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Sans winced slightly as he heard a few catcalls and sneers as he walked passed a few of the bullies. He tightened his arms around his books and glared at them flipping them the finger as he passed. It hurt, it always did, but he’d be damned if he’d show it. The red-eyed skeleton headed to his locker and unlocked it. Luckily, it was the end of the day. All he had to do was get what he needed and head towards the doors and leave and hope that the assholes decided not to mess with him, but as he packed the books he didn’t need and placed the ones he did into his bag, he could hear a group of kids walking over. He took a silent breath as he shut his locker.
“What do you morons want?” he asked turning around to face the group, holding back a flinch seeing that were was more of the group then earlier. Why couldn’t they just leave him alone? He hated this, he hated them. Most importantly he was scared. He was a 1 HP monster and one hit could kill him. There had been multiple times where these assholes had beaten him till his hp had been 0.1, so close to being dusted. Would have been, that is, had Papyrus not walked upon the entire encounter and chased off the bullies, saving him. Sans had been grateful for that. He still was. After that, he hid his fear and even started retaliating, because he knew they couldn’t do shit without Papyrus ending their pitiful lives.
The leader of the group, a lizard monster, glared down at sans with a sneer at the insult before smirking.
“We’re here to teach you a lesson, faggot.” he said. Sans narrowed his eyes.
“Oh? you really are a moron if you think you’ll get away with that.” he said grinning his gold tooth glinting. “I don’t think any of you would want to deal with Boss.” he added. A few of the bullies paused and flinched at the mention of Papyrus.
“Yeah well, it seems you haven’t heard. Papyrus left early today, and won’t be back till next week.” the lizard said. Sans tensed at that and frowned. Papyrus hadn’t told him anything about leaving for a week. He growled quietly.
“Nice try, asshats. but i’d know if he left.” Sans hissed.
“Would you really?” the lizard asked.
“Yes, I would. now if this was all, can you dumb asses get out of my way? I’d rather not catch your stupidity.” he said as he shoved passed the lizard to leave.
“Oh no you don’t!” said the lizard as he tried to swing at sans, but sans ducked and started running towards his house.
As Sans ducked, the lizard’s fist connected with a cat monster’s face making him yowl and hold his nose.
“Get him!” the lizard snarled. two of the dogs Lesser dog and Greater dog took off snarling after the skeleton.
Sans glanced back and cursed. ‘Oh fuck! Shit, shit, shit!’ He thought as he ran down the sidewalk, hearing the pounding of the dogs get closer. He saw his house and found himself, not for the first time, happy that they lived close to the school and took a sharp turn jumping the fence, not bothering with the gate, and scrambled towards the door. He turned, backing up the stairs as the two mutts hit the fence and snarled at sans. Growling, the rest of the group catching up and glaring at the skeleton.
“This isn’t over, Sansy. You can’t outrun us forever.” the lizard hissed.
“With how slow you all are i’m sure I could’ve walked home and you wouldn’t have caught me.” he said smirking. “Bye-bye. It was so nice playing with you morons but I got things to do.” he said wiggling his fingers in a good bye at them before turning and walking inside. He shut the door and slumped against it sliding to the floor as he started to tremble. ‘That was way too close.’ he thought.
“Sans? Is that you?”
"Y-yeah, dad. It’s me.” he said as he took a breath to calm himself pulling out his phone and opening his texts he reached up pushing his glasses back up. He had no new texts from Papyrus. Sighing, he stood and followed his father’s voice to the kitchen.
“Whatcha making, dad?” he said as he hopped onto a seat at the counter
“Fish and chips.” Gaster answered. “How was school?” he asked. A tiny mew was heard before a tiny calico kitten jumped up onto Sans’ leg and climbed her way up onto his lap and rubbed her head against his hand. Sans smiled and gently picked her up nuzzling her, he’d found the runt out in the street one night and brought her home.
“Hello, Megalovania.” he greeted. “It was fine. I passed my history test.” he said grinning as he cuddled the tiny thing close. The kitten purred loudly snuggling happily in his hands.
“That’s good.” said Gaster as he started to fry the chips. “How did your other classes go?”
“Great.” Sans answered smiling proudly. He took pride in being on the honor roll and having straight A’s.
“Would you like something to drink?”
“Yeah, OJ.“ Gaster grabs the Orange Juice out of the fridge and gives it to sans with a cup.
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"So… did you confess yet?”
Sans choked a bit and coughed. Megalovania, who had squirmed into his sweater popped her head up and looked up at him curiously.
“What? Confess? Confess what?” he asked. He knew what his father was talking about, but the question caught him off guard. He reached up rubbing the kitten’s ear slightly. He hadn’t confessed. Every time he tried to he got nervous and scared and chickened out.
“You know EXACTLY what I mean, Sans.” Gaster said as he plated dinner.
