Work Text
Let him in!
Shit shit shit SHIT!
The rapid clacking of heels on tiles echoed around the currently empty lobby ad you all but zoomed past the receptionist at her desk to get to the elevator, all while juggling your handbag, car keys to put away, and your comb since you didn’t have time to get ready
You were SO late! And it was no one’s fault but yours..
Curse you insomnia!! Making you stay up late doing literally anything there is to do on the internet…
You rapidly pressed the elevators button as if it’d make it arrive faster, gnawing on your lip as you put yourself together, oh your boss was gonna rip you a new one… he wasn’t particularly easy on you, probably because you were a push over…
And a human. But that’s just a hunch-
Working in the counting department was hard in on itself, but being the only human willing to sign up into this monster dominated company. I mean, the CEO and founder was literally a
robot
named Mettaton..
You weren’t sure why you even wanted to work here, it wasn’t quiet or peaceful but most jobs weren’t anyway…
When you pulled your hand away from the glowing button you wrinkled your noise at the pink sparkly glitter coating your finger, probably getting under your nails too now.. just awesome! Wow!
Ugh, the pink and black themed building was loaded with glitter, sequins, and disco balls instead of chandeliers, and instead of investing in drinking fountains the damn bucket of bolts just had a bunch of mini water fountains with statues of him around!
Whatever… the pay was pretty good, you wished you worked in the graphic design’s department instead, but that’d probably be just as hectic.. if not more.
With a ding, the elevators doors finally opened. You grinned and fixed your posture as stepped inside eagerly, already pressing the button that’d lift you up to your departments floor where your bosses scolds awaited you
“hey! hold the door!”
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BUMP-BUMP!♡
Huh?
Blinking back to awareness for your little internal monologue, you became alert of a deep baritone voice calling out loudly in comparison to the quiet lobby. Looking up you saw someone with their hand raised to get your attention, just as the doors closed slowly in-front of you as they slowly, sprinted over
Wow, were they slow.
He wasn’t really loud when he called out either, his voice was just deep enough to carry over to you with the added help of silence the empty lobby provided.. he didn’t seem to be in a hurry to come over to you so was he even talking to
you?
You were the only one here..
Before you could make out the mystery man’s face the elevators doors shut firmly infront of your face, meaning you just stood there like an idiot while letting the doors close. Infront of him.
Oh, shit.
You didn’t hold the door…. Oh well.
You rubbed your gave tiredly, great, now you felt bad for the guy! Whoever he is.. he didn’t sound familiar, maybe a new hire? Yeesh, that’s just sucks even more. For him, you mean. At least you saved a few seconds from being even more late.
You sighed and brought a hand to your chest, what was
that
about? Your heart suddenly pounded like you ran a marathon.. were you having a heart attack? Is this a result of all that junk food you eat?
Shaking your head you got out your small makeup mirror from your purse, looking over yourself and sighing at what you saw. Bags, faint acne, oh! And worst of all, your face.
You need a holiday… you really do look like you’re gonna keel over soon.
With a roll of your eyes at your own self pity you first got out your lip gloss and started to apply it with a hum, at least it was a delicious cherry flavour..
“that wasn’t very nice of you, didn’t
lift
my spirits at all.”
“OH MY GOD!!”
You jumped with a loud yell and practically threw yourself to the other side of the elevator with your firsts raised, eyes darting around before eventually landing on a.. very small… skeleton?
Oh.. oh.
you’re alone with the skeleton who just saw you let the doors close on him, YOU LOOKED LIKE A TOTAL JERK!!
“Uh- UHM, right, sorry- I didn’t..”
You trailed off as you felt yourself grow uncomfortably hot, the elevator suddenly feeling a lot more claustrophobic then it should’ve. Stumbling over your own words with little grace as your hand came down to your chest to settle your racing heart all over again. How did he even get
in
here???
“you didn’t see me? hear me? i don’t have ears or eyeballs yet i saw you looking straight at me just fine.” Despite the skeletons pointed words his tone didn’t show he was the least bit annoyed with you. But that just made you feel
worse.
“Aha.. right. I was kinda zoning out and I didn’t realise you were calling out to me..” you chuckled awkwardly and rubbed the back of your neck, what a lame excuse..
While you settled down you took in the skeleton with a curious look, a bit ticked off yourself for the sudden scare but you reminded yourself this was normal.. monsters were weird and you had to expect the unexpected!
Even teleporting skeletons..
The said monster was.. again, short, probably 5,0 feet tall or something just by looking at him. Not like you were much better, only being 5,4... You still felt uneasy though, your heart still racing from the earlier scare
His outfit was.. a blue hoodie? Like a sky blue, and a white button up shirt underneath with a funky looking tie that had a burger and hotdog print on it, huh, he had black slacks on with pink crocs on…
He was missing one of his front teeth too, and it was very prominent.
Did he even work here? There’s no way someone as.. unprofessional as him was allowed in here with the strict dress code they had!!
♡
BUMP-BUMP!♡
“eyes up here pal.” Your eyes followed his pink mittened hand that pointed up to his sockets, a passive grin on his face as he tilted his head up to look at you. Again, he didn’t seem too bothered, which was a relief this time. Last thing you need is a complaint form HR.
Right, you were just standing here gawking at him after letting the elevator doors close in his face, what a
great
first impression!! Not.
“Sorry! Sorry.. It’s just, are you new? You aren’t familiar..” you coughed into your fist and averted your eyes so you didn’t come across as a total pervert. Even if he was just a skeleton, realising your hands were empty you looked down to see your handbag, mini mirror and lipgloss on the ground.
Gross..
Sans followed your gaze to the floor and raised a brow, or.. a bone brow? Either way his socket morphed into a raised brow motion, and he took his hand out of his hoodies pocket to start to reach for it while leaning down, while at the same time you crouched to reach your stuff
“oh, here let me get that for you-“ just as he was about to grab your purse for you your heads collided with a audible bonk, making you both hiss and stand up quickly in unison.
“Sorry again!” You felt the urge to hit yourself in the face, this was getting worse and worse! You’re sure your redder then a tomato right now..
“haha, it’s fine, should’ve given you a
heads up
” he rubbed his skull with a wince and lifted the purse up to you with his other hand, at least he was trying to make the scene more comfortable with his puns.. even if you didn’t laugh at them.
