Note : While Frisk CAN talk in this story (they had to speak while on the phone, right?), they tend to keep verbal communication to a minimum whenever possible. They tend to go nonverbal a lot too.

Just making this clear before I proceed ^^


Even though monsters were very much settled into their new lives by now, they still weren't recognised as citizens and there were no laws to protect them ; therefore Frisk still had to vouch for their cause. At least they weren't alone in this task : their adopted parents were always there with them at every event and their friends showed up too whenever they could.

This time it was the skeleton brothers' turn to go to the meeting with the Dreemurrs. Or rather, Papyrus had volunteered to drive them there as it was only an hour away from Ebott, and Sans had tagged along.

Other monsters Frisk didn't know showed up as well as a lot of humans. Most of these were already monster allies so they'd be preaching to the choir tonight, which was pretty nice after debating with politicians who didn't want to give monsters a chance.

More and more humans were joining their cause as months went by. Usually the thought would cause a SAVE point to form but tonight Frisk was too tired from all that talking. They didn't have much problem writing their speeches (especially with Toriel's help), but speaking still wasn't their forte and most likely never will be.

After the meeting was done, they went back to the green room to pick up a few things they had left there while Toriel and Asgore were busy with other things.

"i think that was your best speech yet, kiddo", Sans' voice said from behind them.

Frisk hadn't heard him coming into the room at all, but they had learned to expect that kind of things from the short skeleton.

They turned around and smiled at him, hoping this would be enough to convey their thank you. Fortunately he knew better than to expect a verbal response from them right after a meeting like this. Talking really tired them out.

"you look bone tired", he observed. "everything alright, buddy?"

They nodded.

"alright then. if you got everything you need, we better get going. pap and your parents are already waiting outside the car."

They followed the skeleton out of the room.

"i saw your pictures the other day", he said, looking back at the child. "how's the saving of the echo flowers' doing?"

Frisk gave a thumb up, then took their phone from their pocket and typed "they're doing much better now. Just needed a little magic."

They hesitated a moment then added : "First time I went to Waterfall I thought their constant whispering was creepy, but… their silence is even worse."

"yeah, gotcha", Sans replied. "hey, didn't you say something about it before?"

The human erased what they had previously written, started typing, erased again and repeated the process a couple more times.

"what's the matter, kid?"

They finally got the courage to type the words : "it happened before… when everyone was dead" and show friend.

He fell silent. They both reached the backdoor of the building and he pressed his bony hand against it.

"well, you know the drill : if you need to talk about it, you can always crash my place. 'should probably ask toriel and asgore about it first though. i wouldn't want them to have a bone to pick with me."

Frisk smiled slightly at Sans' pun as he opened the door to them. His offer to crash his and Papyrus' place was tempting, but they were too tired for sleepover shenanigans with the skeleton brothers right now. Maybe they'd take the offer later.

"THERE YOU ARE! I WAS ABOUT TO GO LOOK FOR YOU TWO!"

A few puns from Sans and Toriel later, everyone was ready to leave. Papyrus was behind the wheel, Frisk sat on Toriel's lap next to him and Asgore took the whole backseat, which he somewhat felt bad about but it wasn't like he had a choice given his bulk. Meanwhile Sans took off on his moped after waving everyone goodbye.

Frisk could barely hear the radio of the car over the wind howling and Papyrus shouting about how great he thought they and their parents had been during the meeting.

Ever since they had first met him they had never heard the tall skeleton lower his voice even once. They doubted he even had this ability.

"I ALSO GOT MY NEW HUMAN FRIENDS TO COME AND HELP OUR CAUSE! WITH OUR COMBINED EFFORTS THERE'S SIMPLY NO WAY WE COULD EVER LOSE!"

"I see your plans to make friends with everyone are benefiting us all", Toriel pointed out.

"NOTHING IS STRONGER THAN THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!"

Frisk nodded in agreement even though the skeleton had to keep his eye sockets on the road and therefore couldn't look at them.

There wasn't much traffic so it took less than an hour to arrive in Ebott Town. Papyrus drove to Toriel's to drop her and the human off. He offered Asgore to drive him to his own house as well but the former king reminded the skeleton that he lived nearby and could just walk there. Asgore liked to walk.

"Good morning my child", Toriel greeted Frisk when they entered the living room the next morning, their eyes still sleepy. "Did you sleep well?"

They nodded. The night had indeed been quite peaceful this time. It wasn't always the case.

After breakfast they helped Toriel with housework, then spent the afternoon planning future meetings. School may be out for summer but their responsibilities as ambassador didn't take vacations.

"Mom? How long do you think…?" Frisk asked softly as they wrote down the first draft of a future speech on Toriel's laptop.

It was mostly recycled ideas from previous ones, as the general message of "please accept the monsters" hadn't changed ever since they accepted the job.

"How long until what, Frisk?"

"Citizenship."

"I do not know. And I fear that even after monsters obtain it, our work won't be really complete."

