I was back on the surface, a field of daisies swaying easily. A white dress clung to me in the wind, my hair lifting easily with it. Few clouds filled the sky and the sun shined warmly over everything it touched. It was peaceful.

An overwhelming calm eased me, like it was this calm that kept the world spinning. I took a breath and sat in the flowers, looking up at the empty sky. It felt as thought I was supposed to be doing something there, but not a single hint came to me about what it was. 

I closed my eyes and breathed, the breeze leaving me cool. A child's cry startled me upward into a sitting position. I immediately darted to my feet and looked around, trying to pin the location of the scream. My legs carried me and I ran, ran as hard as I could. My heart pounded against my chest as the cry came again. As I neared, the child came into view. I couldn't see their face but I saw their attacker. A skeleton who was abnormally tall standing a distance away from the child. They were familiar, but I couldn't place what they meant to me.

I just followed the cry and let my instincts act. "Stop!" I screamed. "You're hurting them!"

The monster looked at me and raised his skeletal brows. "I'm not hurting anyone." He said in an innocent voice.

I felt the child cling to my leg and cry. "Please help me, that monster attacked me. He hurt me."

I looked at the monster with a questioning look. "You say you didn't hurt them, but here I find them crying and hurt."

"I SWEAR UPON MY HONOR I DID NOT HURT THE HUMAN CHILD!" He proclaimed.

The child winced as the monster spoke, hiding behind me. I felt cold metal press against my palm and I looked down to find a knife in my hand. The child had put it in my hand. "Kid, where did you get a knife?"

He pointed in front of me, at the skeleton. "I stole it so I could fight back." He said.

The knife felt cold and wrong in my hand and I looked at the skeleton. "Tell me the truth," I hissed, trying to sound threatening.

He stepped to me slowly, and smiled shyly. "You may not believe a monster over your own race, but I swear, I'm telling the truth."

He took another step closer and I took one back. His steps became larger as he tried to close in on me. "Please trust me, I-"

I felt the knife drop from my hand and I watched as the skeleton's eyes became sad. I looked down and saw the child, blade in hand, and suppressing a giggle. I felt his name return to my memory and I cried out as he fell against me.

"Papyrus no!" I yelled, catching him as best as I could.

He smiled weakly. "It's okay Cherry. I forgive you."

The words broke my heart and I watched Papyrus turn to dust, my dress becoming stained with gray ashes. My heart trembled and a felt hot tears on my cheeks. I whipped around and looked for the child. But it had vanished from the scene.

My legs were unstable as I reappeared in a room lined with columns and stained glass windows. Sans stood against a pillar farther down and I moved forward slowly. I was steps away when his head snapped towards me, an empty grin on his face. "Hello Cherry." He said with fake enthusiasm.

A red scarf was wrapped around his neck and my neck closed in on itself. "S-Sans? What's going on? P-Please tell me what happened?" I asked shakily.

His entire demeanor radiated hate and loathing. His gaze was empty of emotion and his grin seemed to be more of a snarl. "D-Don't act innocent Cherry. I knew I couldn't trust you."

"But what did I do?!" I asked.

As the words left my mouth, memories emptied into my skull and I felt myself crumble to my knees. Horrifying images of slaughter after slaughter filled my mind and I screamed. Sans seemed amused as I lived through the 'memories' I had just found.

"You deserve what you get Cherry. You murdered every monster that crossed your path and went out of your way to find the ones that hid. You killed Mettaton, Alphys, Undyne, Toriel.... Papyrus.

I shook my head. "No, I didn't. I didn't do anything wrong."

"Really Cherry? You welcomed a demon into your body because you wanted a soul. It's too bad you got cheated on the deal. Not only did your buddy Chara abandon ship, but Chara never had a soul to give." He shrugged. "But it won't stop me from killing you."

I sat on all fours, looking at the floor. "But it wasn't me killing them." I cried.

I saw all of their deaths in my eyes. Papyrus's last look, Undyne's heroic effort, Alphys' and Mettaton's efforts, even Toriel's mercy just before a blade crashed through her.