“but yeah, I’m new, with some help I was able to land a gig in the counting department.” He nodded to your earlier question and turned away from you to look at the door while leaning back onto the elevators wall railing in a lax manner.
Huh, so he had help to get this job? Did he have connections? That’s how most people got their jobs, and it made sense.. he looked like he needed help to get jobs, judging by his attire and attitude.
“Oh! I’m from the counting department too! What’s your name?” you smiled politely and stuck out your hand, hopefully this one terribly encounter didn’t make you a weirdo in his book. The more friends you have at work the better.
He seemed.. surprised, when you offered your hand, his smile dropping the fainting but before it quicker up high enough to make his eye sockets crinkle. He lifted his mittened hand up to your eagerly
“names sans, sans the skeleton.” For some reason his tone was almost..
giddy
You held his hand tightly to shake it, opening your mouth to give him your own name, but stopped when a loud noise emitted from him
PPPPPFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTT…… ffff..
…
Did he just fart? In the elevator?
Oh my god..
You stood there for a minute, stunned while the elevator dinged and the doors opened to your floor. Wordlessly, you watched him step out with a giddy grin and turn around to face you while you stood still in the elevator.
“see you around, human.” And just like that, the doors closed and you were left alone in the elevator processing what the fuck just happened. HOW DID SKELETONS EVEN FART?? You don’t smell anything though.. was it a whoopsie cushion???
…
FUCK! THAT WAS YOUR FLOOR!!
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“You look like shit.”
A heavy thump of paper hitting your desk followed after the insult, well, was it an insult if it was true?
You only groaned in response, lifting your head up from your desk to look up at your coworker and friend of two years, good old burger pants..
He hates the nickname, but you refuse to call him anything else.
He was wearing a pink button up shirt with an orange tie, even though it wasn’t done up, it matched his fur at least, some blue jeans and black shoes.
You’re suddenly aware how everyone else in this office was so laxly dressed compared to you, you’re starting to think the boss isn’t as hard on them as he is with you..
Or maybe you take this job too seriously, who knows?
“You sure know how to make a human feel special..” you huffed sarcastically and sat up properly, cracking your back in the process loudly. The sound made BP wince and shudder, still not used to the sound a humans body can make even though he’s been on the surface for nine years already.
Tch, what a baby.
“Good thing I wasn’t trying to, what happened this time? Don’t tell me you stayed up all night again..” he sat down next to you at his own desk, already resuming his work after giving you the papers you were sure the boss assigned to you. Great..
“Maybe.. but that’s not why I look less hot then usual.” You sighed pitifully, and side eyed BP intensely until he sighed and stopped his work to turn to face you with an less then unimpressed look.
“Oh nooo.. so sorry buddy, tell me your woes” he feigned pity for you and placed a paw on his cheek, giving you the sign to ramble on about your problems. Though you could see he was annoyed from how his tail whipped behind him wildly.
“Well, not only did I arrive late, But I bumped into the new guy! And I kinda accidentally let the elevator doors close on him.. I had to take the elevator
again
to get here.” you winced at your own words and played with your fingers with a sheepish smile
“Ha, hahaha!” BP brightened up and laughed loudly, making some other employees head then before resuming back to work when they saw it was nothing out of the ordinary. Meanwhile you felt like punching BP in his stupid cat face as he laughed at your expense.
It wasn’t
that
funny…
“Wow. I swear, every time you meet someone it goes terribly wrong. Like when you first bumped into me you dumped the whole jug of water onto me.” He smirked and nudged you in the shoulder, oh how he loved bringing that day up when you were still a newbie around the office.
You were tasked with refilling the water coolers jug, all by yourself even if the jugs were insanely heavy. And while carrying one in your arms you accidentally ran into BP in the hall and the whole thing was fumbled into him. Whoever screwed the lids onto those things did a terribly job..
“Shut up!! How was I supposed to see you?? And you lived didn’t you!?” You slapped his shoulder back and grit your teeth in embarrassment, trying to keep your voice down as you regretted even trying to vent to him.
“Anyway, he teleported into the elevator and we.. sorta chatted for a bit? Barely. I accidentally knocked my head into his and-“
“Wait wait wait. Did you just say teleport?” BP cut you off with a curious look and tilted his head, you slowly nodded in return and set your hands in your lap
“Yeah, crazy right? I didn’t even know monsters could do that! Can you do that? Have you been holding out on me?” You asked teasingly and leaned forward in your seat but noticed the surprised look on BP’s face had yet to settle
“Buddy, you bumped into sans! Can’t believe he’s working
here
of all places.. and you shut him out like that? Wow.”
“You know him?” Now it was your turn to be surprised, though you really shouldn’t. It was common knowledge that when underground every monster knew the other, they were neighbours for most of their whole life.
“Yeah, he was this comedian back underground, and a hotdog vendor, and played a part of the royal guard. Though on a small scale.. he’s the only monster I know that can teleport, so it’s gotta be him” he pinched his fingers together to make a gesture but you were busy trying to process all the jobs this one guy had. He was in the royal guard? Huh.
“Aaaanyway, don’t worry about him. He’s pretty chill, he won’t let an awkward first meeting sour his mood, so don’t worry about it.” He patted you on the shoulder before turning back to his bulky computer to continue whatever work he had due
You’d take his word for it, at the moment that sans guy didn’t really seem all that bothered with you
“Just surprised he got a job here..” he mumbled again, paws tapping on keys as he seemed genuinely surprised.
“From his past jobs, I’m guessing he’s not a very professional guy? Heh, I saw him wearing crocs and a hoodie here, on his
first
day too! If I even have my hair slightly askew I’m getting chewed out by the boss.” You pouted as you remembered the bitter memories
“With the connections that skeleton had he could probably get a job anywhere, his brother probably pushed him for this one though. Papyrus is always trying to make him take the surface more seriously.”
Huh, sans had a brother? Named Papyrus? You’d say you were surprised but a lot if not all monsters had names that strayed from the norm.
Glancing away, you swore you saw a flash of blue before it was gone around the corner, probably just someone moving the water cooler…
“Alsooo, you wanna hang out with us tonight? Me and some other coworkers are going to the bar to celebrate the week.” He side eyed you, yet from what you could see he had yet to make a spelling mistake while typing despite his focus being on you. Show off..
“It’s only Monday..” you frowned, directing your attention back onto him, celebrating the week? What week? It just started!!
