Sorry this chapter's a bit late! I was on vacation with no wifi so... urg. Anyways!
Here's chapter thirty-one! Also: Go check out our tumblr blog for some awesome Sansley art that we have... an exorbitant amount of. More to be posted soon. :)
-MH_C
Frankie woke up way too early. The sun was just rising, he could see it through the curtains in Sans' room. The older skeleton was still fast asleep. Frankie yawned and stroked Justice, who was sleeping in between him and his dad.
"Purr, purr…" He grinned. The cat was very pleased, so naturally Frankie had to scoop her up and hug her tightly. "So fluffy!" He whispered. The cat meowed, struggling to escape. Sans stirred. Frankie let go of Justice, who rushed out of the room, and grabbed Sans' arm.
"Dad?" He whispered.
"Hmm?" Sans moaned.
"Can we have ice cream for breakfast?"
"No." Sans mumbled.
"Why not?!"
"Ice cream's dessert." Sans frowned, his eyes still closed. "What time is it?"
"I dunno." Frankie shrugged and looked over to the clock. "Five." Sans choked.
"What?!"
"Five o'clock in the morning." Frankie nodded.
"O god. Why are we awake at five?" Sans rolled over. Frankie sighed, deciding his dad was right. They should try and get a little more sleep. He rolled over as well, hugging Sir Barkley tightly. After a few moments of silence he rolled over again and shook Sans.
"Dad? I can't sleep."
"You didn't even try, Frank…" Sans sighed.
"I did!"
"Try harder." Sans moaned. Frankie huffed and closed his eyes tightly, trying to let his mind quiet.
"Dad?"
"What?"
"Can we go get ice cream after school today?"
"We did that the other day."
"Yeah, but it was fun right? Can we do it again?" Silence was his only answer. "Dad?" Nothing. No… no… "DAD!?" He grabbed Sans' shoulders and shook the older skeleton quickly.
"Huh...what?!" Sans blinked, "Sorry… what were we talking about?"
"N-nothing...nothing…" Frankie breathed. I can't lose my dad… not again…. And even the most illogical things reminded him that he could.
"Heya" Sans grins as he approaches Riley, who was putting away books on the shelves of the library.
"Hey, bonehead!" She grins, turning towards him.
"You ready t' head out? I know a place downtown."
"Sure!" She seems a lot more composed than usual, more comfortable. Normally, both of them would be blushing and stammering like total idiots, but they were together now. No more awkward stammering and the inability to breathe.
Sans holds out his hand to Riley, and she takes it. Seconds later, they were outside Grillby's. The familiar restaurant had moved from the underground to the surface a few months ago, but it sparked a lot of controversies, since it was the first monster-run establishment on the surface. Grillby had to constantly scrub off the graffiti that anti-monster jerks painted on. Sans hadn't been to the new Grillby's yet. It reminded him a bit too much of home.
Hey, not that it matters, right Sans? You're gonna be back underground pretty soon. Shut up. He ignores the voice and leads Riley into the warm building. He's immediately greeted by the familiar greetings that he was so used to Underground,
"Hi, Sans!"
"Heya, Sans!"
"Hey! Long time, no see, Sans!"
"Hiya Sansy!"
As soon as the patrons of Grillby's catch sight of Riley, the restaurant is silent. Until one monster bursts out,
"Who's the dame, Sans?!" Everyone cheers, Sans chuckles,
"Relax, fellas. This is Riley." He introduces her with a grin.
"H-Hi…" She says quietly, "N-Nice to meet you all!" Sans leads her over to the bar stools, which were in the same orientation as they were underground. Sans sits in his usual spot, offering Riley the seat next to him. She sits.
"Heh… sorry about the guys. They're a little… Rowdy." He chuckles, she laughs.
"You're pretty popular, huh?"
