Summary: "A familiar face in this strange world" - Wilson P. Higgsbury
Ebott Ville, Toriel's Residence, 1 year 7 months after the release of monsters and magic back in the world.
"Do I have to undress you myself?"
"NO"
"Go. Take. A. Bath."
"NO!"
"Willow, I´m not playing around go and take a bath, it´s been ages since we could take a warm bath!"
"I hate water and you know it!"
"Sister… I took mine now´s your turn!"
"Make. Me."
The bickering kept going...
After the 'temporal truce' established by Wilson and Papyrus, Undyne came to the hall next to the cell to tell her monster friends and leaders that the time was over for visits, to her surprise, the kidnapped child appeared with a pyromaniac and the Shadow King. She was sputtering nonsense at the siblings but was calmed down by a very happy Papyrus. Wilson´s charges on kidnap were removed by my official statement of my willing participation on the escapade and he paid for Willows fine to get free. After that, Wilson offered to take us all to mom´s house but the family turned him down, they looked completely reluctant to the prospect of touching the gentleman but he shrugged it. We went home by car, Asgore´s car which by normal standards is considered a modified van to fit the King of all Monsters.
We made a scale on MTT & Shop to purchase ingredients for the spaghetti and some clothes for Wilson and Willow… And that leads us to the current predicament…
"Vinculis tenebrarum!"
"ACK!"
Willow was lifted by black chains that sprouted from the ground, weird enough there was no damage to the wooden floor.
"Latin?" For the first time since I met the King I have never seen him afraid…
"What´s wrong?"
We were all in the living room waiting for the 'culinary delicacies' Papyrus and Mom were making in the kitchen, it will take a little while for them to finish.
"frisk… latin is the language that was used by the mages to imprison us, it´s forbidden knowledge to the general population…" Sans added
**"I… I never heard any of this" and I felt her surprise and confusion too.
"Oh, uhm he taught me a lot of words in Latin…"
Shouldn´t have said that.
They are looking at me now… I don´t want to know what they think about that so I turn my face away.
**"They are…"
No Chara, I prefer not to know.
**"Ok…" Although she says that, she sends me reassurance and love, she tells me with our soul bond that they are not mad at me, but rather, at the gentleman scientist.
While I was talking with the monsters Wilson´s chains of darkness carried the woman that was making a tantrum to the guest´s room bathroom. When he finished he saved me from the stares of Asgore and dunkle Sans.
"Ok, now that that is settled. Frisk, could you bring me a sewing kit and brown pieces of clothes please?"
"Why would you need that?" I ask not as enthusiast as I use to be.
"I have to make a prize for her; she is really taking a bath."
"Ok" I go to where my crafts art class things are and bring them to the scientist.
"Here they are"
"Frisk, come here" He takes my hand when I gave the sewing kit to him.
"You don´t have to be afraid of the things you have learned from me, only those who are instructed in the arts of magic can use Latin to harness its powers, and even then it´s up to the person to use it for bad or good things, and knowing you, you could be the strongest human ever to exist and you would use that power to SAVE all the ones that are in need"
His words come so easily that I almost believe them.
**"Believe them pal, all of it is true, I know you, I know your soul you are the most merciful thing in this entire world and I´m so honored to be stuck with you, even when you fart, that´s disgusting!"
Pffftt
Man and child laugh and it rings throughout the house.
*Laugh that comes from your soul. Fills you with
DETERMINATION.
File: SAVED
"That was anticlimactic; we were having a moment Chara!"
"…"
The three humans stay in silence for an entire minute.
Ups
**"UPS? YOU FUCKING BLURTED TO MY FATHER THAT HIS DEAD CHILD IS HERE! QUICK! LOAD!"
"Language princess" Wilson calls.
"But they already know!"
**"Look at his face Asgore is about to kill someone!"
I turn around and….
My smile recoils and I feel sins crawling on my back
I stand with my face to the ground but arms wrap me in a warm hug from behind…
I needed it.
"frisk… is it really true that the princess chara has been stuck with you all this time? why didn´t you tell m- us?"
