A/N: In honor of the fact that today I turned 18, I spent the entire day, when I wasn't in school :( , working on this chapter. Hope you all enjoy and have had a fantastic December 1st. I also won't be able to work on the story much tomorrow because I have an orchestra activity that I will be going to that won't be over until around eleven at night, but I will try to update if I have time in one of my classes that has a computer. But anyways, on with chapter 9.
Xiamara came to and found her wrists restrained to the headboard of an unfamiliar bed. Automatically thinking the worst she started to struggle against the restraints and while trying to remain quiet and not alert her captors that she was conscious. After a few minutes the door opened to reveal a male figure with a dark blue mask and another figure that she automatically knew as the one and only, Slenderman, soon followed by the bastard who kidnapped her. "Let me go you bastards and I promise that I will not tell my father that you kidnapped me."
Slenderman just looked at her before he spoke. "I'm afraid we can't do that miss. You see, you are no longer fully human and cannot return to your previous life. I will provide you shelter, but if you choose to fight or flee, you will remain strapped to that bed. I will not have you endangering my family in any way."
She shrieked and tried to kick the slender being where it counts only to have a black tentacle trap her leg and pin it back down to the bed. "Let me go you fucking son of a bitch," she yelled, renewing her struggle against the restraints on her wrists and trying to free her leg from the being's grasp.
"Eyeless Jack, can you please get two more restraints for her legs so that she can't kick anyone who comes close to her. I will have Toby bring her some food. I'm pretty sure that our guest is hungry after being unconscious for the past three days." The man with the blue mask nodded and went to a cabinet in the corner that held medicine and some different types of restraints.
He then walked over and latched the restraint around her ankle's and the other end to the bed's foot board. "That should hold her until she's ready to cooperate."
She started to laugh at the boy. "What? You think that I'll ever cooperate with you freaks. As soon as I get free you all are going to pay. Trust me, I've been trained by the greatest cop in Texas along with the best MMA master money can buy. When I'm free they'll have to run you through a DNA scanner to identify you."
At her last words Slenderman seemed to grow twice his size as his tentacles snapped out, one wrapping around her throat, and his face split open to reveal a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. "You have a pretty good idea of who I am, yet you still taunt and threaten me and mine. You know that I am the legendary creature Slenderman, yet you threaten those I hold dare. I could rip you apart right this second if I so choose. So if I were you i would think twice who you threaten. Besides, it would be you who the police would need a DNA scanner to identify because everyone in this house hold was trained by me." With that he released his hold on the female and exited the room.
Laughing Jack followed after him while Eyeless Jack stayed behind and went over to a desk to continue his work. He listened as the female struggled against the restraints and had to resist the urge to look over at the girl who was burning holes in the back of his head with her stare. "You really shouldn't struggle with the restraints. You could seriously mutilate your wrists," he said as he continued his research on the local hospital. He wasn't as big a monster as the other's in the household. Meaning he didn't kill unless he absolutely had to. He sighed as she refused to listen to him and he could smell the blood that had started to trickle down her wrists and arms.
EJ sighed before getting up and grabbed the first aid kit from the drawer and went over to bandage up her wrists. He carefully removed the restraint from her right wrist and, after getting a firm hold on the struggling girls hand, bandaged it up and then replaced the restraint so that it was over the bandage before moving to her left wrist and repeating the process. She just glared at him the entire time.
There was a knock at the door and it opened to reveal a man Xiamara had only seen in her drawings. She was as skeptical as anyone else when it comes to premonitions and other voodoo shit, but there was no way she was seeing her drawing in real life. "How the fuck are you real and why the fuck did I draw you when I have never met you before in my life?" she asked, trying to keep the fear from entering her voice and failing.
Toby found it odd that she asked him that. He was sure that she hadn't seen him when Slendy sent him out to investigate the hot teen. Him was nineteen and eve though he was large and, as Masky would say, obnoxious, but he knew how to stalk someone without being seen unless he wanted to be. "I d-don't eve-en kn-now what you're t-talki-ing ab-bout," he said, twitching and cracking his neck. He then went over to her and placed the tray of food he had been carrying on the table next to the bed. "Names T-Ticci T-Toby, and yours i-is X-Xiam-mara."
Xiamara just growled at the boy who had orange goggles on his head and some sort of mouth guard around his neck as if he was to lazy to remove them completely and just repositioned them on his face. She watched as he grabbed the cup and placed the straw right at her lips, expecting her to drink just cause he told her to. When he pulled the cup back and gave her a confused look she scoffed at him. "Do you really expect me to drink or eat something someone who kidnapped me offered me without first seeing that person take a sip or bit of said food item. I'm seventeen and the daughter of a cop not stupid." She then remembered what Slenderman had said earlier. "Well eighteen since apparently it's now Halloween and that's my birthday."
Toby was taken aback by that tidbit of information. He then smiled as he thought of something that would really rankle Masky's nerve. "I'll be b-back." he said before running into the kitchen, going into the fridge and grabbing his target and returning to EJ's office just in time to see the eyeless man showing their new friend that the food wasn't drugged or poisoned. "H-Hap-py B-Birthd-day," he said before showing her the last slice of cheesecake they had. She just stared at him with an expression that said he was nuttier than crunchy peanut butter.
Xiamara didn't know what to make out of any of this. "I am either already knocked out and this is just some delusion my mind has come up with or you have seriously drugged me to where I'm hallucinating," she said very slowly and started looking around.
"What are you looking for?" Eyeless Jack asked her as she leaned her head to one side to see as far around the desk as possible.
"I'm looking for the rabbit hole I fell through because you two are nuttier than every version of the Mad Hatter combined." They just stared at her like she had grown another head. "What?"
"You're different," EJ said as he reached for her drink in a hope to get her to drink or eat something and replenish her nutrients. "Most people we come across see us and scream, mostly while running the opposite direction," he explained while moving to place the straw at her lips, gently pressing it to them in a hope to get her to actually drink it. "But you want to face us head on no matter the consequences. Why's that?"
In response to his attempts to get her to drink whatever was in the cup, she took a sip and when he pulled the straw and cup away she spit it into his face in retaliation for him having restrained her. "Because I was taught to fight until my very last breath and to NEVER give in without one. You want to see what all I can do, release m and I'll be more than glad to give you a taste."
EJ just removed his mask and wiped it off with the sleeve of his hoody, watching her stoic face shift ever so slightly at his inhuman characteristics. "As you have probably figured out, not all of us here are human. So trying to take me on will only result in you becoming my lunch and that would make LJ really unhappy since he does have strong feelings for you. That's the only reason Slender and the rest of us haven't killed you yet. He doesn't want us to. So you will behave like a good little human or your time here will be worst than any hell you can think of."
Xiamara just stared into the dark abyss where his eyes should have been. What she wouldn't give to smack that smug smile off his stupid face.