"Eh, i guess so." He shrugs. Grillby leans against the bar, where Sans and Riley sit. Grillby introduces himself to Riley, which sounds like crackling fire. Riley looks over at Sans with a confused look, Sans translates,
"He says: Hello, My name's Grillby." Riley turns back to Grillby with a covered smile,
"My name's Riley! Nice to meet you!" Grillby offers Riley a flaming hand, who looks down on it with wide eyes. Sans chuckles,
"Won't burn. It's magic fire." Riley takes it, shaking gently. The flames around Grillby's mouth curl into a smile, and he withdraws his hand. Grillby asks if they want anything, Sans translates,
"Do ya want anything? There's burgers or fries."
"Some fries sound good" Riley grins. Sans grins,
"Alright, so two orders of fries, and my usual, Grillbz." The fire elemental nods and walks off to the back room. Everyone in Grillby's is staring at them, Sans turns around, flashing a glare at them,
"Hey, give me an' my girl some space, alright?" Everyone's gaze turns away.
"Your girl?" Riley pretends to look offended, but there's laughter in her voice. Sans' cheekbones turn blue,
"That's right," He grins, "My girl." Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Sans, will you ever learn? She won't be "your girl" for long. Shut up. You can't continue to ignore me, Sans. You know this is wrong. You know you shouldn't be with her. The more you get attached, the more this is going to hurt. You're so selfish. Go away!
Sans' smile fades slightly, he clenches his fists. Riley frowns,
"Sans are you alright?"
Do you like pain or something, Sans? Do you like it when you fall in love with someone just so she can get ripped away from you? So you can never see her again? What will it take… what will it take to make you realize I'm just trying to help you, Sans? I'm here to tell you- d o n ' d.
"Shut up!" He says aloud, Riley looks taken aback,
"Sans, w-what's wrong?" Her voice brings him back to reality, he looks over at her,
"I uh… s-sorry." He looks down at his hands. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
"Sans…? Are you okay?" He looks up at Riley, she looks concerned. He slaps on a fake smile, like he's so used to doing.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little tired."
"Guess what!" Frankie gasped, when he saw Sans waiting for him outside his classroom.
"What's that?" Sans grinned. Frankie was practically dancing, he was so excited.
"I've got my first report card!" Frankie held up the yellow envelope for Sans to see. "It says you have to open it. I can't. Open it, Dad! Open it!"
"Alright, alright." Sans chuckled. "Lets get home first. Hey… I guess…. I guess it's about time I showed you this little trick. Take my hand. I know a little short cut."
"Okay…?" Frankie frowned, but took Sans' hand. There was a dizzy sensation, and the school vanished and they were standing in their living room. "WHAT?!" He gasped, looking up at Sans in awe. "YOU CAN TELEPORT?!" Sans grinned.
"Sure can."
"THAT'S. SO. COOL!" Frankie screamed. "Why didn't you show me that before?! That's so awesome!"
"SANS! FRANKIE?! ARE YOU HOME ALREADY?!" Papyrus shouted from the kitchen. "I'M NOT DONE WITH MY WELCOME HOME SPAGHETTI!"
"That's okay, Paps. I guess Frankie has his first report card and I have to open it." Sans sat down on the sofa and Frankie watched him, eagerly awaiting to see his expression. He wanted to watch his dad's face. Did he do good? Sans pulled out the sheet of paper and began to read, a bright smile on his face. I'm doing good! I'm doing good in school. Sans is proud. He's smiling. As he read lower on the page he paused on a section, and frowned, his smile vanished.
"W-what?! What is it?!" Frankie gasped.
"You're not doing good in history." Sans looked up at him with a frown.
"Oh. I don't like history."
"Why not?"
"Because it's boring."
"That's not a very good excuse for this." Sans frowned. He looked down at the paper again and read aloud, "'Frankie doesn't put any effort into learning much about history. He doesn't care about paying attention during history lessons, and has even been disruptive during these lessons.' Disruptive? Frankie, is this true?"
