Under Harry: The True Fic.
Chapter 2: First meeting.
Gaster watched as the girl and ghost pair encountered a talking flower, that spoke some words and left, and added another thing to his watch out for list.
The only other things on it was the pair that just left, and then he had an idea. A way to gauge the two for himself, and screw with their mind.
He had woke his father from some of his night-terrors, and gotten him to talk, about resets, and previous timelines.
Eight times (EN) Frisk had reset, the first time Frisk had reset when she killed her first monster. The second reset was after she killed Papyrus.
Then she seemed to loose hesitancy, and only reset when she met sans.
It got worse from there.
This time she seemed to be not killing anybody...
unusual, but he needed to leave to set up his prank.
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A few days later he received a message that Frisk had left the ruins.
He mimicked sans first meeting with the girl.
Breaking a big stick, using a shortcut to appear briefly behind her, then when she approached a bridge...
"Human, Turn around," he said from behind her with a hand outstretched.
She did and took his hand without being prompted.
ZAP!
-1 HP.
"Friendly aren't you? I didn't even mention taking my hand." he watched her shake her hand with a ghost glaring at him, and said, "Hand buzzer, have to love the classics."
It was then that Chara and Frisk got a good look at the newcomer. The blood read coat was similar in design to what they were expecting, but the color, and the skull beneath it was not. The manner of speaking was also very different.
"Where's sans?" she asked with narrowed eyes.
"Never heard of him, now I think I should warn you, Uncle Papyrus is ahead, and he has been desperately waiting for an opportunity to capture a human, just thought you'd want to know."
A worried Frisk chewed her lip, and turned toward the bridge again, and after a quick look behind her to confirm she and Chara were alone, she continued on.
Hiding behind a lamp that wasn't contently shaped and required her to contort her body uncomfortably at the suggestion to hide behind, for Papyrus to berate his nephew gave her time to think.
Something was wrong, very wrong. Chara's pushing to kill was halfhearted at best, sans was missing, she had a slice of snail pie instead of butterscotch-cinnamon.
Something went very wrong with her last reset, she needed sans. The skeleton might be pissed at her for the last few runs, but she needed his help. He might appear to be lazy, but he had always seemed to be one of the most intelligent people she had ever met.
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She needs a hug, and she needs one RIGHT NOW!
If only Toriel hadn't sealed the ruins.
Anyway she moved on after Papyrus left, and soon found her at the electricity maze.
She wasn't in the mood this time, so she was soon standing next to a slightly Crispy Papyrus, and a concerned but amused Gaster. He was amused because he knows that the trap was non lethal, but concerned because he didn't know Frisk knew that.
As Frisk passed she mumbled, "Don't worry, I knew he wouldn't die from that." and she received a slight nod in return.
Gaster Put a puzzle on the ground, and Frisk looked at it... it ended up being a master level Sudoku puzzle, which frisk promptly ignored and walked past.
Frisk wanted to get to Snowedin and to the skeleton brothers' house. She needed to confirm that sans wasn't around.
At the very least she needed something to eat at Grillby's. She knows sans goes there often.
The stress was getting to her, as evidenced by the fact that she was beating everything to an inch of their lives, before sparing them.
She cheated on the second puzzle in that she was supposed to turn the X's to O's and hit a switch on a tree.
She knew she was upsetting Papyrus, but at present she really didn't care. Using her memory she passed the ice XO puzzle quickly.
Soon another puzzle came up, and the tall skeleton gave a lengthy explanation, only for the puzzle to turn into a safe passage.
Frisk humored the Skeleton because she knew it wouldn't take that long.
The came the bridge puzzle... and Frisk simply mentioned the button wasn't working, because the Annoying Dog Toby chewed on it.
This caused the large skeleton to look at the switch, then throw it over the cliff.
Storming off Papyrus was steaming, the kid had ignored, cheated, or easily passed all the puzzles.
Gaster was looking at the girl/ghost pair, and said, "Would it kill you to humor him? It took weeks for him to set up these things. I don't blame you for the bridge, or mine, but the rest I do. You also seem to be getting a bit... stabby lately. You haven't killed anyone, but..."
Frisk glared at the one before him, then took a deep breath, and calmed down. "Sorry, I'm just stressed. I NEED to talk to sans, I NEED his advice."
Gaster looked at her in slight understanding, and slight pity, and said, "come let's hit Grillby's and talk. I'm not the one you are looking for, but I might be able to give an outsider's perspective. I can take us there by a shortcut."
Soon they were seated at a bar awaiting their orders, and Gaster made sure the ketchup bottle lid was properly on.
"So, what's on your mind? It looks like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Sorry I didn't order anything for your ghostly visitor but Grillby's is living only."
Frisk explained. She needed some advice. She explained about her fourteen runs, thirteen resets. This caused Gaster to slightly narrow his eyes. Sans only said there were eight runs. Then explained how the first five runs she tried her best for a happy ending, ignoring Chara's suggestions that kept growing stronger, and how at the end of each run, when she was finally happy... the world reset on it's own. At this point something Gaster said started rattling in her mind, but she ignored it to continue the story. She then on number six started to try and kill. Her theory is that if the world couldn't let her be happy, then she was doing something wrong.
At first she was horrified, but Chara was insidious with her words, and multiple times brought her to the edge of genocide.
Then came the last fight, where Chara in Frisk's body nearly had sans dead, and then the screwed up reset, followed by her ability being damaged, and restricted to SAVE, and LOAD. She then mentioned her hope that, with her ability damaged, that this was the last run, so she was trying for happiness again.
Then came the fact that there were differences. Differences where there had never been any before. In thirteen runs certain events had been guaranteed to happen.
This was no longer true.
During the story Gaster's face was a blank mask, only flickering when he had heard her ability was damaged.
"Well, I can't say much about whether this is the last run or not, but I can say something about this sans, and an idea about the other differences," Gaster replied.
At the girls hopeful look, that made Gaster nearly crack from the cute attack, he continued, "I can see three possibilities.
One: Your screwed up reset removed him from the timeline since he was at 'ground zero'. Causing a replacement to be created."
Gaster ignored the tears in the girl's eyes as he continued, "Two: he might be isolating himself, so as to not see his friends and family die again.
Three: He has a willing cohort Trolling you.
Really any of them are possible."
The last possibility made Frisk both hopeful and angry.
Hopeful because that would mean that the skeleton is alive.
Angry because the one next to her worried her.
She started because she saw something.
For just an instant the skeleton face under the hood vanished and was replaced.
It was a human face she saw, one with porcelain white skin probably due to living underground for so long with no sun, an emerald eye that flashed blue for an instant, and pitch black hair liberally sprinkled with white that would cause it to look a dark gray at a distance.
The instant was over.
And Gaster left, leaving a contemplative Frisk and Chara.
It then hit her as she was finishing her burger.
Gaster had Known of Chara, or at least can see her...
Another thing to add to the list of thingswrong with the timeline.
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End Chapter.
EN: sans only remembers the normal RESETs not the TRUE RESETS.