Archive of Our Own

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The catgirl slammed her gloves on the vaguely-eastern dining floor table. "This body… it still… feels doki’s for you." her clawed hand touched her heart-shaped locket. The human stood motionless, staring straight into her, "Look! It’s… not like I want this or anything, but… Even someone like me can’t… get in the way of true love. If… it’s for my body…" the eyes on her didn’t falter, unblinking and boring through her speech. Her voice lost its scratchy edge, clearing into an ideal lilt unbefitting of a Lightner, "Let’s date, mew!"

The striking hero didn’t move, ever since they’d sat down together she’d poured her doll-body’s plastic heart out, waiting for a response, or a reply… or-or any kind of reaction!! The brooding, blue, bored-looking stranger that’d stolen her breath away hadn’t moved a muscle.

A shuffled tread approached to the side. A dinosaur with a frappe, walking towards them lazily.
"Dude, y’know Kris flirts with EVERY ene–"

The paint peeled off the boards in droplets and grains of light suspended from the windows in the air turned fog. The air shined dark as ink. The only thing her eyes saw is a blinding white arc slice through darkness and piercing the fabric of unreality. Like silk it flew in-between the delicate threads holding this stitch of reality together. Her scream stuck in her voicebox. And just as quick as it happened the purple dinosaur was on the ground, unscarred and sleeping peacefully, and Asgore’s kid was staring at her like nothing happened.

Then, she heard the words, it wasn’t the way the heroes had spoken when they "flirt"-ed with her for doki’s. It was quiet and unsure, almost a bit frantic. It was like a scared puppy trying to catch her heart before it was forced to bolt back to safety.

"Play, play! I wanna play too! I wanna play with Kris’s knife too! I want more, more!"
"Leave it be, Aqua, Kris and that girl are discussing something important, I’m sure…" the prince of the dark said, body putting all his strength into dragging Susie’s unconscious body somewhere secluded while she healed back from -999 HP. Her armbands left long scratchmarks straight to the scene of the crime, good that Yellow wasn’t as bright as his name implied, otherwise he'd instantly find out who swooned her.
"Oh! Seth is there, Aqua! I’m sure there’s some new play you two can think of now that Yellow is out of jail!"
"Oh yeah! Seth, Seth! Let’s play Pop-up Sheriff! You get Yellow and stick him in the barrel and I’ll be the knives, knives! This is going to be so much fun!" She said, pirouette-ing towards her friend mindlessly, Kris’s knife forgotten already.
With a moment of respite, crow’s feet crowded his eyes. Really Kris?... The prophecy was pretty clear that love found its way to the girl, not the cage… It was like Kris and Susie had forgotten what was about to happen if they wouldn’t stop the prophecy. Was he the only one who cared?
"HEY!? WHO DID THAT!? IS IT THE KNIGHT?!" Susie jumped up like a dog from a nap, axe swinging.
"It’s fine, Susie! You just took a short nap, the Knight isn’t here just yet." He reassured her.
"Oh, what the hell then… Hey, Kris is still talking with that cat-thing! What are they doing?"
"I think they’re going on a ‘date’ of sorts."
"What? They can’t do that! Kris is with us! Not- I-Is she kissing Kris on the cheek!?"
He pinched the back of her leather jacket. "What’s the issue with that Susie?"
"W-What’d you mean issue? Kris is with us, we gotta–"
"Susie. Please."
He tried his best authoritative tone. He wasn’t born a week ago, he knew there was more than uncouthness in the dragon’s behavior. Them and that girl Noelle together were a mess of tangled roots ready to turn rotten any day. But more importantly…
You’d die Susie. Like for real… Okay, maybe not. But ever since they entered that Dark World Kris had been in absolute thorny knots over something. Whenever that sun-chasing idiot Flowery wasn’t crowding him, he could tell something major was up. This is a nice opportunity for some rest. If Susie interrupted the two of them now he couldn’t guarantee the safety of the $!$? Squad.
"I-I guess… Fine! If Kris wants to… just, can those two finish quickly?" she said, pouting so obviously it could be seen from the light world.
Good. Ralsei thought.
We all need rest.