The arms unwrap but I still feel warmth "You would have never believed. No one would have, you would have laughed at me, and Papyrus would have thought I was crazy…"
"frisk…" For once Sans smile is gone… sadness drips from his nonexistent mouth…
Asgore kept to himself.
I can´t stop my mouth.
"She guided me, she taught me how to fight, how to speak with different kinds of monsters, she read to me the history tablets in waterfall because no one taught me how to read monster language, she was with me when I fell from a bridge and woke up covered in trash dirty, soggy and disoriented, she was there when… when… I wanted to give up, when I wanted to give my soul away and die, when monsters hit me and bruised me and shouted at me and wanted me dead and.. and… If not for her I would be, I would be… dead now..."
I was sobbing hard, it´s the first time I have ever spoken about this that is not in therapy…
I´m so weak, I´m sorry, I shouldn´t be saying any of this, I forgive them I do…
I´m sorry Chara I broke my promise to you…
**"…" Chara was sobbing too, I expected her hatred, her disappointment to not be able to keep my promise but instead, she was sending gratefulness for my words, she tells me how her loneliness and sadness washed away when I came crashing (literally) to her life, or death? Thing is that she is not upset at me but to how I had to suffer for the promise I had to keep.
But it was my decision, I wanted to keep you safe without anyone knowing about your existence and it worked until now.
I find myself being cradled like a new born and lulled to sleep. Again…
"Are you happy now monsters?" I direct my sneer towards the guilty looking King and skeleton.
HA! As if that will cure this poor child's scars!
Toriel was standing in the doorframe that comes from the kitchen to the living room.
She heard everything.
Maybe that way she will realize that Frisk would be better off in a normal family.
As normal as the King of another world residents can be.
What was Toriel´s reaction?
**Disbelief and sorrow, or at least that's what her face translates to. She can´t believe she failed this much with Frisk, and sorrow for not being the one the child trusts**
She has to suffer for letting Frisk get this broken.
*sigh*
Calm yourself Higgsbury you are going insane.
*Sanity 90/200
Nothing to do there for now.
I make a seat out of shadows for Frisk to sleep away his sorrows.
"What are you doing?" The goat man enquired.
"Making sushi out of Frisk. Isn´t it obvious?" I deadpanned while starting to sew some pieces of clothes. They are perfect for what I want to make for Willow.
The monster did not appreciate my sarcasm.
*sigh* The king sighs tiredly
"Let´s stop pretending what is what you want with Frisk and why does he believes he can see Chara, she is dead and long gone I saw her soul shattering with my own son´s soul"
"A soul shattering does not mean the person is completely gone, don't you have funerals to spread the dead monster´s remnants to their most cherished possession for them to live on?" I keep sewing.
Oh! This here is perfect for the stuffing too!
"Yes, but what has to do that with Chara?"
"Chara never left, her death was a violent one by what Frisk described to me"
"She died from an illness, her death while painful, it was not violent" Asgore growled between his teeth.
**"… Please, please, please don´t tell him"
"Very well, I won´t, princess"
"What?"
"She doesn´t want me to keep talking" I lied, this conversation can´t go on without me spilling the metaphorical beans.
"Would you stop talking as if you can communicate with her!" He stands.
"If you wake up Frisk…" I start but get interrupted by a loud voice.
"FOOD´S READY EVERYONE" And it had the undesired effect.
Frisk´s beautiful hazel eyes peeked from where he was cradled in the seat of shadows.
He turned towards the two Kings.
I smiled at the sleepy child reassuringly. He smiled back.
"Oh Frisk good timing look what I sew!" I did my best to hide my hatred towards the goat.
Stupid goat.
"He he it looks funny, what´s it?"
"It´s Bernie, a familiar face in this weird world. It´s Willows childhood friend and you woke up just in time to reanimate it."
"BERNIE!" Willow almost tumbles down from the stairs; her hair was dried undoubtedly with fire and the new outfit I purchased for her fits her like a glove.
She grabs the teddy bear as if her life depended on it and is jumping like a five year old.
She might as well be.
Her smile is the fuel that keeps me alive every day.
"Bernie… Is he not animated?"
