(Narrator P.O.V.)
Fritz stopped for a moment, taking in a deep breath, having trouble breathing with the large lump in his throat. Noah switched the hand and intertwined his other hand with Fritz’s, using his now free hand to rub Fritz’s back. (Y/n) felt almost guilty, while Fritz had his young sister slaughtered by a monstrous beast, she was eating breakfast and talking in the middle of the night while also hanging around several other killers. She would be lying if she said that she didn’t slightly enjoy their company.
“Itz fine now zhough, it’z captured at least. It’ll probably rot in here.” Fritz said, gathering enough air to speak.
(Y/n) nodded absentmindedly, being in deep thought.
“We all have had encounters with S.MAN that’s how we got here, in Optic Nerve I mean.” Noah explained.
“You have too?” Questioned (Y/n), curiosity getting to her.
Noah nodded, “I don’t remember all too much of it, or the life I had before. I was quite a bit older than Fritz as far as I know.”
((Y/n)’s P.O.V.)
I was confused, “the life I had before”?
Noah continued, “Yeah, from what I first remember it’s kind of fuzzy. I apparently had major injuries, as in I almost died. But I ‘woke up’ and saw something fuzzy, my vision barely making shapes. But a tall figure stringing up a lot of bodies on trees, I don’t know how many or who they are. But eventually I heard gunshots, then it all went black. Woke up from a coma covered in bandages with a bunch of stitches, with not a memory from my past. Not even my name, but they luckily knew my name. That’s how I ended up here, sorry not as tragic as Fritz’s. I’m sure if I regained any memories at all, I would probably have a horrific sob story. But probably best that I don’t remember.”
Fritz explains, still rubbing Fritz’s back. Gosh, who knows who those people were, probably family of some sort. But it’s probably best that he doesn’t remember, but I couldn’t help but still feel guilty. These people, Fritz and Noah, could have normal lives with their family or significant other, they could have children and be normal and happy. Fritz’s sister could still be alive and happy, she could have brought something important and new to the world, just like any other person in the world.
Here I was playing house boot camp, with a bunch of killers. Despite all this I still felt conflicted, yes Slenderman did kill people, yet it sounds like way back when humanity failed to accept him. I feel like his feelings are both misplaced and completely understandable, I mean people are still hunting him and destroying his livelihood, and at the same time he deserves it for killing people.
The silence was cut short when the only sliding door opened, there stood Dr. Decibelles. A fake smile plastered on her face, Fritz and Noah looked up confused.
“My higher up wishes to meet you (Y/n), I hope I’m not interrupting anything.” Her smile grew wider like she knew she was interrupting.
I glanced at Noah and Fritz, Noah glanced back at me and nudged his eye over at the brunette. I looked back over at the doctor, “of course, at least we were just finishing our conversation.”
I stood up dusting off the ugly khaki pants and walked out of the room with the brunette. As we walked down hallways I couldn’t but go through some conflicting feelings about the tall faceless being. On one hand he’s was- or is justified in some of his actions, humanity is cruel. Hell, people are cruel to their own kind let alone something that's not human. On another hand I personally don’t find that as justification for killing innocent children.
I stopped trying to think too much about it and to focus on the task at hand. I searched for the female scientist, unfortunately for me however I was mindlessly walking and lost her. I Must have started following her and then walked off. I looked around a bit, only to see that I had lost her while I was thinking. I started looking around the four way split to see where she had gone off to only to see not a single soul in sight. I was just standing in a quiet, soulless, center of a four way split. No guards stood protecting the hall like most of the facility I’ve seen, apart from seeing Dr. Bright glue things to the wall with no guard on duty. I was thinking about picking a direction and following it when I heard hush whisperers in one of the corridors.
Maybe I can ask them for directions.
I walked closer to the whispers, “-he can’t be too far from here.”
I stop for a moment to ease drop a bit,”I can sense him a bit but I’m having a hard time for some reason. The others we can find easily find, but we need to get them all at once.”
A deep gruff voice chimed in, “we can always leave the others here, not like they were that important.”
The same soft, light, higher pitched voice that started up the conversation when I came in spoke once again, “we can’t just leave them here, Slender would be devastated.”
Slenderman?
I peaked around the corner and whispered, “you guys are looking for Slenderman?”
They jumped from being suddenly caught. All of them looked at me, they seemed to freeze up attempting to think what to do.
They all looked fairly similar, one was tall with a blank face with glasses. He wore a green bandana around his neck, a white button up, with a khaki colored vest over it and a matching pair of pants, finally he had black dress shoes on. The other next to him almost had a completely blank face, he had a mouth full of sharp pointed teeth. He wore a black fedora and trench coat that went a bit past his knees, with black pants and dress shoes. The last one in front of the two (looking the most startled out of the bunch) was a man with light peach skin, a face two (fairly large) black dots for eyes and a void for a mouth. He wore the strangest outfit of the bunch, a black top hat with red fabric attached to it, a black suit with fairly large rainbow polka dots all over it, deep red vest underneath, white dress shirt, deep red bow tie, and black dress shoes.
The polkadotted fellow weakly spoke, unsure of what to do, “yeah?”
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