The child nextdoor

chapter 13

Autumn's pov

Sans or...dust as the others called him, took a step forward, his Christmas like eyes burned in to my own which made me feel...really uncomfortable...he reminds me of my mama when she was angry with me about something, have I done something wrong to make this person mad at me? I felt black's arms pull me in to him a bit tighter, like a mama bear protecting her baby tight. In this moment I was grateful he and the others are being so protective of me. Even if I don't understand the reason why.

" SHE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS DUST"

" finally got bored of guarding a broken machine so you decide to open a daycare?" He spoke peering at autumn once more before giving the boys his full attention, an expression of mocking. " How sweet~" black growled at him, cash gently placed a hand on his shoulder, reaching out for autumn while whispering in his ear.  " give us the kid, red and I will take her back home, better for her to be there instead of here just in case a fight happens"

Black nodded to cash, gently he placed me in to his arms, shortly after he stepped forward beside blue, glaring deep in to dusts eye sockets. Red stepped beside cash, grabbing on to cash's elbow. Red looked up at me with a lazy smile. " hold on tight sweet heart" I nodded at him before burying my face in to cashs sweater, clinging on to him for dear life. I felt myself become a little heavy for a moment, shortly after the small aroma of cinnamon drifted in the air, making me pull myself out of cash's chest. I was confused, one minute we're at the house, the next we're back at the house, but how is that possible? How did we get back here so fast with out the car? What about the others are they going to be ok?

Cash gently set me down on to the ground, holding on to my hands as I looked around curiously. Without anymore thought about it, I quickly pulled myself away from him while running off towards the kitchen where that delicious smell was coming from. Papyrus must be making something special for the lot of us, it smells amazing! When I poked my head in to the kitchen to see what was going on, to my surprise a tall goat like woman was standing by the kitchen counter, cutting away at some vegetables. Who was this woman? Where's papy? And that new skeleton?

The goat like monsters eyes looked up for a split second, looking at me for a sec before she double takes. She starred at me for a minute or two before she smiled warmly at me.

" Oh dear child you startled me for a moment" she spoke, placing the knife she had in her hands on the cutting board, while she walked around the counter towards me she cleaned her hands off with the white apron she had wrapped around her waist. She knelt down in front of me, smiling at me as she continues to speak to me.

" You must be autumn, papyrus and sans has told me so much about you my dear and your family..."

" ...mama and papa don't want me any more..."

" I'm sorry to hear that my child, that is so unfortunate for a person to go through, no less a child. But!" She stood up again, holding a hand for me to take, i took a moment before taking her hand. " Fear not my dear girl, I toriel will have no problem taking care of you"  wait...does she live here, I don't remember meeting her, then again I wasn't able to meet Mr wine till this morning, so she may have gotten back home after our our group left for the mall this morning.

" Take care of me? With everyone else too!"

" Well, when we come back for visits yes I suppose they'll help"

I paused for moment, come to visit? Is she taking me away? But I don't wanna leave the skeletons, I wanna stay here with them. I gently took my hand from her, she looked down at me with a curious expression, wondering why I pulled from her. By this point sans, cash and red finally popped in, setting themselves at the table. Sans looked a bit stressed out and worried, his hands were pressing themselves against his forehead before setting down on the table in front of him.

" Are you absolutely sure dust was there?"

" for the last time vanilla, he was there, that's why we teleported out of there so autumn was safe."  Red growled out, pinching the bridge of his nose. Toriel waved a hand in front of my face, catching my attention once more before it was taken from her when the boys walked in.  " What's the matter child, you pulled away from me so suddenly...has something I said made you upset..."

" I..." I fiddled around with my hands, peering down at my feet to avoid eye contact with anyone. Sans peered over to the two of us, he raised a bone brow at me, making me feel even smaller. " something wrong kiddo?"

" I...well...I don't..."

" Don't what my child?"

I couldn't take this heavy feeling on my chest, my head snapped between the two of them for a few seconds, shortly after I turned around, running off to my room, completely ignoring them calling out for me to come back. I wirled around the stairs, rushing up to them before darting around the hallway towards my temporary room for now. While I was rushing down the hall, I didn't realize another person had stepped in front of me, the two of us bumped into one another.

I quickly stuttered out apologies to who ever I bumped in to, they was really reply back to me, although I thought they weren't on account they were silent. I looked up and came face to face with wines brother, kofi I think his name was. He was waving his hands back and forth while kneeling to my height, Patting my head gently as he asked me why I was so upset.

" I...I don't wanna leave..."

" Leave?..."

" Leave here! I wanna be here with all of you!"