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rabid-utmv · 2 months ago

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drabble of skele!reader x Copper (Horrorfell sans)

Part One

Ugh, this night was dragging on and on. You were so tired, yet your sister had pestered you and pestered you until you caved. She’d dragged you out for a night of drinking, fun and time with her boyfriend and his brothers.

Red Serif was a renowned playboy, yet whenever you saw him with your sister, that title melted away little by little. He was utterly smitten with her. His bright red eyelights going fuzzy and large anytime he looked at her and when wasn’t he? His younger brother, Edge, was loudly complaining about the quality of the food beside him, seemingly unbothered as his brother paid half attention. Absent-mindedly murmuring, “uh huh.” Every few sentences as he watched your sister on stage.

Her sweet voice echoing through the mic as she sung along to the music, she’d tried to drag you into it. Her infectious excitement almost got you on stage.

But when you’d scanned the room just before saying yes to the karaoke contest, you’d clammed up. Instead using the excuse, you still had some of your drink left before she rolled her eyelights and dropped it.

She grinned at Red from her highlighted spot and his fanged maw grinned back.

“You really like her, huh?” Your voice just loud enough to be heard over the music, Red seemed to startle, entranced by your sister.

He looked at you, a friendly smile on his face, small beads of red tinted sweat appeared on his skull. He didn’t know that you knew how desperate he was to impress not only your sister, but you. Confiding in your younger sibling about how important family was to him and as you being the eldest, felt that your ‘approval’ was important.

His clawed fingers clenched around the glass, letting out a small chuckle. You felt your eyebrows pinch and his chuckle died quicker then hot coal dumped into water.

“er- uh! yer, i do, really- i do.” He thumbed at the collar of his shirt, pulling it away from his sternum then smoothing it back down, his jacket was absent; wrapped around the hips of your still singing sister. You could see his eyelights flick over your shoulder to her, incapable of pulling his gaze away for more then a second.

His brothers, cousins- you didn’t know, you’d hardly met them beyond a few encounters with dropping your sister off at Red’s home, all lingered somewhere around the club.

You noticed Noir come up to the bar to converse with Edge, who seemed to realise he’d lost his brothers attention, especially when you caught him scowling down at his elder brother before turning away.

You pulled your gaze away from his and he relaxed a fraction, a flicker of a memory of your sister surfaced.

“Opal- your eye contact is SO intense.”

You hummed, looking over at your sister as your fingers paused the braids you were making with your scarf around your head, your white skull disappearing under the silky gold fabric.

“Y’know monsters and humans get nerves over eye contact, yet you’re pinning them down like a small animal anytime you talk to them.” She leant against your dresser; half dressed for the day out you both had planned. Her phalanges tapped a rhythm against her ilium.

“Well,” guilty you searched for an excuse reason for your intense behaviour and came up short. Instead, you gnawed on your tongue, your fingers resuming the braiding.

She raised her eyebrows, a look of ‘gotcha’ triumphing her expression, “Red especially!” Her white eyelights tracked the movements of your phalanges as you worked on the braid.

That’s where you frowned, pinning your sister with a look, “you know perfectly well why I’m hard on him.” She shot you her own look and you huffed, realising you’d done exactly what she’d just accused you of.

She rolled her eyes, pushing her hip off the dresser to walk behind you, her fingers taking over the work of braiding as you watched her in the mirror. “I know, I know,” she soothed, herself mainly, you guessed, “he is trying! A-and so am I.” She stuttered out.

“Birdy-” you started.

She cut you off, “Opalll.” She near whined out, “give him a chance? He’s so sweet, he got me this necklace I’ve been eyeing the past month.” She shrugged a shoulder, gesturing to the tear drop pearl necklace hanging around her neck, resting beautifully on her sternum.

“Just, the eye contact, its pretty intense.” She added on, you snorted, rolling your eyelights playfully as she finished the first braid.

“I can’t help it.” You replied, your hand curling as you rubbed the underside of your jaw, your hand moving down to adjust the gold chain around your neck. The bright gold glinted in the warm light of your room; the offset of your warm toned jewellery compared by the silver accents your sister wore.

