Save Point (Sans x Reader)

Chapter Forty-Nine, Part Three

You walk up to the stage first, Mettaton helping you reach him by placing the wine glass at the podium in front of him and taking his free hand in yours, microphone being held in his other hand. He urges Sans to step up next and waits until he gives in for him to continue speaking.

"I'm sure most of you already know who these two people are," the robot continues, sending a subtle glare at Sans when he sees him still hesitating by afar. 

You smile at him and shrug as if to state your very own confusion over being pulled into the stage, encouraging him to join your side.  

"While the rumours were first indecent and taken under a negative light, a tutor from this school ended up falling for the parent of one of our students. Many saw it as a mocking act -- a careless choice made by both people involved; a rash decision that would only lower the reputation of the school and tamper with monster-human harmony. Only very few people believed in their friendship, and much less their more romantic feelings towards each other.”

Finally, Sans makes it to the stage, posture stiff as he waits for the robot to keep on speaking.

“But now, it’s different. The two, along with their son, have built a family out of this encounter. They started off with nothing but their connection with the school and are currently on close enough levels that (Y/N) and Faust will be moving into Sans’s home.”

“Shouldn’t (Y/N) be married for them to be agreeing to that?” a voice asks, lost in the crowd gathered to watch you three stand at the stage. The music stops, Nasptablook observing from behind his equipment while Shyren shies behind him. Faces turn this way and that in search for the one who made the comment, though they’re unable to stop the culprit. 

“Didn’t you hear?” another voice murmurs, amusement in their tone. “They shared a bed with their previous (girlfriend/boyfriend) when they were younger!”

“Enough,” Mettaton intervenes, stomping his boot against the floor, the sound of his metallic body against wood provoking a loud ‘thump’ to reverberate across the hall. “These are the same rumours I’ve been talking about. What they chose to do with their past private life is their business -- Not everyone follows the same traditions.”

“But they were being careless. How else would they end up with someone like Jessie?”

You feel a hand slip around your waist as comments and counters keep rising, Sans’s grip strong as he pulls you closer. Your eyes meet with his face to see him facing the crowd, expression unreadable and posture changed to a stable one.

“Would you all just be quiet for one minute?” the robot speaks up again, eyebrows furrowed at the crowd, a frown complimenting that expression. “If we want to keep on with what we have now, we have to be calm and at peace with each other -- not bring someone down like this! Please listen, and be mindful there’s still students around to watch.”

“That guy’s received nothing but trouble since he got the hots for a human!” the same man who had mentioned your name the day you went to pick up Faust’s grades exclaims, daughter trying to stop him by pulling persistently at his leg, a frown and tears making her desperation show. “He’s been sentenced twice for being around (Y/N) and their kid, and now you expect him to live with that -- to act as the parent their ex never was?”

“There’s plenty monsters he could’ve gone out with, yet he chose the hard way!” a white bunny monster adds, joining the man in his reasoning. “Those new laws wouldn’t have been established earlier if the two had just stayed as strangers.”

The sound of the microphone shrieking stops everyone from getting further riled up with each other, a heavy set of footsteps taking over the silence that falls with the interruption. Everyone’s gazes turn to the stage again, where Mettaton’s passed down the microphone to a goat man clad in a black suit. His beard and horns stand out the most, straight mouth and sharp eyes unwavering as he stares down at the crowd.