Constant Heartache (SwapxFell) ~Completed!~

Chapter 3: Noticing Pain

US Pap's view:

I don't know if Blue thinks I'm stupid, or if he just doesn't trust me. I could tell that he was holding back on something when he told me about helping UnderFell's Alphys. So during my smoke walk I stopped by Muffet's house to talk about his outburst earlier. I pull up my hood and we chat for a while. Unfortunately, she hasn't heard anything though. When I get back home I can hear Blue muttering quietly in his sleep. I try to open his door, but it was locked. He never used to lock his door. I teleport inside and stagger back from the stench of alcohol that hits my face. Not just any alcohol either. The same brand that I smelt on him the other day. He's lying in bed with the covers over his head and is muttering nonsense in his sleep. I glance around the room and see a fridge in the corner. I bend down to open it and it has a few bottles of some kind of brandy in there. A paper floats down from the top and I grab it. It's a list of parts with values on the side. I shut the fridge and start rifling through the drawers when I come to a locked one. I use magic to open it. There are some stacks of gold and a note. I pick up the note and it reads,

Balance: 15,472 g

17,500 for ===== house

Cost per week: Around 200 g

Fav so far: Whiskey and ===== Brandy

The words before house and brandy were scribbled over with furious pen strokes. My bro was trying to buy a house? And he was drinking whiskey and brandy? I dropped the note and it went under the bed. I pulled it out and my hand clanked against some bottles. I pull them out. There were six. Did he drink all of these tonight? I look out of his window and see that the trashcan is open. I put the bottles back under the bed and go outside. Inside the can I found twenty six bottles like the ones upstairs. The trash is taken away every Tuesday, it is now Monday. Has he been drinking five bottles every night with the exception of yesterday and tonight? What would cause my brother to do that? How long has he been drinking? How was he able to hide it all so well? I use my phone and snap a few photos of all the things before putting everything back the way it was. I need to talk to someone, anyone. Maybe I'll have the strength to confront him in the morning.

Blue's view (morning):

Ugh... my head... I push the covers off of myself and stretch my feet out. I go through my morning routine, but I don't even wake Pappy this time. Instead, I leave a note on his door saying that I'm going out and will be back soon. I leave and go straight to UnderFell, eager to start working so I can get my mind off of this headache. I head to Alphys' lab first to see if she needed to update the list before I go to the dump. I find her furiously gnawing on her arm and staring intently at beeping and flashing monitors. I run over and gently pull her arm away from her mouth and she turns to me. I flinch and back away a bit. She has a mad glint in her eyes and her face is twisted into the creepiest smile I had ever seen, and I've seen Killer angry. She advances toward me and I back away until I bump into some more monitors. She stops a few steps from me and growls something

"W-WHAT WAS T-THAT ALPHYS?" I stammer

"Your SOUL. Give it to me" She growls.

"W-WHAT DO YOU M-MEAN? Y-YOUR S-SCARING ME ALPHYS..."

She grabs my shirt and, with deft precision, swings me around, pinning my arms behind me. She places her hand over my eyes and I can feel some blood from her arm dripping into my eye socket. She pushes me forward into a room I hadn't been to before, judging by the strange metallic sound the floor was making. She removes her hand from my eyes and spins me around before shoving me onto a metal, reclined chair. She holds me down with her tail and fastens the metal cuffs on my arms and legs, talking as she does.

"I just need a little more power to make this work. It's nothing personal, Blue. But I NEED this to work. I hope you understand why I couldn't use Mettaton's SOUL or Fell's. Theirs' are to corrupted, but yours is still quite pure and produces light power."

She starts hooking my arms to some big silver machine and lifts my shirt with her tail. At this point I'm just crying nonsense, completely helpless. She attaches a few wires to my soul and steps back, admiring her work. She fastens a kind of damp, heavy rag over my eyes and I shake my head a little until she clamps a stabilizer on me, preventing me from moving. I hear her walk away and follow the sound. It seems she's walked behind the one way glass I saw earlier. I hear more rustling. It sounds like she's attaching wires to herself.

"Just know, Blue. That blind is to minimize the pain on your part. Without it, your mind would go into overload and your SOUL would probably blow up. So you know I wouldn't do this if it wasn't necessary Blue. But since I have to make this work, I'm still trying to do you little to no harm. Are you ready?"

I'm crying, hot tears leaking from the "blind" as she had called it.

"NO, PLEASE!!! ALPHYS NO!!!" I scream, I scream as loud as I can.

Alphys makes some weird sniffling noise, watching me struggle. She writes some quick not in her log that reads.

_____________________________

Power Trial: Ready to proceed

Subject: Ready

Donor: "Ready"

Initiating sequence.

Launching

____________________________

 She reaches for the button.

(A/N Have a cliffhanger my lovely peeps!)