Sunday, February 13, 2011

WHAT THE SHIT

Kristen's gone. Slendy took her away. Or rather, she went with him. To protect her son. And us. Fuck it, I'd only been out of the Labyrinth for a few hours and I was afraid he'd come back for me.

So Chester and I are playing Go Fish with her and Razor/Adam (he insists on being called his birth name now) when I start feeling nauseous and Kristen sits straight up and stares at the windows and look who's out there with all his tentacles lashing.

Kristen says to him, "You can't have him. Master, we had a bargain, one he was not part of. I become a loyal Revenant and you spare my family. That means Indoctrination."

Slendy quits with the tentacles and tilts his head slowly to one side. She goes and hugs Adam, then Chester and I, then she goes to the window and gives us this sad little smile and says

"If I make it out of this alive, next time we meet, we'll be enemies. Next time, I'll be Two Face."

Then she opens the window, Slendy lashes out, she screams and then she and It are both gone.

Adam has tried to be as helpful as he can, but the fact of the matter is that he's only 17 and he's just lost his Mum all over again, possibly for good. He doesn't know how he put me in the Ruins/Labyrinth (he only remembers parts of his time as Razor), but theorises that Labyrinths are in Slendy's Dark World, somehow.

As to how I got out of the Labyrinth...of all the illusionary corpses, one was alive. Just one.

Chester.

I couldn't sleep in the bedroom last night, because he was there- the real Chester set up a stretcher in the study, the one room free of corpses. Staring at me blankly, barely seeing me, slumped against the pillows in an uncanny mockery of the way the real Chess comes home from work and flops on the bed for a few minutes, just to relax.

There was blood everywhere. I got one brief look at the state he was in and...it's the sort of thing you should never have to see.

Every time I went anywhere near that room, he would croak "Vivi..."

I only went in that room twice. Once at the start. Once at the end.

The second time, I told him "You're not dead. You're not dying. You're alive. You're actually standing beside me at this very moment. This'll all be over soon."

Then I went outside, got some matches I had found in what remained of the kitchen and watched the Ruins burn. Then I had another episode of convulsions, passed out and wake up in the living room feeling like I haven't slept in a week. Oddly enough, Chester reported getting a headache while the Ruins were burning. Strange. We'll have to ask Adam once he's feeling a little better. We have the day off work tomorrow. We're going to drive over to Takapuna to drop Adam back with his father and sister, and we're going out for lunch.

I'm hoping for an uneventful day tomorrow. So tired...

--Vivi

18 comments:

  1. Poor Adam. Poor both of them. I just...I'd begun to consider her a friend. Revenant or no, she was a nice person and her motivation for it all was her family and Adam. I hope, one day, that we'll meet again, and we won't be on opposite sides of a battlefield. I would have liked to get to know her better.

    Fucking Slendy.

    --Vivi

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  2. I wish there was something I could do to help... Damn. I feel useless. I want to go around to everyone and just.. just give them a giant hug. I think, if Kristen/Two Face survives... maybe you can save her. Like Reach. Bring her back to our side. Good luck, Vivi, Chester. I'm glad... I'm glad you guys are alive.
    -Shelby, Therapist

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  3. So what now?
    At least the latest crisis seems to be over.

    And yet we've lost another ally.
    Goddammit.
    Goddammit all.
    ~
    JZ

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  4. Oh God, Kristen...I can imagine what she felt at that moment and I wish she hadn't had to go with him. Nothing can change this, but still...

    Are you all okay?

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  5. We're alright. Shaken, yes, exhausted, yes, but alright. We'll be fine.

    --Chester

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  6. I'm glad you're out okay, Viv. *internet hug* :)

    You know what I think? Slender is one hell of a manipulator. It's like he knows all your fears and stuff just intuitively and likes screwing with them. It explains so much, like this situation.

    Poor Adam, though...I wish there was something I could do...

    ~Alora

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  7. It sounds like you and Chester need something to cheer you two up. Perhaps going out to eat at a fancy place?

    Or if there are Arcades in New Zealand, some time spent there might be called for.

    Or perhaps even a day at the movies?
    Tron Legacy is pretty good, especially in 3D, the story is meh, but I enjoyed the pretty pictures.

    ~
    JZ

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  8. We're going out to lunch someplace a little fancy today (I might even have to remember where all my makeup is...I haven't worn any since New Years.). It's Valentines day, we're still alive, and we have slightly more money to throw around now I'm not spending a chunk of my wages on my rent. Although Chester is insisting on paying. :P He's a silly silly person.

    We're just about to drive to the other side of town to return Adam to his family and tell them of what happened to Kristen. I'm also beginning to understand why she calls herself Two Face.

    On the one hand...she's a nice person. On the other...as a Revenant, she can't be.

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  9. I wish I could do something to help. Pretty much the only thing I managed to do was convince Chester to turn on the music, and even then it didn't really get you out.

    ~
    JZ

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  10. Don't worry about it. We're not exactly all roses and sunshine, but we'll recover with time. There isn't any more you can do.

    And actually, the music helped because it helped me believe the Ruins were an illusion. You did help.

    --Vivi

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  11. SWEETHEART. THIS IS IMPORTANT.

    THE CORPSE THING? THE ONE THAT FOLLOWS YOU? IT HAS A PHYSICALITY. BUT NOT...VISIBLE.

    THE LABYRINTH FUCKS OVER OUR MINDS, BUT IT MEANS WE ARE NEVER FREE OF SEEING THROUGH TO THE LABYRINTH.

    YOU CAN KILL THAT CORPSE BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE IT. NO-ONE ELSE CAN SEE IT OR FEEL IT BUT IT IS FUCKING KILLABLE.

    If I'd known that earlier, I'd have done it on the spot.

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  12. Erm, Ava? Your caps key is stuck.
    ~
    JZ

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  13. Ava? What corpse thing? Is this bad? *confused face*

    ~Alora

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  14. The fucking corpse thing stood in my bedroom all last night and tried to tear my face off with it's fingernails every time I looked at it for longer than ten seconds.

    I have the urge to clean that bloodstain off the carpet even though it's not actually there...

    What a terribly undignified way to die. Poor little corpsey thing, following me all the way to Takapuna and back and then getting your poor head bashed on the kitchen counter a few too many times then shot just to be sure...You don't even look that much like Chester any more...

    --Vivi

    Huh. So those corpse things follow everyone who finds themselves in the labyrinth? Super fun happy times...

    Vivi and I are going out for lunch now. We'll let you know if anything happens.

    --Chester

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  15. That...is just wrong on so many levels. o.o I mean, why?! Now he uses zombies too?! What the hell Slender?!

    ~Alora

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  16. Not just zombies. A mangled and nearly-dead version of someone close to you. Whoever will affect you the most, I think.

    --Vivi

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