The Dinner

"So I've got a few questions for you two," Sans eyed the dimensional duo, "Mind fillin' me in..?"

"Depends on the questions asked, there are a few secrets I keep that I wont tell, but go ahead." was Aurora's reply.

He scowled at this, "How about an exchange? C'mon Draco," his eye-lights faded to pitch. The dim candlelight of the lit wick igniting his features in a threatening glow.

Aurora smiles "Ask away!"

"What...no...WHO are you working for?"

"Gaster asked me to intervene after he saw you die, again."

He choked on the ketchup he had taken a swig of. "You KNOW Wingdings Gaster?!" He sputtered between coughs. Frisk was uncomfortably silent.

Aurora lays a hand on Frisk, comforting them "Yes, I do."

Sans paused for a double take. "You get to ask two questions, I guess. It seems I did."

Aurora tilted her head to one side. "Why do you fear me? and the second one didn't count"

"I don't-" Sans started, but sighed defeatedly, "Because you're new. I've never met you before, in ANY time. Your...impossible, to say the least."

Aurora smiles sadly "We have met twice before, though you wouldn't remember."

His brow-line furrowed, "Wait wha-" he stopped, "Mind building on that..?"

"I am from the Void"

"And that's how ya know Gaster?"

"Yes, I met him when he fell into my home."

Sans remains silent. Then Frisk speaks, "Can I have this question..?"

"Go ahead Frisk" Aurora said with a smile.

The Determined child hesitates, as though at a loss of words.

"Spit it out, kid," Sans grinned.

"Are...A-Are you..."

"It is okay, calm down, then ask." There is a note of affection in her voice.

"I-I got this, sis," he assured with a nervous smile, "Sans, are you expecting me to R-Reset this time..?"

"What?" His eye-lights are slimmed to nothing.

"There it is, I was wondering when that was going to be asked." was Aurora's reaction.

"I..kid, it's not-" he fumbled for words. Then he slid his chair back, pushing off the table to stand. His peculiar pinpricks are nothing, his smile is a twisted mask; resting atop a storm of twisted emotions, tangled like live wires-not to be touched.

"Kid...You'd be dead where you stand."

Aurora's eyes flash purple for a second "I doubt that there will be a need or desire to reset after this."

Sans stepped back defensively. Frisk had cowered it their seat, but the dragon-girl didn't even blink.
He made his way uncomfortably back into his chair, "My turn..?"

"Yes, please don't scare Frisk again." There was a note of warning in her voice.

His eye sockets were slits, and his grin twitched, but he did not oppose. "So...How are you linked with that virus? You said you were in contact with her earlier."

"Please call her by her name, and she is making sure that this timeline doesn't collapse on itself while we are fixing it. Also she paid my price, letting me come here." there was a brief pause. "My question is why you call her a Virus?"

"Heh! The most she ever did was watch us crumble!" He sneered, "She saps the color from everything and lets it turn to dust! She is a virus across the void-quite a disappointment some of them trust her. Has she told you her story?"

"Yes, she has, and I don't judge her for it, unlike you."

"The whole one..?" he was starting to get frustrated, "She wasn't always the good guy. That Ink person had to keep her restrained for a few days to calm down enough to talk."

"She was thrown into the Void, she grew up with no one who cared for her" Aurora's eyes darken to black.

"Same for you," he was touching a nerve, "But you're no corrosive virus."

Aurora smiled a bit creepily "How are you so sure, after all you don't know that much about me?"

A bead of sweat appeared on his skull, "I-er...Judging by what you've already explained-"

"QUIT BEING THE JUDGE, SANS!" Frisk had had enough, "You sit there on your high-horse and always assume the worst! Just...j-just..." tears formed in his eyes.

Aurora's eyes went back to normal as she hugged Frisk. "There are things about me you would have to take a lifetime to understand, after all I am much older than you think."

He faked a sneer, but inside his soul squirmed in discomfort, "Bottom line, I don't like Segoe, moving on..."

Aurora just sighed "It is your turn."

"What's with that aura you're letting off? You're hiding more than your own secrets right now," the skeleton tried to redirect who was on defense.

It suddenly vanished "It just kept other's from noticing me. I was trying to keep the story as close to normal as I could."

"Hmm...What about your friend over there..?" He eyed a potted plant, and whatever was behind it disappeared once it's cover was blown.

Aurora rolled her eyes "who do you think?"

"Is it that vi-?-I mean Segoe," he spat her name.

Aurora shrugged "Honestly, I don't know."

"Better not've been..." he gritted his teeth, teleporting in front of the plant and investigating.
It was grey.

"Dang it," Frisk cursed under their breath.

Aurora waved her hand and the color returned to the plant "My turn, what do you expect of me?"

Sans stormed back to the table, growling to himself, "Ink needs to put up a d*** firewall or something."
He sat down with a sigh, "Shoot."

Aurora sighed "I asked what do you expect of me?"

"Ah," he grinned, "wasn't paying attention. I like to keep my expectations low, so... Neutral I guess. Not killing everyone, but not friendly-got it?"

"I understand what you mean, but somethings will change."

Sans deadpanned, "Care to explain what you mean..?"

"Everyone will be saved."

"Oh..." Sans looked relieved.

"See what I mean, negative numb skull..." Frisk frowned.

Aurora laughed "And I mean everyone, even the ones that Frisk couldn't."