You both enjoyed wearing different coloured scarfs around your heads, styling the long fabric into looks to match your design, you usually chose to braid the fabric. It was trendy, joining in on hairstyling was a tad bit difficult as skeletons.

She hummed as she gathered your scarf into sections, “you don’t have to mask around them, y’know?” Her voice taking a softer tone, one that made your eye twitch uncomfortably.

“Yeah…” You sighed out, looking down at your crossed legs, tucked up and onto your stool.

You’d been shocked, yet comforted, when you’d been diagnosed as autistic. It was weird, out of your teen years and sitting by yourself in the doctor’s office as he went through the diagnoses, what it all meant, what they could do.

Your eye had twitched again when he explained that there wasn’t a ‘cure’ for it.

You weren’t sick. Or ill, or broken or-

“Hey! All done.” Your sisters cheery voice broke through your thoughts, her hands tucking in a few stray flying pieces of fabric as she finished.

You smiled at her in the mirror, fixing your shirt to pull higher up your neck, moving the braids over your shoulders and off your sensitive bones.

“Thanks birdy,” you stood, smiling down at her.

She smiled back, but the little twinkle in her eyelights had you pausing. Her smile morphed into a gremlin smirk, her arms wrapping around your torso before you could dodge her.

“Ugh, okay,” you groaned, your arms awkwardly lifting into the air as she poked her tongue up at you. You tolerated it, for the period she deemed she must ‘hug’ you, showing her love, or whatever, ugh.

Your bones prickled as she let go, “thanks,” she whispered, smoothing down your rumpled clothes as she stepped back out of your bubble.

“Hrm,” you grunted, giving her a side eye as you pulled on your shoes, “you needed it,” was all you said before you ushered her to go and get ready.

Your hand clenched around the sweating glass you were drinking from, you didn’t really like it, whatever it was. Your sister had hailed down the bartender and ordered two of the same, the music rumbling too loudly for you to catch it before he was sauntering off.

Your flat look was met by a giggle from your sister.

The same flat look that now graced your face as Red sweat beside you, looking for words to fill the gap you’d dug.

“she’s real sweet, tha kindest- an’ I mean it, girl i ‘eva met.” He surprised you by placing a hand on your forearm, your bones prickled. But for the sake of your sister, you didn’t flick his hand off.

You glanced at him out the corner of your eye, he wasn’t looking at you, his eyelights fuzzy as he gazed at your sister. “she’s ain’t scared o’ much, darin’ fer someone so small.” You hummed at that, your finger wiping away some of the condensation on the side of the glass. “her laugh is infectious, she cracks jokes better then me! even boss laughs.”

Your lips twitched up as you listened, your soul softening. You didn’t notice how he’d looked back at you, catching something you didn’t hear.

“she’s helpin’ us branch out, discover new things, explorin’ and all that. i ain’t neva met someone so bright as ‘er, she’s like a damn star.” His hand moved to your shoulder, your eyelights flicked to it as he continued, “and i’m real grateful yer given me a chance with ‘er. yer sister, she’s near everythin’ to me.”

Something ached within you, the love that poured freely from his mouth, so openly enthralled with Birdy that you could feel it.

“Red! Opal!” Your sisters voice cut into the lull of silence between you both as you absorbed his words.

She easily hopped into Red’s open arms, his hand leaving your shoulder to catch her much smaller body. His sharp teeth pressed against the top of her head, nuzzling softly.

She smiled up at him, her skull flushed from singing and the alcohol she was slamming down. She’d already made it through a handful of drinks as you nursed your first.

You looked at your sister, her head tilted to glance at you, a silent question present. You softened and slowly nodded.

She squeaked and grappled you into a hug, Red startled as did you, but he was quick to recover, his large arm wrapping around you to pull you in. The two of them embraced you as you froze, an awkward grimace of a smile on your face as you half stood half sat during their hug.

“Ohhh! You big goober!” Birdy’s voice cut over the music, she squeezed her face into yours, having pulled you down to do so. Red pressed another nuzzling kiss to her skull, his fuzzy eyelights looked to you.

You nearly jumped when his hand landed on your head, affectionately rubbing your scarf-wrapped head as Birdy continued to coo into your shared hug.

