Long Drives meant for Long Nights in Long Coats

>Susie and Kris get a used car
>It's a horrid, truly horrid piece of shit car, but it's what they could afford with what shit jobs they could find in Hometown
>Doors you gotta slam afew times to shut right, roof upholstery held up by thumb tacks, they jiggle the keys before trying to starting her up for good luck
>Huge holes at the base of each seat but that was something they did themselves to accommodate Susie's stumpy tail
>Cherished all the same by the two of them, an escape out from suffocating smallness of Hometown
>They left it at Susie's place, didn't want Toriel to knowjust how badly the brakes squeal
>They keep each other in the loop when they're taking it out for a spin, friendly reminders becoming invitations to come along for a ride as night fell
>Susie was a fan of late night joyrides when Hometown's streets were empty, and the few times they got caught speeding Undyne let them off the hook
>Susie was the only one who ever took Undyne's "extreme" drivers lessons, her prize student
>Susie was probably the only one in town who couldve passed her lessons too
>Kris though, prefers more pensive drives at night.
>Long hauls to weird little places two or three towns over, or just big trips that never really goes anywhere
>It was already pretty late when Kris called Susie to let her know he was going on a drive
>Like, actually called her. Not just a text.
>Just about to sleep but wondering what was chewing at Kris, Susie decides to accompany the freak, throwing on a pair of jeans over her sweatpants pajamas and grabbing a heavy coat many sizes too big for her.
>They found the coat at a thrift store one day and mystified that it was too big for Susie, and seemed like it would even be big on Kris' dad, they bought it.
>It was a warm ass coat and considering that the AC was just as busted as the rest of the car, deeply needed on the cold midwinter night
>So thats what she wore as she waited on her porch, hands deep in coat pockets trying to keep warm

>Doesn't take Kris long, must've already been walking over already when he called
>He's also significantly less dressed for the weather despite having walked over here.
>"Trying to get in character for your Pizza job freak?"
>"Just had to be over here quick, I guess"
>They get in without saying much else, Kris rubbing his arms and shuddering alittle, trying to get warm.
>Ever his mother's son, he turns to Susie and tells her to buckle up, fishing around for something in the door compartment
>She snorts a laugh out at him as he fumbles with a bobby pin, trying to keep his bangs out of his face.
>"I dont think Ive ever worn one, why should I start now?"
>He stops, red eyes looking up at nothing as he tries to remember
>"You're right, I think. As far as I've seen anyway." He goes back to getting situated, adjusting the rear view mirror a tad, shifting the seat forward from where Susie had it.
>He reaches his final step, holding his breath as he jiggles the key a tad and turns it in the ignition, waiting hopeful for...
>A satisfied sigh as the car growls to life, accompanied by Susie yawning as she reclined her seat as far back as she could
>"Lemme know when we get wherever your nerd head wants to get to"
>Kris mutters an "alright" at her as they pull out of the driveway, turning the radio on low and tuned to a local station
>She dozed off pretty quick, staring at trees while quiet music plays is pretty condusive to that.
>Wouldn't stay asleep for long though, and Kris was still at the wheel when she woke.
>She peered around and took note of afew things
>He seemed more relaxed at the wheel by now, glancing at the clock let her see that she had been asleep for maybe half an hour.
>She also noticed a small cup of coffee in his cup holder, did he stop somewhere for it.
>There's also a slim jim in her cupholder
>Nice
>Squinting, she also sees that he put some gas in.
>Bastard. It was her turn.
>Granted it was also her turn the last three times he filled it.