“Whatever.. who’s coming?” You shook your head and resting your cheek into your hand, you probably weren’t gonna come either way but might as well entertain him, right?
“Oh you know, me, alphys, Terry-“ he shrugged and listed off the people with his fingers, or paws? Whatever you call them..
Oh well, the cast didn’t seem too colourful and you already had plans. Not like he knew that.
“Yeah I’m good, got plans tonight.” You cut him off with a dismissive wave, ignoring the stink eye he gave you
“Why even ask then?” He huffed and turned away with a sigh, you ignored his theatrics with a chuckle
“I’m honestly just stalling before I have to do the work
you
just dumped on my desk.”
“Bosses orders.” He shrugged and didn’t seem to apologetic, but you didn’t full heartedly blame him if he was just the messenger. Or in this case, the guy who hands you the work the boss is making you do for whatever reason..
With a hum, you turn back to your own work and look over the towering stack of paperwork BP had placed on your desk earlier. With a sigh you plugged your earphones into the computer to put some music on before getting to work, trying to zone out so the day goes by quicker
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Gulp gulp gulp..
“Ahh..” you sighed as you lowered your paper cup, chilling by the water cooler in the break room before sauntering over to the coffee machine, lord know you needed it.
You walked over to the small two seated round table and made yourself comfortable before getting out your phone to check on your socials for any notifications, even if you’re sure in the span of the little time you’ve been at work there’d be any updates.
Mostly just cool ideas for hair dye, hmmm…
“O-omg! Hey y/n-“ an excited and shake voice cut through the silence of the break room, a clawed hand tapping on your shoulder. Startling the shit out of you
“OMG!”
You jumped and felt your heart drop into your stomach, head whipping to the side to where the voice came from with wide eyes. You could feel your neck cry out at the sudden movement
Luckily you were just met with.. the nervous eyes of Alphys, though she seemed unbothered by your scream. Probably because this isn’t the first time she’s easily startled you…
“Sorry.. b-but anyway! Hi!” She moved on quickly and sat down opposite to you, getting out a bento box and water bottle of mocha-ice and matcha-kitkats. The fact she hasn’t lost her teeth yet thanks to all these sweets makes you envious.
“Hey Alphy, what’s got you so buzzed up this morning? You drink a buzz ball or something..?” you readjusted yourself in the seat and turned your phone off to take another sip of your coffee and continue chatting with your best work friend
“O-oh nothing nothing, just that..”
She shrugged nonchalantly as she bit off a piece of her kit Kat, her spare hand tapping her claws on the table before slamming it down loudly to smile at you with shining glasses
“Mew Mew Kissy Cutie released a NEW album and a vinyl record!!” She shoved her phone in your face, a blue fish charm rattling around from the side as she showed you Kissy Cutie’s shop and it’s new product.
“Heh..” you chuckled smugly, leaning back and crossing your arms as you titled your face down dramatically. Picking up your phone and turning it on to thrust it back into her own face to show her something even better
“Yeah, I know. Because I already bought the damn vinyl!!” You showed her proudly how it was already bought and would come by in a month or two, it was a lot of money and you’d probably miss your grocery shopping this week but whatever!
“Gasp! I-I’m so jealous yet I feel bad.. y-you’re gonna be be-begging for my food all week again!! She cried out, hitting her scaly for head onto the table, hopefully her glasses didn’t crack from that..
“Tch, whatever! I’ll let you listen to them with me~” you waved her off and leaned over the table with a sickly sweet smile, you knew there was no way she could refuse such an offer. You were gonna get all the good food from her thanks to that deal!
Alphys, a friend of yours ever since you met her at a anime convention a few hours away from the city. You remember it so clearly like it was yesterday even if it was three years ago, both of you wanted the same limited edition rare figurine of this cute cat mascot and neither of you were willing to let it go.
You both break it.. tugging on it like it was a tug of war in the middle of the stalls, they almost called security! But that was because her hot fish girlfriend came storming over when she heard the commotion. Luckily Alphys didn’t let Undyne tear you to shreds like you did to that figurine!
Only a day later did you find out she worked with you, granted, she didn’t really talk to anyone it make herself stand out so you never noticed her. But you’re glad fate brought you together! Because you finally got a friend to force to binge watch every show and anime you recommend to her.
“S-sooo.. uh, me and BP are going to this bar later-“ Alphys passed you some more of her food while she talked, though you just rolled your eyes and couldn’t resist cutting her off. You already got the spiel from BP earlier.
“Sorry dude, but BP already told me and I can’t come. I’m a busy bee, got plans tonight.” You gave her an apologetic smile, before shoving your face with the food she so kindly offered you. A small part of you did feel guilty about alway declining them on their offers to hang out, but you really were busy!
“Oh.. well, maybe next week?” She seemed disappointed, but not by much. It was expected for you not to come at this point, you don’t know why she bothered asking you every time. It was sweet of her though to want to include you.
“Sure, maybe next week.” You gave her an apologetic smile before turning your phone back on and scrolling, putting in one of your earphones you started to listen to the new album that was resales by Mew Mew Kissy Cutie you two were just gushing over and decided to eat your lunch quickly to end the break and return to work
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“Bye y/n!! See you tomorrow!” Alphys waved bye to you excitedly, her other hand holding her purse as she turned to walk in the direction of her home, opposite to yours.
You waved back with half as much vigour, too tired to out any real effort into the gesture due to the hard work you’ve done endlessly for hours aside from the break you got. With a sigh when she finally turned her back to you you rolled your neck with a few satisfying cracks
The whole time you tried to focus on work your mind kept drifting back to that stupid skeleton, you hadn’t seen him around the office. You wondered if he was lying about working in accounting, but why would he tell such a stupid lie? He probably would.. you don’t know.
Part of you was glad you didn’t bump into him. As stupid as that thought is.
“Ugh..” you should really look into that, but those chiropractor videos you see on the internet always scare the shit out of you too much to try calling one up.
Just as you fixed your handbag handing off your shoulder and moved to call for a cab, having left your bike at home due to its flat tire.. when you heard someone clear their voice.
“long day, am I right?” A deep voice said next to you, making you jump and almost slip on the wet sidewalk as you struggled to get your bearings. Turning your head you weren’t too surprised to see it was that same skeleton from this mornings.. oh great.
