Masky's P.O.V.

"Now it would be best for just the two of you. If you do well you can become a proxy" We nodded taking the paper and a small box. I turned to Hoodie "you still got the car keys?" he shook his head "well where are they?"

"Key holder." I nodded "thanks." I said walking away feeling the hatered of his eye burning holes in the back of my head. I started heading out letting E.J. grab my shoulder and head for the door and soon coming up to the stairs "there's some stairs here."

"I know I can hear the room getting bigger." Ok weird though I didn't say anything. We made it out to the car and I lead him to the door "hey should I drive?"

"What?"

"Calm down, man." I nodded "you gonna drive or what?"

"Oh right." I ran around the side of the car as he opened the door and sat down. "Nice seats."

"Well we just got it the last car crapped out about a month ago." He nodded feeling the car around him "feel nice?"

"Just getting myself situated." I nodded starting the car. Now I know I'm nodding to a blind guy but it's really all I know to do "so what's with the tension between you and that other guy?"

"What do you mean?"

"What do I mean? You both tensed I could hear you both inhale to puff out your chest? Don't tell me there isn't something going on. What is it like you guys are ex-lovers? But you broke it off because of rule number one?"

"What no man I'm not gay!"

"Hey whatever man I don't judge have you met Offendor?"

"No that's not what's going on."

"Then what man?"

"He…" I sighed "he almost got me fired."

"Shit! What did he do?"

"Look it's a long story." He scoffed "and? it's gonna be a long ride."

"How would you know?" he shook his head "we're on the freeway which means we are trying to get somewhere far." I pursed my lips "fine you wanna know?"

"No shit." I sighed "I'm a smoker and a drug user and Hoodie thinks I shouldn't be doing it, but one of the biggest bonuses of being a proxy I don't have to deal with all the nasty side effects of all that stuff I just get the high and I've never let it get in the way of work, ever."

"I don't see any problem with it. So then why does he want you to stop?" I scoffed "you tell me you seem to be better at reading him than I ever was." I sighed, "Man we used to be best friends, finish each other's sentences kind of best friends. I could tell what he was thinking by the sound of his silence you know? But now? He's totally different he used to be fine with the drug use but I starting upping the dose to feel it better and he noticed I've never messed up a job not once. I was late once but only slightly and it wasn't because of the drugs. So I don't know. What am I doing wrong?"

"Maybe it's not what you're doing wrong maybe it's something with him."

"I don't know what."

"You should talk to him." I rolled my eye "don't want to be my partner or something?" he laughed no "it's not that but if we're gonna work together I don't want to have to get in the middle of that."

"If we ever get to the point where I'd rather send you to talk to him then be a man and do it myself one if not both of us will get kicked out. In other words that will never happen." He nodded "well as long as you can put your differences aside for a job I don't care." I laughed "Hoodie risk a job to piss me off or the other way around? Hell no." he gasped sarcastically "you said hell!" I rolled my eyes before gasping sarcastically in response. "Oh no now I shall be ever banned to hell." I said in a monotone voice. He laughed "so what made you want to become a proxy of Slender?"

"Well he approached me said he could see I was struggling in hiding. He wasn't wrong it's hard to hide when you're someone like me, when you've got the past that I do."

"well I told you about my problems your turn." he shrugged "well I don't remember much before I became who I am, really I don't remember anything farther back than a few days before. I remember I was in college no idea what my major was I'm going to guess something to in the medical field considering how much I know about the human body." He pulled out a small scalpel and began spinning it on the back of his thumb. "There was this girl, jenny was her name I think or maybe penny either way she just came up and talked to me and then we started hanging out. I had no interest in her, but her and her friends had this cave just off campus. We started hanging out there and one morning my roommate wakes my up and tells me he sees a fire at the cave so I go and check it out alone." He took a deep breath. "And that's…that's where it all went wrong. Turns out jenny was the leader of some cult and them though their god had picked me for a sacrifice."

"Shit! What happened after that shit storm of information?"

"They drug me into the cave and ripped my eyes out with a spoon." I cringed I couldn't imagine the hell that must have caused. "Calm down. To be honest after that I don't think I could have been happier than I am now." I rolled my eyes knowing he could tell what I was thinking just by the way I moved in my seat, by the noise of my leather gloves against the steering wheel. "after they removed my eyes the poured hot tar into my eye sockets and called on their great lord, who by the way was a demon, a weak demon the second he inhabited my weak body all I had to do was fight him and I won. My prize? His powers nothing special I'll show them to you later. My curse? I can't eat the food you can I eat humans." My eyes widened and I could tell my heart was pounding but he didn't mention it. "So you're a cannibal?"

"Yup but it's a small price to pay for the power and freedom I get." I nodded "yeah can't argue with that."

"Yeah the only other problem is sometimes when I sleep I go into 'wolf mode" which is where I act like a wolf in my sleep. Its really embarrassing I run around on all fours and everything." I laughed "sleep wolfing huh?" he laughed "yeah" I pulled off the freeway "we close?"

