Frisk awoke to Toriel and Asgore coming home. Asgore had made a lot of noise carrying his suitcase and bumping into the walls, Frisk heard Toriel hushing him.

"Our child is still sleeping, you mustn't wake them!" Toriel scolded. Frisk jumped out of bed and ran straight to Toriel and gave her a big hug, "Oh! Good morning my child! Did you miss us?" Frisk nodded and let go running over to Asgore and giving him a big hug as well, Asgore swooped them up in his arms and hugged them back.

"I've missed you too, little one!" He said as he gave Frisk one last squeeze and set them back on the floor.

"Frisk, there are some matters we must address, for instance, legally who are you supposed to be with?"

Frisk shrugged, "I'm an orphan."

"Oh, I see. Then we must find the orphanage you came from so I can adopt you properly. Then I can get your birth certificate and we can get you a passport! You can see the world with us, my child." She smiled at Frisk, "do you remember the name of the town you came from?"

Frisk nodded, "Floraville, on the other side of the mountain." they pointed towards Mt. Ebott.

"I see, well first things first Asgore and I need to study for a driving exam so we can get our license, that will probably take," she sighed "a few weeks to a month to learn? I'm sure the orphanage is not missing you right, my child?" Frisk shook their head, "good, now what would you like for dinner?"

"Stew, made with fire magic! And pumpkin pie! I can show you how to make Jack-O-Lanterns!" Frisk giggled.

"That sounds like a stew-per idea" She looked at Frisk proud and expectantly, Frisk couldn't help but laugh at Toriel's puns, or any puns for that matter.

Toriel's phone began to ring, "Oh! How do I- turn on the screen? Frisk help please!" Frisk chuckled and pushed the button on the side and hit the accept button.

"It's Papyrus." They said, Toriel took the phone and put it up to her ear.

"Hello?" She said simply.

"TORIEL, WILL YOU TEACH ME HOW TO COOK? UNDYNE WON'T DO IT ANYMORE!" Toriel immediately pulled the phone away from her ear, Frisk could hear him as if he were on speaker phone.

"Well of course, but er why did she stop?" Toriel looked a little worried, what had she gotten herself into?

"SHE FEELS BAD BECAUSE SHE BURNT MY KITCHEN TWICE AND HER HOUSE DOWN ONCE, SHE THINKS YOU WOULD BE A BETTER TEACHER!"

Toriel let out a silent sigh of relief, "Oh, I see. Well I was going to make stew and pumpkin pie later if you want to stop by this afternoon?"

"OH GOODY! OKAY SEE YA LATER!" Toriel chuckled and put her phone back in her pocket.

"Well, child, we have all morning, what would you like to do?" Toriel kneeled down in front of Frisk.

"Let's go get decorations for Halloween!" Frisk suggested. Toriel exchanged a confused look with Asgore.

"Hallo-what?" Asgore asked. And so Frisk explained the tradition of Halloween and the important part was dressing up and getting free candy.

"Humans have the strangest traditions, but it sounds fun! Sure let's go!" Toriel said, she carried her suitcase into her room, Asgore put his away as well.

"Oh! Before I forget!" Toriel hurried out of her room carrying a small snow globe, "I got you a souvenir! It is of Washington DC! I hope you like it!" She kissed Frisk's head and gave it a pat, Frisk smiled in thanks and put the snow globe on their nightstand and gave it a shake. They watched the sparkles fall over the white house then walked out of the room and closed the door behind them. Asgore and Toriel were sitting in their armchairs in the living room.

"Are you ready, small one?" Asgore asked. Frisk nodded and the two goat monsters stood up and gestured for Frisk to lead the way. Frisk opened the door and walked a little down the path and waited for the two to catch up. Frisk noticed they were holding hands.

They walked to New Hope together, many monsters came up to Asgore and Toriel and asked what was next, they briefed the monsters on how the meetings went and their plans to expand Ebott for humans and monsters alike to live. There were many approving nods and smiles, a lot of the monsters thanked Frisk for the millionth time as well.

The three entered the town and was immediately greeted by the kid Frisk recognized from the day before.

"Hi! I was really excited to move into Ebott but my mom says I had to wait until the goat people came back, that's you guys right?"

"Ah, yes, of course, you may move in immediately, we already have some homes built, you can choose from whichever you find suits you best." He smiled at the child and held out his hand to the mother that was running towards them, "You must be the mother? I'm Asgore, a pleasure to meet you!"

She was struggling to catch her breath, "Oh, I'm so sorry if they bothered you at all, yes hi I'm Sarah-" she knelt over and wheezed some more before catching her breath and talking normally, "I was wondering if you had plans to open up a school? If not it's not a problem, Ebott is five minutes down the road, I can always drive the kids to school."

Toriel perked up at this question, "Ah, yes well I will be the principal at the new school but I still need to earn my teaching license and so the school won't be open until next school year in September."

"That sounds perfect, we will come into town in the next couple of days and pick a house to stay in, have a good rest of your day!" Sarah waved goodbye and the three smiled and waved in return. Frisk pulled Toriel's arm towards the shops.

Asgore was in awe of all of the jack-o-lanterns, they were his favorite decoration. Toriel liked the lights the most. Frisk pulled the two into a decoration shop where they bought some white lights that had paper lantern ghosts, orange lights, and tea candles. They left the shop and walked to the grocery store down the street where Toriel bought Pumpkins, cinnamon, pie crusts, whipped cream, celery, carrots, potatoes, and typical ingredients for pumpkin pie and stew.

When they were walking up the aisle to the checkout lane, Frisk heard a cry for help. It was someone they recognized, but from where? It was a small polite cry from the next aisle over.

