Love in the Darkness (Charisk)

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"Chara, take care of them. Enjoy the future for me."

Sans turned to dust and died.

Frisk's eyes swelled up with tears. Chara sniffled. Asriel and Flowey cried softly to themselves. Asriel then mercilessly launched the fireball at the still unconscious Chad.

Frisk stood up, their head hanging down. Chara watched them get up and walk outside. The elder gathered up the skeleton's dust. How were they going to break it to their friends, their family?

"Asriel." Chara called, monotone.

"Y-yes?" Asriel wiped away another tear.

"Watch over Sans' dust. I'm going to get Frisk." They turned and left abruptly.

"Frisk?" Chara called out into darkness.

The demon saw a light appear from behind the abandoned building.

Frisk...

Chara ran quietly to behind a tree. Frisk was looking at something. Chara focused in on the scene and realized that the something was...

Oh no.

The Reset button.

***

"Frisk!"

Chad's father heard the demon call out to their partner. Meredith was standing next to him.

"Wait for them to start talking, Mer. I want to see where this goes. Then you attack."

Meredith nodded. "Yes, Robert."

Frisk turned their head to see Chara breathing heavily and sweating. It looked like they just ran a marathon.

"Frisk, please. Don't do this."

"I just lost Sans. We just lost Sans, Chara. And to Chad! Fucking Chad! This is the only way to bring him back."

"It was Sans' wish for you not to Reset for him, Frisk."

Chara approached their partner and embraced them. Their hands interlocked. Chara squeezed Frisk's hand.

Frisk squeezed back.

They cried into Chara's shoulder. "I won't Reset. For Sans."

From behind the trees, the softest footsteps went into the building. The bloodcurdling screams of a goat child rang through the night. The sound of dust floating through the air echoed throughout the wood.

Chara and Frisk's Souls ached in that very moment. Asriel was gone, too. Chara started crying and Frisk clutched themself, their face contorting into sadness.

"Go."

Meredith took this chance and silently attacked the two with all her might.

***

"Chara!"

It was too late. Meredith's knife went straight into Chara's chest. Meredith ran back into the shadows. Her work here was done.

Chara's dying body collapsed into Frisk's arms. Blood poured out of their chest. This couldn't be happening.

This couldn't be happening.

This couldn't be happening.

"Frisk..."

Frisk looked down to Chara, their tears falling onto the other's face.

"Y-yes?" Frisk choked on their tears.

This couldn't be happening.

"I love you, so much."

Chara's body fell still. This couldn't be happening. Not now. This was no way Chara should die, of all people.

Frisk just lost three loved ones in 20 minutes. They looked back to the Reset button, tears falling down their face.

They closed down the Reset button. Flowey popped out of the ground. At least their best friend was still here.

"Frisk...?"

The child didn't bother holding it back anymore. They hugged Chara's dead body, crying for what seemed like hours. Flowey's stem grew and with his leaves, he hugged Frisk. For he had lost people that he cared for too, that night.

This was actually happening.

They were dead.

Chara was dead.