AN: WOO! New chapter! I'm sorry it's not long like usual, but I felt like adding a little (cute?) fic here. Just to make the ominous story just a little bit brighter :)

Sorry to the people reading my 'Blaspheme!' story! I have a good 2/3 of it written up, but I can't think of how to finish it! Just bear with me here guys while I think of an ending!

Please review and I hope you enjoy!

EDIT: again, I just fixed up some mistakes and added in some more proxy talk :) I hadn't realized it was such an important thing to add in until a wonderful friend (you know who you are!) reminded me about it.


Chapter 3

Forward three years

"No! no, no, no, no, no! I am not wearing it!" Slender shouted furiously. He batted his brother's incessant hands away from his head. Trender grunted in frustration and made another grab at his shoulders but Slenderman dodged him.

"Come on Slenderman! It's cold outside! You know what you're like when you get cold!" Trenderman made another lunge at Slender and managed to knock him down. They both thudded to the floor heavily and Slender gasped in surprise. Josie jumped, knocking her knees into her bed painfully. She was upstairs unpacking the last of her clothes and heard wild thrashing downstairs. She listened hard and when she heard the telltale sound of something breaking, she sighed and plodded her way down the massive staircase. Damn them and their constant fighting!

Trender snarled at his broken vase and took advantage of Slender's surprise. He straddled his younger brother's chest and pinned Slender's arms down with his legs. Tentacles burst out from Slender's back and latched themselves around Trender's struggling arms.

"Stop that! Let go!" Trender growled.

"Not until you get off!" Slender roared back. They were evenly matched in strength, but Trender was willing to play dirty. Slender had always had an incredibly strong sense of pride. If he was going to win in a fight, he was going to win fair and square. Except for when Slender got angry and played just as dirty as Trender- those fights weren't pretty. Tentacles were flailing everywhere and there seemed to be double the amount of limbs than there should have been. Slender gnashed his jaws wildly, trying to rip Trender shirt sleeves.

"Not the shirt! Not the shirt!" Trender shrieked. He wrenched himself away from Slender's head and flung himself back wildly, landing by his brother's feet. They both scrambled to get up and Trender teleported behind Slender. Before he could react, Trender dove forward, wrapping his long arms around Slender's chest and never-ending tentacles around the rest of him. They both crashed down to the ground and the house rattled, glass goblets teetering precariously on their shelves. Slender thrashed and writhed wildly until he gave up. Panting slightly, Slender whined,

"You cheated." Trender huffed a laugh and feigned indignity.

"I did no such thing!" Trender kept his arms and tentacles tight around his brother, afraid he was going to try attempt a sneak attack. Sure enough, only a few second later, appendages pushed their way through Trender's grip.

"Don't try and weasel your way out of this, you're wearing it and that's that!" Slender growled low in his throat and and slowly wrapped his tentacles around Trender's shoulders and neck. He became anxious.

"Hey," he began nervously, pulling his neck away, "You know what Mother said! No necks!"

"She also said 'no teleports'. I just assumed that we weren't playing by house rules anymore." Slender gave a feral grin, showing rows of sharp teeth. Trender actually started to get scared. There were always times when Slender took it too far, you know, him being a murderous entity and all. One time Splendorman had his leg broken.

Trender's tentacles relaxed from Slender in a show of surrender, but his brother only got up and knelt beside him. Slender's grip tightened around Trender's neck and now he was the one who was desperate to get away. Trender was definitely not above begging for release.

"Slenderman please! You're hurting me!" he cried. Slender's grin became just that little bit wider and Trender yelped in pain as his grip tightened. It was at that perfect moment that Josie came around the corner. Trender groaned in relief. Josephine Annabelle Periali was a goddamn angel; that was for sure.

"Slender! What do you think you're doing?! He's gonna pass out!" Slender's head whipped up and stared at Josie in shock. If Trender had been in a more lucid state, he would have noticed the intense reddening of Slender's face. Slender's retracted his tentacles immediately upon seeing her. They slowly seeped into his back and Slender stood up, mumbling something about getting caught up 'in the moment'. He stuck out a hand for his brother to take.

Trender rubbed his sore neck and coughed. He grabbed Slender's hand and stood up. They both slumped over together, shoulders hunched over. The way Josie was glaring at them reminded Trenderman of when they had been wrestling as boys and their mother would scold them. Josie was ridiculously small standing next to the two, but somehow she appeared to be five inches taller than them as the boys looked at the floor in shame.

"Well, I think to start off with you two can shake hands and apologize to each other, clean up the broken vase and then explain to me why you were fighting. Again." She pointed to the other side of the room where a vase had fallen off a coffee table. Trender was glad that he hadn't had a chance to put any flowers in it. The dirty water would have most certainly stained his cream shaggy rug. Slender's shoulders stiffened and he turned towards Trender. They both stared at each other for a few seconds before shaking hands stiffly and mumbling apologies to each other (Trender croaked his). It had become a sort of routine for them. Whenever they got in an argument (usually ending in wrestling) Josie had to break them up and force them to apologize. Trender didn't really mind as he had a lot less bruises than when they were living together as children.

