overgrowth part three they sneeze for the umpteenth time as they wade through

the water the waterfall is gushing strong and frisk is soaked up to their hips if it weren't for sands holding

them steady they would have been taken by the current the falling rocks aren't helping either neither is the fact that

they've been taken from a blizzard to somewhere with no snow in sight and then dipped in waist-deep water another

sneeze flowey looks at them worriedly sands probably hasn't gotten a cold in his

entire existence the perks of having no nose probably so he just looks confused

and leads frisk until they're at the other side once they're on dry land frisk sits to rest their tired legs and

gives another sneeze you okay flowey asks frisk shakes their head no

they say might be sick the shiver involuntarily a bit cold -

it's a few minutes before frisk gets up and they continue walking and when they do the human is staggering and shaking

like a leaf in a hurricane their vision is blurry and their insides feel too hot although they're freezing there's a

rustle of cloth and then there's a weight on their shoulders here sans voice says frisk turns their head

towards him he's not looking at them he's pointedly not looking at them frisk

puts their arms through the sleeves and brings his jacket closer thank you they yawn and miss the smile that graces

sans face however briefly most of the monsters they encounter around

waterfalls sniff the air and stare at the human for a few seconds before they scurry off once they register sans

presence the skeleton himself says nothing and walks on frisks numb hand

clasped in his and occasionally stopping to let the kid catch their breath they've been breathing heavily for a

while now flowey shifts in his boot pod and keeps on muttering things to frisk and the human nods but sans can barely

make out any of the words in the middle of their unintelligible babble wait flowey says at one point sans stops and

it's all the human beside him can do to not fall on their face sans catches them with his free hand you okay

honey he asks brushing hair out of their good eye it's almost being devoured by

flowers now they're heating up flowey says at the same time frisk nods

and then slowly sinks to the ground to sit sans waits for the flower to explain

sick the creature says on cue frisk sneezes sniffs and rubs their nose sorry

they say flowers expression falls it's not your fault frisk

he says the human continues sitting on the ground covered with bioluminescent grass San scans their surroundings for a

minute before taking a seat beside them and leaning back wait supported by his arms let's stay

here for a while yeah he offers flowey gives him a thankful look frisk nods

again it's risky trying to stay in one place like this papyrus might be right

behind them or Undine or maybe for once his brother has decided to trust him and

that he'll bring the human to the king papyrus might insult sans all he wants

but traitor has never been on that list this counts as treachery he knows but

the monsters do not deserve to destroy this soul for their freedom all else yes

but not this one this one is confusing and bright and red and determined but

it's also warm and kind and polite and forgiving sans barely knows kindness

barely knows politeness barely knows forgiveness all mistakes are punishable

by lashing here lashing and being kicked around sometimes offenders even get

dusted for their trouble frisk doesn't dust no matter how many times he's killed them or LED them to their death

he'd been furious when he noticed that whenever the kid died time wound itself back to make sure that they never

perished he's had his fair share of time shenanigans and had given up hope several rewinds ago so finding the

object of his frustration well he wasted no time in killing them then and there wrapping them in his red magic and

watching them as they screamed but then time jumped back again and the kid acted like it never

happened he thought of the possibility that the kid never remembered but the mustard sharing gave it away but they

always tried to be good to him one determined human with a weapon versus

one monster with one measly health point already had a clear Victor but frisk never fought besides it didn't look like

the kid was doing the rewinds on purpose they died and then time jumped if anything the flowers on the kid had gone

more numerous in the human looked even more tired frisk tips to the side and

their head lands on his shoulder he jolts in surprise and the kid pulls back blinking sleepiness out of their I

mumbling an apology he pauses then shrugs it's okay sweetheart

we'll be here awhile what are they he is resorted to carrying the human on

his back poor kids still wrapped in his jacket and flowey loops his vines around one of their hands so he's conveniently

perched on sands shoulder all he's done is look around for potential danger while Sanz focuses on getting them out

of there frisk is pointing to one of the tall glowing blue flowers Sanz doesn't

stop but he answers echo flowers hmm they repeat the last thing they hear he

says frisking Cline's their head towards it but they don't appear to hear anything good kid's temperature has been

on a steady rise though they make it through the last of the echo flower fields after half an hour and find a

cave so far there's been no sign of Undine and Sanz isn't about to look a

gift horse in the mouth so he continues on flowey holding his head hide watch for any danger they passed by a small

