Broken Grace

Broken Grace chapter twenty

-Unstable verse Council Hall-

Alter and Ren talked quietly while others filtered into the meeting room. Glancing at where Cobalt was setting up his presentation.

Ren finally nodded and they approached him. "Cobalt? Can you look at something for us? We never saw Error and well your description of him along with the more general information that was circulated..."

"We think we might know who he was before he was Error." Alter took over when Ren faltered.

Cobalt looked up at them for a long moment then nodded. "Dust can you handle setting up?"

Giving a nod Dust took over but kept a socket on them as they moved to the end of the table talking softly and flipping through a photo album and a box full of pictures and other keepsakes.

Finally Cobalt nods holding up one picture in particular, and speaking so that his voice will carry. "I believe you are right. Error would have liked to know this, he always did question what type of Sans he was before. I think you should share your findings before my presentation."

"Cobalt setup is done." Dust called and started arranging chairs glancing over at them.

Smiling Cobalt waves him over and shows him the pictures. "I am sure but who does this look like to you?"

Dust flipped through the pictures and stopped at one of the Sans in battle. "That is Error."

Glancing up to see the last few stragglers arriving Cobalt nodded. "Dust time for you to go, please tell the others about this then there is a list of AU's on my desk that are due to touch this week. Take the boys out, you know what to do and make it fast. I don't want to lose anyone else, especially you."

Dust scooped Cobalt up for a tight hug before putting him down. "I will see you at home, be careful with this lot."

Alter watched as Dust jogged out leaving Cobalt to handle the presentation alone. "I did not think he would leave you to face this alone after yesterday."

"He does not want to but we know his limits. He is still Dust from DustTale the Sans who snapped under the weight of the constant genocide runs and killed everyone to spare them having to go through that again. Do you really think him staying for this is a good idea that he should have the names of the living who hurt, no, broke someone he cared about? I am the best option for this task because I am cruel enough to want those that harmed my family to live and have what they have done eat away at them forever." Cobalt smiled and it wasn't a sweet forgiving smile.

Ren flinched away from him, wings fluttering in distress. "I thought you were nice?"

Alter pats Ren on the shoulder. "He is but that doesn't change that he is a Sans who has had to watch his brother fall. We all have that rage in us when our family is hurt or killed."

Hesitantly Ren nodded. "I.. what should I do?"

"Well if you can stand him someone needs to make sure Inky installed barf buckets after yesterday we should not count on strong stomachs." Cobalt looked down at the picture in his hand only a little faded thanks to the rests. Looking at the intricate amazingly detailed puppets on the shelf just behind the skeleton who stood with closed sockets playing the violin.

"That picture is what made you sure. Why that one when Dust was sure after seeing the one of him fighting?" Alter studied Cobalt's face while Ren went to deal with Inky.

"Dust used to fight Error a lot trying to rekindle that spark that will to fight. He slowed down a lot when I pointed out that it wasn't giving him something to fight for. But I knew Error in his rare moments of rest, I saw him make amazingly detailed puppets and dolls. I saw the empty shattered violin case spattered with paint. This is Error as I know him best." He lightly touched the picture. "That one over there." He pointed to one of the Sans with a child on his lap telling stories to a group setting on the floor around him. "That is Error as Killer knew him." He then points to another of the same Sans standing protectively over a cat with a wounded leg glaring at someone out of frame. "That is Cross's Error. And there are so many more all the different sides of him and ways we knew him and more."