Chapter 11: Can they work together?

(Lucas P.O.V, Present)

Just telling it all over again…experiencing it, and knowing all the pain that had happened on that day, was enough to make tears form up in my eyes again. The mistake I made that day, on not going after her when I got the message from my parents, it made me blame myself for it all. If I just were there earlier that day, I could have protected her better, not letting her get harmed any way. But now it was too late to change anything. What had happened has been, and not much I could do about it. And now that I have told her, sans, Papyrus and Chara it, it made me understand that the promise I had made to myself was broken already. I looked at the others and was a bit shocked on what I saw. Papyrus was crying his eyes out, Lucy had buried her head on my sweater, clenching her arms around me and I could see the jacket that she was using since she was cold was actually a bit big to her. But sans' expression actually surprised me. His eyes or eye sockets was completely empty, the light that was normally in them completely gone. But what shocked me the most was how quiet he had been now. It had been already a couple of minutes since I finished telling them the story, but they were just so quiet. I sighed and kept holding around Lucy, rubbing her back. There was still someone missing, the one who had been the quietest of them all. I closed my eyes and breathed out. So there you have it Chara…that's what I wanted to hide. I opened my eyes again and saw that Chara's ghost was sitting down beside me and she had sadness in her eyes. That's something I didn't expect from someone like her. Or well, when I thought back at it, after the dream she made me have, and with the responses I gave her, she had started to be a bit friendlier towards me. Are…you crying Chara? She quickly looked up at me with a shocked expression before suddenly disappearing from sight, most likely back in my head.

"What?! NO! I wasn't c-crying! Just got something in my eye! Why do you care?!" She practically shouted in my head, making me smile a bit. Seemed that I was right, she was starting to care a bit. I smiled and looked down at Lucy, just holding around her. You say that, but you are technically a ghost. You can't get things in your eyes, hehe. I could just hear her mumbling inside my head.

"J-just shut up Lucas. F-focus on getting out of here now, that was your goal right? Then get to it…idiot." She said and then it suddenly quiet up there, meaning she really didn't want to talk, but I couldn't let her be that easy. Yeah I would, but hearing how you are, makes me smile. You can be so weird at times Chara, it's silly and sweet. I sighed and moved my hands away from Lucy and looked at her. She was looking up at me, her eyes were fully red from the tears she had let out. I smiled at her and kissed her cheek, a small giggle escaping her lips.

"It's fine sis, you were bound to find out some time, might as well be now" I said as I slowly sat up, placing her on my lap. She looked up at me, and gave me a small nod and laughed as she leaned her body closer to mine. I smiled and put my arms around her again, just feeling that she was safe, made it so much better.

"I KNOW HOW WE CAN CELEBRATE THE TRUTH! LET'S GO EAT SOME SPAGHETTI!" Papyrus said as he stood up and just picked up Sans from the ground. I was about to say something about it, but just looking at them, I couldn't do anything then smile. As soon as Sans got picked up, he had already fallen asleep.

"He sure is a lazybones, isn't he Pap?" I asked him and i could just see that happiness in papyrus eyes. Mostly because he called him that all the time, so hearing someone else calling him that seem to cheer him up.

"YOU HAVE NO IDEA HUMAN! COME ON LITTLE HUMAN! LET'S SHOW YOUR BROTHER WHAT WE HAVE MADE! NYEH HEH HEH!" Papyrus said as he tightens his grip around Sans and ran away from us, most likely back to their house. I could hear two giggles around me, which made me smile. One of them I recognized right away as Lucy's giggle, because she was smiling and close to me, which made it easier for me to hear her. But the other giggle also sounded like a girl, but it was more echo, more all over the place. I smiled, knowing perfectly well who it was. I just ignored it, thinking that she had been teased enough for now. She was being nicer than I thought, mostly because she did want me to do genocide when we met, but not she was laughing, resting and giggling more than before. Lucy nodded and look at me, her eyes staring at me.

