She wouldn't stop getting calls from Papyrus nowadays.
Alphys woke with a yawn, stretching her arms out before rolling over, putting on her glasses and squinting at her phone. The Mew Mew Kissie Cutie theme song played as her ringtone and the contact number, photo, and name of Papyrus glowed bright on her screen. The clock read 1:32 AM. She answered, rubbing her eyes.
"SANS IS SLEEPING AGAIN WHAT DO I DO!?" the skeleton immediately shrieked. At this point, Alphys knew better than to have her phone by her ear.
"He's just sleeping, it's okay." Alphys said sleepily. Ever since Sans…er, well…died, Papyrus has been understandably high strung about anything his brother might be up to. Throughout the day, Alphys would get calls from him freaking out about something or another. She got to her feet and made her way downstairs, knowing full well this call was going to take a while. Papyrus began bombarding her with questions, most of which she already answered before, as she sat on the escalator perpetually going down.
Funny story about those escalators, it was only intended to have one installed.
As stairs.
Alphys messed it up and the thing would only move downwards. Using her brilliant scientific mind, she installed another one that only went up. It worked. Unless you tripped on the one going up. Undyne did that once and it took them a half an hour to get her out of the loop.
Alphys continued to talk to Papyrus, trying to ease his woes as she sat in front of a rather large screen. She put the phone on the counter, on speaker mode, as she messed with wires and tapped along on the keyboard she installed.
Static filled the screen and Alphys sat back, stifling a yawn and trying to answer Papyrus's questions. She understood. Really, she did. But she couldn't help but feel incredibly annoyed when she got woken at 1:00 in the morning.
The static dispersed, focusing on a black screen. With her foot, she gently tapped on the buttons of the keyboard and entered night-mode, which flashed the screen with the image of a room in shades of green.
She felt bad about it, but Papyrus was so worried… So…. She installed a camera in Sans's room. That not creepy at all, right? She only used it when Papyrus called. Sans didn't know about it. Well, not that she knew off. Sans was always knowing a lot more than he let on. Well… True, she didn't have any proof or anything but she just got that feeling from the skeleton.
"Okay Papyrus, I'm watching him now." Alphys yawned. "Please get some sleep." Papyrus turned in the camera's view to face it and waved.
"NO I DON'T NEED SLEEP-"
"Get some sleep." Alphys cut him off "You really can use it."
Papyrus shifted a bit, fidgeting with his fingers before leaving the room. Alphys sighed and settled herself down to watch. Vaguely she was reminded of an indie horror game.
Papyrus felt better knowing someone was watching Sans when he wasn't able to. More often than not nowadays, it was Alphys watching him at night. Undyne tried a few times-
…Tried.
She wasn't the most patient babysitter. More often than not, Sans managed to lose her somewhere and leave her howling in frustration. The short skeleton wasn't completely oblivious to everyone wanting to watch him, in fact he seemed to be entirely aware of it. For Papyrus, he made no trouble at all. Undyne, he made all the trouble. For Alphys…
Well for Alphys, he just seemed to be Sans. He didn't seem to care all too much. Or maybe he didn't know about her network of cameras watching him wherever he went?
…Still not…creepy, right?
Alphys sighed. She was such a stalker.
Movement on the monitor caught her eye and she looked up. Sans had rolled over out of his bed and onto the floor, bringing the entirety of his sheets with him. Alphys cringed at how his leg was twisted at an angle that would be painful had he flesh. Sans shifted around in his sheets, kicking them off with an annoyed grumble. He rubbed at his skull again and got up. For a moment, he just analyzed the crumpled sheets on the floor. Then he picked up his pillow off the mattress and threw it onto the ground with the blankets.
Alphys sighed. The mattress wasn't even too high up. Sans didn't even have a bed frame! She found the more she watched him the more she agreed with Papyrus. Sans really was lazy.
The said skeleton nestled back into his blankets, his feet sticking out at the end and yawned. Drowsily, he fumbled his right hand along the floor until he grabbed a hold of something. A light shown from the object and Alphys quickly put together it was a cell phone.
Unfortunately, the light obstructed the night-vision technology. Alphys wondered for a moment whether she should bother turning the setting off, but she didn't have to. The light dimmed down and Sans…was gone.
Alphys stared, dumbstruck.
Did Sans just disappear? Did his cellphone eat him or something? Why did he just pick up the phone and then disappear? The phone was gone too. Where was he!?
Alphys reached for her phone to call Papyrus and found it wasn't there. A lump caught in her throat as she recalled the animatronic jump scares. Really she knew that was fiction, as everyone knows robots are nice, but there was a certain…unease, in it. She fumbled in a drawer and drew out a flashlight, flicking it on and investigated the area around her desk. Where did her phone go? She needed to call Papyrus…
Alphys, still under her desk, heard the door to her lab open and close. Terrified, she continued to cower as her imagination got the best of her. Footsteps approached. She held her breath and tried not to be too obvious.
Step.
Step.
Step.
…
It was quiet.
Alphys sighed, relaxing a bit and just decided it must've just been one of the amalgamates downstairs.
"who we hiding from?"
She screamed a lot louder than you'd expect, darting out from under the desk and almost tripping over various objects. Someone grabbed the collar of her pj shirt and pulled her back so she was steady on her feet again. The intruder had picked up the flashlight she had dropped in her flight and shined it on his face.
"boo." Sans grinned.
Alphys stared at him, dumbstruck. "H-how did you get here so fast-" she blushed. Sans wasn't supposed to know about the camera- . Her eyes darted to the monitor, still focused on Sans's room and began to sweat. Sans followed her eyes.
"oh cool. it's the my room channel." Sans said. He held the flashlight at a reasonable angle and held up his phone. "you texted me?"
Alphys blinked, confused "U-uh. No. I d-don't even know your phone number."
"huh." Sans's eyesockets focused on his screen. "weird." He pocketed the phone.
"Sans I don't even know where my phone is." Alphys said. Sans motioned onto her desk, where her phone was sitting just where she put it. Alphys stared. "Uh…thanks?" she grinned sheepishly. Sans shrugged. Alphys fidgeted. Sans was always way too casual about anything, really it freaked her out. Also…. How did he get here so quickly? Why was he here? ALSO HE DIED. THAT WAS REALLY FRICKING WEIRD. WHO JUST DIES AND MAGICALLY COMES BACK TO LIFE!?
Apparently Sans.
She fidgeted more.
Sans stared.
Skeletons were really freaky in that they don't blink. They just grin and stare.
"W-wanna watch some anime?" Alphys asked pitifully.
Sans pondered for a moment (probably) and then shrugged "sure."
A/N
Not much happening this chapter. Not much happening the next chapter, either. Probably.
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