... Heaven?
“so, uh, i figured you wanted something real to eat…” the shack door creaked open. Sans stepped in balancing a blanket, pillow, a paper bag, and a portable mug . “Pap’s cooking isn’t vary… edible so I brought you some Grill—“He finally looked up after putting everything down and found a window shattered and Becca nowhere to be seen. “well shit. Knew I should have warded the place first… ah well.”
He left the shed and went around the building to the shattered window.
“she can be that stupid… of course.” He looked for footprints but she was smart enough to cover her tracks. “what does she think she’s doing? she got here by River Person, and River knows not to take her anywhere.” He sighed. “welp.” There was a flash and he was gone.
Becca’s POV
Running. Running was a good old friend of mine. High school track practices don’t fail me now!
It’s totally failing me though. Yep, can’t breathe. Gotta stop.
I was glad I didn’t have to cover my path anymore because thankfully the snow stopped at one point. I was glad of that too because my arms were tired from waving that branch around on the ground to mask my footprints, time consuming too. Thank you girl scouts. My high school days actually helping for once.
I stopped when I reached a waterfall and looked around. There was nowhere to hide, I have to keep going till I find a place to rest out of eyesight. Looking at the water, I see garbage floating down the stream. The water looked to be as deep as my knees, but there was nowhere else to go. I sighed as I braced myself for squishy sopping boots and step into the disgusting water. I could feel how squishy and slippery the bottom felt through my boots as I moved forward. I couldn’t watch my step; the water was too mucky to see through. I swear if I slip... well I can’t really do much can I?
The monsters live in this? How the hell did a kid go through this and come out clean? These monsters must smell like shit. Closest I was to a monster is when I was grappled into submission. Though at the time I wasn’t thinking of how lemony fresh they smelled. Not that I’m curious, but like, how do those things live like this?!
Suddenly my legs made contact, and I fell on top of something soft. What the fuck?! A mattress?! Before I could get more of my bearings I feel the distinct feeling of falling.
Sans POV
He found her a long time ago. It was just funny to watch her try. When he found her, she just dropped the branch that she used to distort her tracks and booked it. He sighed. No way is he going to run. He teleported to a ledge above the waterfall. He sat with his legs dangling over the edge to wait for her.
When she finally arrived she hesitated to the edge of the water looking at it. Her face was just hilarious. She looked disgusted and confused at the same time. Once she stepped into the water and made her way across she just looked plain horrified. It took all of his effort not to crack up laughing. He wondered what was going through her head. How the kid could get through this in one piece? How they lived in the garbage like this? Though granted on how they live, it was more clean then anything. When monsters went garbage picking, each home had a sanitary system to clean the items they brought back. They weren’t savages. But he knew she didn’t think that probably. He didn’t know much about her at all, not that she’d share. She was a stubborn one for sure.
Oh yes he definitely knew the mattress was coming. He knew it was coming right for her. He also knew that he was in for a good laugh. He let it happen.
And hot damn was it worth it. She fell sideways onto the mattress and scrambled to get some kind of parches on the wobbling floating be. And her FACE! Oh god, so worth it! He fell on his side laughing. Looking back at her he knew the inevitable would happen so he took a shortcut to help her.
Becca’s POV
I clutched onto the mattress for dear life as I fell and waited for the ground to hit…. Yep… Any second now………….
Ok so this can only mean one of two things. One I could be dead, or two fucking magic. I hoped for the ladder….. I refuse to open my eyes to check. For the moment I really didn’t want to know. I felt something hard holding me from my back and under my legs. I could smell the distinct sent of pine and… you know that smell you get when you know it’s about to snow? Yah that smell and a manly… musk? I can’t explain it any better but god did I swoon for it. But ok so am I… dead? An angel holding me to take me to heaven instead of this literal hell? Oh god please be a thing…
I opened my eyes looking around. My heart dropped as I recognized the shed.
“Nooooooooooo!” I moaned as I slumped.
“whoa there, kid. i know you don’t want me to let you go but, geez! also don’t go rag dolling on me now. you’re not exactly light.”
