Page 1: A Day in The Life

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"December 18th..." The boy had the marker pressed on that date on his calendar, he'd drawn a circle around the number and a heart where the memo's supposed to go.

"Hard to believe it's been a month already...Guess time really does go fast." He smiled before reattaching the small marker to the calendar and reaching into his coat pocket, he pulls out a small box and flips it open, revealing a small heart shaped locket, the gold shimmering as if it was brand new before he closes it back and puts the box back in his pocket.

"Chara?" He called out before sticking his head through the doorway into his living room, on the couch a girl was napping, despite being in their apartment she had herself bundled up in her ever present green hoodie and usual grey sweatpants, he tiptoed over to the couch with a grin on his face, the gears turning in his head how he was going to surprise her, he took the box out of his pocket and placed it somewhere behind the TV and unplugged the cable out of it, he walked past the coffee table and knelt down by the sleeping girl, using one hand to carefully move the collar of her hoodie out of the way so he could reach her neck, he lifted his hand up, shaking his hand a little before bringing his fingers to her neck, gently brushing his nails across it.

The girl grumbled a little bit in her sleep and started to stir, he moved his fingers away from her as he didn't want to wake her yet, she rolled onto her side and was facing the couch itself now before going back to sleep, he went back to his routine of moving the collar out of his way and softly grazing his fingers along her neck.

"Charaaaa..." He said softly as his hand came up to her cheek, he could feel her face slowly turn into a smile but acted like he didn't notice it. His other hand started brushing her hair off of her ear, he leaned over and gave her a peck on the cheek.

"Wakey wakey..." He said quietly, the girl in question couldn't help but break out into a quiet laugh.

"Jeez Vik you're such a sap you know that?" She said through her giggling.

"Well...You knew what to expect when you started dating me, this isn't the first time I've woken you up like this you know? Okay, time to get up, seriously woman it's like 2 in the afternoon you gotta get up at some point." Chara just grumbled a bit and put her hood up over her head, he let out a sigh and started playfully shaking her, only to receive more grumbling from her. Finally he reached under her head and legs and scooped her off the couch.

"Time to get up Chara!" He said as he started rocking her in his arms, she just kept laughing and eventually hugged around his neck and nuzzled her head against his chest.

"5 more minutes..." She said, he groaned as he just dropped her back on the couch, much to her disapproval as he only received a pout from her, she yawned and finally opened her eyes all the way, bright ruby red eyes looked up at him with a faint glow behind them.

"You know there's one thing I'm never going to get tired of when it comes to you and it's those eyes of yours." He plopped down on the couch next to her and kicked his feet up on the coffee table, letting out his own yawn and laying his head back, Chara lifted his arm up and cuddled up next to him, she leaned forward and grabbed the remote off of the table and turned the TV on, only to be greeted by the "no signal" screen, she switched it over to a different input and nothing changed.

"Viiiik...TV doesn't work..." He just shrugged his shoulders at her.

"Well...Maybe you should go check it and see what's wrong..." He didn't even lean his head up to say that, he was trying to hide the growing smile on his face, Chara let out a light groan and got up from the couch, she shuffled over to the TV and leaned over behind it, Vik took a moment to look over towards her, paying close attention to her..."Figure"

"Viktor it's impolite to stare..." She said with a faux serious tone as she kept trying to reattach the cable.

"What's this?" She came from behind the TV holding the small box in her hand, she held it out towards him with a faint glimmer in her eyes.

"I dunno..." He said with a smile on his face, obviously not even trying to hide where the box came from. Chara came and sat back down next to him, holding the box in her hands, she slowly opened it up and her eyes lit up when she saw the locket.

"Vik this...This is my old locket I..." She pulled it out of the box and laid it in her palm, her thumb running over the freshly shined gold.

"It looks brand new...How did you manage to get it? I thought that I lost it..." Her hand closed around the locket.

"Well I have to give Asriel a little credit for that one...Originally I had no idea where the thing was at but he brought me to the underground when you two first got reacquainted and we searched for it, took us a couple of hours to find it but eventually we did and it was in pretty rough shape, so I took it to really anyone I could find and had it cleaned, polished, the whole 9 yards...Also I kinda did something else with it..." He reached forward and pressed on the sides of the locket, it opened up to reveal a heart shaped ruby inside, the gem shined as bright as Chara's eyes.

