Time to get Merry Ch 4
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Her eyes flashed with white fuzz and she began blinking over and over to clear them. She finally got her thoughts together and looked up to realize she had accidentally passed a red light and stopped dead center of the intersection. Blaring horns on both sides along with expletives were being thrown at her.
She shook her head but couldn't catch her breath. What felt like lightheadedness quickly turned into the beginnings of a headache and without realizing, her body forced her to exhale and she took a deep breath of fresh air. It seemed time finally caught up after this, and she released the handbrake.
"I don't even remember pulling that into place" She spoke out loud, and just as the handbrake was put away, the car began rolling forward again. She took this opportunity to accelerate and escape the many sets of wondering eyes.
She considered stopping at the corner mart to calm down and allow her self a moment to recuperate but she toughed it out all the way home.
Her mind drew blank as she tried remembering. She recalled just suddenly being in the street realizing she'd almost been T-boned by a passing car. It felt like some defense mechanism that wasn't allowing her to remember anything until she got out from behind the wheel. So once she'd made it safely inside and gotten a cup of tea for herself, she sat in her oversized moon chair by the window and watched the rainfall. It was after some time and half a cup of tea later that she tried to concentrate on what had happened.
It didn't take long for the memories to come flooding back. The mountain, monsters, humans. Something about war? Then finally to what the guy had mentioned. THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH.
Frisk shook her head, the underground wasn't like that, and she knew this. For the most part, monsters kept to themselves and weren't overly aggressive. Sure she remembered Papyrus looking for humans to take to the king without their permission but in the end he was harmless. It didn't make sense that aggression would be behind it.
This wouldn't be a big issue if you had just stayed and helped them, She thought bitterly as she meandered back into the kitchen to make another pot of tea. Her cat came up behind her and rubbed the back of her calf sweetly, a soft meow escaping the animal as he passed by.
"Can I help you?" Frisk inquired, bringing her thoughts to the honey she was pouring into her tea. She stirred everything together and took a small sip once she blew off the steam.
The cat meowed again in response and went to sit in the oversized chair Frisk was in a moment ago. Frisk saw the cat through the large opening in the kitchen, "No! Tem Tem c'mon that's where I was JUST sitting" Frisk complained as the cat curled himself up into a small ball and closed his eyes.
Frisk sighed as she grabbed one of the chairs from her dingy dining room table and propped it up next to the moon chair. She took a seat and wrapped herself best as she could with the blanket hanging off the back.
"Brat" She stuck her tongue out when she heard the cat purring. Grabbing ahold of her remote from the window sill, she flicked on her speaker sitting off to one corner. She switched her current podcast over to the radio and after some diligent searching, she got lucky to find the monotone voice that she had been listening to earlier. The conversation now took place between the same person and a guest still exchanging facts and speculation. No update on what was actually going on, but she stayed just in case anything popped up.
Sunday passed without any updates and soon enough Monday reared its ugly head. Frisk got through her one college class for that day and dreadfully made her way to her only job. She mentally prepared herself for her long shift with Christmas drawing ever closer. Arriving a little early she took some time to stroll through some of the reduced home goods.
"Hey Clare," Frisk teased to her right without even looking up.
"Bull! I call bull sh-
"Better watch your language missy or I might have to report you to the manager of this fine establishment" She smirked finally breaking eye contact with the garden gnome in her hand.
"How did you know it was me, how do you always do that!" She crossed her arms, ignoring the fake threat.
"I'm telling you, I just do" Frisk chuckled, "Some people have very distinct walks, and you happen to be one of those people" Frisk chuckled.
"If you buy that, you friggen' better hide it when I come over. Must have a curse on it, no one seems to want it" Clare motioned to the item in Frisk's hand as she began fumbling with her oversized uniform vest. Its many pockets were spilling over with old receipts and stickers, all of which she was trying to move aside as she reached for an electrical hand-held resting on her mobile cart.
"Excuse me miss, can you get me something from the razor cage?" With that, Clare left Frisk to go unlock the glass for the customer, and Frisk put the gnome back to go clock in. With her vest in hand, she scanned her badge and hopped on the register nearest to where Clare was working. With it being Monday, Clare was in charge of marking clearance and being the errand boy.
She did a little bit of zoning in the candy while she waited for Clare to return from helping the customer.
"It's people like her that make me happy to be working at this awful place, one of the only times." Clare chuckled, walking up behind Frisk.
"Just until we graduate, and you know that" Frisk reminded her.
"Oh yes, cause that's just around the corner. It's okay, we'll make it through right?" She flipped through some screens on the device she had grabbed from her cart.
"So I haven't heard anything else about the earthquake" Frisk spoke putting air quotes around "earthquake".
"Still? I spent all day yesterday babysitting for my niece so I didn't have much time to look" Clare sighed, the lack of sleep evident on her face. She headed back to her cart and grabbed some other items.
