Chapter 37
Sans stopped back at the house with a sugar high Alice and Chara.
"Thank you Sans for t-taking us to the fair." Alice said as Chara nodded.
"That was a lot of fun."
"You're very welcome." Sans said as he walked into the kitchen. He noticed that the phone had several messages.
"Huh, that's interesting." Sans frowned. He listened to them.
"Good afternoon, is Sans there? We are here on behalf of…"
Some stupid telemarketer. Sans deleted it.
"Hello? Is this the parent of Frisk Dreemurr?" Sans recognised the voice.
That's Gloria.
"I just wanted to let you know that Frisk brought Flowey to school today. While it was interesting talking to him, please remind both him and Frisk that sentient beings that are not enrolled in school are not allowed on campus. Thank you, and have a nice day." End of the message.
"Frisk brought Flowey?" Chara asked. "I wonder why?"
"Me too. Flowey wasn't in the car when I dropped them off." Sans said as he flipped to the next message.
"Good afternoon, Sans." Sans rolled his eyes at Linda's voice. "I wanted to let you know that pets are absolutely not allowed anywhere on campus. While I am willing to let this slide, I will give your daughter detention if this happens again."
"Of course it's Linda." Chara scoffed as Sans started the next phone call.
"Also, tell your daughter that if she leaves in the middle of class, she's not going to amount to anything later in life." Linda hung up.
"How DARE she?" Chara bristled.
"Wait, Frisk c-cutting class?" Alice raised an eyebrow. "Do you really think F-frisk would do that for no good reason? Sounds to me like L-linda's just trying to start something."
"I agree." Sans said as he started the next call.
"Hello. This is an automated phone call from the Ebott school district. Your child, Frisk Dreemurr, was marked absent today from their English 6 class with their teacher Napstablook."
"Frisk skipped a class? That's not like them." Chara frowned.
"Definitely not." Sans said as he started the next call.
"Hello. This is an automated phone call from the Ebott school district. Your child, Frisk Dreemurr, was marked absent from their Monster History class with their teacher Toriel Dreemurr."
"Okay, something's up." Sans said as he went to the next call, which was from Toriel.
"Hello, Sans?" Toriel said. "This is Toriel. Did you drop off Frisk today at school? They were absent when I came in, halfway through their class. Please call me back as soon as you can. Thank you, and goodbye." Sans looked at the time.
It's 3:45. Frisk should have gotten out about 15 minutes ago, and the teachers are supposed to be there until 4:30. Well, except Mettaton, but that's because he's Mettaton and has shows right after school.
"What's going on?' Alice asked.
"I have no idea." Sans said as he continued to the next phone call, which said that Frisk was gone from Band. The second to last phone call was from Mettaton.
"Hello? My darling Frisk isn't here for me to pick them up to bring home. Do you want me to wait a bit longer for them, or should I just leave?" Mettaton asked. "Please call me back, darling."
"That's not normal for Frisk at all." Chara said.
"Chara, can you tell how Frisk feels?" Sans asked.
"Yeah. They're a bit scared?" Chara frowned. "But not hurt as much as I can feel."
"That's good. But why are they scared?" Sans frowned. The last phone call was from Toriel.
"Hello? This is Toriel. Mettaton just called me. I guess Frisk isn't at the dance studio." Toriel sounded worried. "Please call me as soon as you can. Thank you."
Sans went to dial up Toriel's number.
"Hello?" Toriel picked up.
"Heya, Tori." Sans said.
"Oh, thank god!" Toriel said. "Is Frisk there?"
"Nope." Sans said. "I dropped them off this morning. Apparently they brought Flowey to school, I got two phone calls about that. And then I got several phone calls about Frisk not being in class for English, Band, or Monster History. I also have two from you and one from Mettaton."
"They brought Flowey." Toriel repeated. "And they skipped three classes." She laughed nervously. "Can you come to the school?"
"Yeah, sure." Sans said. "Should I bring the kids?"
"I don't care, just come to the school." Toriel snapped as she hung up.
"Alright." Sans hung up as well. "Let's go kids."
They were driving when Alice spotted it.
"Hey, what's that?" Alice asked, pointing at the object.
"It looks like a backpack." Chara said.
"A backpack?" Sans felt a shock of horror. "Alright, change of plans. I want you two to go to Toriel and ask her to meet me in front of the school. I'm going to go check out the backpack."
"Got it." They both said as Sans parked. They opened the door and walked in through the entrance to the school as Sans headed towards the backpack.
That looks familiar… Sans realized as he knelt down to check it out, only to find one angry, worried looking flower who tried to bite him.
"Whoa! It's me, Flowey." Sans said as he stopped the flower from biting him. "What happened?"
"I don't know! We were walking, and all of a sudden, I felt Frisk being lifted, and then I fell. I managed to get out of the backpack, and Frisk was gone." Flowey said. Sans stared at him in shock.
