Voided eyes.

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"Who am I?" He replied. He squinted his empty eyes. "I'm sans, sans the skeleton." My sockets only get larger. How am I in front of myself right now. "Your..me?" I asked astonished. "Heh, yes but also no. Your me from a completely different alternative universe, in reality we have nothing about us in common except our names. And our sense of humour." He laughed towards the end of his sentence. I couldn't help myself and slightly chuckled along with him.
Shockingly, even though he's the grim reaper his presence hadn't seem to bother me. We talked for what seemed like hours until his bracelet gleamed a royal blue. He sighed angrily as he got up walking towards the eye-stabbingly bright wormhole. Just before he entered the portal he called out to me. "Oh yeah, I'll be back Geno." He winked at me. His words just went through me until I heard my name. "Wait- I never told you my-" annnd he was gone. I sat there for a while just staring at the disappearing worm-hole. I thought to myself, "is he coming back?" "Was he even real" so many already contradicting questions unravelling within my head. I don't know why I didn't think to jump through the portal but an Eerie feeling chained me from travelling through. The upending feeling of doom.

The next day, I think. I was awakened by the face of the impersonation of death hovering over me with a smile. I grumbled. "You again." I said sternly, hiding the sense of relief I had. He floated above me, in a fetal position. He chuckled. "Well aren't you a shining ball of sunshine." I turn over on my face. "Why did you come back?" My voice muffled with the floor. He descended next to me pocking my back repeatedly. "I don't know, your just interesting."  He rested his other hand on his cheek bone. I peep at his face. "Interestingly suffering right." I said sarcastically. "exactly." He replied joyfully. "Greattt, my only source of communication is a masochist." I dragged on. "Tch, was that supposed to be a joke." I lifted myself up and just looked away with my mouth twitching, keeping myself from smiling. "Aw you do find me funny." He says flirtatiously. I just dig my Mouth in paps scarf and look away. "I have no jobs to do today so you have to deal with me for a lot longer." I can already feel my "stomach" curdle.