“BROTHER, WHY ARE YOU SMOTHERING YOUR DATEMATE AND HER SKELETON SIBLING?” Edge’s voice was your ticket out, squawking with embarrassment you prise yourself out of their arms.

Hopping back up onto your stool as you smooth yourself out, the shared loud laughter of Birdy and Red making your embarrassment grow. You shot her a withering glare, causing her to choke on her laugh and look away.

Even Red cowed at the look on your face, Edge merely blinked before his loud voice started again, “WELL, NOIR FOUND A BOOTH FOR AS ALL TO SIT IN, THEY EXPANDED IT SO THE REST OF US COULD ALL JOIN IN THE SAME ONE.”

Birdy clapped her hands, “perfect! Are we able to order from the table?”

Red stood from his stool, his hand loosely placed on her hip as Edge answered, “YES, THEY HAVE THIS WEIRD APP THINGY,” his voice disappeared under the music as he led your sister and Red away, all of them disappearing quickly into the sea of humans and monsters.

Without their voices or the distraction of you watching your sister, the heavy beat of the music filled your ears. The deep bass felt like it was attempting to vibrate the bones of your body away from you.

Your hands clenched around the glass, some small part of you wanted to go after them, but they didn’t ask you to come.

You were left with your dilemma, do you follow? Do you stay? Isn’t it too awkward now, trailing after them like a lost puppy, hanging onto the shirt of your sister like a lifeline in the club?

Nerves crept up on you like a shadow, keeping your rooted to the bar as if your drink was the anchor keeping you there. Watching the figure of your sister disappear into the crowd like the beam of the lighthouse fading in sea fog.

You pulled your gaze from the crowd, the prickle of anxiety dancing over your skin as you stared wide-eyed at your still not finished drink.

No one seemed to bother you for a bit, monsters and humans alike giving you a small berth of space.

Not until a figure shadowed you from the strobing lights of the club, you hadn’t noticed for a moment. Not until you tilted the glass, half considering downing it to get it over with so you could order something else, and the sweat that had gathered on the glass was hardly noticeable.

The bright lights didn’t reach you; something was blocking them. You looked over your shoulder.

Someone.

Probably one of the largest monsters you’d ever seen was standing behind you, you blinked as you recognised him, Copper. Red’s eldest cousin, you’d caught his disappearing form a few times when you’d gone to Red’s huge home. But he’d never stuck around, seemingly just walking around a corner whenever you were there.

You’d summed it up to him maybe not liking humans, or maybe you made him nervous? Your sister had reassured you that maybe he was busy, sharing a secretive look with her boyfriend as you mentioned it.

You’d dropped it after the handful of times happening, really just summing it up that he didn’t like you. His cousins, Edge, Noir, Rus had all been friendly, happy to meet you as the sister of Red’s girlfriend.

Copper stared down at you his one dark red eyelight looked to small as he did, his empty socket half lidded. It gave him a mixed expression, yet it was the first time you’d seen him so up close. The crack that trailed up from his open socket was, to put it plain, nasty. The jagged, aggressive looking hole in the top of his skull was hard to notice from your seated position, but even then, this skeleton towered over everyone in the club.

What mostly caught your gaze was the golden false jaw he had; the pointed shark-like teeth that lined it glinted almost threateningly in the shadowed light he casted.

Both large wounds made you feel sick, but you swallowed passed it, your eyelights dragging away to look him over. His large, huge, maroon jacket was unzipped, revealing the cream sweater underneath. What fascinated you was the black fur lined hoodie that framed his head like a lion’s mane. The dark fabric of his jeans stretched around the swell of his thighs.

Dear stars.

His thigh was mid-level with the bar top. You gulped silently, if you lifted your arms, you could rest your elbows against the bar top whilst you stood. Even with your tad extra height.

He shifted, eyelight breaking away from yours as he sat down in the stool. From the panicked expressions of the bartenders, you all thought the same thing, would that hold him??

The stool creaked as he sat, sinking pathetically under his weight. He blinked, at least he looked a tad embarrassed as he avoided the now grumpy looks of the staff. His arm rested up on the tabletop, his presence added to the berth everyone already gave you, this side of the bar now basically empty.

