If you chose... [ <3 ] SACRIFICE SANS 

"Frisk?" His voice felt like breaking glass. "It's time..."

My mind was not ready, but deep down I knew what I had to do. "... Sans," I cried. "I am so, so sorry... I-I don't want to do this..." My arms wrapped around him for a tight embrace.

"I know, Frisk." His voice was still cracking. "But we have to, we need to save everyone, okay? And I know that you'll make those fuckers pay for hurting everyone." He nuzzled my hair gently. "I know you will."

This was really the very last moment that I will ever have with him. How can I live with this bullshit...

"Being together this week," As he spoke, I was brought back to reality. "Is the best farewell gift I could ever ask for, kiddo." He nudged me away from his chest to look me in the eye. "And I am so glad that you've given it to me." He said with his thankful smile.

"You're my hero, Frisk."

My heart instantly shattered into a million pieces. How the hell can I leave him? What type of fucking world does this?! What type of fate or destiny does this?!

"Oh my God, Sans..." I whimpered. "I'm going to miss you so much...!" My arms clutched the back of his jacket tighter, my knuckles becoming white in a matter of seconds. For a while, i didn't give a rat's ass about the storm or the tornado or for the Surface. All I wanted was these last moments with the best friend of my life to be the last thing I remember.

Before I knew it, Sans gently pushed my head away from his jacket again to stare at my eyes. I could see bright neon tears flow out of his eye sockets like buckets of water, a sad and scared face plastered all over his skull. He was afraid, afraid of dying... under my hand.

Again.

I couldn't take losing the staring contest. I grabbed his skull in my hands as I tiptoed to somewhat reach his height. My cheeks were glowing a bright scarlet red but I didn't give a shit about that. Not anymore. Here goes nothing...

I finally tiptoed enough to have my lips meet his teeth. I sensed him flinch a little before relaxing, coiling his hands around my back. My hands also dropped down to his shoulders, staying around his visible neck bone. After a few seconds, I felt his teeth uncannily shift and moved as his real lips came in contact with mine. So he did have lips after all...

The kiss in between us was so passionate and surreal that it felt... timeless. No pun intended. Soon, we broke the kiss and he pressed his forehead against mine.

"I'll always love ya, kiddo." He whispered softly before letting go of me and placing his hands at his sides. "Now, go! Do it before I freak."

I tenderly touched the place on his lips where I kissed him, smiling. Understanding. I solemnly walked past by him towards the RESET button still hovering in the air.

"And Frisk?" His call made me turn around to see his pinprick pupils one last time.

"Don't you ever forget about me."

I closed my eyes, holding the last image of Sans in my memory. Nodding, I turned back to face the orange-glowing button. I only squinted to see that it was in front of me before my hand hovered over the button.

[<3] RESET

"It's cool, Nate. Don't stress, just count to three."

I'm back here... Back to that day...

"You got this, don't be scared." I watched the infamous Nathan Pryes do his usual rant. Bastard, you're gonna get real justice for what you've done. I mentally insulted him. "You own this school, if I want, I could blow it up." He did a small maniacal laugh. "You're the boss..."

At that moment, the door of the bathrooms opened with a loud bang, and entered a skeleton monster who was a little taller than me. Donning a signature jacket with its hood on, a pair of basketball shorts and blue sneakers.

I couldn't bare to see him, silently shifting behind the stall again.

"So what do you want?" Nathan demanded, his head still facing the sink.

"I hope that you've checked the perimeter, you mangy mutt." The skeleton's voice was dripping with danger. "Now, let's talk bidness."

"I have nothing for you." Nathan retorted.

"Wrong." The monster spat back. "You got hella cash."

I don't want to see the same thing happen again in my eyes. My back slid down the stall till I was curled up into a ball on the floor. The duo's conversation gradually become muffled and vague to my ears.

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THE FUCK I AM, OR WHO YOU'RE MESSING AROUND WITH!"

"Where the hell did you get that?! Keep that thing away from me! Keep it away!!"

"Nobody ever bosses me around!! I'm so SICK of people trying to control me!!"

Don't use the alarm. Don't push the cart, don't find the hammer, and don't use the alarm.

"You're gonna get in hella more trouble than drugs!"

"No one would really miss your punk-ass now, would they?!"

"GET THAT FUCKING GUN AWAY FROM ME, YOU PSYCHO!!"

BANG!!!

I buried my face into my arms, the saline tears dropping from my eyes to the bathroom floor. Fortunately, my whimpers were inaudible and too muffled for him to hear.

My best friend. The only one who could understand me. The only one who knew me inside out. The only one left.

Is gone.

Forever.

~~~~~

Instead of witnessing Sans pushing Nathan away in the bathroom, I saw the head of security, Mr David Mills, pinning Nathan down to the bathroom floor. Right beside Sans's disappearing figure.

Instead of facing the principal, Nathan was shut in a dark room, interrogated and in chains.

Instead of taking a photo of Sans on his bed, I witnessed Mr Farrow walking down the hallway with policemen by his sides. And with Kara Mars by mine. Alive.

Instead of dangerously trekking on the train tracks with Sans's left hand intertwined with my right, I saw myself comforting Toriel, Asgore, Undyne and Alphys, tears streaming down their eyes.

Instead of getting splashed with water by my skeleton friend, I sat alone in my dorm room with a white dog in my arms.

Instead of replying 'photo-hog' back to the 'photobombing' Sans, I watched Toriel hand over some worn-out photographs in a box labelled 'PHOTO ALBUMS'.

Instead of tackling my best friend into a hug by the back, I picked up the instant polaroids and pictures taken so long ago.

Instead of stuffing my face into his soaking wet blue jacket, I stood alone. At the lighthouse. Looking nowhere but forward.

~~~~~

My eyes were blinded by the sunrise far in the horizon, I had to squint my eyes til they were small lines on my face.

I don't know what to feel. Anger for my fucking choice? Sadness for losing Sans? Relief for Nathan Pryes and Mr Jeff Farrow's arrests and the stop of Armageddon? Happiness for not losing Kara Mars? Shock for losing my power forever?

I don't know. And honestly, I don't think that I should give a shit.

"Can you hear me, Sans?" I whispered. "I'm right here... Just like you wanted me to..."

A sad smile found its way to my face. "And look! The surface is safe, no tornadoes or storms or..." I paused, my head filled with the images of drugs, needles and the Dark Room. "... mad people running amok..."

I lowered my head. "To think that in another time," I muttered. "We were here and you first discovered my true power."

I began to shake my head slowly. "And now, I don't have that, or you. But I have everyone else." Out of the blue, tears were collected in my eyelids. "It's not the same, do you know that? I miss your puns, your smile, your laughter..." I had to stop myself again to wipe away some escaping tears.

"Your voice..." I could hear my voice unnaturally crack and change. It took me a little while before I regained my composure.

"But don't worry," I reassured, patting on my jacket. "I'll keep everyone company, and I'll never forget you..."

Glancing down to my chest, I saw the white furry trims of his hoodie wrapped around my neck, somewhat ending at the bottom of my neck. His indigo blue jacket smelled like pine and ketchup, giving it a nostalgic aura.

"I'll always remember the moments we have together," I whispered into the fluffy end of his hood. "Always..."

Looking up again, I did the one thing that he always did.

I smiled.

Forcefully.

"Welp," I said before taking a few steps.

"See ya soon."

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A/N: I AM SO SORRY THAT WE HAVE TO START WITH THE SAD ONE. (cries) ;_; 

Part 3 will be out soon. TT-TT