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By: A Simple Dragon (/u/2761489/A-Simple-Dragon)  (https://www.fanfiction.net/pm2/post.php?uid=2761489)
Frisk is in a dark and lonely place, she had been bullied and forgotten her whole life following a tragedy that befell her family. Now as life seems to become too much, can a
curious Chara save Frisk from this darkness or will she be lost to it forever. (The story is unfinished, as I have decided to rewrite the entire fic.)
Rated: Fiction T (https://www.fictionratings.com/) - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - [Chara, Frisk] Asriel - Chapters: 22 - Words: 98,857 - Reviews: 113 (/r/12720391/) -
Favs: 113 - Follows: 120 - Updated: Oct 2, 2018 - Published: Nov 10, 2017 - Status: Complete - id: 12720391

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The month had passed by as slow as the melting winter snow.

Frisk had spent the time learning more about her new friend, talking with Undyne and Alphys over the computer (both were eager to meet Inis) she had even got to spend Christmas
Day with the Tressermen's!

They had been more than happy to extend an invitation to Inis, and for the first time in a very long time; Frisk had smiled and laughed on Christmas Day, she was doubly surprised to
receive a present from the family - a hand knitted scarf that matched her favorite sweater perfectly.

If there had been one dark point to note; it was the lack of communication from Chara.

The entire month apart, Chara hadn't contacted her once and when Frisk had finally managed to get a phone call through, she was surprised to hear from Asriel.

"I'm sorry Frisk." his voice sounded so broken, he was worried about his sister. "She keeps herself locked away in her room, and the only one she'll even remotely talk to is our dad."

"But...what happened, Asriel? Why is she acting like this?" she was desperate for any answers. After their last conversation, she promised she wouldn't ignore Frisk, she swore she would
speak to her everyday. So why was she doing this.

After a long pause, the prince finally spoke. "I'm sorry, but it's not my place to tell you." She could tell he wanted to say more, but she wouldn't push him. "Frisk? You still there?"

"Yeah. I'm...I'm still here." her voice cracked as she fought back tears.

"Promise me something, Frisk." he didn't wait for her answer, "Promise me when we come home, you won't give up on her. No matter how she acts, no matter distant she seems. I need
you to be there for her," he was crying "Promise me, you'll help her come back from this. Because I have no damn idea what to do."

She swallowed hard, she was surprised to hear Asriel confiding in her, while she was pleasant enough to him, she didn't count him as a friend and she definitely got the sense that the
feeling was mutual. But she could set aside her feelings for him when it came to Chara's well being. "I promise, Asriel."

She heard the boy sniffle and sigh. "Thanks..." he seemed like he wanted to say more, but he cleared his throat and hung up the phone, likely not wanting her to hear him crying.

That had been the last time she had any contact with the Dreemurr siblings, despite ceaseless trying. Which might explain her anxiety about today.

She stood by the interior gates of the academy, her sweater bunched up in her hands as she watched for any sign of that marked car. Frisk had to see any sign of Chara returning.

"Hey beautiful," she turned her gaze at the soft voice of her roommate. The blonde wrapped a warm blanket around the brunette's shoulders. "Keep standing out here all morning, and
you'll catch a chill." Inis gave her a warm smile and she felt her anxiety ease a little.

"Thanks." Frisk returned the smile, but returned her gaze to the towering exterior gates still waiting for any sign of her girlfriend. "I'm worried," she finally broke the silence that had
risen between the two friends, "he sounded so broken on the phone."

"And add that they requested to come back early. It's not normal for Queen Toriel to drop tradition like this." Inis' input only made her feel even more anxious about the whole situation.
"But hey! I bet as soon as Chara sees you, she'll cheer right up and go back to being her old self. I'm actually pretty excited to meet someone brave enough to put their life on the line
for another person so readily."
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Frisk chuckled softly as the blonde basically fan-girled about meeting Chara. "I'm sure you two will become fast friends." Inis smiled as she could tell Frisk's spirits had been lifted
slightly. "Uhm, Inis?" the blonde looked at the brunette curiously.

"Yeah?"

"Will... Will you wait with me here?" the blonde just smiled and wrapped an arm around Frisk's shoulder, helping her fight the harsh cold a bit more.

