Summary: References!
Ebott Ville, Police Station No.3, 1 year 7 months after the release of monsters and magic back in the world.
We arrive to Toriel's house in the surface and are met with silence.
"Where are they?"
**"There is no one here, I checked the rooms too…"
Toby was sleeping in his bed in the tallest cabinet; it didn't have a sink on top just because goat mom didn't allow Papyrus that one antic.
I look at Wilson and I see him pacing around until he grabs a little paper attached to the TV screen I didn't see before and his eyes turn reddish blue…
Wordlessly he hands me the little paper and we go with a whoosh again…
" police station, your sister's here"
"I TELL YOU I KNOW NOTHING!"
After speaking with the fish woman the official questioning ended and now that it´s visitor hours, some monsters came ASKING ME THE SAME SHIT!
Ok if my patience was burning low NOW IS FUCKING RAINING!
"ok chill, we are just having a conversation here calm down miss…" The skeleton with a big ass smile tries to calm me down.
He treats me like a fucking kid!
"MISS WILLOW YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT FRISK´S WHEREABOUTS AND IF YOU KNEW SOMETHING, ANYTHING AT ALL WE WOULD BE GRATEFUL TO YOU, I COULD COOK A FRIENDSHIP SPAGETTI AND WE COULD ALL EAT TOGETHER!"
At the mention of food my body betrays me and growls like a damn Deerclops. I´m hungry as fuck.
"I SEE THAT YOUR TUMMY IS VERY SINCERE AND ATUNE WITH YOUR TRUE FEELINGS! NO ONE CAN RESIST THE POWER OF THE GREAT PAPYRUS´ SPECIAL SPAGETTI NYEH HEH HEH!"
This monster.
He is different.
Even though he is a full grown ass adult, he says things like 'tummy' and that laugh... His tune and vocabulary is similar to that of a child, his expression and smile looks sincere, truthful.
Kind.
Not as good as my brother´s but still.
This skeleton has not yet experienced true pain.
Can I trust this one?
"We just want to find our child, mage. Tell us your conditions for freeing him."
"What the FUCK did you just call me?" The goat like monster flinches at my language but what the flying shit is he talking about? Mage! Don't make me laugh.
"Listen lady we-"
*WHOOSH*
Someone is moving to where I am!
Wilson!
Before my brother and a… kid? Come from the worm hole he aims his palm to the monster´s direction and create a see through wall of darkness.
"Willow, sister!"
"Brother!"
*Anime hug with falling sakura petals and everything*
"Did they hurt you?"
"No, no, no, I´m fine, Did they hurt you?"
"Who cares!"
"I DO!"
Laughter and sobbing was heard from the two siblings, they couldn´t care less about what was happening around them.
"FRISK!" The monsters shouted.
I stand a couple of steps near the sobbing siblings but get closer to the transparent wall of darkness.
I notice that Wilson thought about everything, he knew that the monsters could attack us if we appeared here in front of them…
**"Frisk are you listening to yourself? You speak as if they were our enemies" The spirit resurfaces and she looks as though she can´t believe what my thoughts are.
I… I´m sorry I didn´t mean to...
**"…" Chara stands in my right side with a frown and watches silently my exchange with the monster family in disapproving silence.
"Are you ok, did he hurt you? Did he do something to you? Do you feel any kind of pain?..." Mom string of questions came and flooded me, I don´t know what to answer first…
"Uhmm I… Mom calm down."
"Oh, for the angel above Frisk we were worried sick!"
"YOU SEE THE GREAT PAPYRUS WAS RIGHT! FRISK IS BACK AND NO HARM WAS DONE, MORE IMPORTANTLY HE LOOKS HEALTHY AND HAPPY TOO! A FEVER IS NOTHING AGAINST FRISK´S DETERMINATION!"
I know I´m blushing by the way my cheeks burn.
"frisk… can you come to this side?"
At Sans question I put my hand in the wall and press, it doesn´t budge.
I shake my head.
"ok stay there, i´ll do something…"
"Wait! Don't teleport inside dunkle… He didn´t kidnap me, I´m not with him against my will, he is just trying to help me please everyone, understand." I plead with the best of my abilities.
It doesn´t work as there are two goat monsters that look vicious, thankfully not at me.
