Justice put her gun in her pocket and looked at the other six souls. Without a word, she walked upstairs to the attic. Asriel saw this and quietly followed her. Justice pulled an old chair out from the corner and set it in front of a mirror. She sat and stared at her reflection. Her pale skin had a ghastly faded look. Her once beautiful sapphire eyes now glowed with a sluggish yellow tint. Her once neatly kept hair was now nothing but a mess of brown dreadlocks. Upon closer examination, she noticed her bangs had a rusty tint in them. She took off her hat and lifted her bangs. What she saw sent a chill through her. A small bullet hole-shaped scar was in the middle of her forehead. She soon came to realization that the rusty look in her bangs was actually dried blood. Her mind flashed back to that one horrible day. The day when Mettaton took her gun, pressed it against her forehead and fired… Asriel was watching the girl look at herself. He watched her reflection in the mirror, curiously. Suddenly, the girl's eyes caught a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror, and she turned around to face him.
"What do you wan…" She stopped mid-sentence and stared at Asriel. Her mind going astray. "H-Hi…" She managed to say.
"Howdy," Asriel replied. "U-Um… I-I'm Asriel. Nice to meet you."
"Y-You too…" Justice stuttered, still staring at him.
"Are you alright?" Asriel asked, noticing her gaze. Justice suddenly shook her head, snapping out of her trance.
"O-Oh, yeah. I-I'm fine," She said.
"That's good," Asriel said.
"Asriel, sweetheart, could you come here please?" Toriel called from downstairs.
"Oh, coming Mom!" Asriel shouted, before running off. Justice watched him as he went, a strange feeling washing over her. She felt nervous, only this feeling was mixed with some sort of longing. She knew exactly what this feeling was. This was unmistakably love. She sighed and went back to looking at herself. Soon a high pitched squeal came from behind her. She turned around to see Alphys looking back at her.
"Oh, hello there," Justice said, looking at the tiny lizard. "Who are you?" Alphys just giggled and crawled to Justice, reaching up to her. Justice smiled. "You want up?" She asked, picking Alphys up. She had no idea that the baby she was holding was Alphys, never the less, the tiny lizard was adorable.
"Oh, there she is. I was looking for her," A voice said from the attic door. Justice turned around to see Mettaton.
"Oh. It's you," she said, taking a step back. "I-I assume s-she's yours? I didn't know you and the doctor had a child."
"What? No," Mettaton said, realizing the confusion. "First of all, I'm a ghost. And second of all, this is the doctor," he said, taking Alphys from Justice.
"How did that happen?" Justice asked.
"It's a long story, darling," Mettaton replied.
"Anyways…" Justice said, looking down. "I was about to come find you. I wanted to talk to you."
"Oh? About what?" Mettaton asked.
"I w-wanted to ask you why you did what you did." Justice said, looking at him.
"I don't understand what you're talking about," Mettaton said, confused.
"Why did you kill me?" Justice asked. Mettaton was a bit taken back. How was a five year old child able to ask this question so openly without fear?
"D-Darling I…" He began. "I apologize for what I did. I wasn't thinking straight. I just"-
"No!" Justice shouted, cutting him off. "You were just thinking about yourself! You never stopped to think about what you might have done to me! To my family! My mom, dad, and my baby brother who I loved! You tore them away from me!"
"Darling j-just listen," Mettaton said, trying to calm her down.
"No you listen!" She shouted. Meanwhile, Alphys was hugging Mettaton, whimpering.
"Justice please calm down," Mettaton said, trying to comfort Alphys.
"Calm down? Calm down!? You f*cking kill me and you expect me to calm down!?" Justice shouted, furious. Alphys started crying, hugging Mettaton.
"O-Oh, Alphy darling it's alright," Mettaton said, rocking her. Justice looked at the scientist and sighed. It was a small shock to see that the person who killed her actually had a soft side.
"Never expected to see you caring for children," she said, calmly.
"I don't usually, but after Alphys and the others became children, I was the only one she thought to call," Mettaton said, hugging Alphys.
"I-I'm sorry I g-got so upset… I j-just miss my family…" Justice said, looking down.
"It's fine darling," Mettaton said.
"You know, I actually wanted to meet you. The night before I fell into the Underground, I was kind of in a bad place. When I heard about you, you helped me forget about everything that happened. I gained a lot of my self-confidence back because of you. So I wanted to meet you…" Justice said, remembering when she fell into the underground. Mettaton sighed, thinking back to what he'd done. He didn't realize how much he meant to this girl.
"I-I…I-I'm sorry…" he said.
"Sorry doesn't cut it…" Justice said with a sigh. "But it's a start I guess…" Mettaton went back downstairs, and Justice continued to look at herself in the mirror, thinking. Asriel… what was it about him? She sighed and put her face in her hands, completely lost. First her parents, and now her mind was being tortured by a boy she just met. He was cute, no doubt about that, but there was just something about him. He seemed familiar in a way. Like she'd met him once before. She couldn't quite remember.