Hey Everyone!
Interference in bold, puns and memories in italics, magic is underlined.
-text- indicates either texts, or mental "talking".
All Undertale stuff owned by Toby Fox, else me or a reference.
On your way to the premiere, you stop by a new car wash your friends have been talking about for months. You can't help but compliment the owner's dedication to cleanliness, if not his grammar.
Texts Between Asriel and Frisk's Phone
-Is Uncle Pappy with you?-
-Yes, why? Uncle Sans fall asleep again? Paps says he's been doing that a lot.-
-Well, yes. You sitting down?-
-Flower-fur, what is it?-
-Please sit down.-
-Sitting.-
-Chara's back.-
-...-
-Frisk?-
-...-
-Frisk, please tell me you're alright.-
-...-
-Frisk!-
-PRINCE AZZY, THE HUMAN APPEARS TO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP! SANS MUST HAVE RUBBED OFF ON THEM, I APOLOGIZE IF HIS CONTAMINATED LAZINESS HAS WORRIED YOU.-
-ALSO IT IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, CURRENTLY USING FRISK'S PHONE.-
-Uncle Pappy, can you please go get Mom?-
-OF COURSE, PRINCE AZZY!-
-...-
-Asriel, what did you do to your sibling? -Toriel-
-Mom, scroll up.-
-...-
-I showed you how to do this, Mom.-
-...-
-Where are they, Asriel?-
-Mom, please don't get mad-
-Asriel Dreemur, wherever you are you will bring them home right now, do you hear me?-
-That...might take a while.-
-Why?-
-Sans fell asleep.-
-Why is Sans even out of bed?!-
-...-
-Asriel.-
-I don't know, okay? He convinced Pappy to take him down into the lab and saw something we needed to check at the college and thought he could make it both ways but he fell asleep and Chara's hungry and wants some chocolate and there isn't any here and we can't get back until Sans wakes up because he brought us here and my car is back there and I don't know what to do!-
-It is alright, Asriel. I am...disappointed in Sans, but not surprised. Take a deep breath.-
-...-
-I am going to assume that you took the breath. Now, can you tell me what Sans looks like?-
-It's just magical exhaustion, Mom, I know what I'm doing. I just don't know how to get back.-
-Sorry, my son...I am still adjusting to the fact that you are as much a healer as I am now...Sans has not been asleep long, has he?-
-Maybe 15 mins.-
-Alright. Papyrus says he has not been napping for more than a half an hour at a time of late. Do you wish me to put some chocolate into your phone's dimension box for Chara?-
-Yes, please.-
-Alright, my son. The chocolate is in now.-
-Thanks, Mom. Chara says thanks, too.-
-They are alright, are they not?-
-They're fine...a few scratches, but that's kinda normal for them. They don't look all that different than before, actually. They're even shorter than me!-
-Goodness! I shall have to pull out some of their old clothes.-
-Chara says you can burn the pink dress.-
-]:)-
-I think they mean it.-
-]:(-
-How's Frisk?-
-They are...not handling this well. Why did they react in such a fashion?-
-Um...they've kinda met Chara before. Not in a good way.-
-When was this?!-
-...-
-Asriel.-
-Remember when we told you about me and when I was a flower?-
-...-
-Mom?-
-I stole my phone back, Azzy. I'll explain it.-
-kay.-
-...-
-Sans woke up. He's pissed.-
-Well, duh.-
-Can you get Uncle Pappy to call him?-
-One of those, huh?-
-Yeah.-
-...-
-Thanks.-
-np.-
-Will you be okay if we bring them there?-
-...probably. Can I stick them in a room with Jerry?-
-Frisk.-
-What? He's annoying, they're annoying. They'll annoy each other more than me.-
-Can we at least wait until we figure out if they're still all murdery?-
-Fine, bring them, but I'm making Paps take Silver and the other kids to the Librarby.-
-Kay. Love you.-
-Love you too, Flower-fur.-
Chara
"Well, this is exciting," I take another bite out of Mom's chocolate bar while Azzy continues to adjust the wonderfully fragile little skeleton on his back. It was so SATISFYING when his arm broke like that - I'm grinning just at remembering it! My brother glares at me. I throw up my hands, crumbs of chocolate flying everywhere.