"Sure thing, beautiful." Frisk smiled as the comforting warmth of her friend chased away the last of her anxiety.

Chara watched the school approaching, but she didn't really see it; her mind was far from anything focusing on anything other than that hollow feeling in her chest.

"We'll be home soon, Chara." She could hear Asriel's hopeful tone, but she didn't share his enthusiasm, she just wanted to wrap her arms around a certain brunette and forget about this
shit winter break.

They stopped at a set of traffic lights and while waiting for them to change, she found her mind wandering; tuning out the pointless chatter between her brother and the few aides that
had travelled with them.

A knock on Chara's door. "Chara," that motherly tone filled her throat with the acrid taste of bile, "I know you're awake. I just wish to talk."

"Talk," she scoffed "whenever we 'talk' it just turns into a shit fest." She knew her foul language would sting Toriel, she wanted to know how serious her 'mother' was about 'talking.'

"I'm not interested in whatever it is you have to sa-" She was cut off as her door flew off the hinges and crashed through the window opposite it.

Chara rolled onto her back, still hugging the pillow that had become the closest thing to comfort she could find these last few days. "I think that might have been a bit of overkill." She
joked humourless as Toriel stepped into the room; her aura settling as she straightened her gown. "So now that you've fucked both my door and my window." she gave the monster her
half-assed attention as she flopped back onto her stomach, "what do you want?"

"To listen," came her curt answer.

Chara rolled over once more, she now saw the ever perfect picture of 'Queen' Toriel; the woman who dictated her every step in life, the woman who - despite being a holder of the
Raging Flames - was as cold as a blizzard in the mountains.

"So you're actually willing to listen?" she scoffed, "I'll believe when I see it."

"My chi-"

"Shut it!" Chara screamed at Toriel, her red eyes burning with anger and pain. "If you're gonna start with that 'my child' crap - then you can just fuck off!" Toriel held the furious girl's
gaze, she didn't give any inclination that Chara's foul language was bothering her.

"Very well." Toriel crossed her arms under her chest, she dropped herself into a chair and inclined her head towards Chara, giving her a chance to speak. "Say what it is you want to
say."

Chara held the proud monster's gaze, before she jolted her gaze away and focused instead on the pattern of her titled floor. "You didn't even tell me." She finally said in a hoarse
whisper. "I had to wait until I got back here, to learn that as soon as I graduate - that's it. I don't even get chance to live as a normal adult? I'm shipped off to some noble's estate and
expected to what - play bride, wife and mother?"

Toriel heaved a sigh and her gaze softened. "I had intended to tell you before hand. But your father fought the union every step of the way. I was hoping you would get the chance to at
least meet Lord Dorian before the announcement."

Chara swallowed that news with a half-smile; she knew that big softie would always be on her side. "I did meet him," Toriel raised a brow, a hopeful look in her eye, "but...you know how
I feel about humans," she bunched the pillow in her grip, "what have they ever done for me - except hurt or abandon me?" Her voice cracked as she choked back tears.

"And I know it's not what you want to hear - but frankly, I don't give a shit any longer." she lifted her teary eyes and looked directly into Toriel's concerned amber eyes. "I don't like men
like that..." If it were possible to see a person's entire world shatter, it would have been the face Toriel gave her daughter after her confession. "Please..." she crawled off her bed and got
down on her hands and knees, her forehead pressed against the cold tiles of the floor, as she begged. "If you have any love for me. Don't make me marry him! I'm begging you! Please!"

Toriel sat perfectly straight, her expression a mask of shock, she saw people looking in from her peripheral. She shot them a furious glare and threw up a wall of flames to block the now
empty doorway.

"Please. Don't make me marry him! I can't..." the thought of a man - any man - being that close to her, looking at her with that intent, sharing a bed with her; scared her and made
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She was pulled up from the floor and pulled into a hug by Toriel. The older woman cried as she stroked her terrified daughter's hair. "I'm so sorry...I...I never even thought." Toriel
chocked down her words when she felt Chara's arms wrap around her and the girl bury her face into her gown.