"Oh, the blue person!?" Lancer asked, tongue already out in dog-empathy.
"Yes, Kris!! I waited for hours in front of the driveway and nothing! I even threw rocks and dirt and pinecones at the window and everything! No response! I eventually just thought it was better to come back and get ready for Noelle’s homecoming party, before we go on any other adventures."
"I can find Kris immediately, all for the low low price of one lancer-cookie! Just insert it in my mouth! The calories fuel the Lancer Satellite System, we’d then build a little Kris-finder for that shifty kinder!" he said, mouth opening like a sockpuppet.
"You’d do that!? Sick, Lancer!… but I don’t have any cookies, I ate the badge of your face you gave me yesterday… like, instantly. I mean, you literally put it in my mouth dude."
"No problem-io’s! What would a good friend be if not two-or more-faced? My neutral-dad gave me many-a cookie–"
"A-Actually, that won’t be necessary, Lancer! Kris is already here in the Dark World." Ralsei said, face apprehensive. "You probably missed it, Susie but Kris came here after you left, with… someone else in tow."
"Someone else…?" she asked, expression completely clueless.
"Well, they’re both in Kris’s room, I really think it’s best not to intrude, okay? You have a big day with Noelle anyway, right?" Don’t make me say it out loud, stupid. The goat thought. If Lancer sees any of it I can’t guarantee he’d ever be the same.

"... Right. I guess we don’t need Kris, I’ll just check up when Noelle’s here. You two remember your lines, right?"
"Yup! My hands are already tremoring with Noelle-withdrawal-related excitement!"
"Did you two even... meet? At all??"

"W-Wow, Susie… I…" she said, looking at the pitch-black sky, it stretched on forever… she couldn’t make out anything sans the outline of the castle and shops. Compared to the clinical white walls she’d been stuck in all night it was like the real world was lost to her. In a way it was hard to believe she wasn’t in a dream, she’d barely slept, but she pinched herself so much her cheeks were even redder than usual,it had to be!
"... S-So that day I was with you and Kris… that was too…?"
"Pretty much!… heh. Sorry for not telling you but… w-well, it’s kind of complicated, you know? I was kind of a big jerk."
"Oh!" she said, being guided by the big dinosaur’s hand, "Faha, you don’t have to tell me! I can tell it’s pretty complicated, now introduce me to the rooms before I fall asleep, you ‘big jerk’!"
"Y-Yeah! So… this is Kris’s room."
"Oh, Kris is here too? Of course, right! With Queen and Berdly!" I’d forgotten about Kris completely, But it makes perfect sense!
"Yup, so let me just do a quick check'up."
Susie let go of her hand and walked into the blue door, she opened it and walked in then walked out.
"Nope. Kris isn’t there." She said, expression not changed a bit. Not one single muscle on her face moved.
"Oh, It’s empty?"
"Yup. Totally empty. Nothing in there, forget about it. I’m sure Kris’ll come back… at some point. Let’s just keep walking."
"Oh-Okay!!..."
"Anyway!" She said, forcefully dragging her brand new girlfriend down the hallways, "This is your new room! I mean, if you want it. And it’s already connected… to mine, if you want to. Well, just for today."
"I mean… if you want it to be connected… I-It’s amazing! It’s just like my home room, except smaller!"
"Oh, uh… yup! Of course. I mean, obviously. There’s also some cups and Christmas Cake! Best part about the Dark World is you can eat as much as you want without getting fat, so come on."

They sat down, she was staring at Susie sitting in her part of their room, it was like she was staring at the kind of fantasy that would have lived behind her eyes, the room wasn’t real but at the same time… if she believed hard enough, it was realer than anything else she’s ever had.
"Susie!"
"Y-Yeah?"
"Why are you sitting so far away?"
"O-Oh, I guess I just th–"
THUD
"EEK!" The doe jumped up on the table. The dinosaur jumped next to her to protect her. "WHAT! What was that?!"
"… Sounded like a bomb…. And some scratching?" Susie said, voice not wavering one bit.
"Yeah, w-why did a bomb just go off in the room next to us!?"
"I’m sure it’s uh… r-renovation?"

"MEW!! STOP!! STOP!! GIGA BOMB! TIME OUT! I could stay like this forever with Mew…"
The teenager had her arms pinned above her head completely. Completely stopping her struggling and forcing her to stare into the piercing red eyes that were shining down onto her features. When did this kid grow to look… l-like that?! It looked like one of those guys from the manga she used to read!!