"Heh, funny," Sans wasn't believing it, "and Segoe leaves color wherever she goes!"

Aurora just smiled and holds out two bottles, one filled with a fragment monster soul, and the other a fragment red soul. "I mean what I say."

"Heh. Blindsided me there," he chuckled, leaning back comfortably, hiding his unnerve.
"I forgot who's turn it was, but I must ask...Where did you get those..?"

"It was yours, and I scavenged them from the moment that they broke."

He hesitated uncomfortably, breathing shakily, eye-lights dilated. "I...I think that's more questions than I wanted answered...ever." He teleported away, blipping out of existence.

The two sat in silence until Frisk interrupted with, "That went well."

Aurora falls onto the floor laughing. "Wow! I wasn't expecting that." She puts away the bottles, and starts to clean up after she stopped laughing.

(Rewind/Segoe's POV)

A small hand pokes my face.

Again.

Who is poking me..?

"Wake up, Segoe!" shouted a frustrated Snowy.

"...nnnnnope..." I lisp, grinning playfully, eyes still closed.

"Wake up!" Chara squeaked, I could tell she was puffing out her cheeks in her angry face.

"Too tired. Hey, where's Ink..?"

"Right here."

My eyes fly open, I sit up so fast, Snowy is flung off my ribcage into my lap. We were on the couch; Ink at my feet, Snowy in my lap, and Chara hovered about. The look on the artistic skeleton's face was not happy.

"What. Were. You. Doing?" Ink asks slowly, as though I were a toddler.

"..hmmmm..." I play with the strand of hair that never fits in my messy bun, "An experiment."

"Care to explain why?"

"Science," I sit my snowflake up in my lap, holding his tiny hands in mine.

"Wrong answer."

"A test."

"Stop lying, strike two."

"..."

"I can't remember, actually," that wasn't completely a lie. Ink, noticing my change of tone, softens his glare.

Chara spoke up, "During a magic combination a Monster, Human, or...er... Segoe and Aurora, the one absorbing is victim to high levels of pressure on there soul, causing them to lose consciousness. When extracted however, it takes recent data the soul had collected. Thus, explaining Segoe's memory loss."

"Wow," Ink frowned.

"As an assistant scientist, I should know the basics..." Chara blinked, "Previous assistant scientist." Chara was a ghost.

Snowy immediately tried to cheer her up, "You're still super smart! I bet you were just as good as Dad, if not better!" The two were adorable-all I had to do was finish Papyrus and we'd have our trio.

Ink cleared his "throat," snapping me from my thoughts.

"Yeeeessss?" I dragged.

"You have someone to go apologize to," he narrowed his eye sockets.

"Oh yeah! I'll be right back!"

I depixelated, reforming behind a conveniently-shaped plant. The ground under me, and the parts of the plants I touch immediately start loosing their color. I, too, was monochrome, it sucks being unable to project color.

There was talking. Oh crap! Sans was here!

"...She wasn't always the good guy..."

I feel tears form in the corner of my eyes. They were not pained, no. They were angry. Who was he to talk?

"...corrosive virus..."

My soul pounds in my chest, I felt color forming at my feet, and rising.

"...I don't like Segoe..."

I was full color now, my presence as strong as ever, I was fueled by anger. Sans noticed this.

"What's with that aura you're letting off?"

My blood turned to ice in my veins, he sensed me.Aurora tried to play it cool, but he knew I was there.

"Hmm...What about your friend over there..?"

Go away! Go away!

I teleported away, just in time to avoid him. Being away from him would've been a relief...

Had I not spawned on top of Ink.

Now I have two people to apologize to.

(Aurora's POV)

While I cleaned up I remasked myself with my magic, Frisk was walking around talking to people. I sent a quick message to the orb I gave Segoe 'That was close, next time send me a blip through the orb so I can let you know.' After that it was getting late, so we went and got a room for the night. It cost us two hundred gold to spend the night, though it wasn't that much this far into the underground.

"Um Sis, when you said that Segoe paid the price to let you in, what was the price." There was worry mixed with his curiosity.

"She let me make a copy of one of her memories."

"So she didn't loss it?"

"Nope, she still has it." I closed my eyes and sent another message to Segoe 'Also, I am sorry you heard Sans say that.'

"So you are going to save Asriel and Chara right?" There was hope in his voice.

"Yes, at least that is the plan, 'one in were everyone lives' was one of the things I promised to do, normally I just make sure everything goes the way it should... this will be a good thing to do, also I will bring Gaster back."

"Do they know?"

"Chara and Gaster do, I haven't said anything to 'Flowey' because in this state he would simply try and kill me."

We walked into the room together, only to find that it had one huge, and I mean huge bed., Frisk blushed. I turned to look at them. "Oh come on, it isn't that bad."

"I-I-It isn't that." Frisk was blushing harder.

I rolled my eyes "Yes we will be sleeping in the same bed, but if it makes you feel better" with a motion of my hand the bed was split in to and shrunk into comfortable sized beds. "Better?"

"Yes, thank you for doing that." Frisk walked over and hopped into the right bed, while I took the left. "Um, how long will you stay after you finish what you have done here?"

I sighed at that as I changed my clothes into PJs using my magic. "I don't know, it really depends, usually not long, something always comes up that I have to go do."

"Oh, Goodnight sis."

"Goodnight bro."