Lights flash, the heat radiating causing sweat to course down Alphys's forehead. She was just a scientist, but she was the most knowledgeable on skeleton anatomy so she was chosen to lead the operation on her nephew Pax. All she had been told that he had been protecting his charges from a beast, after winning he had gone into a nearly fallen state. 'What could've done this to his soul?' Alphys peered between his ribs and looked at his soul, it was constantly changing shape and distorting in a haze of random lines.

Chara sat in the waiting room, her chest clutched and tears threatening to cascade out of her sockets, 'Pax... this is my fault isn't it.'

"Chara?" Chara looked up, expecting news but instead she saw Frisk.

Chara sighed and looked back down so Frisk wouldn't see her tears, "Oh... it's you, Frisk."

But they had other plans; laying themselves down on the ground, their face looking up at Chara's, "Chara you're crying."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes you are," Frisk said with concern, "He wouldn't want you to you know."

Chara flinched, "I think I deserve to cry, especially since Pax might die. You didn't see his soul..."

"You're right." Chara threw a questioning look, "It doesn't mean I'm not either."

Chara smiled, "Yeah, I guess so. Frisk, you're truly a caring person."

"No, I'm only human." Frisk beamed

Chara and Frisk both laughed; a door opened and Alphys walked out, Chara walked over to her "Dr. Alphys, is he ok?"

Giving a terse smile, Alphys answered, "Y-yes... but-"

"But? There's a but?"

Waving her hands in defense, Alphys continued, "N-nothing serious, he'll just need to rest a while longer. Look Chara, don't blame yourself. It's his line of work now, it's bound to happen."

'Well, that's bullshit.' Chara's anger grew and she walked out with fists clenched, her knuckles turning white. She walked in the parking lot and walked past the line saying it ended. She walked without a place in mind, passing multitudes of people. She didn't realize it, but they weren't real; they were shadows. Each with a different appearance, phantom-like in their appearance; they made no hostile move against her but they did follow her as she passed each one.

Eventually, trees took place of the buildings and a dark and large shadow loomed; looking up Chara saw that she was at Mount Ebott. Its peaks were still snowy, the far away entrance visible from down where she was, 'How long ago was it that I originally fell down. The first time...'

"I'd say it's been exactly twelve years." a cold voice answered suddenly, almost as if reading her mind.

Chara took out her knife, "Who's there!"

A distortion appeared, out from the portal stepped Sans... no this wasn't Sans. It resembled him, but it was Jet black, tears running out of his socket, "Somebody who knows."

"That doesn't answer my question." Chara raised her knife higher

"It does, but not in the way you'd understand. You see, something is weird about this timeline. Other one's had clones of the First Child, but you are the original First Child."

Chara scanned around for a path to escape, "Ok, since you know me, what is your name."

"Well, your attempt to drive the conversation is acceptable so I'll tell you. Sans, but most people call me Error." Error smiled, "Also don't plan on escaping," Error raised his hands, his tears coiling around them. The tears then shot into the forest and shot right back, two Royal Guards attacked, "No one can escape from me."

"Well if I can't escape then I'll just have to kill you!" Chara said, her Knife pointed at Error.

"My, my aren't we quick to violence," Error smiled at the two subjugated guards, "But what can we expect from the demon."

Chara clenched her teeth, a growl emanating as she rushed towards Error, "I'm not a DEMON!"

Error stopped her knife by using one of the Guards to block her, "Well I have separate accounts of Genocide to deter your opinion. The last fourteen specifically on this timeline," Chara sliced again, "Specifically a skeleton named Pax?"

Chara stopped cold, "What?"

"Well I mean, Pax seems to have died fourteen times. Well, I should say he seem to have been murdered fourteen times. Now he seems close to death right now; protecting you wasn't it?"

Error laughed as Chara straightened her posture, her arms going limp. 'He's right, Pax always gets hurt by me.'