"Hey, it's not my fault Smiley Trashbag decided to start throwing bones around. We're surrounded by metal towers. Those bounce, you know. How was I supposed to know he couldn't see well enough to dodge? Did you really just expect me to stand there and take it?"
"that's my line."
"Yep. I'm stealing it," The skeleton glares at me over Azzy's shoulder. I still can't believe he's so tall! Stop it, Azzy, I need to be the tall one! I...I need to...nope, feels train gone. Gee, I hope Frisk is still short...actually, them I wouldn't mind as much. Hmm...I'm bored, "Why is this taking so long?"
"Chara, can you please stop complaining for five minutes?"
Ah, this again, "I don't know Azzy, can you stop being taller than me for five minutes?"
He sputters, "What? No! I'm...I'm older than you, so I can be taller!"
"No you're not. I was born two years before you were, remember? Therefore I'm the oldest, so hah!"
"technically he spent more time in RESETs than you did."
Since when is the skeleton allowed to but in on my conversation? "Yeah, but he was a flower, so even more technically I'm still older than him."
"isn't that a bit of a tall order, expecting me to believe all that time you spent as a ghost in someone else's body counts towards your age."
He's got that stupid grin on his face...it's even more annoying like this. Since when is he allowed to actually move his face? This sucks. At least Azzy...oh, great, he's doing his 'I'm not a part of this conversation, got no idea what you mean Mom' face on. Great.
"Can we go now?"
Why the heck is his grin getting wider? It's not allowed to do that!
Azzy tugs on the blanket-sling-thingy he's made one last time. I roll my eyes. If it's going to fall apart, one little tug isn't going to stop it, "Uncle Sans, you gonna be okay like this?"
Sans shrugs his non-snapped shoulder, "have to say, i'm feeling pretty attached to this whole 'people carrying me around' thing. lifts my spirits."
I take one last bite of chocolate. I will not throw this at the skeleton - one, it might hit Azzy, two, it's CHOCOLATE, and three, it just isn't worth the lecture from Mom about wasting food...well, and the one about proper behaviour, but I'm getting that already, I just know it. I hate it when she gets all lecture...y. It sucks
"Okay, Chara, get over here...um, you remember what I said about Frisk?"
I lick the wrapper, getting those last bits of chocolate off, and for a bonus, annoying my brother and Trashbag! Three birds with one stone, I'd say that's a deal, "Be nice to Frisk, she - should I be saying she or they? I thought they liked they? Never mind - they are kinda afraid of me, but if I'm nice they'll probably forgive me and try to flirt with me. What - that's like half of what they did in the ENCOUNTERs, flirt with people!"
Azzy sighs. Oh great, brother lecture time, "Chara, you realize you still look, like, twelve? Frisk's in college. She's not going to flirt with you...at least not seriously. And definitely not for a while. Also, ask her. She's...considering."
"Fine, I'll be nice, and I'll ask. Now can we go?" I hop down and skip over to them, threading my arm through my brother's and pointedly not looking at the skeleton on his back.
"sure thing, brat," Not going to react, not worth the effort.
"Uncle Sans," I duck my head, hiding my smile from Azzy. Annoying as it is to hear him call that Trashbag his uncle, the fact that 'brother mode' still works like it used to is worth the annoyance. That could come in handy...and I kinda missed it, too.
"fine, sorry. living room at newer home, right?"
"Yeah," hold on a sec, NEWER Home? Dad still sucks at naming things. This is why we never got a puppy...well, part of the reason why. Definitely why we never let him play pretend with us. He'd always name the queen Queen or something like that. Really, Dad, just...really.
"okay, here goes."
Plink.
