This comes out so late, principally cause I'm on vacation and stuff, it's not often, but one must deal with family trips sometime ¬¬

Also, it's not like this suddenly gets a new chapter everyday.

*whispers* besides... it's pretty short. but I needed to come out with something!

If you like this stuff, enjoy.

Chapter 2

"Partner?...This comes as a surprise"

"You hypocrite... Why keep regretting everything? You found me… You received part of what was mine, my determination. You could have silenced it, I would have never awakened, but you chose to listen to my dead whispers and jumped happily over the edge into the abyss."

Long ago, Chara had lost what humanity was left in her. She lacked for empathy while Frisk wasn't entirely lost from grace like she was. He was still human, he was still there, regretting the moment he let himself watch trough the demon's eyes.

"We shared visions… You desired the red of my eyes. So much that you kept willing to receive more and more of me… Hoping you would earn something equal." Her eyes slowly opened up, with the demoniac expression the thin smooth pupils across the red granted her. "They are unique. You should have remained calmed in front of them." After the statement, her tone found remains of soreness within the memories, her expression calmed. "Beautiful, aren't they? They've hurt people before..." She knew the human was hearing. She meant to let him talk, it couldn't hurt him more than she already had, could it?

It was still dark, but he could feel the cold, his face stamped against the floor caused him slight pain and the stagnant air in the ambient felt heavy once he inspired it. The ideas flowed slowly, he decided to raise his face and take a look of wherever he was. His eyes stretched even more than usual due to the the effort, only a few steps in front of where he laid where slightly visible, the rest remained covered by darkness. His clothes and hands where covered in a strange dust, the sensation felt familiar and this caused him deep disturbance.

"W-what…" His voice weakly echoed through the empty spaces. He felt a familiar, yet worrying presence near him, lurking in the shadows. Pushed by the necessity of getting away, he tried to stand up, but for some reason unknown to him, his ribs hurt badly and the movement resulted in a clumsy attempt that ended with his face stamped against the floor again. Scared, he held his chest to realize nothing seemed wrong with his body. "Ow... Who's there?" Contained fear could be perceived through his words, but nobody came. He kept looking around and, as his vision cleared from the hit, he noticed two slightly blurry red dots not far from him, getting more and more definite.

"Greetings again, partner." Chara spoke. Frisk wasn't ready to remember when he recognized the voice, the mixed impressions froze him where he laid, leaving a blank expression of perplexity on his face. The demon child's eyes slowly approached him. "What… Is there something wrong?" She didn't sound mad, annoyed, or specially threatening, it just made him feel like her voice marked the pace of his heartbeats while his mind recovered from the crisis.

Chara noticed Frisk's altered state of mind and didn't get any closer, instead, she just walked surrounding him in a circle, looking at him. "I don't get it. How is that the one who helped me end this world turns out to be a scared little child?"

The human couldn't keep his gaze over the demon, the shock didn't let him turn around, but now he understood what had happened. Still regretting his fate, he closed his eyes in anxiety and let the words come out. "Y-you did it. You really did it." The arms supporting him trembled after this out loud thought, expecting a response in consequence. Chara completed the circle around him and stood still.

From Frisk's perspective it was clear how her gaze focused on him again, impassive. "Why are you so shocked? Even when you tried, you knew you couldn't stop it. Hm.. But I understand, no one can just lay in wait for the end."

Against the situation, Frisk felt lost under the gaze of the demon that had casted him away from grace. What could he do now? Everything was lost, erased by her. It was terrifying, to say the least, the mere fact of being alive.

She talked again. "They say human souls persist after death…" This caught his attention, but he remained still. "Unlike monsters, we remain around for a while. Strange, hm?" An unnatural grin in synchrony with her eyes appeared in the darkness. "There must exist something strong in us, right? Something monsters normally lack of."

Frisk raised his face to recognize the truth. "I… I get it." His answer was low, reluctant. Chara got the idea, he was recognizing the pulse that kept them alive, but there still were words the kid kept for a later instant.

He sat straight, feeling like a jailbird, facing the floor again. "Your… Ideas, they are…" He was divagating, not explaining himself as he needed. The grin in the darkness distended to fade into a cold stare. "What are you?" That question was basically the sum of his doubts.

Even after the unfortunate events that had led him to the ongoing present, Frisk kept feeling the same fascination humanity feels for its doom. She smiled almost amused by this, yet again went back to her cold stoicism. "I already told you… I'm the demon that comes when people call its name, to destroy them." She was firm about not letting him know more than she wanted him to know, but it was time for him to face her stare, against all instincts and risk his already tending to zero possibilities.

"Then why bring me back?" His hands tightened into fists, he was starting to break. "Shouldn't I be dead?!" In anxiety, he tempted the demon. Realizing the imminent danger that would follow his words, he couldn't keep his gaze away from the now sulfuring eyes.

Again, her disturbing nature would be shown…

The slight blackness crossing her eyes dilated becoming wild. Again, this was not good. Her voice would change, inspiring fear within the hearts. She, herself, would turn into the demon she was.

But that was predictable, too simple...

An unstable laughter was heard.

There's also the change of title and some concepts I had preconceived...

*fixed some mistakes and initial lines I forgot to change*

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