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You like to go traveling.
But sometimes, you can’t help but wish someone was here with you to accompany you.
“JUST GO AND CALL HER ALREADY, YOU IDIOT!”
“yeah but- what if she’s busy right now? i mean- she’s workin’ an’ stuff, and even when she’s not she might be taking the sights ‘r goin’ on a tour someplace… i dunno!”
“SANS, IT’S NIGHT TIME WHERE SHE IS. NOT THAT FAR FROM US. SHE’S PROBABLY IN BED, AND IF SHE’S NOT THAT’S EVEN MORE REASON TO CALL HER, ISN’T IT?”
Sans looked at his brother, breathing a little irregularly.
“y… yeah, yeah yer right. she could always… text me if she couldn’t call…”
Papyrus makes a satisfied huff and walks away, leaving Sans to open his contacts and call you.
He drags his claws through the fabric of his pants, even though you only take a few seconds to pick up the phone.
“Sans..?” your voice is small, a little sleepy.
“oh… doll ‘m… sorry, didn’t mean t’ wake ya up.”
“Huh? Oh-“ he hears shifting on the other side, blankets and sheets brushing against each other. “No, not really, I was just trying to sleep. I haven’t slept yet… what is it?”
“oh uh…. n-nah. it’s nothin’ important… i was jus’…” He paced around in the living room, gritting his teeth, trying to get rid of the nervous tension. “i was jus’ wonderin’ if ya good. y’know… ya seemed busy… i jus’… you ate right? yer not havin’ too much problem sleepin’? ya taking care of yerself?”
There’s a soft giggle on the other side, and the sound makes Sans close his sockets shut and sigh.
“Aww, Sans… yeah I’m good. I had in this park earlier, so I was a bit preoccupied. It was really pretty… it’s the pictures I sent earlier,” and then to his
paranoid
questions, “I ate enough today, I don’t think I have insomnia yet, and I promise you I’m taking care of myself.”
He feels like he’s being a little silly but… it makes him feel better to know your answers. It’s just… he’s always there to take care of you, he’s always beside you, that now that you’re… there, it’s…. it makes him anxious when he’s not talking with you.
He hears you stretch and moan a little on the other side, the sound of more shifting on your bed, then the sound of slippers pacing across the floor. Something clicking… and then the wind in the mic of your phone as you seem to step out of your room.
“where ya goin’?”
“Oh I just… I don’t know I’m not that sleepy yet so I thought to walk… out.” You say, and you sound oddly distracted by something.
“… Hey Sans, can you walk out real quick?” You suddenly ask him, and before he tries to clarify ‘for what’, you say “If.. check if you see stars out.”
“oh. yeah, sure.”
He steps out of his house to the dusk sky, remnants of the sun a purplish gradient that slowly turns to blue and black. sure enough, in some spots of the darkening sky, there were little dots of twinkling light.
“heh… they’re out.” Sans tries to sound casual, but he knows you heard the awe-struck sigh he exhaled when he looked at them.
“They’re wonderful, huh?” You breathe, looking at a similar scene above you. “I could never get tired of this.”
“how could anyone?”
You don’t answer after that, and his eyelights drift, taking in the heavens. You both fall into this comfortable silence, watching the sky together and… weirdly enough, something about it made him feel like you were right here with him, and it seems you could feel it too.
“… Isn’t it crazy?” you suddenly sounded through his phone, “I’m so far away from you but… we’re looking at the same stars, the same sky…”
“the same sky…” Sans echoes, his soul thumping gently in his chest.
Sans takes a breath.
Maybe he was far away from you through space and time right now. But he knows for sure your soul and his would always stay close.