Authors note: This chapter was one I have been dying to write and I was waiting to explain this reveal. It also got lost in OneDrive so apologies on the delay. Most of you know quite a bit of the story and quite about what was done to the veterans of the monster /human war. There is a weariness of humans more against human wizards since they were the ones who did the most damage the humans just killed and us monsters. Wizards prolonged and tortured them and their carnage didn't end the war and makes waves and touched them even in the present day. Remember to leave a kudos if you liked what you read. A comment if something is confusing or liked something and subscribe to be sure when the next chapter comes out. I won't be leaving update info on my Tumblr page anymore when I update because it's overtaxing most of the time or broken mess that I then have to fix it up so its legible to everyone else. Obvious I don't Undertale I'm neither toby fox nor got that kind of Kickstarter money. Just a lady with her computer and the plot I thought up. The first half is in Stephanie and the rest of the chapter is Aiden's perspective you will note the *** meaning it has switched. Now on to the story I know that's why you're really here not to see me ramble.
Frisk's and Stephanie's apartment early morning Saturday, April 11 202X
Early morning rose even though it's picturesque it was a colorful cloudless sky their brightness within the day that was lost on those in the apartment, Frisk's family had taken refuge at the apartment. Nerve-wracked that is Frisk mother was and had been since the news had been told. Frisk mother was crying anytime she was awake she was inconsolable and hysterically crying. Frisk father, on the other hand, wasn't stable but had to be strong for her younger siblings who still needed her dad but the both were holding themselves together with gum and some scotch tape. And it hard to watch knowing what she does know but I'm not allowed to tell because the police confiscated my cell phone to try to get a fixed location on Frisk location but knowing today would be the last time she would be able to contact Frisk? Had been a crack in her strong façade which crumbling faster then collapsing dam in a rain.
She gave them hope she showed them she was very much alive, and they shouldn't be so worried. Though inside she is panicking because she knew more about what is happening with her and she knows what real danger she is in right now which makes everything that happened even more vibrant and stand out in my mind. It was hard to get back of the mentality of everyday life when you know your friend is essentially going through something to the levels of Alice in Wonderland or the wizard of oz but unlike Alice or Dorthey? Frisk has access to the outside world, so she can prove what is happening to her isn't some giant fever dream or hallucination. As she looked at a picture she took a group picture while in hooded cloak it still looked like her the robe seemed to make her look different less identifiable body wise. The group of what she assumes is lady monsters based on the way they were dressed and the makeup on their faces, standing all around her Frisk had hinted as a lady's night /teacher meeting at the house with the lady who rescued Frisk and gave her the disguise in the first place.
Aiden had been visiting her all this week. As she felt herself falling apart all at least internally. she had been the strong pillar at least that's how the media had taken to calling me that she had been the strong while my childhood was essentially gone. She had been the strong one making sure Frisk family could move forward enough to take care of Frisk younger siblings. My family was just inconsolable it like lost their own daughter and she comforted them too, but she was wearing down just like they were. Aiden had been there coming incredibly early he had asked the week off just, so he could be there for her. Giving her affection and kindness being her moral support. And the pillar of strength Stephanie to stand on. She didn't cry as much though she was sorrowful. Noticing the listless and almost zombie-like vestiges of the Jones, Isaac, and Francesca looking like they barely slept and were listless as anyone else in Frisk inner circle. So, knocking on her door and seeing her tired face and a lot of worries.
"Oh, Aiden!" Stephanie launching herself at Aiden looking at him to comfort her once optimistic face just shrouded in angst seeing her sadness. She was starting to cheer up midway through the week when she went from devasted to something closer to strong and assured still upset but she seemed capable of. Coming as often as he could but between work Stephanie and relocating chad after his stint in the local jail she has had enough, and he can keep his public persona and that's enough for what he did to Frisk for how he has acted for the last time two centuries of this nonsense is enough and now he fought physically with her and honestly, he deserves every punishment he gets here and bellow. Knowing the seismic headache, she was about to give myself by going to see Stephanie while I'm awake in the underground getting the bar together for opening for the day. The mesh of thoughts between the two hopefully the rest of myself well the rest of myself Grillby will still feel better nothing like being with Stephanie to soothe the soul if anything as upset as she is and as worried as she am about Frisk who she no doubt in my mind might have fallen accidentally into the underground as bad and good as news is since how she could even begin to explain that aspect to Stephanie, that Frisk would be fine soon enough. Being best friends with the boss monster in charge? Came with the perks of the solution of how we are getting our freedom from the mountain to the obliviousness of the rest of the population blissfully unaware of how we are going to get out even only know enough to say that it's a taxing process to everyone involved with creating the solution and that secrecy of it is absolute he know enough details more than average veteran more them a good portion more than some of the most trusted in the royal court. At times he wished but at the same time, I'm glad that this near the end most of the monsters are unaware of the effort of trying to live on the surface again happily living and expanding where they are now?
If he could sweat or even produce moisture he would be drenched in it from head to toe at that moment. He felt like at that moment if she knew what he knew right now? She would throw him in the river. Regardless of what we are to each other and what the truth is right now but she's hysterical and apparently the Dreemurrs. I Know Toriel Dreemurr anywhere and most of those women had been in her bar more than once. where hiding Frisk in their home and he won't be able to consolidate that information to my silent other half until he goes to bed. at this point all he could do is give himself is a headache trying to forcefully send the information. Whoever scared the Dreemurrs much less lied about what is going on with the humans that have fallen into the underground. That person is going to pay because of them? They single-handedly delayed the liberation of a monster kind and it's squarely laid on their feet. Since apparently, Frisk presumes her death and subsequent capture might lead to a gruesome end.
