Hey everybody guess what? After much consideration, I've decided to make a sequel of "Escape to the Woods"! I'm not sure how long this will take me, but one thing's for sure-I will finish it! :D

Chapter 1- Missing Children

"Oh no, not another one!" Lyra exclaimed as she read the paper at the breakfast table one morning. She was holding her French toast and stopped mid-bite when she had noticed the headline. It read, 'ONE MORE CHILD GOES MISSING AFTER DARK'.

"What is it?" asked Slenderman across from her who was sipping a cup of earl grey tea. "Oh wait-don't tell me: Is it perhaps involving another child?"

"Bingo," she smirked and passed him the paper over the large table. He took it and examined it thoroughly which contained underneath a black and white photograph of a girl in pigtails beaming toothily up at them. She looked no more than eight.

He emitted a sigh. "Well Lyra, I don't know what to say. This can't be happening- they're disappearing at an alarming rate in the city!"

"It's horrible how men would just take small children and do who-knows-what to them. Some, but not all of the children they have taken seem to be the type that wander the streets around with no home. And also, how do they keep doing it without getting caught?"

"I don't see how they can pull off something as crafty as this, even in the dead of night. They don't have the same type of power you and I have which allow us to teleport and reappear at short distances. I would love to see the disguise that would fool those policemen."

"All the same, I wish they would catch them because when I had gone into the last time, there seemed to be "missing" signs all over the bulletin." Lyra paused, thinking when she herself had been little and living on the streets. Though occasionally there were kind people who would give her food and a place to rest, she was mostly on her own. If she hadn't met Colin, aka Slenderman, she would never have been alive.

"Was it hard to obtain the paper from the city?" he asked as he took another sip of tea.

"Oh nothing except the 'missing' children. There were actually some mothers I saw who were posting them up. They didn't seem very well, and twice I saw a mother crying." She added sadly.

Slenderman looked sympathetically at her and seemed to stare hard at the paper before him. It pained him to think that the mothers that had lost their little young ones were probably at home at this moment sobbing uncontrollably while they sat on a lonely couch clutching their faces. He emptied the last of his earl grey in one gulp before standing up suddenly while Lyra did the same.

"Do you sense what I sense?" she asked almost flippantly.

"Oh I think I do," said Slenderman making a slight noticeably smile on his pale face, "it's time for Reparation work!"

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Lyra was a twenty year-old girl with pale white rosy skin with dark black thick hair that reached to her waist in loose waves and green eyes the color of spring. When she was very little, a fire in her house killed both her parents leaving her alone to fend for herself since the age of 19. At the age of 19, a group of men decided to try to kidnap her into prostitution. But it was until after she realized that they were after her family fortune. That was when she met Slenderman. He had saved her from those men by allowing her to stay in his manor where they had fallen in love with each other, but were interrupted by their daily life when Lyra had been bribed to sign the contracts in the bank for the men in order to save her aunt's life. During that time, Slenderman had given a bit of his power to at least detain the men further until he arrived to save them. Since then, the Gift of the Proxy as he called it, made her grow a little each day.

She now had extra-human senses that normal humans wouldn't have, and, apart from feeling safer and in control, it also gave her the ability to grow white claws as well as mild teleportation. She had grown capable that Slenderman had offered that she could help him in Reparation work, which was a trial for criminal people who had to venture into the forest to retrieve eight pages while being stalked by them. During the time the men were stalked, it was to have them relive a nightmare that they had bestowed upon their victims.

Lyra didn't have a daunting or creepy face. In fact, she was beautiful; but that would only calm the victim down, the reverse opposite of what they needed, so she remained hidden. Instead, she did things like use her coiled tentacles at will to scare humans unexpectedly. She would simply hide behind a bush unseen and through the bushes, stick them out causing them to trip and fall. If it was dark time, she would actually even poke them with her tentacles on the shoulder, sometimes lightly enough to make the human startled out of their minds. Lyra found to her astonishment that she enjoyed Reparation work alongside him. After all, they were getting rid of society's most horrendous human beings.

The human that was searching for the pages was rather weak; he had only gotten two. He had a bald head with a diamond earring and small watery eyes that stumbled a lot even when Lyra wasn't doing anything. Apart from having the ability to sprout tentacles, she was able to tell what crimes he had committed just by searching through his mind briefly. She wasn't able to read minds or anything, but simply see what terrible crime they committed. The bald man had once killed another human before taking his wallet full of money in the dead of night. Slenderman had eventually gotten him an hour after he found the second page where his static gaze paralyzed the man to death as he strangled him. The man slumped to the floor unconscious where he had fallen with a look of utter horror on his face.

"That was too easy," said Lyra as they both walked away into the forest and passing a small brook. "By the way, what are you doing to all the bodies of those criminals?"

"Well, I usually bury them because they would just take up all the space, no matter how big the forest is. Things from Earth must be returned back to Earth as a saying goes in biology, so I am burying them to give nutrients to the trees and other vermin that thrive off of them-it's a natural part of life."

Lyra laughed. "Well if you put it that way, then I guess you're right."

The pair decided to scout the forest some more in order to see any new plants or animals that had arrived in summer. It was June and the forest was as alive as when she had first come here months back. Their jaunt outside consisted of finding that the apple trees that were scattered over the north side of the valleys were beginning to ripen. Already a few had ripen and were on the fresh green grass which Lyra picked up. She thought that if she got enough apples she would be able to make a nice apple pie back at home. Though she had no experience in cooking, she figured there would be great cook books back at the kitchen that would tell her how to prepare one.

"Wow, they look better bloomed in the summer," Slenderman remarked and then unexpectedly took Lyra's hands, spinning her around in his arms before they both collapsed laughing on the soft prairie, "But you my dear, look more attractive."

Lyra blushed a bright pink smiling, "you know I always turn red whenever you say something as nice as that," she said.

"I know," said Slenderman grinning mischievously at her, "That's why I do it. You look twice as gorgeously adorable when you do." He bent to give her a kiss on her forehead making her all the more blush. Even though they had been together for some time, she could never help blush when they were like this.

She gave him a kiss in the cheek in return, "Well, should we go back to the manor now, I have a surprise to give you."

"A surprise?" said Slenderman looking at her curiously, "what kind of surprise?" Lyra grinned.

"Well, something that concerns apple pie."