Ok this is going to be the final chapter of the pta. Why? Because I have a sequel in the works. That's why. Now there is some to say about the sequel it's not really going to be about the PTA as much as this one, you'll see in the end.
Everyone came.
Ben gently tucked Jack into his bed and smiled. Hearing the rain gently tap against his son's window, Ben signed,
'Goodnight.' He signed to his son, Jack signed back.
'My friend doesn't want to sleep.'
'Well, it's bed time, whether your friend wants to sleep right now or not.' Ben gently grabbed Jack's teddy bear and placed it next to his son before giving the boy a kiss on the head.
'Goodnight.'
Ben turned off the bedroom light, however Jack's nightlight still illuminated the room enough so the child could see. Gently shutting the door, Ben walked into the living room and sat next to his husband, the two of them now cuddling on the couch watching Tv.
"How's your cheek?" His husband asked, Ben gave a shrug.
"It's bruising, but fine, who knew Linda could throw a punch with a child on her hip." He chuckled, his husband gave a bitter snort.
"I still think we should of pressed charges."
"Nah. I provoked her to be honest, it's fine, Ivan."
"...Hm...Hey, to change the subject." His husband paused and shifted a bit on the couch, Ben sat up and looked at him as he continued on, "Is it normal for Jack to be having an imaginary friend at this age?"
"I don't think it's hurting anyone. He'll grow out of it in his own time." Ben calmly stated. Ivan looked like he was about to say something however there was a knock at the door causing Ben and Ivan to get up and answer it. Opening the door, Ben took a slight step back as his neighbor took up the entire doorway.
"Howdy, Ben, Ivan."
"Asgore. What are you doing out there in the rain? Is everything alright?" Ben asked as Asgore just waved at the two, his fur soaking wet from the rain.
"Well, I have a lady out here, her child is missing and she needs help I was hoping if you two could help?" Asgore moved from the doorway to show a woman standing in their driveway arms crossed, she was shivering, her clothes sopping wet, make-up running down her face. Even though she was soaked, Ben recognized her almost instantly.
"Linda?"
The woman took in a deep breath and with a shivering voice she said.
"M-My eldest son ran off...I-I can't find him...P-Please..." She shivered.
Ivan started to grind his teeth, a bunch of thoughts on his mind at the moment, however before he could say any of them, Ben spoke up.
"Of course we will." Ben stepped outside, but, Ivan grabbed him.
"What about Jack? We can't just leave him alone." Ivan pointed out, he then narrowed his eyes at Linda. "Why isn't Helen helping you?" Ivan asked. Linda sniffled and wiped her eyes.
"She didn't want to in the rain..."
"Please," Asgore started, "It's a child and it's dreadful out. I had already contacted my ex and her friends they'll be here any minute, but, the more people looking for this child the better."
"I'll go. You can stay with Jack, besides as a teacher I'm a bit better with children." Ben offered, Ivan just gave a shrug.
"Sure. Why not. Just keep me updated." Ivan sighed, Ben smiled, he then walked up to Linda and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Please, tell me why he ran off." Ben started as the two of them walked along the wet street.
"I..I told him about Austin being autistic and Billy just...ran off, left a note saying he didn't want a brother like that..." Linda sniffled. Ben had the urge to scold Linda that it was probably her fault that her son thought like that, but, seeing how she was already down, he bit it back and turned to Asgore.
Up a head the three adults noted two fast moving lights heading their way, seeing how the lights showed no sign of slowing down, Asgore quickly pushed both Linda and Ben back, there was a flash of red, followed by the sound of squealing tires, next thing Ben knew he was looking up at a bunch of monsters, Sans, Toriel, and Frisk included, for some reason Frisk had a flower pot in their hands. They weren't alone, with them was a tall skeleton, who seemed to be the one driving, a fish woman...no comment on that one, a dinosaur? and a familiar looking robot.
"Alright! Lets waste no time!" The fish woman literally jumped out of the car and landed right in front of them.
"Name the places your son likes to go!" The woman yelled, pointing a Linda.
"His friends, and sometimes he likes to go to the old arcade, but, I already checked those places." Linda shivered.
"Why are we wasting time with this?" The flower pot asked with a bitter scoff, Ben and Linda both took a step back at that.
"Would you rather we leave you at home alone?" Sans asked the flower, who just blew a raspberry in response.
"HAVE YOU TRIED KNOCKING ON EVERY DOOR?" The tall skeleton yelled, Linda swallowed.
"No..."
"THEN THAT'S WHAT I WILL DO!" With no farther prompting, the tall skeleton stepped out of the car and instantly ran up to the closest home and started knocking on the door.
"Uh. That's-" Ben started but stopped when Ivan opened the door and just sorta looked up at the skeleton.
"He'll figure it out." Sans simply chuckled and turned to Linda, not doing a good job at hiding his joy to see her in her state.
"I-I've hacked into a majority of the security camera's all over the block so I should be ever to see where he went I-in no time." The dinosaur stuttered as she sauntered up to Linda.
"Yes, and I will do an aerial sweep of the neighborhood to see if I can see him from above." The robot added.
"I..I don't understand..." Linda whispered earning everyone's attention. "I've been horrible to all of you and yet...Why are you all being so nice to me?" She sniffled, wiping her eyes.
