The Soul of Empathy

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen

The First Kill

The next day when Shadow went to work there were police cars everywhere. Walking up to the door Shadow saw a pile of dust. She was shocked by the scene in front of her. She rushed past the police officers and burst through the doors of the restaurant.

"Grillby!"

"I know..." Was his only response.

"Who died?"

"I don't know, I'm guessing it was one of the homeless monsters that wander around here at night", Grillby responded.

Shadow didn't say anything else, she just numbly nodded at him and started getting ready for work.

"Shadow?"

"Yeah, boss?"

"Go home, we're closed today. After something like this I don't think many monsters want to leave the house." Grillby told her.

Shadow nodded at him and walked back out the door and straight to where a certain snow-haired man lived. It was a long walk, an hour long walk actually. Shadow didn't have her car, Papyrus was still borrowing it. Shadow was bumping into people on the sidewalk and looked so broken and empty. She felt like her dog was ran over. It didn't matter that she didn't know this monster. The fact that some human went and killed a monster after her speech yesterday killed her. After a while, she finally ended up at the door. She noticed that her car was gone meaning that Papyrus was at school. She then rang the doorbell only to get no reply. She frowned at that and turned around to lean on the door. After a while of waiting she slowly slid down it. Her break down finally reached her eyes as tears started rolling down her face. Soon enough she was balling.

A pair of pink slippers came into view after what felt like hours, which seeing the sun brightly in the sky told Shadow it was probably already noon. She let her eyes stare into San's eyes. Tearful ruby red eyes met black eyes with white pupils. He slowly knelt down in front of her.

"You didn't answer your phone, you weren't at your house, you really scared me", Sans said to her cupping her face and wiping away a few tears.

Shadow pulled out her phone and stared at the missed calls and all the messages from a terrified Sans. Her face didn't change she just let her eyes fall back onto his. SHe looked so sad and empty.

"Grillby told me what happened this morning. I figured it wasn't going to sit well with you but walking all the way here from Grillby's... that's a long walk, Shad."

"I know", her raspy voice responded. He could tell she was dehydrated by the sound of her voice. She sounded absolutely awful.

Sans picked her up and opened his door. What should have been hard was easy with Sans using his magic to open up the door. He brought her upstairs and into his room.

"Get some rest you look exhausted, you'll feel better after some shut eye", Sans told her.

She reached her arm out to him, "Don't leave me please?"

Sans sighed and crawled into his bed next to her. They both laid there for a time but soon enough Sans wrapped his arms around her waist. Sans wasn't really tired and after thirty minutes of laying there, he realized neither was Shadow.

"Do you want water?"

Shadow nodded in response.

"Alright let's get you some water", Sans got up and held his hand for her to grab.

She grabbed his hand and he started leading her out of the room. Sans raised an eyebrow when she refused to let go of his hand but left it alone when he saw the look on her face. She still looked so fragile, it was surprising how much a death of a stranger affected her. Soon the two were down the stairs and in the kitchen getting water. Sans and Shadow then sat on the couch and talked for a while, and by talk I mean listen to her tell Sans about how she felt about the situation.