Chapter 14
H.A.M
"Dammit, I'm sick of these pamphlets." I hear dad says as I munch on my fruit loops.
"Is it what I think it is?" Mom says walking into the kitchen putting her blazer on. Mom ran her own insurance agency now.
"Yeah." Dad says holding the white paper and handing it to mom.
"Oh dear." Mom sighed before Dad wrapped his arms around mom and buried his skull in her shoulder.
Mom kissed Dad on the skull and looked at me.
"Jasper Dad's going to be paying a bit more attention to you at school okay? And Grandpa Gaster said he'd even walk you home once a week." Mom said.
"Why? What's going on?" I say as Flowey shook his head of sleep.
Mom and Dad looked at each other as if they could speak with a glance before Mom handed me the pamphlet.
"Humans against monsters?" I say reading the elegant cursive on the front.
I opened the delicate paper and scanned the page before looking up at Mom and Dad wide eyed.
"Do people really think like this?" I whisper.
"Yeah bucko. So that's why we're going to be a little more careful." Dad says rubbing my head and messing my hair up even more.
"Let's get to school okay baby?" Mom says grabbing my lunch box out of the fridge and helping me grab my bag.
We shuffle carefully out of the apartment as the pamphlet lay on the table wrinkled were my fingers clutched it to tightly.
"Humans against monster…. Do you have anything like this in your neighborhood? It's good to be scared of them, as you should! Monsters have already admitted to the merciless slaughtering of seven human children. How can you be certain your children couldn't be next? Come join us at the downtown meeting where we will purge our beautiful town of these disgusting insects! Potluck, please bring something to share."
I held my lunchbox tighter as my plan for today whirred in my head.
Over the past couple of weeks I had tried to be as nice to Trevor as possible. When he stole my things and kicked me I kept my mouth shut, and when he made fun of my eyes or clothing I still stayed quiet.
I shuddered as I remembered how he had pushed me in the mud when I had worn one of my favorite dresses to school. He had ruined the pretty gossamer dress.
But today would be different! I had a slice of grandma's butterscotch cinnamon pie with me, and nobody could resist it's charm.
I smiled and sang along with the radio as Mom and Dad drove me to school.
"You ready bucko?" Dad says unbuckling me.
"Yeah! I'm gonna make friends!" I holler making Mom giggle.
"Good, now let's get going." Dad says placing me on his hip and carrying Flowey and I into the building.
People were starting to relax more as Dad visited the school with me, a few of the teachers even smiled.
"Alright bucko have fun." Dad says kissing my cheek and putting me down.
Mr. Smith smiled and nodded at Dad. Dad gave him a curt nod before patting my skull and leaving.
"Hello Jasper, Flowey! Hi Mary! Is everyone here?" Mr. Smith said smiling.
He was wearing a tweed jacket today with pads on his elbows, it looked silly.
I sat down on my purple seat and grinned at Saria and Austin. Trevor wasn't here yet.
I looked around the room hoping to see his backpack on the wall but I quickly realized he might not show up.
Trevor did that sometimes. He'd miss a few days then come back even meaner than before.
Recently he had started picking on Austin since he knew he couldn't get to me.
THAT bothered me.
I unclenched my jaw and tried to focus on what Mr. Smith was teaching today.
Quickly I became lost in his lesson about math problems, which I already knew but politely listened.
Before I knew it, it was time for lunch.
I jumped up and followed Austin, Saria, and Mr. Smith to the cafeteria.
Suddenly Trevor appeared in the large room.
His face was bruised and his eyes darted back and forth as he limped to the table.
Trevor's clothes seemed dirtier than usual and he breathed funny as he sat with his tray.
I smiled and sat by him.
"Here Trevor, my grandma made some of this for you." I say putting the delicious pie on his plate.
The scent of the pie was tantalizing and I could see Trevor really wanted to reject it but he looked at me with his half closed eyes and whispered thank you before eating slowly.