"Wha- W-When’d you learn to say that!? And why did you sound like that when you said it?! Mew Mew likes you too… Mrr…" she purred contently.
The teenager’s head lowered down to her ear, slowly whispering something into her ear, slowly, breathily, measured but unsure. She felt her body stop breathing for a reason.
"... Wait, so you mean, you’re being MADE to say that?! Just like- Just like us, Mew! Wow, that’s… that’s pretty FRICKED UP, Kris. I didn’t know… Hey- H-HEY! Get your fingers- Mrrgh- STOP SCRITCHING MY CAT EARS WHEN I’M FEELING BAD FOR YOU! I just got those! You want my body and soul to split again?!"
But there was no stopping. Ever since she’d arrived into this new Dark World alongside Kris there was barely a pause. She hadn’t done anything like this with anyone before… n-not like she had anyone to do it with anyway! Just… it was all so sudden, and this human above her had Forme Change-d from a cold distant kid into such an intense lover. It was like she was being devoured… she could tell Kris didn’t have any prior experience either. It felt so sudden… Kris was acting like after today they would never see each other again.
"W-What?! You thought I was thinking about anything? W-Well I wasn’t! Stop looking at me all worried, those puppy eyes won’t work on me! Y-You heard me, STOP IT!-"
Her complaints were slowed to a stop, as her lover’s head lodged itself next to hers, she heard the sweetest, most honest whisper lodge itself right into her heart. This wasn’t from the ‘controlling forcet’ Kris had talked about, it was from the teenager’s own heart. And she wouldn’t be able to ever tell anyone… Without exploding from embarrassment… this kid is as sickly sweet as his dad when it comes to romance.
"Doki meter MAX!! Kissy Kissy Mew Mew loves you! Hey- I didn’t say that! But… I- I mean, It’s just, not yet okay!?… W-Wait a second, Kris…" a horrific thought bubbled up looking at the effort her partner was putting into her "H-How old are you in the first place? I mean, HEY! Don’t look away! Kris, look me in the eyes and answer me! Don’t tell me you’re- I, I’m not a- am I!? Kris!? KRIS!? My love for mew transcends all barriers, Mew! NO!! Kris, I’m ser–"
She froze up as she noticed a cold draft coming into their room. The door was opened. Noelle was staring right at the both of them, bodies missing an undeniable amount of clothing.

"K-Kris!? W-I-I mean… Hello… I didn’t think you’d… have those kinds of… tastes? I’m g-going to close the door now…" she said, looking a lot like the ninth reindeer with red globes for cheeks, eyes looking away trying her hardest to forget what she’d just seen.
"(Hyuh?! why is the mayor’s daughter here!?)" she whispered to Kris.
"... W-Wait, is that voice from?" Noelle’s ears perked up like the jackalope she was, "Is that… Maddie? Kris… I hope you have a good answer, why the HECK do you have a doll of a ghost that lives n–"
Tiriririring!
A bunch of Z’s appeared around Noelle as she fell to the floor peacefully.

Why me!? Why do I ALWAYS have to clean up everyone’s messes. He thought dragging Noelle away by her antlers. These girls were heavier than he thought.
"T-Thanks Ralsei, I uh… don’t know what I would have done…"
"Yeah, Susie. I don’t know what you would have done." He said, eye twitching. "It would have been an absolute disaster if it were up to you and Kris."
"Uh, yeah… so what now? Do we just… pretend this never happened, or-or what?"
"I’ll just put Noelle in her bed, and you can pretend she fell asleep, she was really tired." That’s why I was able to cast Pacify on her.
"So I can just lie to her, or something like that?"
"Yup, something like that.
"... Still." She said, head turned to the blue door left ajar in the stone hallway, "That’s a pretty Dick move of Kris, should’ve said no disturbances." There was a sign on the door. "I mean… [Player]Town isn’t here for us to… do that kind of stuff in anyway."
"Not like you wouldn’t have with Noelle, right?" He said, unconsciously. He didn’t even realize how it sounded at the time.
"W-What!? I mean… N-no… unless she wanted to, then I guess I maybe could’ve been okay with it… but Noelle isn’t like that. She’d want to take it slower at first, I wouldn’t want to rush her into anything… even though I know she’d handle it… Ralsei? Where are you? Oh, you’re in her room. I spaced out"
"... And there! Snug as a sugar plum! Now you watch over her, and I’ll have to make sure nobody else enters in on them."
"Oh-ho-ho! What’s this mysterious door left ajar!?" A goofy, and yet mysteriously Lancer-shaped voice echoed from the hallway, "I’m taking a break from my 14-hour shift at my day job drilling for sediment upstairs to peek in this door! Oh boy, I sure do hope it’s nothing that would ruin my poor childlike innocence!"
"L-Lancer, NO!!" The prince of the dark hurried outside the room.

"D-Don’t you have a better lock for that door?!" Pink called out, hands around her sweater kitties in embarrassment. Today had been a lot for her already, random people spying on her first time felt intensely embarrassing. But as she thought that she felt her eyes taken off the door and brought to Kris’s were stared into, her hand was gently taken and put on Kris’s chest.
"I… I guess you’re right, it doesn’t really matter, as long as we love each other we can do anything together! so… I’ll try to get used to it. To be honest, I don’t like it AT ALL!!" Kris didn’t try to correct her, "I didn’t know how serious you were when you confessed, I didn’t expect you to be so… aggressive Kris. I was just going along with my body at first but, you’ve been so nice that it’s almost a bit scary to me. I’m kind of afraid to feel… You know I–"
"Wow"
Neither of them had noticed the stilettos approaching at 22 Hz down the hall. A figure that was 2 meters tall, her mouth agape and swirlies on her helmet’s visor was staring directly at them.
"Oh wow"
"..."
"Kris I Was About To Welcome Back My Sweet Gravy Noelle But I Did Not Expect: This"
"You Know I Can Clearly See: Your Junk Right"
"(Very Nice BTW)" Visor: Thumbs up.