corridor and frisk mumbles at them to stop he does so when the kid weakly tries to straighten and squints at one

of the signs they make a frustrated noise a haunting song echoes down the

corridor he reads instead won't you play along there's nothing frisked slurs and

drops their head back down on sands other shoulder he continues walking a little ways off

there is a statue being pelted by drops of water from the cave ceiling he doesn't know where the water's coming

from but maybe this part of the underground was directly under a lake or something just as they near the exit

there's a small bin with umbrellas he picks one up since he can hear water up ahead and the downpour might be stronger

there frisk says wait and then picks one up to we're only gonna need one honey

he says they shake their head go back they say what he watches an amusement as

frisk opens up the red umbrella and stretches their arm out as far as they can to place it by the statue he's about

to laugh when a music box starts playing frisk gives out a little squeal into the

fabric of his sweater pretty they say so that's what the sign meant they stand

there for a while until frisk falls asleep sand stares at the music box before they move on

frisk doesn't wake up when they wake up

it's nothing but darkness frisk tries to blink they feel their eyelids move but

it's still total darkness maybe they're stuck in wherever they go before they reload like a limbo of sorts something

hard clasps their hands sweetheart you there sands they were awake after all so

why they reach up and try to pull off whatever might be covering their eyes but once they snag the offending objects

and pull hot pain shoots through their head and they pitch forward with a Yelp something catches them must be sands

steady there he says steady they shouldn't pull the flowers that was flowers voice it hurts

them so that's not just a human thing Sanz asks one hand pulls away and frisk

imagines he's gesturing I thought it was a human thing no it's not flowey says

it's it's complicated let's just one flower grows every time I die

frisk croaks there's silent Sanz is one hand on their num1 Titans by

a fraction or maybe enough to snap their wrists but frisk can't feel much with that limb so it's inconsequential frisk

flowey stone is reprimanding he doesn't understand just leave it they shake

their head no he does he remembers they do their best to turn to where they

think Sands is you remember don't you there's no answer I know you do

they say your actions are always different every time I reload sometimes

sometimes you think about things sometimes you look conflicted you

remember that I like ketchup sands still doesn't answer why we pleads one last

time frisk when sands asks his voice

sounds deeper and more subdued than usual since when did you know since you

laughed it when I thanked you the second time they say the first time you were shocked the second you were just amused

I I started thinking about the possibility are you doing the reloads on

purpose frisk shakes their head I've wanted to die more times than I can remember and I

can't seem to there's another pregnant pause before sands grunts he starts

tugging at their hand after a few seconds and frisk starts walking flowey they ask right here frisk ah

somewhere above them he must be on sands shoulder again where are we waterfall

san says near the echo flowers then he stops and so does frisk blind without a

guide a moment later something warm and thick is wrapped around frisks shoulders their mouth falls in a little oh when

they realize it's sans jacket sans takes their hand again come on sweetheart

we're wasting glow light occasionally frisk tilts their head to the side and

strains their ears to listen to the echo flowers whispers most of the people who wish to round here either dead or have

gone far far away or have joined the Royal Guard in a quest for prestige popularity and

freedom sans knows he chances a glance back to see the human's mouth curled in

what appears to be discomfort he slows down so that they can move closer before they continue walking

flowey shifts on his shoulder I don't remember the whispers being so noticeable last time we were preoccupied

san says what is this place people used to hang out here to rest he keeps his

voice low for the humans benefit others like to wish others like to promise

seven Souls one flower whispers said that souls and he has become a god

another flower whispers back the flowers promised death to every human that falls

into the underground whisper freedom for every monster trapped and planned the

destruction of the human race once monster kind has been set free frisk has one hand holding onto the back of sands

sweater don't listen to them he says their death wishes once they get to the

corridor with the statue Sanz does the same thing they did before in places an umbrella over the statue frisked smiles

flowey looks at the statue wistfully for some reason that sands ignores the

flower is weird enough as it is helping a human at the risk of execution but he hasn't done any harm yet so it's all

good he lets frisk piggyback again and they hold the umbrella so that all three of them can travel easily they walk past

the looming view of the castle the kid had been impressed with guerrilla bees and waterfall when they first saw them

so Sanz thinks they would be impressed if they could see the castle - you can see the castle from here flowey beats