As we all filed outside for recess I noticed Trevor was slowly, but definitely following me.
He was wringing his hands and kept muttering things to himself.
Every time it looked like he was going to come talk to me, he'd say something angrily and walk away.
"Wonder what's wrong with him." Austin says as we fix the hair on one of the barbies we were playing with.
Today Saria choose the game, and she wanted house.
Saria placed her doll in her lap and sighed.
"My mommy says that Trevor's mom does bad things to him. My mommy's a nurse." Saria says
"Really? Like what?" Austin says putting his doll down.
"Well, one time Trevor came in with a bunch of bruises on his neck. He said he was playing with a rope and it caught." Saria says rolling her eyes.
"And another time his entire arm was broken. His mom said he fell but I get the feeling his parents do this to him." Saria says as Trevor rocked slowly on one of the swings.
"Weird. Maybe we should be nicer to him." I say standing up.
"I don't know if that's a good idea Jasper." Austin says but stands with me.
"It couldn't be that bad. C'mon guys." I say walking over to Trevor.
Saria puts her dolls away and carefully follows us as I smile at Trevor.
"Hey Trevor, are you feeling okay?" I say as Trevor shivers.
It's warm out, why's he shivering?
"Hey, sick face. You okay?" Flowey says from his perch on Saria's shoulder.
Trevor slowly looks up at us making Saria gasp.
I hadn't gotten a good look at him earlier, and his face was ghastly.
His left eye was swollen shut and his right eye was black with bruises while his face had a multitude of scratches and cuts on it. His legs must have been hurt to because he had been limping.
"Trevor are you okay?" I say reaching a hand out to Trevor.
"Jasper I…" Trevor says his voice cracking. His lips were dry and chapped and when he coughed it looked like it hurt.
Trevor looked up at me again before his eyes rolled back in his head and he fainted.
Saria squealed and ran off with Flowey shouting.
"Go get a teacher Austin! Quickly!" I shout before helping Trevor sit up.
I pulled my emergency phone out of my bag and dialed the first number on it.
"Jasper? Baby what's wrong?" Mom's kind voice said.
"Mommy? My friends real hurt, we gotta help him!" I sob out as Mr. Smith came running outside with Austin and Saria behind him.
"Jasper, I want you to stay right there. I'm coming." Mom says before hanging up.
I wipe my tears as Mr. Smith dropped down to help get Trevor up.
"Jasper what happened?" Mr. Smith says.
"I don't know. We thought he didn't feel well so I thought we should ask and then he just fell over!" I say shaking.
I felt soft hands pick me up and realized Mom was here.
"Mr. Smith I need you to move for me." Mom says softly after putting me on her knee.
Mr. Smith gave Mom a quizzical look but laid Trevor down on the wood chips.
Mom bit her lip and placed her hands over his chest and slowly let her healing magic glow on her palms.
People gasped as they realized Mom was trying to heal him.
The cuts on Trevor's face began to disappear but Mom swore as her hands went over his chest and legs.
"He's got several broken ribs, a punctured liver, a fractured leg and so many cuts. It looks like someone just took a razor blade and went to town on him." Mom says biting her lip harder.
"Jasper, can you give mom some of your magic?" Mom says smiling as she focused on Trevor's chest.
I nod and place my hands over Mom's and let my magic flow freely in her hands.
Mom sighed with relief as she focused on fixing him.
"Mrs. Dreemurr, will he be okay?" Mr. Smith says watching as Mom took our hands back.
"I've done all I can, but I'm taking him to the hospital. He will be okay." Mom says smiling.
Mom scooped me up in one hand and Trevor in the other before nodding to Mr. Smith.
"Contact the school and make sure everyone is aware where I'm taking him okay?" Mom says as Flowey perches on her shoulder.
Mr. Smith swallowed and fixed his bow tie before nodding and beginning to lead everyone inside.
Mom sighed and teleported us to the hospital.