Frisk sighed inwardly, as she wished Clare would stand up for herself about babysitting family all the time. Not only does she go to school full time and work full time, but she always refuses to accept payment for babysitting. Clare was very opinionated about most topics except when it came to her dates and family. She would tell you what for, which was also why she had two strikes at work, but anytime Frisk brought up about getting paid to babysit or any disapproval of her date, it ended in them arguing. Most of the time, she'd gotten used to letting it go if things escalated too much, she definitely held the level-headedness between them.
Frisk got up to put away some larger canisters of chips at the end of the aisle, her mind wondering again since all that went down Friday evening. As she rounded the corner to put the snacks away, she didn't have time to see the man rushing passed.
"Well, the radio yester- op!" She yelped mid-sentence when she and the stranger walked into one another. She felt stars spinning around in her eyes as she fell back.
The person had their hood closed, leaving no room to see their face. However, she noted a blue hue emanating from inside and just inches before she hit the ground, her entire body was engulfed in a pale bluish hue. Not even a second later, the color vanished along with the energy she felt from it, but it all happened so fast, she wondered if she had imagined it.
"Frisk, are you okay? Did you hit somebody? Let me know, I'll come hold your headband" Clare joked from another aisle waiting for a response.
Frisk remained motionless on the ground, as the figure proceeded to reach his gloved hand forward but stopped. She could tell that he was wondering the same thing that she was. Her breath was still caught in her throat as she stared at him. Time seemed to stand still around them, all interactions among people stopped and moving carts seemed frozen in time. Their eyes looking at each other, in disbelief that they might recognize the other.
"Did he hit her?" A voice spoke up, some customer behind them both and at that moment, time started catching back up.
"... Frisk?" Came the voice that was almost too weak to be audible, but Frisk would have known that voice anywhere.
Is it him? Her thoughts came rushing back as she tried to process how she felt. Fear and alarm bubbled up from her insides as she spoke the first words that came to mind.
"S-Sans...?"
Author's Notes
Just fyi, I'm sure most of you know, lock cases are just glass display cases that you have to have someone unlock to access. We have a bunch where I work lol. Also, While it is getting closer to Christmas in the story and it would be busier where they work overall, Monday is still the slowest day of the week. It's a small minute thing but I wanted to clarify and I thought if I specified in the paragraph it would become clunky. So yeah lol.
Oooooof, this chapter was a doozy, and if you want to know what I'm talking about, keep on reading folks.
So in this original story, the monsters are still trapped underground... but Sans managed to leave? Frisk as well? At the time, I didn't know about needing the 6 souls so I guess I just assumed he used magic and Frisk well... she just did? lol. So I'm having to correct and change some things. Also, Clare was originally a cashier in the original story like Frisk but I like that they don't have the exact same position so I changed that. What else what else... I cut down a lot of unnecessary filler. Trust me, there was a lot more originally but I wanted to clean it up.
So in clarification, in this au, this is like the original game. Completely clean play through, she sets them free but some of the monsters by choice, stay underground. Most of them of course, are on the surface. A large majority of them live at the base of the mountain because of how humans treat them. I'll go into more detail on the human monster relationship later.
Also, I'm afraid it might turn into every other day. Last time I did this posting a chapter a day, a story now deleted, I was able to edit at work but this job doesn't allow me to do that. ^-^; Once again, I put too much on my plate hehe ...
Comments
Holyyyyy, sorry it took so long to reply. I'm surprised I have comments to reply too, AGAIN! Like whatttt. You guys, yall must love frans and Christmas as much as me ;A;
Thecupcakefox- oof, Yeah my friend is like that. He gets lazy about certain things that don't interest him, he's told me he's skipped whole paragraphs of a story. I guess that explains why some chapters have more visitors than others for my other story lol. xD
Okay, so you bring up an interesting point on this. While I agree with that, when mentioning small details that play a bigger role, uhm hold on lemme find it... here! If you've ever seen "Good Friends, Good Food, Bad Laughs" by Shyviolet77 (A really good Frans story.) They do a remarkable job of this, I can tell you for sure I am nowhere near as good of a writer as they are. I ended up bringing this up to my friend as well, and to an extent, I agree with you. Why bring up specific details if it has nothing to do with the story, but I also like adding more to the character. Whether it plays a big role in the long run. Somethings will be brought up some things won't kind of thing.
However, I ended up shrinking some parts of this chapter because of the fact, I did go into too much detail and it felt like it was dragging on rather than adding anything relative. But thanks again, for the comment, you brought up something I never really gave much thought to, and I will keep that in mind from now on. :O
Olivia the Nerd- oh oh oh oh OIOHOHOOH, if you think THIS is fluffy... just wait. This is just the beginning, it will get MUCH fluffier in later chapters. Well, As I will tell both of you now, this won't be a completed story. Like it will and it won't. I will actually finish the part I plan to write by hopefully the new year, but there will be loose ends, that was my plan from the start.
Favorite character... hmmm... that's a tough one. I think I'd have to say... Sans (What wow so unique right) then Undyne. I know I'm going to get hate but I've always been on the fence about Paps, ever since getting back into the fandom I like him more now ^-^; Passed that... Lancer? Does he count cause he's from Delta Rune? xD
No need for thanks, I'm happy you commented, to begin with. :O
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