him - telling the human that he continues walking as frisk straightens and attention it's huge

flowey says and nice human giggles Sanz

finds himself cracking a grin he returns the umbrella to the next bin they find and flowey lifts them all up with his

vines the tiny thing is surprisingly strong when he wants to be sands turns

to the flower at his shoulder and finds him panting okay maybe not but lifting a human in a

skeleton although he was admittedly light was an impressive feat for such a tiny flower frisk walks again this time

hands still clasped in sands and it's in this condition that they run into Undine

she looks at their joint hands and frowns sands straightens I'm taking the

human to the king and the flower she nods towards the monster perched on his

shoulder who lures his head on cue little tag-along undying snorts we all

know you're just after your brother's position she says and goddamn he wishes

they would all just stop thinking that if he wasn't lazy he was a usurper and if he wasn't at usurper then he was a

traitor the rules of the underground kill or be killed trust no one it was easier when people

weren't kind to you and you felt like you owed them the captain of the Royal Guard brandishes her spear and

points it towards them I'm doing this so that we can be free he says hold on

frisk getting tighter the human whimpers weakly behind him that may be so undyne

says but whoever brings the human to the king gets to be his right-hand warrior and I'm not giving that up to you

competition in the underground - you think everyone would learn to work together and solve their problems but it

was still every monster to themselves he takes a step back and summons his blasters well I can't let you do that

either frisk grabs his sleeve he doesn't turn to them don't hurt her

frisk pleads sands momentarily stills at the stupidity of the request they were

about to all be killed by the captain of the Royal Guard and out of all things friskin asked it's for said captain's

safety sometimes he wonders if kindness is another word for stupidity please frisk whispers don't hurt her

frisk flowey turns to them at least the flowers reasonable we know frisk Hutson

ferm Undine takes advantage of the distraction in attacks sans let's frisk

go to raise his hand up and stops the captain in mid run and then pushes his hand forward

slamming Undine back into the wall ahead of them no frisk yells they wave their

arms around and managed to catch sans outstretched arm don't hurt her sans tears are streaming

past the flowers that are covering their eyes now please sans frowns but he

doesn't lower his arm as he stares at frisk as they lower their head and cry into its sleeve flowey grabs both of

them by his vines Khan he hisses let's get out of here if you don't want to hurt her frisk snaps their head up at

that and starts pulling it's sans sleeve running blindly flowey makes sure to pull them back before they trip and

that's when sans makes his blasters dispersed and helps frisk remain steady as they run past undyne who's reeling for the impact of

the last blow it probably wasn't enough to kill her but enough to incapacitate her for a while they run frisk doesn't

explain why they don't want undying to be hurt sans doesn't ask any more after the first few attempts only ending up with

them crying flowey is asleep tucked in one of the kids arms exhausted from using too much

magic frisks head is lolling a little even sans is a little drowsy from not

having a chance to rest since the last reload and then nearly fighting Undine so they sit by the patch of land just

near the wooden bridge that will take them to the other side of waterfall Undine hasn't followed sans probably

through her harder than he thought and she was dead or was biding her time or was looking for them in all the wrong

places but they need to rest now because if she was alive then she would find

them later frisk sits beside him and puts their head on his shoulder and this time he

doesn't mind he closes his eyes just resting but not sleeping we shouldn't hurt people frisk mumbles

once sans thinks they're asleep he cracks an eye to look down at them they

chew their lower lip before continuing all we kind a pause sometimes kindness is all

we can give sometimes kindness is enough sands falls asleep with those words

repeating in his head undyne does find them later and sands halls frisk onto

his back flowey grabs onto him and wraps his vines around frisk in his arms so that they're all together and secured as

sands runs he could fight he should fight but the kid doesn't want that and

he did promise to try not to solve everything that's thrown his way by violence or a beam from a blaster always

be kind sometimes kindness is all we can give sometimes kindness is enough always

be kind don't hurt her frisk mumbles into his sweater again I

know he dodges the spears Undine summons to form in their path one of the things

narrowly hits his jacket which the kid is currently wearing but thankfully it's only the jacket not the kid themselves

when they reach a dead end sans digs his heels into the wood skidding to a stop just before they're

pushed over the edge he turns back and only goes a step because Undine is just

a few feet away from him she drags her skewer across the bridge and he can imagine her grinning smugly beneath her

helmet as part of the bridge falls away and then there's darkness and a splash of water sin sans wake up please please

