*Trigger Warnings*
Mention of suicide is in this chapter. Please read with caution.
Jett watched from her seat on the cold tiled floor as Sans adjusted his blue coat that Jett admittingly was reluctant to give up, her sore body already missing the comfort that the article of clothing had given her. She placed her hands on the knees of her crossed legs as her tired mind prepared itself for what ever may come next.
"So..." She trailed off as she looked at everyone standing around her. "You want me to connect with my soul again to try and kick the spirit out face to face, but your not sure if it will actually work..."
Alphys gave her a nervous grin and nodded her head. "I-Ive been studying videos of you and doing research to try to f-figure out a way to help you out, and considering that the spirit is resting in your soul, you might be able to f-fight him head on if you go in there yourself."
"But what if I can't use my powers on him while I'm in my soul, or what if he kills me while I'm in there?"
"U-um, well." Alphys started fidgeting with her claws as she tried to force her words out. "This is the f-first time that anything like this has really happened, so I can't tell you exactly what might happen in t-there..." Jett looked from Alphys to the floor, sitting in her thoughts for a second before letting out a sigh.
"Welp, alright. Considering my options are limited, let's try this out." She smiled softly as she anxiously looked back up at everyone, her milky white soul coming out from inside her body for all to see.
"...Good luck." Frisk quietly said as he returned a worried smile back to Jett.
Jett took her final looks at everyone before closing her eyes shut, her breaths becoming deeper and longer as she tried focusing on communicating and entering her soul. She sat there patiently for several minutes, the chirps from the birds that freely flew around outside on the other side of the glass windows in the hallway fading away in to a comfortable silence.
Jett waited for a few more seconds before reopening her eyes up, being greeted by the same darkness that she had come across the first time she did this with Undyne and Sans. She carefully stood back up on to her feet while examining her surroundings carefully. If Chara really was here, Jett had to be extremely careful as to not have him sneak up on her.
She turned around to finish checking her environment, her eyes landing on a far off light that dimly lit the ground a long distance away from where she was. Even though she didn't fully understand it, but her instincts were telling her that Chara was going to be where ever that light was. Jett filled her lungs with air and narrowed her eyes in the direction of the light, her fists balling up as she felt her courage build in inside of her.
"Let's do this." She said restfully to herself as she began her walk over to the distant light, each step seeming to grow lighter as she pushed her body forward. If it weren't for the sound of her footsteps echoing through out the dark room, she was sure that she'd be able to hear her heart beating against her chest. Her nerves and anxiety kept picking at the back of her mind, these feelings being ignored for once as she forced herself to focus on the ever growing light ahead.
Her paced slowed once the light was close enough for her to see it reflecting off the ground far ahead, the silhouette of someone sitting on the floor with their head resting in a propped up fist in front of the source of light clearly visible now. She held her breath for a few seconds as she grew closer to the scene, Jett now seeing that the source of the light was coming from a cage that rocked gently side to side on the floor, the hand that rocked it resting lightly on top of the dark cage.
Jett's gaze followed up the arm that was grasping on to the cage and examined the person that sat cross legged in front of it. The person, that Jett could only imagine to be Chara, looked to be a few years older than Frisk, maybe 12 or 13 if she had to guess. His pale complexion looked almost white in the light's glow, his red iris's staying glued on to the cage as the bangs of his shoulder length mahogany colored hair laid perfectly above his eyes.
He wore a long sleeved green sweater with a single horizontal yellow stripe that went straight across his chest, along with a pair of brown cargo shorts that fell loosely around his knees and a set of dirty brown lace up shoes to match. Despite the few differences that Chara had to Frisk, his facial features and even attire looked very similar to her brother's.
Chara sat un-moving with his eyes still glued to the cage as Jett stopped a few feet away from him, the item that was glowing inside of the cage now perfectly clear in sight. A little glowing, white dove fluttered restlessly inside of it's prison, the very same dove that Jett had encountered with her first visit to her soul. The bird's wings made loud slapping noises against the bars of the cage as it tried it's hardest to escape to freedom.