"Oh Not At All Dont Let Me Stop You" She just stood there.
"..."
A very loud camera shutter was heard from her head, then out of Queen’s mouth a picture of them was being very, very slowly printed out.
"THAT’S IT!!!" She said, throwing Kris into the ceiling as she jumped out of bed, spawning and placing a mega-bomb right next to the door. Queen got caught in a stock png explosion. The bomb’s impact shook the furniture and the wardrobe, nightstand, disgusting square pillow with a face, and Susie Award all fell right in front of the door sealing it. And then Kris fell on top of all of those things in the normal Kris walksprite 1a pose just turned 90 degrees left.

Pink stood there, breathing heavily. Slowly she fell down by the pile of junk, back supported by the wardrobe. She took her knees into her hands and stood like that. Slowly tears welled up in her eyes. It was still morning, she was getting used to having this new gorgeous body and its desires, she was with Kris of all people, but being seen in almost naked by 5 different people she barely knew scratched at her dignity.
"What’s wrong, mew? Shut up. It’s just a lot. There’s nothing wrong with being honest with our feelings. I know that!"
Kris shook around before getting up without using a getting up-sprite and sliding down the trash pile until they were next to each other.

From the dark ceiling fell a bag with a little dough-boy with a hard-hat planted on its side. It was presented to Pink.

"Is this… Sand!? For me? I love mew, Chu!" her body kissed Kris on the cheek before either of them could stop it, he immediately went a deep warm purple. "Itadakimasu! Mogu mogu mogu mogu… Hey, this isn’t sand… it’s… it tastes like crushed Pokki! You had this ready!? For me? Since when?"
Kris simply looked away, and despite the reflexes ingrained in the Dreemurr’s kid from a young age, chose to sit down right next to Pink.
"... Not like I like you or anything just because of that, hmph! Because I already Love you, Mew! Well, my body does. I’m still not sure… Not like I don’t like you, Kris! It’s just, pretty sudden…"
She was deep in thought, trying to understand the whirlwind these past two days have been. It was probably the happiest… and weirdest time in her life. While stuck in her own head like a cat on a tall surface, a cape was thrown around her, it was the scarlet one Kris loved flaunting around, they were both wearing it like a big poncho. They didn’t need any words said, she knew what it meant. Kris would be there and wouldn’t force any answer from her… she felt the teenager being a bit apologetic for the earlier outburst of emotions.

"Hey Kris… if I take some time to think about it, will you still be there to hear me out?"

"... Why did you say it like that… you’re…" She took the shaggy hair over his eyes to see them swimming in their white pools, "you’re lying Kris. That’s not how you sound. Do you… not know?" there was a nod she got in response, "I guessed you have something important you had to do. It’s to do with your dad isn’t it?"
It was a long, calculated pause she had to sit through before a nod came as an answer.
"I hope you find him soon. For all our sakes. I mean… I still miss Ory, and everyone else, but, it’s selfish to compare that with you and Asgore…"
An arm came to console her, gently.
"... Maybe I am allowed to miss them… It may be lonely, but they’ll always live on in our hearts, Mew!! …Yeah."
"But Kris, promise me you’ll do your best to return to us, okay?"
She got a shaky, unsure response from that. She has no idea what this damn kid was going through but she could tell it was more serious than her or any of her stupid problems. She suddenly felt very, very small in relation to the Heroes of the Dark World… even though Kris was basically just the town brat and weirdo to her. Until now.
"Come back, okay?!"

They stood together for a long time, she got no response, which made a gnawing feeling in her stomach grow. She didn’t like people that lied to her… but part of her wished Kris would do like the guys in the anime stories and tell her it’ll all be fine and she’d wouldn’t have to worry.

…

She couldn’t handle it, why was this so stupidly sad!? She took Kris’s stupid pretty face, and bumped her figurine face right into his, lips colliding right against each other. She’d gotten plenty of kisses from the blue knight but this was the first time she gave one out.

"M-Mew! With this Kiss, you’re now Hypnotized to do my bidding! So return safely, you hear?!... T-That was my body saying that! Yeah, mew! I'll wait for you, and then we'll get our happy ending! Mew!! ...So be safe Kris, I'll root for you. A-And I guess we can be together until then, if it'd help you... Hmph!”