You spent the rest of the day on the couch. The song that your friends wrote for you was still echoing in your head. When Papyrus came home from his morning rounds, you ran up to him and hugged him. He hugged you back.

"I'M GLAD THAT YOU LIKED THE SONG! HOWEVER, I'M MORE GLAD THAT YOU'RE ALL RIGHT...," Papyrus explained.

"I think we all are...," Toriel stated. She joined in the hug for a moment and then let go. She stared up the stairs for what seemed like the eleventh time in the last twenty minutes.

"Toriel, are you okay...?" you ask as you followed her gaze to the door to Papyrus' room. You knew who she was thinking about.

"Oh... Just wondering if I should check on Sans... I want to know if he'll be alright. However, I also don't want to disturb him because he's been up for days... It's been conflicting me all day and the day's half over...," Toriel explained.

You didn't want for Toriel to feel so concerned. "I'll go see him if you want. It'll be nothing!"

She stared at you for a moment and then smiled. "How very thoughtful, my child! If you insist upon it, then you can..."

You walked up the stairs and cracked open the door. Sans wasn't where he was before. You opened the door wider, he wasn't anywhere. Code jump. You sighed and shook your head. Just before you left, you saw a note that said: Give to (y/n). It was taped to the window and you felt your curiosity pull you towards the note. You pulled it from the window and carefully opened the envelope. You began to read it out loud to yourself. It was short. Three sentences. They made you even more curious.

Dear (y/n),

I know that you probably would like some answers about, well, everything, right? Tell you what, if you show up at the Wishing Cave in Waterfall at 5:00pm today, then I'll give you as many as I can. Besides, I think I've been hiding the truth from you for too long now anyway, if you haven't already figured it out.

Sincerely,

your bonehead of a friend, Sans.

You glanced towards a clock. You already knew what this was probably about. There was no way you were going to pass this up. If Sans was going to tell you the true true truth, then you weren't going miss out. The clock read 4:00pm. You decided that you would tell everyone that you were leaving before heading over.

At first, Toriel didn't approve and Papyrus seemed a little disappointed, but they both agreed to let you go. You scurried through the snow with a slight spring in your step from what you knew. You slowed to a stop once you were just outside of the Wishing Cave. Your heart pounded furiously. What were you going to do? What were you going to say? Finally, you simply sucked in a breath and walked inside.

You saw Sans staring up at the ceiling with a distant expression. He looked over to you and back to the ceiling. Neither of you said anything for a long minute.

In the silence, you recalled that in about a week, everyone would be back on the surface. You thought about the real stars and the real sky. Sans thought about them as well. "In about a week, you'll get to see the real stars... We'll be together stargazing out at the real stars under the real night sky... It'll be amazing...," you said as you leaned against the stone wall and sat down. The blue stones continued to sparkle and gleam. Sans was sitting next to you with a snap of his fingers. He nodded in agreement and tried to imagine what they'd look like.

"How far away would they be? I've heard from legends that they're even bigger than the mountain and farther away than any of us can possibly can imagine. Although, what is a star really...?" Sans questioned to himself.

"You must like asking questions with complicated answers or no answer at all. I could tell you what a star is," you answered.

"Well, can you touch one?"

"Maybe..."

"Can you eat one?" he asked semi-seriously.

"I don't think you'd want to."

Sans stopped the random questions and looked to you seriously. "Can you kill it?"

You felt a sudden chill at the question. Could you kill a star? "If you can, please, don't...," you replied.

There was silence as the two of you continued to gaze at the stones. You were expecting more of a conversation. Stargazing wasn't exactly what you had in mind but you loved it. It was dark and it felt almost as if you were under the actual sky. You missed the surface. You enjoyed the Underground but you missed your real home. It didn't feel right for you to live in such a cramped space. Out of the blue, Sans asked a question that really made you think.

"So, are you a star?"

You had no idea what to say. You knew you weren't physically a star. However, you couldn't help but wonder. Everyone wishes upon a human soul to set them free and make their dreams come true. Wish fulfilling. Sounded like a star trait to you, but you still didn't know for sure.