"That wasn't me..." I said quietly, anger building in my chest. "I didn't kill them!" I cried.

Another image flashed in my mind, breaking my resolve to stay strong. I saw Frisk run to Papyrus's ashes as I fell. It was like being trapped in my own body. I cried out in warning but only silence came out. Horror brimmed as I watched my own arms flash down over Frisk's young body. He cried my name, pleading that I stopped, but I didn't.

A whimper escaped me as I started to cry. Anger was replaced by a mourning like attitude. "I killed Frisk too? I killed li'l nugget?"

I felt my body make contact with a pillar and bones broke under the skin. "Don't you dare filthy Frisk's name like that!" Sans roared.

A sob escaped between coughs full of blood. His blue magic encased me again and I was smacked upon any surface available. Bones shattered and I felt organs swell around the punctures. My conscious slipped as he beat me. Seeing the images of my friends dying, of looking at their blood on my dress, it made me sick of myself.

I let my spirit leave my body, I wanted to watch as I died for my sins. But my eyes opened again against my will. My left arm propped me up, then my right. A cackle ripped through me and I felt myself shrink in my own body as Chara took the reigns. "Sansy boy! You thought I'd let her die without you?! Oh no no no! You two are a package deal! It's all or nothing."

I tried to rip Chara from control, but my lack of determination caused my failure. My left eye blacked out to my vision, returning through a black fire. I knew what was happening and I tried to yell a warning. My voice was silent.

Sans grin fell as a knife of pure black  pierced his chest. Pain gripped my heart as his frown turned into a weak grin. "Welp, I'm going to Grillby's. Papyrus? You want anything?"

I screamed, squeezing my eyes closed so tightly it hurt. "No! No please stop! I didn't kill them! It was Chara! Please forgive me! Please stop the killing!" I wept.

A new memory flew into my mind, a sick memory. I looked back in time and saw myself trembling, goosebumps on my skin, the feel of chills on my back. I was terrified and laughing. Cruel phrases were in my mind. I love the feeling of fear.

But the memory resonated with me and I remembered. This isn't my present. My friends, they were alive, they were looking for me.

I opened my eyes and saw the walls lined in black fire, Gaster ran around frantically trying to save certain documents. I blinked again and again but the images still remained. Several objects around me were defying gravity in a black haze. The mirror was floating just beside me and I grasped at it desperately.

The person looking back at me was clean. I  wasn't wearing a blood stained dress, nor did I bear any new marks of  battle. I felt relief wash over me and I fell to the ground, my magic cutting off instantly leaving me only to my tears. I screamed and sobbed into my arms, ignoring Gaster's calls of attentions

My eyes darted to my phone and I snatched it from the stand. I looked at the contacts and tried to find a specific number. It wasn't labeled but I knew who it belonged to. I clicked it and held the phone against my ear, waiting anxiously for him to pick up.

"Uh, hello?"

At the sound of his voice a single sob spilled out. "Sans," I sobbed. "Please tell me Sans... Please tell me..."

"C-Cherry? What's wrong? What happened?"

"Please tell me Sans, tell it wasn't real."

"What wasn't real?" He asked and I sobbed again.

"Tell me I didn't kill them. Please tell me that they're all okay." I whimpered.

I heard a sigh and Sans responded. "Everyone's here Cherry. Everyone is alive and breathing." He said softly.

I sobbed as the relief was over me. I felt my life come back to me as I heard those word. "No one's hurt?" I asked.

"No one's hurt." He confirmed.

"And you're not hurt, you're not.... Going to Grillby's...."

He froze before answering, but quickly responded with, "No Cherry, I'm not hurt, I'm not dead."

A sob went through me and I let the phone hang in my hand. Sans voice still echoed from the mic but I let it sit there. I was ready to leave. Fear, fear had taken its toll and lost its flare. "Sans, it scared me so much.... I saw them die.... I-I defended Chara from Papyrus and he ended up dead, and y-you... You wanted me dead. Truly dead. And Chara took my body, took my magic a-and...."

