Tied Up With You

As the Years Go By

It's strange today.

"We still have a bit of pimplom soup left over." I note.

There is a cake on the table. Chocolate with chocolate icing. That is after a taste test at least.

"You're not eating the cake are you?" Error holds a spatula while folding in some eggs, He folds his arms and looks at me.

'Oh, sh!t, I didn't even notice him.'

"Heh, um, no. Just looking." I say rubbing the back of my head.

"What is the cake for?"

Error, smiles.

"Go to work babe." Error kisses me and we make out before I have to go.

Work is just as you would think it is working with Kiko and Piko.

My job was kitchen work with Kiko cleaning dishes.

I enter the small restaurant and there were a few monsters eating. They look up and their eyes told me that they weren't expecting me.

The two mice then run out of the kitchen in a frenzy.

"Cross!" Piko shouts.

"Calm down Piko, the King is coming. Let's not panic." Kiko says with rationality.

"The King?" I ask.

"Yes, the King. Why, do you not know King Asgore?" Piko says excitedly.

'Um, I know him, just not this one.'

"I have heard of King Asgore." I say.

"Have you? Well I don't bite." A warm chuckle rings out.

"Hey Cross." The sans greets.

"Sans!" I greet back enthusiastically.

"Time to work." Kiko says lightly elbowing me.

Tending to pots and running around the diner we finally satisfy the kings hunger.

"Thank you. I haven't had such a nice meal in a while." Asgore says.

"No problem." I smile giving him a light bow.

"The thing is. I have seen you before, haven't I?"

'What?'

"Your the one who was talking to the one who took out the human." He says.

"Huh?" I ask.

"Yeah, I would know as there are not many skeletons in the underground. I must wonder who you might be."

I look over to Piko and Kiko.

The two mice nod and push me towards the king.

"Thank you for your help today, but your shift ended an hour ago. We'll pay you for your overtime." Kiko says.

"Now go and introduce your wonderful family to King Asgore." Piko says.

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"This is Cross, Asgore." Sans says introducing me.

"Hello. Anyway this is my house."

I lead the two of them inside and there when I open the door is a banner hanging saying "Happy Birthday Cross!"

"Birthday?" I ask. "What day is it today?"

"Happy Birthday my love!" Error says approaching from the shadows. "Surprise!"

"What a joyous occasion." Asgore says.

We gather at the table and PC, Corre and .Exe stare at me.

"Papá, birthday?" PC sputters out.

"Yes, it is daddy's birthday." Error says coming over to snuggle up on me.

"You left me alone." He whispers to me, pinching me playfully.

"But you said to go to work." I whisper-yell back.

"I'm just playing with you." He says sticking out his tongues.

"Well you owe me." I roll my eye lights with a smile.

"Do I now?"

The years passed by each day something new.

"Rorre?" I ask.

"I'm pregnant." He smiles.

"What?"

This sense of familiarity. When the twins, my little baby girl Cross Stitch and my son Infinity were born I thought that would be the end of them, that we were finished having kids. But I was wrong, so wrong.

Then came another genderless child, Corruption,

Then another set of twins, my son Ross and my daughter Eris,

Then is followed by System Error and finally,

X, because they are the tenth child.

Error and I sit in the park without worry and watch the children play carrying System Error and X in our arms. Sans or Uncle Spacey as our children call him run wildly around the park as he teleports around exciting the kids.

It has been years since I last have given a care to the outside world.

The only thing that matters is Error, and his smile is so bright.

Black cloaks walk down the street. Underneath a blue and yellow eye glows.

[Author's Note: Just yesterday was my birthday. I proposed a break to collect myself as I thought classes were getting heavy. I should be fine. Just need to work ten times harder. Last NAC, was for recommending me stories I should write next. There is a list and stuff. Go and check it out and vote please. I have this one story in the works but I won't post it until I am done with the chapters and I want to know if that is what you would like to see. I haven't explicitly stated which story I started writing but I do want you to pick one cause I have too many story ideas that they all just jump around my head.]

Published September 11, 2024