>Susie shifting about and craning her neck didn't go unnoticed.
>Kris turned his head towards her just a tad, turning down the radio alittle
>"Sorry I woke you"
>"I got you a snack though"
>Susie groaned a tad as she sat up just abit.
>"I noticed. It's not even the good stuff, but I'll take it as forgiveness for waking me"
>She peeled back the wrapper and shoved the whole stick in her mouth, then stretched out as much as the dragongirl could in her seat.
>It was a slim chance that anything Kris was doing actually woke her up, she didn't even think he had turned up the music.
>She chuckled about 'Slim chance' for a moment
>Swallowing his peace offering she sat back alittle and looked at Kris, trying and failing to get a look at his eyes, and then broke the silence.
>"Know where we're going yet pinhead?"
>"What? Oh. Uh..."
>He was paused, staring ahead. Then he coughed
>"No. I keep figuring it'll come to me. It uh, hasn't yet."
>Susie was less than thrilled at that
>"Do you want to talk about whats eating you?"
>He stayed silent, so she poked it again
>"If you've got some weird human parasite thing you gotta tell me freak. I'm not gonna die of mad human disease for you."
>Her goading worked, enough to get a chuckle, atleast
>"I think I'm at greater risk of getting some wierd parasite from you, but uh"
>Kris stiffened abit
>"I'll tell you about it when we get wherever. I'm still thinking on it myself"
>Susie scoffed and laid back again
>"Well turn the radio up then, I can barely sleep with how loud the gears in your head are turning."
>Kris laughed alittle more as he turned up the radio abit to accommodate her, sipping from his coffee as she tried to get back to sleep
>"And wake me whenever we get 'wherever', alright?"
>"Alright."

>When Susie woke up again, the fucker had lied.

>Susie stumbled out of the car with all the elegance of someone who just slept in a car for the better part of two hours and a stiff neck, looking around wherever Kris decided "wherever" was going to be.
>Which happened to be the lake.
>Susie was abit more than annoyed at this decision, grumbling as she looked around for the little shit.
>It wasnt that the lake wasn't special or meaninful to the two of them, anything but.
>It was the fact that it was a closer walk from Kris' house than it was from his house to hers was the annoyance.
>She spied the freak sitting on their bench at the lake, all hunched over.
>As quietly as she could she crept over to huddled mass, expecting him to be sobbing from what she could see.
>Concern turnt to relief when she got close enough to realize he was just shivering.
>He was enough of a pretentious idiot to actually sit around freezing just so he could be all cool and thinky after all
>"Hey freak, having fun there or is your ass actually froze down to the seat"
>Kris heard the car door shut but still jumped alittle at her voice
>"No, atleast I dont think..."
>Kris made alittle show out of scootching on the bench
>"Not frozen yet, nope."
>They shared a laugh as Susie stepped around to the front of the bench but she didn't sit, just looked out over the half frozen lake with him
>"So you wasted my time driving halfway to Coalsburgh and back to drive five minutes away, huh?"
>Kris laughed away his embarrassment
>"Yeah I guess it did kinda end up like-"
> His sentence cut short by Susie hoisting him up to be eye level with the lizard with a toothy snarl. Not that far, she just barely had a head on him nowadays, but it was still jarring.
>"You know what I do to people who waste my time?"
>Susie let the threat air for a minute.
>Waiting for the quiet kid to say something
>"N-no I d-"
>Exactly what the lizard was waiting for.
>Susie had caught Kris offguard when she lifted him from his seat, and she managed to do it again when did the exact opposite.
>She sat, as fast as she could, and brought Kris with her, engulfing him in the enormous coat, huddled up together.
>Susie reveled in the moment of shock and awe, Kris sat there for a moment before he fully caught up with what she had done
>"Smooth moves there, really had me going"
>The two of them shifted abit, getting comfortable where they sat, Susie stretching her neck abit, still stiff.
>They sat in silence for awhile before Kris started talking, telling Susie about the argument he had with his mom that night
>Susie sat there, nodding along, enjoying the warmth trapped between the two as he spoke.
>When they decided to finally drive back the sun was threatening to rise, neither of them all too willing to be awake when it did.
>Kris was pretty sure she slept on him while they were sitting there too
>By the time they pulled into Susie's driveway, squealing brakes setting off her neighbors pet into a frenzy, neither of them wanted more than a warm bed.
>So responding to his mother's several "Where are you" messages with a heavily delayed "Susie's" and an "I'm sorry", the two fell into bed