Frisk went silent again. They knew their mom was right. Together they did and would make a lot of progress, but there would always be humans who don't like monsters. Humans already had a hard time getting along with each other, after all. Still the child remained as determined as ever. After facing Flowey and Asriel, anything else that came their way seemed much easier. For the most part, anyway.

They finished up their draft while Toriel looked over their shoulder and pointed out the parts that they might need re-wording and the occasional typo.

"You did such a good job with this, Frisk", the boss monster congratulated them. "Why don't you take a break? I'll go make you some cookies."

Frisk smiled their brightest smile at the praise and promise of baked goods, which made their mother smile in return. They saved the draft and turned the laptop off. They even offered to help with the baking. Toriel's first instinct was to argue that they didn't have to since the cookies were supposed to be like a gift for them, but she accepted the offer because helping her made her child happy.

Really nothing could beat home-made food cooked by fire magic.

Frisk was biting into their third freshly-baked cookies when the familiar sound of their phone buzzing against the wooden table of the living room was heard. They went to check : it was a text from Alphys.

"The echo flowers you and Asgore helped transfer seem completely healthy now! Thanks again for your help ^-^"

Another text came before the human could reply :

"There still are a few others that haven't been planted in the park yet. Would you like some for your houses?"

Frisk typed a quick "yes", then suggested Alphys whispered "I love you Undyne" to one of the flowers and gave it to her girlfriend.

It took five whole minutes for the lizard woman to finally reply :

"Would she like it?"

"She loves all your gifts. Do it."

It was two hours later, as they were watching TV with Toriel ("but not too long, my child, or it might hurt your eyes"), that Frisk received a message from Undyne. It was a picture of a small echo flower in a pot resting on her piano. The caption said "best idea you ever had, punk!"

"What are you smiling at, Frisk?" Toriel asked.

The human showed her the picture and briefly explained its context.

"That's very cute", she commented, an amused grin on her face. "Maybe if there were more echo flowers monsters could gift them to one another more often. Like humans do with non-magic flowers."

Speaking of Flowers… did Flowey even bothered to read the letter? There was only one way to know and Frisk would rather not go back to the ruins again so soon.

The very next day, Frisk took two echo flowers from Alphys' lab and planted them in Toriel's and Asgore's gardens respectively.

Then, with their parents' permission, they crashed the skeleton brothers' place for the evening.

"Make sure they don't stay up too late", Toriel instructed as she and her ex-husband dropped the child off at the door.

"don't worry 'bout it" Sans replied.

"YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON THE GREAT PAPYRUS, YOUR MAJES- I MEAN, TORIEL", his brother added.

"Speaking of that", Asgore spoke, "we'll have to give a speech to the UN again soon ; would you-"

"WOWIE, DO I GET TO BE YOUR FAMILY'S BODYGUARD AGAIN? IT'S ALWAYS AN HONOUR!"

"Actually, Frisk specifically requested for both of you to be our bodyguards", the former king explained.

"well if you insist", Sans said, "i'll pry myself away from my other jobs to help you out."

"PLEASE TAKE THIS BODYGUARD JOB SERIOUSLY, SANS!"

"what, you think i don't have the guts for it, bro?"

The short skeleton winked. Frisk had stopped wondering how he could do that without eyelids a long time ago.

"WHAT I MEAN IS-"

"…that i should put a little more backbone into it?"

"Indeed you should, Sans", Toriel said, "because if anything happens to Frisk while you are on duty, I will have a bone to pick with you."

Papyrus groaned.

The two boss monsters said goodbye before leaving Frisk in the skeletons' care.

Papyrus dashed to the kitchen. Frisk didn't even need to ask what was for dinner.

They followed Sans into the living room and they both sat on the couch.

"so", he started, "you asked asgore to hire me too, huh?"

The human nodded.

"thanks for trusting a lazybones like me", the short skeleton winked.

He didn't expect a response but they gave one anyway :

"You're the only one they didn't manage to beat."

They didn't need to clarify who they were talking about.

"And Papyrus has perfect control over his magic all the time", Frisk continued. "'Need you both on the team."

"DINNER IS READY!" Papyrus called from the kitchen. "NYEH HEH HEH!"

Papyrus was so focused on the Jenga game and the one piece he was slowly taking from the tower it took him a few seconds to notice the blue glow around it.

"SANS!" he shouted when he finally noticed. "WE SAID NO CHEATING!"

"ok."

Sans' blue magic vanished from the Jenga tower, which caused the latter to collapse on the table.

"oops."

"Rematch?" Frisk suggested.

"THAT'S A GREAT IDEA, HUMAN! AND SANS?"

"yeah pap?"

"STOP HELPING ME. THAT'S NOT FAIR TO FRISK."

"ok."

Papyrus rebuilt the tower and the game started anew. A few rounds passed without any incidents, then the familiar blue glow reappeared during the human's turn.

"SANS!"

"you said i should stop helping you", Sans pointed out.

"WE ALSO SAID 'NO CHEATING'!" his brother reminded him.

The blue magic faded away again but the tower remained standing, albeit barely. Surely enough, when Frisk removed one piece, it collapsed again.

"'guess you win, bro."