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sleekervae · 3 years

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Suck It And See [0.2]

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"So, what's it like?" Rose asked. Jade laid flat out on her bed, staring at the cracks and stains in the ceiling while her best friend was on the phone.

"It's cold," she said, "Even for post-summer in England, it's cold,"

"What do you mean by cold?" Rose asked again, "That don't make no sense,"

"It's just very isolating is all," Jade replied, "None of these cousins have even come over to say 'hi',"

She hummed from the other end in thought, "Well, perhaps they're waiting for you to come out of your room?" she inquired.

"That'd be fine," Jade said, "If they too weren't locked in their own rooms. Rose, the only sounds I hear are the odd car driving by or the birds in the trees. It's eery, there's no life here whatsoever,"

"They're a suburban family, s'pose. Suburbans do things differently," Rose said, "Remember my next door neighbour? The brownstone that always reeked of meat?"

"Rose, that whole neighbourhood smells of deli meat. You're round the corner from the artisan markets," Jade said.

"Don't matter," Rose said, "Fact is that we lived in a suburb and every single person in that bloody square-radius was whacked,"

Jade sighed, "I think I'd rather be in a Newcastle as oppose to this," she said.

"Well, what's this Auntie all about, then?" Rose asked, "You said she was rich?"

"That's the only cool thing about her," Jade mused, "She married into it. Think she's put out a pound for my mum's treatments? Think again, kid,"

"Perhaps taking you in is her way of chipping in?" Rose said, "You know, take the emotionally-distraught-teenager out of the equation?"

Jade rolled onto her side, staring glumly out the foggy window that overlooked the neighbourhood. It looked more like a still-life than a reality, with silent streets, strangled grass, nobody about on the streets. It was depressingly glum, a place that no emotional teenager could possibly withstand in her circumstances.

"As far as I'm concerned, I should be at home instead,"

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Right at seven-fifteen in the evening, Jade was refreshed and redressed, this time in a simple white t-shirt and a pair of comfortable jeans. Her long, thick brown hair was tied up in a loose ponytail, showing off her gorgeous, youthful face. The wonderful smell of roast meat and steamed vegetables filled her nose, and it suddenly dawned on Jade that she was starving. She hadn't eaten anything since she had left her house this morning. She had had a cup of coffee and a scone with her dad in a local cafe by the station, a little father-daughter time before she would have to chug off. It wasn't the most pleasant bonding time for Jade, she still had mixed feelings towards her father and his actions.

Aunt Joy looked to have her head in the oven, a cynically amusing concept to Jade as she entered the kitchen. It was twice the size of her kitchen back home, with jade marble counter tops, clean wooden cabinets, a big, beautiful stainless steel fridge, and a state-of-the-art oven and stove-top set. A few feet away was a grand dining table covered in a green and yellow patch table cloth. And in two of the seats were her younger cousins, Charlie and Noah. The boys were fraternal twins, both eleven years of age with dark bowl-cuts, pudgy and pasty faces, with a thick rimmed glasses sitting on both of their noses. They seemed to be fighting over who's turn it was to play with their video game console.

"Charlie, it's my turn!" Noah whined as he tried to make a grab for the gameboy, "Yeh said yeh'd let me play after yeh killed the dragon!"

"Yeah!" Charlie sneered back, "But now I 'ave to kill the mutant lava monster!" he exclaimed. Noah continued to whine at him and kept grabbing for the console. Soon afterwards, a little, wispy-haired boy came running into the kitchen, yelling for his life.

"AAH! Mummy!" the little boy ran and hide behind Aunt Joy. Jade watched with confusion as another boy, taller than she was, came running after the little boy. He had a gremlin mask on over his head, but the young boy wasn't old enough to understand. Alfie, he was. He couldn't have been older than seven or eight.

"Mummy! Oliver's tryna' eat me!" he yelled. The older boy, sixteen-year-old Oliver, ripped off the deformed, ugly mask and started to laugh.

"Oh, take a joke, Alf. I was only kiddin'," Oliver said to him. Aunt Joy refrained from rolling her eyes as she pulled the roast beef out of the of oven and set it on the stove top to cool.

"Boys, did you say hello to your cousin?" She asked in a diminutive sneer.

The shenanigans in the kitchen came to a sudden stop as they all turned around and focused on Jade. She suddenly felt as though she was being glared down by a pack of wild hyenas.

