Chapter seven:
Toriel blinks awake and slightly raises her head glancing to the brothers who are both still asleep currently. She smiles softly and sits up getting up off of the couch careful of the dishes at their feet. She kneels to pick them all up taking them to the kitchen trying to stay as quiet as she can. She starts by washing the dishes putting them away afterwards. She begins to look for what they have that she could make for breakfast only to spot some Mettaton cereal. She takes that out and makes three bowls of the Mettaton shaped cereal for them. She turns hearing someone slightly stumble inside only to see Sans then Papyrus with both still looking at least a little tired. "Good morning boys. We have cereal for breakfast." She informs them offering them a bowl each.
"Thanks Torrie." Sans slightly yawns as he takes the bowl only to begin eating.
"Yes. Thank you." Papyrus adds also eating the breakfast that has been set up.
"Lady Toriel would you like to join us in our duties today?" Papyrus offers to the goat monster. "If you want."
"I think that's a wonderful idea." Toriel nods in agreement upon that so once they are finished breakfast putting the dishes into the sink for now. She follows the two as they head off to begin their patrol.
A part of the patrol takes them to where Sans and Papyrus made a snow Papyrus and a lump of snow with Sans's name written on it.
"Did you two make this?" Toriel asks looking at the two snow sculptures.
"Yup. And it's one of Sans's best lumps!" Papyrus responds rather proud as he stands tall.
"They both are very nice." Toriel compliments with a smile.
"Maybe next time you should join us!" Papyrus tells her. "I wonder how you'd make a snow sculpture of you look like!"
"I think that's a wonderful idea." Toriel agrees.
"Well perhaps later. Let's finish our patrol." Papyrus takes the lead. "Onwards!"
"Try to keep pace with him and he can make ya bone tired." Sans comments as they follow after the tall skeleton.
"Only because you're so lazy Sans!" Papyrus counters in a more playful tone. "Now come along."
Once they are done their patrol Papyrus heads off to calibrate his puzzles while Sans and Toriel hang out as Sans's sentry station.
Toriel is sitting on the stool hidden behind the sentry station and Sans is sitting on the surface of said sentry station.
"And I said. Don't worry. The wind doesn't bug me. It just goes right through me."
Toriel laughs at Sans's joke as the small skeleton joins in on the laughing.
"Though to be honest the quality of my jokes can be a boneafide disaster at times." Sans adds with a slight shrug making Toriel only laugh harder.
Toriel manages to calm down her laughter to speak. "Well Sans you have the perfect backbone to create such puntastic puns."
With that the two laugh together.
"You two I swear!"
The two turn as Papyrus approaches them obviously having come to check on them.
"Those puns are horrible!" Papyrus slightly complains.
"Aw come on Paps. Did that dog steal your funny bone?" Sans jokes and Toriel chuckles.
"Oh you want to see my funny bone?" Papyrus slightly challenges. "I can show you it Sans. That is if you have the spine to handle it."
"Oh you'd better believe it Paps." Sans responds with a grin on his face while Toriel watches all too curious at where this might end up leading.
"Alright then. Prepare to be amazed!" Papyrus stands tall as he prepares his own joke to add. "If only your puns could be as Sansational as the one I am about to tell you!"
Sans leans forward a little looking excited to see what his brother will come up with.
"Thinking about puns all day can be so Marrow-minded dear brother. You really should put some backbone into your work for once. Nyeh heh heh heh!"
Sans and Toriel both laugh upon hearing Papyrus's words.
"Nice one bro." Sans tells the other between his laughter. "You really snowed me with that one that you could bone around too."
Papyrus playfully glares at his brother who closes his eyes in laughter. He bends down picking some snow up into his hands only to chuck it at Sans's face though Sans leans to the side causing it to miss.
"Ha! Missed!" Sans slightly teases then Papyrus grabs his soul in a blue attack. "Hey! No fair!"
This time Papyrus manages to hit him in the face.
Sans shakes his head to shake the snow off though none lands on Toriel. He glares playfully at Papyrus. "Alright you started it." He jumps down onto the ground as Papyrus is no longer holding him in place. He scoops some snow up and throws it at Papyrus who dodges it easily.
