A/N: This is actually the last chapter of my previous story, but I'm also going to have it be the prologue to this one. Why am I doing this? Because instead of just jumping in with how the original first chapter started, people would be totally lost if they hadn't read this, so to let this story go off on its own, but still have that connection to the first one, I'm putting a copy of this here. (If you get what I'm saying... I don't want people to be required to read the first one. That way I'll possibly get more people to follow this! 8D)

"Jack! I found something!" Alice called from the forest. "You might want to see it."

Jack made his way through the trees to where Alice was, curious to see her discovery. Due to the fact that he was 64, it took him a while to get to the 25 year-old officer. Once he was able to see what she had found, he was instantly mad.

"Alice, I thought you had found something important!" he yelled. "Not just some damn book!"

Alice flipped the book open and said calmly, "It's Anna's diary."

Jack looked up at her, shocked at the evidence his soon-to-be replacement had found.

"Read it tonight and report back to me about anything in it that might tell us who took her."

Alice nodded and muttered a polite, "Yes, sir."

"Um, guys?" Jack and Alice heard from a few yards away. "Come here."

"Maddi must have found something," Jack said. "Hopefully it's not just a dead animal again... that girl really needs some glasses..."

The two officers walked over to Maddie and were shocked at what they saw. A mangled body hung from the branches of the strong, tall tree. The stench made Alice gag and grab her nose. It was almost impossible to identify that the body was Anna's. Alice took a few quick pictures before an ambulance arrived to take it. Detectives and other officers came shortly after the ambulance left to look for more evidence and let Alice, Jack, and Maddi go home.

"Alice," Jack said before they got in their cars. "Don't forget to read the diary. I know how you like to procrastinate and forget, so do it the minute you get home."

"Yes, sir."

The ride home for Alice was eerily quiet. Her home was also eerily quiet. She felt extremely uneasy as she sat down to read the diary. When she read the second entry she wrote down, "Casey saw someone- May 16, 2001." She also wrote down the description of the man. As Alice read, she wrote notes that might help them find the man who took both Casey and Anna. Once she finished reading, she had about half of a page of notes. Jack would only believe a fourth of what she wrote.

"Alice, what do you have for me?" Jack asked her.

"Well, sir, both girls seemed to have the same exact man following them. Anna wrote that he had actually used her sister to try to lure her to him," Alice reported.

"Any descriptions?"

"Yes. The man is tall enough to reach second-story windows, wears a suit, and appears to have no face..." she said.

"How tall? And what do you mean 'no face'?"

"'He didn't have a face. No eyes, no nose.'" Alice read from her notes. "'I see him outside my window at night! But I'm on the second floor!"

"Is this some sick, twisted joke?" Jack said angrily.

"No sir! You can read it yourself! Here I have the diary-"

Jack cut her off, "Alice, if you're not going to take this seriously then leave."

"Sir, I-"

"GO! I don't need pranksters like you telling me there's a man out there who's about nine or ten feet tall and has no face!"

"Please-" She could feel tears roll down her cheeks.

"GET OUT!"

Alice sprinted out of the office, accidentally taking the diary with her. She got in her car and drove home as fast as she could.

Slendy's POV

I knew immediately that Alice was going to be harder to take down than anyone I've ever hunted. Although, with Masky at my side, it should be easier than if I was alone. I turned to him to tell him what he had to do, but he was munching away on what was left of Ms. Smith. Once he finished I gave him the instructions.

"But that's never worked before!" he protested. "It's too over-the-top."

"Trust me," I told him. "Alice Porter is different. She's smarter. You need to realize that we're going to need to do over-the-top things to get her to come to us."

He nodded, "Okay. When shall we start?"

"Soon."

He giggled. "This'll be interesting."

"Yes, it will."

A/N: Please review! I'm really excited to see how this is all going to go down between Alice, Slendy, Masky, and Jonesy (who comes in during the next chapter)