them up.
"SANS! METTATON!" he yelled cheerfully "TIME TO WAKE UP!"
Sans groaned like usual when Papyrus woke him.
"Pap… five more minutes…" he groaned sleepily much the annoyance of the tall skeleton.
"NO RIGHT NOW SANS!" he yelled in response and Sans groaned again. What he was laying on, whatever it was, was comfy. Sans partially cuddled up into his pillow and shut his eye sockets tighter which caused Papyrus to keep yelling. This soon woke Mettaton who also groaned.
"Papy dear why are you yelling for…" he mumbled tiredly when he felt something… moving… It was curled up starting on his chest plate. Mettaton opened an eye ever so slightly, looking around a little before slowly sitting up as his eyes opened up more, he looked down. Mettaton let out a small scream in surprise before realizing it was Sans. This made Sans jolt and his eyes open. He was lying on Mettaton!? Sans looked genuinely surprised, how? Wait last night they were here on the couch… He could feel his skull burning a bit… this was awkward… Mettaton seemed a little flustered. Papyrus noticed both their reactions.
"HM? WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU BOTH LOOK SURPISED!" He asked "WERE YOU NOT BONDING LAST NIGHT WHILE I WAS ASLEEP?" Sans felt the burning sensation on his face more. That sounded like they were doing something else.
"No Pap"
"OH"
Mettaton wanted to get out of this position. He attempted to life Sans up, bracing for the heavy weight when it never came he rose a brow. He was lifting Sans. He was so… light. Sans just hung there awkwardly.
"You gonna put me down or what?" He soon said as Mettaton held him and looked at him in fascination. This caused Mettaton to put him down on the ground and him to sit up and stand quickly with an 'ahem.'
Sans looked away until Papyrus's phone started ringing, he picked it up immediately.
"HELLO? THIS IS THE GREAT PAPYUS!" he answered, soon he began chatting with whoever was on the phone. After a while he covered the phone's mic with his hand as he looked over.
"TORIEL IS GOING OUT AND NEEDS SOMEONE TO LOOK AFTER FRISK" Papyrus announced happily "SO I TOLD TORIEL HE CAN HAVE A SLEEPOVER HERE!"

Well this chapter was kind of uneventful...
It should pick up in the next chapter so sorry if this one was disappointing!
Also, I have drawn Mettaton in a towel from chapter 2! Search for XxNonstopSensiblexX on dA and it'll have a picture titled 'soaking but still smoking' (It won't let me provide a link it keeps cropping it)