Someone just took Frisk? Sans growled, his eyes going dark.
"When did this happen?" Sans demanded, trying to see if Flowey was gonna lie or not.
"Not too long ago." Flowey lied, like Sans thought he would.
"Stop lying to me!" Sans snapped. "The school called us to say that Frisk was gone from their last three classes. So, when did you actually leave?"
Flowey sighed. "Right after Frisk's math class started."
"Why did Frisk bring you?" Sans asked. "And why right during math?"
"Frisk brought me because after Chara left, people started bullying them again." Flowey explained. "We left during math because Linda wasn't in it at the time, and we turned everyone against Jimmy. In fact, Frisk actually talked for the first time because Jimmy was claiming that he had nothing to do with Chara. Then people started throwing punches, and we decided to get out of there."
"Frisk talked?" Sans asked, surprised. His eyes went back to normal. "And what do you mean, 'again'?"
"I guess they were bullied before Chara came." Flowey explained. Sans frowned as his eyes went dark again. He was a bit hurt.
Why didn't they ever come to me?
"Sans!" Sans looked up at the sight of Toriel. "What happened? You're crying."
I am? Sans wiped his face and saw that his sleeves were wet. Huh, I am.
"Frisk was k-kidnapped." Sans' voice cracked, as he saw her face turn into one of horror.
"No!" Toriel burst out into tears.
"What?" Chara gasped as Alice put her hand to her mouth.
"We'll find them, don't worry, Tori." Sans assured her.
"Oh, i'm damn sure we're going to find them." Toriel retorted. "Flowey, did you happen to catch which way the kidnapper went?"
"No." Flowey shook his head. "I was in the backpack with it closed."
"Oh, come on!" Toriel shook her head. "Useless." Flowey looked sad at that.
"I'm going to call the police." Sans said, walking off to call the police.
"I just-AGH!" Toriel put her hand to her chest.
"Mom? Are you okay?" Chara asked.
"...I'm fine." Toriel sighed. "The baby's soul is moving around a lot."
"You sure?" Alice asked, tilting her head.
"Yes." Toriel stood a bit straighter, but she was frowning.
Wonder what that's about…
"Alright, they're sending out an officer to help us." Sans said, his eyes disappearing.
"Oh, I hope they get here soon." Toriel said. As she said that, a police car pulled up. A woman in her early 30's came out. She had tanned skin, very curly black hair with red streaks in it, and extremely light blue eyes. She shook out her hair as she pulled out a notepad.
"Officer Liliane Sarkozy at your service." Liliane said in a french accent. "You reported a kidnapping?"
"Yes." Sans said. "Our child Frisk was kidnapped when they were running away from school."
"Alright. Do you have a picture of them?" Liliane wrote down.
"Here we go." Sans gave her his phone. Liliane looked lost in thought the moment she saw Frisk's picture, but quickly snapped out of it and started writing out their appearance.
"Long brown hair...glasses...reddish-brown eyes...is this the outfit they were wearing today?" She asked.
"Yes." Sans nodded.
"Okay, then blue and purple shirt and black leggings…" Liliane reported. "Why did they run away from school?"
"They were running away from a fight." Sans said. "They're autistic, and they're selectively mute. They talked to tell people that a bully was lying, and people started beating up the bully."
"Alright." Liliane said. "Was anyone else with them?"
"Well, Flowey was." Sans said.
"May I talk to this 'Flowey'?" Liliane asked.
"Sure." Sans picked up Flowey's pot and handed it to her.
"Oh, um…" Liliane gave Sans an odd look. "Well...what did you see?"
"Nothing." Flowey said, startling Liliane to where she almost dropped him. "I can tell you what I felt, though. Frisk and I were talking as Frisk was running off, and I felt someone pick Frisk up from inside the backpack. I tried to get out, but by the time I did, they were gone."
"Alriiight then." Liliane handed him back to Sans and wrote down what Flowey said. "Anything else?"
"We think it happened about 11:30ish." Sans said. "That's all we know."
"Okay." She wrote that down. "Thank you for your information."
"Thank you for help." Sans replied.
"You're very welcome." Liliane responded happliy, and then her face grew sad for a second. "I...know how you feel. I had a daughter. Her name was Clarisse. She went missing two years ago, when she was 9."
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Sans frowned.
"It's fine. I've started to move on, you know?" Liliane smiled. "I'll give you guys my number, call me anytime if you find out anything else. I'll look around for your child."
"Alright." Sans nodded as she put her number into his phone. "Thank you so much."
"No problem." Liliane said. "It's what I would have wanted someone to do for me."
*A/N
I'm really excited for the next few chapters =)
Also, I have a ballet intensive for two weeks starting tomorrow, and my brother is visiting on tuesday! I haven't seen him since November, so I'm really excited :D
I have the chapters written out already, so updates will hopefully be same as normal.
See you guys next week!
~Skater