(Disclaimer: I still didn't make undertale or glitchtale, and no amount of these disclaimers can change that, they were made by Toby Fox and Camila Cuevas respectively, if you haven't watched or played them please go do that)

ChaosPheory #10

The One Where No One Knows What's Going On

The breeze of yesterday morning was now a strong wind accompanied by a light rain, both of which were still really cold and still really uncomfortable, but that didn't even slow Jessica in her quest to find Lance and, by an extent, Betty. She pored over her laptop(after closing the window), searching every lead she had from every source she could find, and she found some rather interesting things, but nothing that got her closer to finder her brother-in-law. She closed out her browser and pulled up her computer's video player. She had all the recordings from the past week sent directly to her, and the live feed was set to stream into her laptop, this way no one else could see what the cameras saw. Tom objected, saying that if she did this no one else could help her, but the fact of the matter was if anyone else went after him, he'd just brush them aside and move on. He didn't survive or even live, in the lower east side by being nice.

Case in point, earlier that day Frisk showed up at the A.M.D building and confessed to what they did, then they took themselves and two E.L.O.D agents (one of which was a personal friend of theirs) to recapture Betty, and she hadn't seen them since.

She fast forwarded through the recordings from the upper west side, nothing.

It all fit together, but it didn't make any sense at all, why would Lance do something like that.

The upper east side, nothing.

Despite living where he did, Lance was never a roguish character, he didn't always believe in the law but he never disobeyed it, he cared more about his three younger siblings than anything else.

Lower west side, nothing.

He had his own views of JUSTICE, as did a lot of people in the lower east side but he was different.

Lower east side, still offline so nothing

He wasn't kind of person to beat up someone who he thought did something wrong, but the kind of person you want to walk by your side in a dark alleyway,

Center square, of course, nothing.

But Daniel was the person you wanted to hold you when it was dark, or comfort you when you were upset, and to… what was she thinking this had nothing to do with the task at hand.

She angrily shut the computer and began to pace the room. She had tried everything, and she wasn't one step closer to finding Lance or Betty. She racked her brain again, why would he do this, was there anything he said or did that could give a clue as to what he wanted. Then it hit her. 'Do you still have that amulet Daniel gave you?' Lance's voice rang in her mind. The amulet? She took the silver chain off her neck to get a better view of the pendant that hung from it. It was silver, as was the chain, in the shape of a saber, attached to it was one-half of a blue gemstone with an odd yet strangely mystical symbol on it, Daniel's amulet, a rapier, had the other half.

'For as long as I live' her brain betrayed her, recalling the memory of him giving her this gift, '... I mean love, ah who cares they both work in this context' she remembered them embracing for a long sweet kiss that made her…

'What am I doing, stop it!' she screamed at her flashback. She sighed to herself, clearly, she didn't get enough sleep, but she couldn't sleep she had to search, it was so frustrating and it was all Lance's fault.

She palmed the pendant in her hand, "as soon as I clean up this mess you made, we're through." It didn't really mean anything, of course, she wouldn't cut ties to Daniel or any of his siblings, but she had to express her anger somehow, and she definitely didn't expect any kind of response. To her surprise when she got one.

'Dang it Jessica, you're an idiot' Lance's voice rang clearly in her head. She looked around in shock. Was Lance in her house? No, it was just her need or rest catching up to her, she concluded.

'Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.' She went to her bathroom to shower and change into her night clothes, feeling a definite breeze from the far end of the bedroom when she came out. She looked over and saw that the window was open. She shivered a bit as she walked over to shut it, why was it open anyway she could've sworn she… closed it.

Why was it open? she shut it before she went. did someone open it from the outside? were they in her house? she was definitely in the bathroom long enough for someone to crawl in.

No, this was nonsense, she was just being paranoid, she needed sleep

But what was that, did something move?

Well, it couldn't hurt to get her gun

She reached under her bed and opened the small box that held her anti-magic pistol, just in time to hear another shift in the dark. Her weapon was instantly leveled at each of the dark places in her room in turn.

"I know you're in here so just come out already" she was half ready to call this all a bad daydream and go to sleep, till she heard a voice from the shadows

"Well, I guess there's no reason to be uncivil"

She heard another swift movement, then before she could react she felt a sharp pain in her back, and she looked down in horror to see the tip of a dagger coming out of her chest,

"Don't worry." the voice said from right behind her, "this dagger is a black attack, it doesn't do any damage… going in. coming out, however, it takes all kinds of stuff with it. Blood, bones, SOULs, you know, stuff you like to have in your body. Now do exactly as I say, and you won't find me laughing over you're dying corpse"

"What do you want," she asked

The shadow man chuckled, "first I'd like you to drop that gun before you hurt yourself"

She hesitated, but then he gave the dagger in her a small tug, causing a sharp pain all the way into her heart. Reluctantly, she dropped her weapon

"Great, now kick it away"

She swatted the gun across the floor with her bare foot

"Now walk over to your laptop"

It felt horrible, obeying him like this, but what could she do. She was so set on fixing this herself that she locked herself into this lonely fortress, and now no one could help her. She walked over to her desk

"Now unlock it, and pull up the camera feed." the shadow man commanded

Jessica did as she was told, "you're wasting your time. I've been looking at this feed all day, and I haven't found anything"

"That's because you don't know what you're looking for" he turned the dagger's spell off and pulled it out of her back before throwing her onto the floor. Now realizing she was free Jessica scrambled to get her gun back, but the shadow man was quicker, "sleep" he commanded and with that, all the muscles in her body relaxed, almost lulling her into a trance. Now she couldn't even crawl, but at least she got a good look her attacker.

He was a man in a black coat with the hood down, letting his long unkempt hair flow down his face in an unruly manner, or at least the right side of it, she couldn't see the left side.

"Again with the resistance, maybe I am getting rusty. Well it doesn't matter now"

He sat at the desk, poring over everything the cameras had to offer at a pace twice as fast as Jessica's, then he smiled, "I found you, Amber." He looked to Jessica, "sorry I can't keep you around, I can really see what Beldanver saw in you, but my heart's always belonged to Poldirna, and I just don't have the time"

Jessica knew too well what he meant by this, she tried moving away, but his spell was too powerful, and within moments he was on top of her with dagger in hand

"So sorry"

She cried for help

And he jumped back, cause right where he was standing two seconds earlier there was a golden arrow hanging out of the wall,

"Well, well, if it ain't old burnt-face"

Jessica looked to the doorway of her room to see Lance standing there with a bright yellow bow and quiver of arrows,

"I was waiting to see your ugly mug again"

(AN: so so sorry about how late I am (and the two-parter) I've had a lot of stuff come up at the end of the school year, and I had to stop doing this to make it through it all. it's been a long year for me, and I'm glad it's over, but I can't say I'll be back to my normal update schedule just yet. you see, now that I'm at home I have to use my home's internet which sucks bull, to say the least. At it's best it's slow and crappy, and at it's worst it gives up and dies for no reason, but hopefully, I can get part two in by next week. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review if you want to say something say it, I'll listen, and hope to see you next week)