I can't I can't he wakes up to someone screaming his name from above him

there's a light that's being obscured by something and when his vision clears the humans face is above him the top half is

obscured by flowers but its frisk light above them acting like a halo behind their head and they're soaking wet and

maybe crying but he can't tell flowey is on his chest and he sighs in

relief - when sans wakes up he's awake the flower declares frisk exhales and

then leans back sobs and then lets out a watery laugh thank God sans tries to sit

up ends up wincing and then lies back down again undines not coming after them for

a while frisk feels around his chest to get flowey off of him and onto the bed of

flowers yeah bed of flowers they've landed on the

things were thick enough to break their fall their gold too like the ones on frisk he thinks maybe if the kid laid

down they'd blend right in mind if we stay here for a little while honey

he coughs weakly I'm a little bone tired right now pris giggles and then snort

son elegantly Sanz smiles anyway papyrus barely laughs at his jokes yeah we're

not going anywhere frisk says I can't see without you anyway he falls silent at that half of

the flowers that have taken over the human or his fault from his own act of killing them too betraying them by

ratting them out to his brother and to neglecting their health they haven't taken off that jacket since he gave it

to them though you're not sick from the water again are you kiddo frisk shakes

their head he makes a contented noise and closes his eyes exhaling thank you

frisk says he opens his eyes again to look at them smiling down at him for

what for sparing her they say sands only curls his mouth in that curious

confusion again frisk reaches a hand up and slowly and carefully tries to place

it on his cheekbone the skeleton stiffens as they drag their fingers down his cheekbone and near his mouth they

laughs weakly I wish I could see your face you feel funny right now Sanz looks

at where their right eye once was I was an eyesore anyway sweetheart he says the human appears to disagree as

they shake their head again there is a dummy that blocks their path once they start moving again it keeps on muttering

things under its breath and sanz's have tempted to cut it down then and there since its grading on his nerves

but frisk is holding him back so he doesn't they try to get past it but it snaps and starts fighting them

sans tries to dodge as best he can but the water is hindering his movements and he still got frisked and flowey to worry

about one shot nearly hits him but frisk pushes him aside and takes the hit he's

the one that wakes up staring up at frisk again although the humans not yelling this time their mouth is

slightly parted in shock and when they make a sound it's laughing as they lean back sans sits up this time he asks what

they're laughing about but frisk just laughs harder before they sag against him he checks their face for

any new flowers and finds none so he moves on to their arms and hands there's a new bloom on their right wrist let's

not do that again honey he says frisk nods yeah they let out

another laugh again that's not undyne finds them again and

frisk tells sans one firm no when he turns to them to plead silently for permission they didn't even need eyes to

see what he was trying to say they just held on to his sweater tighter so he dodges making sure frisk is behind him

and flowey is in one of their arms the flower tries to block shots as best he can taking in damage for sans and he's

thankful for that undines not letting them get past her that easily her magic rooting them in the same spot so he can't teleport them

out of here but frisk refuses to fight one mistimed block hits sans it takes

him out one health point doing nothing to withstand the damage and frisk gasps as they feel him falling away a second

later he blacks out another minute then they're back in the corridor with one echo flower standing there

sans frisk asks one hand raised to touch his face he cautiously takes it and

places it on his cheekbone yeah I'm right here sweetheart good they breathe good he looks down at their

right wrist and finds a new flower right next to the other one it's hard to face undyne with so many people with you and

with her magic restraining all of them in place time jumps back and back and

back until frisks right Hey and is no more and the flowers crawl up their arm until finally finally flowey

manages to deflect one more attack and Undine looks tired out sans uses their

momentary reprieve to grab frisk and run once there a good few feet away from Undine who's yelling threats behind them

he teleports a short distance and then another and then another short burst

enough to get them away but without exhausting him once their feet touch hot solid ground he stops frisk pushes him

away and he staggers a little shocked before the human turns away and then wretches he winces he forgets how

teleporting can be disorienting to those not used to it don't frisk shudders and draws in a

shaky breath they're sick in their hair and they wipe their mouths with their sleeve don't do that again can't promise

that sweetheart he says come on let's get you cleaned up first can't feel either of their hands

anymore it's sans who cleans and patches them up and then takes care of flowey too they're glad that he and the flower