"Vik I..." He could see that she was starting to tear up a little bit.

"I just...I never thought I'd see this again..." She brought her open hand to her mouth, a few tears started to run down her cheeks as the emotion started to hit her, she couldn't stop from practically throwing herself at him at this point, her arms hugged tightly around his neck as she quietly started crying.

"Thank you...Thank you so much..." She started hugging him even tighter, pretty much refusing to let him go at that point.

"There's uh...One more thing I did to it..." She pulled away from the hug for a moment, curious as to what else he could do to it. She set the locket in his palm and he popped it open again, this time he showed that the gem was actually removable and underneath it he had the words "Hopes and Dreams" engraved on it, them he pointed at the top as she obviously missed where their initials were engraved on it

"VB+CD

11/18/18"

"Yeah I know it was probably overkill doing all this to it, and in all honestly it's probably corny as all hell, but I wanted to do something special and I know how much this means to you...So I figured why not make it mean a little bit more?" He reinserted the ruby and closed the locket around it before hanging it around Chara's neck, she was pretty much speechless by this point as she was trying to hold back from crying anymore.

"You look beautiful." For Chara that was essentially the breaking point for her, she broke down into tears and fell into his arms, he hugged her tightly with one arm and gently stroked her hair with the other, soon her crying faded away and she was just enjoying the embrace, the two sat there for what felt like forever, Chara didn't want to get up she was perfectly content staying in that spot all day.

"Chara...You know we're gonna have to get up sometime..." She just made a sound that sounded like the word "no" and held on even tighter, she snuggled up as close to him as she could without flat out hopping into his lap, her arms refused to let go and he just kicked his feet back up on the table and let her pretty much lay on him, a few minutes passed and he could hear her faintly snoring.

"Heh...So much for getting up today right?" For the next couple of hours he let Chara rest on him, he didn't mind it really in fact he enjoyed the times where they would just stay in for hours at a time and just enjoy each other's company, after a while though he couldn't sit any longer so he carefully lifted Chara's head enough for him to scoot out of the seat and gently set it on the couch, he threw some shoes on and headed out of his apartment, he walked up the small flight of steps to the front door and walked outside, the sun was already setting over the horizon and people's Christmas lights were coming on, he took a deep breath and inhaled the cold Washington air, thinking about how he managed to move away from that craphole in Ohio, how much convincing he had to do to make Chara leave with him because he didn't want to go and abandon her, they'd been living out there for a month before she came to him and told him her feelings so he just took it as a good sign, he had a new home, he was with the girl he admittedly had feelings for a little bit longer than she knew, things seemed to work.

He sat on the front step of the apartment building, looking up towards the sky and thinking about how things worked out to this point, how he'd spent the last 6 years trying to put the pieces of Chara back together, he remembered the first day he met Chara...He had some cheap fast food job near downtown Cincinnati and she was some homeless girl who had to live in a box, she somehow managed to keep herself hidden from the other people but he ran into her one day on the job, offered her a place to stay and...Well the rest is history.

"Well...Where do we go from here?" He asked, it wasn't for anyone to really answer but he still asked the question. He stood up and walked back into the building and down the stairs back to his apartment, he walked into Chara sitting up on the couch watching TV, she had it turned on to the news.

"Viktor come look at this..." She said with a little bit of concern in her voice, he came over and sat down next to her to listen.

"According to top scientists, one of our satellites has picked up two mysterious objects hurtling through space on a direct course to Earth, what these objects are is currently unknown but they are reported to not be large enough to do any damage to the planet upon impact, however residents of the impact zones are urged to take precautions and prepare for any potential property damage that may come from these strange spacecraft, the estimated time of arrival for these range between 1 to 2 days." Viktor sat there adamantly listening to the anchorman continue speaking about the "objects", his thoughts slowly shifted from ones of curiosity to ones of concern, his mind immediately started going to the worst places it could, he was immediately getting paranoid that whatever these things were, they intended to hurt Chara...They can't be allowed to hurt Chara.

*Don't let them hurt Chara...Don't le hurt your Chara...*

"Vik? You alright?' He was brought out of his thoughts by her voice, he briefly shook his head for a moment before smiling at her.

"Yeah Chara...I'm fine..." He put his arm around her and hugged her tightly.

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