Papyrus grabs some snow and tosses it at Sans who jumps out of the way.
Sans scoops up some more himself throwing it at Papyrus who tries to jump out of the way but this time he adds his own blue attack to strike Papyrus in the face with the snowball.
Papyrus quickly shakes the snow off of his face and the two look at each other ready to try to win the sudden snowball fight. He is released from the blue attack and grabs snow moving quickly to make it into a snowball in which he tosses it at Sans.
Sans teleports a little to the side dodging it but it ends up flying into Toriel's face.
The two look to her with slightly wide slightly scared slash worried eyes as Toriel wipes the snow off of her face.
Toriel looks to the two only to smirk in a playful way. "Bring it on." She gets up hurrying around the station grabbing some snow to join in.
The two relax and grin happily at this as snowballs are thrown around the place each monster trying to land a hit on one of the others, while trying to dodge the snowballs being thrown at them.
This goes on for some time until all of them are laying on their back in the snow panting with some snow still on them.
"I guess that is a tie." Toriel slightly pants to the brothers.
"Quite." Sans pants in agreement to that.
Papyrus laughs slightly. "But that was a lot of fun." He comments and the other two laugh before saying one or two words of agreement to his comment on that. He is also the first one out of the three of them to sit up. "Hey! Our shift will be ending soon! We totally should make some snow sculptures!"
Toriel sits up next. "Yes. Let's build with the snow." She nods a little excited then the two turn to Sans who hasn't gotten up yet.
"Sure!" Sans flashes the two of them a thumbs up.
Papyrus and Toriel get up to their feet and Papyrus picks Sans up.
"I know the perfect place! We can make them outside of my station!" Papyrus slightly declares. "Let's go!" He takes the lead with Sans leaning against him taking a moment to rest.
Toriel follows along next to Papyrus and they quickly make it to the taller skeletons sentry station.
Papyrus lets Sans stand on his own now that they have arrived to the location. "Okay! There's plenty of snow here beside my station shall we start?"
"Oh yes." Toriel nods and Sans gives a why not shrug.
So they set to work starting by piling snow together to make the base all focusing on what they are doing to do the best that they can.
Papyrus of course makes himself with large muscles.
Toriel makes herself look more humble and pretty close to how she does look.
The two turn to Sans's attempt only to find him sleeping against a lump of snow with a red marker sitting beside where he had written his name on it.
"Sans! You didn't really try!" Papyrus moves over to sit down next to his brother who had woken up when being spoken to.
Sans groans slightly and Papyrus turns a little concenred.
"Don't be like that Sans. I didn't really mean it." Papyrus informs him flashing a smile. "I mean look. It's your biggest lump yet!" He grabs Sans in one arm pulling him close to make him look to the lump of snow. "You put in so much effort into it this time and I am proud to have it right next to my station where I can see it everyday!"
Sans smiles at this. "Heh. Yeah. I suppose it is my best lump yet." He agrees.
"Yes. I think it looks just fine Sans." Toriel adds with a nod of her head.
"Yours also looks good lady Toriel." Papyrus comments and Sans nods his approval.
"Oh why thank you." Toriel thanks them and Papyrus gets up once again holding Sans who puts his arms and legs around his brothers torso. "Well. It is getting late. Shall we head back home you two? I think this calls for some amazing spaghetti! Nyeh heh heh heh! And this time we'll all help cook it!"
So they went home and made some pretty good tasting spaghetti separating duties between each other.
Toriel took care of the noodles while Papyrus taught Sans how to squish the ingredients into sauce which they made together. She read to them once more and this time only Papyrus fell asleep then Sans went to his room after the fluffy bunny story was over. She settles on the couch that had been prepared for her including a blanket and pillow. She turns on to a rerun of a Mettaton episode keeping the volume to a minimum.
Coming close to the end as it was getting rather late, almost midnight, Toriel heard the slight creak of a door opening then footsteps making their way closer and closer to her.
So she turned in its direction hoping to see who was coming.