Between Life and Death

Hey! So I've decided to start a new story for now, will continue the other one but I'm kinda stuck on that on and this has been on my mind for a while!

Mentions of suicide and self harm, please don't read if you get triggered by those. I love all of you guys and so that's why I'm putting that there, please don't get any ideas from this.

IF THERE EVER HAPPENS TO BE SOMETHING GOING ON AND YOU FEEL ALONE AND WANT TO KILL YOURSELF PLEASE RETHINK IT

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Chara will be a guy in this story as well

I don't own Undertale! And once again the disclaimer is gonna be in this chapter only 'cause lets face it, there is no way I'd be able to make a cool game like this!

The boy kept climbing the mountain, despite the screaming in his legs. Tears rolled down his face as he stumbled over the rocky areas on the mountain, he just wanted to be alone. Red liquid stained his sleeves and some parts of his top. This would be it.

The boy clumsily made it to an opening in the mountain and peered down, it was pitch black almost like the sky. The boy took in a gulp of air and looked at the last of rays of the sun, feeling the wind once more before he shut his his eyes remembering the orangeish yellow glow that emitted from the sun. With a small serene smile he turned his back on the opening and let out a breath as he let his body fall backwards into oblivion with his last breath.

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"Asriel, don't go so far" a woman called out to a small child who was running around in the yellow flower field that grew the most since it was one of the only places it got sun from the outside,

"I won't, don't worry mom!" the boy called back at a woman who was draped in purple and blue clothing.

Asriel laughed and ran around in circles tracing the outline of the flower patch, finally the boy got tired and fell onto the flower patch, he turned his head towards his mother who was gathering who knows what and then looked back up, wondering what it would be like to be at the surface. As Asriel kept fantasizing about the surface he swore he could hear something coming down, something falling down.

"M-mom!" Asriel stuttered out calling over his mother who was alerted and quickly and went over to her son. The goat woman's ear twitched as she sense something coming down, she grabbed Asriel right as a body struck hard onto the flower bed, sort of cushioning the fall. … not really. .. Asriel pulled away from his mother to look at the body. The goat boy inspected the fallen body and gasped at the sight and hid into his mother's clothes, not wanting to see such a thing.

The goat woman pried her son off and checked to see what Asriel looked away from. As soon as she saw the blood covered thing she gasped and started fusing over the human, and picked them up. "I think it's a human, they're injured pretty bad. Let's go Asriel, we'll take them home with us and wait for them to wake up," she smiled and led the way from the ruiney place to their house.

"Hey mom, will dad be home when we get there? " the goat boy inquired trying to get the image of the bloody human. His mother smiled at him and nodded,

"Yes, he should be home" she she smiled and wondered at what could have led the human child down to their world. She shook her head not wanting to think of any possibilities except for that they tripped.

The two walked in silence until they arrived at an opening with a dead tree with lots and lots of flower petals, most of them being roses. The two entered with Asriel bounding to whichever room he thought his father was in.

"Asgore? We're back!" the woman called and walked to the left and entered the living room where she saw her son on the couch with her husband.

"Welcome back Toriel. How was the outing?" he asked with a smile and turned to Toriel, his smile faltered and left in an instant when he saw what his wife was holding. "Torie, what is that?"

Before Toriel could explain Asriel jumped up, "It's a HUMAN!" he shouted making Toriel shush him, she didn't want the child waking up yet. Asgore got up and scratched his head, he wasn't sure of what to do.

"Dear?" Toriel questioned, unsure of what her husband was thinking of. Asgore motioned for Toriel to follow which she did but stopped mid step, "Asriel, its getting rather late you should sleep. After all, Sans and Papyrus will be here tomorrow to hang out with you and to take you to Mettaton's show" she spoke and nodded for him to go, he nodded and let out a small yawn which he tried to stifle but to his embarrassment went through. Toriel chuckled and ruffled her son's head and shooed him away with a smile. "Sleep well dear, get rested up" she whispered and Asriel gave her and Asgore a quick smile before disappearing into his room.

"Let's get the child cleaned up and bandaged," he sighed, not knowing any other options, as he knew his wife was going to be overprotective of the child. "Luckily I cleaned out our spare bedroom for the two for tomorrow, we can have the child sleep there for now, after..." he trailed off, Toriel understood what he meant and the two went to the bathroom and got started to take the kids clothing off, "Asriel and the child seem to be the same size, can you go get some clothes from him?" he asked and watched as Toriel left to get some clothes.