"Uh…" Frankie bowed his head with a sigh, looking down at his hands. "Yeah..."
"Frankie..." Sans sighed. "You can't do that, kid."
"I know." Tears threatened to fall, he avoided eye contact.
"Hey…. Frankie. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of you. You're doing so good in your other subjects. But… I know you can do better on history. Do you want some help with your homework and stuff?"
"You could help me with history? I just want to make it more interesting." Frankie frowned. "It's so boring. It's all about what people did and how things happened and who cares?"
"Hey, it's important to know where things came from and how certain things came to be." Sans grinned. "I don't know how much help I'll be, since you're studying monster and human history. I don't know hardly anything about human history… but… maybe someone else could help you."
"Like who?" Frankie frowned.
"Well… I know. Maybe Riley could help you. She likes books and history. How would you like it if Riley helped you?"
"You think she would?" Frankie gasped.
"I'm sure! I bet she'd be glad to help out." Sans nodded. "I'll call her tonight. How about you do your other homework for now. The rest of this is really great, Frankie. I'm really proud of how hard you work on this stuff."
"Really?" Frankie smiled.
"Yup." Sans grinned, hugging Frankie gently. "Really."
REVIEWS FOR CHAPTER THIRTY:
Cocoa the Wolf: The review stuff is happening to me too, except I don't even get emailed about it. Anyway... YES SANSLEY WOOOOO FINALLY YASSSSS
I think they fixed it. It's working for me again. Yas! Sansley! 3
DezyBear: OH MY GOSH IT ISN'T JUST ME! I can't read my reviews on my fiction either! And i didn't even think of looking at my email *hit's my head* stupid, stupid, stupid... and regarding this chapter-FINALLY!3
Yeah, I emailed them about it. But they probably already knew. Anyways. It's fixed now. Thank you, fanfiction! :D And definitely-that kiss was overdue.
Ed's. Curious. Kitten: Please put a note or something in if the chapter has another part! I was so miffed because I thought you were leading us on. I should have known better. After all, you haven't disappointed with the rest of the fic! I'm glad you kept going! Sorry for being a jerk. Stay awesome!
Sorrry! It was more like... we couldn't finish it in time and so we decided to split it at a cliffhanger. So... yeah. But it's all better now. You weren't a jerk. You got me motivated to finish our outline so that we can keep moving in a straight line and that is 100% awesome.
CitrisDragon: FINALLY! I was grinning like an idiot and completely flipping out through the whole chapter!
Yes! Sansley is just mmmyes please!
anthonyabc268: I am happy how that turned out who knew Frankie was 9 I thought he was 2 all along guess he's a big boy now. (voiced laced with sarcasm at the last part)
Yup! Glad you liked it! Heyyy! He's just a kid. Kid's say that all the time! ;)
trvlsize23: YEEESSS! Thank you!
You are most certainly welcome! :D
Guest: YES! That was so cute! 3
Awesome! More to come! :)
Doce: *Breathes in deeply* IT'S ABOUT TIME
True. It was overdue. Don't worry, the wait was worth it.
I guest as much: Great update! That was just a great way to get them together! Also, I'm really glad Sans got up the determination to do it, because that took spine. I can't wait to see what happens next chapter!
I don't think Riley could have ever really done it, because she thinks so little of herself. But! It's done at last! And it's turned out alright, I think. :)
Asreil: OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG WHY THE ACTUAL HELL DID I COPY AND PASTE DIS oh I'm sorry
UNDERTALE BE LIKE
Napstiblook:im happy yay...
Mtt: IM FABULOUS
Papyrus:NEYA HEYA HEYA oh and um... Royal gaurd or sum ting
Sans:why even live
(Me btw I will try to be at geno-con I will be sans if you go :) )
Undyne: SUCK MY LONG HARD SPAGHETTI
alphys: um,...(omg undyne is so hot)
Rg #01: um like yah I like bunnies
Last but not least
Asreil:hoi im tem... Wait one minute...tem?
