After Sans leaves I think to myself silently, flower…? Could it be Flowey he's talking about? I try to shake off the thoughts and I leave the bar. I check my phone for the time and its 12:00AM…Is Sans still working? I don't want to intrude while the brothers aren't home. So I decide to go into the Library. I'm surprised it's still open so I go to the bookshelves and see if anything catches my eye. While looking, I come across the book 'Fifty Shades of Gray' so I think to myself oh what the Hell, why not and I start reading. When I read, I zone out and forget about all that's around me, I even lose track of time.

I don't even know the time and I'm already towards the middle of the book and I notice things start to get hot and steamy in the book. With interest I continue reading when all of a sudden I hear a low voice in my ear. "That's an interesting book…" Flushed with embarrassment I quickly shut the book, turn and it's Sans standing behind me, reading over my shoulder. I put my head down on the table, hiding my face in my arms. "Hey why'd you close it? It was starting to get good." He laughs teasing me. I look up glaring at him and with a smile he says "Your cheeks are red." I groan and hide my face again. He starts to laugh more, he seems to be enjoying this too much.

"You really like teasing people don't you?" I ask a little agitated. "Only the ones I like." Then Sans winks at me. I can feel my ears burning. "H-how long have you been here?!" I stammered. "A while. I've been looking for you actually, its 3:00AM." He answered. My eyes widened. "You were really into that book huh?" He looks at me grinning widely. "Hmph!" I look away. "Shall we go?" he asks. I nod my head, I put the book back on the shelf and when Sans reaches the door I hear him say, "Nice singing voice and has great taste in books!" What?! He heard me. "W-wha?" I feel so embarrassed right now, NO ONE hears me sing. Sans walks ahead of me, laughing for a while. I look at the floor while walking with him, then we get to the house.

Sans opens the door and lets me in first before walking in. It's so quiet in here and the lights are out. He puts a hand on my shoulder and I jump. "Whoa calm down, you're on edge. Wanna freshen up before going to sleep?" he asks. "Y-yeah." He takes me to the bathroom, leaves quickly then comes back to hand me a towel. After the door closes I hear him shuffling downstairs. Today was a LONG day, my body is so sore I need a hot shower. I take off my clothes and inspect my body again for any bruising, but there's nothing and the burn on my face is fading away. Is it possible that eating food here heals?

Again I gaze at the scars on my body, running my fingers lightly over them. They were pretty bad cuts…I look in the mirror and my hair is in my face, I push my hair back with my fingers as they run through. I look at my eyes again, those golden yellow eyes. The same eyes people above would freak out about and hate me for. I tear my eyes away from the mirror and start the shower. Putting my hand in the running water to feel the desired temperature, I wait a while before going in. The hot steaming water is just soothing to my body. I decide to wash my hair, I looking behind me I'm surprised to find shampoo and conditioner as well as body wash.

Why would skeletons need body wash as well as shampoo and conditioner? Maybe they would have visitors from time to time? I don't know so I just keep it in the back of my head. I grab the body wash and smell it. It has a nice fruity scent to it, so I use it washing every part of my body. I grab the shampoo and it smells like lavender and I lather it on my hair. After washing then I applied the conditioner and I rinse my hair. I get out and dry my body and grab my pajamas. A new black T-shirt long enough to cover my shoulders. I grab my wristbands and cover my wrists so no one can see the scars. I put on some long black pants and socks too. Grabbing the towel I dry my hair enough so it's a little damp and I head downstairs.

Going back to the living room, I see Sans lazily sitting on the couch, watching TV and on the other end of the couch is a pillow and a couple of blankets. I could feel his eyes on me as soon as I got into the room. It made me feel a bit uneasy, but I walked over to the couch and sat on the far end away from him. He raises a brow bone, shrugs, then continues watching TV. I feel really cold so I take the blanket and snuggle right up in it, I couldn't help but look at Sans. I'm still in disbelief that I'm in the underground, and why was this skeleton being so nice to me?

