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---Chara's POV----

There it was. The very place where X tortured me, Cross, his brother and my brother almost to the point of death for two of us. Actual death for our brothers...

The building was down a valley, built over a river. I can remember, in X's main office, he had a chunk of his floor replaced by thick glass so that you could see directly into the water. Sure the water was always a little murky, but I can remember splaying out on that glass for hours with Frisk. We would press our faces against the glass, watching with wide eyes as the odd fish would occasionally swim past. That was before he started using us. Back when he actually seemed like a good parent.

That was before he dragged Cross and Papyrus into his mess of a life. They were artificially made by him, so technically shouldn't exist. But they were after all his greatest experiments. I remember when we first met them, I was overprotective of Frisk and Cross was overprotective of Papyrus. And then as soon as we looked away for two seconds the two of them were chatting happily together, instantly friends.

Soon enough we all accepted each other, fancying the thought that we could all be brothers. We thought that we'd get a happy life, one like normal kids. I know some kids say their lives are boring, and they'd do anything for some action. But for us as kids? All we wanted was a normal life. We'd even take being homeless over how we were living.

X had seemed to turn against us overnight, deciding that the way he was raising us wasn't right. So he changed his ways...

Instead of praise, we got abuse.
Instead of meals, we starved.
Instead of love and care, we got rejection.
Instead of being comforted, we were tortured.

We couldn't figure out what we'd done wrong, trying desperately to impress him like we used to in the hopes that he'd stop.

But he just did it more... Until one day he completely snapped, killing both Frisk and Papyrus without a second thought. He completely ignored as Cross and I begged him not to, as Frisk and Papyrus screamed for mercy.

He ended their lives without a second thought.

If ever you want a proper definition for the word 'monster'. X is the one you refer to.

I jolted, being torn from my memories as I felt a hand rest on my shoulder lightly. I turned, blinking as I saw Cross stood next to me.

He looked terrified, and the hand on my shoulder was shaking, but he smiled weakly at me. "D-Don't worry Chara...we'll g-get through this..."

I winced, looking down at my hands. "Yeah...I'll try keep my hopes up..."

Cross nodded, shivering. "J-Just try not to think about the bad stuff th-that happened here... A-Attempt to think of some of the good stuff...what little there was of it..."

"Yeah...the good stuff..." I muttered, watching jealously as Nightmare hugged Cross from behind, nuzzling his cheek softly as he whispered reassuringly in his 'ear'.

I wish I had someone that would do that for me. Hug me gently. Whisper little reassuring things. Help me if I got scared. Love me...

Call me creepy, but I had always liked it when I was back in Cross' body. I feel most of what Cross feels, so when him and Nightmare would cuddle or snuggle up together, I'd always get a warm feeling spreading through my body. I've never had any feelings towards Nightmare. That would be gross. Plus, Cross would murder me. But sensing how happy and relaxed Cross would feel when they hugged always made me smirk. Of course I'd never tell Cross that I liked the feeling I'd occasionally feel being passed over to me when they hugged. I'd never hear the end of it.

I've been blacklisted with every bad name possible by everyone I know. And I'm notorious for being a heartless demon child that doesn't care about anyone. Someone that gets affected by nothing. But in reality, when I'm stuck in most situations, I just want some form of sympathy or comfort...

"Chara...?"

I jolted, shaking myself out of my thoughts only to realise that the others were already on their way down, half of them having already disappeared into the tall looming trees down the valley.

Nightmare and Cross stood at the edge of the dark forest, looking at me. They seemed concerned. "You coming or not?"

"Y-Yeah..." I mumbled, smiling weakly as I started to walk over to them, stumbling occasionally. My legs seemed substantially weaker, unable to hold me up fully.

They both frowned, but nodded, turning back around and walking into the forest. I followed right behind.

A sudden hum to my right made me yelp, looking over to see none other than Betty smirking at me. "How much do you wanna bet that this is a trap?"

"A lot..." I muttered, wondering how she could have said that so casually. "Aren't you scared?"

She snorted, petting her pink blobby thing as it nudged her cheek. "Scared? Oh boy, I'm terrified. I shouldn't even be here. To be honest, I could go off and run away right now, leaving you guys to face your almost certain doom if I wanted to."

