Breakfast
Should you get up? Yeah. Probably. It’ll show everyone you’re “alright”. But you really don’t feel like going downstairs.
You’ll wait for everyone else to go down first though. Right now you hear the clang of pots and pans being taken out downstairs by Papyrus. It’s relatively quiet, so you assume Undyne is not downstairs helping him, or anyone else for that manner.
You wait, lying at your bed and staring at nothing until you gradually hear everyone getting up and heading downstairs. You’re about to get up and go, until you realize you haven’t slept in like, forever, and probably don’t look so good.
You decide to go to the bathroom first. You get up and walk out the room, quietly closing the door behind you, making sure nobody hears. You slip into the bathroom and look around. It’s a pretty small room with one bathtub/shower, and a toilet. The toilet thing is apparently a necessary thing for humans? You don’t know. But apparently Frisk needs it.
You walk up to the sink and look at the mirror above it. Wow. You REALLY don’t look that great. The bags under your eye sockets are large and dark. You look like you haven’t slept at all. Which is true, but nobody else can know that it is.
You turn the sink on, and splash the water on your face to wake yourself up. It’s a little better but your still pretty tired. Eh. It’ll have to do.
You turn your head up and look at the mirror again. You make sure to force the corners of your smile up a little higher.
You make your way downstairs and walk into the kitchen. Papyrus is still making last minute touches to breakfast, Toriel is chatting with Frisk about school or something, and Undyne, Alphys, and Asgore are talking about somthign you can’t make out. They all look happy.
You stand in the doorway until Toriel notices you.
“Oh! Good morning Sans!”
“g’mornin tori.”
You sit at the empty seat next to Alphys and Toriel.
“How did you sleep?”
“oh, you know me. master of sleep. I can even do it with my eyes closed.”
Papyrus glances over at you for a second before going back to breakfast. Toriel giggles and your joke, and your smile becomes a little more relaxed and real.
You make idle chat until- “BREAKFAST IS READY!”
Papyrus goes around the table, and hands out plates of eggs, bacon, and toast. Your bro really is the coolest. The breakfast looks amazing… but you really don’t feel like eating it.
After all the plates are out, Papyrus asks what everyone wants to drink. You say coffee. Coffee is most definitely a good idea. Maybe it’ll wake you up some more.
Papyrus goes back and makes everyone’s drinks. He’s the best. So hardworking and happy. Probably will do great on the surface if it isn’t RESET soon. You’ll probably just hold him back. He doesn’t really need you right? You’re more of a nuisance than anything. Papyrus might be better off without you. Nobody to hold him back. Maybe it’s best if you’re not here anymore.
You’re drawn out of your depressing thoughts thankfully, when Papyrus comes back with everyone’s drink. He reaches over to hand you your coffee, and you reach out to grab it. Unbeknown to you, the sleeve of your jacket hitches up and reveals your arm for a split second. But a second is all it takes for someone to notice.
You take the coffee, and immediately sip it, waiting for the caffeine rush that’ll probably keep you from passing out in the middle of the day. Everyone’s started on breakfast now, but you still can’t bring yourself to eat something. You’re just not hungry. Even if you do eat, it’s a waste of food and energy that you don’t need. Because you do absolutely nothing. What a pathetic waste you are. Papyrus doesn’t deserve to be burdened by you. Heck, no one here deserves to be burdened by you.
You idly push around the food on your plate with a fork. Everyone is done, or almost done, and you haven’t even touched yours. Maybe no one will notice.
“SANS YOU HAVEN’T EVEN TOUCHED THE DELICIOUS BREAKFAST PREPARED BY THE GREAT PAPYRUS!”
You take that back. Of course someone will notice.
“sorry paps, just not hungry right now. still waking up ya know. i’ll put it in the fridge and heat it up later.”
“OKAY BROTHER, IF YOU PROMISE TO HAVE IT LATER, I SUPOSE A CAN ALLOW YOU TO PUT IT AWAY FOR NOW.”
And you do exactly that. You take the saran wrap out from one of the draws, and wrap up your plate, and place it in the fridge. Maybe you’ll be hungry later? If you’re not you can probably just throw it out somewhere.
