Summary: Every month's reader reward no one asked for! Double chapter today ladies, gentlemen and everything in between!
Ebott Ville, Toriel's residence, 1 year 7 months after the release of monsters and magic back in the world.
The next hours passed in a blur. I remember having him sleeping next to me, an officer shouting for someone to get an ambulance, mom grabbing me and using green magic all over my body, especially my hands and saying that I could be infected. Infected with what, really? Shadows? I don't know. All of this happened while the paramedics took him away to the human hospital. Yes, human hospital. There is a newly built hospital just across the street from the park, but the human government has yet to green light the facility to be used not only for monsters, but for humans as well, so there's that. The thing is is that we arrived home sometime around nightfall, but I had already fallen asleep in my mom's arms.
I dreamt about a gentleman scientist and his eccentric ways of describing things.
The morning after the whole ordeal came all too quickly for me, I just KNOW for a fact that all of my friends are in the living room, ready to face a new challenge if Undyne's and Papyrus' loud voices were anything to go by, so I decided to make my morning rituals take the longest I could manage.
"The calm before the storm," or so they say.
**" If you are grounded until 2030, you're lucky" Chara, who had been previously silent appears by my side.
I know, but there is no turning back now. What is done, is done.
**" It's ironic that you say that when you are the only one who has a way to go back." She throws the LOAD button at me. There is no respect anymore, huh? I make it disappear before it touches my fingers. I wouldn't like to relive the stress again, thank you very much.
**" Well, there is still the option Frisk. Just remember that. If this friend of yours gives our family problems you'll be the one responsible for it, too." Her legs, which usually dangle towards the ground float up as she lays down in the air.
I... I've never really thought about that, but I reassure myself that he is anything but dangerous and I have to make them understand. I also need to convince them to let me go to the hospital to pay him a visit. I need to buy him some clothes, too. What is his size?
**"There he goes again. We lost him, ladies and gentlemen." Chara snickers before swooping back to me.
Oh shush you!
Someone knocks on the door, ending the light banter.
Urgh.
"Yes?" I walked towards the door. "Frisk, my child? Are you presentable?" she said in full goat mom mode.
"Umm, yeah mom," I said with a shrug, because what else was there to say? Chara just looked at me.
"May I come in?" She smiled sweetly at me, though I could sense her slight discomfort.
"…sure." I mean, why not?
The awkwardness was not going to get any better until we talked it out. I opened the door and there she was, the woman who once held the power and authority to a whole nation, in jeans and a white and red heart stamped blouse.
She looked stunning!
**"Frisk!" My soulmate grumbled, but even she had to admit her mom looked great.
Hehehe!
Toriel closes the door behind her and approaches me ever so slowly.
It is involuntary, but fear starts to rise from my gut up to my throat. I know for a fact she would never hurt me again, but-
**"So no "again" comments huh?" Chara rests a hand on each of my shoulders, leering over me. She smiled at me with a knowing look in her eye, before floating away again.
My fingers twitched and I looked away from Toriel.
"Oh, no Frisk. I'm not mad at you!" As always, she could not fathom the struggle going inside my head. She speaks to me as if I was afraid of getting grounded for the weekend. It's totally not because she can summon the flames from hell with a snap of her fingers!
Heh, edgy.
I need to calm down. I have to answer the goat mama, and being stressed won't help.
"No mom. I know you're mad at me." I smiled and hugged her, or well, a fraction of her, but who cares? Goat mom is so soft! "I just don't want you to hate me..."
"Oh my child! I'm very sorry-" I feel a furry paw make its way into my hair.
"It's not that, mom." I feel her paw still. "You have every right to be mad at me. I didn't obey you when you told me to, and I'm really sorry for raising my voice at you, and... and... I-I promise I won't do it again," I whisper.
Toriel kneels to the ground so she can look me in the eyes after I had lowered my head.
"Listen Frisk, I… might not be the best at judging people, and I know better than to make assumptions based on someone's appearance. Appearances are deceitful to the eye. However! Asgore and I need to talk to you about that… friend of yours. He could have been a dangerous being," she sternly said. I go to defend him but she stops me with a soft paw. "Let me be honest with you though, I believe that you should never apologize for standing up for a friend. I don't know yet when or how you met this person but we were wrong in letting things happen as they did. Most importantly, you saved Asgore from committing a crime, Frisk. If you had not stopped him, monsterkind would have had to deal with the public execution of a human. That would surely soil all the peace treaties we have been working so hard for in this past year and a half. In the worst-case scenario, it would have escalated into a new war between the two races...
"What I'm trying to say is: thank you so much for saving us once again, Frisk. I'm so glad to have you here with me. We all very much appreciate what you did last night!"
Heh, and just like that, all my worries melted away from my body. She always leaves me speechless with her kindness.
"Goat mama, the best mama!" I managed to say, and even though it is muffled by the crushing hug I give her she hummed acknowledging.
"Now having said that you are grounded until Christmas!" She pulls away, a stern look written all over her face.
"Nooooooo!" I whine.
**"Told you" Chara is laughing, wiping tears from her eyes.
"And no chocolate for a month too." Toriel nods, satisfied with the punishment.
tries to load …. LOADED…
**"AUGGG NOOOOOOOOO" Chara kneels in the mindscape's "ground" as she shouts, hands formed into fists and outstretched to the "sky".
As I try to keep my face sad, I suddenly can't help but sneeze.
"Oh, sweetie! Did you catch a cold yesterday? My poor baby!" She reaches to my forehead but I gently shoved her away.
"I think it's only your hair in my nose. Don't worry, I don't feel sick"I mean it, I don't feel sick at all.
"Very well my child, but do tell me if you start to sneeze later, will you not? We don't want you to develop a cold!" She smiles widely at me.
"Of course not, mom." She nods gently, then she stands from where we were hugging and closes the door behind her. That will give me a couple of minutes before I have to deal with the consequences of my actions with the other members of my family.
**"Now what's the plan, smartass?" Chara, still offput about the chocolate ban, glares at me.
My panel comes up.
*A decision has to be made.
[ACT]
*Run
*Lie *Ask them for more time to explain.
*Ask them for more time to explain.
I would rather have them waiting to get answers than to lie without a reason… I don't feel like running today, either… or ever again for the matter. So, the third option it is.
Notes: Toriel thinks Frisk loves chocolate for how often she sees him eating it. What she doesn't know is that it is actually Chara who is in charge whenever the flavor touches Frisk's mouth.