getting along well not exactly getting along but they are learning to work together they have no idea what they're

going to do really they've heard the echo flowers seven human souls and one

monster soul in order to break the barrier the king has six and frisk is the seventh and the voice at the back of

their head insists they are the future of humans and monsters and even though monsters are horrible nobody deserves to

be trapped underground sans doesn't know that frisk can barely feel their legs to

the flowers have taken over both their arms and their torso is probably going next but their legs are starting to get

numb what if they can get out to the surface but it's in this condition what

if the flowers are irreversible what if they can never be back to normal again what if sans tells them that they're

making their way to hot land and then to the Royal scientists lab frisk can't feel their feet as they walk anymore

even though they know the flowers haven't eaten them yet the scientists name is alphys they

gather and she hisses you when she sees flowey even sans steps

back a bit when alpha starts to yell starts to tell flowey what a traitor he is for helping a human says do you think

your parents would be happy with what you're doing Azrael and that's when flowey yells back at her - shut up shut

up shut up but alphas doesn't fight instead there's an explosion of sorts

and sans is fighting someone named meta ton a robot frisk thinks from what

they've been hearing a robot originally built for entertainment and was modified to destroy humans but sans isn't letting

mettaton lay a hand on frisk frisk wants to say thank you but their throat is getting numb now - they wonder if

there's a limit to how many flowers their body can hold all meta tun does is ask questions and if sans answers wrong

they would all die but sans answers them all confidently smugly even from how

frisk hears it and eventually they're left alone alphas has long fled the lab

frisk drags their feet as they walk too tired to muster the strength to actually lift them hey honey

sans speaks they lift their head as best they can he shouldn't lose hope with this if

anything first can do him one last favor for his help we kind of need a hurry no

pressure but things are gonna get a little heated if we lag frisk giggles right right the core is near magma and

lava or maybe this place was called hot land they can't remember but it's good

that Sands is telling jokes he's been telling jokes lately and whenever frisk touches his face he feels like he's

smiling even flowey is snorting an unbelievable from the skeleton shoulder

so they try their best to walk determination they chant determination

Cara whispers in the back of their head hope of humans and monsters they have

friends who don't deserve to be trapped down here flowey and sans don't deserve to be trapped down here and then maybe papyrus

and Undine wouldn't be so mad anymore if they were free there is no doubt that papyrus and Undine are still chasing

them and that's why they've been walking and walking for as much as they can now no more stopping because they all know that

sands is a traitor now and sands will die if they get caught and it will be frisks fault so they walk and they

stumble on other guards in hot land and frisk dies again twice because they're too slow and tired to dodge and they

think they're losing one of their feet for real now Sands is starting to get exasperated they can tell and they

apologized but sands just sounds sad when he brushes their hair aside and says it's okay sweetheart

it's okay mettaton fights them several times more it would be ridiculous if

frisked at sea but they can't so all they have to go on is what they hear it still sounds ridiculous a cooking show

to the news casting and flowey points out that they might want to stay out of the spotlight if they don't want papyrus

and Undine to find them they manage to rest at a hotel sands keeps them close

to him at all time since monsters don't appear to be very friendly around here and frisk thinks about just staying

asleep but Sands is right they'll be found out and flowey and Sands will die

if they're caught determination car a chance for your friends for my friends

so they walk and Muffet makes them reload and reload and reload until the

right leg is out of commission and they walk with a limp sans gets frustrated and ends up killing Muffet frisk cries

they don't speak for a little while but frisk doesn't force a reload they

continue walking sans supporting their weight while flowey remains on its perch to scan for danger this time they're

really at the core frisk thinks when sand speaks again they fight mettaton and frisk soul shatters from defending

flowey and they all wake up at the hotel the human knows that it's their other leg that's going to pay this time this

time Muffet doesn't die neither does met a ton although sans keeps on growling as he

dodges like he'd rather rip the robot apart frisk is thankful that he doesn't by the time they're out of the core

frisk stumbles and falls to the ground with a Yelp they scrape their good knee in one of their cheeks their arms are useless

sans curses as he moves beside them and then pauses before slipping one arm under their back and the other under

their knees frisk signs I'm fine no you're not

Sanz says not your fault Sanz is silent for a while then they just continue

walking I'll get you to the surface he says don't worry no matter what it takes

sweetheart I'm getting you to the surface frisk wants to tell him to not

make promises that he can't keep but they can't talk anymore King özgür might

have been a good King once no Sanz knows that King özgür was a good King once but

desperation and loss can do things to a man the kingdom was losing hope and with

the death of both his children followed by his wife's due to her grief he is hardened now and looks at everything is

