Harry Potter Down Under

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This chapter is a gift because I felt bad about the last cliff hanger. Oh, and hey, if you see any typos let me know and I will try to fix them. I get annoyed when I use improper grammer, and this story is pretty old so I probs made many mistakes.

The first thing Harry noticed as he woke up was that one of his wrists was chained to his bed. The next one was the deep pain in his gut. He knew he wasn't dead because it hurt, but he wasn't in enough pain to ignore it. He'd often felt worse just from the beatings from his "family."

"I see you're still alive."

"Please, leave me alone."

"Why? Are you regretting what you chose to do?"

"No, it's just that..."

He heard whispering outside his room and tensed. The voice disappeared as well, leaving the boy alone to deal with whatever Sans and Alphys were going to do with him. There was a quiet knock at the entrance to the room before Sans entered. Harry curled up and buried himself in the blankets and pillows as the skeleton sat beside him.

"Harry." The child flinched and hid his face as Sans put his hand on his back.

"Harry, can you tell me who you were talking to just now?" The boy stiffened, not knowing how to answer. He hadn't realized that Sans could hear him talking to the voice. Instead of answering, he curled up tighter. He didn't want to show his old friend his tears, so he hid his face as best he could.

"Harry!" The boy flinched as the skeleton yelled at him. "Harry, tell me!"

At that, the child couldn't contain his sobs and struggled against the chain, trying desperately to back away from Sans. As the old friend held his hands up, sorrow in his eyes, the boy sobbed harder.

"I'm sorry!" I won't repeat the rest of what the poor child said, his voice will echo in my mind if I do so. I can feel myself tear, my heart ping, and my hands ache as the boy shrinks in the corner, begging Sans not to hurt him.

And Sans felt the same way.

"Why would you try that Harry? Tell me." He didn't raise his voice this time, but it didn't help calm the boy in any way."

"Why would I want to live in this cruel world when everybody I love hates me?" For somebody who's crying, his voice is very steady. He'd had practice speaking through tears, I suppose.

"Why would you think we hated you?" Sans took the distraction and slid a little closer to the boy on the bed.

"Frisk left me here, and Alphys is afraid to be in the same room as me!" Sans scooted a little closer as the boy seemed to calm a little. The tears slowly stopped flowing.

"Alphys doesn't fear you! I'm sorry, this is all my fault. I told Frisk to leave you with us. I told her we wouldn't let anything hurt you, and she believed me. And Alphys, I told her to stay away because I didn't want her to get hurt. It's all my fault, kiddo, please don't blame the others."

"But I've been a bad boy!" His crying began again and he hid his face with his hands. "I hurt so many people. It's my fault, so why am I still alive?"

The boy looked up as Sans let out a soft chuckle. "What's so funny?"

"That bottle you drank from, Alphys used it to hold some cleaning solution she'd created. It's not actually poisonous to humans, but it does knock ya out apparently."

"Fool."

"Shut up." The boy didn't realize he'd said it aloud until Sans' eyes blinked out again. "I'm sorry! Please, forgive me!"

"I-It's alright, just tell me who it is talking to you."

"I-I don't know. They're a kid, but they keep telling me to kill myself. I can't...I don't know their name or even their gender."

Sans seemed to grow even scarier. "Chara." He said before his eyes blinked back as he seemed to notice how frightened the boy was by his mood change.

"I'm so sorry, Sans," the boy sobbed as Sans scooted closer. As the skeleton brought the boy into a hug, Harry stiffened, then relaxed. The young boy smiled for the first time in what seemed like forever.

"Stupid kid. You really think this is going to last? Last time something "bad" happened, they threw you into a closet and forgot about you. You're nothing to them, and you never will be."

"Sans," he whispered as he buried his face into his friend's sweatshirt.

"Yeah, buddy?"

"Don't forget me."

"Why would I forget you?"

"They're saying you're going to forget me again. You're going to leave me, forget me, hurt me. Promise you won't, even if somebody takes me over again."

"I promise, baby bones, I won't do that to you again."

~Perhaps she'll leave me alone now.~
"Nope! Haha! By the way, I'm not a girl."

~A boy then?~
"I'm gender neutral, you brat!"

~Fine. But why are you doing this to me?~
"Because you're more fun to play with than Frisk. Plus, you're new, something young, something I can control with ease. What will we do first? Kill or save? Reset or Continue? It's up to you now boy, your soul's different than it once was. You hold my power now, not that "sibling" or your's."

Ask questions about anything you don't understand. If the question isn't answered before the end of part one then I will answer them right after chapter 23.