"There're somethings I didn't tell you, I was worried for the cops overhearing me. Frisk has been keeping in contact with me. Something they would interfere with if they knew it was going on or worse call her insane or worse the pictures she's sent the conversations we have had the lead to something the cops wouldn't believe or if they did wouldn't Necessary be treated with open arms.
"What did Frisk show you?" He can feel the creeping suspicion there's no way Frisk much less anyone else now it's a question of why the Dreemurrs who he suspects is hiding her and why they are doing it in the first place.
Frisk is amongst the monsters! They're real Aiden the myths are real! Frisk has sent me dozens of pictures and went into the length of the monsters she has met. taking pictures telling me about them and what will happen if they find out if she's human!" There's so much going on there so much going on Stephanie's face maelstrom of emotions. Rubbing her back hoping that is enough comfort because I didn't realize
"Today is the last day I'll be able to contact her for a long time she said that rest of the underground caverns are out of the range of Wi-Fi and she would have no way to contact me until she's safely outside the mountain. I'm scared Aiden! I'm so scared after what she told me that would do if they discover she's human. she won't make it out alive just like our friend. I told you about he fell down the mountain just like all the others have never returned if they fell down. she won't make it back home if they know she's a human being. The monsters that are holding her right now? Who is fostering her or trying to hide her the best way they know how but even then, she won't give me all the details because she doesn't really know them all herself. If she doesn't come home alive I won't be able to live with myself for putting her in danger in the first place or putting my happiness ahead of her own. "
I would love to tell her everything he did know that Frisk had nothing to fear. what he really was about us! That I'm about ninety-eight percent sure she's my one, my soulmate.My other half being Grillby has been happy if the emotions feedback are anything to go more happy knowing he found who he'd been looking for all the years of playing the role of creating prosperity and a city for everyone in case leaving the underground and the humans refuse us living side by side with them like they the first time and while that was five millennia ago now thankfully since he has almost enough distance to let this go I'm still as bad off is as a veteran I'm just as bad off as Slade and few others who have a more unique position then the other who have their magical source ripped away from them
"I can't lose her Aiden! she's been my best friend for as long as I can remember, and I treated her so badly! I set her up with your friend and I didn't consider her feelings! I've been so selfish with her! I kept trying to push her forward even when I knew it would only make her more unhappiness. Hell, Jacob! I should have realized he once interrogated me to find out all of Frisk loves, likes and dislikes! By that point, he should've known what her favorite were! They had been together since high school. It was when the first year of college when he asked me. I should've known already a long time ago he was so self-absorbed! It's a miracle Frisk stuck it out so long. She knows i never could I'm not one to put up with that kind of behavior for all that long. Frisk told me all she knows she said that if the monsters if they catch and find out she's human? Will capture and do who knows what to her! It's all my fault! If I had been more selfless and put her happiness before my own! I'm such a bad friend and if she dies I'll never get to tell her sorry or that she deserves a better friend then me." Her sobbing was breaking my already split soul.
Wondering how long she could handle the separation and by my own extension the guilt of setting her up "Chad" Slade was a bad choice regardless! Frisk deserved someone better. Especially if the change in Sans is anything to go on? Slade will be lucky if Sans doesn't pull the stockades he may have not used the punishment since he gone into power. Someone tried to argue that sans couldn't make a valid decision on things he was still grieving his parents and he was setting up the original expansion out of the ruins. he was young, but he ruled like a smart and fair king. Even if on more than one occasion I've seen him at my bar or in disguise doing a stand set up at resort Mettaton had created out of the building in Heated Heights. How he got the time I'll never know. But better to be seen in public by your populace then constant sequestered and we had to guess on the temperament.
Final note: Guess what? I've been watching dan vs while working hard on the next few chapters of this stories. Now I'm watching the show Dan VS. She recommends the episode titled New Mexico and The Animal Shelter. Though most of the episode is good so far, I'm having a hoot and laughing. She was going through some burnout and some self-care and some writing something that dear disturbed my sense of self for homework. And this show is such hoot I'm cackling like a mad woman. I might have the energy to write the next ten chapters like she had planned for this to come out in August maybe early September and I'm writing this late May. She sincerely hopes everyone is enjoying the story she works hard on this chapter. Unfortunately, everyone and their mother is begging me to get a beta for my works. If you know someone willing to beta my work for free send them my way they can get a secondary author credit. Hell, if they want to beta all my works that's a lot of credit I has over 40 works in several fandoms. Please someone experienced i don't want to deal with somebody who says this is to much work! when they signed themselves up. Omg, I'm in the zone while I was writing I thank the animes. I've been watching it's so cute apparently cute things help me write horrible things what Stephanie is going through is something that happens she feels extreme guilt over everything. She and Frisk are besties like the kind of friends that are each other's maid of honor. would raise their kids together as next door neighbors and run a something in their lives together. Like if she had a way to quantify it imagine losing a twin in a way that's the equivalent of what's going on here so when you look at back at your friendship and you see the negative things you've done you see things not only different it makes you realize you have been as self-absorbed as the person Frisk can't stand for putting his feelings first forgetting that everything is a two way street. Frisk isn't a doormat, but people e treats her like one. She wants to be famous but she's overlook her regardless of her beauty it's something I've thought about because it isn't fair to her it isn't fair to everyone she tends to write on the fly so she prefer cute things give me the mental balance between the dark horror she imagine unleashed within the story considering I've been taking easy on you guys she does love the sweet and kind but she has a dark side. And this story has so dark elements that doubt anyone's else would even attempt the things that are plot points. My lovelies the next update will be mid-October if I'm lucky. I'm trying to get back into consistent updates she knows you guys seem to love. Check my other stuff if you super bored I got over 20 Undertale fanfics some of them also ongoing but close to completion or completed, some a bit on the risqué. I get bored who can blame me?