Maher things that can be expended if they reach his goal Sanz knows because

once upon a time he cared for his brother although papyrus was always a little

ambitious once upon a time he held out hope for getting to the surface and

nobody hurting each other once upon a time he didn't resort to so much

violence then once upon a time Cara and Ezreal died and Queen toriel left and

everyone thought this is it we're stuck here forever unless we take seven human

souls and blast our way out of here once upon a time everyone learned that

sometimes murder got them what they needed once upon a time time started resetting

so much that sands didn't care anymore how many times he needed to kill human children he just needed to kill and

eventually he just decided not to because no matter how much he did kill everything was just going to be reset

again then once upon another time a human with a red soul that sang

determination fell and kind once upon another time Prince as

real dreamers soul was put into a flower by the royal scientist and said Prince

was currently perched upon his shoulder once upon another time Sanz remembers

exactly what being happy feels like and he wants to fight for it flowey knows

how to reset and reload back when he still had that ability somehow that was transferred to frisk seoul when they

fell and flowey feels guilty for being relieved he could only reset so much to

prevent the other children being killed see and he knows he was too weak and magic to defend all six who had fallen

so he tries to win time again and again until he gets tired and decides to just

let it be then a human Falls a human with a soul as red as Cara's a human who

looks like Cara a human who was kind and determined like Cara so he goes with

them he helps them he is a traitor but he is loyal to his best friend and

sibling whom he'd promised that he would find a way to get all monsters to the surface he promised Cara and he is not

going to go back on his promise when he's being reminded all the time by frisks presence so sometimes he dies in

the middle of battle hoping to hell friskin sands get out but that never happens because they always reload with

a new flower on frisk but flowey holds on he sits on sands shoulder listening

to his father explain why they should do this why the humans deserve to be punished and thinks that no this isn't

what King asked all would do not the father as real once knew but the enemy

flowey would face he defends sands and frisk for as long as he can no matter if

wrist can no longer with all the flowers clinging on to them

frisk can't stand now but they plead still don't hurt him don't kill him

spare him özgür looks at them strangely and san says nothing as he defends when

a fireball gets too close to frisk he starts to attack frisk can't see anyway he won't kill the king he'll just weaken

him until he can't fight anymore stupid child stupid human child believing in

kindness and managing to worm their way into his rib cage stupid him for wanting

this kid as a friend stupid circumstances that make everything like this in another life

where everyone hadn't lost hope they all could have been friends and this entire

mess wouldn't be necessary and sure they wouldn't be out of the underground quick but it would be happy and peaceful

flowey stills on his shoulder for a moment before whispering that he has an idea and then sinks into the floor roots

breaking the cement before he disappears and leaves sands to fight alone the skeleton curses but whatever that damn

flower had planned it was probably worth it he wouldn't leave frisk like that frisk is sitting beside him hands on the

ground still praying that nobody got hurt can't see can't move can barely

talk even goddamn kid sand strikes one more blow before a scores down on one

knee weak from the fight well the King asks huffing do it sand still has his

bones behind him and he's still able to call his blasters to finish asgore off one blast one blast and he could kill

the king and take frisk out of here and get onto the surface he lifts one hand

and then drops it he turns back to the human behind him picks them up in his

arms and faces the king again no as gore

looks up and frowns no frisk moves in his arm

and leans their head into his chest they're signing something rapidly hands making jittery movements that sands can

barely register but he catches a thank you in the midst of all of it always be

kind sometimes kindness is all we can give he says sometimes kindness is

enough a score laughs that's not how it works around here boy it's kill or be

killed sands shakes his head and pulls frisk closer not anymore he walks past as gore

tense but to his surprise the King lets him he makes no move to stand and just

keeps his head low sands walks over to the barrier and stares at it he needs seven human souls to cross the

barrier or one monster soul in one human soul whoever gets that gets to cross the

barrier he looks at the feverish human in his arms hey sweetheart he smiles and

looks at them they're trying to press closer to him it's almost amusing you still holdin on

