[This chapter's title is "Sometimes Social Services Actually Do Their Job" but it goes over the character limit fixes for titles.
Short one again, but this is just an appetiser before we get into the next chapters ;)]
Sometimes Social Services Actually Do Their Job"]"We c-can't just go and rescue her", Alphys explained again, "they would-"
"Yes, I know!" Undyne interrupted her. "Kidnapping, more tensions between species, all that crap. You already said that! What I'm saying is if they gave up on trying to take Frisk away, there's a chance for Valari, right?"
"It's n-not the same, her p-parents are actually, hum, there. They let Toriel and Asgore keep Frisk be-because they couldn't find their human parents! And, hum, I think she m-might have paid them? Maybe? We f-fixed a lot of problems with gold before it got d-devalued and…"
Alphys' text notification went off as she was talking.
"You should probably check that", her girlfriend told her.
The text was from her distant cousin working at the human hospital and it read :
"Girl recovering fast thanks to magic and human medicine
Social services decided parents unfit to keep her
She'll be sent to a shelter while they find her new ones"
"So her parents aren't a problem anymore!" the fish lady exclaimed after her partner had read the message aloud to her. "Let's go!"
She immediately ran to the door and violently opened it, then froze.
"Hum, where's that shelter?" she asked.
"I have n-no idea", the lizard woman replied. "B-but m-maybe wait until she's actually there?"
"Oh, right."
Undyne closed the door slowly.
"Plus she's already b-been rescued, right? I-I don't think she n-needs us anymore…"
The fish monster hoped her girlfriend was right.
They both sat on the couch in silence for a minute. That Valari business was over, right? But for some reason, it didn't quite feel like it.