You didn’t notice, to busy staring and blinking owlishly up at the giant skeleton.

“don’t… like your… drink?”

You flushed, his voice was sinfully deep, a baritone so many octaves below your own that he easily rivalled the bass of the music. It felt inferior to even consider the bass deep now that you had heard Coppers voice.

He quirked an eyebrow and you bit back a squeak when you realised, you’d just been staring at him and letting him watch your face grow hotter and hotter by the moment.

“Not really,” your lips pulled, an awkward smile on your face.

His shoulders seemed to relax a smidge, a tightness you hadn’t noticed in the corners of his sockets reducing slightly as you replied. “so, what… do… you like?” Each of his words seemed carefully picked, as if he was plucking each of them from a book to cut out and glue together.

It was an effort you realised, for him to talk. Something eased in you, there wasn’t a sense of overwhelming dread as you responded, you didn’t realise that the fear of saying something wrong had disappeared.

“Sweeter drinks, this one’s- ehh, a bit to hard for my taste.” He snorted at your response, his huge, clawed hand lifting to gesture the bartender over.

You blinked, “um! Do you-” fuck, you internally thought, attempting to grapple yourself enough to spit out your sentence, “Elderflower and apple!”

The bartender gave you an odd look.

Shit, shit, shit.

“Do you have anything with Elderflower and apple? V-vodka, by chance?”

She perked up as she finally caught what you were poorly attempting to pass along, “yep! Want me to mix that up for you now?”

“Yes- yes please.” You grinded out, your phalanges squeezing the glass you currently had tight.

The bartender turned to Copper, “anything for you, sir?”

He half glanced at her, “same thing.” She nodded, disappearing down the bar to start mixing them for you both.

“Oh- you don’t have to get the same thing as me!” you jumped in, fuck, you hated feeling like this. Swimming into these interactions, unknown monsters, even worse, he was a hot and unknown monster!

He smirked, the metal gold jaw twisting up with the expression, you chalked it up to magic for the solid metal to be able to shift like that, “s’alright treat… i’d like… ta try it.”

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therewasatale · 1 year ago

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with me

On Ao3.

Summary: A soft afternoon and some identity crisis.

A small breeze blew across the curtain. It only had enough strength to shake the bottom of the peach-coloured material, but you could still feel the air freshen up a bit, and the smell of lilac from outside was slowly filled the room.

You shook the sleep out of your eyes with a few slow blinks. Your thoughts faded little by little and you could have surrendered to the soft dullness that always took over you before falling asleep. Both of you've needed this quiet afternoon for a long time. An afternoon when there was nothing to worry about.

You allowed yourself an honest and deep yawn and then looked down in front of you.

The wide 'L' shaped piece of furniture was comfortable for at least two people, in this case for a human and a monster. You two were resting on the sofa in the living room of your apartment. Sans was sitting right in front of you, half lying down as he leaned his back against your chest. His skull leaning on your shoulder. The TV played quietly in front of you, but none of you paid serious attention to the program.

He hadn't said a word for the past half an hour. He was already quiet on the way home, but you didn't want to push him about it. Over the last few months, you've learned how to pinpoint out when he became uncomfortable, but he still would try to hide it with jokes, and shook off questions. You could only guess what exactly was going through his mind.

The sounds of the city faded to nothing. Everything felt still, and yet filled with tension.

You slowly raised your hand and finding his, stroked his bony fingers. He flinched for a moment, but immediately afterwards you felt him lower his shoulders again, snuggling closer to you. Your fingers lingered on each digit as you circled them. His palm wasn't much smaller than yours, but you still loved being able to hold his. After the finger bones slowly followed his palm and then his wrist, you drew small circles with the tips of yours.

When you heard him gasp, you stopped and brushed your fingers with his. It was as if he was trying to relax, but something, always at the last moment, scared him away from it.

You also took a slow and deep breath and then kissed his shoulder through his hoodie.

*why are you with me?

You needed a few moments to fully understand the question, it got you completely off guard. "Because-, because, I like to be with you. Sans, what's wrong?"

*but why?

Sans pulled his hand away from yours, crossing his arms in front of him as he sat up.

