I Am Myself (Frans)

Chapter Twenty Two

It felt like the first sleep in ages, that I did not have nightmares or any kind of dreams that would keep me up.

I woke up feeling unbelivably comfortable. My bedsheets felt soft and I was warmed up under a blanket.

When my eyes opened, it was dark. For some reason, that also felt really comforting. The stripe of light creeping in under the door did too. I was in my room.

Even though it was clearly late at night and my eyes were still small, I knew I wouldn't fall asleep anymore. I just wanted to stay in the bed, enjoying this bliss nothingness.

Soft voices could be heard behind the door and when I focused on them, I could hear what they were saying.

"... should have brought Frisk home sooner." said a gentle feminine voice, "It's getting cold these days, they could have gotten sick too."

"you'd be surprised how warm Waterfall is..." replied a deeper one, talking quietly and slowly.

"You were at Waterfall?" the first voice asked.

"yea, Frisk wanted to go there for some reason. besides, they didn't even let me go close to them. they were so panicked i was worried that if i push them in a wrong direction... and then when they were... out, i didn't know what would happen if i disturbed them." the second voice was worried, getting a bit louder as it spoke. It let out a sigh before continuing. "it looked like they were fighting... something. but it wasn't chara this time."

"Chara..." the feminine speaker saddened. "I don't understand, how...?"

"i have no idea, tori."

Tori. Toriel. That was... mom, right? My goat mom. I felt strange. Dissociated from the world. I listened to them speak but it ment nothing untill they said those two names. Chara. Toriel.

"Let's just hope it will be alright." said Toriel silently.

I started listening to the conversation. The world was slowly coming back to me but it was like walking through honey. And I felt too much comfort to try and walk any faster.

"how do you always stay so positive?" the deep voice sounded on edge. I still didn't quite get to who the person was but they felt... important.

"It's not like I'm not worried. I just have to be strong. For all of us. For my child." mom's soft voice was so calming. There is no reason to hurry out of my world of nothing. Yet something started nagging me in the back of my head. The world was poking at me to let it in. I ignored it.

"yeah, for Frisk. but how...? what if they don't wake up?" the other voice was getting panicky. My brows furrowed. Why would they disturb my peace like that? I wanted them to calm down. My thoughts were now pinching at my head to be let in. I swatted it like it was an annoying fly.  "and if they do... god knows who wakes up? what do we do if it's chara? i can't loose Frisk now-"

"Sans-..." Tori tried to calm them down. At least she was on my side.

But the name she said. Sans...

It seemed my thoughts finally had enough and I woke up from my ignorant state.

Even though I was now thinking straight and understanding what was happening, I was still mostly... emotionless. As if my brain woke up but my heart was still sleeping.

"I'm okay!" I called out to the two outside my room and sat up, letting my feet dangle off the bed.

The door creaked as it opened, letting in the soft light from the hallway and two friendly silhouettes.

"My child!"
"sweets!"

They ran to my side, Tori sitting next to me and hugging me closer to her while Sans crouched in front of us and put his hand on my knee.