The Butterfly Effect; in which a small change at one place in a deterministic non-linear system can result in large differences to a later state.

-NOPD-

"You sure you're going to be okay?"
Sarcastic laughter permeates the chilled air as the shorter brunette laughs derisively.
"Come on, Sally! The worst thing that'll happen tonight is me getting trashed and drunk-dialling Nathan."
"Maggie..." The warning in her tone is tinted with despair.
"I'm a big girl, Sal! I can take care of myself for one night. It's Valentines Day for gods sake! You go and have fun with that new beau of yours."
Sally doesn't mention that Nathan had been psychotic when Sally had threatened to call the police on him three days ago to get him out of Maggie's flat. She doesn't tell Maggie that she is scared not just of Nathan, but of the demonic spiel that had spilled forth from his deranged mouth. Sally wants to, but she doesn't. She doesn't mention any of this even as she watches Maggie's figure disappear into the busy London traffic. Most of all though, she doesn't mention the faceless man that has started to haunt her dreams; much like they had once haunted Nathan's.

-NOPD-

"Look at that, another one."
Petunia sniffed in disgust as she leaned over Vernon's shoulder to peruse the morning paper, the headline prominent: GUILDFORD WOMEN TAKES SURREY COUNT TO 17.
Beneath this the newspaper had printed a photograph of the most recent women to go missing in the South Eastern county in the past two weeks. The police were starting to worry that they had a serial killer on their hands, but they couldn't confirm or deny any of this since no bodies had yet to be discovered.
"Nasty business, that is." Vernon nodded, reading through the fine print of the article.
Petunia hummed in agreement and turned back to the stove to tend to the eggs.
"Mummy! Hurry! I'm hungry!" Dudley Dursley screamed.
Across the table his cousin, Harry Potter, quietly waited, hoping that today he would be fed.

-NOPD-

"I DIDN'T DO IT!" Nathan screamed as he struggled against the handcuffs.
This only caused the constables to tighten their hold as they marched him through the building to the holding cells; their mouths set in grim determination and their eyes glinting with something akin to relief.
It had taken 19 women to go missing in the space of 2 weeks before they'd finally managed to catch a break with Nathan Surge, the ex-boyfriend of Victim 16 and known associate of Victim 17. Unfortunately, the break had come at a cost.
Only a few of the newer recruits had managed to hold their breakfast down when they'd finally managed to find the butchered body of Maggie O'Donnell tied and bound to a copse of small tree's in the very heart of the small forest that stood to the east of Guildford. Scatterings of muscle and bone tissue were still being retrieved from a 1 km radius of where the body had been found. Her organs leaking out of the plastic bags that had been used to wrap them before having them forced unceremoniously back into her body, in no particular order. It had been a gruesomely macabre scene that the law enforcement had stumbled upon and it had only incensed them more when a dishevelled and deranged Nathan Surge had crashed haphazardly through the nearby brambles screaming of tentacles and faceless men and white notes and covered in the blood of Maggie O'Donnell.


Things you need to know: If you are not familiar with the 'urban myth' of 'Slenderman', I do suggest you check out the following,

- Youtube's 'Proxy: A Slenderman Story' uploaded by user blackboxtv
- Youtube's 'Entry #1 - #68' uploaded by user MarbleHornets
- Parsec Productions 'Slender Game' (available for freeplay online)

I'll be drawing from the above three inspirations for most of my information.

Cheers,

- Des

P.S. Obligatory Disclaimer: I don't own anything. At all.