*i'm a monster, and you're a human. you should be together someone like you...like a human...

The warmth of spring was washed away by a cold breeze that ran over your body.

* it's...it's not going to work...we are not going to work.

Hundreds of tangled thoughts tried to come to terms with each other, they all appeared at the same time and caused complete chaos in your soul. You blinked blankly at the skeleton and even though you opened your mouth to speak, you didn't know what to say. There was complete silence in your mind when Sans pulled away from you and sat on the edge of the couch.

*i should go...it would be the best, for the both of us…

He stood up not looking at you.

As soon as he was about to step away, your body finally reacted. You reached out and grabbed his hoody and pulled him back onto the couch, turning him to face you.

You couldn't read anything from his eyes.

*(y/n)?

"Wait a minute, please." You took a deep breath and shook your head. "Just-, just let me think. The first thing you ask is why I'm with you, and you'd leave without an answer. Sans, what's wrong?" You swallowed as you ran your hand over his cheek. He tried to look away again, exhaustion in his eyes, but his gaze quickly locked with yours again. "Did I do or say something wrong?"

*no, that's not what it's about.

"Soo what’s is this about?" The coldness felt suffocating, spreading to your arms and stung more and more in your chest. "I don't understand, everything was fine until now. Did I say something?"

*...no. you didn't say anything wrong.

"Then did I just do something wrong? Are we going too fast? Or maybe you don't like being touched?"

The skeleton slowly shook its head, looking away, trying to hide himself from you.

"But then why? Don't you want to be with me anymore? I'm trying to understand what...what's happening all of a sudden." You had to clear your throat so that the invisible hand would ease the pressure on your back. But there was no answer to your questions again.

"I mean, it seemed like you were happy up until now, I was trying to make sure you didn't feel that this was wrong between us...so that the pace was comfortable for both of us." You ran your fingers through your hair. You looked at him to see if you could say something, or if you could just read something from his face or his heart.

The silence was unbearable.

"Then you don't want to be with me, do you?"

The skeleton monster's hands were shaking, you could almost see him struggling with his thoughts.

"Sans?"

*no...that's not what it's about...I-...

"Then what is this about? Please, let's talk."

You carefully moved closer to him.

"I understand if-, I mean if you've realized you don't want this between us after all," you had to stop steadying your voice again so it wouldn't shake. "But-, but I want to know at least the reason, why? What did I do? Or I just-, if I wasn't enough." You rubbed your eyes, to get rid of the swelling tears but, no matter how hard you wiped, new ones always appeared. And yet no answer was forthcoming.

You didn't understand what was going on. The whole thing didn't make sense to you. Or you tried to look for a reason, but you couldn't find it. Then as you moved you felt a dull pain in your shoulder. You reached over and touched your injured shoulder, it wasn't that serious, the binding was not even visible if you were wearing a sweater. But still, when you got home, you could clearly make out the red stain in the bathroom mirror. It was caused by the beer bottle thrown at you.

Two drunks. Two stupid people. Two nobody. It happened two days agon, but apparently Sans was still shaken up by it.

"Listen, if it's because of the incident in the parking lot, I don't care. The police have already started the investigation and they will arrest those two idiots soon."

He winced at the memory, but didn't answer. The light seemed to disappeared from his eyes.

That dark alley, you two walked by that afternoon, and the memories became stronger again.

*not a small incident.

"Sans?"

*that was no small incident.

For the first time, he turned towards you with real anger in his voice.

*what would have happened if...if was in the middle of the night and those two figures attacked you? or somebody else did, sober and not just with bottles as weapons... I know some people don't take kindly to us being back and Frisk wanting to help...especially with our species...mixing.

His last words were filled with fury and a certain venom, not towards you but towards the world.

*what if I get attacked and I can't protect you? I can't hurt people, but they can hurt you and they already did...I can't let that happen again...not as long as I live...I don't want...I don't want you to get in trouble because of me...I'm not worth it.. .

He buried his face in his hands, and by the end his whole body was shaking.

*gods, I won't let you get in trouble...I can't let you, especially not because of me, who would put you in danger.

"Sans..."

*sorry...I better go.