"I know I'm right; one of these days he will die. It's going to be because of you, you know that don't you?"

Chara's heart felt like it was pierced, 'Why? Why is always me?"

"Well, maybe because you are a demon. You did possess Frisk to kill everyone over and over again."

'He's right... I am a demon...' Chara twitched, her heart was dead, she was dead, her emotions dead. Her sanity... dead. A smile curled on her lips, one so demented it made Error momentarily lose his composure. "Demons shouldn't be on Earth, right?"

Chara took off, her blade pointed directly for Error. A guard blocked her path, but not for long; the corpse fell in two as Chara sliced it through the middle. A path to Error now opens, Chara ran and punched Error; the impact cracked a piece of Error's face and sent him into a tree behind him. Chara walked towards him; Error quickly snapped his fingers before she could get any closer and multiple shadows grabbed her. Though she struggled, they kept her rooted to the ground; now an angry frown took residence on her face. Error got up laughing, "See what I mean? You are a Demon, you sliced through that body like butter and are still focused on killing me. You aren't anything but a De-"

A pale fist struck Error in the temple, not doing as much damage as Chara had but nonetheless doing damage. As soon as Error fell to the ground, a figure appeared and grabbed him by the collar and threw him back into the distortion. It then shot a column of fire into the tear of space, it branched into little strings and sewed the "hole" up. After it was gone the shadows dispersed as well; "Chars, you ok?" The figure knelt down and looked Chara in the eyes. His different colored eyes, white hair, and pale white skin struck her most.

"Who are you?" Chara said

"It's me... Pax."

Confusion and Exhaustion overtook Chara and she passed out.

'Ow my head!' Chara woke up and rubbed her temple. She looked around and noticed she was back in her room. She looked down at her nightstand and saw a glass of chocolate milk. 'What happened?'

'It's me... Pax.'

"PAX!" Chara quickly changed clothes and looked outside seeing it snowing. She ran downstairs, trying to desperately put on her hoodie. She finally managed it and opened the door. It was night and the snow was falling fast. She saw a figure in the snow, sitting down he was looking at the sky. When Chara looked up she noticed there were no clouds and the stars were visible.

"It's a beautiful night," Pax said without looking back

Chara walked up beside him and sat down, "Yeah it is..."

Pax laughed, "So you're not going to ask?"

"Ask what?"

"Really, it's cloudless and snowing, I have flesh and am human now."

Chara took a good look at Pax and noticed he was, in fact, a human, "H-how?"

"I don't even know! All I remember is passing out after that fight. Next thing you know I see you walking into the forest. I couldn't follow you, but I could feel your anger grow. Then all I felt was coldness; I woke up in the hospital and took off immediately. When you asked who I was I looked down and saw I had flesh..."

"Well, this is unexpected..." Chara said

Pax frowned, "Chara... you know you're not a demon right?"

"What?"

"That Error guy, he kept calling you a demon... I didn't think you were, not even when you snapped."

"Pax-"

"And don't think that I'm going to die because of you! That's just crazy, I mean sure it happened fourteen times, technically fifteen when I revived you, but-"

Chara's lips touched Pax's, shutting his speech off. Backing up, "Thank you, you idiot."

Pax smiled, "Right... wait for what?"

Chara's face broke into a warm smile, Pax could feel as if the snow was melting around them, "You; thank you for being you. Besides Frisk, no one has actually shown so much love for me..."

Pax stared at Chara for a second, "I don't know what you mean, you have everyone else too."

Chara gave another smile, "Yeah, you're right." Just then the snow stopped.

"I really need to figure out how I'm doing that!"

"Wait! You're controlling the weather?"

Pax shrugged, "I think so... I was able to use magic even though I'm now human so anything is possible I guess."

Laughter erupted out of Chara, "You're such an idiot."

"HEY! I'm the one who passed a college entrance exam, what have you done?"

"Let you live?"

Pax raised a finger to question that thought, but fell silent and joined Chara in laughing.