It was sunset on the Surface. I felt like it had been so long since I had even seen the sky. However, knowing the sun would be gone soon didn't fill me with any kind of regret. The stars - actual stars - were starting to peek through the darkening sky. On the top of the mountain everything looked so... different. Different than what I had left behind.
I never intended to see any of this again. I didn't think I wanted to. At first, that hadn't crossed my mind at all. I looked up at Toriel, who held onto my hand as she looked at the scenery as well, mystified. Her large hand that encompassed mine completely gently squeezed. The look in her eyes could only be described as awe. This is why I did it, I knew then, I did it for them.
"Do you..." Toriel's voice was almost a whisper. "You came from this world. So you must have a place to return to, do you not? What will you do now?"
My throat clenched. Yes. I had come from this world. This big, wide world. From under that open sky. There was a reason I had climbed the mountain... I didn't have a place to return to.
No one had wanted me.
No one would be looking for me.
My lip trembled as I held back the well of tears pooling in my eyes. Though I had turned to face her, I couldn't look at her face. "I want," my knees were shaking almost as much as my voice, "I want to stay with you."
I covered my face with my hands, afraid to hear what she might say. Scared to show her my tears. I didn't want to be thrown away again. But...
"If you had said that earlier, none of this would have happened." Toriel's voice sounded as kind as ever, and I risked looking up at her. She looked to the side, a bashful look on her face. "It's a good thing you took so long to change your mind. If you really do have no other place to be, I will do my best to take care of you for as long as you need it."
She reached down and brushed my tears away. I was doing my best to be a big kid and not cry anymore, but the sniffling sobs still shook my body while I tried to calm down. Toriel looked one more time out at the sunset.
I did this for them.
I took this world for granted. It caused me so much suffering for so long. For them, though, they were willing to do anything to see this.
"Now, come along."
Toriel grabbed my hand, smiling down at me. Such a warm feeling passed through me, reminding me of everything I had gone through Underground. Everyone who I had met, who laughed with me and cried with me.
No one had wanted me. I had wanted to die.
But now...
"Everyone is waiting for us!"
... Before, I could never manage to call this place home. I doubt I could even now. But Toriel... Sans... Everyone... My friends.
They're home to me.
AN: So, quick short Undertale thing that I'm putting up here mostly for a friend. I was originally just going to draw a short comic but it turned into this. No clue if something similar has been done since I actually haven't read any Undertale fics yet (which, I'm sorry guys if you knew how deep in the Bone Zone I've fallen you should be really surprised by that fact.)
I apologize that its pretty rough, it was done mostly to get the sad out of my head!
EDITED: I fixed some grammar errors that I didn't catch, as well as an accidental gendering of Frisk.