"Oh hello there kid!" Willow calls me from behind and I wave at her from where I stand.
"Oh no, nothing like that, let me introduce to you a real Higgsbury traditional hug"
She grabs me like a potato sack and I twirl around in the small cell without a care in the world it all ends with a tight hug!
My tummy!
"what?" Sans is watching confused at the show.
"NO, NO, NO, THAT´S A VERY GOOD TECHNIC BROTHER." Papyrus grabs a notepad from his storage and scribbles madly.
After some more laughs from the three humans inside the cell Wilson speaks up.
"So tell me what do you want to do now Fri-"
"We burst them up in flames!" Willow interrupts fisting the air excitedly.
*sigh*
"Sister, no killing"
"But-"
"No killing, please."
"Fine, just because you used the magic word."
I watch the exchange with a grin. She is so much fun! And she is cute too! A wild fire spirit maybe but still! I don't like the threat to my family but her face said that she was not serious at all. I think.
I see that the hair is a Higgsbury trait; hers is very black and going up against the grabita- grabitotali-
**"Gravity"
Yeah that word!
"Oh hello there princess who might you be hummm?" Willow turns and looks as if speaking with the nothingness.
**"You can see me too? Really?" Chara sounded dumfounded once again.
**"I´m not!" Yes you are!
"Ok children, children, don´t fight!" Wilson kneels and pet both heads.
"Ok, presentations, Willow dearest this is Frisk, a child that I met when going through Maxwell´s door, and this is Chara, princess of the underground and the monsters within it, she died…" he stops for a while "a long time ago."
"You met him there? How come? Was he trapped with us all that time? Oh excuse me, pleased to meet you two." The white and red dressed woman looked amazed.
"No he was not trapped… It will take a while to tell you the whole story though"
"Well, we are free now, take us somewhere far away from here so we can talk! We thought you were death you know, for a whole year I thought that I will never see you again!" She pouted a little.
"I have been here just five days or so sis…"
All the present, even the, until now, silent monster gathered outside the wall, looked between the two human adults as if they were mental…
"No, that can´t be, we recorded the seasons, we constructed another camp near the door to check if you would spawn again… The only thing we didn´t do was to contact that bitch."
"Sister! Language!"
"Oh come on they are old enough to know that word" She turns towards the giggling children "Right?"
We sheepishly nod.
Wilson hums disapprovingly to the both of us but says nothing.
"You will NOT take my child away again!"
The goat mama is furious and throws the big flame balls she was lighting in her paws. They are bigger than the ones she threw at me in the past.
They collide into the wall… not even a scratch was done.
"Miss Toriel, calm down, we mean no harm really" Wilson seems tired…
"NO HARM? NO HARM REALLY? YOU TOOK FRISK AWAY AND MADE HIM INSANE, HE THINKS HE IS SPEAKING WITH MY CHILD WHO DIED CENTURIES BEFORE HE FELL INTO THE UNDERGROUND!"
Mom is shouting, Mom is shouting, Mom is shouting, Mom is shouting.
**"Frisk!"
"Hey goat shit! Stop shouting you are upsetting him!"
"Sister!"
"It´s true!"
Someone grabs me and tries to give me a hug but my arms are unresponsive and I can't grab into anything at all. The air is getting thinner and thinner.
**"Frisk remember the breathing exercises, one, two, remember what the therapist said, ground yourself with something!" I feel ghostly hands reach for my face and hair to soothe me.
I´m trying! I´m sorry! I´m sorry! I´m sorry! I´m sorry!
"Frisk? Can you hear me, you are ok, everything is ok, no one is mad at you, no one will hurt you, not in my presence, not ever again, I promised you right, I will protect you shh calm down my boy" Somehow I managed to close my eyes without me knowing but the scientists words make me open them.
I feel that Wilson is swinging me like a baby; he cradled me at some point and now is breathing air through my sweaty hair to soothe me too.
It feels really good.
**"You ok there?"
"Hey Chara sweetie let's give them some space, ok?" Willow says somewhere else.
Uhmm my head…
"Don´t you dare say her name again…" The goat man says while fuming unlit fire through his nose… Willow looks unimpressed.
"What? Jelly you can't see her?"
"She was my daughter and I won't let her memory be tarnished by your foul mouth mage!"
