Song; Time of Dying ~ Three Days Grace


I woke up, my phone buzzing from somewhere in the room. I went to get up, but Jeff had a death grip on me. I untangled myself from him, and moved in the darkness to get my phone, which had stopped buzzing. As soon as I went to check who it was it started ringing again. It was my mother.

"Hello?" I asked groggily, rubbing my eyes as I laid back down.

"Damien where have you been? I've been worried sick! You haven't called me, and school has been out for at least FIVE hours!" She rushed.

"Five hours?! Sorry, we went to the cabin and passed out." I said as Jeff grumbled something and wrapped his arms back around me.

I heard her snort before saying, "You could've called that you were staying there for the night!" This shocked me, I was allowed to spend the night in a cabin in the woods? A grin broke it's way on my face.

"Sorry mom." I said again.

"Just make sure that you come home tomorrow!" She said before hanging up. I laid the phone next to my pillow, wrapping my arms back around Jeff, who buried his head in my neck.

I just fully snuggled back into his warmth when his phone started ringing. I groaned, along with Jeff who seemed to be semi-awake. I once again untangled myself from him and answered his phone for him.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Oh he's with you, okay. Sorry, just checking." Then the line went dead. I shrugged and pulled on my boxers and pants, sliding open the door. I squinted in the sudden brightness. That's strange, we didn't turn on any lights, considering it was still pretty bright when we got here, and we've been asleep.

"So we're at the final countdown?" Ben's voice came. I froze, hand still on the door knob of our closet/room.

"Yes. This is either the last time or the second to last time." LJ said.

"So only a couple more years? Thank our Lord." EJ sighed. "I'm sick of having to revert to this human form." He then sneered, Ben snorting in agreement.

"Yes yes, you're not the only one. But in a few years we'll have them both back." LJ agreed

"Is our Lord having the proper arrangements made for their return?" Ben asked.

"Ben, I have no clue. All I know is what Sally told me."

"I miss everyone. We've been gone so long, I even miss Jane!" Ben confessed. "But…where's Masky and Hoody?"

"I don't know. Maybe tending to their actual bodies. Sally never said anything about them."

"I feel bad about them. They must've felt pretty lost, without their master." EJ whispered.

"Come on, I believe they're in the next room, sleeping probably. We don't want to wake them." LJ said, I heard shifting, realizing that they were probably in the "living room."

Completely forgetting why I had even came out here, I opened the door and slid inside, shutting the door silently and quickly as possible. I climbed in the bed, Jeff grumbling something among the lines of, "Where'd ya go? It's cold." As he snuggled back in my arms.

My head reeled. What were they talking about? They spoke like were way older than 17! And who was their "Lord?" Were they talking about Jeff and me? A thought passed through my mind as the warmth of Jeff lulled me to sleep. "What were they talking about? Tending their actual bodies?" That was the last thing I thought as my eyes closed and I fell asleep. The worst part was, I didn't remember the conversation the next day, or ever until much later.

1 YEAR LATER (and a couple of months)

The cheers erupted all around us as caps were thrown into the air. We had graduated from High school and was now free to face the world as some teachers said. Jeff clung to my arm, LJ jumping up and down on the other side of me, throwing candy ever where, EJ and Ben trying to get him to stop. I laughed as he simply just chucked tootsie pops at them. Flashed were shining everywhere, taking pictures as all the seniors cheered.

LJ had gotten an award for being the top class clown in years, while Ben had gotten the Techno-Geek award. That was really all the rewards our group got. Everyone was hugging and some were crying and others were the first ones out the doors.

I saw my mom with tear filled eyes, hugging Jeff's mother who didn't look any better. Dad was away on a business trip, but he's been gone for a while, since the last time we turned this month. I smiled and tugged Jeff over and was torn away from him by my mother, engulfed in her hug.

"My baby's all grown up!" She said proudly through her tears. Jeff was being held in a death grip by his mother while his brother laughed at his older brother. Oh, how bout we have dinner at my place?" Mom asked, looking at Jeff's mom, who nodded in agreement. "Damien, go get your friends, they've graduated, too!" She beamed at me. I laughed, imagining how this was going to go down.

