True love from one look was a lie.

Papyrus never liked watching romantic movies with Sans because of this belief his brother had built. The short skeleton always ended up making fun of the movies, unable to take them seriously because of his belief that true love was just a lie. Those movies were never realistic, they were just dumb and fake.

That's why Sans hated the possibility that he would zing with someone.

A zing, for most monsters, was something magical. When you and your set soulmate looked one another in the eye, you would feel a zing at the connection as your souls synched. It was meant to be by fate itself, or so people said.

But Sans knew the truth behind a zing. It was a natural monster process to make them reproduce more, that was it. He just couldn't bring himself to believe that true love was based off of one look, with no information about the other. Love at first sight was just a tale told by people who wished for it themselves, it was a lie.

That's why he never left Snowdin, why he never met new people. The thought that Sans was going to be tricked into a sense of 'love' made him stay at home, hidden inside whenever he heard there was a new visitor. Every single time there was a visitor, Sans would duck inside of his house until they were out of Snowdin.

There was only one time Sans had slipped up, and it was with the woman behind the door. As soon as he heard her voice from behind it, he backed away, his fear of her possibly being his soulmate making him fearful that he would be tricked by his own body. Only after asking her and confirming that she had zinged with someone else before they died long ago that Sans continued to talk to her.

He wouldn't turn out like his parents. He refused.

But then, he met a human in the forest.

Small and frail, Frisk had looked scared when he first saw them. Remembering the promise he made to the woman behind the door, he decided to help the human child, but he refused to leave Snowdin and go further. The risk of meeting his zing was too high, he had to stay put.

Frisk had asked others, Sans knew they did. Everyone in Snowdin was aware of his fears, although they all disagreed with him, he was allowed to have his own opinions, as he let them have their own opinions. If they wanted to try with their zings, they could go ahead. That's why Sans didn't do anything but congratulate his brother when Papyrus found his soulmate at a live action show. As long as Papyrus was happy and didn't rush anything too quickly, Sans was fine with it. Thankfully, he had already known Alphys from school, so he didn't mind talking to her about the two.

One downside to his belief was that he was surrounded by people who had all found their zings. Almost everyone in Snowdin did, Papyrus was three months into a relationship now with Mettaton, and Alphys and Undyne were half of a year in as well. They constantly tried to push Sans to find his own, but he didn't want to budge. If his zing was truly his 'soulmate', then he should share the same beliefs as Sans.

Then, he received a text from Papyrus about the human.

It was near the end of the journey, the human had just fought Asgore and Flowey from what Sans knew. He didn't know Flowey, since he refused to meet new people, but Alphys had talked about him and what she had done to create him. He knew that Flowey was powerful, but he didn't know anything about King Asgore. Even Papyrus had met him, while Sans had stayed at home that day.

Sans knew Frisk needed him, so he decided to agree with Papyrus to leave his station and go to the castle. Knowing shortcuts, he made sure to avoid everyone, taking himself straight to the judgement hall. However, he heard someone start to run in, so he ducked behind a pillar.

It sounded like the woman behind the door from her panting, but he didn't dare take a look in case he zinged. Almost as soon as she had entered the room, Sans heard Undyne run down the judgement hall as well, Alphys shortly behind with Papyrus. He stayed behind the pillar, unsure if there was anyone else with them until the hall went silent again.

Now he could go.

Carefully taking a step out, Sans made his way to the throne room, never have actually seeing the large flower filled area.

It was...

So beautiful.

Sans always had a knack for flowers, loving the way they grew, how they looked. The only reason why he didn't go to waterfall to see the echo flowers more was because he was scared of zinging. But this throne room reminded him of why he loved flowers so much, how beautiful they were. These flowers were well tended, flourishing in this room, as whoever tended them cared about their health.

Forcing himself away from the flowers, Sans went towards the room where he heard everyone else's voices from, wanting to help the kiddo as much as possible. It was weird, going out of Snowdin for the first time in awhile, but Papyrus asked him to.

Everyone was standing in front of Frisk, all of them talking at once. From the way they were standing, Sans could only see the backs of everyone, but he could recognize his brother and friends from it. However, he could see the back of a goat woman, probably Toriel, and the back of a purple cloaked man.

"Hey Paps, what's going on?" Sans said, walking up to them.

Everyone turned to look at him, and when they did, his eyelights met the purple cloaked man's eyes.

And just like that, he zinged.

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I noticed this book like in the very back of my unfinished stories, and I hadn't touched it in a long, long time so sorry if the writing isn't fantastic. I decided to upload this book anyway and finish it so I can get it out of the way but I believe my other Sansgore book is considerably better. This one has a bit of a rushed ending and it's not fantastic but I'll upload it anyway because people have different tastes. Either way, this was written a long time ago and I didn't update it so it's not my best.