A/N: Wow, another long chapter. I hope you enjoy and please review. Also I might not be updating as much next week because I have semester exams and my dress rehearsal and concert but I will try.
Xiamara slowly woke up to the feeling of someone gently poking her side. She just grumbled and turned over, moving her arm so that it acted like a shield for her eyes. Right before she realized that the odd sound she heard was laughter someone started tickling her sides. She reacted on pure instinct and slammed her fist into whatever was touching her. Her fist connected with something and she heard a grunt while someone else started laughing. She sat up and saw Hoodie pressing a hand to his left cheek and Masky was laughing at him. There was a light blush to his right cheek as a fist sized bruise started to form on his left. "Sorry Hoodie. I should have warned you not to wake me by touch." It was then that she had been sleeping in his bed instead of on the pallet she had made. "I also should have known you would move me the second I was asleep."
Hoodie just looked down before moving over to the dresser and picking up the clothes that Jill had brought for her. "J-Jill brought y-you some c-clothes and y-your brush," he said as he handed her the stack of clothing.
She smiled and thanked him. "Where's the bathroom on this floor?"
Masky pointed to one of the walls. "Next door. Just holler if you need anything," he said as he went over to the closet and opened it to get his own clothes.
Xiamara went into the bathroom and took a quick shower before getting dressed and fixed her hair. She thought about dying it solid black or at least changing the streaks running through it to a different color, possibly the same shade red as Jason's. She put the thought aside and shrugged on the Black Veil Brides shirt that Trender had repaired for her, since her wings destroyed it when she was first changed, and the black skinny jeans that she rarely wore. She did a quick three sixty in the full length mirror before leaving to go to the dinning room.
As Xiamara entered she noticed that there were some new faces at the table. There was a female and male jester, each with blue hair and dark clothing, a man who kept passing death glares to Jeff, a person with the left side of his face light green and the other side a dark green, on the lighter side was a heart over his eye in dark green and a spade over his other in light green who had on dark clothing with chains wrapped precariously around his body with green hair to top it off. There was also someone in pirate like clothing with a mouth guard on and had dual colored eyes.
She cautiously entered and took her seat in between Toby and Jason before passing a glare over to Offender, who had been watching her with a wrathful gaze. Right as she started to eat the man who had been glaring at Jeff spoke up. "Who's the new chick Slendy? Been a long time since someone new has joined us."
He sighed before responding. "Liu, I told both you and your brother multiple times not to call me Slendy. But as for your question, she's Xiamara Coasa, my new proxy."
Liu just smirked as he turned his attention to the new chick. "You the officers daughter who got kidnapped from Texas about two weeks ago?" he asked with a knowing smirk."
"Yes," she said, throwing a glare at the monochrome clown responsible.
Liu then turned to Jeff. "Is it safe to assume you had a hand in her 'disappearance' brother. Since we did run into each other in her hometown around the time of her disappearance."
"LJ kidnapped her. I was just curious as to who she was and how, and why she made that ass smile a genuine smile."
Before their disagreement could escalate into a fight, the male jester cleared his throat. "Hey. I'm Candy Pop and this is my twin sister Candy Cane," he said while gesturing to himself and the female version of himself. "And this is our brother Morivin," he then gestured to the green haired and skinned male. Morivin just nodded before taking a sip from his cup. Candy Pop then pointed at the man with the green and blue eyes. "And he is Nathan." Nathan gave a welcoming smile and slight nod of his head before returning to his food.
When the introductions were finished they got to talking and she soon figured out that Morivin and Candy Pop were actually incubus' while Candy Cane was a succubus. Along with that fact that Nathan's motive is to avenge his sister, even though he had already killed her murderers. She gave a sad smile when she heard this. She honestly couldn't fault him for it because she knew that if anyone would to mess with her sister she wouldn't stop until everyone involved was dead.
Nathan watched as Xiamara interacted with all of the Pastas but Laughing Jack. She reminded him of his own sister that it brought a slight pain to his chest. They were so much a like. So pure and innocent, even though she was forced into her new life by that disgrace of a clown. In that moment he knew that no matter what, he would protect her from the same fate that had befallen his precious twin.