Sans shifted and sighed, “He’s just a friend, dad. besides. Even if I did like him that way, Paps’ straighter than a ruler. It would be pointless to confess…” said the small skeleton before he took a drink of the juice. ‘Even if he did like guys, why would he choose me? I’m weak and I already cause more trouble with him acting as my bodyguard.’ he thought. The kitten mewled up at him and licked the tips of his fingers. He blinked snapping from his thoughts and smiled.
“Stop those depressing thoughts now, Sans. You know, he might actually like you back.”
“Sounds like you know something dad. Are you keeping something from me?”
“No.”
Sans narrowed his eye- sockets glaring at his father suspiciously, “It’s not nice to lie to your children.” he told gaster.
“Hmm, and it’s not nice to glare at your father.” Gaster replied, smirking as he set a plate down in front of his son.
“DAAAD!”
Gaster chuckled and sat down with his own plate, “I’ll be working late all this week. I’ll see if I can get off early Friday to make it to your concert but I can’t promise anything.” the scientist said switching the subjects.
“It’s fine if ya don’t make it… there’s always more…” Sans said before taking a bite of his food. He didn’t mind if his dad missed one choir concert, it wasn’t like it was competition.
“Did something happen at the lab?” he asked curiously.
“Yeah, one of the experiments is developing rapidly so I need to monitor it closely.”
"Sounds fun.” said the smaller skeleton feeding a small piece of his food to megalovania who nibbling on it mewling as she did.
“You spoil her so much.” Gaster said.
“I can spoil her however much I want.” replied sans.
They soon lapsed into silence as they finished their meal. Once they were done, Sans stood and gathered their plates and headed over to put them in the dishwasher. “I’m going to do my homework now dad.” sans said as he climbed the stairs to his room.
“Alright, don’t stay up too late studying.” Gaster said.
“I won’t.” Sans called over his shoulder. He entered his room, headed to his desk and sat down, opened his laptop and powered it on. While he waited he opened his bag and pulled out his notebooks and textbooks. Once his laptop was on he logged in, pulled up his music and opened the files of the choir set. He set it to play before starting on his homework humming quietly along with the set as he did so.
2 Hours later RING RING, RING RING
Sans picked up his phone answering it quickly as he looked at the time and saw it was 6. He blinked and leaned back in his chair spine popping into place. “Hello?” he said into the receiver as he turned the music down.
“Hello Sans!”
“Oh, hey Papyrus.” Sans greeted smiling a bit. Megalovania lifted her head and squeaked into the receiver in greeting as well, making Sans chuckle. He heard Papyrus snicker.
“Hello to you too, runt.” Papyrus said.
“You should be in bed missy.” Sans told the runt pulling her from his sweater and standing, “So what do you need, boss?” he asked his friend jokingly.
“I just wanted to make sure that you weren’t bullied today.”
“Nah. I wasn’t… well some name calling but that was about it.” he said as he laid the kitten in her bed and covered her up giving her a light kiss on the head he for heading back to his desk and sitting down in his chair.
“Are you sure, Sans?”
Sans sighed, “I got cornered but I was able to get away. I may or may not of had the mutts chasing me home, but i’m fine, nothing to worry about.” he said “Enough about me, how was practice?” he asked changing the subject.
“It was fine, Sans.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, Sans.” said Papyrus in a clipped, angry tone.
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“Sans?”
“Don’t, I really don’t want to be the reason you get kicked from the team and suspended.” sans said. ‘No matter how much I enjoy you protecting me…’ he thought.
“I don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about.” Papyrus said.
“Uh huh, so am I to assume you’re just really pissed off from practice and not from the fact some asshats decided to mess with me?” Sans asked as he closed his books and put them in his bag.
Sans waited for a response when he got none he sighed, “That’s what I thought. I’m fine, really Papyrus. Don’t get kicked off the team for my sake.” he said.
“But-”
“….I’m going to regret this, but if you promise not to do something stupid, like the idiot that you are….. i’ll let you drag me out this saturday to one of those parties you always want me to come to.” Sans said. He hated going to the popular kids parties, and he’d rather not go but papyrus had been bugging him to get out more. He always turned him down though.
“….Fine… but you’re not allowed to back out of this deal.” Papyrus said.
“Yup, which is why i’m already questioning my life choices.” Sans replied.
“I’ll see you tomorrow at noon, Sans.”
“See ya then, Paps.” sans said smiling.
click
“Haa… I have a bad feeling about this.” he muttered rubbing his skull.
He stood shifting to look at the time. It was around 7:30, so he decided to head down for a quick snack and some juice before he headed to bed. ‘I’m sure it’ll be fine…. as long as I stick close to Papyrus i’ll be fine….’ he thought.
Once he was done with his snack and drink he headed upstairs to bed.