2020-02-24 21:27:33 ¶ ● ⬈

## From the Heart

uhhbananafrappe:

> (Just a little something for my beautiful girl Aliza, on her birthday <3 happy birthday, sweetheart)

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> “What is all this?”

> For the first time Aliza had ever seen in her acquaintance with the skeleton monster, Sans jumped in surprise, tangling his hands in the colorful paper streamers he had been hanging on the wall and nearly ripping the rest of them down in the process.

> She’d never managed to sneak up on the always alert monster before… he must have been really concentrating. She’d have to be more careful; he didn’t usually take kindly to things putting him off his guard.

> Understandably so. This wasn’t… really the best sort of place to let things come up on you unawares, even in your own house.

> Laughingly, the girl shook her head and approached the now obviously grumpy skeleton, reaching out to help him detangle the streamers from his hands (he’d managed to get a wad of tape lodged between his metacarpals, that was gonna be a nightmare), and he looked away sheepishly, face half hidden in the shadow of his hood but gaze, remarkably, completely even and subdued, even given her quiet approach and his shock at her sudden arrival.

> She’d expected him to lose it a bit. He looked pretty calm, though, just huffing under his breath and holding his hands out to let her assist him with an embarrassed, crooked grin playing about the stained bone of his mouth.

> “you weren’t supposed to come back for a bit. this was supposed to be a surprise…” he grumbled half-heartedly, looking around the room with a slightly disappointed air with the comforting blue glow of his more stable magic lighting his whole, unshattered socket, and Aliza, hands full of the balled up paper ribbons, righted herself to join him in his inspection, and let out a tiny gasp.

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