"Not yet sis you came just as I was-"
"HEY MY MAGNIFICIENT MASTERPIECE WONT BE EATEN BY ITSELF WHY HAVENT YOU GONE TO EAT?" Papyrus looks around and Toriel joins the fun "OH I SEE WHAT´S HAPPENING, YOU ARE BECOMING BEST FRIENDS BY MAKING THINGS TOGETHER" Oh yeah I haven't picked up all the things that I used to make Bernie oh well "THEN TELL ME WHAT IS THAT" He points at the brown stuffed animal in Willows arms
"It´s Bernie! Wilson made him for me and he is my BEST FRIEND. He is asleep right now, brother can you wake him up?" She hands the bear to me.
"Ok, Frisk this was not possible before when we were in the Adventure Mode do you want to watch how he wakes up?!" I say cheerily and Frisk nods with enthusiasm, good!
"Ok… " I close my eyes and point with a single finger to Bernie´s chest.
"Idcirco praecipio tibi ut excitare, Bernie!"
Toriel, Papyrus, Asgore, Sans and Frisk look astonished while I reanimate Bernie.
A bolt like shadow comes from my finger and collides with the stuffed animal; the contact makes it collapse on its back….
There is movement in one arm, then one leg, then the other arm… He moves his entire body and sits up abruptly.
He assesses the situation and dims it safe, runs towards my sister while she excitedly jumps in the air with him
"Bernie! We are free! we are safe! you won´t have to fight shadow creatures anymore! I´m so happy you are here with me!"
I see unshed tears in my sister´s eyes while she rubs her face into Bernie's middle, I feel fantastic when she is happy like this!
Bernie is busy cuddling with my younger sibling.
"papyrus?" Sans addresses his brother and all of us turn towards the tallest skeleton
"CAN YOU DO THAT WITH ANY STUFFED FRIEND?"
The skeleton is trembling with unshed excitement and I´m afraid all the present will be blown to pieces when it explodes.
"Uhm…Yes?" I don´t even convince myself with that.
"WAIT HERE PLEASE!"
Papyrus runs to his bedroom… he came back in record speed.
"HERE!" He hands me a very, very, very, old bunny, It is covered in old stitches, undoubtedly from playing too rough and there is a tiny piece missing from one of the long white ears.
"ITS FLUFFY BUNNY, SANS FOUND HER IN THE DUMP FOR ME WHEN I WAS A BABY BONES AND I WAS WONDERING IF YOU… You Could… you know… 'wake her up?'" Papyrus voice was excited in the first part; doubt crawled in the second and insecurity in the last.
HA! EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH THE POWER OF MY MIND!
"Of course Papyrus."
"wait, pap are you sure, we don´t know what that thing could do…"
"HEY DUMB SKELETON, they are not dangerous, the complete opposite, Bernie has protected me since the first time he was animated, he is my guardian towards evil things that want to harm me!" Sans narrow his eyes at Willow´s rudeness.
"What my sister says is true" I direct the conversation towards Frisk "Remember what we told you about feelings? Well things that have been loved and tended for through the ages develop a will, a core if you might. Their desire to protect their children is what makes them come to life… If I try the same process to a miscellaneous thing, it would never work"
I put Fluffy Bunny in the ground and repeat the chanting to animate the stuffed bunny.
Miraculously it works.
"FLUFFY BUNNY IS ALIVE, ONE OF MY DREAMS BECAME TRUE!"
Well now we have two five year old in the house, Frisk grins at me, Willow is happy and Papyrus thanks me with a bear hug. I hug him back.
Notes: I don´t believe saying 'monster' is racism… It's their species like some alien comes and calls us 'humans' wouldn't it be the same? I have read other fics in which that that word is used as a racist comment and I don´t understand why. **IMPORTANT** This has nothing to do with the Harry Potter series! Latin 1. Bonds of darkness
2. I command you to wake up, Bernie! Fun Fact 'Tended and loved for through the ages', comes from Adventure Time. Simon Petrikov portal is fueled by the love Marceline infused to her Hambo… I believe it´s the same thing that happened to Bernie and now with Fluffy Bunny. They are made of Looooove, looooove, looooove! And it's stronger than you! *Insert Garnet punches here*