He didn't know how long he had been out for but as Henry slowly came back to consciousness, he could still feel a dull pain in the back of his head and as his vision came back into focus,he saw that he was laying in a small room on some fold out bed of some sorts and just across from him was some kind of hammock and on the wall,just near the door was a Bendy clock, it's feet moving back and forth with the ticking and according to the time, it was Eleven thirty PM and the first thing that came to Henry's mind was his daughter.
"Lily?" he called out, thinking that she would be in the room with him "where are you honey?" there was no answer and needing to find out exactly where he was, he got up from the bed he was laying on and exited from the small room he was in and as he opened the door, he could hear two voices speaking.
"Will he be okay, he hasn't woken up for a long time now" a little girl's voice spoke, her tone sounding worried.
"He did have a pretty nasty bump on his head" a second voice spoke, this one sounding male with a slight southern accent "your daddy probably needs a big long nap, he'll be okay, don't you worry." Henry headed to were the conversation was coming from and saw Lily sitting at a table across from none other than Boris and when the little girl saw him stood there in the door way, she jumped up from her seat, ran over to him and threw her arms round his waist.
"Are you okay sweetheart?" he asked, hugging her back.
"I'm Okay, Boris has been keeping me company when you were asleep" she replied before looking up and Henry could see that she had been crying, her eyes where all red and puffy "I thought you died, after Boris found us you fell over and went to sleep, you've been sleeping for a long time I thought you were never going to wake up."
"I'm okay now, that nasty bump I got just made me pass out that's all" he reassured his daughter "but I'm okay now after that big long nap I had, but anyway, where are we?"
"You're in my safe house" Boris replied, walking over to the pair "I bought you and Lily here after you passed out, I couldn't leave you both out there, not with Bendy roaming around and believe me,you don't want to run into him."
"We already did" Lily replied "and why is he so scary and evil, he was much friendlier in the cartoons."
"He wasn't always like this, he was pretty much like he was in the cartoons but then some things happened and he went a little, let's say, vengeful" Boris explained "that's why we need to stay here where it's safe because he's dangerous, you don't know what he could be capable off."
"Listen we're really grateful for everything you're doing but we can't stay here forever" Henry pointed out.
"But it's much safer here" Boris insisted "it's too dangerous outside, especially for a little girl like your daughter, I know there isn't much but believe me it's much safer being in here and what would have happened if I wasn't there after you passed out, what if Bendy found you instead, what could have happened to you, what could have happened to Lily, you're lucky I found you first."
"And like I said I'm really grateful but we can't stay here, it wouldn't be right for Lily to grow up in a place like this, she needs to go to school and playing with children of her own age, not cooped up underneath an old abandoned cartoon studio" Henry stated firmly as he absentmindedly stroked Lily's hair as the little girl clung to him "we can stay here for maybe a day or two but we need to move on, we need to leave this place." Knowing that Henry was determined to get out of this place, Boris decided that they can leave first thing in the morning but he was going to come with them.
"Okay, thank you" Henry replied.
"I just want to make sure that you and Lily get out of here safe" Boris replied with a grin "but right now,I'm kinda hungry."
"Me too" Lily piped up before she and Boris looked at Henry with huge pleading eyes and he immediately guessed what they were wanting.
"You want me to cook something?" he asked and the pair nodded "well okay I'll see what we got" he looked over to Boris "do you wanna help?"
"I don't know how to cook" Boris replied,looking a little embarrassed "and all we got here is bacon soup, I've been living on that mostly whilst I've been hiding out here,they're all around the building."
"But if you can't cook, why is there a stove?" Henry questioned, pointing over to the Stove that was next to the table that Boris and Lily were sitting at.
"It was already here when I came, think this place was maybe a kitchen of some sorts" Boris explained "also, I've never tried heated bacon soup before, because I can't cook and stuff."
"Okay I'll go see if there's any bacon soup lying around while you two go sit at the table" Henry told the pair which they did whilst he went to find some bacon soup, listening as both Lily and Boris had a conversation, the little girl seemed pretty calm despite everything that had been happening. After he finished heating it up, Henry placed three bowls on the table before filling them up with hot steaming bacon soup before joining Lily and Boris.
"Okay guys, eat up then we can go get some sleep" he told the pair before noticing that Lily seemed a little unimpressed by what was in her bowl "oh honey I know it doesn't exactly look appetizing" he placed a hand on her shoulder "but you need some food in you, especially if you've been unconscious for hours."
"Why, what happened?" Boris asked, he was already half way finished with his bowl.
"I'll explained later" Henry replied before turning his attention back to Lily who looked at the bacon soup, her expression a little put off "what's wrong, are you feeling alright?"he placed his hand on her forehead checking for a fever, hoping she wasn't catching anything, it was a pretty bad time and place for the little girl to be falling sick right now.