A while later he quickly left for a second, he came back with new strange objects. I was awaiting to inspect the items with my hands crossed with anticipation.  He sat leg tucked in front of me with the object organised in corresponding order. First, he drifted before my eyes an electron microscope. My teeth slightly chattered. "Where did you get this?" I asked with a shine in my eyes I stared into his voided sockets. "Well someone had passed in the science au, I thought you would like it."  I looked down and softly smiled. "It's a little useless if I have nothing to look at."  He looked excited. "Just wait and see." He reached behind his back and handed me a box. I was concerned, as I opened it i saw things, science things. All of my unfinished experiments. "Thank you." I said quietly. "Oh, what was that?" He teased and leaned in further. I grumbled. "I said thank you." I repeated agitated. "Your welcome." He replied smugly.
"By the way, what do I call you. Calling you sans is too confusing."  He glanced at me. "Oh so we're getting formal now?" He beamed. "Shut up." I quickly replied. "I'm known as reaper in other au's so just call me that." He followed up. "What a creative name." I said swiftly. "Why thank you." Reaper replied obliviously.  "Let's get your lab set up." I kissed my teeth "I don't need you help." I said staring into his dark sockets. "Whatever." He said smiling, picking up the boxes and walking over a few feet away. He began to open the boxes and setting the lab up himself. I watched him at work. He completely ignored what I just said. I got up and rushed over to him, how peculiar. How does he know how to perfectly set it up. Silently I walked behind him. "What did I just say." Reaper suddenly jolted and his huge black wings knocked me over. Moments before I would have shattered on the floor, I felt a warm hand slither around my waist and my arm lifted by his, our eyes locked. It was the first time I genuinely had a close up look on his face. A pretty shade of teal highlighted his face and his teeth are pearly white. His eyes. They have no light, yet they pierce my eyes just as well. His hoodie flowed like liquid even with no breeze. The moment ended as soon as his sharp feathered poked my ribs, I yelped. "Ow!"
I could tell he was in a trance, judging by the shock on his face. "Oh. Sorry.." he lifted me up. "You Can let go of me now." I felt my face rise in temperature. "Right." He let go hesitantly and looked embarrassed for a split second. I asked, "how do you know how to set this up so perfectly reaper?" He didn't look at me for this reply. "Many Sans's practiced the art of science, one of them being me."  Interesting. I wonder if any of them succeeded where I failed, I would kill for a Time Machine. "In all of the alternate universes I've traveled to, I've never seen the experiment go right." He clenched his fist that was resting on the newly made table. "Well, that's disappointing." I responded. I could tell I wasn't cheering him up. "Well this experiment will certainly rattle our bones..!" Oh stars. How embarrassing. Silence drizzled in the air until I hear a small chuckle which slowly morphed into cackling. "That was one was bad." He smiled at me. I felt a warmth crawl up my back. I haven't felt like this since i was spouting horrible puns at tori. "Oh yeah well I'm out of practice." I shrug while smiling.
Hours later, so I've been told. I struck out a yawn. "It's finished but can we start actually doing stuff tomorrow." I glance at reaper "alright sleepy head, wanna watch tv?"
I look hysterically. "What.Tv." I said roughly. "Chill out I'll go get one, along with some bean bags."  Astonished to see such stupidity on the face of death. "Whatever." I said giving up.
Ticks later I see death actually show up with a 46 inch tv. "You have got to be serious." I whispered. "I am so serious." He replied. Of course he could hear me. Setting up the tv I looked at him menacingly, nudging him to think that this stupid idea was not going to work. But does anyone listen. No.
"Finished." He announced. "Okay and how are we going to possibly connect it to any form of wifi? We are literally in a void of nothingness." I appointed, only to be met with a confident grin. "Wait and see, okay sunshine." Sunshine? What on earth. "Fine." He switched the tv on and it worked perfectly fine. What the Fuck. "How." I say. "Magic." He followed with jazz hands. Magic. What was I ever expecting.  I would say kill me now, but I can't die so that would be in vein. "Let's..just watch something before I go crazy." I face palm. "Whatever you say sunshine." Why is he calling me that, it's so weird. "Stop calling me that." "Okay sunshine." Oh my stars... I mumble to myself and lay on the bean bags. Reaper, of course sits so close to me, he might as well be cuddling with me. However, being alone is far worse then being with this bozo. He puts on "mew mew kissy cutie." Wow, I haven't seen this show in so long. The last time I saw this is when me, paps, the human, Undyne and
Alphys was all having a sleep over. How nostalgic. Without noticing I let out a smile and reaper notices. "I'm guessing you fancy this show then." My sockets widen. "No I just remember me and an old friend watching it." His smile slightly faded and we went back to watching the show.
12 episodes on and I had dosed off. How embarrassing. I woke up to my head resting on anything but the bean bag. But reapers arm. His hard boney arm. "I see your awake sunshine." My face was getting hot again, I quickly stood up. "I thought I told you to stop calling me that." I gritted my teeth. "What was that? I couldn't hear you I have no ears." He chuckled, I dragged my hand down my face. "Oh my stars.." soon after, reaper got up "unfortunately I have not got a day off, but you have not gotten rid of me completely sunshine." It's odd. Even though I so badly wanted him to leave me alone, I felt discouraged as soon as he mouthed those words. He summoned his mystical portal, half way through walking in I tugged on his dark robe. "Just.. promise to come back, okay?" I burrowed my cheekbones into paps scarf and looked down. "I don't like making promises.. but of course." I felt a smile walk over me as he leaves. His void coloured wings, being the last to travel through the portal, brushing up against me. One of his feathers was left behind. I pick it up and bring it back to the tv stand,holding it as I continue to watch cartoons. A glimmer of anticipation spread through me. Was I excited for him to come back to visit me? 

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