Sans broke my train of thought when I noticed he was looking at me from the corner of his eye. I quickly hide my face into the blanket. I hear him laugh and the couch became light, I'm scared to uncover myself so I make myself into a tight burrito. I feel him put his hand on me and I let out a yelp and jumped. "Hey keep it down, you'll wake my bro." he said silently. "Seems like you almost jumped out of your skin. Are you always this jumpy?" I stay quiet, still buried in the warm blankets. Sans gently takes the blanket off my head so he could look at me. I freeze, what's he doing? He puts his hand toward me and I flinch, closing my eyes and I feel him touching my hair. I open my eyes in confusion and he's holding a lock of my hair between his thumb and index finger and he's looking at me with gentleness. Why is he looking at me like that? I don't understand… I don't know how to react to this at all, it's so confusing, and I can't keep a steady breath. Is it anxiety? I don't know.

Sans releases my hair, "You should rest, you had a Hell of a day." He states. He gets up and before he goes upstairs, I hear him say softly "Goodnight." After Sans goes into his room, I stare at the ceiling for a while before falling asleep. I wake up but I'm surrounded by darkness, I hear familiar voices shouting. Am I home…? I hear footsteps approaching and a door slams open. It's my father. No…no! Why am I here?! I left! Please… My father grabs me by the hair and drags me out of the darkness, he hurts me, slaps me, throws me to the ground and beats me. Bruised and bloody, I feel myself tremble in fear as he towers over me and as he was about to land the final strike, everything blurs and I wake up. I'm sweating, shaking, trying to breathe, but I'm not in the same place. I'm surrounded by darkness again and I hear all of their voices. Every person who has despised me, treated me poorly, talking down to me spewing out their hate. I cover my face with my hand and I cry, then I hear something breaking…I look down and the ground shatters completely. I fall and the darkness surrounds me and is trying to swallow me whole. I try to fight back but I can't, the last thing I see, is black.

Sans' POV

Here I am lying in bed thinking about the interesting human I have met today. She has interesting features, almost like a doll. She has silver hair and yellow eyes…not a lot of humans have that. However, she's pretty distant and jumpy, I wouldn't blame her, she's in the Underground where all monsters reside. Something about her though, I don't get it but I want to figure her out, I want to know anything and everything about her, why she acts the way she does, why she covers her arms. I noticed the bands on her wrists, what's she hiding? Is she a threat? A danger? I don't know. She was nice to my bro though. What captivated me was her voice, it's…nice. The old lady told me to protect her. I hate keeping promises but I'll do it her for sake, besides, I think I'll have fun figuring her out. If the old lady didn't ask me this, I would have probably killed her right where she stood with no questions asked.

Knowing, Pap, he probably told Undyne about Rin. I'll have to keep a lookout for her and keep her safe. I wonder if she'll go see Asgore…Does she want to return to the surface? Why did she come down here? So many questions and such little answers! It's making my skull hurt. Just the, my train of thought was broken. I hear something coming from the living room. What is that? Is she crying? I should go check on her… I get up from bed and teleport to the living room and I see her, trembling and crying but she's still asleep. I hear her mumbling something so I inch closer, "No…please….stop…" I can hear her voice cracking, she's having a nightmare. I sit on the edge of the couch and touch her arm, only to have her jump and shoot awake. It actually made me jump.

Rin's clutching her chest and trying to breathe and she's shaking violently. That must have been one Hell of a nightmare…"Hey are you ok?" I ask her but she remains quiet and she's still trying to breathe. Oh no what's happening? Is she having some sort of attack? I just hug her out of instinct to help her snap out of it. My hands stroking her hair…it's soft. "It's not real, whatever you're dreaming is not real, wake up." Trying my best to calm her down, I can hear her whimpering. "Everything is ok, there's nothing to be afraid of." I start to rub her back and she starts to calm down a little. She hugs me back and hold me tight, clutching at the fabric of my shirt, crying a lot. I continue to calm her down, making my fingers move in small circles, telling her everything is ok. Rin's face is buried in my chest and I hear something but I can't make out what she's saying.