Actual asreil:howdy im flowey ...
DA ACTUAL FAQ
Asreil: FAQ YOU IMPOSTER "FLOWEY" IS ACTUALLY ASREIL YOU DUMB JERK. LOOK AT THE TRUE PASIFIST ROUGHT YA DINGUS... ITS KINDA SNOWEY.
No but seriously this is chapter is chapter #1
I took the liberty to cut short all your OMFGs for this section. ;)
Yup! Everyone's pretty happy right now... for now... heheh *evil grin*
sonicxjones: Well I CARn't wait for the next chapter.
Oh boy. Hehe. :)
Clarissa Fazbear: You know when Sans argues to the voice in his head? Well, with the way the voice kept talking about resets and stuff, I always think that it's Chara that is talking to him, and not just his subconscious. I mean, it kinda sounds about right to me. I dunno. It's just a theory.
I love hearing everyone's theories! They're always so great! This one is definitely interesting. You'll just have to wait and see. ;)
Mr. Indigo: And so the OTP of Riley and Sans begins. Also, I think I mentioned it before, but I also ship Fren (Frankie and Wren), my feelings for the pair only growing with these last few chapters!
Yup. that is 100% true. Sansley is my OTP right now, probably always. Fren! That's cute. My cousin and I are calling it "Frankwren" ...cause... puns. But Fren's cute too. :)
nadiahardar: Oh my god I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation! (;- ; )
I have NEVER, EVER shipped ANYTHING in my LIFE!
But Sansley had me from the BEGINNING.
I look like a moron because ONcE aGaIN I'm in my classroom looking like a god damn tomato, and my friend Is looking at me snickering and on the verge of laughing. She was like "What the fuck are you reading?Oh my god you're BLUSHING!? Let me see!"
And I'm whispering to her like "NO! Uh, I mean... ITS NONE OF YER BUSINESS!"
"ok now I need to know."
"NO STOP PLEASE!"
Can't wait for the next chapter! ( and ultimately more embarrassing moments with friends. )
Yessss give in to the power of Sansley! :D
I know that feel though. When you see something awesome and everyone's staring at you because you can't stop smiling.
Guest: WO-to the god damn-HOO.
THEY DID IT EVERYBODY.
Yes they did. And it's only gonna get better. :)
iamdaraptor: Alright. Frankfurter's hardcore shipping his dad and Riley. Memelord and Scarf Mom are dating. Spear Mom and Nerd Mom are gonna get dunked on pretty soon. Torigore may or may not be a thing. I'm sure nothing can go wrong. *casually awaits the arrival of Red X while squealing something that sounds like "finally you tsunderes"* \_(ツ)_/
I am sorry but all your nicknames are A+. I died I was crying and laughing so hard. They're so beautiful. I can't.
Memelord+Scarfmom for life.
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FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
SANSLEY IS REAL
SANSLEY IS ALWAYS REAL! :DDDDD
Anon: That there was so satisfying. It's just like... FINALLY! I'm completely psyched up for Sansley and I can't wait for Alphys and Undyne's reaction. Technically Sans confessed first, so Undyne won the bet, but will Sans and Riley tell them that? Looking forward to the next chapter as always. :)
Ah yes. Undyne and Alphys' reaction. Hehe. Soon- but I think Sansley needs to get back at Alphyne for setting them up.
SilerofWorlds: Finally! Its about da!n time Sans! Honestly, he is a skeleton. He shouldnt have these problems with nervousness, because nothing gets under his skin. Great chapter, as always.
Niceeee... Poor Sans. He's just falling more and more, he's gotta fix some things before he can really focus his attention of Ri. And unfortunately, he doesn't really understand those things yet...
allie: 8l 00 make the next one!
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Here you go! :D
RosePines123: you did it Sans. you have now revealed the true otp. someone needs to draw fan art about this
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