Dear Diary,

Me and Lust now talk everytime I come and visit him. Whether it be jokes or just stories. I hoped that, in a way, I was helping his situation and making it better by giving him something different to think on than his current circumstance.

And it worked, I think. He seemed more happy then he had been the first few days I had come to visit him.
Today, I decided to try something risky. Lust hadn't been out of the house since we had captured him, and it was obvious he hated being confined. I knew if Boss found out, he would skin me alive (Haha, no pun intended), so I had to be extremely careful about this.

We were just exchanging random puns, when I decided to broach the subject.

"So.." I fiddled with my jacket sleeve. Always the nervous mess, wasn't I? "Um.. So you haven't really been out of the house for awhile.. I know you hate it here. I was wondering.." I gulped. Just the thought of disobeying Boss was terrifying me, but I knew I had to do this. I wanted to.

Lust watched me, his heart-shaped eyelights carefully appraising me. His sharp eyelights betrayed what he was thinking. If he hadn't already guessed what I was about to say, he must have had a close idea.

"I-I know I can't take you outside, b-but if I only took you out for a bit, would y-you like to come?" My speech was becoming broken up by my anxiety at the thought of being caught by Boss.

Lust continued to watch me. He seemed almost.. proud? It was hard to read the expression on his face. "Yeah, of course." He said quietly. Then surprisingly, he grabbed my hand.

I jumped at the contact, feeling shivers go up my ulna. "Wh-What?"

He smiled. "I'm taking that you're teleporting us there, right? That would be the easiest way."

Ah, right. I wiped the figurative sweat off my brow. Just an overreaction.

I gripped his hand back, feeling more stable with it in my hand than I ever had in ages. Swallowing nervously, I reached over and unclipped the leash from his neck. It was enchanted so that only someone not being leashed could take it off. Otherwise, Lust would've done it a long time ago.

Concentrating on making the jump through the void, I closed my sockets, feeling around the fabric of space. Our surrounding faded out, then melted back into a different setting.

We were in Waterfall. I hadn't known where else to go. Snowdin was too close to home. Boss might catch us. And Hotlands was always sweltering.

I looked at the dozens of pools surrounding us, casting off a eerily florescent blue glow. Lust turned away, sitting down at the edge of one of the pools. I followed his example, sitting down next to him.

Something about Waterfall was always calming to me. The soft trickling of water could be heard, no matter where you were. The blue glow from the cave mushrooms and ceiling crystals were stronger here too. And the clear water allowed you to see all the way to the bottom of the cavern floor.

Lust looked out across the pool we had sat by. To be honest, to call it a pool was an understatement. The thing was more like a lake, spanning across half of the cavern space.

"Thank you."

The words were so quiet, I could barely hear them, but when I turned to look at him, he was still staring out across the water. There were tears at the edges of his sockets and he looked happier than he ever had in a very long time.