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But you still decided to send 'em to us now. You could've just left them, y'know? [Mabel will literally take any straw she can grab at this point.

she continues to flip through the pages.] These are just from around the mansion between events. Just kids being kids with none of that crazy stuff going on... Not that we mind the crazy stuff, but it's cool we get to play hide and seek in the hedge maze and play mini-golf on the checkerboard hills.

You have to be pretty determined to play Mabel in mini-golf. And keep playing as it becomes consistently obvious you can't beat her.

[They shift on the spot, but don't refute the statements. They just wanted the notes gone, and now they've looped back, like a boomerang whipping around to crack them across the skull with how little they can feel anything.]

I guess so.

[But the level of enthusiasm in their voice is still all but nil.]

[Mabel looks askance at Frisk, heart breaking with how little this is working. by now, Stan had started to remember things.] How's the sciencey cure coming?

[Dipper looks at Mabel, filled with pain because she can't help her friend, and looks at Frisk, who's listless and emotionless and not reacting at all to the scrapbook.

As much as Dipper loves science, he's... pretty sure that's not what's gonna help here. He pushes the scrapbook closed, looking over to meet Mabel's eyes.

She's all sunshine and sparkles and sometimes it's just the right thing to cheer someone up. But sometimes that's not helpful. Sometimes it drives Dipper crazy when he's in a bad mood and all she wants to do is act like everything's awesome all the time.

Maybe it's the same for Frisk.]

Do you... wanna talk about it? Not feeling anything? We can listen.

Not much to talk about. They say my determination just has to come back.

[They weren't sure they'd really been telling the truth there, or if they were just guessing. The human SOULs didn't need to be consoled after their extraction. No one knew that they were even still conscious, if only nominally.]

They had to extract it.

Wait. Rewind. [at least this development keeps her from feeling bad that she's pursuing this the entirely wrong way and doesn't know how else to pursue it.] You can remove determination? Like your tonsils?

That... [Would sound fake, except Dipper knows enough about determination in Frisk's world that he can believe it.] Okay. But it can come back, right? How can we help?

With the right blueprints.

[Someone sold something important to get it. They don't remember who or what. It's not important. They lack the ability to pursue that line of thought to its conclusion, so they simply advance beyond it.]

They say it'll come back on its own. Someday.

So we could... maybe bring it back faster with the scrapbooking? [she remains hopeful. it saved Stan. why can't it save Frisk too?]

Stop messaging me.

[Chara responded!!!

...kind of.

...never mind.]

You don't have to read them...

A poor justification for harassment. Are you hoping to drive me off from using my communicator at all?

Edited (I can't tell left and right apart har har ) 2016-12-15 02:42 (UTC)

I don't know how to be alone, and there's no one else.

Have a little heart-to-heart with the Chara you pulled out of yourself for Halloween, then.

Don't bother sending a reply. I won't answer.

You know that's now how it worked, and it's not fair to put that on me.

It doesn't matter anyway. You're the one who's my Partner.

I miss you.

[* But nobody came.]

[Guess they never really learned how to QUIT.]

I don't think you understand that punishing yourself for what happened isn't going to make anyone feel better.

[* But nobody came.]

[But you kept calling for help.]

I know I must have done something wrong. I must have done a lot wrong to get you to hate me like this. If what you say is true anyway and I hurt you that badly.

I guess I must have hurt everyone else too. Everyone else left the same time you did.

You complicated things though. I guess you tend to do that.

I can't die because then you'd just follow me. You don't deserve that. You're the only good thing I haven't made bad yet.

I'll have to find another way.

Chara...have you ever thought of a world where everything is exactly the same, except you don't exist?

I have.

If you really want nothing to do with me, if you really think that we're safer not knowing each other, then

I'll have to make sure I can never come back. I'll have to make sure I can go where you can't follow. Orpheus will have to fail to bring back Eurydice, and then he'll have to forget he ever loved Eurydice at all.

He'll have to forget Eurydice existed.

Everything will function perfectly without her.

This isn't anyone's choice but mine.

And if you're still set on believing that you're to blame for all this at least it won't matter. Not if I do this right. It will take time and work, but at least this way I won't ever hurt anyone again. Not even you.

It will be okay though. Another Frisk will fall down. A better one.

And you say you don't care anyway, so you won't tell anyone about this. I'm glad I can confide in you, Chara.

You are a great Partner.

Stay determined, Chara.

I'll fix the problem.

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