"Come on big bro! This will be good!" She said as she took my hand and started to drag me towards the house. I smiled and followed after her. Seems like she and Papyrus had fun with making some food. Though from what I remember, his spaghetti wasn't the best of them all, so now that she helped him, will surely be interesting. She normally cooked the food back home, so I'm sure this will be some really great food. I kept on smiling and looking around Snowdin as we walked back to Papyrus and Sans' house, and I couldn't stop but notice that none of the other monsters was outside, and none of the houses even had lights in them. This was scaring me a bit, since it was normally liked this in the genocide run, and it started to make sense. Because of the LV that I have gotten, and that we had influenced the world into a genocide world, that some parts of the underground would be affected by it. So that would explain more about this whole thing. I looked back at the path and saw that Papyrus and Sans already was at the house and walked inside, keeping the door open. I smiled and let go of Lucy's hand.

"Race you to the house!" I said as I started to sprint towards the house, hearing her running up right beside me. I could hear her laughter behind me and saw that she was catching up to me. She always was the faster runner of us two. Even though I was older than her, she always was a fast runner. And just in a short time she had caught up to me and passed me, getting to the door of the house before I even got the chance to try and get past her. I laughed and got the door, seeing her smiling and laughing.

"Hehe, I'm still winning the race big bro!" She said as she opened the door and walked inside the house. I smiled and walked inside, seeing Sans and Papyrus already sitting by the table eating the spaghetti. And as I looked at Sans, I could see that he was actually liking the spaghetti. Well, what do you know, seems they got some good spaghetti, hehe. I thought to myself as I sat down in front of Sans, Lucy taking the seat beside me, which was facing towards Papyrus. She quickly grabbed the fork that was beside the plate and started to eat the spaghetti.

"YUMMY! It's so delicious! Come on big bro, you have to taste it" She said as her smiled grew and went back to eating. I laughed of her reaction and grabbed my fork as well and slowly started to eat the spaghetti. The taste was really good, and it didn't hurt to eat it or anything either, which I was really happy for. I remembered the frozen spaghetti in the Forest, didn't look really tasty and it was completely stuck, so that was in improvement.

"It is really good, great job you two" I said to her, then turned towards Papyrus. "You are a great chef Papy" He smiled with a huge grin and stood up, doing his pose again.

"OF COURSE HUMAN! ONLY THE BEST FOR MY…FRIENDS?!" He said, with a small voice of doubt. Lucy looked towards her and nodded her head, making him smile even more. How…does he even do that? I shrugged and kept eating the spaghetti. Sans was chuckling lightly before turning towards me, and I saw that he had his eyes closed, which made me worry a bit.

"Now that we have eaten, I have one question to you two" He said to us as he slowly stood up and placed his hands down on the table. "What do you plan to do? The underground isn't a place for two kids." Papyrus' smile stared to dim and he looked at his brother with a neutral look, then turned towards us. "YEAH HUMANS…WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?" Lucy quickly widened her eyes and looked at me, with curiosity and worry in her eyes. And that was fully understandable, since we haven't really thought of really what we planned to do. We did want to free them all and destroy the barrier that kept them captive, but other than that, I hadn't really planned anything. Lucy tilted her head, before suddenly smiling brightly and turning towards the brothers again.

"We want to be friends with everyone! And let everyone see the surface!" She said with a big smile and quickly grabbed my hand. "W-we want you all to be s-safe" A small tear slowly crept down her cheek and she got up from her seat and sat down on my lap, leaning close against my chest. I laughed quietly and puts my arms around her, holding her close. She always was someone to suddenly cry when she felt nervous, shy or just sad in general.

"So what? You want to walk around the entire underground, just for our sake?" Sans asked us as he stood up and walked up to where we sat, stopping right beside me. "You know the others are after your so- "He stopped midsentence and glared at me, then at Lucy and snapped his fingers. I quickly looked down at her, and saw a small pink heart flow up from her body. So…that's her soul…w-wait! "What's the matter Lucas? Afraid of him seeing your soul? It's going to be fine" No it won't…I had a split soul remember…it's nothing that's known around here! I looked up from her and above me, and there it was. My purple and aqua colored soul was floating besides hers. And I knew that this was going to be trouble.

"But before anything else…you have some explaining to do, and I will tell you about these" He said as he moved his hands around our souls, inspecting them. "Because this, will surely affect your plan, more than you think."

So again, sorry for not updating in ages! So so sorry! Anyway, when it comes to the thing i said before, that i will publish once a week, i don't think i will be able to do that, with both school and work keeping me busy. I will update when i get a new chapter ready, and try to keep a alright pace at it. Again, sorry for updating, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! See you guys next time!

Dark Chara out!