Toriel
It is odd. I never would have supposed that I would see the day that Frisk hid behind me. They have always been so determined, so adventurous, so curious, so resilient...I suppose everyone has something they fear beyond reason. I am still not entirely certain why what they fear is my Chara...but that does not mean I shall not let them stay in hiding.
It seems as though I have only blinked before they are here. Asriel stands just in front of the sofa, a round white dome poking out above his shoulder. Sans' head is tucked under Asriel's ear and...he appears to have fallen asleep again. Poor monster.
"Hey Mom. Thanks for the chocolate - you remembered my favorite brand, too! When did Azzy get so tall? I didn't say he could get so tall - why didn't you do something about it?! It's weird!"
My child. They...my child. When did they get so small? They hardly come up to Asriel's elbows...and yet my SOUL tells me their own eyes should be a few inches over his head. They...my child...
"Is that Frisk behind you? Wow, everyone's tall now. Great...at least Trashbag's still shorter than me...This place is new. Bigger than New Home, isn't it? Is that Chariel? Wow, can't believe she's still around."
They are still wearing the locket Asgore made for them. After all these years...I had thought it was lost, and yet...there it is. It still falls a little too low on them...he never could get all the details right. My child...
"Y'know, I'm gonna run out of things to say eventually, right? You could, um, react or something...anything, really."
Oh, my child, I...I do not know what to say. They are...they are back, and I...oh, this...this…
"Okay, when I said ANYTHING, I didn't mean CRY! Come on, that's Azzy's thing. You never cry. Stop it. Mom, stop crying, please? You...you're gonna make me cry too, and I hate crying! So stop it!"
My legs finally seem to unlock. I almost fall over the coffee table as I rush to their side. I...I do not think I ever want to let them go.
"Okay, slightly better than the crying...and that's enough hugging. Mom. Mom stop. Mom, you're embarrassing me. Mom, come on, I...I'm right here, no one's going to make me leave. You can stop hugging me now. Seriously, I missed this and all, but...Mom, stop. No, no, don't start crying again...geeze, you...you really did miss me."
I speak, although I know my words are muffled by their shirt, "Of course I missed you, my lovely Chara. You are my child...I would miss you if you were gone for a moment, I would miss you if you were gone for a day. I would still miss you if you were gone for a thousand years. Time does not make me miss you any more or less, for it is you I miss."
"Okay," their arms bury themselves into my fur. The top of my head begins to get wet, "Now you've got me crying. I'd...I'd better get some more chocolate out of this."
I smile, "Of course, my child. I will even bake you a chocolate pie."
Asriel sputters, "But Mom!"
"Asriel, there are six people staying under this roof, and another four who are staying for dinner. There is more than enough call for multiple pies - you will not have to eat any of the chocolate pie if you do not wish."
He sighs, "Thanks, Mom. Um...Frisk and I can, um...I can stay with Uncle Pappy and Sans for a few nights, so...Chara can have my room. It's still got some of their old stuff."
"YOU TOUCHED MY STUFF?!"
Asriel looks guilty. He and Frisk share a look.
"Um...I'm gonna go drop Uncle Sans off at his place. Frisk'll come too, right Frisk?," Frisk nods vigorously, "Kay we're going now. Bye!"
They scurry out the door. I holler after them, "Be back in time for dinner, Asriel! Frisk! Tell Papyrus he and his brother are invited to join us! Make sure Sans gets something to eat soon!"
"Bye Mom!" The words are accompanied by the slam of the front door.
"Wow, you still do that, huh? Guess just because he's taller doesn't mean he gets outta the whole mother-ness thing," Chara wriggles in my hugs, but I am not letting them go that easily! I let my fingers curl in slightly and wiggle them around, "Oh, come on M-mom, really! S-stop! No t-t-tickles!"
I scoop them up into my arms still tickling them as I walk out of the room, "It has been almost a hundred years since I last tickled you, my child. I have quite a lot of time to make up for, haven't I? Now, let me show you around. That door is to the kitchen..."