Chapter 7 | Lying To Make Peace
Frisk was playing on the stairs with some old toys that Sans found for them to play with. Chara was in the kitchen making lunch and Sans was at his station. It had been two weeks since Frisk and Chara had fallen. They practically moved in with Sans at this point.
"You know Chara," Frisk said "It was really nice of Sans to let us stay here. Since it's dangerous outside."
Chara, muffled by the kitchen wall, replied "Yeah it was. He really cares about our safety you know. And also cares about us." Chara continued to make lunch.
Chara really liked cooking. Frisk knew that since they made pancakes sometimes. And everyday, Chara was usually in the kitchen. Frisk never knew why. They just assumed they liked it there.
They continued to play with their toys until they heard a sound coming from the window across from stairs, next to the couch. They looked at it but all there was, was snow. They ignored it until they heard it again. This time when they looked, they saw very quickly something yellow. They wanted to investigate. They got up and looked out the window. They didn't see anything. But they still wanted to know what the yellow, they think they saw, was.
The very quietly, without Chara seeing, snook out the front door. They looked around and saw something yellow again, very briefly, this time near the library. The followed it and it lead them around the corner. They came to a river. They looked around but didn't see anything. They were going to take a closer look but they tripped on a vine and fell in.
Chara was making sandwiches for Frisk and themselves for lunch. Suddenly, they felt a cold chill. The turned around and saw the door was wide open. But what surprised them even more was the golden weed in the doorway. He had that big sinister grin. Chara stopped what they were doing and walked over to him.
"What do you want?" Chara asked angrily
"I came to show you what will happen if you tell someone about me, or what I said,"
"But I never said anything!" Chara rebutted
"Oh...but that's where you're wrong Chara. What about last night?"
Chara stopped to think about what happened.
Read the short to know what Chara's flashback is ;D
Chara looked at the flower.
"How did you know about that?"
"I have my ways!" the flower looked happy. Like they knew something Chara didn't.
"Wait...where is Frisk?" Chara said looking at the stairs which were empty.
Chara looked back the flower whose grin was wider. "Where. Is. Frisk!"
"Hehehe! They're, taking a dip…" the flower popped back underground.
Chara looked confused. Then suddenly. It hit them The river! Chara ran outside and around the corner to where the river was. They didn't see Frisk. Oh no! No no no! Chara ran back around to the other side of Sans's house to see Frisk floating down on a piece of small ice.
"FRISK!" Chara called out
"Chara! Help!"
Chara, without thinking, jumped into the freezing cold river and swam out to Frisk.
"Frisk, give me your hand!"
Frisk stretched out their hand. It wasn't long enough.
"I can't!" Frisk looked very upset. They were crying.
"Hold on! I'll get closer! Chara swam closer.
It was hard to get there. The water was surprisingly rapid. Chara did get to Frisk's ice.
"Take my hand! Chara stretched their hand out again.
This time Frisk was able to grab ahold. Chara pulled Frisk close to them and began to swim back.
Chara got Frisk a towel to dry them off. Frisk was freezing cold and soaking wet. They sat them down on the couch after they were mostly dry and gave them a blanket to replace the wet towel. Chara made some hot chocolate and gave it to Frisk. That whole time, not one of them said anything to each other. Chara sat down next to Frisk.
"Frisk? Are you okay?" Chara asked not sounding mad or upset, but kind.
"Y-yeah." Frisk replied. Being cold was affecting their speech a little.
Frisk still had some tears in their eyes. Chara guessed that they were expecting them to be angry at them.
Chara put their arm around Frisk to comfort them.
"Frisk...I'm not angry."
Frisk looked up in surprise. Chara smiled lightly and gently.
"Y-you're n-not?"
"No. I'm a little upset maybe, but not angry."
There was silence. Frisk drank some of their hot chocolate. Frisk calmed down but they were still shivering. Chara put their hand on Frisk's forehead. It was warm.
"Frisk, you have a fever."
