Underfell Love
By: 246Nakuro
Chapter 1: The switcheroo
Frisk sat and looked at the sky, go figure Sans had fallen for Toriel. She was nice and pretty sure but Frisk had always hoped that maybe they and Sans would be an item. With the recent announcement made to everyone that they, Sans and Toriel, were not only an item but engaged Frisk's dream was shattered. Sans was now her dad. Frisk had accepted that fact mentally, at least they thought they had until they saw Sans. Frisk looked back upon hearing their new dad.
"Hey Kiddo, what are you doing out here all alone?" Sans asked them with a ruffle of their hair.
"Just sitting." Frisk replied with a gentle laugh. "I wanted to relax a bit."
"Relaxing is nice, but I find it hard to believe that that's what you're really doing out here." That was something Sans had a knack for, knowing when they weren't being completely honest with him.
Frisk shrugged not really knowing how best to phrase: "Because I wanted to get away from this place as it has shattered all hope for my love." without sounding like a bad word. No it was best to just stay silent. Which they so often were nowadays it didn't really strike Sans as odd. So Sans sat with Frisk until Toriel called him to help set the table. Frisk heard this and stood to follow when they saw someone invite them to play something. Needing something to get their mind off things they agreed and followed this person. It wasn't until to late they realized they had been pulled into another game? Timeline? They didn't know but everything looked darker, scarier. As they walked into the starting room they expected the Flowey they had seen a thousand times, this one however had missing petals, torn leaves, and just looked all around beaten up.
"Get out of here!" Upon seeing them though Flowey changed. "Oh… Sorry I thought you were Toriel. What are you doing here human?"
"Wish I knew. Now I have a question for you." Frisk replied before kneeling down to look right at Flowey who began to get nervous at such an intent stare. "Why are you being so kind to me? Usually you yell or tell me I'm useless or what have you but you're NEVER genuinely kind OR genuinely afraid."
"Well I don't know. I've never seen someone like you here before." Flowey answered truthfully. "I don't recall ANY humans down here that look like … No offence I mean!"
Frisk raised an eyebrow but was always for giving others another chance. Standing up they looked around before heading off in a direction only to come back with a flower pot.
"What are you going to do with that?" Flowey asked confused.
"Plant you in it." Frisk replied like it was the most obvious answer to be had.
"What are you crazy?!" Flowey yelled at Frisk.
"Well I'm not going to leave you here to be hurt over and over again. Your petals and leaves are proof enough that has happened to you one too many times." Frisk told Flowey sternly. "Besides Asriel, I don't want to have anyone's death on my conscious. So YES I'm planting you in it."
Flowey was silent after that. How did this human want to save him not kill him? How did they know about him being Asriel? They were so gentle with him as they uprooted him only to place him in the flower pot and for once Flowey felt safe. Safe enough to reveal the truth about this place.
"I don't know where you came from human but here it's kill or be killed." Flowey told them sadly.
"You always say that." Frisk replied with a smile. "Among other things. I got you to the surface once I can do it again."
Flowey now looked at this human with shock. "What's your name? It doesn't seem fair you know mine and I don't know yours."
"Frisk. You go by Flowey so I'll call you that." Frisk looked straight at Flowey who looked away a light blush on his flower cheeks.
Flowey wasn't used to kindness and at first it had put him in a nervous state, now though the longer they went on through the ruins without finding Toriel, and the more saves they got to, made him relax a bit. Every battle Frisk found someway to convince the monster not to attack. For the froggit they patted them, the loox they smiled at and rooted for, the ghost they cheered up with a smile. Without fail with every fight Frisk protected Flowey and dodged insanely well, almost like they knew the attacks and how to dodge them. However Flowey knew their luck could not last forever as eventually at an inviting looking house Toriel found them.
"Oh no!" Flowey replied upon looking into the red eyes of the goat.
"You! What are you doing in my home?!" Flowey shrunk back while Frisk blinked, this wasn't the Toriel they knew.
Still, there was some parts that reminded them or the Toriel they knew. Puting Flowey in a safe place she rushed towards the goat who raised a hand to strike them but was stunned when the rush was simply for a hug. Toriel looked down at this human child who was smiling.
"What?" She was at a loss.
"Mom. I missed you." This caused Toriel to yank the human off them and because they were shorter hold them while glaring at them.
"I'm not your mother child." Frisk only smiled at this.
"Not yet maybe." Another glare resulted from that. "But I know for a fact that you're not quite as tough as you pretend to be. After all, telling knock knock jokes through a door doesn't exactly brim with toughness."
Toriel dropped the child at hearing that before she turned around and headed inside Frisk grabbed Flowey and followed after her. Toriel tried to keep her stern face on but she felt it cracking over time as the human just started walking through her house asking what the stories were behind various different things. Flowey was stunned when even the person who attacked and harmed him was kind, in an almost fearful way. Happy though needing to continue on Flowey was horrified when Frisk asked how to leave the ruins.
"My child. You mustn't leave." Toriel told them both. "You really will die if you go."
"I have to, I'll be fine." When Toriel nodded no Frisk nodded yes. "I have to."
"No." Flowey cried out Frisk's name as Toriel caused the battle screen to come up. "You have to stay here where your safe."
"Sorry mom." Frisk replied without hesitation and moved the cursor to mercy then spare.
For agonizing turns Toriel waited for Frisk to fight back but they wouldn't only smiling and clicking mercy over and over. Toriel knew they should try to end their life, it would be better for everyone but she couldn't. Her children had died and even though Frisk clearly wasn't their child all Toriel saw when she attempted to attack them was her deceased children. Finally she sighed, spared them and unlocked the door begging them not to come back. Frisk nodded and looked at Toriel.
"Mom? Wait?" At Toriel's confused look Frisk picked up Flowey and handed him to her. "Please look after him as if he were your own child, and Flowey start repairing the damage of the past ok?"
At Flowey's tearful nod Frisk smiled and headed outside the door without looking back. They headed out and looking in the bush smiled and waved at the camera within it.
"Hello Alphys." That said they turned and began walking along the path until they heard the stick break and as Sans was heard walking behind them then stopping, they lunged to hug him… only to land in the cold hard snow.