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The setting sun casts an orange glow on QC's plastic red booths. The posters on the wall are fading. QC herself looks sad to see YOU here without your brother. Or rather she's sad to see Kris without Asriel. Susie sits across from you at the table. YOU begin to think about Kris. Nobody seems to think anything strange about how YOU're acting in their body. The only people who've noticed are the Holidays. Rudy thinks Kris has finally grown up, saying he's proud of us for changing. Carol spoke to YOU directly, with red text and everything. She even has those creepy soul pillows. But then there's Noelle. Noelle has noticed something is off with YOU. Noelle said we were so much more interesting now. Noelle doesn't really like Kris for who they are. No one does. No one even loves Kris. YOU're eyes drift to the purple lizard across from you. Maybe Susie will love Kris? The real Kris?
"Susie? How would you feel if you found out I wasn't actually a human named Kris, but actually possesing the person named Kris?" YOU ask hesitantly. Her eyes flick to you, surprise shining in them. She laughs quietly.
"Like, as a hypothetical?" She asks, her eyes shining with amusement.
"Yeah, s-something like that" YOU say awkwardly, Kris don't fuck up our dialogue lines!! Maybe Susie will love Kris. Can't count on Ralsei, because he'll die when we close all the dark worlds. Also he's fucking shifty. Can't trust him, he's talking to Kris when YOU're not around. He knows too much. Wait Susie's talking again.
"So, like I guess it would be fine? Unless you're like, holding the real Kris against their will or something?" YOU think that's pretty accurate for you situation.
"I have to leave." She raises an eyebrow, curiosity shining on her face. "In a few days, I'll leave Kris's body. I want to know if you'll still be their friend." Shock colors on her face. It settles into a nervous smile.
"Of course I'll still be your friend Kris?" She looks a little freaked out.
"Not my friend, Kris's friends." YOU clarify.
"Yeah sure, I'll be Kris's friends." She states simply. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine!" YOU shout at her, YOU don't mean to. The nervous look on her face intensifies.
"It's Kris who's not okay." YOU whisper to her. Her fear morphs into confusion.
"Is this some kinda.. psychological thing, like separating yourself into two different entities?"
"What? does that shit even exist in your world" YOU ask dazedly. "Wait, what am I saying, NO, Susie I'm not mentally ill, I'm just not Kris!" She flinches at YOUR once again loud tone of voice. People in the diner are starting to stare at YOU.
"Okay if you're not Kris, then why do you care so much about them" Susie asks.
"Because no one loves Kris. The 3 days I've spent puppeting their body, everyone always asks about their brother, or their parents, or Noelle. Not them, never them. Nobody notices how strange they've been acting, because of me! The only people who've noticed are the Holidays and all they have to say is 'Glad you're not fucking boring anymore' like what the fuck." YOU rush out. That's the most YOU have ever said in one go. Susie gets a look on her face you can't recognize. Her eyes narrow.
"You're really serious about this. You're not Kris." She says, suspicion clear as day on her face. "Who are YOU?"
"The angel." YOU respond. Confusion takes its place on Susie's face once more.
"Like from the prophecy, like church?" She asks in an incredulous tone.
"The very one, in the flesh. Or pixels." YOU say, amusement lacing Kris's voice.
"What. What does in the flesh mean, also pixels?" She responds, her tone intensifying.
"It's a figure of speech" YOU say, confused. do they not have that saying in Deltarune? Her brows furrow in confusion. She sighs and starts picking at her food, instead of ravenously eating it like she was before. Maybe she lost her appetite. Then her head perks up.
"Hey if you're like, the angel how are you possessing Kris?" Her eyes glitter with curiosity.
"I'm in their soul, well it's my soul but it's in their body. Don't know how the fuck they lost their old one"
"Y'know for an angel, from like the prophecy you swear a lot." Susie snorts. Maybe they should call her Snortsy. Nope that's dumb, leave the puns to Toriel. And that no good mother befriender Sans the skeleton.
"Susie I'm a teenager, of course I'm gonna swear." YOU say. Shouldn't she know this?
