"Frisk.. I...I'm so sorry,"
Frisk stood in front of the other child, looking down at them as they knelt on the floor and sobbed.
"I'm sorry for what I've done," Chara muttered, wiping his eyes with the back of his small hands. Frisk looked around him, there was noone else and it was quiet; the others were in another room still very dazed from the state of what just happened.
"I shouldn't have taken out my anger on you or any of the others that I loved.. I'm sorry," he sobbed, looking at Frisk through tearful eyes.
"But can I ask why?" Frisk asked.
Chara's pale hands clenched into fists on his knees and he looked up at Frisk.
"It's true I did have... have sadistic tendencies.. Before I fell into the underground my parents did not want me, other children bullied me and I felt so alone and so one day I decided to climb to the top of Mount Ebott in hopes of at least some peace of mind from the world," Chara explained, "I ended up falling into the underground and when I came to, Asriel was carrying me to save me... Noone had showed me kindness like that before."
Frisks eyes softened as he listened to Chara, kneeling in front of him so they were eye level and patting his head in hopes of comforting the other boy. Chara looked shocked at first, flicking his eyes to Frisk, "Frisk.. Why are you showing me kindness? I'm the reason Asriel is dead, the reason why I wanted to get rid of everyone, the reason why you were almost killed too.." Chara ranted on and opened his mouth to continue only to feel a pair of arms wrapping around his neck.
"Frisk-"
"Chara, I forgive you.. Please, come with us to the surface...?"
Chara's eyes widened for a moment before filling up with more tears and he wrapped his arms around Frisk, burying his face into his shoulder as his body wracked with sobs.
...
"Frisk, darling? Are you ready to return to the-" Toriel paused herself in her sentence, looking at the sight of the two children, very surprised and confused as to why there was another child there, did they just fall down into the underground now? She got closer to see them better.
Chara looked up hearing the voice and Frisk turned around to see Toriel a little better, giving her a gentle smile.
"...Ch...Chara?" Toriel stammered.
"M-Mommy," Chara stuttered back.
Frisk pulled themselves away from Chara and stood up, smiling at them both as though he knew what the two wanted to do.
In an instant, Chara and Toriel had raced towards eachother, Chara being lifted up into Toriels arms, their feet dangling from the ground as they were hugged close.
"My child...!" Toriel cried, holding Chara tightly to her chest who in turn hugged her round her neck just as tight, crying into her shoulder.
Frisk gave a small chuckle at the two, "Heh, uh.. M-Mom? Did you say something about wanting to go to the surface now?" he asked as the rest of the group entered the room leading to the surface door.
"Nyeh heh heh! We have a new child for the journey to the surface, I the great papyrus shall be sure they are escorted safely!" Papyrus piped up to which gained him multiple laughs from the several members of the group. Sans, however, was the one amongst the group that was not to thrilled about this new child joining them on their first journey to the surface... Something about that new kid was bringing memories of... Violence... Execution...
Genocide.
However, although he felt this was something of the past, he could not feel it in the present and so he began to disregard it.
