1 – Memory of the Past

She looked up at the building, remorse in her eyes as she walked up the first three steps. "Alex Green?" A voice spoke up, stopping her in her tracks as she turned around, seeing a young girl with beautiful violet eyes and a gorgeous smile. She looked no more than 16-years-old.

"That's me," The girl, Alex, said with a genuine smile on her face as she walked down the three steps she had just went up on. "What can I help you with?"

The little girl held out a photo of Alex's latest character from a new cartoon called 'Violet's Home'. It was a picture of Violet King, the main character of the whole show. Not only did Alexandra Green create this character, she also voiced it. So she was kind of like a star now.

"Can I have your autograph please?" She asked with such innocence, that Alex couldn't help but take the permanent marker and photo.

"What's your name?" She asked, looking at the orange haired girl in front of her.

"Molly Mizu,"(1) She answered with a smile.

"That's a cute name there, Molly," Alex said as she wrote a small message on the photo and then her name is a neat but mess calligraphy.

"Thanks. My last name actually means water in Japanese," Molly said, still smiling as Alex handed the photo and marker back to the young girl.

"That's cool!" She said as Molly took the photo from the young artist and smiled as she read the message.

'To Molly,

Never let anyone tell you can't do anything. You can do everything. Follow your heart and you can't go wrong.

Love, Alex Green'.

"Thank you so much!" Molly yelled as she hugged the raven haired girl in front of her, which caught Alex off guard at first, but she immediately returned the hug, before hearing a horn of a car honk at them.

"Molly, let's go!" A young male called out to her, making the two girls pull away.

"Coming, Henry!" Molly called back, which made Alex freeze at that name. "My brother. Thanks again for the autograph!" And with that, the young girl ran off and got into the car, passenger seat, and drove off, leaving Alex standing there alone.

"Wow…that name takes me back." She said as she sat down on the steps to the building behind her. "I wonder what he's up to now-a-days."

"Henry Wilks! Quit it!" A young Alex of maybe 19 yelled to the man beside her at the drawing table, as he kept putting pencil marks on her paper. On it was a drawing of Boris she was trying to get right, and Henry beside her kept wanting to mess with her.

"Make me!" He yelled back with the both of them laughing at their young antics. "You're so easy to annoy!"

"So what if I am!? My little brother does this to me all the time!"

"Okay, girl! Calm down!" One of the voice actors said with a snicker before heading off to one of the recording booths.

"Why am I the one who's picked on here!?" Alex yelled with a giggle.

"Because you're the youngest one here, Allie!" Joey Drew, their boss, said as he walked in. It was true that she was the youngest one in the studio. She had just graduated high school and had a job at the Bendy studio, with a cool boss and a cool cast of creators. Being only 19 made her pretty much famous for her drawings in this world.

"By the way, good work on the last episode you two." Joey said with a smile adoring his face before he walked away.

"Thanks, Joe!" Henry yelled towards him as he went back to his drawing, while Alex smiled at his retreating form. She immediately looked over at Henry after that, a sense of heat entering her cheeks as she stared at his big brown eyes with her own navy blue ones. The way he concentrated on his work, the way he stuck his tongue out a small bit as he focused on his work…and the way it was broken the moment he made another mark on her paper.

"Would you stop!?" Alex yelled with a giggle as she erased the mark yet again and went back to work.

Now here she was, 49-years-old and still working on cartoons for a living. She had it made, but without Henry Wilks by her side. "I hope his life is just as fulfilling as mine."

Alex wiped away the stray tear that was starting to fall down her cheek and quickly stood up. She turned around again, looking at the front door of the studio before her. "Time to reminisce and finally leave this in the past." And with that, she walked up to the door and into the studio.

It was crumbling and looked unkept as Alex walked inside. She looked at the posters lining the hallway she was in, letting those memories consume her before slowly making her way down it. Her fond smile of memories turned into a sympathetic grin, looking at the old cardboard cutouts of Bendy, the little Devil Darling.

"30 years since this show aired for the first year. Hard to believe it's been that long," She said with a slight giggle, before hearing something (or someone) trip off in the other room to the left of her, which made her jump with a start. She wasn't expecting someone else to be here. Mainly because the place was abandoned. After the 30 years of Bendy's show, no one rented the studio out. If they did, the company never lasted. It was like the building was cursed or something, who knew.

What she heard was that after the ink machine was installed, the place became "haunted" with Bendy's "ghost". So she wasn't really hoping to see someone else looking around at the old rooms and the old recording booths.

But here she was, fearing for her own life as she watched the room to her left, seeing a young man walk out of it with a look of annoyance. She stared on in disbelief as he turned around and looked, his annoyance going away and a look of surprise replaced it.

"Alex?"

"Henry?"

1 – Molly Mizu is a character in my Shane Dawson story…if no one got that (lol).

I hope you enjoyed this first chapter of my very FIRST Bendy and the Ink Machine fanfic. I was listening to a song based on this game and came up with this idea: taking the game, keeping the character Henry in it, but adding a new original character I created JUST NOW!

Also, this is the first story I'm writing and posting with my BRAND NEW LAPTOP! I am so excited and so happy about having it! The other one was having battery problems. So I thought it was time for a new one. So far, I'm loving the SHIT out of it!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the first chapter, hope you enjoyed the little reference to my Shane Dawson story, and I hope you like it from here on out.

Thanks for reading, take it easy, God bless, and have a great day.

~Brittany Bauer~