Asgore sighed and wet a cloth with warm water and set it aside, he quickly finished undressing the child, leaving the underwear on, not wanting to invade any boundaries and privacy. He stared at the child's arms, and chest that was adorned by deep and long cuts, he softly started to clean away the blood that had dried there, 'what could have happened?' he asked himself but the answer seemed obvious.

Toriel knocked on her son's door and got a muffled enter, "Sorry Asriel, would it be okay if I borrowed some clothes from you?" she asked, the boy nodded and fell back onto the the pillow and tried to go to sleep.

He couldn't help his mind wandering to the human, "Hey mom?" he called out and heard Toriel stop going through his draws for clothes, meaning he could continue, "Whats going to happen to the human? Are they going to live with us?" he pondered and heard Toriel sigh.

She went over to his bed with clothes in her hand and felt the weight of her on the bed, "I'm not sure, the child will stay here until they are recovered, then we can ask them of what will happen. In the mean time yes, the human will stay here." she offered him a smile and bid him goodnight once more and laid a small kiss on his forehead, "sleep well," Toriel whispered and left the room and went back to Asgore and the child.

"Tori, the child is, wow I don't even know how to explain it. He's so young and yet so," he stopped as he felt tears coming to his eyes, "He's around Asriel's age and yet as so many scars and cuts on him." he choked out, thinking what would lead the child to this. Toriel's gaze softened towards the child and shook her head as she also got on the floor next to Asgore and laid the clothes on the floor. They finished washing the boy and got him dressed in Asriel's clothes, the two got up and looked at each other, "You go put the child to bed, I'll clean up the bathroom," Asgore whispered heartbroken at what he had seen. Toriel nodded and left with the child in her arms and arrived at the spare bedroom and quietly opened the door and smiled to herself as she saw how Sans, Papyrus, Alphys, Undyne and Mettaton had decorated the room since they all took turns sleeping there, each one had their own special 'corner' of the room. Toriel laid the child into the bed and tucked him in, making sure he was fine, she looked at him a little more. His brown hair went over to the side, his face distorted with pain, his entire body pale from the loss of blood he underwent. "Be safe child," she whispered and gave him a quick kiss on the forehead just like she did with her own son and finally left the room so she could go find her husband.

She found Asgore going back to the kitchen and proceeded to go after him. They sat down at the table in complete silence, both unsure of what to say. Toriel stared at the light brown table while Asgore studied Toriel's pained expression. "Tori dear, what will we do?" he whispered, Toriel shook her head, even she didn't know what to do.

"I'm not sure but I don't think it would be wise for Papyrus and Sans to be over to-"

"Asriel's been looking forward to this for a while, we can't just tell him no now. Also, I don't think the child will be waking up anytime soon, it should be fine." he finished, trying to let the day for tomorrow go smoothly. Toriel looked at Asgore questioningly, still not convinced. "Look, it'll be better, Sans is responsible and Papyrus can take Asriel to their house if things go south," he explained. It did make sense to have someone there as well. Toriel let out a long sigh and sat in silence as she though over what Asgore laid out.

"I see, well then when they are over I shall inform the two." she thought on it more, she knew Asriel would be safe with Papyrus, it only made sense. Toriel gave a smile to Asgore and the two finally left to go to sleep.

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Asriel blinked his eyes and rubbed them, and as he remembered that the skeletons would be coming to play with him he jumped out of bed with a huge grin. The boy from yesterday in the back of his mind. It had been awhile since he saw the skeleton brothers. The boy rummaged through his dresser and grabbed some clothes and threw them on and ran out of his room, slamming the door behind and shouting down the hall for Toriel and Asgore.

Toriel appeared in the hallway with a stern look on her face, Asgore came out as well with a duster and looked at Asriel, both of them put their finger to their lips indicating for him to quite down. Asriel looked down in shame but none the less he went to his parents and gave them a quick morning hug before slipping his hand in Toriel's and went to the kitchen letting Asgore finish the cleaning.

"Now my child, what would you like for breakfast?" she asked standing around, waiting for Asriel to makeup his mind.

"PANCAKES!" exclaimed aloud and instantly remembered, "Sorry mom," he muttered out and saw the smile that flashed on his mother's face. "Mom, hey mom!" he started, trying to get Toriel's attention,

"What is it little one?" she asked as she continued to make the breakfast, at that moment Asgore also joined in and sat down at the table.

"How's the human? Will I get to play with them soon?" he asked hopefully, his eyes full of energy. Toriel looked at Asgore, unsure of what to say.

