Today had not been too bad, you would have still prefered a day off but beggars can't be choosers. The only real problem had been your inability to focus on...well anything. All you wanted was to get back home and on your PC. Talking with Alphys this morning had been..well fantastic, no matter how short. For the first time since this had all started you were able to talk to one of the characters as another person, without the mask that they were little more than scripted data, as well as not getting dunked with a load of guilt and/or aggro.
All you wanted now was to be able to talk like that with Sans, and maybe everyone else if you that was possible. You had given up trying to work out how this was all happening. Heck it could be magic for all you care. Right now you just wanted to enjoy the fact that this was happening. You could work out the 'whys' and 'hows' later.
Closing the door you dump your stuff to the side and kick off your shoes. Hopefully Sans would be in a better mood, after all it wasn't like you had said anything wrong to Alphys. Maybe that would even work in your favor. A noise catches your attention. Music? How was there music playing? You knew you hadn't left anything on and there shouldn't be anyone else home.
"Hello?"
There were voices but they sounded...off, recorded. Maybe you had left the TV on? Making you way over you realize the sounds were coming from your PC.
"hmm dunno, thought I heard something odd." That voice...it couldn't be...Moving quickly you turn on the screen, you see your music player is on but paused. What was going on?
"could be something interfering with the system." No, nononono. You might have never heard that voice before but you had heard the tone of it so many times.
"Sans?" You are almost afraid to ask. It was one thing to be able to talk to someone through text but quite another to hear them. The silence that follows is almost painful though you are sure you can pick out a few sounds, movement, a groan?
"err, hey there buddy" You gasp, a hand coming to your mouth as you try to not shout out.
"thought this might be easier then using that notebook." Oh god he was talking...Sans was TALKING to you. Your heart is beating a mile a minute and you notice the hand at your mouth is shaking.
"Could you just...wait there one sec." Your voice is strained as you try to remain calm and normal, though you're pretty sure you failed on both fronts.
"err sure…" Sans sounded confused and maybe concerned? Maybe.
Just as you're about to walk away you turn back and carefully grab the mouse to turn off your mic. Nodding that you now had some privacy you find yourself moving almost robotically over to grab a cushion from a chair. Then, as calmly as you could you place the cushion over your face and...scream.
That felt...better? You at least felt like your brain was working again...sort of. Problem was that now your brain had rebooted it was running in overdrive to try and come to terms with everything. It was having a hard time.
"Oh. My. Godohmygodohmygodohmygod. That was Sans, that was Sans's VOICE! Shit. Fuck. Keep it together. It's just Sans. Fuck it's Sans. FUCK! Okay, calm, just breath, breath." You take a few deep breaths and close your eyes to try and stop the room from spinning. You had thought you had accepted that this was really happening already but hearing Sans talk was...well it just. This really WAS real. They were real. You pace around in a small circle for a while, hands clenched in almost a prayer as you tried to calm your breathing down and get control of your heart rate.
Feeling somewhat calmer you flop back into your computer chair as your palms rubbed over your face.
"err, you ok there kid?" How on earth could Sans sound like he was both worried and smiling at the same time? You might not be able to see him, and thankfully your computer didn't have a camera, but you knew he must have a huge grin on his face at the moment.
"I'm fine, just err...wait? What?" Your attention snaps back to your screen as you notice the control panel for you mic is still up...and its active.
"Nonono I turned the mic OFF"
"gotta say i'm glad you didn't. that was a scream to listen to. never knew my voice could get that sort of a reaction. heh heh." Not only could you hear Sans laughing but you could hear someone else laughing to, you guess it was Alphys.
"Oh god, kill me now." Your head hits the computer desk. It hurts and makes a satisfying thump sound but you still felt numb. This is it, this is how you die, out of complete embarrassment in front of Sans the skeleton. Well, at least it would be original.
"aww, geez kid you're ugh... making it really hard for me to be angry at you."
"Good." You don't even raise your head from the table at this point.
"I would rather you pity me then hate me." Things go quiet for a bit as you try to let the situation sink in. Eventually you lift your head and look at the screen but it's still just your media player and the mic control panel up.
"How are you doing this? How are we now able to talk?"
"err, alphys gave me a hand to link up a few systems."
"Is she there?" You hoped she was there. If anyone could understand the excitement of being able to talk to people that you had originally thought of as being fictional it would be her.
"Err...h..hi. Sorry about earlier. Um...I had to go help...someone with...some...thing."
Good lord she sounded adorable! You just wanted to reach out and hug her.
"Aww Alphys that's fine don't worry about it."
"gotta admit kid, you're ugh… not at all what i was expecting." Sans actually sounded unsure and at a loss about what to do next. Though you couldn't really blame him.
"I guess this is not really what you expected to hear from the big bad anomaly." You were pretty sure he was expecting some sort of godly being or something completely alien. Instead he got...well you.
"no, not really. you just sound so...well normal"
"Sans look...I know this might come as a shock but well...I'm human, just an ordinary human. No magic, no superpowers, no high tech interdimensional machinery. I'm just a human sitting at their computer trying not to embarrass themselves any more than they already have."
"shit kid...i really hope you're just pulling on my fibula right about now."
"Sorry." You really were sorry. It had only just dawned on you how much Sans had been working towards getting everything sorted out. He had been dealing with all sorts of weird stuff and when he finally thinks he has the person who has all the answers, power and control its just some gaming geek with far too much time on their hands.
"heh, i just can't seem to catch a break"