He moved, but you were faster. You reached out to lock your arm around his body and pulled him as close to yourself as possible.

*(y/n)...let me go, please.

His voice didn’t sound convincing, not even for himself.

"No way, you bonehead."

*but-

"You asked why I'm with you, didn't you?" Pulling him even closer, you gently placed your chin on his shoulder. "Then I'll tell you now. It's because you're important to me, nearly more than everything else combined. I like your exhausting humour and the fact that you listen, even if you can't help directly, you're still there and quietly listening. I know you don't like to talk about feelings, but somehow, that's what usually helps me the most, to understand that it's enough if you're there, by my side."

As you spoke Sans turned towards you uncertainly. You glanced at him, caressing his chin with your fingers. His eyes were fixed on you and he didn't even notice the blue blush spreading under his eyes. Slowly, he gripped your clothes with his hands.

"I'm with you. because I like being lazy with you, or just read and watch TV together. Maybe just have tea and a bottle of ketchup." You rubbed your face in your arm with a small smile. "People might make faces and even look away when we're around. They might have their opinions about us, but I still want to be with you, Sans."

*but what if they attack you?...if you're in trouble because of me...

“Hey,” you gently placed a tiny kiss on his cheek. He slowly relaxed in your arms and snuggled closer to you again. "If something like that would ever happen, it still wouldn't be your fault, you wouldn’t be the cause. I decided that I want to be with you whatever happens," a yellowish light flashed in your eyes for a moment. You didn't even notice that the icy feeling had almost completely disappeared from your body. "People…unfortunately, they're like that, but not all of them. And really, I've never cared about other people's opinion. I just want to be with you."

You looked down into his blue eyes, which now glowed faintly. He just looked at you for long moments, fingers gripping your top.

*I...

"Your eyes are really beautiful." You left another kiss on his cheek.

*...I...hey...it's not fair...so it's not easy to think that you say such things…

He buried his face in your shoulder and let out an honest sigh.

"Really? You're telling me? My skeleton boyfriend just told me one quiet afternoon that it would be better if we weren't together." You stroked his back with the tips of your fingers and little by little your body let go of the tension in your body.

*...i'm sorry...i just...

You rested your head against his skull, hugging his body with your arms.

"Y'know those two assholes did scare me, not going to lie, and I've actually thought about what happened for quite some time. But, I'd much rather be with you than let a couple of lonely, burnt-out assholes tell me who I should be happy with,” you glanced down at the skeleton monster. "Are you a little better? Or would you like me to let you go?"

The answer to your last question was a resounding no after Sans just wrapped his arms around you even tighter.

*it's just, I'm tired...I'm sorry that...I'm like this...

"Thank goodness you're the way you are, because otherwise I wouldn't love you this much."

The room became a sort of surprised amazement. It settled so thickly that despite the gentle wind playing with the curtains, no air movements would be able to mix it up.

*...yes?

One of his eyes were faintly glowing, his bluish blush spreading even wider.

"Easy, you skeleton-boy. Don't overthink it," you smiled as you felt the blush spreading on your face. "I told you that you are important to me, didn't I? It means that I love you."

*I mean-, I'm a bonehead after all

You kissed the top of his head.

"You are really important to me and I never want to lose you Sans."

His fingers tightened again clutching your clothes, and there was a blue light coming from under his hoodie.

*are you sure you want this? I'm not good at fighting, I mostly avoid it as much as possible.

"Yes, I'm sure." Touching his chin, you turned his face towards you. "We'll stay together as long as we both want, okay?" You drew a small circle on his face with your thumb. "And we will solve the problems that arise together."

The confused blue blush still remained on his face. He looked into your eyes for a few long and calm moments and if you had the chance, you would have let him look into your soul as well.

*okay…

With a huge sigh, he buried his face into your clothes next to your heart and stretched out on top of you.

"Then let's have some rest like this" you closed your eyes and put your hand on his back. "Then we can get some food."

He squirmed a little in your lap.

"And we can have some extra ketchup."

*...maybe we really match to the bones.

You embraced him completely with a warm smile and a small scoff.

#undertale #undertale imagine #Sans imagine #sans the skeleton #sans #sans x reader #copper

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