do i wanna know (?)

by leemonadeadieu

Summary:

— yeah, that's right, doc. — alphys couldn’t see him grinning, but she knew that he had exactly that expression on his face now.

Notes:

• A translation of бардак by leemonadeadieu

im not a native english speaker so i used google translate and my english knowledge
pls correct my mistakes in the comments i would rlly appreciate that

too much new has happened in just a month and a half.

 

alphys never thought that the temperature in her laboratory could fall below thirty degrees celsius, which is usual for hotland residents. now that sans and undyne have joined her in working to find possible options for freeing monsters from the underground without six human souls, the laboratory rarely becomes warmer than five or six degrees — being the residents of waterfall and snowdin, the coldest areas of the underground, the newly minted members of the scientific group brought a whole ton of fans with them. they even tried to assemble an air conditioner, but without the help of an engineer — without the help of alphys — they didn’t really succeed, and they shelved the idea.

 

well, the unexpected collaboration with undyne and sans is new in itself. and strange too. everything is clear with sans: a former scientist, also a physicist, of course, he immediately offered his help. but undyne, with her crazy restlessness and craving for chaos and activity, became an unusual candidate. however, alphys didn't doubt her intelligence at all, so it didn't take long for her to accept the candidacy of her best friend.

 

but with the appearance of sans next to alphys and him being relatively close to her on an almost constant basis, some awkwardness came. they carefully avoided and ignored each other for five (or four? alphys didn't want to count the years) years, because the nightmare of knowledge that there was someone who could simply reset everything in an instant, guided only by their own whim, didn't allow them to communicate in the same way as before. everything turned out to be so unimportant that each of them decided that it was stupid to continue communicating further — when the reset will happen, they would forget everything anyway. and they didn’t want to talk after they, having seen and learned what awaited them, got drunk and cried in each other's arms, until they fell asleep right on the floor of one of the rooms of the true lab.

 

now, realizing that ignoring was no longer a good option, sans began to try (very awkwardly) to make normal contact. later, when alphys, sighing as she opened a bottle of wine, called him over for “a few words” after the end of their official workday, it quickly became clear to both of them that they wanted their old communication back very badly. sans, not being particularly tactile, hugged and threw his arms over alphys’ shoulders even when sober, which made her understand that years of avoidance had turned into loneliness and tactile hunger not only for her.

 

after that conversation, everything became somehow easier. the atmosphere in the laboratory was no longer extremely tense, it became easier to share thoughts and ideas, and even work went a little faster. when toriel was visiting hotland and checking the work of the team, she couldn't help but notice their noticeably greater sociability, compared to her last visit.

 

today was one of the days on which work was in full swing, and everyone was doing something different. undyne was trying to deal with some metal parts she found in a garbage dump (“i don’t give a fuck if this is useless, you never know, maybe this stuff is really cool”), sans was staring intently at the monitor and calculating something, and alphys was correcting the blueprints she had recently made for the “soulgunny” (the goofy name of which was apparently given by undyne, and when sans heard it, he was laying on the floor and laughed for five minutes), which is supposed to use determination, previously extracted from human souls, turning it into a powerful beam, which, in theory, could destroy the barrier.

 

— hey guys, check it out!

 

alphys and sans immediately approached undyne, and she showed them something that resembled a sniper rifle scope. working rifle scope. the find was wonderful.

 

— do you think we need it? like, are we going to aim at a specific point of the barrier? does this even make sense?

 

alphys, already opening her mouth to say that the sight is very useful, immediately cut herself off, because sans was standing right behind her, running his hand down her neck. she took a breath and tried to concentrate on her speech.

 

— uh... y-yes, this is a very useful find, undyne! the target will be needed to release the charge directly into the center of the barrier. if, well. you can call it a center.

 

— yeah, that's right, doc. — alphys couldn’t see him grinning, but she knew that he had exactly that expression on his face now. her damn sensitivity to touch made the situation as funny as possible. alphys involuntarily thought about what reaction she would have if undyne or, for example, mettaton did this. — but the point of aim is greatly shifted. see? — sans leaned over slightly, pointing his finger at the middle of the “screen” of the sight, from which the point was two centimeters away.

 

— oh, y-yeah. well, i think i can fix... — alphys sniffed the air through her nose, feeling sans move his palm a little higher, to the back of the neck - her most sensitive area of the head. god fucking damn it. — ...fix it.

 

she jumped up, moving towards the exit from the laboratory.

 

— i'm going to muffet's for c-coffee!

 

— thanks, alf. — sans grinned, — get me a double espresso.

 

— americano for me! — undyne shouted after her.

 

coming out of the laboratory, alphys abruptly took her phone out of her pocket and began texting sans with the speed of light.

 

alphcutie

 

what are you doing?!

 

im the project manager!

 

im trying to concentrate!!

 

and when we talked bout tactility i didnt mean "use the experience from the times when we were dating and remember about my damn sensitive zones"!!

 

lazyskeleton12

 

we didnt talk bout what's forbidden :).

 

and

 

when you get mad ideas come to you easier.

 

so i think i deserve thanks ;).

 

alphcutie

 

i'll kill you at the end of the day

 

istg

 

or I'll do something worse

 

be afraid damn you

 

lazyskeleton12

 

cmon, tell me what you'll do with me :).

 

alphcutie

 

fuck you sans

 

alphcutie

 

in my office ten minutes after the end of the workday.

 

lazyskeleton12

 

ok ;).

 

alphcutie

 

and stop using those stupid sexy kaomojis

 

or i'll rlly kill you

 

 

Notes:

i was writing it like half a night send help
go play undertale dont waste ur time on writing a bad salphys fanfic (= dont be like me)