Edit: Forgot how much I loved writing this story, haha.
Again, last author's note blah blah blah sorry.
It's that time of year again... Where the house is freezing and your dad won't turn up the heat so you end up getting your electric blanket out of the closet and doing stuff on your computer in this little igloo of blankets... Okay that's most likely only me. But everyone else is probably agreeing with the too cold to get out of bed in the morning thing. :P X3
Mix of in a hurry and no access to the internet so thanks for reviews. :) Enjoy!
Siddeley's POV
"Ugh, finally." I heard Stacy say. Her voice kinda sounded like it was underwater, at first. I would've thought I was still in the pond, if it weren't for the fact is was so warm… Wherever I was. "Do you realize how long you were out? Nobody believed me that you were drowned by a shadow." Oh, no… She sounds annoyed. She sounds very annoyed. Please don't hurt me.
I opened my eyes to see her cross her arms over her chest.
"Didn't think they would." I groaned, sitting up. Oi wait a second...
"Where am I, anyway? And how'd we get out of the woods?"
"The clinic. Sheriff found us." She explained.
"I'm guessing he pulled me out of the water, too?" I asked, redirecting my gaze out the window. What time was it?
"No, no, that was me." Stacy frowned. She still sounded annoyed. Or… Not. No, I could hear a bit of poorly disguised... Something. Either disappointment or sadness. She probably hoped I would expect more from her... She was, gently putting it, a mess.
Now she's gonna be more annoyed, isn't she?
"Oh—Stacy, I didn't mean—I mean it's not like I don't—" I tried to explain, but she cut me off.
"Save it." She snapped dryly, looking away from me. Great! That's just bloody fantastic. She's mad at me, now. Commencing of the Stacy grudge. Great.
I sighed. Mad at me or not, she said that it looked like I was drowned by a shadow. Which means… "Stacy... You saw him, right?"
She didn't answer. She still wouldn't look at me. Damn it, Stacy, come on.
"You… You believe me now, don't you?"
She turned towards me slightly and hesitated. "I don't know what I saw."
"Stacy, you can't just pretend you didn't see him! You said yourself no one believed you I was drowned by a—"
Stacy clamped her hand over my mouth. "Finn and Holley are on their way back from their mission. Yes, before you demand to know, they're riding Stevenson's train. You're going to have to explain to Finn how we got lost in the woods and pretty much almost died. I've been here since about one in the morning, so I'm going to go get some lunch." And with that, she walked out of the room.
"Great." I feel back against my propped-up pillows. "Both my best friend and his girlfriend are mad at me over the same thing. Bloody fantastic."
"I'm not his girlfriend." I heard Stacy defend.
I looked back up to see Stacy was peeking her head back into the room.
"Then what the heck do you call it?" I demanded.
Despite the mood Stacy was in, she just blushed and repeated, "I'm not his girlfriend."
"Yes, you are." I murmured once I was sure she left.
...
No POV
"There you are." Finn warmly smiled upon seeing Stacy siting by herself in a booth at Flo's café. Stacy looked up from the hot chocolate she was intently staring at and managed to give a small smile back. "Is Siddeley all right?" he asked, taking a seat across from her. "I heard what happened."
"Yeah. He's at the clinic... Thing." she answered, lifting up her hot mug with her hoodie-covered hands. She was still kind of upset about Siddeley not thinking she saved him, not to mention the fact that she almost drowned, herself. And that she lost one of her favorite shoes. Well, he was almost drowned, too. What did I expect? He also said he guessed… I'm going to have to apologize later, aren't I. She thought.
"Are you alright?" Finn asked.
She looked up at Finn and sighed. "Yeah. Just a little shaken up from last night." She admitted, glancing out the window.
"What happened?"
"I thought you heard what happened?" Stacy glanced back up at him.
"I heard what Sheriff told me he saw. I didn't hear the whole story."
"Well… I'm guessing Holley told you we were in the woods when she got off the phone?"
"Did you see Slender like I thought you would?" Holley laughed, walking over. "I'm glad you're okay." She added, resting her hands on Stacy's shoulder and giving her a light hug, then walked away.
"Might as well have," Stacy murmured.
"What did you see, then? If anything." Finn asked, placing his hand on top of hers. Stacy refused to look up from her mug as she answered, "I… I don't know what I saw. Sid and I, we found this clearing, and there was this…" She sighed again, dreading Finn's response. "There was this shadow thing."
"Shadow thi—?" Finn started to repeat when they both spun their heads around—just like everyone did—when a crash came from a corner of the café.
"Ah'm okay..." Mater groaned while Holley was having trouble helping him up because she was laughing so hard. Mater joined her in chortling.
"Stacy, you—"
"I think I saw Stalker Siddeley." She blurted out.
When Finn replied, his voice was calm. "Don't be ridicu—"
"I saw him, Finn." She whispered.
"Finn?" Repeated an excited, random tourist walking past our table. "Wha—where?!"
"Uh, there?" She pointed at Finn.
"Hello?" Finn looked confused.
"...oh." Was all she said, then walked away.
"She means non-British Finn." Stacy rolled her eyes. "You're better." she smiled.
Finn chuckled and told her, "Now you're just stalling."
"Can we wait until Sid gets out of the clinic?" she asked uneasily.
Finn sighed. "All right. I suppose that'd be the best way to get the story…"
"Well, he better get here soon, or I'm gonna call him. And I doubt the nurses would appreciate the Perry the Platypus theme playing randomly. That is if his phone still works."
"Any more than they minded your TARDIS ringtone interrupt them?" Finn smirked.
"Yes…!" Stacy crossed her arms. "And that wasn't my fault. It was Siddeley's."
...
"You know, the nurses didn't appreciate the Perry the Platypus theme playing randomly." Siddeley dryly informed his friends as he sat down in the booth next to Finn.
"I'm sure they didn't." Stacy frowned. "Um… Finn wants to know what happened."
Siddeley sighed and looked down at his hands. "He won't believe me. You know that."
"It doesn't matter, just—" Stacy started to intervene.
"He won't believe me!" Siddeley complained again.
"Siddeley, it doesn't matter, Finn won't comment just yet, you can speak freely." Holley said in a voice she would use to talk to a child.
"I'm not five, Holley." Siddeley grumpily told her.
"Well, you're sure acting like you are!" Stacy exclaimed, laughing.
Siddeley crossed his arms.
"Well? Are you going to tell us what happened?" Holley asked.
Siddeley sighed. "Stalker Siddeley almost killed me." He said confidently.
Suddenly, the lights flickered and went out, and a high pitched scream split through the sudden silence.
Dun dun dun. I haven't given you guys a really good cliffhanger in a while, so here ya go. :)
Since it's close to Halloween, I'm going to try to update every day, hopefully multiple times a day. But I've also got three long term projects-one due on Wednesday, the net due on Thursday, and the last due on Friday. D: Can I do all that plus trying to finish this by Thursday? Yep, this is definitely going to be a scary Halloween-thanks to school…o0o