Oliver, being the oldest, made his move first as he slung an arm around his cousin, "Long time, no see, cuz,"

Out of all her cousins, Jade tended to gravitate towards Oliver most. Perhaps because he was older, perhaps because he was good looking? Jade would never have any romantic kindlings towards him, he was her cousin after all. Regardless, Jade could appreciate his high cheek bones, shaggy but combed back hair, and well-chiseled body. He was a top player on the school's lacrosse team after all.

Uncle Cosmo entered the dining room soon after and had the boys set the table for dinner. He kept calling for Flora to come down from her room.

"Flo! Yehr ma 'as dinner on!" He shouted down the hall.

Jade took a seat at the end of the table, unsure of what else to do as Oliver and and Charlie set the table. He had ripped the game boy away from them and placed it on the spice rack whets neither of them could reach. Flora eventually came down and took a seat on the opposing side to Jade, between Oliver and Alfie.

They all sat down and Aunt Joy placed the roast and veggies in the middle of the table. Noah sat to Jade's left and Uncle Cosmo to her right. They both suddenly grabbed her hands. She was confused until she saw the rest of the family join hands and she realised they were going to say Grace.

"Do yeh say Grace before dinner, Jade?" Charlie asked her, clearly sensing get unease.

Aunt Joy replied before Jade could even open her mouth, "No dear, your Aunty Ruth doesn't believe in God," she said.

"So... Do you not believe in God, Jade?" Charlie asked.

"Erm... not really," she replied.

"Why?" he asked, "Yeh're not afraid of Him?"

"Charlie!" Uncle Cosmo suddenly cut in, "It's none of the business wha' Jade believes in. Now 'old yeh brother's 'and,"

Jade let out a small sigh of relief. And with that, Aunt Joy proceeded to say Grace:

"Dear Lord, thank you for this food we are about to eat. We are grateful for your provision. We ask that you would bless this food and continue to guide our family along Your path. In the name of Your son Jesus, amen,"

"Amen," the whole table said. They all suddenly turned to Jade, who had stayed silent up until that point."

"... Oh. Erm -- a-amen,"

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Dinner passed as quietly and uncomfortable as possible for Jade. The younger boys kept asking her why she was here, why her mum was sick, why her parents separated. Uncle Cosmo and Aunt Joy steered the conversation away as much as they could, but even Aunt Joy made little attempt to ease Jade into her family. Oliver then went on to tell Jade about the school she would be attending with them -- Stocksbridge High School. Flora meanwhile stayed silent, occasionally throwing a dirty look Jade's way. She couldn't for the life of her understand what her problem was.

Jade helped the five children -- well, four, Flora chose not to help -- clean up afterwards, then they all separated into their own rooms. Jade was at a loss for what to do with herself, so she sat on the couch with Uncle Cosmo as he lit his pipe and watched the evening news.

"Yeh excited for school tomorrow, Jade?" He asked her. Jade nodded slowly, more focused on the puff piece the news channel was doing on a bird sanctuary in Ireland. She had hardly spoken a word all day, and Uncle Cosmo didn't take it lightly. He couldn't begin to imagine what heartbreak was being thrusted upon this young girl.

"Jade, how are yeh doing? Wif all of this?" He asked her. Jade shook her head and looked up at her uncle with those big, sad hazel eyes.

"I'm fine," she replied quietly.

Cosmo sat forward on the couch and looked down the hall, finding the door to the den closed with light flickering from under the door. His wife wouldn't be able to hear him, then.

"Listen, I won' lie to yeh and say 'I know wha' yeh're going through'. I will tell yeh 'owever tha' it will get better. Yehr mum is a lil' fighter, and she will pull through. If anything, she'll do it fer yeh. As fer yeh dad, 'e's gonna 'help yehr mum any way 'e can, yehr ma won' be alone,"

Jade blinked back the tears that were threatening to spill over and wiped her nose on her jumper sleeve, "Jason's in jail, Uncle Cosmo. Jack's living with... Her. And I'm up here. How is she not alone?" she said. One of her older brother, Jason, had been hauled into juvenile detention last year on a drug charge, while her younger brother, Jack, was living with their father's new girlfriend, Winona, for reasons Jade could not see as logical.

Uncle Cosmo shrugged back and sighed, "Well, yehr ma knows she ain't alone because she knows tha' 'er children are thinking of 'er. She don't want yeh to see 'er in her treatments because she don't want yeh to remember 'er like that. Yeh understand wha' I mean, dear?" he said. Jade, again, nodded as a snail's pace, still keeping her eyes trained on the television.