“Hey! Uh.. Sam?” You greeted awkwardly, clearing your throat and looking away to busy yourself with the sight of the cars driving by. Only their headlights, the city lights illuminating the night. Though this city never seemed to sleep anyway.
“sans. but close enough” he sighed, bringing a mittened hand to rub the back of his neck. He seemed tired too, even with the grin still present on his face his eyes (sockets?) seemed more lidded and his clothes more ragged. His tie undone and hoodie falling off his shoulder as he stood there holding his briefcase.
“Right.. sorry. You uh, waiting for a cab too?” You nodded and had to resist chewing your lip off, god this was awkward. Why did he even bother speaking up? This would’ve been more bearable if you both just stood here in silence from the get go.
“nah, my bro usually picks me up. he’s got this sweet red car? kinda looks like a race ferrari or whatever.” He shrugged and looked around the busy road as well, the lights of yellow, pink and white dancing amount you both thanks to all the LED billboards around you both. In the dark his eye lights were more prominent, almost creepy..
You didn’t respond to that, just nodding mindlessly again. God, the worst part of having a job was the coworkers.. you just wanted to go home to change out of this shitty office outfit and unwind.
“couldn’t help but notice you’re the only human in the office, probably the whole building too.” He side eyed you as he mused, shifting on the balls of his feet casually. He seemed.. pretty awkward at conversation, he started this whole convo by asking ‘long day am I right’! He was kinda lame now that you realised it.
“Yeah well, not a lot of humans work in the side of the city you know? But it’s not so bad, I don’t feel unwelcome at all.” That was a lie, but you gave him a polite smile and tucked a stray hair behind othe ear. It was bugging you this whole time..
He eyed you silently, it was hard to get a read on him, the only expressive part of him were those eye lights of his, since his grin never seemed to stray, but you didn’t know how to read emotions through two glowing dots, so it was useless.
“i never got your name. can’t keep calling you ‘human’ now can i?”He turned his body to face you a bit more, a car that zipped by quickly made his hoodie blow in the wind almost off his body if he didn’t put down his suit case to stick his hands into his pockets. Looking up at you intensely, as if trying to see through you.
♡BUMP-BUMP!♡
Why…
Why do you feel so weird? Like there’s a chew toy lodged in your throat, making it hard to swallow or speak, and you might pass out from nerves alone?
Why did you feel funny looking at him right now?
“Well..” you gulped, grip on your handbags strap tightening as you felt your mouth go dry. Averting your eyes briefly from his own before letting out a chuckle, he had a point, maybe if he kept calling you human you’d just call him Sam in retaliation.
“My names-“
Another car, this one definitely going over the speed limit, drove by so fast all you saw was a flash of red. And the last thing you saw was a wave of water coming right at you, your eyes widened and you had no time to react or get out of the way before the puddle water hit you in the face
“Ugh- what the fuck!?” You closed your eyes and dropped your bag to wipe your face, stupid speeding car making the puddle go right in your face! Ew!
“BROTHER! THERE YOU ARE!” A loud shrill voice cut through your sputtering, you moved your wet bangs out of your face and peeked an eye open to see a red Ferrari parked a bit ahead of you two on the sidewalk. Eyes widening at the driver who appeared to be a tall lanky skeleton, you turned your eyes to loom at sans questionably, only to find him not standing there anymore.
What-
“cmon bro, let’s go, i’m starving for grillbys fries. i’m
bone tired
after a long day of hard work.” Head snapping over to the car again you were shocked to see sans already in the passenger seat next to his supposed brother, arm resting on the door cooly. As his bother got ready to drive off after groaning at the pun sans turned his head to shoot you a grin, a grin so smug it made you boil with rage, the water steaming off your face and coat if it could.
And just like that, the two skeletons drove off. The one driving didn’t even seem to notice you. Though sans was oh so kind enough to give you a wink before they merged with the other cars.
That.. THAT JERK! WHAT THE FUCK!?
Only then, with you standing there drenched with a glower at nothing particularly, did a cab finally pull up infront of you
You now knew that that weird feeling was.
Hatred.
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The quiet click of the door alerted your pet cat from their spot on the couch, trudging in and dragging your feet behind you you heaved a sigh and plopped your handbag down next to your door carelessly. Shutting the door behind you, you smiled and looked down when you felt someone bump it’s head to your shins and continuously weave between your legs with happy meows
“Heyyyy baby!” You couldn’t hold back from crouching down and picking up the cat, walking further into your apartment with your furry baby in your arms and past the open living that was connected to your kitchen in favour of heading into your room
By the time you set your cat down on your unmade bed he was covered in lipstick stains of kisses all over the face, not like you could resist not kissing him on his cute face, it was therapeutic!
And Jesus did you need to wind down, aside from your cat there was always one other method you could rely on to feel better.
Kicking off you heels you took off your coat and leggings, already opening the dresser and digging around like a raccoon on a journey. Your cat kneading and sucking on your fuzzy blanket as you busied yourself, pointedly ignoring the family pictures on the walls that collected dust since you refused to clean up as much as you used to.
“Ughhh…. I don’t know if I wanna wear something tight or baggy tonight.. cause I wanna look sexy but comfortable. You know?”
You gave your cat a glance over your shoulder, they answered with a meow. Very helpful.
You needed to get company that wasn’t your cat.
Or your coworkers…
After a debate with yourself that lasted longer than it should’ve, you looked over to your full body mirror with a thoughtful look. Ignoring the cracks that littered it on the top, the outfit wasn’t too bad..
Wearing black shirt with the sleeves ripped off and a (your choice) coloured sweater underneath wasn’t a bad look, you were mostly just worried you wouldn’t feel too hot tonight. Even in the cold you’re sure partying would heat you up like a work out at the gym.
Black jeans with stars cut into them where your knees are, and some converse boots. You walked to your desk and sat down with a hum, changing your hair from its usual style and putting in some temporary dye. Applying some dark messy makeup, your piercings you sadly weren’t allowed to wear at work, and finally. A bunch of jewellery, bracelets, and keychains!
Smiling to yourself, you were satisfied with person you saw in the mirror. Completely unrecognisable. Perfect!
Standing up leave you gave your cat another kiss on the forehead, this time the lipstick was a whole colours shade from the others and stuck out. You chuckled and snatched your keys as you sped out the door, eager for a night of partying.