"Yeah it's in a nearby neighborhood from what I can tell." He nodded "here." I said bringing the car to a stop. We got out and walked up to the house. E.J. didn't ask for nor did he need help finding his way he was at the door before I was. "So do we just go in?" the question was answered by the scream of a man "that's our queue." I said pushing open the unlocked door. "Help me please someone help me!" the man's voice was answered by the sound of a little girl's voice "no one can save you now uncle Jonny." E.J. turned to me and whispered "we're picking up a kid?"

"I doubt it's that simple let's let her finish her business." he nodded and walked over to a couch "there's a couch here right?"

"yes." He nodded before sitting down "good because I've sat down before and I ended up sitting on what I thought was a sofa and I turned out to be a dead couple rotting, so not edible and not what I was looking for." I nodded as we listen to the apparent "uncle Jonny" choking on his own blood and let out one last "please…" before finally dying "poor poor uncle Jonny you shouldn't have hurt me like that." A little girl who looked bloodied, beaten and…see through. She emerged from the kitchen and the second she saw us knifes flew out of the kitchen and pointed at us. "Hey we're not here to hurt you." The girl stroked her mangled blood stained teddy bear sweetly "I know because if you were then you'd end up like uncle Jonny." I shivered at the girl. E.J. laughed and stood getting down on a knee front of the girl "hello what's your name?"

"I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."

"Well you're also not supposed to kill your uncle so why don't we let that one slide?" she nodded smiling "ok. I'm Sally."

"Hi Sally, I'm E.J. but you can call me Jack and this is my friend Masky."

"Hello."

"We're here to help you and we want you to meet a friend of ours." She began to nod but was interrupted by pounding on the door. "I think it's the cops Jack." He nodded "how many do you think?"

"Two, someone probably complained about the screaming"

"You take one I get the other?"

"Sure lets have some fun." I said pulling out my gun and clicked off the safety. "Gun huh? Seems a bit quick."

"To each his own I mean all you've got is a scalpel." He laughed "oh I've got more than that he lifted his mask just high enough to show his mouth his skin was gray and his teeth so white I you wouldn't believe all he eats is human. We walked over to the door and opened it and I grabbed the smaller of the two officers placing my gun to his head "you want your partner to live come inside wouldn't want the children of the neighborhood to see this"

"ok ok I'm coming in." the officer I had grabbed slowly walked backwards with me followed by the other officer. E.J. closed the door and I shoved the officer away and E.J. simultaneously grabbed and smashed the radios on their shoulders. "Nice job." He nodded bowing before saying "Sally look away this is about get to more ugly than Jonny."

"what do-…" my voice faded away and long black tentacles emerged from his mouth and wrapped around the officers faces going up their noses and under their eye balls. "Oh my god. That's so awesome." The tension on the tentacles grew tighter and tighter before the offices skulls gave way completely smashing their head into a piled of skull and brain matter. Sally laughed and ran over to him "now I know you won't hurt me." The tentacles slid back into his mouth and Jack knelt down as the two officer's bodies fell to the ground limply "why?"

"Because you're like me, you want to hurt people too." Jack smiled pulling his mask down over his face again. "Well its true. We are not here to hurt you we want to care for you and take you somewhere you don't have to hide." He held out a hand and Sally reached out to take it but her hand went through his "I'm dead I can't touch anyone here." A light bulb went off in my head. "Jack I think I know what that box is for." I said pulling it out and opening confirming my suspicions. I pulled the necklace out of the box and placed it around Sally's neck and she went from somewhat see thought to a solid being. Her wounds faded along with her bruises she looked like an average 8 year old "just as I thought."

"What? What happened?" I grabbed Jacks hand placed it on Sally's shoulder "whoa what did you do? She's solid now." Sally giggled "Can't you see what he did mister?" Jack shook his head "no Sally I have no eyes. Sally's eyes widened and she reached up to grab his mask. He flinched at her touch "don't worry mister I won't hurt you." He nodded and she pulls off his mask to reveal to large holes where his eyes should have been. Black tar leaked down his cheeks. His eyes had been removed so violently that the skin around the sockets was ripped and scared. His face was completely gray. Sally giggled "why do you wear the mask I think you look better without It." Jack smiled "you're one of the few who think so."

"No she's right Jack." Jack laughed "what are you gay now?" I smacked the back of his head. "Come on lets go." Jack slid his mask back on "one second I've got to restock my food." He pulled out his scalpel and ripped open the shirt of one of the "ok Sally let's wait outside for Jack shall we?" I said lifting her and setting her on my hip walking out the front "be quick. We do have a dead line." He grumble waving a bloodied hand over his shoulder. I shut the front door and set Sally down pulling out the car keys before pressing a button to unlock the car. "Whoa cool car mister!" she ran over to the black muscle car with not a spot on it. "Thanks you wanna get in?"