As we drifted through the void I could feel Grandpa Gaster worrying about us.
"We'll be alright. Mommy's here." I assured Flowey as Mom walked up to the desk.
"Ma'am? I'm so very sorry but I had a child here who has suffered a severe beating." Mom says smiling.
The nurse's eyes popped out of her head as she recognized mom and me.
"Of course." The nurse says summoning a team of people who quickly whisked Trevor away.
Mom sighed and sat down heavily.
"Mommy?" I say crawling in her lap.
"Yes baby?" Mom says closing her eyes.
"I'm sorry." I whisper as Mom cuddles me close to her chest.
"It takes a lot of magic to heal people, I'm sorry your tired." I say as Mom presses a kiss to my head.
"It's not your fault. I'm glad you called so we could help your friend. Can you call daddy for me though baby?" Mom says as I felt how weak her magic was.
I nodded and pulled my phone out and called Dad.
"What's up bucko?" Dad says cheerily.
"Daddy, mommy needs you. We're at the hospital because my friend got hurt and mommy tried to heal him but he was really sick so mommy's tired and my friend's still sick and...and...and…" I sobbed freely now as Mom held me gently.
"Be right there." Dad says before hanging up.
I barely blinked before Dad showed up in the waiting room.
"Frisk baby….Oh man." Dad says as Mom smiled weakly.
"Hey sansey." Mom said sticking her tongue out.
"You bone head." Dad said kissing Mom's forehead as if it hurt.
"Guys had me worried there, let's go home." Dad said.
"What about Trevor?" I say.
"Who cares." Flowey mutters.
"We'll see him tomorrow, but for now mom and you need some sleep and cuddles." Dad says picking Mom and me up easily.
"Let's go home guys." Dad says gently as he teleports us home.
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"Yes, we're here to see Trevor Johnson. Of course. Yes just Jasper and I. Yup, thank you." Mom came walking back over to me with a shiny badge pinned to her blouse with another for me.
"Here ya go baby. Now let's go see him." Mom says letting me pin the badge on my shirt.
I take Mom's hand and we walk carefully through the pristine white walls scented like bleach before we stop in front of a bright yellow door.
"You ready to see him baby?" Mom says raising her hand to knock.
I gulp and nod.
"Let's get this over with." Flowey says as Mom knocks.
"Come in!" A cheery voice says from in the room.
Mom smiles and opens the door to see a portly nurse putting her stethoscope over her neck again while Trevor lay on the bed.
He looked small and broken on the bed.
"Hello Mrs. Dreemurr, we were expecting you! Little Trevor here just ate and he's healing well, call us if you need anything." The nurse says winking.
"Thank you, will do." Mom says picking me up and smiling at Trevor.
Trevor blinked and looked away like he was ashamed.
"Hi Trevor, my name is Frisk and I'm Jasper's mom. We came to make sure you were feeling better." Mom says radiating calm. She must be using her magic to make Trevor feel more at ease.
"I'm sorry." Trevor mumbles.
"What?" Flowey and I both say.
"I said I'm sorry. I didn't want to be mean to you, but my parents said I had to be." Trevor said his lower lip quivering.
"I forgive you, I knew you didn't like being mean." I say giving him a weak smile.
"Speaking of, where are your parents Trevor?" Mom said looking around for any sign of other adults.
"They...They gave me this." Trevor said his voice wavering as he held out a grubby paper.
Mom frowned as she scanned the paper.
I raised my eyebrow and caught a glimpse of the paper.
"You're parents said they hoped you were dead? How?" I choke out.
"My dad is a part of a group called Humans against Monsters, and he and my mom wanted to do terrible things to you and your family Jasper." Trevor said his voice cracking again.
"They asked me to get you alone so they could take you, because they knew your parents would come for you. And when I wasn't able to they…. They punished me…." Trevor said sniffling.
"I'm so sorry Trevor, I wish I could have helped more." I say.
