Chapter 10: Exhaustion
Sorry for not updating in awhile! I haven't had access to a computer since last Tuesday. That being said, let's get this feelsy chapter started!
"Asriel! Asriel! Wake up! Asriel!" Frisk yelled. "How could this happen? Asriel!" Frisk was trying to shake Asriel awake, he was bleeding profusely from where he was hit with the rock. "I'm gonna call Mom!" Frisk called Toriel on her cell phone.
"Hello, Frisk, how's your date with Asriel going?" Toriel asked.
"No time for small talk! Come to the forest preserves ASAP!" Frisk yelled into her phone.
"Calm down, what happened?"
"It's Asriel!"
"Oh no, I'll be right there!" Toriel hung up. "Sans!" She yelled, "We need to teleport to the forest preserve, right now!"
"calm down Tori, what's going on?" Sans asked.
"I don't know, Frisk just said, 'It's Asriel' and to hurry."
"Alright, let's go!" Sans said firmly, left eye glowing blue.
The two teleported to where Frisk and Asriel were.
At first, they only saw Frisk, frantically trying to cover up Asriel's wound.
It was a lot worse than they thought, Asriel had been hit hard. A pool of blood was starting to form under his head.
"Oh my," Toriel gasped.
"Jesus Christ, what the hell happened here?" Sans asked, looking concerned.
"These boys attacked him while we were kissing because he's a monster." Frisk said softly, crying. She was having a slight panic attack. "Can you heal him Mom?"
"Yes, but I don't know if he has any trauma like a concussion," Toriel said, kneeling down to heal Asriel. "If he has a concussion, I won't be able to heal it, I can help it heal faster, but it will still be about three days until he would act normally again."
Once Asriel was healed, they all teleported home. They tried to be as quiet as possible, since he was still passed out, but he woke up anyway.
"Ugh, my head, what happened?" He groaned.
"Asriel, do you remember anything? Anything at all?" Frisk asked.
"Y-yeah," he responded, "I used my powers somehow, and then I passed out, I think."
"Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. So how you feelin'?" Frisk replied.
"Strange. I feel like I'm on a cloud or somethin'. I feel like I'm dreaming. I'm kinda dizzy, too."
"Oh no," Toriel interrupted, "Asriel, that means you most likely have a concussion."
"A concussion?" He questioned, dazed. "How'd that happen?"
"Probably when you got hit by that rock." Frisk replied.
"Oh yeah, that did happen, didn't it?" He replied rhetorically.
"Yeah, it sure did." She replied
"Th-that's not all I feel, though."
"Oh?" Toriel said.
"I feel…" he paused, "...more depressed than usual, a lot more depressed."
"Oh my, that isn't good." Toriel responded. "You should take it easy, then, I'll prepare an herbal remedy to help with the concussion and the depression." She walked away, going to prepare the remedy.
"Th-thanks Mom."
"so kid," Sans started, "with depression, you should always stay active. Never be alone for too long, otherwise it'll set in."
"Uhh, thanks, I'll try to remember that."
"Azzy, can we talk in private?" Frisk asked.
"Uh, sure Frisk."
"alright you two, don't get too frisky in your room."
"We won't, " Frisk replied, chuckling.
Frisk and Asriel walked into their room, awkwardly due to the fact that Asriel was stumbling left and right since he was so dizzy from the concussion.
"So what do you wanna talk about?" Asriel asked.
That's when Frisk broke down.
"Azzy," she started, "I'm so worried about you. You keep talking about depression and all these things. You went crazy this morning, and you just keep getting worse, I just-"
"Frisk," Asriel interjected, "it's okay. We'll figure this out, alright? My head's screwed up right now, ya know? My depression will be better in two days, you think you can handle that? I want to live, I'm not gonna go kill myself. I just feel a lot less faith in the future." With that, he wiped the tears from Frisk's eyes. "Why don't we go shopping or something, will that cheer you up?"
Frisk got a new gleam in her eyes.
"Shopping!" She shouted.
"Oh dear God," Asriel muttered.
Frisk and Asriel left the house to go shopping.
"Let's find you some new clothes!" Frisk said enthusiastically.
"Alright, after all, I'm sick of wearing the same kind of clothes as I wore as a kid."
Frisk and Asriel went through many styles of clothing, finally agreeing on one thing. Asriel found a nice, purple flannel, a black t-shirt to wear underneath it, and dark jeans
"You really think I look good in this?" Asriel asked.
"Yeah! I really do!" Frisk replied, trying not to stare. 'God,' she thought, 'he's handsome.'
"If you say so. Maybe we should pick out some more clothes so I more to wear than just this."