"Did you know that your soul has more power resting inside of it?" Jett's eyes moved from the cage over to Chara as he spoke out. His voice seemed more human than Jett had heard when he would speak to her in her mind, the distortion and malice in his tone of voice completely gone as he starred with no emotion down at the trapped bird. "No matter what I did, I couldn't tap in to that power though..."
Jett didn't respond to him, and instead quietly took the last few steps forward to sit in front of Chara, her legs tucked in underneath her as she starred at the young boy in front of her. Chara's red eyes shot up at her and met her own blue ones as the two starred each other down for moment.
"So, you here to try and kick me out?" Jett nodded her head silently in response to his question. Chara let a low chuckle out and smiled to himself as he pushed himself upright to straighten his slouched posture. His eyes bore unblinking at Jett as he continued.
"You know, it's pretty stupid of you to come to a place like this. I could kill your consciousness for good in here and no one would be able to stop me."
"But you're not going to." Jett flatly replied back to Chara. His smile softened and his gaze went to the floor as he shook his head from side to side gently, a laugh escaping from him as his hair swayed with his movements.
"It's funny really. If you would of done this one day earlier, you would be dead where you stand." Silence took over once more, Jett keeping her eyes glued on Chara as his face dropped back to it's emotionless state.
"...A very long time ago, before I fell in to the Underground, I had lived at an orphanage. I stayed there since birth, since I guess my parents didn't want me..." Jett's tense body loosened up a little as Chara began to speak about something that was irrelevant to the current situation. She listened intently to him none the less.
"The other kids at the orphanage didn't like me and would bully and harass me every day because of the color of my eyes. They called me monster, freak, demon... I grew up isolated because of this. Nobody wanted to go near me other than to hurt me. Everyday, when the other kids went to play after lunch, I would sneak through the gates and sit at my favorite spot by myself to get away from it all. A field filled with yellow flowers." Chara paused for a second as he pondered on his thoughts for a moment.
"The adults that ran the orphanage would turn a blind eye to the bullying that I received day in and day out, and when ever I would try to fight back I would end up being outnumbered and lose. All of the abuse I got through out all those years rotted my brain, and I would ask myself every night 'why me'? Why was I the only one who was being treated like this? I hated everyone just as much as I hated myself. So I decided, one faithful night, that I would do everyone a favor and erase myself from this world."
"I ran off late at night into Mt. Ebott's forest and ended up finding a large hole in the ground. I figured that it would be enough to finally end my pathetic existence, and so I jumped... but apparently that wasn't enough to kill me." Chara let out a single chuckle as he shook his head slightly.
"I was found later by the son of Toriel and Asgore, Asriel. At first, I thought that these Monsters were going to just kill me off, eat me, or something. But instead they accepted me in to their family, without any hesitation what so ever. They treated me just like I was actually their son, and at first I thought I was finally happy. I had finally had a family of my own and a friend to play with, but... a few months later, I started having nightmares. I would wake up every single night, screaming and crying as the memories of the people who hurt me hunted my mind every single day. I felt myself losing my mind more and more with each nightmare, and whatever happiness I had felt before eventually disappeared again."
"One day, I decided to take my life again. The only difference was that I had a plan to do that, and to go back to the surface and kill everyone that made me suffer and feel the way that I did. I poisoned myself and tricked Asriel to take my soul once I passed away so that I could cross the barrier and use our combined power to kill everyone back on the surface. I asked him to bring my body back up above so that I could see my favorite field of flowers one last time, and everything started out smoothly until we finally reached my old town. The humans started attacking us, thinking that the human body in Asriel and my hands was his fault, and I tried to get him to attack them back but... Asriel refused to hurt anyone. He instead left my body in the field and walked away from the humans that attacked him so ruthlessly. He ended up being killed by it, his soul being destroyed along with mine as he was turned to dust. Even though my soul was destroyed, my thirst for revenge kept my spirit down here."
Chara trailed off as he looked back up to meet Jett's gaze again.
"That's the story that's written in my book. I figured that it would only be fair to share it with you since you let me read yours..." Jett's eyes widened and a faint smile crept up on to her face.
"So you were able to look at my memories?" Chara nodded his head in response to Jett.