Meanwhile. . .
“I wanna be a viral star, on a shiny stage somewhere!”
Music blasted loudly from the small Bluetooth speaker in the small dark room as a short skeleton struggled to take off his shirt, when he finally managed to pull it over his skull he scowled and tossed it away with a glare. Rubbing his face he turned the music up from his phone, not really caring if it got another lecture from his younger bro.
What a shitty day at work.. he woke up late and forgot to pack his own lunch. Again..
“it may be sad but i steal a dream..” sans mumbled along to the lyrics, interrupting himself with a yawn as he walked around shirtless before picking up a baggy red sweater from the floor and bringing it to his nasal hole to smell it. Hmm.. pretty funky, but no one else would notice if he just put on some cologne right? Right.
He should probably shower before going out..
Nah.
Kicking off his slacks next he slipped the sweater on with ease, humming to the melody as he picked up some black and white striped sweatpants next. He walked to his mirror, the top littered with sticky notes of reminders and cute stickers, and one Polaroid photo of him and his friends
Sans ignored it though, taking a seat at his desk and pushing all the plastic cups and junk to the side, looking over his shoulder to the door incase his brother tried to barge in here without knocking.. again.
Sans loved his bro, but he liked his privacy too.
When he was sure he wasn’t going to be disturbed, judging by the singing downstairs he vaguely recognised as a song called :what’s up?’ He opened his desk and got out some eye liner. It was almost empty and old as fuck but sans didn’t have it in him to toss it out, besides, it was still useful.
He slipped off his mittens to avoid getting them dirty, and eyed himself in the mirror as he dipped his phalanges into the black thin cylinder and smudged it with little fire under his eye lights with some eye shadow. Smiling at he mess he made as it dripped down his cheeks. Perfect.
As sans dolled himself up his train of thought went back to you, that strange human that was apparently his coworker.
You were weird.. and kinda rude. But so was he, so he couldn’t judge. You were funny though.
Made his soul feel funny.. it was either social anxiety or annoyance from talking to you. Neither sounded correct but it was close enough.
He chuckled as he recalled scaring you twice, and even seeing the look on your soaked face as his brother drove them off. Priceless!
If there’s one thing he likes about humans, it’s how expressive they are, compared to him at least.
His ecto-tongue licked the gap of his missing tooth in absent thought as he stuck his hand deep to reach for his prized possession. A gold tooth he found in the underground back when he was a baby bones, he always felt like it was too cringey to wear all the time though. Only for nights like these.
He checked his jackets pockets for his essentials, finally ready to leave minus a few things.
Phone? Check.
Cigarettes? Check.
Lighter? Eh.. he can just ask grillbs to light his cig.
Spare mustard packets? Of course.
Condoms?
…
Sans is just.. gonna buy some on the way. He’s sure the ones he has now are expired anyway-
With a hum he sucked in a breath and closed his eyes, just as the door to his room rudely slammed open, sans was gone.
“SANS! DINNER HAS ARRIVED! AND BY ARRIVED I MEAN MADE BY YOURS TRULY!”
…
“SANS…?”
Papyrus looked around sans empty yet messy room in confusion, not at the mess of course, that was expected.. but of the absence of his older brother.
He looked over to the small Bluetooth speaker still blasting music, with a huff he trudged over and shut it off.
Out again it seemed, papyrus felt as proud as he did disappointed. Not looking forward to eating dinner alone. Again..
“OH WELL, MORE FOR ME!” He sighed and left the room, giving it one last look before quietly closing the door behind him.
Papyrus just hoped that sans could get some food while at grillbys, he didn’t enjoy the thought of his brother hungry.
.
.
.
The doors to the bar creaked as they were pushed open, a few heads turned but went back to their own business easily when they just saw it was you. A human, sure, but those aren’t as uncommon as they used to be when monsters first opened up shop on the surface.
With a sigh you closed the doors behind you and strolled in, hands in your jeans pockets as you looked around. Seemed awfully rowdy for a bar, from what you heard it usually had a warm and pleasant atmosphere. Tonight seemed to not fit that description, not with all the purple, pink and blue lights flashing and the bustling crowd of humans and monsters alike either drinking their heads in or dancing near the quant stage a small band was performing.
Hm. Must be a special night then.
Tucking your bangs behind your ear you moved along, heading straight for the bar where an eye catching bartender worked. You tried not to stare, but it was hard not to..
Elementals were always especially pretty.
You sat down on one of the free bar stools, right across from him as he cleaned off a shit glass with a rag. He finally looked up, eyes blinking at the sight of you. It was hard to tell what he was thinking, without a mouth.
You eyed the colours of his flames, mostly orange but you caught sight of pinks and purples at the tips of his flames. Huh.
He didn’t say anything, probably waiting for you to order... He seemed just as curious about you as you were of him. Even going as far as setting down the rag and shot glass down without taking his eyes off of you, well.. from what you could tell anyway without pupils to direct with.
“…?”
His flames crackled distinctly, you blinked and sat up straight when you snapped out of your little stupor. Right. Elemental language..
you barely knew how to understand it.
“Just get me some fries. And something that doesn’t take like shit.” You crossed your arms and looked away, feigning nonchalance. You looked so weird staring at him like that!!
You heard a few more poppies and crackles, before his light in the corner of your eye moved out of sight. Looking over you saw him moving to the back of the bar.
You breathed a sigh and rubbed your face, that was so lame… you can’t keep staring at monsters just because they look cool! One of these days you’re gonna look like a creep.
The doors to the bar creaked loudly behind you, making you tilt your head slightly to the side before deciding against looking behind you. Though now you saw why everyone turned to look over when you came in, that door was
loud.
A chorus of cheers erupted from the patrons, that made you even more curious. But before you could do anything the bar stool next to you squeaked as someone sat down, that made you narrow your eyes before looking over.
No.. it can’t be..
Not
him!
You frowned as you looked down at the small skeleton who decided to take his place right next to you, despite other stools and tables being very much free for him to take.
Jackass..
The skeleton rested his cheek into his gloved fist, side eyeing you before tilting his skull to look up at you. Acting as if he didn’t notice you before a grin that could rival the Cheshire cats spread across his skull
“heya there toots, haven’t seen you around…”
He trailed off, his grin suddenly less sharp and more wobbly as he sat up straight and looked you up and down. What’s his deal?
