you opened your e/c eyes as you remembered what had happened, you wondered if that place was part of your mind space but, soon discarded that idea it felt different, you felt your soul strangely pulsing inside of you, you took it out to look at it and found it glowing more brightly than normal, you looked at it puzzledly and shook you head and returned it to it's normal spot, you got up and into the bathroom and freshened up, took a shower, and put on some fresh clothes.

 a black bra, a fresh pair of underpants, a f/c and a/c long sleeved shirt, grey sweatpants, the winterized sweatshirt, that had been washed the night before, your favorite pair of socks, and a dark blue beanie. after you were done you went downstairs and sat down on the couch and looked at your phone realizing you hadn't heard from sophie in a while, you went to your text messages to see in you had any from her, and sure enough there was one but, as you read it you widen your eyes 

S: y/n, please you need to help me, your father has me at...i don't know where, but, he is not dead, i repeat he is not dead i don't know what he has planned for me but, i have a feeling that it's not good...please help me y/n, your the only one i know who can  -sophie

your mouth opened slightly as you found out that there was a voice mail a week before the text message, you tapped the voice mail and raised it to your ear as sophie's voice came on

Sophie: "y/n, of course you don't answer, but, i'll get straight to the point, y/n, there are people who want in *crash* ahh! they broke the front door! *the sound of a door locking* i'm in my room y/n, i'm afraid, i know you are the only one who can help me, you're determined, you're smart, you're everything a friend could ask for, and your magick makes you even more amazing, please, i know you come for me, i'll just have to be patient *crash* ahh! y/n, please come quickly!" *ends* 

 when the voicemail ended you felt so stupid, you put your face in your hands after putting down your phone, you could have saved sophie but instead you sat back and relaxed, and this is what you get for relaxing, one of your friends, who knows about your powers, gets kidnapped. you sigh hugely and you hear sans' deep voice "hey, y/n, are you ok?" 

you look up and see sans looking at you worriedly you paste a fake smile on your lips "yeah, just fine, why do you ask?" sans looks at you with the i'm-not-buying-that face and says "what really happened?" your fake smile is wiped off and you throw your face back in your hands and shake your head sighing just when you're about to answer your phone rings, you raise your head and pick it up and answer after looking at the caller ID "hello?" your landlord was on the other line 

"is this y/n?" you stand up and go into the kitchen sans following you a look of curiosity shown on his features "yes, this is y/n" your landlord breaths in "it seems that you've fallen behind on your rent y/n, if you don't pay by three hours your apartment is no longer yours" 

you eyes widen and your breathing starts to quicken you start pacing closing your eyes and force yourself to remain calm you say "i understand sir, good bye" you end the call and bang your head against the wall lightly, defeated. sans looks at you a brand new level of worry is in his features he asks "y/n? who was that?" you close your eyes and hear your muskets coming down the stairs

 you breath in deeply and straighten and relax masking your worries and fears as you had done for so many years, sans looks at you in astonishment and decides to let it go for now, but you see worry still in his 'eyes' you turn around and start breakfast rather quickly after you're done you put on your boots and say to your muskets " i'm going to work be good ok?" Elijah looks at you

 "but, don't you want to stay for one more day?" you shake your head and smile "no, sorry but i've spended almost five weeks away from work, i need to get back on track, good bye muskets" you say kissing the top of rose's head and head out of the door the cold wind hitting you, you take a deep breath and head off to Mt. Ebott pizza 

since you often switch between the nice cream parlor and the pizzeria for the morning shift, when you get to the place you enter and get to work the other employees noticing you and calling out a greeting you nod and take your shift at the cash register. the rush hour is arriving and you are running around with an expertness that everyone knew only came from you, 

as you were making your way to deliver a pizza a man tries to trip you, and he would have if you hadn't practiced with sans, you caught yourself just in time and spin out of his trap and land the pizza in the right table you smile and say "here you go, enjoy your pizza!" the people smile there thanks and open the pizza box and start digging in, you make your way back without any accidents

 and for the rest of the shift you worked as you had before the whole broken-arm-thing, after the shift was done your boss came to you "y/n, you should be resting" you smiled and shook your head "no i don't, i'm all healed" 

you said raising your now un-broken arm your boss says "fine, but at least take this" he tries to give you a paycheck you, again, shake your head "no, it's fine, i've only been back since today, i want to earn my paycheck,"

 your boss looks at you "if i'm correct, today is the last day for paying for rent for this month in your building, and i take it you haven't paid yet" you slump your shoulders a little and say "yes, it is" you boss lifts up your head "so your gonna need this money to pay it, take it" he places the paycheck in your hand,

 you see how much money it is, you widen your eyes, hug him, and say "thank you, charlie, thank you" he pats your back, you let go and he says "you better go and pay that rent y/n" you nod and rush out leaving charlie smiling and thinking to himself 'man, someone has to take care of that girl' 

you rush into your apartment building and say to the lady at the front desk "hello, my name's y/n, i'm here to pay for the apartment?" the lady looks up at you and says with a sympathetic look on her face "i'm sorry, but, there is no-one who lives here with the name 'y/n'" you close your eyes and breathe in and say "ok, thank you miss," 

you walk out and slowly walk to the nice cream parlor you hold in your pain of losing the apartment, and you reasoned that you only had that apartment because of your 'dad' which is now not dead you thought about that, how did your 'father' die? 

 there was a thousand thoughts coming and going  through you head like 'the furniture came with the apartment' and 'you have most of your belongings at the skele-bros.' and before you knew it you were at the entrance of the nice cream parlor you once again masked your worries and your problems from your face and entered your second job and you found it all decked out that's when you realized today was christmas eve 

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after your shift you went shopping for supplies to make sweaters for your siblings no, not ugly christmas sweaters, but striped sweaters, since you noticed that chara, frisk, and asriel had striped sweaters you wanted to sew Elijah, agrian, and rose some sweaters to match, when you bought the materials you walked back towards the skele-bros. 

you knew you probably would stay up all night making them but you were determined to make them for your muskets. while you were walking previous thoughts came back to your mind 'how DID 'dad' die?' you searched your mind then you remembered your 'dad' died in a explosion that happened in the building where he worked

 you now knew that he must've been escorted before the explosion even happened you reached the skele-bros. house and opened the door your worries still masked but you felt you had to tell them to someone soon otherwise you would burst

 you saw that outside, the muskets and pap were playing in the snow sans came out of the kitchen and saw you, you saw relief in his 'eyes' as he came toward you, sans took your hand and said "y/n, we need to talk," you bit your tongue as you looked at him but soon f/c covered your vision and you and sans were teleported into your room when f/c stopped being in your vision sans said 

"y/n, who was that who called you?" you couldn't keep it in any more "it was my landlord for my apartment, he said if i didn't pay the rent in three hours the apartment would no longer be available to me" you let your guard down you sat down and hugged your knees putting your head in between them sans kneeled and put his hands on your shoulders and said in a gentle voice "and did you?" 

you shook your head "i was too late" you felt sans lift up your head and look into your eyes his own was filled with kindness as he said "y/n, why did you sigh before that?" you looked at sans and breathed deeply and said "it was because one of my friends was kidnapped" sans' 'eyes' widened "kidnapped?"

 you nodded you took out your phone and went to the voice mail and let sans listen to it and also read the text message after he was done he gave you back your phone and said "so, what do we do?" you furrowed your eyebrows "we?" sans rolled his 'eyes' "well, you're not gonna free sophie alone, i'm coming with you" you widen your eyes and smiled but then you had doubts "what about the muskets and pap?" sans smiled "don't worry, i have a plan"

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