"The orphanage that you and Frisk stayed at is the same exact orphanage that I grew up in. It's changed a lot since then. You and your brother have been through a lot, too."
"We've all been through a lot." Jett spoke quietly as Chara looked back down to the floor.
"Your memories were the reason why I gave up and gave your body back to you during that last fight... When the skeleton started calling you by that pet name he gave you, your emotions just began flooding in to my mind." Chara reached up and brushed a hand through his hair, his brows furrowing while he shook his head once again.
"I never knew how wonderful and... beautiful all these other emotions were... the one that struck me most was happiness. True happiness. I had never felt something so strongly before in my life before. All of my hate in that moment just vanished and..." Jett watched as Chara began to tremble in front of her, her sights catching a single tear cascading the side of his face. He raised a hand up and brushed the tear off of his cheek, laughing gently as he examined the liquid in his hand.
"Funny, I'm so used to seeing blood when ever I do that..." His eyes widened as Jett leaned forward to clasp both of her hands over his own, his body flinching at her touch at first as he kept his eyes adverted away from hers.
"...Why? Why are you so nice to me, even after everything I've done to try to hurt everyone around you." Jett closed her eyes and pondered of the question as she listened to the wings of the bird fluttering in its cage next to the two.
"To be honest, I don't really know." Jett smiled and opened her eyes back up, Chara's red iris's now peering in to hers. "I guess I just feel like everyone could be a good person if they try, you know? Some people just need a friend to help open their eyes and guide them in the right direction." She threw a playful wink at Chara as he starred at her with awe, his mouth opening slightly ajar as he took her answer to his question in. His look of astonishment came and went as he withdrew his hand away from Jett's grasp to push himself back up off the ground.
"Heh. It was stupid for me to try going back to that town on the surface anyway, the people that I wanted to get revenge on are long gone." He scoffed out his words once he was back on his feet. Jett followed his lead and pushed herself up off the floor as well, Chara shoving his hands in to the pockets of his pants as he starred down at the white dove that was still trapped in it's prison.
"Anyway, I think I've overstayed my welcome here, and you've got some very worried people who all love you very much waiting for you back out there." The cage that kept the bird from flying away started to turn into a smokey gray color before almost poofing away in to a smog. The white dove didn't hesitate to fly up and away from the two, Jett and Chara watching the little bird's light travel quickly away from them.
Once the bird was far enough in the distance, small white orbs began to raise up from the ground beneath them, almost as though the black ground was being purified as it started showing spotty bright white areas scattered around. The orbs started picking up in number as they illuminated the area surrounding them.
"Jett." Chara called out her name almost sweetly, Jett turning her head from where the bird had flown away back over to him. "Before I go, can you promise me something?"
"What is it?" Chara looked sadly at the ground, the light of the orbs illuminating his body as they glided up and past him.
"If you can, please... Try to save Asriel before you go back to the surface. Save my brother. He's trapped as that flower still, and he doesn't deserve that." He raised his hands and placed it over his chest as he looked back up at Jett. "I've seen deep in to your soul, and I think you can help him when the time comes... Help him like you did me."
"So, Asriel is Flowey, huh?" Jett asked, the fact that the plant that has been trying to kill her this whole time was Toriel's son was a crazy thought, but she smiled through her stupefaction on the new information and nodded her head. "I'll try my best to do that."
"Thanks." Chara clenched his fists as he watched another orb float up past him, a quiet and nervous laugh escaping past his lips. "To be honest, I'm a little afraid to finally be moving on..."
With out a second thought, Jett closed the gap between the two and pulled Chara in to a hug, his arms hanging loosely at his sides as she felt his breath hitch in his throat.
"You'll be fine. I can promise you that, too." She cooed in to his ears as she pulled him in even tighter. Chara's arms hesitantly reached up before wrapping around Jett to return the hug back to her.
The bright orbs started rapidly growing in numbers around them as they held on to each other in their final goodbyes, Chara's fingers burying in to the fabric of Jett's jacket as he said his last few words before the light consumed them both.
"Thank you. For everything. I'm... happy to have met you, Jett."