“WHAT?!” I jumped out of its arms I was apparently in and flew to the opposite side of the room. “God fucking damn it!” I looked at it and pointed at it. “NO!” I scolded it like I would a dog. “No!!”
“…. seriously…? Don’t talk to me like that.” It looked at me like I was crazy. “your welcome for saving you by the way. I told you not to try and leave. But, heh, you apparently did miss me. the way you were holding on and smelling me…” I bet I looked horrified because it started laughing hysterically. It was laughing so hard it had to sit down before he fell over. He had to stop for breath at one point… wait did it have to breath? I shuddered at the thought.
“You done? I have places to be.”
It looked at me. “pfffft.” (he’s thinking of Becca “going” down the waterfall) aaand there he goes again. “where? at the bottom of a waterfall?” It cracked up even more.
At this point I was so done with this skeleton and its laughing. I moved to the door and tried to open it. Did magic auto lock or something?! The door didn’t budge. I looked back at the skeleton again but it looked like it was just laughing even harder.
Yuck it up asshole.
I stomped over to the window I broke and moved to climb out. There was a white movement and suddenly bones obstructed me from the window. I looked at the other window and bones came from the ground and barred me from leaving from that one too. That little shit! I swung myself to face the skeleton.
“you’re a stubborn one, eh? The place is magiced up now. no escape.” It got up and moved to a paper bag and tossed it to me. I caught it, barely. “food. eat. it’ll be cold by now, because of your little escapade, but you’ll thank me later when Papyrus comes back. mug of hot cocoa here too…. oh! Also.” It snapped its fingers and the room seemed to warm up. “there.” It looked at the broken window and the other. He waved his hands and the bones that blocked the windows drew closer together until there were no space in-between them. “now your warm and there’s no breeze. There’s a pillow and blanket for you too.”
Why was this skeleton being so… tentative to me? I attempted murder on its king! Though… I mean if someone assassinated my president I don’t think it would affect me much either…? I don’t know monster life but neither do I care to. But like, aren’t monarchs different and meaningful to their people? My mind was reeling as I looked in the bag. There was a burger and fries. The smell wafted out and, oh god, I didn’t know
I was so hungry before. This bag just smelled like heaven too. I went to the dog bed and sat in it as I dug in on the fries. I never knew fries can be so good! I groaned as I put a second fry in my mouth. I eyed the burger as I ate wondering if it was just as good. Taking the burger in my hands I unwrapped it. It was just a plain cheese burger thankfully. I took out the lettuce and tomato. Smol made a noise of disdain as I did so, but I ignored it taking a bite.
Holy mother in heaven!
“Who made this?!” I exclaimed to no one in particular.
“heh, Grillbs’ did. looks like he has another fan. he’ll be burning when he finds out who.” It moved back to the door. “Paps should be here any minute. fair warning, don’t eat what he has. How you do it is up to you, but human, i swear if you hurt him in any way, shape, or form…. Y o u w i l l h a v e a b a d t i m e.” It’s eye lights disappeared in its sockets as it turned to me one more time. Its eye lights came back and game me a smile “the warding I put up will tell me if you’re doing anything so just don’t. i don’t want to keep checking on you. I’ll be back later on tonight to see if you’re ok, though. see you later” It winked at me and turned back to the door; it walked out shutting the door quietly.
Well that wasn’t creepy or anything losing your eyes… were they eyes????
That’s it.
I grabbed the blankets it left and moved for the dog bed. Though I have standards and I would never sleep in one, I had to accept it for now. I would rather sleep in a dog bed then on the cold hardwood floor. The floor was so old I wouldn’t be surprised that I’d get splinters.
I made myself a makeshift bed covering the dog bed with a sheet and grabbing the pillow placing it on top. I laid in it to test it out.
Holy crap it was comfier then my own bed at home. A god damn dog bed on old rotted hardwood floor was comfi—you know what? I’m just so done with today. Everything was just so upside down. I hated this place. Nothing should or is this perfect. Monsters are not nice; it’s all a fucking ruse. I just need to go to sleep and this will all be just a dream…. Right? God, I hope so. I closed my eyes and forced myself to fall asleep.