I don't know why I'm telling you this. I would never tell someone this. Ever. Maybe it's just because my loneliness has driven me insane. Or something. I don't know. I really don't.

Point is, I'm going to admit something to you, something I've never told anyone.

I admit that, sometimes, I act incredibly immaturely.

The few weeks after being forced into healing the dem- ahem, excuse me, the human, once I finally left the tenth floor of the lab, I still refused to talk to Asgore and Toriel, except to tell them I wasn't talking to them.

They came to the lab quite a few times to try to talk to me. I was outright hostile to them, sometimes actually bodily forcing them out. Of course, usually they let me do this- the few times they really got fed up with me... well. Physically, they were a lot stronger than I.

But when they planted themselves firmly in place, I'd just use Blue Magic to move them.

Eventually, even Asgore got irritated. "Gaster, enough!" He roared. "Stop being so- so outright aggressive!"

For a moment I just looked at him. Then I smiled viciously. "Alright. I'll stop being outright aggressive. I'll just be passive aggressive instead." Asgore spluttered something frustrated, but I was already turning away. "Thank you so much for your time, your Majesty, but I shan't be taking any more of it. The exit is to your left. Good day."

For the next three months, I was perfectly passive aggressive to the king and queen. I deflected any and all attempts at serious conversation. Monthly reports were given in such superfluous language that even I had to use a thesaurus to write them. When they came to the lab to visit, I sent employee after employee to them to delay them until they got frustrated and gave up.

Strangely enough, it was the human child themself who diffused the situation.

After a month or two, they were healed enough to be exploring the Underground. I kept nearly obsessive tabs on them in an attempt to figure out a way to convince Asgore and Toriel to get rid of them. But Asriel had taken a strong liking to them, and the child seemed to have been fully accepted into the Dreemurs' family.

By the third month, despite dissuasion from the king and queen, they convinced Asriel to take them to the lab. My lab.

I was working on the second floor. I had finally begun drawing up plans for the CORE- at the time I thought it was merely a matter of harnessing the geothermal energy. It wasn't until several years later that I would find out how difficult it would be to change that energy to Magic energy. This would turn into a decades long project.

Regardless. I was working on the concept for the first CORE prototype when they came in. I could hear Asriel talking, and turned around to "greet" him (my passive-aggressiveness extended to him, too, even if he was too sweet to realize it), but stopped dead in my tracks. The human child was there, with him.

They both stopped when they saw that I saw them. Asriel grinned. "Dr. Gaster! This is Chara! They're a human! Chara, this is Dr. Gaster! He's the Royal Scientist! He's super smart!"

For a long moment, I just stared at the human. Then, slowly, in a low voice, I asked, "Asriel, why have you brought this-... this thing into my lab?"

"Wow." The human said. "Rude."

"Asriel?" I pressed, an increased note of urgency in my voice.

Before Asriel could respond, the human spoke up. "You'd think you would be happy to see that you successfully saved my life."

"I'd rather you were dead." I retorted.

"Dr. Gaster!" Asriel admonished.

"So why did you save my life?"

I just snorted. "It wasn't my choice at all, believe me. If it were up to me, all of humanity would be burning in hell." (Now, of course, I'd like to change that. The Void is so much worse than hell. Humans deserve no place but this eternal nothingness.)

"Why do you hate humans so much anyway?"

I gave them a look. "Seriously? Can you not see the freaking pit we're stuck in? Or, I don't know, the Barrier that keeps us from ever seeing the sky? Not, of course, to mention the war that humans started and then ended with us in this hole." I was beginning to get truly aggravated. "Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the more than halved monster population, and all the dust on human hands! Some of which, I might add, is my brother's!"

Actually... They looked truly surprised. It occurs to me now that, while certainly sorrowful for our predicament, most of the other monsters expressed only that. Sorrow. I was the only one who expressed fury about it all.

There was a moment of silence after my angry rant. Then the human's head dropped. Their next words really, actually surprised me.

Those words still do.

"... humans are the worst."

For a second, I just stood there.

Then, with a bitter laugh, I turned back to my work. "I couldn't agree more."

The human and Asriel left quickly after that.

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A/N

I had a bit more planned for this chapter, but it JUST WASN'T WORKING. So we'll see if I can get it in later.

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