Everyone else is now taking there plates over to the sink. Then everyone heads into the living room to hang out. Frisk isn’t enrolled in school yet, much to Toriel’s dismay, so they can stay home until they are. Usually everyone goes out and gets supplies, seeing as we just moved in, but almost everything’s set up. The living room is composed of two couches, a loveseat, and one that is supposed to fit three people. There is a large flat screen TV on top of a dark oak dresser, filled with boardgames. As you know from previous times on the surface, gold, the currency monsters used underground, is worth a lot more to the humans than it was to you.
You go and sit on the loveseat, next to Toriel, and Alphys and Papyrus sandwich Undyne between them on the three-seater. Asgore goes and sits down on the carpeted floor awkwardly, being to big to sit on the couches. Frisk comes over to you and crawls onto your lap, and you gladly let them. Asgore is the first to speak up.
“It seems as if we are all set up in this house now. Are we not?” Nobody responds, and Asgore takes this as a prompt to continue. “As you know, Frisk and I have been speaking with the government about our transition into society.”
Even though Frisk was asked to be ambassador, the government officials ruled Frisk to be “too young”. So Asgore decided to take the official title, while Frisk instructs him from behind the scenes. It’s like a 50/50 partnership.
“And we have spoken about important steps about integrating into the society. We came to the conclusion that we should search for jobs to share with the humans to get to know them better.”
Undyne opens her mouth, and looks like she’s about to say something, but Asgore cuts her off.
“Now, before you interrupt, the humans we have spoken to informed us that they would tell the town we are currently in, that we will be looking for jobs, and it is not permitted for them to not hire us based off of the fact that we are monsters. We also agreed that this would be an important step for us, and this would help tensions between races decrease, as we would get to know each other better. I plan to announce this to the rest of the monster later today. Frisk? Will you come with me?”
Frisk hums and nods their head in agreement.
“Then I suppose the rest of you should look for jobs today. Apparently the human internet is useful for this, so I suggest going to the library in town and using their computers. Any Questions?”
Undyne is the first to speak up. “What if they DO refuse to hire us because of race?” She paused for a second then excitedly adds “If they do, can I suplex them?!”
“UNDYNE! YOU SHOULDN’T SUPLEX THE HUMANS!”
“No Undyne, you cannot suplex the humans.” Asgore responds, “And if they do refuse, I will try to get the government officials to speak to them. Anymore questions?” You can tell Undyne still looks angry about the prospect of being refused, and you can tell by Alphys’ nervous fiddling with her fingers that she’s worried about having to be interviewed. Papyrus just looks excited about being able to interact with the humans, and Toriel looks like she’s contemplating job choices.
You, frankly, don’t give a damn, and probably won’t get a permanent job that you will get invested in. Why should you when it’ll be RESET? No point. Maybe you’ll work odd jobs. Maybe you won’t work. But then Papyrus and everyone will be even more disappointed in you then they already are.
“Okay then. I suggest everyone leaves soon to go to the library. Frisk, when you are ready please meet me back here, and then we will go.”
Everyone then departs back to their rooms. Now you’ll be alone with Papyrus, and he’ll probably ask you what this morning was about. Great. Maybe you just deflect the conversation with puns. Puns are great at helping you hide how horribly destroyed you are inside!
Papyrus bounds upstairs, taking two steps at a time, filled with his usual flamboyant energy. You try and walk up the stairs without passing out. Wow you’re tired. Not sleeping, then having to interact with people really took a lot out of you. How useless are you? Can’t even interact with people properly.
You reach your room, and close the door behind you. Papyrus is already picking his clothes out for the day. Because apparently his battle body is not “normal” for people to wear on the surface. Not that it was normal underground but still. Papyrus should be able to wear what he wants without being judged, because he’s the coolest. No one’s better then your bro.
He picks out his outfit, and turns around and sees you. He suddenly looks nervous all of a sudden. You think you know why. Remember. Puns.
“SO SANS…” He starts, “WHEN WE WERE AT BREAKFAST THIS MORNING...”
Huh. This wasn’t how you’d thought this conversation would have started. Maybe you were wrong about what it is about?
“WELL I NOTICED, THAT, WELL, YOU KNOW THIS MORNING? WELL I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT, BUT THEN I THINK I SAW SOMETHING? I’M NOT SURE? BUT I MIGHT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING? SO I COULD BE WRONG BUT I’M NOT SURE?”
Okay, now he’s rambling. About what, you’re not sure, but he did mention this morning, so maybe it is about that.
“yeah paps?”
He pauses for a second before he quickly spits out-
“CAN I SEE YOUR ARM?”