**"…" I see how lonely tears come down those red cheeks and I reach for her.
She takes my hand silently.
"Wow, you managed to upset both children, just bravo." Willow mocks the monsters and claps twice… sarcastically.
"Willow, enough"
"Sorry bro, just you have to admit they are blind as fuck right?"
"Sister" Wilson is visibly losing his patience.
"Ok, ok, I-"
"Monsters can´t see spirits, they lack determination to feel their presence Webber is an exception, he is half human."
"…"
"Determination? What-"
"Remember the experiments I was doing with these" Wilson grabs something from his storage and shows the confused woman.
"Red Gems, yeah, you said that if they bring you back from the death, they were our ticket to get out of the shadow realm. You said something along the lines that they were crystallized determination or some shi- thing! Like that…"
"Yes exactly, I couldn´t finish it as I lacked the equipment necessary to test my hypothesis but just by Frisk´s narrations on how his soul worked I noticed that it worked the same way the stone did, of course, the stone could be used one time, while Frisk here-"
NO!
I grab his shirt and tuck at it with a little force. Willow looks more confused now but decides to say nothing on the matter.
"… Ok, I shall say no more. Back into the topic, they can´t simply see princess Chara even when she is standing right in front of them"
The monsters look very closely to where Chara is but not one of them make eye contact…
She sends me discomfort signals.
**"Let´s get out of here."
"UHMM EXCUSE ME, I DON'T UNDERSTAND A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AND YOU ARE SAYING BUT SHOULDN´T IT BE BETTER FOR ALL OF US TO TALK OF THIS CONFUSING THINGS OVER ONE OF MY MAGNIFICIENT SPAGETTIS?" There is hope in the skeleton´s eyes and as he says this the two adults look at each other.
"Should we brother? It might be a trap…"
"Oh no don´t worry, Papyrus is the only monster you can fully trust, he means no harm sister, so be very careful with him, no setting on fire please."
"And the others brother?"
Uhm… they are talking as if the monsters weren´t listening and this situation discomforts me.
"The other vary in danger… the most dangerous one is Sans, the other skeleton"
Sans eye sockets blink black for a second.
"Asgore, the goat man comes next, Undyne the blue fish woman, Toriel the goat lady, and lastly Papyrus." He considers his words better. "But I must admit, if we were speaking just about power, Papyrus comes in second place by an inch with first place…" He rambles looking at the ceiling
"uh… hello we are still here guys…" Sans is sweating bullets while the other looked at the English man with disbelief and confusion in their face.
"Oh excuse us, I was simply stating our current situation with my sister you know, just so we don't get killed, the usual stuff" He shrugs nonchalantly.
Silence.
"Give us Frisk back immediately; this nonsense has gone far too long" Asgore growls uncaring of what was said.
I latch into Wilson´s arms and he gets the message.
"It´s ok Frisk calm down, what do you wish to do darling?"
I consider to go back to the ruins but this has been going for too long.
"I want a bath" I really need one.
"Ok" he looks apologetically at me but it´s not his fault that this few days have been frantic.
"Monsters, we agree to your terms of temporal truce in exchange of Papyrus´ culinary delicacies."
His voice grows deep as he speaks like a medieval soldier.
He he he so silly…
From the corner of my eye I see my soul mate stifle her laugh too.
Papyrus… eyes? Were coming out of his eye sockets in in shock…. Or disbelief?
He looks cute though.
"Yeah just, maybe don´t kill us?" Willow asks with a shrug.
"LET´S ALL BECOME FRIENDS OVER A HEALTHY MEAL OF SPAGETTI NYEH HEH HEH HEH"
There were three very uncomfortable monsters and four happy humans during the exchange…
Notes: Papyrus is a sweetheart! There is a reason over why they don't care about being heard by the monsters. Just imagine, they have been trapped for so long with their captor with god like abilities in the throne. Charlie can hear and see everything that happens in the "board" so it doesn't matter how many plans or secret conversations they might want to have, she listens to everything so more often than not their plans wouldn't work until the survivors just stopped caring about having a potential enemy at arms distance. They are conditioned that way. It's like "Everything we come up with will be heard or seen and diverted, so why should we care about her listening?" kind of thing. References to Steven Universe and The Emperor's New Groove! Did you get them? Got questions!? Ask!