It was dark, but of course death wouldn't know. His eyes were closed and he was slowly coming couscous.
"...Hmm?" He murmured.

His eyes widen at where he was, it definitely wasn't a save screen. The save screen actually had a ground. He was surrounded in only black.

"Geno! G-geno!?" Death yelled, "Geno say anything if you can hear me!"

"Geno isn't here,"

Death turned around, the voice was just right behind him. He honestly wasn't surprised at who he saw.

"Chara,"

Chara stood there smiling, they look different from the last time Death saw them.
They had wingding writing on their eyes, their dress had gotten a new look of a black and white flower pattern and they had an even more insane smile.

"What have you done to geno!?" Death asked, not wanting to waste another second with this demon.

"Oh~ we have done nothing wrong to him~" Chara answered, they floated around death smiling, basically mocking him.

"We?" Death asked, he didn't know why but he felt his soul sink.

"Why me and gaster of course, nice meeting you death" Chara said, their voice changed dynamics and they spoke.

"What!? You two are......what?" Death said it a state of shock. He backed up ready to summon his weapon for defense.

"It's to much of a long story that isn't important right now, what's important is our deal"

"To hell with you! I'm leaving, I need to find geno!" Death yelled, he tried to use his magic to open a portal but realizes he doesn't have any.

"..what?"

"Your magic can't work here, we made sure of that. It can be very surprising when you realize what you can do, even surpass a god." Chara said, they snapped their fingers and a window was opened for death to view through.
"This is where geno is at, his own little perfect world"

Death floated to the window, he saw geno but not the geno he knew. This one looked different, and even though it's been only a few seconds he's been watching this, he could tell this geno acted different.
They acted happy.

They walked down the stairs to be greeted by their brother, then they walked to the kitchen to get the plates to set them down. A small child playfully shoving them as they went to open the door.
Death slightly flinched when he noticed Toriel.

"What it this?" Death asked to surprised to look at chara.

"Oh just something me and gaster created, it's nice to know if someone who isn't a god of death, starts to reap souls, can get an amount of power to achieve these things!~" Chara spoke in awe, they slightly closed the window so death could focus his attention on them.

"Can I ask you a question? Why is it that genos' still here and not been reaped by you?~ I mean, I know you don't like taking lives reaper, but isn't your Job supposed to bring people peace. Weather you like it or not?~" Chara smiled with delight, death looked down, his eyes shaded by his cloke's hood.

Chara perked up, not in surprise but in amusement.
"Aww, how adorable!" Chara chimed, they hovered over deaths head and rubbed it a bit. Death winced at the pain he was receiving, then he remembered that his skull still had cracks on it.
"I don't really think I need to tell you the reason, course' I've known before you even did~"

Death perked up, "what do you want?"

Chara smirked and floated to deaths side and opened the window again. Geno was laughing with papyrus in the living room, it was surprisingly big house. Even undyne and Alphys were there.
Deaths soul slowly started to hurt when geno smiled, he noticed that he wasn't bleeding anymore nor he had the wound. Even the glitches that surrounded him around his eye and Body were completely gone.

But only geno's smiled hurt him the most, this smile was different. This smile was a smile of happiness, something that death never gave geno a chance to have. Overwhelming guilt ran through him, something that he always felt.
He realized how selfish this was of him, how he came day by day talking to geno, going back home to a brother he actually had. And geno was left with nothing but the hope of stopping a timeline just so a endless chain of suffering will stop.

Death was supposed to end that chain.

Yet he was selfish.

He couldn't think of himself of the god of death anymore, the God of death know as "The ugly truth"
He was nothing more than the god of guilt because that's all he couldn ever feel.

Chara smiled widely and closed the window before they got to a certain part.

"I'm assuming guilt is running through you~ it's not that hard to sense, death." Chara smiled they floated right in front of death, looking him right in his eyes.
"How about we talk about that deal?" Chara asked, they swayed their head to the side, anxious for death's answer.

"What deal?" Death answered, his eyes were tired looking, he felt tired. Somehow he couldn't care less about what chara had to offer.

He just wanted to see geno.

"I'll make a trade with you, the scythe of rebirth for this world where you and geno can be together"

That really got ahold if death's attention.

"That's all I ask of you, just your scythe and you'll be able to get this whole world with you and geno."

Death almost panicked at their words, his scythe for this world. "I'm not sure I understand,"

"Let me put it this way, instead of you having to kill geno with your own scythe and watch him dust before you. All you have to do is hand me your scythe and you'll give him and yourself this world, a world where pain no longer exist. One where you won't need to be in a save screen where time is frozen just to hold hands without fear of you killing him. You'll both be happy,"

Chara smiled sweetly, but Death didn't like what he was hearing.

"That sound nice in all, but why would you go through all the trouble of making this world for something as a scythe. More importantly, why would you do this for me or geno? This isn't like you, you wouldn't go through the trouble for someone else's happiness." Death growled, he summoned his scythe, not to hand it over but to fight. Chara smiled at this action but did not hesitate to speak again.

"Aren't you tired death, tired of every god telling you what to do. Making you go through reaping people, a job that you absolutely hated." Chara said a bit more aggressively, "aren't you tired of all the lies, all these orders of telling you what to do!? Making you live through this unbearable guilt. Wouldn't you just want to make your own choice for once?
For the happiness of your loved one?"

Deaths mouth slightly opened and he slightly lowered his scythe in surprise. He was tired of all of this, he's tired of the guilt, he's tired of the screams of the souls he reaped, he's tired of the memories he couldn't bare, he's tired of being guilty of the suffering of his loved ones.

Life..............Geno

Now, he can find a way to make one of them happy.
Slowly the scythe of rebirth appeared in his hands. He looked at it for a long time, and thought.

Is this what we would want? Would this...........finally let us be happy....?

Chara had become impacent with him and blurted, "you know there's a also a good reason why you didn't reap him. His soul is a peace of a sans, once he dies the soul will return back to the other sans and geno will cease to exist. It's only natural, he's nothing but a glitch"

"!?" Deaths eyes widen in surprise, it all was starting to come together now.
Because you can never truly erase and gods memory, especially if it's been 998 times.

Chara eyes widen as well when they sensed Deaths memories coming back. They sighed and smiled, they took out a scythe. An old one they stole from death a long time ago.

"Well, I'm assuming this will be the 999th time you'll denie my offer. *giggles* the number nine will be all geno will see~"

The window opened to a portal Death finally looked up.

"Guess we'll try again next time~"

Everything was in slow motion, he saw as chara began to raise their scythe.

"No.....NO! NOT GENO!"

*slash*

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Death felt himself collapse to the ground, a bright red slash showed through his cloke.

"D-death!" Geno shouted, death had fallen right in front of geno. Taking the hit for him, geno cradled death in his arms. Slowly his glitches started to come back. Blood started to pour from geno's mouth and the red line of his shirt soon became his wound. Chara began to laugh uncontrollably.

Death smiled weakly and looked up at geno, "So this is what dying feels like."