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“And I have complete faith that you will be able to adjust to this new situation as tactfully as you handle everything, my dear.”
Toriel smiles at Kris and Susie. They both stare at her.
“Boyfriend,” Kris says, gaspy, like they’re waking up from a nightmare. “You’re telling me that he’s your boyfriend.”
“Yes, dear. Yes, I am.”
Kris glances at Susie. She knows this look. It means, do you want to get in massive trouble together? The answer is, as always, of fucking course I do.
“That’s funny,” Kris says, with a grin that begins in the corner of their mouth and creeps across the rest of their face. “Because me and Susie have something to tell you too.” -
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That night, when Catti is downstairs getting a cup of water, she stops dead in Noelle’s kitchen doorway.
At the livingroom piano Kris is sitting in their pajamas. Not playing but shifting their fingers across the keys like muscle memory. Their face has a gentle kind of sadness.
At the top of the stairs, barely visible, is the looming shadow of December.
Catti presses herself back against the doorframe as Dess walks slowly down the stairs, staring at Kris. The way she’s looking at them makes Catti want to hide, makes her heart hammer like she’s in danger. She can’t tell what it is about the look, but she just feels somehow that it’s wrong.
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- Part 2 of snow and fire and rot
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Susie is holding hands with a boy. Noelle wonders why she’s dreaming about this.
Susie falls to her knees and clutches Kris’ limp body and she keeps holding hands with the boy, the boy that looks like Kris’ brother. Noelle thinks absently that this is a scarier dream than she’s ever had, and that Kris’ blood is matting in Susie’s hair as she tries to find their heartbeat.
Then Susie stands up, and Noelle knows with absolute certainty that Susie is going to kill her. Kris’ face reflects in Susie’s axe as she swings it back, and in the split second before Noelle blacks out, there is still an expression lingering on their face. Relief.
or; what if Noelle stepped off the switch in snowgrave.
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- Part 1 of snow and fire and rot
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And in the end everything was okay. It all happened, and they all got through it, and it was okay.
After, Susie held Noelle and Kris both, on the couch of the Dreemurr house, and they looked at each other across her and they were okay. Miss Toriel brought them pie and hot chocolate, and the heating unit buzzed the air burnt and close as a blanket from too long in the dryer. School doors opened like arms for them, back into a classroom lit eternally with afternoon sunlight.
And it was okay.
It was okay. -
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“We should probably…” Susie trails off, staring blankly through the dark of the spare room. Late afternoon sun warms the shuttered window. “I dunno. Don't fuckin' know what we should do.”
“Should,” Kris spits. “Who cares 'bout should. What do we wanna do?”