"I'm an atom in the sea of nothing, looking for another to combine. Maybe we can be the start of something, come together at the start of time."

Slenderman teleported back to the forest which he called home. He stood there for a long time, watching as leaves fell from their branches on trees as tall as him. Eventually, one of his proxies approached him. It was Masky, the more talkative of his two proxies with Hoodie being the quietest. But Slenderman had no words, not for what had occurred to him back in England. He wasn't sure if he would even mention it to his proxy.

"Is everything alright, boss?" Masky already knew the answer for it was obvious just by looking at Slenderman. He had not finished hunting nor did he get a scare in. Wherever it was he had gone, nothing had been accomplished by him. Or so he thought.

He gave a long sigh before he answered. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to contact one of my brothers."

"Which one?" Masky knew he had at least three brothers that he barely spoke to and hardly mentioned them.

"...Splendorman." Upon hearing the name, Masky instantly looked up at Slenderman in a questioning manner. Slender could feel his gaze on him but otherwise said nothing.

After a few minutes of silence, Masky finally asked, "Why Splendorman?"

It seemed like Slender was never going to answer him and Masky was about ready to turn around and drop the matter but eventually he gave a response. "There was a girl. And she was not afraid."

Masky was going to give a plausible reason or explanation as to why the girl would not have been scared by him but he supposed Slender already knew the answer to why she wasn't. He wondered what good having Splendorman around would do for he knew that he wouldn't scare the girl. Instead he'd probably befriend the girl and that would be the exact opposite of what Slenderman was trying to do to her. Curious, Masky asked the morbid question, "Why not kill her?"

Another sigh emanated from the tall man. "I have no interest in killing her."

When he didn't continue, Masky asked, "I know you haven't killed in awhile and I know your reasoning behind it..." He knew that ever since Slenderman found that simply scaring his victims was enough to sustain him, he abstained from killing and in time found the act to be unnecessary, even when it seemed like at times he missed it. "...but if she's not afraid of you, then why keep her alive?"

"Because there was something she was afraid of far more than me." Masky was sure he wasn't going to get an answer as to what the girl was afraid of but he knew better than to push the matter. He felt the relationship between him and Slender that while albeit complicated, he knew for a fact there was some semblance of trust and that hopefully in time, Slender would trust him with whatever information he was holding back.

"Now if you excuse me, I need to go contact my brother." And with that, he disappeared without another word.

Finding his brother was no hard task. It was easy to spot him next to his favorite park, all by himself on the edge of the forest. "What are you doing?"

"There is a homeless child that sleeps by herself on the bench in this park. I'm watching over her." Slenderman wouldn't even begin to try to understand his incredibly happy brother but over the years, he has learned to simply accept the fact that he is who he is even if he doesn't approve for the most part. He gave a 'hmm' and turned to look at him. Splendorman was smiling which wasn't a shocker but his smile did seem to grow in size when Slender visited.

"There is someone I need you to watch over." This took Splendy by surprise as he twisted around to face his taller brother. He knew of his brother's ways and this was very much unlike him.

"Wha-?"

"She is not scared of me. I have no desire to kill her. I need you to watch her." Slenderman left very little room to argue.

"I will do it but why are you-"

"Because I have left her behind with something that scares her more than me. I need to find out what it is." Splendy never liked how cryptic sounding his brother could be sometimes. He had no qualms against watching over someone for his brother, especially if it meant protecting them from any potential harm like how most of his victims have come to know.

"...I told her I'd be back in five minutes. That is not a promise I can keep, however." Slender's face showed little emotions due to his lack of facial features but Splendy could tell he seemed a little...troubled.

"Can you keep me a promise, little brother?" Splendy felt his brother's gaze on him and proceeded. "Promise me you'll tell me what's going on...after I'm done watching her."

"Only if you do not interfere in her life more than I have. I wish to see how tonight's events change her...in the future." Slender could already tell his older brother was starting to disapprove of this plan.

"Brother, if you're going to cause the Slender Sickness on her then I do not-"

"Nothing like that, I assure you. Not exactly." Slender interrupted, knowing that Splendy would not wish such harm on a child.

"How much have you interfered in her life? Is it...bad?" Splendy was starting to fear the worst.

"I have only been present in her life for a night that she may or may not soon forget. Please do not try to become her friend or any of that nonsense," Slenderman uttered for he knew how easy it was to talk to that...child.

"Aww..." Splendy's disappointment was not hard to miss but he agreed nonetheless.

"Go to her. I do not know if she will still be waiting in the garden." Slender remembered how he left her all alone outside a house that may or may not contain a monster inside.

"You left her all by herself outside? Slendy, how could you?" If Slenderman could roll his eyes, he would.

"Would you just go?" He was starting to get exasperated with his older brother and was reminded why he almost never visited his brothers.

"I don't like these short visits." Splendy complained before he disappeared suddenly. Slender saw him in the distance as he scooped up the homeless girl from the bench and took her away to safety he presumed.

"Before I leave, where am I going exactly, little brother?" Splendy appeared in front of him a few minutes later. After Slenderman told him, he disappeared again.

Splendorman arrived in the garden after making a few wrong turns and noted that the stars were fading from view in the early morning sky. After he passed the fallen shed and tree, that's when he saw the small Scottish girl. She was still in her nightie but had put on an oversized blue coat with winter mittens and a red knitted hat. She even had on red rain boots. Splendy could hardly believe just how small and adorable the child was. He started to think about what Slendy would have done to her if whatever it was she had done changed his mind about her hadn't happened. He was unaware of Slenderman's new ways about scaring his victims so the thoughts he had weren't pleasant. In fact, it was starting to make him sad, almost to the point of crying. But he shook himself out of it in order to get a closer look at the young girl.

Her name was Amelia Pond, according to Slendy. She looked like she was no older than seven years old. Splendy saw she was lying asleep on a suitcase she had packed. The sadness returned when he thought about the implications behind it. She had waited all night for his younger brother, Slenderman, to return. He bent down to pick her up off the ground, taking her suitcase along too. Splendy double-checked no one was in the house before he entered it. He made a few wild guesses as to where her room was at and started the process of making sure she would be comfortable in bed. Splendy made sure not to wake her up as he removed her coat, hat, mittens, and rain boots and tucked her in bed.

"Sleep tight, little one." Splendy said with great cheer, his smile bright and wide as he started to leave her room. That was when he noticed the ominous looking crack in her wall above the bed. If he listened carefully, he could hear words being repeated over and over again. This caused his smile to falter slightly as he realized what kind of danger he might be leaving her in. He didn't like the look of the crack in the wall but he knew there was nothing he could do about it now. Slendy was very specific about not interfering too much in her life. That didn't mean he was going to leave her alone permanently. He would make sure to check back up on her later on.

With regret in his heart, Splendorman teleported away from her room and back to the park where he liked to reside. Unbeknownst to him, Slenderman entered Amelia's room after he left and began to tell her words that wouldn't be spoken or mentioned again for a number of years into the future.