"Things are gonna be strange for the next lil' while, I know. But yeh 'ave us to lean on fer support," he assured her, "Yeh ain't gonna be alone, Jade,"

Jade forced herself to swallow the growing lump in her throat as well as her uncle's articulations. She wanted to believe him, but the homesickness she felt was too fresh in her mind to give in to the ease her uncle was offering. She quickly wiped away the tears that slid down her face before Cosmo could notice and she turned back to the television, not uttering a word for the rest of the evening.

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Morning came faster than Jade would have liked.

After a sleepless night of tossing and turning, Jade grimaced as a loud pounding thundered on her bedroom door.

"Wake up, Jade!" Noah called from the other end, "Mum says we 'ave to get readeh fer school!"

Oh yeah, school. As if she weren't having enough troubles.

Jade groaned and shoved the blankets off her frail body. The floor was cold against her feet and she shivered as a draft whipped across her skin. She did a little stretch and went to the suitcase she hadn't yet bothered to unpack. Unlike her school back home, Jade had to wear a uniform to Stocksbridge -- and ugly one at that, consisting of a button down shirt, a black skirt, and a scratchy grey jumper, and an ugly tie.

If her friends back home could see her now, they'd never let her live this down. Jade had gone to a school where if you dressed like you were on your way to a business meeting downtown, you'd be robbed of your lunch money and locked into the janitor's closet within a span of ten minutes. She missed those ugly, drab classroom walls and rusty lockers that would clatter as you would walk by.

Jade -- now dressed in her new uniform, went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and comb her hair. However, as she tried to turn the bathroom knob, she found it was locked. A shrill voice hollered from the other end.

"Occupied!" Flora shouted with aggravation.

Jade was overcome with a sense of awkward being, unsure of just what to do. The only other bathroom in the house was her Aunt and Uncle's in their bedroom, and the powder room downstairs. Was it appropriate to brush her teeth in there? In this house especially?

"Erm -- i-it's me," Jade called, "Can I come in? I just wanna brush me teeth!"

There was a long, uncomfortable silence before Flora finally replied with an expected "No!"

Jade was beginning to get annoyed with her attitude, "I'll just be thirty seconds, I promise ya! I just really need the sink!"

She heard Flora groan back, "I'm using the sink! Use the loo downstairs!" she exclaimed. Jade bit on her bottom lip nervously, eyeing the corridor to the flight of grandiose stairs. Reluctantly, she took her toothbrush and toothpaste and skittered down the stairs, then headed right for the powder room. As if my a stroke of misfortune, Aunt Joy had spotted her from the kitchen as she was brewing a fresh pot of coffee, and she called after her.

"Jade, dear!" her voice slithered through the air with the grace of a snake, "I certainly hope you're not planning to use the powder room to brush your teeth!" she said, "It's unbecoming, you know,"

Jade refrained from rolling her eyes. It was the powder room, people use the powder room to freshen up. And she needed to freshen up for school so she wouldn't be mistaken for a zombie on her first day.

"Well... Flora refuses to get out of the bathroom... so what do I do?" she asked.

Joy sighed with exasperation, most likely at how petty and ridiculous her daughter was being. Or so Jade had hoped. But by the look on her face, Jade was weary that some of that exasperation may have been directed at her.

"Alright. You can use the powder room this morning. But I will have a talk with Flora," she said. Jade thanked her graciously and hopped into the powder room, feeling as though she had received an indirect warning from a prison warden as oppose to her 'loving' aunty.

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narcisskanotfrisk · 4 years

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BeyondFell: Part 8(Updated)