Was this sans? No way.. that voice.. and he looked so different!! The sans you met at the office didn’t have a deep gravely voice with a weird Brooklyn accent, or a gold tooth, or eye liner..
“Sup?” You responded back in return, sucking in a breath as you averted looking at him and tapping your nails on the bar top as you awaited for your order just so you can move to sit at a booth instead.
It was radio silence on his end, great, even more awkward! Why did he even bother sitting next to you and starting a conversation if he couldn’t even finish it? Dammit! The only reason you even came out at night like this was to get away from these awkward situations you always find yourself in!!
“uhh- yeah! wassup! hah. so true.” He nodded along and coughed into his fist, red tinted white eye lights dancing around the bar as he grinned awkwardly. His cheeks reddening with a subtle glow you barely would’ve notice unless you were in a darker place.
“What?” You turned back over to him, confusion evident all over your face.
“uhhhhhh…” he didn’t seem to have an answer for his own confusing response, luckily for you (and probably for him as well) he was interrupted by a plate of fries being set down infront of you and a glass of.. something colourful.
You ignored the awkward skeleton and ate some of the fries after dipping it in the ketchup, purposely
not
making eye contact with him.
No way was this the same sans from the office, he wasn’t this…
awkward.
That was mostly your job.
While you kept your eyes on the dance floor and awkwardly sipped on your fruity drink you missed the skeleton softly banging his skull on the bar top with a few grumbles, the bartender covering his ‘mouth’ to muffle his snickering at the poor skeletons red glowing skull
“so… m’surprised there’d be a human this far into the monster part of the city, wanted to try somethin’
exotic
? human?”
He eyed you as he waved off grillby, he didn’t plan on ordering anything just yet. Though the elemental stayed firmly where he was standing, curious of the sight before him
“Yeah, i wanted to try some exotic drinks.” You turned your head to look over at him, that tone of his not going over your head. You place your drink down, rubbing your thumb over the glass and making it wet thanks to the condensation
“Got a problem with that?” You raised a brow, eyeing him as you picked up a chip, dipped it in some sauce and ate it. You’d rather distract yourself with the food then grit your teeth, which wasn’t too good for you.
The skeleton shrugged casually, and you’d believe he didn’t have a problem with you being here like some monsters did, if it weren’t for the way his smile and eye lights sharpened.
“i wouldn’t blame ya if that was the reason, humans love swinging by to see a monster they haven’t seen yet. like that Pokémon shit you guys like.”
He turned on his side on the seat, arm resting on the counter as he tilted his head up at you with a all too smug grin, like he had you figured out when you both just started talking.
“I live around here, I see you guys everyday.” this was getting frustrating, he was playing you off as a racist and for what? He was probably just some bored dick trying to start something or get on your nerves.
And you were tempted to give him what he wanted.
“see us? right. what about touch?” He leaned forward, eyes lidding as you leaned back in return with wide eyes.
“
taste?”
You were too stunned to do anything but watch as he brought his hand to your small basket of fries, taking a fry before having his sharp phalanges grazed your hand before he pulled away. Your hand now covered in the salt he smeared, him finally leaning out of your space to eat his fry like it was a victory
Was.. was he flirting with you now? You were confused. Or was he just distracting you while he ate your food??
You were confused and kinda aroused. But kinda pissed he was talking down to you and eating your fries, what?
“If you want me to touch you so badly I can gladly shove my fist up your ass, or your face.” You slammed a fist down on the counter, leaning in close to him in return with your nose scrunched up in a glare. When he tried to lean back in surprise at your sudden forwardness you wrapped a finger around his spiked collar to keep him in place
“Let me enjoy my fucking meal dude.” You all but hissed at him, he only looked up at you with wobbly large eye lights and an expression you couldn’t read.
“I-“
You cut him off by letting go of his collar and sitting back in your seat normally, sipping on your drink to cool down before placing it down with a heavy thud. He flailed his arms around as he almost fell back off his seat without you holding him up anymore, but fortunately held onto the counter and pulled himself up right with a sigh of relief.
He looked over to you awkwardly as you resumed to your meal, hunched over with his chin touching the counter. He gawked over to grillby, as if he had any idea what just happened. But the elemental was already gone. Great..
Dragging a hand down his face he berated himself for fumbling that. Feeling hot but he refused to take off his thick jacket.
That was totally lame!
He sounded like a creep!!
That was kinda hot how you threatened him-
He kinda wanted another fry.. they were delicious.
He peeked through his fingers, you were facing the dance floor again, obviously trying to ignore him. His frown deepened as his eyes danced around the loud and bustling bar to think of a way to start a conversation that didn’t end with you clocking him.
Looking over to the salt and pepper shakers not too far from him he felt a devilish grin almost split his face, instead of feeling embarrassed of his life choices, why not be a petty bitch?
As you had your back turned he dumped a generous amount of both shakers into your drink, quickly leaning back onto his seat with the shakers hidden behind him with a casual whistle when you turned back around.
You raised a brow and picked up your drink again, lifting it to your mouth for another sip when your eyes widened and you immediately spat it back out. Coughing and heaving at the taste while the skeleton bursted out laughing beside you.
“Did you put something in my drink!?” You wiped your mouth and had your hand snap towards him, hooking a finger into his socket and pulling him towards you as your spare hand reached for your pocket where you kept a taser, ignoring his grunts of pain as you kept your finger in his socket.
“You fucking creep! Trying to roofie me? This shit doesn’t even taste good!” You were
so
done with this creep, just as your hand wrapped around the taser his voice was suddenly shrill and got your attention over the music and rage you currently felt.
“salt and pepper!” His hands gripped your wrist, trying to tug your hand that was still hooked into his socket as he looked up at you with wide eyes
…
“What..?” You paused, confused by that the actual
fuck
he was yelling about. Was he trying to throw you off guard after being caught being a creep?? What?
“i- ahem, i-i put salt an’ pepper in yer’ drink..” he meekly pointed to your drink, then held up the shakers he was still holding onto, a wobbly grin itching itself onto his face when he saw your expression but this time he didn’t seem anywhere near laughing.
God, he could feel the murderous intent rolling off you in
waves.
You slowly let him go, eyes drifting between your (now ruined) drink and the shakers. Before scoffing and letting him go roughly enough to almost make him stumble off his chair.
At least that explained the terrible taste..