"But you aren't safe anymore. My dad said they were going to do something soon that would make everyone notice, something that could turn humans against monsters again! You have to do something!" Trevor said suddenly sitting up. He winced as Mom gently helped him lay back down.
"Trevor, thank you for being so brave. But we can take care of things now. Now, where are you going after this?" Mom says looking around the room again.
"I noticed you don't have any things here, how would you feel about staying with us when you feel better?" Mom says smiling warmly
"What? But he's been horrid to Jasper!" Flowey exclaimed.
"He was forced to be mean, Trevor has a good soul. Trust me." Mom says patting Flowey.
"Do you mean that?" Trevor says surprised.
"Yeah! You don't want to be mean, and then I can show you my toys!" I say grinning.
Trevor looked at Mom and me and blinked.
Then he burst into tears.
Mom smiled gently and put me down to place a hand on Trevor's cheek.
"We offer it Trevor, you can decide on your own time." Mom says letting her magic wrap Trevor up snugly. I could see the pain in Trevor's eyes but I could see something else.
Something like determination.
"Alright Jasper we should let him feel better." Mom says.
"Thank you Trevor for all of your bravery, we are very grateful for it." Mom says before picking me up.
I waved goodbye to Trevor over Mom's shoulder.
He smiled for the first time at me.
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Frisk's POV
Jasper and Flowey were quiet as we drove home from the hospital. I looked at them from the rearview mirror and frowned.
So much responsibility on his tiny shoulders, I couldn't bear it.
"When we get home baby, why don't we have a movie night? We could have pastries from Muffet's and daddy can make popcorn?" I say seeing Flowey's face light up with delight.
"That'd be great mom, can we invite Uncle Paps and everyone over?" Jasper says his magic flaring as he swapped to his skeletal form.
"Of course, I'll give him a call and see." I say smiling.
Jasper and Flowey exchanged movie ideas as I carried them both upstairs into the apartment.
"We're home." I call out as I unlock the door.
"Frisk?" Sans says appearing in the entryway.
"Oh baby, you're safe." Sans says wrapping his arms around me tightly.
Gaster, Toriel, Asgore and Papyrus were standing in our small kitchen as I tugged Sans, Jasper and Flowey inside.
"What happened?" I say putting Jasper down.
Jasper ran straight into Toriel's arms and looked at everyone.
"My child, there has been a series of attacks on monsters." Toriel says.
"What?" I say as Sans clutched me tighter.
"SOMEBODY TRIED TO HURT ALPHYS AT WORK, ONLY UNDYNE SUPLEXED THEM. THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY HERE ON A PLANE." Papyrus says as Jasper jumps into his arms.
"Is it from the Humans against Monsters group?" I say feeling my heart thud in my chest.
"We think so my friend, we're all going to be retreating to my home because of the barrier there." Asgore says.
"(We came here to ensure your safety child.)" Gaster says fixing his suit pants.
"Alright, Jasper baby I want you to grab any movies you think we'd like and we're going to Grandpa Asgore's for movie night." I say as Jasper blinked.
"Is this my fault? Because I'm going to a human school?" Jasper says his lip quivering.
"No bucko, it's not your fault. Get your movies and we'll go to grandpa's alright?" Sans says his voice warbling slightly.
Jasper could sense Sans wasn't feeling well so he nodded and let Papyrus carry him into his room to gather a few toys.
"We will make it through this Sans, we always have." I say kissing Sans skull as he whimpered and buried his face in my chest.
"We all make it through this." I say looking over my extended monster family.
So ends this chapter! You like the groups name? Pretty funny.
I wanted to make it funny besides the horrid things they do. They honestly remind me of church groups gone wrong. Which there is not any offense to any religious groups it's just the painting of stereotypical church groups.
Believing their doing what needs to be done, even if it means killing and torturing innocent lives. Things will get pretty gnarly soon.
Stick with us and see what's building, because we're still barely even halfway through with the story.
Toodles :3