"Not yet kiddo, he needs to get better first and then some. Maybe though, it all depends." Asgore smiled. The three continued talking while Toriel cooked and finally finished, making the food and set it all out on the table, "This looks absolutely fantastic Tori!" Asgore cried out in pure bliss at the look and smell of the food. Asriel beat Asgore to the home made syrup and poured it all over his food with a laugh,

"Haha! To slow dad!" he laughed out, Toriel just shook her head at the antics, it was nice to have the family all together like this every day and every night... excluding the nights that Asriel would go over to the others and stay there for the evening. The three ate and continued to talk, Asriel talking about what was going on in school and how it was getting boring, they continued like this for a while until they heard the door open with a loud bang and with lots of shouts. Toriel's eyes widened and quickly went to the front of the house to hush the one who was shouting, she had a guess it was Papyrus.

"HUSH!" she shouted furiously at the tall skeleton now standing before her, getting a confused look from both skeletons. Toriel sighed and indicated for the brothers to follow her, they made it to the kitchen and sat down, Toriel got them pancakes and started to discus about the human who fell down.

Sans and Papyrus listened with wide eyes at what the goat woman was telling them. "He's staying in the guest room until he wakes up and then we're gonna interrogate him!" he smiled, pleased with himself that he used a much longer word, Asgore shook his head,

"No we won't Asriel, we'll talk to him about what happened." he chuckled, "I don't think the kid would want to be interrogated first thing when he wakes up," Asriel made a face but kept eating his food and conversing with the two skeleton brothers. Sans interrupted them only to make a stupid pun. Everyone was happy.

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The boy's eyes fluttered open, anger boiled in him as he took a breath in and felt stinging on his body, he let out a blood curdling scream and scratched at the bandages trying to get them off and sunk his finger nails into his skin and the already made cuts and drawing out more blood.

Everyone in the kitchen went cold as they heard the scream, Asgore shot up and ran towards the room, telling something to Toriel which she didn't get.

"Papyrus, take Asriel and go to your house, I'll call you later, please go now." she begged and dragged Asriel off the chair and into Papryus's arms, Asriel protested and begged to stay but his mother was having none of it. "Sans please help us." she whispered and led the skeleton to the room where Asgore was trying to get the boy to stop.

"What did you do to me?" the boy shouted and kept clawing at himself making the blood gush faster and pool at the base of his feet. He ignored the fact that the ones surrounding him weren't even human.

"Please child stop!" Asgore exclaimed, trying to get a good hold on the boy but to no avail.

"You! YOU!" everyone could tell how upset and in pain the boy was in, "You undid all my hard work! I was almost there!" he screamed, Asgore finally caught the boy's wrist and stopped him from harming himself even more. "Let go of me!" he shouted and bit Asgore which made him immediately let go of the child who in turn hopped off the bed and dodged Toriel who tried to grab him, blood trailed after the boy who bumped into Sans who had waited out in the hallway. With one more push the boy almost made it past Sans but the short skeleton grabbed him and pinned him to the ground.

"I would stop before you lose to much blood and die human," Sans commented but only earned a deathly chuckle from the human, but no words followed after.

"P-please let me bandage you," Toriel stuttered out. A growl emitted from the boy but no other protest was shown. Sans cautiously let the boy up and led him into the room and shut the door just in case he tried to escape again.

"Tori there is a medicine kit under the bed, it should have bandages," Asgore spoke tiredly, Toriel got the kit out and had the boy sit on the bed as she reapplied medicine and started to wrap the child in bandages. After they finished they all sat in silence until the boy's stomach gave him away. He looked down in embarrassment and hugged his stomach as to not make it make noise. Toriel giggled and got up and led everyone to the kitchen

"Please follow me, we still have pancakes. Ah! Are you allergic to anything?" she quickly asked with worry, the boy raised a questioning look but shook his head. "Well umm child, what shall we call you?" she finally asked and watched many different emotions cross his face,

"" they strained to hear what the boy mumbled,

"Speak a little louder kiddo," Sans yawned and in the end got a dirty look from the boy.

"Chara," he smiled, the smile taking everyone off guard. One moment the boy was- they stopped and decided not to dwell on it to much for now.

"Well Chara, welcome to the underworld." Asgore greeted, the other two also shot him a smile and all of hem took a seat, Toriel quickly got up and grabbed a new plate for Chara and watched as the boy hesitantly took some of the food and put it on his plate.

"T-thank you for the food," he whispered and put some of it in his mouth, 'This is much better then being around those stupid ignorant humans' Chara concluded

Ha! So I hope you guys like this new story :D
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