Chapter 13

Chara walked down the grey hallway humming to herself a the cheerful tune she heard at waterfall. She was going to visit her father in the throne room. She was so focused on her humming, she didn't even notice there was someone else with her.

Suddenly she felt a strong pain across her right arm. Her shirt had been ripped and there were three deep cuts on her skin. The blood was rushing fast and she quickly put her hand overtop of the wound.

Her soul appeared in front of her. Bright red.

She turned around to see who had done this. She saw a tall skeletal figure standing a few feet away from her.

His eyes glowed purple and three sharp looking bones came from thin air shooting to her left arm. Again, three deep cuts were engraved into her skin. She yelped in pain.

She let go of the right arm and held onto the left one. Both were bleeding fast. She looked back at the skeleton but he had disappeared.

She saw her soul turn a deep blue and she was lifted into the air, and slammed high against the wall.

Chara cried out in more pain as more bones then struck her too the wall through her clothes. Chara was terrified as the skeleton came right up to her.

Chara was literally pinned against the wall. She was helpless. Tears had rolled down her cheeks.

"So...you are human the King and Queen adopted?" asked the skeleton in a slight british accent.

He never smiled for any good reason and he had two cracks in his skull. One from his left eye socket to the back of his head, and the other was from his right eye socket down to his mouth. He was wearing a white turtleneck sweater and a black lab coat.

Chara couldn't speak. She was to intimidated by the scary looking monster in front of her.

"I can say I'm very disappointed...I'd thought you'd be stronger…"

Gaster checked her HP and saw it was 10/20.

"You soul is red I see. That's good…"

"Wh-who...a-are y-you?"

Chara said, barely talking at all. When she spoke, it was light and you could barely hear it.

"Who am I? I'm Dr. W. D. Gaster. Head Royal Scientist. It seems you've never heard of me before...I wonder why the king and queen haven't told you about me yet...why...even the prince knows who I am…"

"A-asriel?"

"Yes. Though, I suppose it has something to do with the fact that…"

Gaster got very close up to Chara. His face barely brushing hers. His smiled was sinister and his voice because creepily low

"I'm not a very nice person…"

Chara woke up quickly, as she did with all nightmares. Except...

That wasn't a nightmare…

Chara looked around her. The room was grey. It was a small room with a door, but the door had been blocked black oozing vines. Chara was on the floor like she was sleeping. She sat up onto her knees.

She felt something cold behind her. She slowly turned her head around...

Gaster.

Sans P.O.V

Sans was sitting down on his couch. He had walked everywhere that day and his legs were exhausted. Papyrus had already gone to bed, after Sans read him his bedtime story of course, and now Sans was left alone on the couch with his thoughts.

His first thought was,

I should get some sleep. We've got work tomorrow...and I haven't been sleeping too much lately.

But, most of his thoughts, were about Chara. He had very worried about since the start. After he killed Chara, who was possessing Frisk, he woke up on his bed.

The day started the same as it always did, Papyrus nagged him to get up and Sans would put on his same clothes from the day before. He would go out to his post near the big door, and wait for the murderer to appear. But on that run, a different thought went through his head,

Is that 'Chara' person going to kill Frisk like they said they would?

Then, he woke up on his bed again. He did the same thing and came to his post. That's where he saw Chara for the first time.

A small-ish female child with medium length red-ginger hair. At first he wasn't sure who that was. Then he realized it was Chara. That person he talked to from the genocide run. He never expected them to look like...this. He didn't know what he thought Chara would be.

At first, he thought it was a monster's spirit from the way she talked about the monster freedom. But at the back of his mind, he also thought it could be a human.

He watched as she shivered in the cold. He went and introduced himself as an old friend. Chara caught on immediately.

He had to admit he did think about her all the time. She laughed at all his jokes, they had shared interests…It was then when Sans realized...he liked Chara. He couldn't believe what he was thinking. That he liked Chara. As he thought this, he noticed she hadn't called in awhile.

Maybe she's been busy. She did say she wanted to meet lots of people...but...maybe I should call her...just to make sure she's okay…

Chara P.O.V.

Chara stood up and turned to face the skeleton. She saw he was all goopy and was barely alive.

"Gaster." she said in a harsh tone while giving him a death glare.

"Hello Chara." Gaster said back. His voice was raspy and low. Everytime he spoke, chills would run down your spine.

"What are YOU doing here?" She asked sternly.

Gaster could feel the bad vibes coming off of Chara. She clearly had no patience for him.

"I think the real question is, why did I bring you here?"

"What do you mean?"

"I brought you here. This is my…'home'... but do you know why I brought you here?"

"Does it look like I know?" Chara's attitude towards Gaster wasn't friendly.

Gaster sighed. "Well I suppose, I should tell you..."

"Tell me what old man?" Chara was getting angry at these stupid run-to-nowhere sentences.

"About your new gift of life and how much of a gift it really is…"