I've Just Seen a Face... (Sans x Reader) Chapter 1

It started when you were sixteen. You were finally able to drive, and drive you did.
Right into a telephone pole.

You were not a model child. Your parents considered you to be a heathen, and you were fine with that. You weren’t the best, not at all, but all that mattered was that you had fun. You were awesome, and you wanted to show the world that. So, one day, you set off into the mountains, looking for adventure. The air was chilly and your spirits were high as you made the trek upwards. The mountain was abandoned, and there had been rumors that those who left never returned. Did you care? Nah, not really. You’d brought chips and candy and stuff to drink, you were pretty pleased with how this adventure was going. Hours and hours passed.
And when finally, you thought you'd reached the top -

You were falling.

You fell through the hole of legends, and hit the ground, bones cracking as you thumped against... something. Upon closer inspection, you realized you were laying in a field of beautiful, golden flowers. You’d always loved flowers, and yet, you could not appreciate their beauty, because your first thought was that you couldn't move.

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You groaned, your head hurt. These memories of when you fell to the Underground were hazy, and difficult to think about. It'd been about ten years since the day you fell, and despite this you didn't look a day over eighteen. You called it a perpetually youthful glow, but the truth was… well. You couldn't place the details of that day, but you knew a few things. You fell. Something murdered you, in your helpless state. Your soul - at the time, a pink, glowing heart - fled the area. You arrived in a snowy forest you’d never seen before, and eventually, your soul formed into... this.

A humanoid ghost body, which looked exactly like you thought you'd look like as an adult. With a few minor improvements, of course. A “better” body (which actually wasn’t better at all, but you liked to think it was). Better hair. Cute freckles. Stuff you’d wanted in life, you now had.

You'd taken refuge in a gorgeous, snowy forest called Snowdin. You couldn't feel the cold anymore, on account of you not really having a body. It was perfect, and people almost never passed through where you were, since it was cold and fairly out of the way. You lived in solitude for ten years, never thinking about how your family might be doing without you, or what it might be like to meet a friend in this quiet forest.

One day, as you were lounging around, absolutely not thinking these things, you heard something new. Something weird.

Footsteps.

You jumped, looking around. Footsteps?! Footsteps! Someone was here! Nobody ever came this way, why was someone here?! Were you excited? Scared? You poked your head out the trees -

And found two skeletons, one tall and one short, staring up at you. You didn’t take in their appearances at the time, too completely afraid and/or excited about the appearance of people. Actual people!



"OH MY GOD!! SANS!!" The tall one looked at you as if you were a cake he’d been desperately wanting to eat.

...Ah. You missed cake. You didn’t have the need to eat now, not that you had the money to anyways.

"IS THAT... A HUMAN?!"



"sure looks like it, bro." The shorter one was grinning ear-to-ear.

Er, well. Skeletons didn't have ears, but you were unsure how else to describe it.



You froze up. What did you say to this-? You technically weren't human anymore, and could easily pose as a monster. That'd keep you from getting captured, or whatever they wanted to do to you.

That, or you could pose as a human, and maybe they wouldn't care.

After a bit of thought, you took a deep breath and spoke.



"I'm not human, sorry to disappoint... I'm a ghost monster." You jumped down from the trees to face them, "I just look human, see?"

And just like that, you started glowing a vibrant pink. It was a cool little thing you could do, and it certainly was convincing. Though you were humanoid, surely some ghost monsters looked slightly human.



"AH!" The taller one cackled, and looked down at you. "ARE YOU LOST? FRET NOT, FRIEND! FOR I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL LET YOU COME BACK TO SNOWDIN WITH US!"

...The Great Papyrus?



"you can crash on our couch or something." This seemed like a strange gesture from people who didn’t know her whatsoever, but this wasn’t your main concern right now. You noticed the once-jovial short skeleton looked...

Upset. Dark. And you were in no position to say no to the offer, as his eye socket began to glow a light blue tint. That was strange.



"...Yeah, alright." You gave in, sighing, "Guess I could use a place to crash for a while." Not that you ever slept.

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"Hell.. How'd I let that idiotic human slip away? How did they even do that? UGH! Get your shit together, Flowey... You need to do this. You need to do it-

FOR CHARA."