As everyone finished breakfast they all left to do their own thing with Ben, Dark Link and Xiamara going into the living room to play video games. "This time we're going to beat you," DL said as he turned on the consul and grabbed the controllers.
"That's what you said last time elf boy," she teased as she took hers and plopped down on the couch in between the two Links.
*TIME SKIP*
"PWND YOU AGAIN," Xiamara shouted as she crossed the finish line of "Burnout" for the fifth time in the past hour. "How many times have I beaten you today."
Jason looked up from what he was doing with a smirk. "That would be ten times at Call of Duty, five at Halo, and another five at this game. Boys, give it up. She's obviously the superior gamer. Considering the fact that neither of you have yet to beat her out of all the times you have challenged her to a game off."
"Yeah," LJ said as he entered the living room and sat down in a chair next to entrance. "Give up trying to beat the obvious queen of gaming."
Xiamara calmly set the controller down. "I'm sorry boys, but I just remembered I had something I need to do. Excuse me," she said as she tried to leave.
Before she had a chance to escape Laughing Jack stood up and grabbed her wrist tightly as she started to pass. "Why do you keep avoiding me?"
This pissed Xiamara off as she yanked her wrist free of his grasp and turned to face him, her eyes turning a brownish red. " What are you, stupid? Why shouldn't I avoid someone who betrayed me?"
That confused him. "Betrayed you how? By saving you?"
"SAVED ME," she shouted in disbelief. "Try kidnapped me and turned me into a freak!" She snarled. "Try took away my freedom and practically locked me in this house and the surrounding woods for the rest of my life. If THAT'S saving me than thank you very much for ruining my life."
She tried to go around him but he grabbed her wrist agin. "Slenderman said to either kill you or turn me into one of us. What did you expect me to choose?"
"You could have come and TALKED to me. EXPLAINED the situation. Asked what I WANTED," she said in a pained voice, frustrated tears starting to pool in her eyes. "You could have given me time to think about what I wanted to do. Tell my remaining family one final goodbye. But instead you ripped me away from everything and everyone I knew and loved. You not only messed with me, I could have stood and possibly forgiven that, but you also harmed my family in the process." There were tears running down her cheeks now. "At the fear yesterday I say my father and sister there. I over heard them talking about what they wanted to get to put inside MY coffin at MY funeral because everyone else has convinced them that I'm most likely dead and they will NEVER have closure because there is no body for them to find." She gave a pained chuckle as she remembered another tidbit she had picked up while spying on her family. "And on top of that, thanks to YOU, my sister is a full blown alcoholic like my mother was before Jane killed her." At that Jane shifted uncomfortably and looked down at the ground. "But STILL you ask for my forgiveness." She scoffed like that was stupidest thing she had ever heard. "I am not a fool to return my trust to someone who shattered it in the first place."
"Slendy said-" he started but was cut off.
"STOP TRYING TO BLAME THIS ON SLENDER," she shouted. "YOU were the one to fuck up. YOU kidnapped me. YOU changed me into a freak. There is no Slenderman in those actions. If Slender came after me I would've had the options to fight, flee or give in. If you had come and asked, I would have thought about it. But you took away my right to choose and forced this on me. So no, I won't ever forgive you you first rank freak bastard."
Before LJ, or anyone, realized what he was doing, he smacked Xiamara across her face, his claws leaving three jagged gashes along her left cheek, the longest going from the top of her cheek bone to right below the corner of her lip. She just stood there in shock as she slowly lifted her hand up to her cheek to inspect the damage. Eyeless Jack got up and ran over to her to look at the damage done and to take her to his office to work. Damn, he had known that LJ had a short temper but he never expected him to do this. His gaze fell on the monochrome clown and he noted his shocked expression as he stared at the three deep gashes on her cheek.
Right as Jason was about to lunge at Laughing Jack, Slenderman teleported into the room and examined the situation. "What happened?" he said in a stoic and calm voice.
"LJ's stupid ass happened," Jason growled as he glared at him. Right as he had said that Jill had walked in and saw what had happened.
"Jack, what did you do? You said you were going to talk to her, not harm her. I knew I shouldn't have believed you."