"Pl-please, don't, someone help me!" she called. Frisk immediately ran around the corner and saw the flame girl from Hotland, she was surrounded by three teenagers who were trying to pour water on her. The purple girl with the snapback and the skateboard was being held against a shelf by one kid who was twice her size.

"Don't worry, someone will help us, you'll make it through this!" Some of the water splashed onto her head, it sizzled and she screamed, her flame died down a bit. "Stop it you're hurting her! Fuck, if we don't make it… I want you to know… I will always love you," she called out to the flame girl. Frisk pushed the kid holding the jug and the gallon fell out of his hand and landed on its side spilling water all over the floor.

"What the hell's your problem kid? Do you know who you're messing with? Beat it!" He turned towards Frisk and tried to shoo them away. Frisk ran in front of the flame girl. The teen shrugged, "You see them asking for it right, boys?" His crew all mumbled yeah or nodded. He walked closer to Frisk and gestured at himself, "Go on, I'll let you have the first hit." Frisk shook their head.

"Leave them alone," Frisk said simply refusing to move. The girl's flame was starting to blaze at a normal rate now, recovering from her earlier assault.

"Or what?" They retorted back. Frisk stood in silence. "That's it," the teen swung at Frisk, but they dodged and dragged the flame girl out of the way, she ran back to the skateboard girl and Frisk moved to the middle of the aisle, the other kids were lined up by the shelves giving the two space, they were chanting "fight".

Frisk winked at the teen and he blinked confused. He took a step forward and tried to hit Frisk in the stomach, Frisk ducked under their arm and twirled behind their back, he turned, dazed and confused. Frisk blew him a kiss and he looked down, there was a pink undertone darkening his cheeks.

"Forget it guys, I'm not feelin' it anymore" he said and his crew shrugged and started to file out of the aisle, one of the guys knocked the skateboard girl into the shelf and she knocked some pasta boxes onto the floor. The flame girl gasped and quickly helped clean up.

The leader of the thugs was the last to leave, they bumped into Frisk when they passed them, they shoved something into Frisk's hand and winked before leaving. Frisk opened their hand to reveal a balled up piece of paper with numbers scrawled on it and the name "Nate" written on it.

"Thanks so much for saving me, I really thought I was going to be dust... " the flame girl said after making sure the skateboard girl was alright.

"Seriously, thanks, I don't know what I would've done without her," the purple monster said as she took the flame girl's hand and gave her a peck on the cheek. Her flame turned blue around her cheeks and the two thanked Frisk again before leaving, giggling and chatting about how scared they were and how much they loved each other.

Frisk turned around to see a small crowd had gathered, with Toriel and Asgore beaming in front. "My child! You handled that so well, I am so proud of you! You would have made an excellent ambassador if you were legally able to be one, considering you are not technically an adult yet. You have quite the set of skills for defusing bad situations" Toriel winked at Frisk.

"Yes! Very good small one!" Asgore said as he ran up to Frisk and swept them off their feet into a big hug, he squeezed them lightly and spun in a circle before putting them back down and patting their head. The small crowd politely applauded and dispersed.

Frisk, Toriel, and Asgore all walked to the checkout where Toriel paid with a fancy new card she got while she was away, Frisk guessed. They gathered the groceries along with the bags with the decorations and started up the path to head home. Asgore carried most of the bags in his arms, Toriel carried a few and Frisk was carrying the two decoration bags. When they were at the sign welcoming people to New Hope a black pick-up truck drove up next to them and beeped at them, it was Sarah and her kid, Frisk didn't remember the kid's name, did the kid tell them? Frisk wasn't sure.

"You guys are walking? Well you're going back to Ebott right? I can give you a ride if you want, we were just headed up that way to go look at the houses you built. Uh, mayor Asgore was it? I don't know that your, erm, horns will fit in the cab of my truck but you can sit in the bed, it's only a few miles up the road," She eyed up Asgore's size and looked to Toriel and Frisk, "you two and the groceries should be able to fit in the back seat."

Toriel thanked Sarah and opened the back door for Frisk to climb into, Toriel put some of the groceries in the middle seat and some on her lap, Frisk was hugging the bags that held the decorations in between their legs. Asgore happily accepted his seat in the bed, when he sat down, he weighed the back of the truck down so it was almost touching the ground. It looked comical.

The girl in the front seat turned around to Frisk, they had dark freckles all over their nose spreading out across their cheeks, they had light blonde hair that was tied into two pigtails. "I'm Rose, you're Frisk right? I can't wait to go to school with you next year!" the girl babbled on about what she was learning in school now, her friends, hobbies, etc. Frisk tuned them out for most of the ride.

"Aaaaand here we are! See that wasn't so bad was it Asgore?" Sarah called out her open window, Asgore hopped out of the bed (and the truck bounced back up afterwards) and opened the back door for Toriel, he smiled at Sarah and gave her a thumbs up. Asgore gathered the groceries from the middle seat. Frisk scooted out of the car with their two bags.

"Where were the houses again? Up the street a little right?" Toriel directed her towards the four empty houses in between the entrance to the underground and the line of houses of residents from hotland, the core, etc.

Frisk opened the front door since the other two had their hands full and helped put away some of the groceries. Asgore both the orange lights and the ghost lanterns around the roof of the house like he had seen on the houses and shops in New Hope. The lights aligned perfectly so that in between every ghost lantern there was an orange light. Frisk put a couple of pumpkins outside on either side of the door for decoration before they cut them into jack-o-lanterns.

Toriel texted Papyrus and he said he had to get ready before he would come over, but he would bring sans to play with Frisk while Toriel and Papyrus cooked. Frisk sat on the couch in front of the TV and watched Mettaton, he was hosting a singing game show. Toriel and Asgore were both in their armchairs, which were now pushed together as opposed to opposite sides of the room, where they were studying their driving manuals awaiting the skeleton brothers' arrival.