Surfacetale (undergoing rewritting)

1.2. File Toriel

No ones POV

A month goes by as in the middle of the night Livie gets woken up from another nightmare by the loud noise of banging on her frontdoor. Livie rubs her eyesockets as she yawns, she takes a look at her alarm clock and it's 4AM. She sighs and gets up as she puts on her bathrobe before she goes down the stairs while mumbeling to herself. She yawns once again before she opens her frontdoor only to see Toriel standing there as Livie knew that even Toriel wasnt an early bird, well not like Asgore kind of early. "did somethin happen toriel?" she asks in a whisper as she did not want to wake up her neighbours "i-is it possible that i can request a privat talk with you?" Toriel replied in a whisper as well. Livie really wanted to say no because she has been lacking sleep ever since her nightmares started, but she shook off the idea and just invited her inside "but please dont be too loud, it's 4am and i dont want to wake up my naighbours" Livie sais. Livie then guides Toriel to the livingroom as she then asks "do you want anything to drink? and if so hot or cold?" "hot please" Toriel replied "well do you want coffee or tea?" Livie asks again "tea please" Toriel replies 'i should've known' Livie thought to herself before leaving the livingroom. When Livie returned with the tea she saw Toriel's hands shaking "here is your tea miss toriel" she looks up to Livie and takes the cup gently out of her hands "oh please, you can just call me toriel like everyone else does". Livie smiles gently at her and sat down on her couch and proceeded to do the same thing she did with Asgore, wich was writting down everything she sais by usage of her magic. Livie took a sip from her tea before she asks "so what brings you here?" Toriel was unsure wether to reply or not wich made Livie say "look, everything you say in here stays here and will not leave this house. you can trust me on this toriel" Toriel took a deep breath before releasing it into a sigh "i...i still think about them...". Livie thought she needed to wait but Toriel suddenly stopped talking again "about who?" Livie asks "about those six humans...i tried everything in my power to keep them from moving onwards...but they all wanted to leave...and because of me they ended up dead..." Toriel replied and now Livie understood why her hands were shaking 'now i get it...she thinks it's her fault they are dead' Livie thought to herself before taking another sip from her tea "if i can be honest with you toriel, i believe that this was not your fault" "HOW CAN IT NOT BE!!!" Toriel suddenly shouts out as Livie's eyesockets widen in suprise but then retorts with "was it you who made them want to leave your safehaven?" Toriel stared at her as she shakes her head "was it you who told them to try and kill asgore?" once again Toriel shook her head "you see toriel i believe that actions have consequences, you seem like the type of monster that if they have information that could possibly protect those weaker and more fragile then you, you would tell them that. am i correct?" Toriel lokos down at her tea before saying "yess...i warned them that not everyone outside is as friendly as i am...especially asgore or atleest back then he was a menace...and i did nothing to help them...". Livie sighs softly "you did" Toriel was suprise to hear this from her "you gave them a warning and in my book it is helping them out by giving them the information they needed. what they do with it or what action they take is a decision they made all on their own, you did whatever you knew back then was the only posibillity to help them" Livie then added. Toriel just broke down in tears as she carried this within herself for years on end without anybody to talk to or even could understand what she went through, but this raised a question as to how she even endured this sort of self torment for years. Livie sighs "i really hate to ask a personal question like this...but how did you endure all of this?" Toriel looks up at her as she wipes away her tears "well you see...reading kept my mind distracted or writting in my diary but all of it was...not enough. it felt mundane and not new again so i tried some new recipies...but that also became mundane...then i took it upon myself to take some walks but as you can geuss...that also became mundane...but one day when i was doubting myself the most, i went to the exit and someone was practicing their knock knock jokes. every single day they came around the exact same time and even vented out their woe's and frustation at the door. then one day i decided to reply wich shoked this kind monster as we slowly became reall good friends" Livie looks at her curiously as she thought to herself 'there is only one monster i know of that would probably display such characteristic...wich is sans...'. Toriel looks at Livie who seemed to be lost in their thoughts "it is nice to see you so caring towards others" wich caught Livie off guard as a cyan blush dusted her cheekbones "w-what do you mean?" Toriel smiles gently "well you used to be soo...suspicious of everyone and now you seem to be more caring towards us" now it was time for Livie to look suprised at Toriel, who knew she had such a keen eye towards others behaviours "ah...w-well i'm glad to hear that...but i'd rather not have this conversation beeing about me. it's about you right now and i want to help the best i can" she sais with a genuinee smile. There was an before Toriel suddenly starts to speak again "i...it's not only those humans though...i lost both chara and asriel when they were young and there was nothing i could do to protect them of prevent any of this" Livie sighs "i know this is probably a heavy topic but just know that now they are back and you can lead a new and improved life with them" she tried her best to comfort Toriel. After another silence Livie adjusted her sitting position as she then clears her throat "i know hou find yourself useless but your not...isnt there anything you wanted to be when you were small?" Toriel seems to lighten up at this question as she replies "why yess...i always wanted to be a teacher...even when i was older i taught alot of young ones how to use their magic and ofcours other basic knowledge" Livie smiles as she could make a few calls in the morning to Glenn for a new school as a suprise for Toriel "you know perhaps you need some rest now, you look tired. they always say new days bring new suprises" Livie said with a smile while getting up. She helps Toriel to stand up to before guiding her back to the frontdoor "take a good rest and be sure to say hi for me to the kids" Toriel smiles "i sure will. goodnight livie" "goodnight toriel" she replied before closing her front door. Livie took out her phone as she immediatly calls Glenn "c'mon c'mon...pick up...GLENN!!!! yess i know it's early in the morning...no...do you remember that old building we used to explore for ghosts?...yeah that one...you said it would be a cheap one to rebuild didnt you?...i will explain later...i just...yess but...yeah oke i-i'll...come by in the morning...yeah i'll explain...goodnight glenn..." she hangs up as she sighs "such a stubborn idiot *yawn* but he's right...i need sleep" she teleports to her bedroom as she quickly found her bed and fell asleep on it.

