Your body began to quake with a single word. How strange.

"Flow..ey..?"

"Hey there, Frisk! It's been a while!" he responded. Focusing hard, you could make out his form in the center of the area in a patch of similar flowers. He was beaming up at you proudly, without a care in the world. His golden petals standing out beyond the rest in the flowerbed.

Your expression fell from shock to solemn. So many years had passed between the last time you had seen Asriel in this form. You meekly hoped that he would be wrong. That somehow, he would return in his old body. But that time had clearly passed. His tightened grin showed an aging in his face. Hardened from all of the isolated time on his own. A wave of guilt slammed into you. Years and years of darkness. Even if he had any remains of his soul, it would be gone by now. You decided to tread carefully.

"Hello.. Flowey.." you heavily pant through your response. You try to take a deep breath in, but are cut off by a sharp pain in your side, hissing down towards the ground. Flowey's smile widens as you struggle to regain your composure.

"Hmm.. you look like you're having a hard time there, Frisk!" he says gleefully as his eyes begin to wander up and down your restricted form. "Don't worry, I'll share some mercy with you in time." a chuckle escapes his tightened grin. You can't help but tremor in fear. He's had years.. over two thousand days of the sun rising and setting to plot. The thought of this drove you crazy. It was enough to keep your eyes open through the pain. Your consciousness begins to falter.

"Frisk, stay awake!" Andrew yells from across the chasm.

The black edges around your vision disappear with his words, locking eyes with him. You can't leave him alone with Flowey. You bite down on your lip.

"Oh, good!" Flowey beams over to you in pride. "I don't think that I could wait any longer. Now Frisk, I'm going to need you awake and alert for this, okay? You have to stay awake!"

You get a churning feeling in your stomach. Why does Flowey care if you stay awake? There are too many questions.

"Besides, I've been waiting a while to finally get to see my sister again." Flowey begins to chuckle madly as your breath hitches. "Chara, are you there? I want to play again!" he mutters an octave lower as his face contorts.

"Frisk, w-what the hell is going on?!" Andrew yells from the opposite end of the cave.

Your heart is pounding wildly in your chest. So that's it. He's trying to force Chara into control of your body. How much did he know about your activity above ground? If he's been watching you, then he might know about the incident a year ago in which Chara nearly overpowered you. You decide to bluff him.

"I d-don't.. know, Drew.. Chara's d-dead."

Flowey's face twisted inwards maniacally. You couldn't make out Andrew's expression, but it was somewhere between confusion and fear. As you watched him, the vines around his body began to crawl downwards off of his body. With a gasp inwards, Andrew fell to the ground and somehow landed on his feet.

You've never felt more determined in your life.

"A..ANDREW.. RUN.."

His eyes met yours with that of a deer in headlights. The flower merely cackled and looked over in his direction. "Aww, but Andrew, then you'd miss out on the only reason why I brought your despicable form down here to keep me company! Aren't you just DYING to find out?!"

After regaining his composure, he slowly made it up to his feet. With his eyes lowered to the ground, he reached into his back pocket, pulling out what looked like a pocket knife. With a flick of his wrist, the blade extended out of its base and he held it tightly. He looked up towards you with a better view and hissed. Your body must be in worse shape than you think.

"Don't worry.. Frisk.. I'm going to get you out of here.. o-okay? Let me take care of this stupid sunflower. Everything's g-going to be all right. I'm going t-to make it up to you." he grinned up at you. You gave him a pleading look, but before you could interject, he began to run towards Flowey. The flower disappeared under the ground before Andrew reached his form, and before popping back up sent a vine towards his leg, sweeping him easily. As he fell to the ground, you took in another breath of air painfully.

"Andrew.. he's t-toying w-with you… please.. r-run.."

"Not happening!" he shouted back to you as he pushed himself back onto his feet.

Flowey bent a bit to the side, looking at Andrew curiously. "Wow, Andrew! You've got more determination than I thought!" You heard some movement off in the distance that got your attention. "When Frisk is in trouble, a human who you hate, you fight with your all." Andrew begins to hear the commotion and looks away from the flower towards the ground off in the corner. A cluster of vines are beginning to disperse. "But when it's your own family, you couldn't be bothered to save them?" his face twisted together into an expression you couldn't be bothered to identify. The vines had revealed what looked like a body. An older woman who looked like she had been down here for a long time.

No.

You inhaled painfully. "A-andre..w.." His eyes were wide, looking towards the crumpled mass in the corner. His hands opened, releasing the blade which hit the ground with a clunk.

"MOM!"

He sprinted past the flower, who had been laughing for a while now. "MOOOOM!" his eyes were uncontrollably watering, running at full speed. As he got closer and closer, his screaming became more panicked as the truth began to set in. Neither one of you could see the movement on the ground before it was too late.

Without warning, a vine shot up from the ground towards his running body and pierced his chest clean through his body.

"ANDREW!"

His movement ceased almost instantly. You could see him open his mouth weakly, blood trickling down his chin and onto the cavern floor. His arm outstretched slowly towards his mothers body, trying feebly to reach her before his body gave out and fell limp against the vine.

"No.. n-no.." you heard the words falling out of you, but couldn't really feel them. You began to wail, trying with the rest of your energy to thrash against the vines. You had to reach him. You had to tell him that everything was going to be okay. This isn't happening. This can't be happening.

Flowey's laughter broke when he saw you moving about against his constricts. He slid under the ground and popped back up just underneath you. "Hey, Frisk, wasn't that fun! Did you see that pathetic attempt to get her?! He was all, "MOMMY, MOMMY, NO!" and then lights out! What a failure!"

Your anger bubbled inside of you, but before you could try to get to him, he appeared suddenly in front of your face. His eyes were wide and he had a crooked grin.

"Now, I'm going to need you to stop hurting yourself so much, it's going to make torturing you a lot shorter. I've been waiting to bring Chara back for a while, so let's make it fun, all right?"

Your body froze as you felt a pulse run through your entire body.

"All right!"