A.N.: My one and only Slender Man fic! I wrote this freshman year in Spanish 2 class... and I love it so much :D I may or may not get around to more Slender fics...


Blackness – ice cold and empty, a strong feeling of helplessness. The suffocating pressure of thousands of eyes, and yet no one is there. You are alone in the blackness, unable to move, unable to speak. The only feeling you know is fear. You know that you should calm yourself, but each time you try, the blackness becomes more oppressive and your fear takes over your senses again.

You are trapped, not able to do anything. There is no light in the blackness – you might as well be blind. The black silence seems to smother your ears – all you hear is a constant ringing sound. Slowly, you are being crushed into nothingness – soon, you will cease to exist, unless you can somehow escape.

Surprisingly, you feel no pain, only a deep and endless sense of fear that seems to grow stronger with every passing moment. That fear that something is watching you, and has been watching you. You try to remember the time before the blackness. In your mind, as you struggle to focus, to remember, you dimly see a dark forest, the ground covered in fog, making it difficult to see. With what little strength you have left, you try to bring the memory into clearer focus. But the more you try, the fuzzier it becomes.

Just as you near give up, you spot something mysterious in the memory. A gigantic but extremely thin… what is that? Some man? Or just your mind? The longer the memory focuses on the… thing, the fuzzier the image becomes – like static. But the thing itself becomes clearer, like it's moving closer to you… slowly. You notice that it is indeed a man – granted, greatly disproportioned, but a man nonetheless. His arms near reach the ground, and he appears to be wearing a black business suit with a red tie. Something seems to be moving slowly behind him… like…tentacles?

In sudden alarm at this discovery in the memory, you seem to remember more – looking up into his pale, almost white and empty face, and your whole body tingling. You move forward, as if in a trance, and are swallowed into blackness.

You pull yourself out of the memory, incredibly weak now. So now you know how you got here – that strangely slender man pulled you…somewhere. Wherever this is… you want to leave. But you still can't move. As you lie there, immobile, you start to lose feeling in your body, starting at your toes, and slowly creeping up. And then, everything just…