"Because of two reasons. One. It's not about you, it's about a lost child, and two. It's because of Frisk. Trust me, I didn't want to help you, but Frisk convinced me to do the right thing." Sans told her outright, before sighing out. "And...no mother should have to worry about her child like this..." Sans finished. Frisk nodded and signed,
'That's right.'
"Now, lets split up and go looking for little Billy." Sans finished, with a hand clap. That's all it took for everyone to split up and do their own thing, Toriel and Frisk went west, the robot went up in the air, the tall skeleton and fish woman went knocking on every door, Ben decided to follow along with them.
"Billy!" Ben called hoping to hear the kid's voice but to no avail.
"UNDYNE MAYBE YOU COULD...OH..." The tall skeleton stopped and watched as Undyne managed to pick up a car, her legs were shaking, but she did it.
"Damn..." Was all Ben could say in response.
"I...I DON'T THINK HE'S UNDER ANY CARS..." The tall skeleton added.
Ben walked up to a home and knocked on the door. After about ten seconds, he tried again, the time the door practically ripped open.
"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Came the familiar horse voice of David.
"YES! IT'S ABOUT EIGHT THIRTY!" The tall skeleton answered not getting the annoyed tone.
"David. Linda's son is missing. Is he here?" Ben asked, only to jump as the door was slammed right in his face.
"WELL THAT WAS MEAN."
"HEY!" Undyne wasted no time banging on the door.
"GET LOST!" David barked and went to slam the door, this time, Undyne stopped it with her fist, making a huge dent in the wood.
"We just want to know if Billy was here." Ben simply repeated. David scoffed.
"If you ask me, Linda should just let the kid return on his own. He'll learn that way."
"It's raining that kid could catch his death!" Ben barked.
"Whatever, I haven't seen the brat. Now-"
"Daddy." Everyone watched as David stepped to the side, revealing his daughter.
"Go back to bed, Chrissy." David demanded.
"Is Billy missing? Do you need help?" Chrissy asked, bypassing her father and stepping outside. It was obvious that she had no shoes on but that didn't stop her. She looked up at Undyne and suddenly smiled at the sight of the monster not having an eye, just like her.
"Chrissy, get in here or I swear-"
"You know I think I saw him go this way earlier! I'll show you." With that the child started off, ignoring her father completely.
"Dammit." David growled and stepped outside as everyone started to follow the bushy haired girl.
"Chrissy! When we get home you're grounded." David growled, Chrissy paid no mind as she ran. They all stopped when she stopped in front of a building, it looked rather abandoned, broken in windows, weeds infesting the side of the building, the door seemed to be broken in as well.
"BILLY!" The tall skeleton yelled, there was a silence, but it was followed by a scared.
"I-I'm up here..."
Everyone looked up to the roof of the abandoned building, Billy slowly peeked down and then retreated.
"The ladder broke...I'm stuck.." Billy explained, it sounded like he was near tears.
"That's what you get." David jeered, everyone chose to ignore him. There was a silence as Ben and everyone thought.
"I'LL CALL SANS! HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET HIM DOWN!" The skeleton yelled bringing his phone out, however, before he could dial his brother, there was a loud crack and Billy let out a loud scream.
"The roof is weak..." Ben breathed out, now scared for the child.
"Hey! Papyrus! Can't you lift someone to get him?" Undyne suggested.
"I CAN BRING HIM DOWN, ACTUALLY, IF HE GOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO ME, BUT THE WAY'S HE'S NOW I CAN'T GRAB HIM." Papyrus explained.
"Billy! Get to the edge and face us!" Chrissy yelled.
"Do it! Billy! Papyrus can get you to safety!" Ben practically screamed.
"Just let him fall. He'll learn that way." David snapped at them.
"He can't learn if he's dead!" Undyne snarled at him.
There was another cracking sound followed by Billy's yell, they watched as the boy started to run to the edge. He ran too far and off the edge, however, Papyrus was quick, using his magic to grab the child's soul and he brought the boy down to safety. Almost everyone let out a sigh of relief, there was a loud boom as the rest of the roof collapsed in on itself.
"Someone call Sans tell him we found Billy." Undyne told them, Ben ran up to Billy, making sure the child was ok.
"Let's go, Chrissy." David growled.
"See you tomorrow!" Chrissy called to Billy, before adding, "I love your eye patch, Undyne!"
"LETS GO!" David screamed.
Linda was there in record time to hug her son. Grabbing his hand she looked at everyone, and smiled.
"Thank you...If it weren't for you guys, Billy would be..." She paused and just straightened up. "I will see you all at the next meeting." With that she turned her heel and left, her child's hand in her own.
"She's grateful." Sans noted.
"Lets go home. I'm tired of being out in the rain, it's drowning me!" The flower hissed.
"Yes, lets, it's passed Frisk's bedtime." Toriel commented. Upon saying their goodbyes, Ben and Asgore were the only ones left walking to their homes in silence. Once at their doors Ben gave the monster a wave goodbye before heading into his own warm home.
"Did you find him?" Ivan asked, Ben nodded, he'll tell the story in a bit, but, for some reason he wanted to check on his own son. Walking up to Jack's room, Ben smiled and walked in, giving his sleeping son one last goodnight kiss.
Shutting the door behind him, Ben didn't notice his son slowly roll over to reveal his teddy bear, decapitated, stuffing everywhere on the bed, a kitchen knife hiding just under the boy's pillow and slowly, Jackson Daniels opened his now red eyes.