But everything actually went smoothly. Mom took us out and payed for everything, our laughter and bickering was common on that day, and EJ, LJ, and Ben were actually decent this time out. Though Jeff and I got teased because he had to sit on my lap because we needed one more seat. Both moms got a picture, and so did LJ who was sending it to everyone.

That night I was gonna go to Jeff's but Mom wanted me home for at least two days, but then I could spend a few days at Jeff's.

The two days passed quickly, dad coming home during the middle of the night on the first day. His expression was hard, his cold eyes always watching me, even when he was drunk. The day I was going to be driven over was an oddly silent one, until my phone rang, playing the "Insanity" song I was used to.

"Hi, Babe." I purred into the receiver.

"When are you coming over?" He whined back.

"I about to get in the car. What? Been a lonely two days?" I smirked.

"No lonely, I want to be alone with you, but the guys are here!" He complained, it was confirmed when I heard three different voices shout:

"HI DAMIEN!" I laughed, rolling my eyes. "DON'T BE ROLLING YOUR EYES AT ME, BITCH!" I heard LJ yell. Jeff burst out laughing along with me.

"How did you know I rolled my eyes?" I asked, gasping for breath.

"The way you laughed." He huffed.

"Okay, he's my boyfriend!" Jeff complained, he must've had me on speaker. "See?"

I started to say something when Dad burt in the door. "Come now!" He snarled. Jeff went silent on the other side of the phone.

"Where?" I asked cautiously.

"Just come on!" He growled, retreating back out of the room, narrowed eyes on me.

"What's going on?" Jeff asked. I strode forward, following my father, keeping Jeff on the line.

"Stay!" He growled, darting into his room for a split second, before coming out with mom at gun point. "Hang up!" Mom had tears pouring down her face.

"Jeff, I'll call when I'm close." I said numbly. I had a terrible feeling about this…it wasn't gonna end well. And from the bottles on the table, he was at least slightly drunk.

"Call me." He whispered, hanging up.

"Now, go out to the car." He said, pushing Mom forward. I started shaking, he had no right…I felt the needle thin string that bound us together, what kept him safe from my monster, snap. I no longer saw him as my father.

I followed, getting in the back seat, realizing that my phone was still brightly lit. I was gonna put it in my pocket, but then I just got hit with a weird feeling, and I put it in the handle in the door…right under the window.

He shoved my mother inside, her shaking hands fastening her seatbelt. I didn't bother, sitting in the center of the back seat, so I could see them both. When he got in the driver side he once more held the hand gun at Mom's head.

He said nothing as he drove, until we hit the high way.

"Where are you taking us?" I demanded.

"You're in no position to talk, boy!" He sneered. "If that's what I can even call you!"

"What ever do you mean?" I snarl back at him. I was done, I was going to kill him, Slender or no Slender. "I do believe that here I am, a person."

"YOU ARE A FREAK! I SAW WHAT YOU TURNED INTO, AND I'M GONNA KILL YOU AND THE BITCH THAT GAVE BIRTH TO YOU! YOU DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE!" He shouted suddenly, spinning in the seat to snarl at me face to face. He never realized that what he did, when he twisted, he turned the steering wheel, with his fat ass, and drove us right into an oncoming semi.

The crash was deafening, my eyes were still wide in shock as I was jerked forward, my hands finding placements on the shoulders of the seats in front of me. I saw, with tears filling my vision, that Mom had been impaled by the engine. The man who crashed us didn't wear his seatbelt either, and was knocked out of the car…alive, I thought with much distain. But then…I felt weird, like…numb…and like I couldn't breath. I found myself gasping. I looked down, finding glass, large and small, impaling my chest, blood dripping on the shirt I was wearing. I heard this strange ringing sound and suddenly I couldn't keep sitting up anymore, I fell to the seat.

I didn't feel pain as I closed my eyes, letting the sudden pressing darkness take control. But images flickered across behind my closed eyelids. Generations upon generations were taking place, a thousand of life times. But I didn't care. I did say one thing though, and that caused a faint pain in my heart as I whispered it. "Jeff."