I lean my head closer, "Come again…? I didn't quite catch that…" She lifts her head a little, not looking at me but she answers softly, barely even a whisper "I don't want to go back there…" I see more tears coming from her eyes. "To the surface?" I ask. She just nods her head. She bites her lip and then proceeds to play with her lip ring. I twirl my finger in her hair, curling it while still holding her. She seems a bit calmer than earlier…"You ok now?" I ask her. "She nods her head slowly. "Will you be able to sleep?" "I don't know…" she answers. "I'll stay here til you fall asleep then." She just nods again and she releases herself from me, looking down. Why won't she look at me?

Rin lays back onto the couch and I sit on the floor, leaning back against the couch. She's so quiet…I wonder what she went through up there in the surface. She doesn't want to go back…I don't know what she'll do here, almost every monster will come after her if she stays in the underground. Undyne will most likely kill her if she sees her. Despite the old lady asking me to protect her, just something about her makes me want to make sure she's okay. She seems like she's broken inside. The way she was hugging on to me tightly…I can't explain it but I just felt something I don't usually feel.

I feel tired as all Hell…I haven't been sleeping a lot. Something is keeping me on edge. I try to hide it as best as I can, I don't want to worry my bro. Though I end up sleeping on the job but there's really nothing to do now there's a human here. I don't know if we should bring her to the capital. I don't really care for it, my hope for going to the surface is wavering. I just can't afford to care anymore…I look behind me and I see her there, covered in the blankets, her body rising and falling slowly. I guess she fell asleep. Hopefully she doesn't catch one of those attacks again. That rattled me up a little. I stare into the distance in the dark room til my eye sockets start to droop and I fall asleep.

Rins's POV

I can't believe I caught a panic attack…I hate having them. Everything inside hurt so much. I don't understand why but having Sans hold me, and talking to me, helped me. Is he really a good monster? Does someone actually care about me after all? I just met him…I don't know what his intentions are but…I'm glad he's here to keep me company. I find it odd that he has a nice scent…It all seemed to wash away the pain. His voice, his touch…I don't get it…

I'm in that darkness again but accompanied with that familiar faint glow. I just sit on the ground, hugging my knees to my chest and stare off into the distance. I try to clear my mind, but it's difficult. I have so many thoughts rushing through my head. I clutch at my legs and cry softly. Why is this happening? Why me? Why am I going through this? I wish I never existed…I can't deal with this life…I feel a small hand on my shoulder. I know it's Chara but I don't react. I just stay there. "Are you okay?" They ask softly. I slowly shake my head, not showing my face. "I thought so…" they answer. "I saw what you were dreaming…it…hurt me, seeing that." I lift my head up and look at them shocked. "I told you, I'm basically part of you, so I see what you see, anything you do." I look at them. "Everything?" They nod. I look to the side "Even when I shower?" I ask them. They suddenly turn red and turn to the side quickly.

Chara tries to keep their composure clearing their throat. "Anyway, don't give up, I know you've been through a lot, but keep fighting and stay determined." I look down, how can I stay determined…I honestly feel like giving up all together. I don't know how long I can manage before I break. I feel the darkness fading away and I wake up. My eyes open slowly and I see the ceiling first and I smell food, pasta…Pasta so early? I can hear sizzling and clanking of pots and pans. Oh my, is this a daily routine?

I slowly sit up and I see Sans at the end of the couch watching TV. "Morning." He says, turning his head to me. "Morning..." I say softly. "Sleep ok?" he asks. I just nod. "You hungry? Pap is making his famous spaghetti again…it's almost edible…" he looks to the side, snickering. "I guess…" I answer him. "SANS! HUMAN! FOOD IS READY!" Papyrus, comes out of the kitchen handing us both plates full of spaghetti. Hopefully I can stomach this…I see Sans already eating, so I twirl the pasta into the fork and take a bite…It's not as bad as last time so I just sit there, eating and watching TV quietly. When I finished Papyrus seemed so happy to see I had eaten all of the pasta. After that, he leaves the house, leaving Sans and I alone. I feel weird when I'm alone with him. "You don't talk much do you?" he asks while looking at me with the corner of his eye. This surprised me. "N-not really…" I answer. "Why not?" he asks another question. I look down. "Who would really want to listen to me talk…?" I answer with a question.