Frisk didn't know if she should laugh at this remark or if she should run. She got up as best she could, dusting her clothes on the way to remove the snow residue stuck on it. She looked at the skeleton intently, not knowing what to answer. "Well, you are not very talkative. I may have cut you off, this is no reason to give the cat its tongue. " "Hahaha, yes, I can speak. My name is Frisk, delighted » As Toriel was previously, Sans was disturbed by the smile that Frisk wore. She seemed so kind and innocent. It took a little while before answering her. "You're not mute, that's already it, otherwise I could have been out of breath. What do we owe the presence of a human here below? " Frisk didn't really want to tell her story, so she decided to sidestep the part that talked about the problems with her orphanage. She told him that she had gone for a walk in the forest, then having seen the mountain, she had decided to climb on it. In a rather dark cave she had not seen the hole and had fallen into the Underground. It did not really go into the details of the story. "Hey, it seems like you are there totally by chance in the end. (He seemed to start to smile) Well, I'll help you. Do you seem to be having trouble getting through? Do not worry, with my magic you will pass without problem " He reached for the human, and his left eye lit up with a reddish aura while Frisk was surrounded by a blue aura. Her soul too became blue and rose gently above the ground. At first she seemed surprised by this new sensation, then she was amused like a child who had been given a new toy. She looked at him smiling like a kid, which disturbed him again and made him lose his smile for a blissful look. "It would be really nice of you to do this for me!" " "Well, I'm a very busy person, but I want to make an exception this time. I’m not a doctor but it could be a way to start” "Ahahah, thank you anyway, it's very kind of you. " "No problem, mouahahah ...." He began to smile again and teleported across the precipice, starting to levitate Frisk above this huge hole. Arrived at a little over half, Sans heard a noise behind him, his eye became as before and he turned. Frisk, no longer subject to the magic of Sans, began to fall ... "Hey, brother what are you doing around here?" There are no humans who have passed through here. " "TODAY IT WILL BE LIEUTENANT. I WAS COMING TO SEE IF A PILES OF BONES SUCH AS YOU DID NOT SLEEP ON THE JOB! " "Ok lieutenant, I'm awake for the day. Until at least a restart, you have to know how to start all over after all. ” “STOP WITH YOUR FOOLERY AND GO BACK TO MONITOR IF A HUMAN ARRIVES! " "Don't worry Pap ... lieutenant. I know how to be on my guard when necessary, even if nobody should pump the air from here, mouahahah " «... STOP WITH YOUR JOKES I WILL GO! TELL ME IF YOU SEE A HUMAN!” The person who had conversed with Sans was also a skeleton, measuring almost twice the size of his counterpart. He also seemed thinner and had some sort of armor on him. Its left opening bore scars, they cut to make a cross on this opening. He also had a scar on the back of his head. His armor, meanwhile, seemed handmade. He wore a red pantyhose underneath it covering his whole body except his skull. On his rib cage, a black breastplate was placed. At the level of what would normally have been the heart for a human was drawn a symbol. At the neck and bottom of his armor, two worm lines appeared. He wore black mittens to which he had added pikes in an artisanal way. The last piece of armor was made like a kind of panty also made of metal, like the plastron. He had a green line above it, otherwise all the rest of this armor was black. He wore large shoes that looked like hiking boots, also in black. Sans watched him go before showing a carnivorous smile. "It seems that the fall of this story is not for now, see you soon, Papyrus" The noise of the body crashing into the precipice was heard only very slightly. Frisk stayed for a while in the reset location. In the darkness of this place, she could make out a distant figure behind the screen. She tried to make out details, but the person was too far away to see anything. She sighed before pressing RESET. I-I did not dream there? … Frisk looked at me for a while before trying to start again. It is the first time that this happens since I follow it ... I wonder if it is related to the fact that my soul approaches it with each of its deaths? I can only make assumptions. In any case, what I am sure of is that this young girl is full of surprises ... Let’s continue to look how far she can go ... Frisk made her way again, but this time she was not terrified, rather confident of having a new friend she could count on. She advanced to the precipice level and waited for Sans. When she heard the steps stop right behind her, Frisk turned directly without waiting for Sans to say his sentence. She looked at him smiling while she had disturbed him once more. Without sighing and raised his arms to heaven: "You are not very patient as a girl ... But hey, nothing beats a little bravery here below. However do you remain a person of integrity? Or would you be someone who upholds justice? Mouahaha, what is certain is that you are someone of perseverance and full of kindness " Frisk didn't really understand where he was coming from and looked at him curiously. She wondered if he was talking about something important on purpose. She tried to memorize Sans's words just in case. "Don't worry if you don't understand, by the way you will need help crossing, right?" I hope you don't feel dizzy, otherwise you could fall very low mouahahah " "No, I'm fine, I'm pretty carefree as a girl, you could say that my head is hard." She gave him a sparkling smile after this joke as bad as those made by her friend. Sans looked at her before letting go of one of her usual laughs. "Mouahahah It was a good one, well done princess!" Come on, I'll take you to the other side ... " Frisk suddenly blushed at the nickname, it was the first time someone had called her that. She put her hands on her face as Sans teleported across the precipice and began to levitate her. Frisk had almost arrived when Sans again deactivated his power. She clung as best she could to the brink. She knew she wouldn't last long because of the snow but she tried with all her strength. This time she heard the speech between Sans and her brother before falling ... She thought for a few moments on the reset screen before deciding. If her brother always came at the same time, she would make him wait on the other side, so she would only have to hide when her brother arrived. She pressed continue and reappeared again in this world.

#au's undertale #undertale #Beyondfell #au's

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