Another cry ripped through me and I buried my face in my arms. I thought about Sans and the others, really only wanting to be with them, to hug them. I wish Papyrus was here to hug the pain away, or Frisk to make me smile. I imagined myself at their house, watch of television and sitting on the floor. Frisk was there and Papyrus was in the kitchen cooking another terrible batch of spaghetti. E-Even Sans was there without me nagging him. W-We would be happy together, as friends.

I didn't want to go back up top now. I hair wanted to be with people that I actually cared for.

Another sob racked my body. And I heard Gaster call my name in a panic. My limbs became light as I cried out again, begging for forgiveness. Part of me still believed I killed everyone. Tears stained almost every inch of skin on my face. I cried until I felt a sudden pressure on me and my surrounding seemed to change. Still crying, I rose my head from my arms and looked around me. My drawings and possessions were still all around me from my night terror fit, but the place was different. It was dark but familiar. I heard a door open and my eyes looked hopefully up.

A shocked Sans stood above me, his phone still in hand and his eye aglow. The memory still fresh in my mind after my nightmare, I cringed away with a scream. Sans hurriedly flicked on the lights and knelt down next to me, his eye no longer lit.

My head rose again as the second door opened and I saw Papyrus looked at us from the top floor. His eye seemed to light up seeing me, even if I was crying and had a black eye, literally. 

He ran downstairs and swept me up in hug I was looking for and I felt a sob arise again. I wrapped my arms around Papyrus tightly, muttering sorry over and over again.

He out my down and kneeled down so I got see him at eye level. "CHERRY! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" He cried.

I laughed through my tears and nodded. "I missed you too Papyrus. I really did."

I turned to see Sans looking at my things scattered. It looked like he attempted I pick up my drawings but many were too horrifying to him. With a cry I turned and launched myself into his arms. I held on to him like he was dangling me from a cliff and he was my only way of help.

"Sans! I'm so sorry. Please, please forgive me. Please don't let me go through that again." I buried my fave into his shoulder and cried. His hands curled around my back and he pet my hair.

"I'm here Cherry. We're all here. You're safe." I didn't let go of Sans until a shutter stopped my tears. Pulling back, I saw Sans with a light blue fluorescent glow on his cheeks.

I bowed my head and grabbed my papers from the ground, worried that Sans may not have liked my cry session to much. The papers surmounted to be around 50 different drawings of horrifying thing or a monstrous version of you or sans. I stuffed them in my bag quickly and threw the bag to the side. Papyrus got down next to me and Sans and pulled us both into a hug. Orange tears spilled over his cheekbones.

"OH HUMAN! I AM SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK! I WAS WORRIED SICK AND DO WAS SANS!" 

I grinned and tightened the hug around them. Hearing their voices right now didn't matter as much as feeling them safe in my arms. I felt another set of arms settle around me and found Sans hugging me. "I'm glad your back kid." He said weakly.

Papyrus dropped us suddenly and ran from the room. "I need to call the others! They've been so worried!" He explained.

I would have protested but a wave of drowsiness took me away. Terror pinned me as I feared another nightmare, but instead found a safe rest.
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P.o.V. Sans
Not long after Cherry got back from her terror attack, she had tackled me in a hug. She kept muttering apologizes. All I could do was hold her and let her know we were alright.

She fell asleep in my arms after Papyrus left to call the others. Her face was at rest against my chest and I smiled. "Papyrus, Cherry passed out. I'm putting her to bed in my room."

Papyrus began to protest but saw her face and nodded. I used my magic and lifted you from the ground, taking Cherry gently to my room. I put her in the blankets and brushed her last tears away, but as I attempted to leave, her hand clasped around my wrist. I looked back and saw a her eyes closed, but her expression quivered. She was afraid to be alone again.

I sighed and crawled over her. Her grip lessened on me and she seemed to relax. Her face became closer to my chest and she released a jagged breath. I felt my expression soften and I wrapped and arm over Cherry.