He raises a brow bone and lets out a sigh. "Seems you've been through a lot. Maybe you need a friend to talk to." With my head still down, I say "I don't really…like talking about my feelings." He looks at me with concern. "You shouldn't bottle up your emotions, you'll end up exploding later." He raises a hand and I flinch again, closing my eyes tight. I can't help it, I don't know what will happen… "Hey don't be scared, I'm not gonna hurt you, if I was, I would've already done it." I open my eyes and feel his bony hand on top of my head, then looking at him. He's smiling at me, calmly. "Pap and I will make sure you're safe and well if you ever need anything, you can talk to me…if you ever need a place to sleep. You can stay here if you want." What…is he really telling me this? Why is he so nice to me, I don't get it. I can feel tears welling up but I hold them back and I nod, while making a small smile. "So, do you wanna go for a walk?" Sans asks me.

Taking my eyes off of Sans, looking to the side I answer "Yeah…That would be nice." He chuckles and gets off the couch. "Well let me change out of these clothes then, you should do the same." Then he lazily walks up the stairs and disappears into his room. I grab my bag and go into the bathroom, I brush my teeth, brush my hair and I pick out some clothes. A red flannel with the sleeves rolled up the my elbows, black wristbands, black leggings, white socks that go a little over my leggings, black boots, and a black scarf decorated with little skulls and hearts tied against my waist, leaving a cute bow on the side.

I come out and go downstairs and I see Sans by the door waiting for me, wearing the same shorts, hoodie, shirt and slippers. I guess that's how he stays comfortable. Sans looks me up and down "Nice outfit." He comments. "Thanks…" I say softly. Before I could grab my jacket I hear him say, "We're gonna take a walk by the waterfall, so you won't be needing your jacket." I nod my head and we go out of the door. As we walk through Snowdin to the Waterfall, Sans and I talk for a bit. He throws some puns here and there and I laugh a little. We see a clearing and we see Monster Kid. He looks at me then at Sans. "Hey Sans! Who's your friend? Are you gonna see her?" He asks. "This is Rin and nah, we're just on a little walk." Her? Who's this kid talking about. The monster kid look at me, "You look pretty weird for a monster." He says. Sans laughs and I stay quiet. "She's kinda shy and different" Sans says to the child.

He looks at me again and I look to the side. "Well, then I'll be off to see Undyne! Later!" He runs off but falls on his face. The poor kid has no arms so he's having a bit of a rough time trying to get up, so I help by picking him up an placing him to his feet. Monster Kid looks up at me and smiles "Thanks!" then he runs off. "That was nice of you." Sans remarked. "Well, he couldn't get up…" I answer. He chuckles and we keep walking and I see a large blue flower. Confused and in awe I stare and it and then I look to Sans. He seems amused by my confusion. "Echo Flowers, they repeat anything anyone says."

Then he proceeds to whisper something into the flower. After that he calls me over "Listen." I get closer to the flower and listen. "What does a skeleton order at a restaurant?" I stay quiet. Then I hear the flower say "Spare ribs." I start to laugh a little that was terrible. So we continue to walk and then he takes me to a cave behind the waterfall. When we go inside I am struck with awe and wonder. The cave had small feint glowing crystals inside. I've never seen anything like this before in my life. It was so beautiful… I just walk around and kneel down to look at the crystals, they're so pretty. "I had a feeling you would like this." Sans says standing behind me. "Its…pretty." I say. He chuckles and sits next to me. "Look…" he says and he sticks his hand out. I watch and as his hand goes closer to the crystal, he touches it with his finger and the crystal lights up. My eyes widened in amazement, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, this was so surreal.

Sans seems pleased with my reaction. "Seems like I'm breaking you out of your shell." He says. I quickly look away. I feel my cheeks getting hot. Am I blushing? He seems pretty charming. More than the people I know on the surface. Why am I feeling like this and about a skeleton? Don't forget that I literally just met him. I look at Sans and he's looking back at me with that same, calm, gentle smile. A small smile creeped up on my face. I feel relaxed, very genuine.