Eliza (Book 1)

.+* Chapter 44 - Her*+.

Grim's View:
I look at a picture off me, Eliza, and Ellie all together. We were all smiling. Ellie's smile was the brightest out of us three. I felt, for the first time in months, Sadness. I kept thinking to myself that I could've prevented her death. I was the only one still in the building. I put my head on the desk, and just began sobbing. It was uncontrollable...it still hurt.

I sat up, stood up, walked out of my office, locked the door, and exited the building.

I walked through to the lobby, it was dark, seeing as there wasn't anyone there, and it was raining outside. I looked around, my face still wet from the tears. I couldn't get Ellie out of my head.

Tord teleported by me.

//* Hello old friend, you seem kinda sad.\\

"...I really am." I replied.

//* What's wrong?\\

"A picture of Ellie, me and Eliza reminded me that Ellie was dead. I've been trying to just...block it out. I didn't want to acknowledge she was dead."

//* Well that's why memory erasers exi-\\

"No."

//* Alright.\\

"I think I just.. I think I just want to be alone for a bit, Tord.."

He nodded before teleporting off. I exited to the outside. It was raining, and I didn't have a coat, or an umbrella. I begin the slow walk back to the airport.

In the rain, alone.

Eliza's View:
I saw Tord entering the house but he wasn't here to make amends. He put a flower up to Emily face and she passed out. What was he doing. I began to confront him about his actions in the past few weeks and he didn't even feel bad, not for one bit of it. He left after a while.

Within the week, I noticed that Grim was more...upset than usual. He hadn't stopped looking at past pictures with Ellie in them. I tried my best to make him happy, after all, I mourned over her every once in a while. But he thought it was all his fault; it really wasn't.

I reminder the day she died as if it were only yesterday. All I had to do was stop time...rewrite her destiny. But I didn't.

And now she's gone.

"Eliza."

* Oh sorry, yes?

"I called your name five times.." he frowned.

* Sorry...daydreaming.

He held up another picture and gave it to me. It was Ellie and I when we went out for the first time. I was alive, and excited to see how the world had developed.

Shame, you can't do that with her anymore.
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A week had gone by and the whole of it was spent with Star. We helped one another to make some sort of progress with Sofia's soul.

And together, we made quite a lot actually.

I was typing up the soul readings for the day when there was a knock on the door.

* Just a moment please!

I put my laptop down and Grim had just teleported home. He was unloading his work bag when I opened the door.

There was a gun.

There was silence.

There she was.

* I don't know who you are...o-or why my self consciousness is telling me to be here. I don't even remember who I am anymore but I know my only goal is to get powerful souls.

Her hands were shaking.

"Eliza how-"

* Her name's...Eliza?

I glared at Grim and he frowned.

* You're her, aren't you.

* H..Her..?

* They all said it. They said it was "HER" who promised to save them. All of them-!

* All of who?!

* ALL OF ME.

Her hands began to shake as she kept the gun faced at me. A few seconds went by and Grim teleported; he stabbed a paralysing solution into her. She fell to the floor.

We both looked at one another. Was this a coincidence..? Was this just luck? This couldn't be real.

Eliza the glitch is getting stronger in you, it wont be too long until it gets the better of you..~

Grim picked her up from the floor and we teleported to his lab. He laid her down.

* H-How is this p...possible?! She died, we saw her die...

Grim looked frustrated and confused. He tried taking out her soul but he couldn't. Not even I could. It was definitely her...

"She's...she's about to wake up."

I casted a spell to keep her in a thick bubble to suppress her magic. She woke up, slowly but surely. She sat up and looked right at us.

* Let me out of here.

"Do you remember who we are?" Grim asked, willingly.

* The two people who paralysed me.

She stood up and bashed on the bubble.

* Please...you have to remember something..

* I said let me out of here.

Ellie had to remember...

"Ellie we're your parents, don't you remember..?" Grim put his hands on the bubble, hoping for something, anything.

She looked blankly at him before getting out a soul she had previously absorbed.

* Ellie...?

She the soul floated about before turning black, making auras of darkness and decay.

* This is your fault.

The soul exploded and the bubble broke. Grim quickly created a shield so no shards would hurt us. Ellie wasted no time in attacking us. We all teleported to snowdin and Ellie spawned her scythe. 

"Try not go get hi-"

'Oo, fight, I'm in.'

Player jumped right into the action, her rainbow sword blocking Ellie's first attack. We needed to find out what had happened to Ellie before this. Grim took my hand.

"I know what you're thinking; I'm coming with you."

I smiled and nodded, casting a silent spell to reverse into Ellie's recent event. She had been used as some sort of...guinea pig for Gaster's machine. His goal for her, was to start again. Absorbing souls. So she did....26 times. 

"Look, there."

*...?

"Every time she started again as another Ellie, her memory files decrease in storage (so they get smaller and smaller), to the point where she no longer remembers herself."

* How you noticed that- I won't question. How do we get her back?

"That's the part I don't know.."

* Each time the voice mentioned a woman that never saved them, and a few mention my name...I never made those promises to anyone.

"Perhaps it's an Eliza from another timeline?"

* Maybe...

I returned us back to snowdin. Player and Ellie were exhausted. Player went up to Ellie and shut her down. 

'She's alive? Since when?'

* We only just found out now too. ;w;

But we didn't know what was coming our way.