Slender walked into the kitchen to retrieve a dustpan and they both cleaned up the shattered porcelain. Trender sighed sadly (Slender smirked) when it was dumped into the bin. Josie watched them as they did this and sat over on the longest leather couch. Slender and Trender sat on the shorter one opposite her, their thighs pressed together due to lack of space. Josie glared at Slender, meaning it was his turn to explain what happened. Slender straightened his shirt and cleared his throat. He didn't appreciate being treated like a child and he tried to maintain some of his dignity.

"My dearest brother here," Trender huffed and crossed his arms, "was trying to put a leash on me like some house pet." He jabbed a pale finger towards the forgotten blue scarf on the floor. Trender had dropped it when they crashed to the floor the first time. Josie chuckled and Slender eyed it angrily as she went over to retrieve it. She wove the beautiful blue wool through her fingers and admired Trender's knitting skills. He had been working on it on and off for three years and it was absolutely gorgeous. Josie envied his talent, he had tried to teach her but she just didn't have the knack for it. He said he'd begun it a week before she first came over to Trendy's and it seemed he had finally finished it. Trender had been really looking forward giving it to Slender.

She walked over to Slender and asked him to stand up. Trender watched curiously as she stood on his couch and faced Slender. Slender looked her in the eyes and upon seeing the fierce determination was uniquely 'Josie', he groaned in defeat. She giggled and reached up to tie the scarf around his neck gently. Trender grinned and admired the colours against his pale neck. He wished he could get Slender to do things, but alas, only Josephine seemed to hold that power over his brother. Josie smoothed down the shoulder pads of his coat and then hugged him tightly, wrinkling the suit again.

Trender's curiosity spiked to an all-time high as he watched Slender wrap his arms around her and rest his head on hers. Josie had grown a lot in the last few years, but still had to reach up to hug him, even while standing on the couch. Trender missed the little girl that he could bounce on his shoulders and dress up how he liked. (She wanted to pick her own clothes now, sadly) She was only ten, but it seemed like she had changed so much since he first met her. Slender had also changed, but you had to squint to see it. He was more agreeable, slightly less adverse to affection and so much happier, even though you had to look at the little things to notice it.

He was still rude sometimes and left poor Josephine with him for days on end without so much as a 'goodbye', but Trender really didn't mind that so much, he could have a pretty accurate guess at what he was doing away and was glad he didn't take Josephine with him. She did miss him terribly when that happened, however.

Slender never said it, but the way his face crinkled into a smile when Josephine laughed or the content sighs he made when they fell asleep on the couch together spoke more than he ever needed to. Slender loved Josephine. It was completely obvious to everyone but Slender.

Trender averted his gaze awkwardly as their hug continued. Slender finally broke it off and gave Josie a smile. She smirked back and grabbed his large hand. Trender's heart warmed a little as he watched Slender help Josie off the couch and make their way to the front door.

Trender looked at his designer clock on the wall and saw it was time for their weekly walk. Josephine and Slender cherished their walks together (though he would never admit it) and Slender was always in a better mood when he came back from them.

"Be back soon-it's cold out there! And Splendorman's coming over for dinner later! I'm making spaghetti!" Trender shouted. Josie waved goodbye and let Slender help her into her jacket. With a final nod from his brother, they left, slamming the door behind them.

Trender smiled to himself and winced slightly as he rubbed his neck. Where Josephine was concerned, Slender's moods were incredibly sporadic. He teleported up the stairs to Josephine's room and unpacked the last of her clothes. He folded them up and put them in the beige cupboards. Slenderman had decided that he was tired of travelling back and forth from his cabin to Trender's home and as he didn't want to risk teleporting with Josie again, he decided that she would live here and Slender in his cabin. Slender said she would stay with him while he was deciding on whether or not to make her a proxy. Trender was fine with this arrangement as he didn't think he could stand living with his brother again. Besides, he loved Josephine like a sister and was very happy to spend more with her. Josie had wholeheartedly agreed to the idea; she loved 'her Trendy' as she sometimes called him. Slender told his brother that she didn't know about the whole 'proxy thing' yet, as he had put it.

Josie really loved Splendy (as she called him) as well. She had been nervous around him for the first few minutes upon meeting him, but Trender didn't blame her; he took some getting used to. And once he'd explained everything to her, she had completely understood. He straightened the floral sheets on her bed and went into the kitchen to prepare their dinner-not forgetting his favourite plaid apron of course!

It was going to be a good night, everyone was so much happier when Josephine was around.


AN: N'awwwwwww, wasn't that nice? Yes? No? Tell me in the review!

I was thinking of doing some little shorts chapters, just progressing through Josie's life as she gets older and the effect she has on the family. I can't believe it but I might need a part 3 or something! that's incredible! I've never written a story this long before!