(Sans × Gender-Neutral! Parent! Reader || Slow Burn) Moving from a backwater town to a city bustling with human and monsterfolk alike, some things begin to change both for the better and the worse. What was left behind comes back to bite at you in the most unexpected times, current progress being put in danger as a result. It's hard to move on, though it's equally difficult trying to stay loyal to what you believe is right. With an adoptive seven-year-old son and the remnants of a recent divorce in your hands, your goal is to move on and adjust to life with monsters, these becoming an important part of your life -- one of them in particular reigniting the spark you thought gone with your ex spouse. • • • *The following story is a re-write of the first UT fanfic I ever managed to publish on the Internet. *Cover image belongs to Evie Shaffer. *Undertale belongs to Toby Fox. *You belong to yourself.

You're an athlete, simple as that. You've thought about dancing, but you figured it was never your strong suit. One day, your friends drag you to their dance practice and you are introduced to their friends. In the group of new-monster-friends, one of them catches your eye. Suddenly, dancing doesn't seem like a bad idea...

You thought he was dead, the police thought he was dead, everyone thought he was dead, and it was your fault. You had only ever wanted to belong. You wanted friends, you wanted to be cared about, and you found that. Only, you found it in a cult that spat you out and left you to fend for yourself, just as they had to 𝙝𝙞𝙢.

As a psychology student, being casually stalked has thrown you for a bit of a loop.

She always wanted to write letters to strangers. She wanted them to be old fashioned, like those messages in bottles or the ones written with inked quills. The anonymity of it all seemed so delightful, the girl would tell them her stories and they would do the same in return. They'd never meet and hear each other's voices but they'd learn many new things together. It was supposed an innocent idea, leaving a letter on a tree for a stranger to see - so why was he so keen on following her?

Y/N Collimore, a deceased mage that now haunts her family's manor must now deal with a group of skeletal intruders as she unlocks more of her forgotten past. The only thing is, these intruders don't seem to be leaving any time soon... Wordcount - 112,392