The Soul of Empathy

Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

The Man Who Changed Fate

Trigger warning... again.

Shadow looked at him confused, “What?”

“Don’t drink too much tonight. It would be a shame if you passed out on me”, he winked at her. He had no idea why he did any of this. He was just overcome with a feeling that if he didn't something bad would happen.

Shadow instead slowly started sipping her shot, “You're right that wouldn't be fun. Before we get too drunk wanna dance a little?”

Her stunning smile left him breathless. He swiftly got up and held out his hand to her. “Okay Doll, we can go dance if that's what you want.”

Shadow smiled up at him and took his hand. Her eyes lit up as she did. Soon he whisked her off to the dance floor. They were both slightly buzzed so they were chattering happily with one another. Fast music was playing and Shadow and Sans were moving to the beat. Soon enough a slow song came on. Shadow’s face became pink and she started to walk back to the bar.

“Not a slow dancer, Shad?” Sans called out to her.

She stopped in her tracks and spun around, “I'm pretty bad at it. I have rhythm but not balance.”

“I'll lead.”

“You sure? I might step on you.” Shadow joked with a grin.

Sans walked over to her, they ended up in a more quiet area due to her trying to leave. He took her hand in his, place her other hand on his shoulder and wrapped his arm around her waist.

“You know, you look stunning tonight. You remind me of this place in the underground. It’s the most beautiful place there.” Sans said with a soft smile.

Shadow turned red at that and stammered out a response, “Oh, I uh- thank you.”

Sans chuckled at her and continued on, “Would you like to see it?”

“Yeah I really would”, Shadow replied with a smile of her own.

“Then it's a date”, right as he said that the song ended and left the two of them to separate again, “Drinks?”

Shadow nodded and dragged him back to the bar where she started sipping her shots slowly. Seems like she remembered what Sans had said earlier.

Once she finished her drinks she was fairly tispy and so was Sans. The two were laughing and joking. Soon enough it was late and time for everyone to go home. Shadow looked to Sans, “I can't drive.”

“I know.”

“Can you take me home?”

“Dunno Doll, the room keeps moving and I'm sitting still.”

“Sans are you drunk?” Shadow asked with a concerned look.

“Dunno, could be, I drank anywhere between one to a ton.” Somehow in his hand was a wonton. Shadow had no idea how he did that but bursted out laughing anyways. (Author here, if you wanna hear that pun there's a video called anime in real life, it's near the end. Should be by nigahiga.)

“Well played, I liked that one.” Shadow giggled, “But we do need to get home.”

“I can probably get Paps to drive us, just need to find him”, Sans got up and stumbled. Shadow quickly went to catch him only to fall with him. They ended up in a pile on the floor and lone behold, Papyrus was standing there with Mettaton.