"Yeah but like not actually, does the Angel have an age?" She implores.
"How old are you?" YOU ask, YOU don't actually know.
"15, why" Suspicion is on her face. Again. Damn it.
"Damn, I'm younger than you." Lol imagine that.
"What, you have an age and you're younger than me?" YOU tell her that you're 14 years old, if YOUR age was put into a human equivalent. Susie seems flabberghasted. Kris's phone rings it's luckily not garbage noise this time. You pick it up.
"My child where are you, I've been looking for you?" Oh it's Toriel, YOU're not a big fan of her for getting drunk with Sans, and not making sure Kris got home all right. There's a silence puncturing the air as Kris responds for you.
"You're spending time with a friend? Well I suppose you can stay out late just this once, but be home soon!" The line goes dead. Huh I wonder what Kris said?
"You said 'But Mom I'm hanging out with Susie!' how could you forget that already?" Susie interrupts YOUR thoughts.
"I can't hear Kris when they're speaking, I have no idea what they say when they talk to people." YOU're suprised that Kris talks like that.
"Oh weird, I just thought you're talking like how we talk now." Susie points out. YOU think about it.
"I can only talk directly in special circumstances like this, otherwise I get a prompt of choices to select and Kris delivers the actual phrasing and tone."
"That's why you're so damn weird!" She looks like she's had an epiphany. YOU remember you have to get home soon. YOU look down at your tray of food, A burger, some fries, and a bottle of "ICE'S COOL KIDS REFRESHING SODA" lay uneaten. YOU sigh, not wanting to starve Kris.
"Susie can you pick up the food on my tray and hand it to me?" YOU ask.
"Why?" She asks while handing YOU the burger.
'YOU GOT THE QC BURGER!'
"I can't eat anything in front of me unless it was actually given to me. Kris hasn't eaten anything it two days, nor have they drinken anything" YOU say regrettably.
"Shit! Oh my angel, sorry was that disrespectful? We need to get you to eat more!" She looks panicked. YOU open the inventory, select the QC BURGER, and click USE. YOU feel Kris quickly chow down on the burger. Susie hands you the fries.
'YOU GOT THE QC FRIES'
YOU open YOUR inventory again, select the QC FRIES, and click USE. Kris eats the fries, shoving multiple in their mouth at a time. God damn it. Susie hands you the water.
'YOU GOT THE WATER'
YOU tell Susie to tell Kris to drink it slowly so they don't throw up. Susie responds with what YOU said. YOU go in the inventory and bring out the water, Kris paces themselves this time instead of gulping up the water like a man dying of thirst. And they aren't a man dying of thirst. They're a nonbinary dying of thirst. YOU paid for the meal before you got it, using Asriels nightstand money. So YOU stack Kris and Susie's plates, and trays and balls up the napkins YOU used and set them on the tray as well. YOU get up to leave, Toriel is waiting after all. Susie keeps sitting there.
"Susie come on, Mom has to invite you to stay overnight!" YOU whine at her. She looks up, confused.
"What?"
"So I like, kinda know the future and how some of you die, but that's not important. What's important is that Toriel is going to invite you to stay the night on our couch. She somehow looks even more confused. She stands up slowly and begins following YOU out the door. YOU ignore talking to people as you did before coming to QCs. YOU quickly make a left at the turn that leads to Kris's house. YOU open the front door and walk in, Susie follows you inside.
The living room has that glowing candlelit warmth to it, too bad it's going to be fucking ruined by Kris when they slash Toriel's tires, and open a fucking dark fountain in their house! Susie looks around in the yellow and orange toned room. Especially the unbroken TV, which Susie is going to try to make us watch monster movies all night in a 12 hour marathon. Maybe if Susie actually stayed awake Kris wouldn't make the dark world. On schedule Toriel invites Susie to bake, and Kris takes control walking us to the bathroom. Welp, guess the chapters over now, and Kris is gonna open the fountain. You do you kid, the fact you're working with The Knight is none of my business.