"Honestly, I have no clue..."

"Actually, if you said that you were, I'd agree. I mean, how many can befriend everybody in the Underground and bust open an unbreakable barrier of magic? How many humans can fill a monster soul with as much hope as yours did?"

There was more silence as the both of you pondered the thought. The giant gaps in the conversation would make a bystander so bored that they'd leave before they got to hear the next part of the discussion.

"Why bring up the stars and compare them to me? I'm not THAT great. If I was, everyone would be overthrowing Mettaton right about now and putting me on the top. Not that I'd really want that, though," you stated.

"They would if you asked."

"You'd do it if I asked."

Sans shrugged. "Got me there."

There was one thing you wondered. "Why did Flowey kidnap me three days ago? He had to have a motive. What was it? Revenge? Just because he could?"

Sans slowly exhaled. "It's a long story. I'm sure that we've got enough time to talk about it. Okay, Flowey has this friend who he's been trying to revive for hundreds of years. Her name... Chara," he told you.

With the one word, you sucked in a sharp breath. You remembered Chara. She was the one who spoke to you once. That little voice in your head that said that you should do genocide and make all the suffering for everyone end. Thankfully, you were able to fight it. Flowey was friends with this being?

"That look on your face says that you know of this person... I do too. She appears in many of my nightmares... Well, Flowey wanted to awaken her soul that's been resting in that bed of yellow flowers for who knows how long. Flowey said he was going to awaken her soul with intense feelings of hate. Therefore, when she awoke, all she'd be able to know would be evil and hatred. He said that he also needed a host for her soul... A vessel...," Sans explained slowly. He stared into your eyes with dark eyes. "You."

"What would happen if Flowey were to succeed...?" you asked.

"You wanna know what would happen? He'd officially destroy your soul for good or just shove it off to the side and Chara will use your body and her soul to kill everyone... Your soul would die and there'd be nothing left of the real you. I couldn't allow that... Kinda why I didn't care if I got banged up a lot or not," Sans answered with his eyes returning to normal.

You thought. Was that really what would happen...? You wondered. One part stuck out to you the most. Intense feelings of hate. What would happen if... no. It couldn't be that simple.

"I didn't exactly invite you here to talk about that, though... I asked you to come because while you were taking your long nap, I couldn't exactly think about anything else other than what would happen if I were to leave the room. It's just... You know, right? I didn't want my best friend to die. A few times, I thought you were...," he explained.

This was the part of the conversation you were hoping for. This was what gave you that spring in your step on the way here. You had to say something inspirational to create more feelings. You hoped your ability of talking was better than your ability of storytelling.

"I couldn't die... I couldn't possibly die because... I'm determined... Determined to see you again. If I were to die, I wouldn't be able to see you again... All week, I've been determined to be with you, make you think about me, get you to feel for me in a way neither of us thought was possible, and most of all... I've been determined to love you like nobody else...," you stated.

You waited for his answer. He looked back up to the glowing rocks on the ceiling. "Well, I guess that means you're a star."

"Huh?"

"Why? I could say the exact same thing you just said. What you just said... That alone could make a thousand nightmares evaporate and fulfill a million dreams."

"So, you're saying...?"

"What I'm saying is that even though this may be just another dream, I love you. That fact can't get any more real than it already is."

You recalled him saying something like that from the dream you had back at the MTT Resort. You knew it wasn't something to just forget and you smiled. "I love you too Sans..."

With that, you stared up at the stars on the ceiling. Though they weren't exactly the real stars, they still were beautiful. You leaned against Sans' shoulder and closed your eyes. You could feel him wrap his arm around you and you felt secure. Without thinking, you fell asleep.

Like a boat sailing across a smooth lake...

or a cloud drifting across the sky.

You'll feel at peace when you awake

and away the nightmares will fly.

Just sing your song to glory.

Just don't let go of dreams.

For once we can see clearly.

We'll be together now it seems.

Just don't let go...

Stay here with me forever...

We will show...

The world determination forever.

Our love forever will bind.

The bond between us, we will find.

That there is love within the air tonight.

Because you're my sunshine...

Because you're my sunshine...