“Fucking unbelievable.. you do that to every girl you talk to? Or just the human ones? Fucking
asshole.”
You pushed yourself off the stool, not caring if you left behind your fries because your appetite was so ruined right now you couldn’t even laugh at his relatively harmless prank. You had enough of pranks for one day.
You were so done with this. Screw him. And screw ever leaving the house again! You weren’t interested in talking to any more skeletons, especially one that looked so much like your jerky coworker!
The resemblance was uncanny, but then again, a lot of monsters looked alike! Like moldsmals or froggits! So maybe skeletons looked alike too? But then again sans’ brother looked nothing like him..
“uh-“ sans sat there frozen, hand still out stretched as he watched your retreating form make its way to the dance floor..
“…” flames crackled beside sans, making him grit his teeth and shoot grillby a withering look that only made him laugh higher at his misery.
Now
he came back from whatever the fuck he was doing?? With a scoff sans gabbed a fistful of the fries you left behind and shoved them in his mouth, chewing messily with a scowl before hopping off the tall stool.
He followed you to the dance floor, sans wasn’t sure
why
, but he really wanted to talk to you more.
Without
him sounding like a guy who just had a stroke..
Not
his
fault you didn’t have a sense of humour..
It’s.. his fault he didn’t have a very good sense of one..
Why was he so bad at flirting?? He always sounded like a sarcastic douche.. whatever! You were just a random human. That’s all.
A cool…. Pretty… tall human. With badass makeup and hair, and style he wished he knew how to accomplish so effortlessly..
…
Ugh.
Sans shook his head to rid of those mushy thoughts, and pushed past a few monsters whilst ignoring their complaints as he kept his eye lights on your back. Swallowing the fries and hitting his chest with his fist to sure they stayed down before taking a few large steps to finally catch up to you, whoever you were..
“oi. we weren’t done talkin’ back dere’” he frowned, hand reaching out to grip your sleeve. His voice a lot more shaky than he’d wish it to be, looking up at you and waiting for you to turn around to face him.
Feeling something tug at your sleeve you spun around with a glare, but paused when you saw it was the same weird skeleton from before.
“It was barely a intellectual conversation!-“ you tried to tug your sleeve out of his hand but his grip was latched on tight, resulting in you accidentally pulling him against you. You tried to take a step back but slipped on something, probably a spilled drink, and felt the world suddenly tip.
Oh, you’re falling!
“shit! i gotcha!” A disgruntled voice piped up, an arm wrapping around your waist to hold you and keep you steady, though now you were in a tilted back in a ‘dip’ position with this guy..
It was especially awkward thanks to the size difference between you two.
“Woah! holy shit.. almost fell on my ass” you let out a breath, panting slightly as you looked up at the skeleton who still kept a arm around your waist and the other now tightly holding onto your wrist rather then sleeve. Meanwhile while you were falling, your hands flew to grip his shoulders in a ditch effort to grab onto something.
This looked like an intimate dance pose to anyone looking right now.
“uhhhhh…..”
Suddenly the skeleton freezes again and looked down at you with that same red face again, essentially, short circuiting in a similar fashion like before. Awesome..
You pursed your lips and tried to find your bearings so you can properly stand up and not be tilted back, made you feel like you’re gonna fall again.. how was this short stack even holding you up right now?? Weren’t you heavy?
“shit- right, sorry babe, got lost in yer eyes” sans tried his best attempt at a flirtatious grin, giving you a wink as he lifted you back to your feet with a grunt he tried to push down to not look weak.
“Ugh.. seriously? Get lost somewhere else.” You scrunched your nose and helped him by pushing yourself up using the leverage of your hands on his shoulders.
You stumbled forward, hands still on his shoulders to keep yourself balanced. You bumped into him, looking at eachother and it took you both a bit to realise how close you two suddenly were.
♡BUMP-BUMP!♡
Sans sucked in a breath through his clenched teeth, looking up at you with large eyelights. His grip around your waist and wrist tightening as he felt his soul pounding against his ribs. He audibly swallowed the lump down his nonexistent throat.
You looked..
nice
, illuminated by the dancing lights of purple, pink and blue of the club.
You only looked down at him with a frown, uncomfortably glancing away to the other monsters and few humans on the dance floor. Luckily they all seemed to be in their own world, thank god. Your hands slipped off his shoulders, down his arms and urging him off you with a few tugs.
“I’m fine now dude. You can let go?” You raised a brow, tugging on his arms again. That seems to snap him out of his own thoughts, he let go of you like you were fire and scowled.
“i-i know! I mean.. tch, yeah. should be careful where yer’ steppin’. human. makes it looks like yer’ fallin’ for me already.” He fixed himself with a cocky smile, leaning back on his sneakers as he willed his stupid blush away.
“Where I’m stepping?? You’re the one who yanked me over to you, get a hint. I’m not interested dude.” You scoffed and sneered down at him, how could someone so cocky be so small!?
“wha- well. didn’t anyone tell ya s’rude to leave mid conversation!! was gonna offer ya a drink..” he stumbled in reply and looked away, cheeks reddening with a subtle glow
“That’s sweet, but I’d rather not accept free drinks from dudes anymore. You know? Might make me
salty.
” This was awkward, you sighed and rubbed the back of your neck whilst avoiding looking at him. You felt like a dick but at the same time you kinda didn’t care? Your anger was totally deserved
“cmon! give a guy a chance, I didn’t even do nuthin’.” He all but pouted, he knew he was in the wrong but fuck, no way was he going to admit it!
He took a step towards you
“Yeah, besides be a fucking nuisance! Quit getting under my skin asshole!” You grit your teeth when he came closer and didn’t think before you had shoved him back, he bumped into another monster who was chatting up some girl, making the guy spill his drink on her.
Oh, whoops..
“Oi! Watch it pipsqueak!” Turning around revealed a wolf looking monster, barring teeth when he shoved sans back. You watched the skeleton stumble back into a different monster, this one a more fish resembling one.
“fuck- sorry sorry i know!” Sans didn’t even have to turn around to see the monster glare at him, snapping as he tried to regain his bearings, god.. at this point he was being passed around like a plinker ball!!
The fish monster, who didn’t seem
too
pissed at being bumped into earlier, had their fins flair up at sans tone, and lifted their arm to dump their drink onto him.
Except their elbow his another monster in the back of the head, causing more annoyance and a new argument..