~Time skip later in the next day~

Livie and Glenn had worked really hard as they made sure that the building was reinforced, updated with the latest technology, clean and inspected. They gotten their results pretty quickly as by then end of it they were just happy they could take a break especially Livie as she hired alot of work men and helped along with them by using their magic. "so...who's going to get toriel?" Livie asks as she clearly was too tired to lift a finger at the moment "d-dont worry i asked grandpa to get her just now via text" Glenn replied. It took several minutes for Livie to finally realize that Sam would go and get her now "y-you mean right now?" Glenn started to sweat a little "yess?" "omg glenn you just couldnt tell him to do that at a later time?!" Livie already began to panick as they hadnt even put up some decorations or something to make it more official "heh seems like someone is BONE-tired" a familliar voice sais. Livie turns her head to see it was sans "SANS!!! it feels like you just arrived on time to help us out" Livie sais with tears of hope in her eyesockets "oh like what?" Sans replied while raising a non-existing eyebrow "me and livie have been working on this suprise for toriel...but i made the mistake of asking my grandfather to get her right now." Glenn explained in Livie's place as she was rubbing her eyesockets tiredly. "i can call a few friends of mine to help you out, also livie you should take a nap...seem like your tired to the bone" Sans joked as Livie couldnt help but laugh at his pun "t-that was terrible *yawn* perhaps a nap would be kinda nice...after the suprise though" Livie replied wich made both Glenn and Sans sigh in responce. Both Glenn and Livie stood up while Sans called in a few friends to help, suprisingly they lived close by this building as this made Livie so happy to see everyone pitch in a little. Eventually everything was done as Sam arrived with Toriel as everyone shouts "suprise!!" Toriel couldnt believe what she was seeing as tears started to roll down her cheeks "now you have your very own school miss dreemur" Sam sais as Toriel had the biggest smile on her face "thank you all! i love it" "we couldnt have done it without livie" Sans replied "speaking of wich, where is she?" Papyrus asks as Glenn replied "right here" he was carrying her on his back as nature eventually took it's course and let her sleep. Toriel laughs a little as she gently pets Livie's head "thank you very much livie" she sais softly only to earn a reply in her sleep "welcome...tory...". Everyone laughed a little as eventually they went home, except for Toriel who joined Glenn he explained some details for her and had some papers waiting for her at his office, but ofcours after they brought back the sleepy bones on his back. All in all Toriel felt like now she could truly start a new beginning with her familly and even for herself at this school.