Troubled pasts (a Horrorlust story)

The grieving

Mettatons POV
It was a month after horrors death, lust had barely spoke a word since, he showed no facial expression, or even acted like himself at all. Error would try and talk to him and try to get him to smile, but nothing worked, he had a constant blank stare, he would only look at the person talking to him, as I looked at him sitting on the sofa, the way he stared back into my eyes was starting to scare me, his eye lights were now tiny hearts and the palest of purple colours, they were also cracked down the middle, to make them look like broken hearts.

"You know it's impolite to stare" he said quietly and deadpanned "oh, m-my apologies hun" I saw error in the doorway, signalling me to follow him, he took me outside his front door "It'S jUsT sO lUsT cAn'T hEaR uS" I nodded "how have you been?" He played with the neckline of his shirt "WeLl...I'vE bEeN bEtTeR, i AsSuMe LuSt IsN't GeTtInG bEtTeR" I shook my head.

"I jUsT wIsH tHeRe WaS a WaY wE cAn HeLp HiM gEt BaCk To HiS oLd SeLf AgAiN, gOt AnY iDeAs?" I tried to think of anything, it was blank at first, but then I quickly remembered something "well, I have a friend, and her girlfriend is a therapist, maybe she can help?" Error didn't look too enthusiastic about it "...I can't think of anything else darling"

"...I dO hAvE aN iDeA, bUt It'S a BiG rIsK" "what is it?" He got closer to me and pointed towards his ear(?) I bent down, he began to whisper his idea to me, I gasped "really?" He nodded "well, it is a big risk, let's save it as a last resort, okay?" He moved back "AlRiGhT."

Error went back inside to check on lust, while I searched through my contacts to find the one I was looking for, the phone rang for a couple seconds before someone picked up "h-hello?" I smiled as her voice was exactly like I remembered "hey" "o-oh, mettaton heheh...W-what's up?" "Are you available?" I heard pages being turned, along with her mumbling "hmmm...yeah, w-why?" "It's...complicated darling, I met someone who's recently lost a loved one, and I was hoping that you could help him" "oh, o-okay. W-when do you need me?" "As soon as you can, please" "well, I-I'm not busy tomorrow" "great, thank you so much babes, tell undyne I said hi" I heard her giggle "I-I will, bye mettaton"

The next day

I stood in the living room looking out the window, waiting for her to show up "why did you tell me to sit here?" Lust said, I turned my head to look at him, error was smoothly rubbing his shoulder "because I'm waiting for a person who wants to talk to you" "oh...okay" I felt sad whenever lust spoke, he always sounded like he was about to cry.

I smiled when I heard the sound of a car skidding into a stop, I knew who it was when I heard the tyres screech, I walked outside and saw undyne in the drivers seat, alphys was visibly shaken up "I'm glad you didn't crash through the front window for once" I joked, undyne cackled loudly "and how are you alphys darling?" I cooed teasingly, she slowly turned her shivering head at me and puffed out her cheeks.

"Aww c'mon babe, my driving isn't that bad" "c-c-can I just g-get out the car n-now?" I opened the door for her and helped her up "c'mon, breath, you're fine" "t-th-thank you" "I'll wait here, good luck"

Third person POV
Lust saw the door open, mettaton walked in, followed by alphys "who's that?" lust said warily as she sat next to him "d-don't worry, I'm not here to h-hurt you. I'm Dr alphys, royal scientist and therapist, a-and you are?"

Lust looked around the room, hoping for an explanation, "...my name is lust" he muttered "mettaton tells me that you've recently lost a loved one, can you tell me about him?" "He....was a very sweet person...and he always knew how to make me smile" "I-is there a way you can try to move on from t-this dark time?"