Chapter 38:
Attachment Issues
He stayed quiet while I explained where I found it, his eyes still looking for what had been there before. He looked unsure if I was still me. I would've done the same for I wasn't sure who just spoke through me either. I wanted answers though, and Sans was the only one that could help me.
"Sans please. What just happened."
"...First, I need you to answer everything I ask, okay?"
He nodded and took my hand in reassurance. "Alright...now what were you thinking when you...when that just happened?"
"I was thinking..." I started, embarrassed I had to admit that. "I saw the knife then I thought about...turning you to dust..." The last words hardly made it off my tongue and I felt ill. I would never want to hurt him. Sans was my best friend.
"Has this ever happened before?"
I was about to say no when I remembered the strange occurrence at the lab when I got way into the role of the bad guy.
"O-Once...at the lab with Alphys and Undyne, i-it wasn't quite the same though. I-I was acting as a bad guy and got overly attached to it..."
He paused and I watched his fingers curl and uncurl. "Frisk...I think Gaster and Flowey may be the least of our problems..."
"What do you mean?"
He was being so cryptic and I wanted answers. How could someone like Gaster be less of a problem than something else? Was I not here tonight because Gaster was that bad?
"There is a lot I need you to accept in order for you to understand, okay Frisk? So please, bare with me."
Sans was trying to keep an even tone for me, so I had to give him the benefit of doubt. I had to trust him, not only as a friend and person, but as my only hope for safety.
"You know about the other humans that fell before you, the ones who's souls Asgore had taken to try and break the barrier. Well the first soul, Chara, was not an easy one to get."
I collected this information as it came. Chara. That name resonated with my soul, though it was only now that I was hearing it for the first time.
"Chara was a nasty kid. They had LV even before they fell down here and tried to kill Toriel and the King...Tori and Asgore had accepted them as a second child, the first being the fallen Prince Asriel, but something went wrong...when Asriel died trying to stop them from killing the King and Queen, they finally understood how bad Chara was. Chara was imprisoned and Gaster tortured them until they died and their soul was the first one collected...but their soul was never properly contained and part of it, I'm not sure how, went missing."
"Alright, but what does that have to do with me?" I asked out loud. It was a lot to take in, but I was managing.
"Frisk, Chara and I had bad blood because of Gaster, I'm not proud of it but I helped him capture the kid...they were the only one to call me Trashbag, like you just did...I have a bad hunch that the missing piece of Chara's soul somehow got attached to yours."