"R-really?"
"Yeah. I'm taking you to bed." Chara picked Frisk up.
"I'm n-not tired!"
"No, but you need some rest." Chara brought frisk up to their room.
Since they got here, there were a few changes. Both Frisk and Chara had their own beds. They found some in the dump and fixed them up. They also moved the boxes and de-webbed the place. It looked nice. The beds were against two separate walls. Chara's bed was on the left wall, and Frisk's was on the right. Both bed had blue cover and a chest beside them.
Chara laid Frisk down on their bed and pulled the cover over them. They gave Frisk one of their new stuffed toys and left them to rest. They went back downstairs and sat on the couch. What the hell am I going to tell Sans? They gave a big sigh and wondered what time it was. Luckily there was a clock nearby on the wall. Chara looked at and saw that it was a quarter past three. Sans is getting off work soon. The afternoon was a disaster. They sat there and thought of all the things that went wrong. Then the door opened and Sans came in.
"Hey Chara." He said taking off his jacket and scarf.
"Chara? Are you okay?" he asked
"Hm? Oh yeah."
"Chara?" he asked again
"Y-yeah?"
"Are you sure you're okay? Is something wrong?"
"Oh um..yeah it's' nothing's wrong." They lied.
Chara had a habit of that now. They would lie all the time. They hated it. But sometimes it was necessary. Like the night before.
"Well okay...where's Frisk?"
Chara forgot about that Frisk fell into the river. What were the going to say? Would they lie again. No. they couldn't. He deserved to know.
"They uh...oh boy. How do I explain this?" Chara looked nervous.
"Chara...what happened?" Sans said in a serious voice.
Chara had never heard this side of their friend. He sounded a concerned as he should be.
"Well?" he asked again.
"They...fell into the river and now they have a fever." Chara looked away from Sans. He had a angry look on his face. He wasn't impressed.
"You went outside?"
"Yes?" Chara was really nervous now.
Was he going to punish them?
"And so where IS Frisk?"
"Upstairs taking a nap."
Sans was still not happy. They had both gone outside when he told them not to. That was one of the rules if they wanted to stay with him. It was also the most important. Chara watched as he come out of their room and back down the stairs. Chara felt horrible. They never wanted to disobey him but they had too. Frisk was in trouble. Sans by Chara and looked at them with a sincere face. Chara was a little confused. Why wasn't he angry?
"Why did you break the rules?" he asked very nicely and not angrily.
"I needed to save Frisk from drowning in the river." Chara said. That wasn't a lie.
"Okay. But why was Frisk in the river?"
"Um…" Chara was at a loss for words.
They didn't know what to say. They couldn't tell Sans that Frisk followed a demonic flower because then they would have to say everything else. How could they lie out of this?
"They" Chara sighed "It's my fault. I told them to go out. They were bugging me so I told them to go play outside and I guess they went to the river and fell in." They lied so much.
But it was for the best. At least, that's what they told themselves.
"I see."
"I made a mistake. I'm sorry. When I realized what I said, I went out to get them back in and-"
"I understand, Chara."
He got up. He looked upset. But not in the crying way. He was upset that Chara wasn't more responsible. Even though it was a lie, he believed it. The truth was, Chara wasn't reasonable. They didn't notice that Frisk snuck out in the first place. They were distracted with making lunch. Sans should punish me. I am so stupid!
"I'm disappointed Chara."
"I know."
"I should punish you. Both of you." Sans looked back at Chara. They had their head down.
"I know…" Chara said almost so that Sans couldn't hear.
"But I won't. Frisk has cold and that wouldn't be fair to them" Sans paused before continuing "you however, will be."
Oh great. Yep. knew it. Chara thought. They knew they weren't going to get away with what Saans think they did.
"You, will do everything Frisk asks. Since they will be in bed for a few days, you will get whatever they need, whenever they need it. Agreed?"
"Yes."
Chara was in trouble and they had no one to blame but themselves. It was all their fault.
