Down Time
Salem and Sans were still in Snowdin. They were sort of at a loss for what to do. Now that Salem was Sans "mate", no one could hurt her. At least, not without making it so they were officially enemies with Sans. Apparently, even evil angst monsters have some kind of standards. Scowling to herself, Salem lay down in the snow and rolled around. Sans was making a point to ignore Salem, though he made no move to just up and leave.
An uncomfortable silence overtook the two as Salem stopped flailing about in the snow and sat up. Now soaked to the bone, Salem shivered a bit and realized she was freezing. Like she does with everything else concerning her health, Salem just ignored the problem and went over to Sans.
"So what now? I owe you my defective life. I technically belong to you now... Heh, you're not actually gonna make me call you master, are you?"
"yur really getting on my nerves kid... don't ya know how to be silent?"
Scrunching up her nose, Salem stuck out her tongue at Sans and flicked him off. Crossing her arms over her chest, Salem nuzzled her face into the soft fur of Mercy. Sans had no qualms about flicking off Salem right back and quickly turned his back to her. Taking this chance, Salem hid her now trembling hands in her sleeves and shivered to herself. This place was slowly turning miserable, and not because of the cold.
"We need to leave... Snowdin isn't safe for either of us anymore..."
"don't tell me what to do."
"I'm not. I can't make you do anything. I'm just saying it would really suck to be attacked by Papyrus... So maybe moving would be for the best..."
"hmph..."
"It's just a suggestion... "
Chewing on the inside of her cheek, Salem sat herself against a nearby tree and leaned her head back. For the first time since she came to the underground, she was bored. Sitting Mercy down in her lap, Salem shoved her hands in her hoodie pocket. Feeling the sleek metal and plastic in her hand, Salem pulled out her phone and wondered if the 4G thing was for real. What would she even do with it? Tapping twice on her phone screen, Salem watched the thing come to life. After aimlessly scrolling through her apps, Salem just went online and googled underfell. After about ten minutes of trying to find any similar headcanons that matched this place, Salem just gave up and started browsing through the art. As time went on, Salem found herself reading comics and fanfiction.
As was usual for the girl while reading, Salem started mumbling or straight up talking out loud to the comics. She would say a quote of dialogue with a funny face or scold the characters for being stupid. She would even laugh at the funny bits. Unbeknownst to her, Sans was watching her throughout all of it. He was rather creeped out by this girl's odd behavior. But he was also honestly curious as to what she was reading. The quotes and snippets she said seemed oddly... Well, anyway. Having his curiosity get the better of him, Sans crankily walked over to Salem and peered down at her phone.
"the hell you reading there? what's so funny? i could use a laugh after that hell..."
Salem jumped a bit and looked at Sans looming above her. Blushing brightly, which looked odd on her sickly pale skin, Salem fumbled with her phone and quickly hid the screen from view. This only pissed off Sans a bit as he rose a brow in suspicion.
"the fuck? i was just curious..."
"Um... Sorry. I just don't like people reading over my shoulder... Or watching over my shoulder... Or even looking at me..."
"well, hate to break it to ya kid, but it's hard to not stare at a crazy girl talking to herself."
Salem's blush grew even darker as she realized she had been talking out loud the whole time.
"E-Uh... Don't judge me! I'm usually alone, so... Me talking out loud... There's no one around to be bothered by it..."
Salem quickly turned off the screen and pocketed her phone. Turning to face away from Sans, she quickly stood and picked up Mercy.
"Let's go somewhere... You're hungry right? It's been... A while...? A few hours at least... You're starting to look like nothing but bones."
"kid, ya really need- did... did you just make a pun? oh my fucking god kid."
Sans smirked a bit at the terrible pun. Now that he thought about it, she had said quite a few. Ever since they met, she'd been making stupid puns. All of which Sans hadn't picked up on until now. He felt like an idiot for not noticing before, he was known for his own puns and pranks after all. Playing the puns over in his head, Sans did everything he could to keep from laughing. He failed. Chuckling to himself Sans shook his head.
"Seriously though, food. It's a thing apparently. So... seeing as I have no idea how to get anywhere, lead the way oh great one."
"if yur hungry, just say so kid. yeah, i know a place i guess. follow me, but let me do all the talking unless ya wanna screw us over."
"Yeah yeah, okay buddy boy. I am mute as of now. Heh, wish I knew ASL..."
Sans rolled his nonexistent eyes and marched off back towards Snowdin. Salem was quick to follow the grumpy skeleton as he led the way to Grillby's. She however, stopped just short of walking past one of the windows and looked at the building nervously. Noticing that she had stopped, Sans looked back to Salem and scowled.
"what's the holdup brat?"
Salem stayed silent and kind of just fidgeted in place. She was obviously reluctant on entering the establishment, but kept to her word of not talking. With an exasperated groan, Sans shoved his hands in his pockets and closed his eyes. He was getting a headache.
"put up yur damned hood and stay close... fuck kid, it's not that bad..."
Salem did as she was told and promptly hid her face in the shadow of her hood. Pulling her hands into her sleeves, Salem hugged Mercy close and followed after Sans like a baby duckling. He walked inside like he owned the place and paid no mind the monsters staring at him. He sat himself down in his usual spot at the bar and motioned for Salem to take the seat next to him. Nodding, Salem sat Mercy on top of the bar and climbed onto the seat with obvious difficulty. For the longest time, Sans just watched Salem struggle with a smirk. But finally getting tired of waiting for the human, Sans used his magic to life her up onto the seat. Sitting stiffly next to her skeleton mate, Salem grabbed Mercy and hugged him close. Yes, Mercy is male. It's just the vibe Salem got from him.
Sans leaned lazily against the bar and honed his gaze onto a man made of purple fire wearing a... Okay, honestly it was a pimp coat with da fur. Pretty sure that's against food safety regulations, but what did Salem know? Said fire pimp was... What was he doing? Was he on his phone? The fuck dude? RUDE!
"hey girllby ya shit! get me two burgs. preferably today ya fucker."
In prompt response to Sans' "order", Grillby spun around and threw a shot glass at Sans. Who of which easily ducked out of the way. With his flames growing fiercer, Grillby strut over to the short skeleton and slammed his hands on the bar top. The monster's flames crackled in an almost melodious way and Sans growled in response.
"hows bout i pay my fucking tab when i actually get some mother fucking service around here?! which obviously won't be any time soon. so get me my damned food and go drown in a lake."
More crackling was made and Sans grew increasingly hostile. Pretty soon, both monsters were standing only inches from each other and looked ready to fight to the death. Biting her lip, Salem leaned over and tugged lightly on Sans' jacket. He snapped his gaze down to Salem, though the look on his face said he was anything but pleased to be interrupted. Flinching slightly under his glare, Salem quickly let go and leaned back in her seat.
"stay out of this brat. i don't have time to deal with ya and yur-"
Grillby had finally taken notice of Salem and seemed to say something, not that Salem could understand. Whatever he said, it caused Sans to stop talking mid sentence and clench his fist in anger. With red glowing eyes, Sans slowly turned to glare at Grillby. Everyone in the restaurant fell silent and turned to stare at the quarreling monsters. An uneasy feeling fell over Salem and she nervously tugged down on her hood.
"what ya just say? ya have a death wish grillbs? cause i'd be happy ta oblige..."