"I'm fine" the little girl insisted "this bacon soup doesn't look very appetizing that's all."
"I know but like I said, you need some food in you, try and eat some yeah" Henry told her and the little girl nodded before having a taste of the contents, it didn't taste as bad as she thought, a little salty maybe but other than that it seemed to taste okay. By the time everyone had almost finished, an exhausted Lily had fallen asleep, the child was slumped over the table, head resting on her arm.
"Wow, she must be pretty worn out" Boris pointed out as Henry carefully lifted his sleeping daughter from her seat.
"Well, she's had a pretty long day and it is the middle of the night, I think we should all get some sleep and head on our way in the morning" Henry replied before carrying Lily to the room he had woken up with Boris following behind and seeing as there was only two beds and three people in the room, well, two people and a cartoon, Henry had Lily on the cot bed with him whilst Boris took the hammock.
"She's a really sweet kid you know" Boris implied, gesturing to the small girl laying curled up against Henry as he had his arm draped over her "and I can see that you care about her very much."
"That is true" Henry replied,tucking a strand of hair behind the little girl's ear "she's all I have. I couldn't bear it if anything happened to her, I almost lost her once, I'm not going to let that happen again."
"Well don't you worry, I'm going to help you guys get out of this place" Boris reassured "besides, I bet her mother must be worried sick about her...she does know that you brought her here right."
"She doesn't have a mother anymore...she passed away" Henry replied, looking at the little girl who was sleeping peacefully beside him "she was knocked down by a drunk driver, Lily saw it all happen."
"Oh I'm sorry" Boris said looking at Henry with sympathy "well it's no wonder you're scared of losing your little girl, especially if you lost your wife, but anyway, what did happen to Lily, you mentioned something about her being unconscious."
"Well she got taken, by Sammy Lawrence, he drugged her and tied her up then he also took me, said he was going to sacrifice us both to Bendy so that he could be freed from his Inky body or something like that" Henry explained "think he must have kept her unconscious the whole time he had her before he got me."
"So i'm guessing he's the reason you got that bump on your head then" Boris implied and Henry nodded,saying that he had hit him over the head which had knocked him out.
"I think he's dead now anyway, I think Bendy ripped him to shreds" Henry continued "now he's coming after me and Lily."
"Well you both would be a lot safer here but if you're going to be leaving in the morning you'll need to be careful if he's roaming around and I'll be coming with you both, make sure that you guys get out of this place unharmed" Boris implied. Henry thanked him and it wasn't long until all three had fallen asleep and when Henry awoke the next morning, he discovered that Boris and Lily where already up, he could hear the pair talking as he rubbed sleep from his eyes and got up from the bed before walking into the main room to find the pair in the middle of a card game.
"Not interrupting anything am I?" he asked jokingly as he entered the room.
"Not at all Daddy" Lily replied "Boris has been teaching me to play Go fish, we thought it might pass some time whilst waiting for you to get up, so when we leaving the safe house then?"
"Whenever you guys are ready to leave and remember,I'm going to be coming with you both, I'm not letting you and your daughter go alone" Boris insisted "but right now I'm starving."
"You know something so am I" Henry replied "so, shall we have some breakfast first and then get going" the girl and cartoon wolf both nodded "so, what shall we have then?"
"Bacon soup" both Boris and Lily said at the same time.
"Of course how silly of me, that's the only source of food in this place" Henry stated with a slight chuckle before he got started on making some bacon soup for the three of them and after they had finished, the trio got up from the table and headed to the exit.
"I should warn you guys that once we leave this place we can't come back" Boris warned as Lily tied her hair back in a lose ponytail, saying it was getting annoying being down "so if we end up running into Bendy we won't be able to run back here."
"I'll take that chance, I don't want to be in this place any longer and it's not safe for Lily, she's already ended up danger, I don't want to see that happen to her again" Henry explained as they left the safe house "alright, now let's see what's out there, stay close to me and Don't go wondering off." Lily nodded and immediately held onto his hand as they walked down the corridor as Boris trailed along, the trio unaware that the Ink Demon had been hiding in the shadows, watching them.
"Hehehe, so you finally left that pathetic excuse of a hideout eh Henry?" he chuckled "think you and that child of yours will get out of here alive, hehehe, enjoy you're little adventure while you can Henry old pal, I'll be watching." After he watched the trio head into the next area, Bendy chuckled in a sinister manner before disappearing through an Inky portal in the wall, but he wasn't the only person who was watching Henry and his little gang, an unseen figure was sitting in a dark room filled with what looked like a bunch of Televisions, each one showing different areas of the workshop and on one of them, Henry, Lily and Boris could be seen walking through a small corridor.
"Well well, it looks like I have some visitors" a voice purred, the voice sounded female but it also sounded as if there was two different voices speaking at the same time "hmm, this could get interesting,very interesting indeed, I think it's time that they met the Angel."