good frisk nods slowly the cement in front of him breaks and flowey emerges

he's got his vines wrapped into a ball and he's panting but he looks at sands and pulls his vines back to reveal six

floating orbs of different colors sands breath hitches orbs Souls the six

human souls we can can across the barrier flowey coughs or at least take

one of the souls cross the barrier take one more come back and then take the

rest and break the barrier he's shaking badly I don't know just get frisked out

of here or something it's a good plan take one soul get another from the

surface and then go back to complete the job and free frisk and monster kind o

frisk rasps and grabs and sweater frisk flowey yells we need seven human souls

to break the barrier we only have six frisk shakes their head wrap and clenches their teeth too painful to

move even seven they sign have seven no

we flowey pauses and stares at the human don't frisk points to themselves sans

nearly drops them flowey stares at them disbelieving and sans tightens his grip

on them are you stupid you can't just give up not after all that not not

giving up frisk ROK's can't go back to surface anymore nearly covered in flowers huh

they laughs weakly dying slowly don't

say that frisk chuckles one last thing

hope of humans and monsters have to do it take my soul they smile weakly free

everyone Fresno flowey sobs sans watches

two drops of water land on frisks cheek before he realizes he's crying too well

last long frisk says they clutch sans sweater tighter please the red soul

flickers in front of them and flowey starts crying frisks chest is still moving up and down but it's getting

slower sans looks at them as the red soul floats near his face frisk whispers

something but he can't hear it so he lowers his head can you say that a

little closer he asks frisk is falling asleep and the

soul is getting brighter in front of him and he needs to shove it back in so the kid can keep breathing his tears are

falling faster on a frisks face but he needs to listen because the kid can

barely talk and it would be rude not to listen I didn't quite catch that

King özgür is a good king he's called off undyne and papyrus and even the plan

to destroy humanity they know the humans are stronger than them anyway with their determination and all so it would be

useless to try to get themselves trapped back underground again flowey know as

real says that sometimes he hears the King tell tales of the seventh human of

their sacrifice of how they chose to give up their soul for the people that tried to kill them as gore doesn't know

about flowey being Azrael of course poor kid still a flower and he doesn't want to talk to his parents in his condition

especially not when they both tried to kill him at least once too as real says

he's insane but not in a condescending way in the I care about you so stop

being stupid way and he thinks it's funny because there was a time when he'd loved to have picked the petals off that

little bugger now the plants living in the same house is he on the surface they'd built a little town in a bawd

while as gore tried to smooth out relations with the humans papyrus doesn't talk to him so much

anymore but he hasn't been insulting him either they'd buried frisk back at the

entrance of the ruins the same place they fell as real says he says that was

where Cara was buried to the first human their sibling the first red soul of

determination the flowers had disappeared when the barrier had broken and he'd said that maybe car had finally

found peace and moved on as real didn't say anything he visits the entrance to

the ruins every month or so another patch of flowers has grown there their gold just like the ones frisk was

covered in and just like the ones that grew over car is grave Sanz lays there

sometimes staring up at the Sun through that small hole above him where frisk had fallen he's thought about finding a

way to reload or reset get frisk back find another way but it would be

throwing the kids sacrifice in their face if he did that so he visits sometimes as real comes with him

sometimes he doesn't all the same sans lays there and waits frisk always reloaded after they died

see and sometimes it would take a while so he's waiting as real says he's insane

he thinks he might be - knock-knock who asks frisks voice in his head flower

please flower flower you today come back

sweetheart soon but nobody came

hello everyone this is Katie Liu I wanted to thank you for listening it's been a really great tree this has been a

wonderful story and the response has been awesome so thank you so much for that if you like this I will actually be

returning to flower fell the author who wrote this actually wrote a few more parts and little supplementary things

they aren't quite as long but they are definitely really great and I will be reading them at some point so subscribe

if you want to see more of that or just more of undertale in general there are a lot of fix I have planned to read in the future and some comic dubs and stuff so

look forward to that I did want to apologize real quick for how late this one is coming out life decided to kick

me in the face a few times just as I was performing and editing this one but everything's good now for the most part

so I'll be returning to a pretty regular schedule hopefully soon I can't promise how regular it'll be just because I have

some other things going on as well but I am NOT giving up on this anytime soon so look forward to more thank you I love

you all and goodbye see you soon