I blinked, narrowly avoiding walking into a branch. "Then why don't you?"

She grinned widely, patting me on the back. "Because I like you."

I managed to do three things at once as she said that. First, I felt my face heat up and I looked away quickly. Then I managed to trip over a tree root because I wasn't paying attention. And then to conclude, I fell face first into a pile of leaves.

Betty immediately burst into hysteric laughter, clutching her side. "No need to act so shocked! I was just kidding!"

I looked up at her, huffing as I tried to brush the leaves out of my hair. "Oh thank god. I was worried for a moment."

She snickered, holding out a hand for me. "Awww come on, I'm not that bad."

"Sure." I muttered, begrudgingly taking her hand to let her pull me up.

She looked me up and down for a moment, smirking as she leaned forwards suddenly, our faces literally centimetres apart.

"Wh-Wha--"

She giggled softly, gently brushing a finger over my right cheek to shift the white hair covering my scared eye out of the way. "Aww, you're kinda cute actually~"

"C-Cute?!" I croaked, seeming to loose my voice as my face heated up further.

She nodded, snickering as she pulled back suddenly, letting my hair flop back down over my eye. "Yup. Now come on, the others are probably already there by now! We're holding them up!"

Before I could stutter a weak protest, she gripped onto my wrist, pulling me along behind her as we ran through the trees together.

After a minute we caught up with the others, who were all staring accusingly at the gaping wide entrance of X's true lab. He hadn't locked the doors. He hadn't even closed them. They were wide open, waiting to swallow us up.

Nightmare glanced back at us, raising an 'eyebrow' as he saw that we were practically holding hands. "So now that you've finally got your own body, you've started trying to get yourself a girlfriend, huh~?"

"N-NO!" I yelled, quickly tugging my hand out of Betty's grip as I let my hair cover up my face in the pathetic hopes to hide the light red blush I knew would be there.

"Look at you, you're perfect for each other." Nightmare teased, catching the attention of some of the others. "Both are teens. Both have some murderous intent hidden in you. Both have hair over one eye. What more could you possibly want in a couple?"

I almost screamed, storming past all of them and in through the entrance of the lab. "Just shut up. All of you."

They all laughed as they followed, and for a moment, it was as if we'd forgot our current situation. Oh how I wish we could.

Behind me I could faintly hear Error telling that massive dog to wait with the geese. I'm imagining it'll just try to eat them.

Thinking back to every horror movie ever, I was suddenly regretting being up front. The place where someone is the first to find out if there are any deadly traps that'll kill you. How do you find that out? The traps kill you. Yay.

I glanced around at the tall, grey metal walls, narrowing my eyes. Everything here was making so many flashbacks hit me. I hate it. Everything I've ever wanted to forget, has come back to me in an instant.

"Hey Chara!"

I paused, glancing behind me to see Betty run over to my side, her little pink blob following.

"Hai!"

I flicked my hair over my eyes, huffing. "What?"

She sighed, pointing ahead of us.

I looked up, looking through my white strands of hair.

There was a pair of giant double doors in front of us, having the words ENTER carved into them. The whole thing seemed so incredibly sinister, and I hissed softly, waiting for the others to join us.

"X w-will d-definitely be behind th-that door..." Cross stuttered, clinging to Nightmare. He looked absolutely terrified, and so did his kids.

All the kids looked terrified.

I gulped harshly, watching Reaper as he stepped forwards, pushing against the giant double doors.

"Wouldn't want to keep him waiting, would we?" He whispered, smirking widely.

I gave a weak nod, holding my breath as the doors swung open suddenly, revealing the room behind.

It was massive, dark, ominous. There were only a few lights on the ceiling, and they only lit up the centre of the room, leaving the corners of the room dark.

And stood in the centre of the light, stood the one person we'd came here for. He was grinning widely, insane giggles already starting to escape him as he looked all of us up and down.

"Oh I'm going to have a feast~"

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AAAAAAAAA BETTY X CHARA FOR LIIIIFFFFEEEEEEEEE

and sidhhsjwjs cliff hanger

Lmao fear for Error next chapter--

Nightmare gonna whoop his ass--

FoR rEaSoNs

:3

-Jess-