Asriel and Frisk went through a bunch of different clothes, finally deciding just to get Asriel some black t-shirts, some with logos of bands that Asriel had come to like, like Fall Out Boy and The Offspring, a few more purple flannels, some sweatpants, and a few more pairs of jeans.
Frisk decided to get herself a few pairs of jeans and a few t-shirts of various colors.
"This is gonna be expensive, isn't it?" Asriel asked.
"It's alright," Frisk replied, "Mom gave me like $300 dollars to this place, and I still have over $100 left over from our date."
Frisk and Asriel walked to the park to relax and talk for a bit after they went shopping.
"Geez, Mom sure does like to go overboard on gifts, doesn't she?" Asriel replied rhetorically.
"Yeah, she sure does," Frisk sighed.
"What's wrong?" Asriel asked.
"Nothing, I just wish that I could do more for her.
Asriel thought about this for a bit.
"I know!" He exclaimed. "We could surprise her by cooking dinner tonight!"
"How are we gonna do that? I don't know how to cook."
"I do, I read all of the books in the Underground when I was Flowey. In a few timelines, I even took cooking lessons. I know about as much as Mom does, maybe more. We could always get Papyrus to help, too. Since it's for Mom, Sans probably wouldn't mind helping, and I'm sure we could find something for you to do. Mom's getting home from work late today since she started an hour later than usual, at 10:30, so we should have an hour more than we would have on a normal day."
Frisk was astounded by how Asriel put all of that together so quickly.
"How did you figure all of that out in less than a minute?" She asked.
"I dunno, I just did. It's probably because of all the things I did as Flowey, even though I don't like talking about it, I guess it helped me in some ways."
"I guess so," Frisk responded, chuckling.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing, it's just kind of funny how something we thought was horrible can turn out to be good in some ways, not even I saw that in Flowey."
"I guess you need to experience it to understand it."
"Maybe, anyway, we should get home soon if we want to make dinner for Mom, it's 4:30 and she gets home around 6:30 today."
"When did it get so late?" Asriel replied
"While we were talking, duh." Frisk replied sarcastically.
"Haha, very funny." Asriel mocked in reply. "Seriously, though, it's like time just doubles in speed when I'm with you." He said. "Then again," he started, chuckling and blushing, "so does my heartbeat."
It took a moment for Frisk to realize what Asriel just said.
"I, um…" she paused, unsure of what to say, "I feel the same way."
"Heh, I love you Frisk."
"I love you too Azzy."
With that, the couple started walking home.
They got home at 4:50.
"Hey Papyrus, Sans!" Asriel yelled. "Come here for a sec!"
"sup?" Sans asked, now standing behind Asriel. He had teleported.
"Geez Sans! Don't do that, you scared the heck outta me!" Asriel exclaimed.
"YES? WHAT IS IT?" Papyrus asked, walking down the stairs.
"Well, Frisk and I were thinking, and we decided that it would be cool if we could do something for Mom since she does so much for all of us, and we decided that we could cook dinner tonight instead of her having to come home and do it."
"hmm, somethin' nice for Tori. i can manage that." Sans replied.
"THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA!" Papyrus added.
Asriel winced, luckily, nobody noticed. Those were the same words he had said to Frisk in the Genocide Route, granted it was Chara, not Frisk, and it was Flowey, not him.
"Alright, let's get this started!"
They all decided to make chicken enchiladas. Papyrus worked on making the sauce while Asriel worked on getting the chicken ready. Sans got the ingredients that Papyrus and Asriel would need ready, and Frisk washed the dishes that were done being used.
Once the enchiladas were done, it was 6:20, plenty of time for them to cool down.
Asriel and Sans then went on to make a chunky salsa with jalapenos, cucumber, tomatoes, green bell peppers, and lemon juice. Papyrus made Spanish rice while they still had time to cook.
It would be a great Mexican dinner.
Once Toriel got home, she was delighted to see that dinner had already been set up on the table, but by who, she wondered.
She walked into the kitchen to see Papyrus, Sans, Frisk, and Asriel finishing cleaning up.
"Did you all do this?" Toriel asked, astonished.
"Yeah!" Frisk replied.
"We figured that since you do so much for us, we should do something nice in return." Asriel added.
"Come here all of you!" She drew the group into a large group hug.
Once they got out of the group hug, Papyrus shouted, "DINNER IS READY!" so that Undyne and Alphys would know.
Once everyone had gathered at the table, Sans said, "bone appetit!"
Everyone just sighed except for Toriel and Asriel, who both laughed.
Dinner was great, it tasted like Toriel had cooked it all herself.
Once everyone had finished dinner, they all decided to go to bed, even though it was only 7:00. The meal was that filling.
Again, I'm sorry for not uploading in awhile! Don't PUNish me! Man I love puns. Have a great day!