Laughing Jack growled at his sister. "Like I need you to make me feel worse about what I did," he said as he stared after were EJ and Xia had vanished. 'How could I have been so stupid to let my anger get the better of me' he thought as he wanted to beat himself up. Slender ordered for everyone to go to their rooms and for LJ to go to his office and wait for him while he went to go check on Xiamara.
Jason went up to his room and continued to work on his gift for Xia. He had figured out her favorite classical song and had spent most of the night working on the inner mechanism of the gift. Now he was adding on some of the more intricate decorations. He spent the next hour or so tinkering with the gift before he heard movement in Xiamara's bedroom. He carefully got up and went over to her room, only to find her packing a backpack with clothes and other essentials such as money. "What are you doing?" he asked, fearing the answer he might receive.
"Leaving," she growled as she shoved one of her sketchbooks into the bag and then going to get her ipod and charger.
"Why?" he asked dumbfounded and angry that she wanted to leave. She didn't answer and instead went to her closet for some more clothing and money she had hidden there. He gently grabbed her arm, stopping her, and placed his hands gently on her cheeks, being careful so as to not agitate her now bandaged cheek. He tried his best to keep from shifting his appearance so as not to scare her. "Why do you want to leave m-us?"
She sighed before responding. "I need to get away from him," she simply stated before removing his hands and returning to her current task. Jason could kill that stupid, monochrome asshole for this. How dare he make one of his friends want to leave.
"Jason, what are you doing in here? I thought I told you and the others to remain in your rooms," Slender asked as he entered the room.
"I was checking on her."
Slender nodded before looking over and realizing what she was doing. "What do you think you're doing child?"
Xiamara stopped as she remembered the order he had given her when he had first made her his proxy. "You cannot leave the forest without my permission or one of the other Pastas." With a sigh, she turned to her "master" and did something that she hated and only did when it was a dire circumstance. She begged. "Please Slender. I need to leave and be given time to think and clear my head. Please can I leave the woods by myself and have some time to clear my head. I promise I won't go back to my family."
Slenderman looked into his proxy's mind and saw the things that she really needed to think about. The first one was obviously her "monochrome external hernia" and the second one surprised even him. With a sigh a used his powers to teleport her fake ID to him before handing it over to her. "In the human world, since everyone believes that Xiamara Coasa is missing or dead, your new name when you go out will be Alexandria Moartea. If you slip up even once, you're coming back here and you will be punished."
Xiamara smiled and thanked him before grabbing her bag. "I'm not done," he said, stopping Xia in her tracks. "He then shouted out the door. "Helen, can you come here please?" A few seconds a man about as tall as Jason with blue-black hair and a blue suit with a smiley face pin on it along with a freaky mask that looked like it had a bloody smile came in.
"Yes Slender," the man said as he removed the mask to reveal shocking blue eyes.
"Can you please accompany Xiamara on her journey for the foreseeable future while she leaves the forest and make sure she doesn't try to contact anyone from her life before she became one of us?"
Helen nodded as Jason scoffed. "You want the Bloody Painter to accompany her. Why?"
"Because he just got here so he won't have to waste time packing. Plus the fact that Xiamara needs to think quite a few things through and who better to help her than someone with a similar mind and interests, even if they are of the opposite sex."
Jason just grumbled and watched as Helen agreed and helped her with her bag. Everyone left, leaving Jason to wallow in his self-pity. Right as he was about to leave he noticed a crumpled up piece of paper next to the trashcan. He bent over and picked it up, uncrumpling the paper in the process. His breath hitched as he realized what exactly was on the paper. It was a line drawing of a female with two guys, one on each side. Xiamara, the girl, had a confused and teary eyed expression on her face with her wings opened to were they went behind the two men, each with a death grip on her arms. On her left was Puppeteer with his golden strings wrapped around her arm all the way up to her shoulder. On her right was him in his enraged form, glaring at Puppeteer.
Right then he knew what she needed to think about. Why she tried to keep her distance from the two of them and always found a reason to get out of a group activity that involved them. And it tore him apart that he had never told her how he felt when he could possibly never see her again.