Yo! Here's another chapter. I would have updated earlier but life happened. Also, school has started so updates might take a bit longer. Anyway, enjoy!

Frisk stared at the door behind them blankly for a few seconds before releasing the knob and walking down the hallway, eyeing the patterned rug that made them feel a bit dizzy.

Passing a couple potted plants, Frisk stopped in the front of a door, wondering if it was Toriel's room.

Opening the door, they stood in the threshold, looking around the blue painted room. The soft color calmed Frisk a bit.

This is Toriel's room. I don't think that you should be here

" I suppose." Frisk simply said as they closed the door and coninued walking down the hallway.

Standing in front of the last door in the hallway, Frisk tried the door but found it locked.

Read the sign on the door Frisk. The room is under renovations.

" Huh? Oh." Frisk realized as they looked at the piece of paper taped to the door.

" Is that a mirror?" Frisk asked, looking to their right and walking that way.

Frisk gazed into the mirror, staring at their reflection before it shifted to the figure wearing green in their dream and then shifting back to Frisk. Frisk backed away in shock. After rubbing their eyes, they walked towards the mirror once more, finding only themselves. As they walked away, they did not notice another figure appear in the mirror. The one wearing black.

Frisk walked into the living room, finding Toriel sitting in her chair next to the fire while reading a book.

Noticing Frisk's presence, Toriel looked up from her book and closed it, placing it in her lap after marking the page with a book mark.

" Up already I see?"

" Already? Heh. Feels like an eternity." Frisk said as they stretched.

" I want you to know that I'm glad to have someone here."

" It's not a problem really. You don't have to thank me. I guess I could say my dropping by was good for you."

Frisk mentally winced at their very terrible joke.

Stop. Before it evens starts, stop. Right. Now.

Toriel giggled a little before continuing, fixing the glasses resting on her face " There are so many old books I want to share. I want to show you my favorite bug hunting spot and I've already prepared a curriculum for your education. This may come as a surprise to you but...I have always wanted to be a teacher."

" Oh. Really? That's seems interesting. Quite a nice goal you've got there."

" Thank you my child. But...now that I think about it...considering that I set up a whole curriculum...it doesn't seem that surprising."

" It's the thought that really counts."

" True. But still, I am glad to have you living here. I haven't had this much company in quite a while."

Frisk adopted a nervous expression briefly. Sure Toriel was a nice monster, and is lonely, and is clearly in need of some company but Frisk couldn't live there. They had to get back up to the surface where their friends were. There friends and family were probably worried sick. So far, there wasn't any way to let them know that Frisk was okay. Well...more or less okay considering that they had to fight a couple of monsters.

" You look like you want to ask me something. Go on."

" It's nothing really." Frisk scratched the back of their head sheepishly.

" Alright then. I'll just-" Toriel was cut off abruptly.

" No. That's a lie." Frisk said, bending their head so their eyes couldn't be seen.

" Well...tell me what you need then."

Frisk clenched and unclenched their fists. They didn't realize that it would be this hard to ask to leave. They didn't expect to have grown on the kind woman so easily. She was so happy that Frisk was there. Ecstatic even.

" I want...I want to know when I eye can go home." Frisk finally ground out

" What?...This- this is your home now!" Toriel exclamied with shock and a bit of sadness

" I'm sorry Toriel but this can't be my home. I have to get back to the surface. Where my real home and my friends are. They don't know that I'm alive. Hell! They don't even know that I fell down here to begin with. And the only person who does know, I bet, is blaming herself for it."

Trying to shift the conversation, Toriel said " Would you like to hear about this book that I am reading? It's called 72 Uses for Snails. How about it?"

" Please Toriel, this hurts as much as it's hurting you, but I need to know how to leave the ruins."

"...Are you sure you don't want to hear a fact?"

" I guess I can hear one fact." Frisk said

Toriel mentioned something about digestive systems, but Frisk wasn't really paying attention.

" Wasn't that an interesting fact?" Toriel said, sounding better now that Frisk wasn't pressing on leaving the ruins

" Yeah. I guess." Frisk said, sounding not that interested

" Bother me if you need anything else." Toriel said, putting the book back up to her face.

Frisk walked into the kitchen and quickly let out a breath they didn't know that they were holding

Well that went well.

" Shut up." Frisk said, looking at the remainder of the pie. It looked, for lack of better words, intimidating to Frisk. Therefore, they did not try to eat the stress they were currently feeling away.

Frisk grumbled.

Walking in front of Toriel, Frisk firmly said " Miss Toriel. I appreciate you and everything that you have done for me. However, I cannot stay any longer than I have. I have to get to the surface and I am determined to leave. So. Will you please tell me how. To leave. The ruins."

The smile on Toriel's face completely disappeared as she stood up.

"...I have something that I need to do. Will you excuse me my child."

Frisk looked at Toriel with sad eyes as the goat monster walked away.

Frisk walked out of the room not long after. They stood at the staircase before saying " I think this might be the exit." and went down them.

At the bottom of the stair case, they found themselves in a place similar to the ruins outside of Toriel's house. THe same purple walls, however it was darker down here.

As they walked forward, they found Toriel, a serious expression engrained on her face.

" You wish to know how to return home do you not?" Toriel said, her back faced towards Frisk.

" Ahead of us lies the end of the ruins. A one- way exit to the rest of the underground. I am going to destroy it."

Frisk's eyes widened but they said nothing.

" No one will ever be able to leave again. Now...be a good child and go upstairs." Toriel finished as they walked away.

So. Are you going to return upstairs?

" No. " Frisk said as they continued walking, soon catching up to Toriel.

" Every human that falls down here meets the same fate. I have seen it again and again. They come. They leave. They die. You naive child...if you leave the ruins. They...Asgore...will kill you. I am only protecting you. Do you understand?"

" Yes but-"

" Go to your room." Toriel said with uncharacteristic seriousness as they walked off.

Frisk still followed.

" Do not try to stop me. This is you final warning. "

Again, Frisk continued after Toriel. They knew that they were going to experience some problems for doing this, but that did not matter right now.

Frisk followed after Toriel, all the way until they saw the monster standing in the front of a double door, presumably the exit to the ruins and entrance to the rest of the underground.

" You want to leave so badly? Hmph. You are just like the others. There is only one solution to this. Prove yourself...prove to me that you are strong enough to survive."

Frisk had a horrible feeling about what was to come next.

The room slowly faded to black as they entered the fight screen.

Toriel blocks the way.