Mark walked into his secondary home; his recording room. Where he spent so much of his time. He used this room for recording his Let's Plays. Granted, it was technically inside his actual home, but he spent so many of his days there it might as well have been a whole house.

He smiled as he moved the mouse of his computer to wake it up. Smiled as he logged in and looked at the wide expanse of games to play. As he browsed quickly over his list, something snagged his eye. It wasn't a game, but no, a Skype notification that popped up in the corner of his screen. He frowned slightly as he saw the name of who sent him a message. Why is Jack up? It's midnight for him!

Opening the message, he answered his own question.

"Hey Mark I can't sleep. How's it going?" the message read. Mark returned to smiling. His friend just wanted to have a companion before he tried to sleep again.

"Oh hi Jack, I didn't think you'd be awake!" he typed quickly, and hit enter. There was no doubt that Jack would read it quickly, as he had a tendency to hate excessive notifications on his devices. Although there was no way to tell currently, if he replied fast the answer would be clear.

Sure enough, Jack replied within a minute of the previous message being sent.

"Yeah, but I've been feeling kinda off lately. My eye's been hurting too…" the fellow YouTuber said. He'd hurt his eye in high school while playing some sport, and it had bothered him occasionally ever since. It was actually the reason for his YouTube name, Jacksepticye, since he had to put antiseptic drops into his eye.

"Do you wanna call, get some of those off things away from your thoughts?" Mark asked. Without waiting for an answer, he clicked the phone icon and called Jack. He waited a few seconds, and then Jack picked up. "I just thought it'd be easier to speak instead of type, if that's okay. So, what's been on your mind?"

"Anti's been bothering me a lot lately," Jack hesitated. "I've been having a harder time controlling him." Anti was Jack's evil persona. Usually, Jack was good at keeping him quiet, but it'd been obvious that lately he'd shown up quite more often than normal. What else would explain the glitches in Jack's facecam during videos?

Mark didn't want to make Jack worse by telling him that Dark was emerging as well, so he instead said "What's he been doing? Has he been more violent?" Naturally, Mark was concerned for Jack's safety, since he kind of had some more… personal thoughts about Jack. He also was briefly worried about Wiishu, Jack's girlfriend, but those worries quickly passed as he knew that she would be able to take care of herself if something went wrong.

"He's been doing a lot more than I should let him do…"