Was.. was this some sort of chain reaction? Did you cause this?
You stood there awkwardly on the dance floor as more monsters kept stumbling into eachother and snapping at one another about it, your eyes fell back to the short skeleton who slowly turned around and witnessed the chaos just begin to unfold when two people suddenly started to roughhouse on the colourful tiles you were supposed to dance on.
Welp, time to go!
Whistling casually to avoid suspicion of being the one to ruin everyone’s night out you slowly spun on your heel and made your way to the exit, hands behind your back as you avoided getting between the monsters that started to get physical…
As you opened the doors that would let you leave this bar you resisted the urge to turn around to look for that small skeleton you kinda abandoned.. but any temptation was squashed when you suddenly heard a loud smashing sound behind you
Nope nope nope! Sorry pretty elemental guy for ruining your bar!
You stepped out quickly onto the streets, frowning at the harsh rain, did the rain pick back up so quickly? Your hair and makeup are going to be ruined.. there goes your plans to migrate to the next closest bar..
You let out a sigh and looked around, the streets were empty.. made sense. Even if the night was still young in your eyes the rain would’ve scared anyone off.
Kiiiinda wish the streets were this free when you were looking for a parking space though, whatever.. guess you’ll just take off your heels and make a break for it to your car and pray.
Just as you bent over to kick off your heels and pick them up you heard the door loudly, you paused and stood up right, one heel in each hand as your turned around curiously to see who just left the bar unscathed.
…
Oh you gotta be kidding me.
You took a step back, almost going under the rain and out of the canopy, which would
not
ideal to do without your shoes on and in socks, at least not on purpose like you planned to do.
“you! human! you fuckin’ ruined mah night!” The stupid ugly skeleton pointed a finger at you, his sockets narrowed as he took a few steps towards you, his cheeks a angry red colour as he was all but fuming where he stood. You could even see his other hand balled up and shaking by his side as he glared up at you.
“Yeah? And you ruined mine! Now everyone’s night is ruined! Good job dipshit!” You would’ve jabbed a finger right back at him if your hands weren’t currently full, deciding to hold both shoes in one hand to fix your hair you scoffed and turned away from him
“me? You shoved me! for the love of Asgore- can’t you take a fuckin’ joke!?” He ran his hand down his face before stomping around in a small circle, obviously as frustrated as you were feeling and trying to pace it out.
You rolled your eyes and ignored him, while he could his little tantrum you were actually going to do something. And that something was going to your car, go home and then never leaving your room again.
“where you goin’?” Just as you were about to take off in the direction of your apartment building you felt something tug you back by the belt, with a heavy sigh and resisting the urge to throw yourself onto the road you looked over your shoulder and slapped his hand away, ignoring his disgruntled expression.
“Home! I’m not dealing with this, w-with
you!
” You struggled to find words, giving him a sharp look as you used your free hand to put your hair up so it didn’t get in your face when you started running. You did not want to trip on the way home, that would suck..
It was a mistake to come out tonight, especially on a work night.. ugh.
“Later.” You exhaled and took a step out into the rain, eyes glaring ahead to try and see the light posts past the heavy rain so you knew where to go.
Sans eyes narrowed, standing there uselessly as he too struggled to find words. What for? Every time he seemed to open his maw he just fucked shit up more and more. a part of him didn’t blame you for pushing him earlier, another part of him tonight you should go fuck yourself.
He knew if he just let things end here it’d keep him up at night, like every other time he embarrasses himself.
He watched you out your hair up and get into a stance that was clear you were ready to take off, his hands shook as he stuffed his fists into his pockets. Why did you bother him so much? Why did he keep trying to talk to you?
He couldn’t believe he was doing this..
Sans lifted a hand to grab onto your sleeve again, hoping to get your attention before you shook him off again.
“hey! i uh, never got yer name-?”
RIIPPPP!!
Just as you took off before sans could grab a hold of you the sound of fabric tearing caught sans attention, while you already took off out under the rain sans tilted his head up with wide eyes, seeing the canopy’s roof rip under the rains weight, a bunch of water falling onto sans at once, absolutely drenching him
“ugh! FUCK!” Sans sputtered and felt his knees shake, the sudden water falling onto him all in one go almost made him collapse. Despite having no skin he felt absolutely
freezing.
Stripping his hoodie with clattering teeth and shaky hands he looked up with his jacket balled up in his arms to see your figure slowly disappear from the view the further you went.
What. The. Fuck.
Sans stood there in shock, thanks to the hole sans was standing under the rain poured down on him. This was really sans unlucky day…
He tilted his head down, both in embarrassment and frustration and to get the water out of his eye sockets.
Sans knew why he was so curious about you all night, following you to the dance floor, talking to you at the bar..
He tilted his head up, a anger and gloomy glower on his skull as his red eye lights scorched into where you once stood.
He fucking
hated humans.
.
.
.
The quiet click of the door locking behind you was what caught your cats attention, their head peeking over the couch as you offered a smile. Dropping your heels and dragging your feet to your room, leaving a wet trial on the floor behind you as cold rainwater dripped off your drenched body.
A shaky sigh racked your body like you a shaky leaf in a storm, you felt as fragile.. a night of fun you desperately needed just made you feel
worse
.
Slowly stripping out of your wet and ruined clothes down to your undergarments you got a towel and dabbed yourself off before flopping on the bed and bundling up in your many blankets, shivering and probably got a fever thanks to the rain.
You couldn’t be bothered to wipe off your makeup or take off your jewellery, that can be a problem for you tomorrow when you get ready for work in the morning..
A small meow caught your attention, lifting your head up slightly just in time to see your cat join you on the bed. Head butting you in a gesture of affection, with a sigh you flopped your head back into the pillow, lifting an arm to allow your cat to slide under and lay next to you.
That skeleton.. did all skeletons have it out for you? Every interaction with one so far has ended with you wanting to put a gun to your mouth.
Is it a bad omen? A sign? Maybe moving to the monster side of things ain’t for a human.
…
Whatever.
You blindly reached for your phone, peeking an eye open to go to your playlist and play some music. As a song you currently tolerated stated to play you closed your eyes and listened to the tunes and the soothing sound of your cats purring, mindlessly scratching their head as you drifted off thinking of crocodile tears and graves.
Neither of those are good things to fall asleep thinking about.