"Please..." the weak plea was muffled by the fabric of her gown. Toriel remained silent, she couldn't think of the words to say that would soothe her child. She felt like such a fool - it
should have been so obvious to her! So why? Why had she been unable to see it?

'Was I just too busy thinking about my kingdom?' She had to fix this, but...a promised marriage was tricky thing to annul, especially when both sides would lose too much in the
backlash, but wait...there was perhaps one way.

"Chara," she put her queen voice on. "I'm sorry you feel this way, but...there is nothing that can be done now." Chara shoved the monster away from her. She didn't give a damn what
the woman said now, she had just proven everything she had thought to be true.

"Get out." she growled. "Get out of my room, you wretched monster!" Toriel didn't argue, she simply rose to her feet and gave the girl a blank expression. "I want nothing further to do
with you. Use me as you will." She lifted her gaze, and Toriel gaped in horror.

The light within Chara Dreemurr had gone out.

She looked hollow.

"Chara?" Asriel put his hand over her's, he didn't resist when she pulled it away slowly. He felt utterly useless as he lowered his gaze, he had lost his best-friend, she was gone. He bit
back tears as they pulled into the academy parking lot, he looked at the building beyond the great gates.

'Frisk. Please save her.'

Frisk felt her heart soar and fall when she saw that familiar car pull up to the great gates, she wanted to see Chara again, but was concerned about what Asriel had said to her. Would
she really be able to help?

"Just take it easy, beautiful." Inis whispered.

Frisk watched as Asriel climbed out the car and spoke to the guards that were already forming a perimeter around them, he leaned back into the car and a few seconds later, re-emerged
helping Chara out the car.

Frisk didn't even wait for them to enter the gates, she bolted from her friend's grasp and rushed the entourage: Inis, the cold, her anxiety - all forgotten the moment she laid eyes on
that mess of uneven, shoulder length brown hair.

"Chara!"

Asriel felt his chest soar with hope, as his sister lifted her head; her hollow eyes igniting with life for the first time in weeks. She pushed passed the guards, ignoring their protests as she
rushed towards the fast approaching brunette.

"Frisk!"

The two girls met in a desperate embrace. "I missed you so much!" Frisk sobbed into Chara's chest, her nails biting into Chara's back in a desperate attempt to hold on to the girl for
dear life.

"I'm sorry." Chara whispered, her hand stroking the smaller girl's hair as she tried to soothe her sobbing. "I'm sorry I left you. I'm sorry." They fell to their knees, lost to the surging
emotions within them.

They stayed like this until they were spent, the cold threatening to chill them to the bone, the wind whipping around them.

The two didn't return from their sheer joy of being reunited, until they felt a hand on their respective shoulders. Frisk looked up to see Inis smiling down at her, she smiled back tearfully,
her tears having dried and a joy that was all consuming coursing through her.

Chara saw Asriel looking down at her, and his pitiful smile only further solidified what she was going to have to give up - who she was going to have to give up in just two short years.

As both girls looked back into each other's eyes, each drowning in entirely contrasting emotions. They leaned their heads closer, their lips parting as they met, and they were swallowed
by the emotions that this kiss; this simple, loving kiss, brought about.

Love, longing, need, desire, despair, grief, rage.

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All fought within the minds and hearts of either girl, as this kiss meant something different to either.

It was a welcome home from Frisk to Chara.

It was a bittersweet reminder that Chara would have to leave Frisk behind one day.

But for this one moment, this one freezing moment, in front of the school that had brought them together.

Could they not be happy?

A short one, but what a way to end the arc!

Happy 2018! All you beautiful people!

Now I decided to make this a short one, because I felt like no more needed to be said, at least for this arc.

It was originally going to play out much different, but I didn't want to ruin that reunion. So I made this chapter a LOT shorter than I planned, but I hope you'll forgive
since the last update was over 8000 words long.

But, here's another thing I want to say.

Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments! And I can't believe it but over 3000 views! Holy shit!

You guys are amazing!

What more needs to be said? Nutin! That's what!

Welp I think I'm gonna go back to my treasure hoard now. HEY! DON'T TOUCH THAT COIN! IT'S MY CHOMPING COIN!

Gotta catch that pesky adventurer! Bu-bye!

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