Sick Of It All

-_Getting Better_-

Sans POV~

I look around and I'm surrounded by white. To the left of me, there's a rectangular hole in the "wall", like an open door, and there's another to my right. The left one shows Pap, Frisk, Alphys, and me, passed out, on the table where I just was. The other has clouds and blue sky. I was confused until another skeleton appears in front of me, with pink tears running down her face. It was Mom.

I begin crying as we hug. "Sansy..why are you here? You're too young to die.." she asked. I look up at her. "I..I'm sick. Really sick. I have an extremely high fever. And I'm very weak. So..am I dead..?" She shakes her head. "No. Not yet. You can choose to die," She gestures to the right door that leads to the sky. "Or you could live." She gestures to the left door that leads to my brother and friends.

I think for a moment. If I die, I leave my friends and Pap. If I live a can't see my mom or other dead relatives until my time is up no matter what I choose. It takes me a moment, but I soon make my decision. "Mom..I choose to live. With Papy. And the human. And Tori. And Undyne. And Alphys. And Asgore. And Grillby. I want to fight this sickness so I don't have to say good bye yet."

My mom seems to understand and she nods. "Alright. I understand. Your..um..brother.. would be very upset to have you gone. Good luck. I will be waiting for my precious Sansy until he is ready to come back to me. I love you." She pushes me over to the left door and pushes me into it and I fall into darkness.

I hear beeping and I crack my sockets open and see the lab ceiling. I realize I'm in a hospital bed instead of an examine table. "Pap..?" I mutter weakly and I hear rushed footsteps getting louder. "SANS! YOU'RE AWAKE!" I flinch at his voice and look over to see a teary Papyrus and Frisk. Pap pulls me into a bone crushing (heh) hug and I wince. My chest hurts and because of the hug, I can barely breath. When he lets go, I cough a little and he looks concerned.

Frisk runs up to me and tackles me in a hug. Her hugs are almost as strong as Papyrus' and Pap sees my soficating (RIP my spelling) look and gently prys Frisk off of me. I cough some more and look at the two. "Heya.*cough* What'd I miss?" I ask casually. Pap looks at me with a face that says 'Are you kidding me? You almost just died'. He answers anyway. "WELL, FIRST YOU PAST OUT AND WOULDN'T WAKE UP FOR BOUT A WEEK, YOU HAD D-DUST FLOATING OFF OF YOU, SO I GOT REALLY WORRIED AND ALPHYS SAID THAT IT WAS OKAY BECAUSE SHE WAS EXPECTING THIS, AND SHE GOT A DEFIBRILLATOR AND SHOCKED YOU 20 TIMES BEFORE YOUR SOUL WAVES BEGAN TO REACT TO ANYTHING. THEN YOU WOKE UP AN HOUR LATER. YOU'RE CRYING, BY THE WAY." Pap finishes and I'm astounded.

I look at my brother to see he has tears in his eyes again and wipe at my cheek bones. Yep. I was crying. Must have been because of seeing mom.

But one thing has plagued my mind since I woke up. Am I still sick? "Hey, bro, it's okay. But. Am I still sick? I feel weak, but as weak as when I passed out." He looks at Frisk and replies after a few seconds. "YES, BROTHER, YOU ARE STILL SICK, BUT YOU ARE INPROVING! DR. ALPHYS SAYS THAT YOU SHOULD BE AT LEAST ON YOUR FEET IN A WEEK OR TWO! LAST WEEK, SHE SAID THAT YOU WERE TOO WEAK TO STAND FOR MAYBE A MONTH! AND YOUR FEVER WENT DOWN! IT'S ONLY AT 102° NOW! STILL HIGH, BUT IT'S WAY BETTER THAN 116!" I chuckle. "Alright, then. Can I go home or do I have to stay here?" I ask, gesturing to the hospital set up.

Pap looked at me and opened his mouth to say something but closes it. Frisk answers for him. "Alphys said that you can leave in a few hours. She still has to make sure that you don't get worse." I nod and Alphys just so happens to walk in just then. "Sans! You're awake! Are you feeling okay?" I hold my hand up and make a 'kinda, kinda not' gesture. "I see.." She murmurs with a nervous look that says 'okay, that's a bad response. Oh boy.'

I choose now to ask about whatever tests she's gonna do on me. "Hey, Al? What kind of things am I gonna have to do while I'm here? What tests? Please don't tell they're not tests tube tests. (Heh)" she looks at me a few seconds and replies "one of them does include you being in a test tube. But don't worry about it, it isn't anything bad. It's just scans, really." She explains. I get nervous as she speaks, remembering how Gaster would experiment on me using test tubes to break a part of my skull off and do all sorts of messed up experiments.